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Awhile back folks were talking about lost software the Obama campaign had to organize caucus volunteers. Can someone give me a quick overview of what it did? Thanks,
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Dapper_Swindler posted:How bad is that? for someone who is economically retarded. Meh. From what I've read, there isn't a lot of US money in the Chinese "market" because the government fucks with it too much. China falling apart would probably mean slightly lower oil prices (decreased worldwide demand), lower prices on consumer goods (falling wages in China) and some people with too much money will have less because they managed to invest too much in China (my heart just bleeds). I guess it might contribute to deflation in the US?
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 08:28 |
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GalacticAcid posted:Re: Gawkerchat ~ Sam Biddle is excellent Wow look at how terrible of a person you are. Sam Biddle is the guy who just recently argued that journalists should be rude after tragedies because they're just trying to get a story (like calling the families of 9/11 victims), and the guy who said we should bully nerds.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 09:34 |
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Smaller Asian countries near China will feel it far more, oh and Australia's real estate market has a dependency right now on exports of natural resources to China that is propping it up in its current state. If China reined back on that then the AUS housing bubble will be in for a shock and may pop completely. But even if all that happened it wouldn't be a repeat of 2008 because that market (and the mortgages behind it) is nowhere near as financialized and leveraged up to literally criminally greedy levels like they were in the GFC. But the larger factor: China isn't much of a consumer, so if their economy tanks then they just go through the common cycle: their imports dramatically slow down, and their currency inflates which makes them more competitive for goods and services that foreign markets want, which helps bring in business and get their economy stabilized. (Super over simplified macro econ) When the U.S. economy tanked--well--we buy a lot of poo poo. So when our consumption rate falters then a lot of foreign markets are going to feel it, which impacts their income, slows their local economy and so on down the line. China's economy is big, but they don't really import that much in proportion compared to the U.S. or the eurozone. This will drag down securities for just about everybody for a while, which will make rich people cranky and could have more knock on effects if it got really bad, but over in the states mostly it will be used as a news event to reinforce whatever position someone wants to push as per usual.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 09:58 |
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Squizzle posted:Now is the winter of his discount tent. This one didn't get nearly enough love
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 11:20 |
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People had given it one smiley responses and "few pages back, but..." posts, how much more love does it need
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 11:57 |
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toanoradian posted:People had given it one smiley responses and "few pages back, but..." posts, how much more love does it need It didn't have a 'this doesn't get enough love' post.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 12:03 |
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richardfun posted:This one didn't get nearly enough love probably because it's not his joke still makes me laff everytim tho
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 13:21 |
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Electric Bugaloo posted:Ars Technica, hands down. This is incredibly true. Ars Technica has many writers doing great work (albeit with several who I think I could do better than), but I read every article Timmer writes even if I'm not interested in the topic.
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Bhaal posted:This will drag down securities for just about everybody for a while, which will make rich people cranky and could have more knock on effects if it got really bad, but over in the states mostly it will be used as a news event to reinforce whatever position someone wants to push as per usual. To expand on this an implosion in China would be bad news for a lot of major corporations because they made significant chunks of their income there. Everyone and their brother was betting on China to be their next hot market and for some such as the automakers and Apple that was really starting to look like the case. But short term what I think we'll see is a lot of Chinese upper class folks frantically getting their money out of China and into things the CCP can't claw back. Vancouver's and California's real estate markets might get even more hosed up.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 14:05 |
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Full Battle Rattle posted:probably because it's not his joke The post was funny not just for the old joke, but because the context was perfect - with a literal discontented person in a literal cheap makeshift tent in winter.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 14:12 |
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Shifty Pony posted:To expand on this an implosion in China would be bad news for a lot of major corporations because they made significant chunks of their income there. Everyone and their brother was betting on China to be their next hot market and for some such as the automakers and Apple that was really starting to look like the case. Yeah, my guess was that they're likely to park even more money into the housing markets abroad since the US bubble is only just starting up again, or at least it's a place they can park their wealth if/when poo poo gets bad enough that the CCP gets in trouble. IIRC, lots of the top brass of the CCP have been pretty active in the Vancouver housing buys.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 14:15 |
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LeeMajors posted:Because even disgusting monsters are still probably somewhat human in personal life.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 14:34 |
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Inferior Third Season posted:Is there anyone who hasn't driven past a sporting goods store and seen this same joke on one of their signs? It was completely new to me, hence my (perhaps extreme) enthusiasm.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 15:04 |
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GalacticAcid posted:When is the first The Rent Is Too drat High Party primary? Jimmy McMillan posted:
see also
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 15:20 |
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Muscle Tracer posted:weclome to the real world, where everyone has redeeming qualities Well, is a human being, for certain values of human being, anyways... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K0sRkvX4KE On the other hand... http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/02/a-look-at-the-very-different-charitable-donations-of-texas-senate-candidates/ posted:Tea party favorite and former state litigator Ted Cruz preaches a message of smaller government and less spending. His personal tax returns indicate he also spends little on charities. So, you know
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 15:36 |
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From a paywalled WSJ article. I guess this is the kind of fiscal foresight and monetary wisdom that explains his tenure of leadership at AIG. I guess in a sense, we just all gave $10 million to Right to Rise
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 15:50 |
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...omepage%2Fstory Highlights from a police anti-racism training session. quote:Baltimore police officer Edward Gillespie flashed a picture of a sneering man wearing a turban and asked a classroom of fellow officers, “Who is he?”
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 15:50 |
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Ladies and gentlemen, the Senior Senator from the Great State of Vermont. Check out @SenatorLeahy's Tweet: https://twitter.com/SenatorLeahy/status/685120043156418561?s=09
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 16:29 |
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Rygar201 posted:Ladies and gentlemen, the Senior Senator from the Great State of Vermont. Pat Leahy is extremely correct and good here.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 16:30 |
Rygar201 posted:Ladies and gentlemen, the Senior Senator from the Great State of Vermont.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 16:33 |
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Rygar201 posted:Ladies and gentlemen, the Senior Senator from the Great State of Vermont. He's ... uh ... not wrong?
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 16:34 |
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Luigi Thirty posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...omepage%2Fstory Holy gently caress they are so disconnected from reality.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 16:37 |
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Luigi Thirty posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...omepage%2Fstory And people wonder why the police have come under so much criticism lately?
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 16:42 |
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Geostomp posted:And people wonder why the police have come under so much criticism lately? "We think brown person = criminal/terrorist and we are trained to never engage people in a positive way ever. WHY DO THEY HATE US? "
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 16:44 |
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I guess policechat is like foodchat and boozechat: if there isn't a dedicated thread for it in D&D, it will just find its way into USPol.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 16:56 |
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in the case of the cop thread... it was a good shoot.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 16:57 |
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heh
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 17:02 |
That $10 million into a campaign at least has a greater chance of getting back into the community through ad buys, jobs, and such than giving it to AIG.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 17:13 |
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zoux posted:
Ok, that was funny
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 17:24 |
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Rygar201 posted:Ladies and gentlemen, the Senior Senator from the Great State of Vermont. It's not maple syrup unless it has 500 years of historical sugar shacks, and I'm sad to tell you Vermont ain't it.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 17:29 |
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zoux posted:
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 18:06 |
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https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/apploitation-city-instaserfs San Francisco is basically a medieval manor where serfs run around buying things and doing things for the rich
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 18:07 |
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Luigi Thirty posted:https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/apploitation-city-instaserfs Same-day delivery for Amazon Prime is more important than workers rights. Also Europe is a bad place with bad people.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 18:13 |
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Bhaal posted:Smaller Asian countries near China will feel it far more, oh and Australia's real estate market has a dependency right now on exports of natural resources to China that is propping it up in its current state. If China reined back on that then the AUS housing bubble will be in for a shock and may pop completely. It's worth noting that one of the big reasons countries want in to TPP is because it allows most of them to stop needing China so much.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 18:29 |
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DisreputableDog attends a Ben Carson rally
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 18:41 |
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Why would someone do this? To what end? Was he making a point about how one parasitic kid holds back Galtian supermen?
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 18:47 |
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zoux posted:DisreputableDog attends a Ben Carson rally .... Jesus Christ.
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 18:48 |
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zoux posted:
i bet throwing huge sums of money into politics like that feels amazing. like you, the grotesquely rich person, are having a real and meaningful impact on your country's politics must be a real rush
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# ? Jan 7, 2016 18:48 |
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zoux posted:DisreputableDog attends a Ben Carson rally Have we ever had a mass shooter by a 5th grader yet?
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