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Litany Unheard posted:Hunted down some quick numbers for comparison. Wal-Mart/Sam's Club makes up about 2% of US GDP. Samsung makes up 17% of South Korea's GDP, and accounts for one-fifth of all its exports. I'm assuming that that's not very good for an economy in the long-term.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I will be interested to see if the GOP notices this and tries to make it part of the campaign rhetoric
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computer parts posted:On the other hand, South Korea hasn't fared too badly. Yes lets aim for the politics of a country that has been a dictatorship longer than it has been a 'democracy'.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Yes lets aim for the politics of a country that has been a dictatorship longer than it has been a 'democracy'. They make the trains run on time. And that means they'll also build trains.
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Speaking of North Korea, hows about that thing they put into space? The UN/US gonna do anything? Have a drone drop a slice of bread and say "no" and wag a finger? Also when the space thing was new, I liked the hot take from some Chinese lady from the gov. "Behind closed doors we all call them fatty. The 1st fatty was fine, the 2nd fatty wasn't as good, but this 3rd fatty. A stupid brat."
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PhazonLink posted:Speaking of North Korea, hows about that thing they put into space? The UN/US gonna do anything? It sounds like its just a couple of weeks from burning up when it tumbles into re-entry, blowing it up creates a giant rear end mess in space and we're still pissed at the Chinese from when they did it.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:It sounds like its just a couple of weeks from burning up when it tumbles into re-entry, blowing it up creates a giant rear end mess in space and we're still pissed at the Chinese from when they did it. We also did it once in the 80s. 
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Raskolnikov38 posted:It sounds like its just a couple of weeks from burning up when it tumbles into re-entry, blowing it up creates a giant rear end mess in space and we're still pissed at the Chinese from when they did it. If it blows/burns up in re-entry, there's no junk issue. It's when it blows up in orbit that you add to the Kessler problem.
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Litany Unheard posted:Hunted down some quick numbers for comparison. Wal-Mart/Sam's Club makes up about 2% of US GDP. Samsung makes up 17% of South Korea's GDP, and accounts for one-fifth of all its exports. Most of which is device drivers
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Hey guys, I have a random question. Are you allowed to deduct medical expenses from your taxes?
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:SCOTUSblog saying Loretta Lynch most likely to get nomination. This better not stop the DOJ reaming FIFA.
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Mr Interweb posted:Hey guys, I have a random question. Are you allowed to deduct medical expenses from your taxes? Yes.
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Mr Interweb posted:Hey guys, I have a random question. Are you allowed to deduct medical expenses from your taxes? maybe
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I finally watched the Power of Nightmares after I seen some people boasting about it and I am not really sure on how I feel about it. I thought the comparisons between the neocons and the Islamic State were pretty good at times but at the end it just felt like an Alex Jones doc that somehow made it on the BBC. Is there any truth to the fact that Al Queda is mostly an American-made shadow figure? I realize this is over ten years old but I am pretty sure I saw people here talking about it recently.
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Mr Interweb posted:Hey guys, I have a random question. Are you allowed to deduct medical expenses from your taxes? Yes. Depending on how great the expenses were you may be better off with the standard deduction. Run the numbers with both to see which is better.
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CortezFantastic posted:I finally watched the Power of Nightmares after I seen some people boasting about it and I am not really sure on how I feel about it. I thought the comparisons between the neocons and the Islamic State were pretty good at times but at the end it just felt like an Alex Jones doc that somehow made it on the BBC. Is there any truth to the fact that Al Queda is mostly an American-made shadow figure? I realize this is over ten years old but I am pretty sure I saw people here talking about it recently. It's about as true as claims that ISIS is as well (which I've heard from various anti-imperialist sources). That is to say, it formed in a hazy period of significant political/military unrest in an Islamic country in which the organization was originally allied with proxy forces of the US. As a result, the organization received indirect aid in so far as the US did not attack them and may have provided military and financial aid to larger groups in which the organization played a part and in which the organization was viewed more positively than in the US as a whole. As a result, the organization indirectly benefitted from US support and prospered when US aid left a power vacuum, though such prosperity was not due to anything the US did other than inaction. So yes, the US helped to create these groups, but only indirectly at best, and certainly not with the intent of creating the chaos that they eventually sowed (presumably because of an incomplete understanding of the organization's goals, or the incorrect belief that the organization would be sidelined in favor of civil society at the end of the conflict). It is almost certainly not the explicit, malevolent conspiracy the people who say these things try to make it out to be.
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CortezFantastic posted:I finally watched the Power of Nightmares after I seen some people boasting about it and I am not really sure on how I feel about it. I thought the comparisons between the neocons and the Islamic State were pretty good at times but at the end it just felt like an Alex Jones doc that somehow made it on the BBC. Is there any truth to the fact that Al Queda is mostly an American-made shadow figure? I realize this is over ten years old but I am pretty sure I saw people here talking about it recently. Al Qaeda was much less of a direct creation than the Taliban, which was the direct descendant of a mujahideen group funded by the US through the Pakistani ISI during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda got its start in the atmosphere created by that war but institutionally had less direct connection to American-backed groups
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Rollofthedice posted:I'm assuming that that's not very good for an economy in the long-term. It's fine for the economy. It's not very good for democracy Crowsbeak posted:For those who ask whats the harm. seriously we could do alot loving worse. Just look at the wonders that Dynastic politics have produced in India. A sustained democracy which is one of the most liberal in the world outside Western Europe/the US? I'll take it, especially over east asian crypto-fascism
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ComradeCosmobot posted:
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Hollismason posted:Yes. Necc0 posted:Yes. Depending on how great the expenses were you may be better off with the standard deduction. Run the numbers with both to see which is better. Okay thanks. Cause I got quite a few bills. :/
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What makes Adam Curtis' documentaries interesting is the destruction (not just rejection) of the prevailing narrative and the freedom that allows to explore others, including his own, where he never makes a totally convincing case.
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So I may have missed some one posting this, but I think the thread would appreciate news on the Shkreli - Daquan saga. http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/02/15/pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-lied-about-bitcoin-so-someone-spent-his-real-money-on-lube/#gref
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quote:Bolded the more idiotic parts. Seriously one has only to look to Asia and South America to see how generally political dynasties a detriment to democratic republicanism. I also love how there is barley any real talk of how the heirs can be less competent then their forebears but can succeed because of their forebearers connections.
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:You say that, yet you didn't bold where Luke loving Russert was put on the same level as Serena Williams. My bad, I actually forgot who he was.
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CortezFantastic posted:I finally watched the Power of Nightmares after I seen some people boasting about it and I am not really sure on how I feel about it. I thought the comparisons between the neocons and the Islamic State were pretty good at times but at the end it just felt like an Alex Jones doc that somehow made it on the BBC. Is there any truth to the fact that Al Queda is mostly an American-made shadow figure? I realize this is over ten years old but I am pretty sure I saw people here talking about it recently. When you say "American-made shadow figure", are you asking if the group itself was American made, or are you talking about the narrative surrounding the group? The formation of AQ itself was a lot more complicated than "America funded religious fundamentalists fighting the Soviets and thus al-qaeda was born." But I think most here would agree that the Bush administration pushed a narrative that vastly overstated their scope and power.
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If I can't figure out a way to block Bernie Sanders' Dank Meme Stash posts from showing up in my news feed its going to drive me to loving vote for Jeb!. Are they trying to make people hate Bernie? It's working
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does it count as primary chat if it is really the delusional rantings of Michael Savage's vision for what Sanders will do for the country? I want to ask before I post, I'm responsible like that
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:If I can't figure out a way to block Bernie Sanders' Dank Meme Stash posts from showing up in my news feed its going to drive me to loving vote for Jeb!. Are they trying to make people hate Bernie? It's working I'm personally trying to amass the world's largest private collection of Bernie memes so please PM me any if you start seeing ones you haven't seen before.
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Fried Chicken posted:does it count as primary chat if it is really the delusional rantings of Michael Savage's vision for what Sanders will do for the country? I want to ask before I post, I'm responsible like that Please, PLEASE, do not talk about us politics in this, the uspol thread, of all places.
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:If I can't figure out a way to block Bernie Sanders' Dank Meme Stash posts from showing up in my news feed its going to drive me to loving vote for Jeb!. Are they trying to make people hate Bernie? It's working I've pretty much unfollowed all the Bernie supporters that won't stop sharing poo poo from that group in between them  -ing about coin flips. Now my feed is mostly back to it's old awful self.
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Right now I feel the same way about US Politics as I did after the series finale of Breaking Bad. Saturday's events were such a culmination of amazing that I'm not sure what to do with myself while I wait for that next sweet, sweet hit of news.
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icantfindaname posted:Al Qaeda was much less of a direct creation than the Taliban, which was the direct descendant of a mujahideen group funded by the US through the Pakistani ISI during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda got its start in the atmosphere created by that war but institutionally had less direct connection to American-backed groups The majority of the Muhjajadeen fighters were Afghani during the Soviet-Afghanistan War and they hated all of the "tourists' who came in their country for Jihad. What immediately followed the Soviet-Afghan war was a pretty hardcore cleansing to get all of the foreigners out of their country, of which none of them endeared themselves towards the locals.
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Fried Chicken posted:does it count as primary chat if it is really the delusional rantings of Michael Savage's vision for what Sanders will do for the country? I want to ask before I post, I'm responsible like that I'm pretty sure I know what you're referring to and it likely won't trigger primarychat as long as you don't mention the other candidate in the same sentence. It's loving hilarious, so post away.
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Fried Chicken posted:does it count as primary chat if it is really the delusional rantings of Michael Savage's vision for what Sanders will do for the country? I want to ask before I post, I'm responsible like that I'd say go for it if you think we're civil enough to not devolve into pages of he said she said.
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DemeaninDemon posted:I'd say go for it if you think we're civil enough to not devolve into pages of he said she said. ie if you're loving delusional and unable to learn from experience but maybe 
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Today In: Unscripted moments that will show up in attack ads anytime now, we have former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton barking like a dog. Behold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqKT9S3jsKE http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-barks-dog-condemning-republicans/story?id=36959846
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:If I can't figure out a way to block Bernie Sanders' Dank Meme Stash posts from showing up in my news feed its going to drive me to loving vote for Jeb!. Are they trying to make people hate Bernie? It's working The ending of Schindler's List except it's Bernie Bros placing memes on your grave.
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Guy Montag posted:Today In: Unscripted moments that will show up in attack ads anytime now, we have former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton barking like a dog. Finally, an answer to Mitt Romney's question from 2008.
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Guy Montag posted:Today In: Unscripted moments that will show up in attack ads anytime now, we have former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton barking like a dog. This is great. I wish she would be weird more often
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