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Radish posted:So you have candidates A, B, and C and A winning. The idea that if candidate B drops out, all of his voters go to C and C then wins is such a GOP pipe dream. The reality is that they would probably end up splitting in some ratio that still allows A to win with some just not voting at all. If Cruz the slimy, amoral theocrat drops 100% of his supporters aren't going to flock to Rubio the establishment empty suit boy-man and vice versa. It's sad how these guys are desperately trying to pretend they have any agency in Trump winning or losing. I may be wrong on this, but if the RNC party leadership said "hey, Trump is going to totally gently caress us, we're dropping his rear end", they could pull the plug on him at any time and have a brokered convention. They'd suffer huge backlash and probably be equally as likely to lose, though. I actually kind of thought that was Trump's plan, for a while, and I'm not convinced that it isn't his plan. He knows, and the GOP knows, that he'll get absolutely crushed by Clinton, despite what any of the polls show this far out.
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deoju posted:The NY Times had this article yesterday about a how a Fox News intelligence expert was exposed as a total fraud. It's an interesting read. Fantastic, it turns out I was giving them far too much credit in assuming they just found some hack and paid him a hundred bucks to claim he was X and say Y Radish posted:Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Incredible Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Walsh has given up Willing to do anything to stop him Except not vote for him, or encourage anybody else to do the same Epic High Five fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Mar 2, 2016 |
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KomradeX posted:Has anyone noticed this explosion of calling people who fight racism The Regressive Left? The only place I've seen it is this one dude on my Facebook feed who keeps commenting on/Liking posts from some page dedicated to bitching about it. As far as I can tell, it boils down to some combination of "stupid liberals will call you racist for saying Muslims are violent but are okay with muslim countries oppressing women," "why won't you tolerate my intolerance!?" and "college students who talk about safe spaces and trigger warnings are fascists" -type garbage. So dumb bullshit for people who are mad they can't be racist against Muslims and older millenials who are apparently eager to enter the "old man bitching about the kids these days" stage of their life, basically. Hulk Krogan fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Mar 2, 2016 |
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WampaLord posted:That one fucker in the middle not wearing a red polo has a loving bow tie on. Two ways: 1) You are an privileged, amoral narcissist concerned with nothing more than hoovering up as many resources as you can from other people and having everything you see. Notably, I know a rich white boy like this who I regularly want to stab, in particular every time he uses the word "distortion" or any of its conjugations, and who often makes me want to punch my brother for being friends with him. 2) You get indoctrinated young. You get raised on regurgitated Fox News rage and are never taught critical thinking and have it beaten into you (sometimes literally) that questioning authority or tradition is Bad. Some of them are true believers that their party knows best and that conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed.
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Mar 3, 2016 00:11
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My experience with college Republicans was that they were pretty much always business majors of some stripe that think they'll work their way up to being billionaire CEOs some day and want to pay 0% tax rates when they inevitably get there. That or hyper evangelicals that kept putting up wooden crosses that represent aborted babies on campus. Every year they'd put up a big thing quoting bullshit statistics on abortion and trying to claim that each cross (they'd put up like a hundred of them) represented multiple thousands of aborted babies. The two groups are not mutually exclusive.
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Nonsense posted:https://twitter.com/No_Cut_Card/status/705037295318081536 I know you aren't supposed to say anything negative about vets but... That guy could not have been happier that he could shove a black woman
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:I know you aren't supposed to say anything negative about vets but... Was she a protester or a random attendee?
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:I know you aren't supposed to say anything negative about vets but... Why not? Being a vet doesn't give you a magical protection field.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:I know you aren't supposed to say anything negative about vets but... Pro-tip: vets hate this poo poo and most are perfectly content being treated like normal people. They'll grin and bear it when you buy their coffee, give up your seat for them, or insist on shaking their hand because they can tell how important it is to you, but the vast majority of people who insist on revering them have never seen combat and never will.
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Nonsense posted:https://twitter.com/No_Cut_Card/status/705037295318081536 That sure didn't look like a police officer "escorting" her out.
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Kibayasu posted:That sure didn't look like a police officer "escorting" her out. I'm not sure what Trump or what one of his supporters could do at this point that would lose him votes.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:pretty much. Milo is a weasel who knows how to say the right things in the right way to people. he is a real littlefinger. Littlefinger wouldn't have lost his blue checkmark.
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The Ape of Naples posted:I'm not sure what Trump or what one of his supporters could do at this point that would lose him votes. Be caught in bed with a dead (white) girl or a live (mexican) boy.
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BlackIronHeart posted:Be caught in bed with a dead (white) girl or a live (mexican) boy. I'm honestly still not convinced.
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BlackIronHeart posted:Be caught in bed with a dead (white) girl or a live (mexican) boy. He could be eating their hearts while wearing satanic robes and I'm certain that at least some of his rabid followers would rationalize it away. Nonsense posted:https://twitter.com/No_Cut_Card/status/705037295318081536 I really hope this kind of thing is shown in history classes in about 40 years or so as a grim reminder of just how bad the mindless rage in the country became and a warning to never fall for it again. We can only hope that time erodes the horrible tide that Trump's crew represents. Geostomp fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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Geostomp posted:I really hope this kind of thing is shown in history classes in about 40 years or so as a grim reminder of just how bad the mindless rage in the country became and a warning to never fall for it again. They tried that nearly 70 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23X14HS4gLk
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BlackIronHeart posted:They tried that nearly 70 years ago. We're still living in the shadow of that time http://thoughtmaybe.com/the-century-of-the-self/ Parts 2-4 are particularly significant to understanding how off the rails 'the system' has become - leaving pundits, wonks, and other conformist, grey, 'serious' people flabbergasted.
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Deified Data posted:Pro-tip: vets hate this poo poo and most are perfectly content being treated like normal people. They'll grin and bear it when you buy their coffee, give up your seat for them, or insist on shaking their hand because they can tell how important it is to you, but the vast majority of people who insist on revering them have never seen combat and never will. Jesus Christ, this.
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McDowell posted:We're still living in the shadow of that time Given the propensity for media in general to distort the past and the right wing's absolute determination to re-write history whenever possible, I guess it shouldn't be too surprising that we seem to have learned absolutely nothing from it.
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deoju posted:The NY Times had this article yesterday about a how a Fox News intelligence expert was exposed as a total fraud. It's an interesting read. This is a pro read. Also, I know it shouldn't, but it still amazes me how strongly the old unabashedly right wing cold warriors have hung on in the intelligence community.
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Mr Jaunts posted:No, see, since he's gay, he can be 'objective' about women, because the only reason you would ever care about or even be nice to women is to sleep with them. As a gay dude, I can say that gay guys can be the misogynistic fuckers around and shouldn't be given the time of day when it comes to women's lives in a lot of instances
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Deified Data posted:Pro-tip: vets hate this poo poo and most are perfectly content being treated like normal people. They'll grin and bear it when you buy their coffee, give up your seat for them, or insist on shaking their hand because they can tell how important it is to you, but the vast majority of people who insist on revering them have never seen combat and never will. Can't second this enough. It was and is awkward every time. Though my fondest/strangest memory was when I went to vote on my lunch in 08 and was in uniform. Some old man in a wheelchair and oxygen tank asked if I was in "the Cav" since he saw my first cavalry division patches. When I said yes he said "I spent two years in a Chinese prison camp cuz of the Cavvvv! You know what that patch means boy?" By this point, everyone in line was watching our exchange. Having just passed my E5 board the previous month and being completely naive about what was about to happen next, I proudly explained the symbolism of the patch to this fellow vet. His response? "That ain't what it means, the black stripe is the river that was never crossed, the horse is the one that was never ridden and the yellow is for cowardice!" I had no idea how to respond, none. I wasn't going to get in a fight with some old guy in a wheelchair with an understandable hatred for my unit. I shrugged it off with "well, I wasn't in any part of that sir." His equally old friend in line then broke the ensuing silence with "don't mind him, he's just grumpy." Luckily we were near the front so I only had to stand next to this guy glaring at me for a little bit. We were also at Fort Hood, so that guy had to have seen soldiers from my division every day, but I guess me being next to him for about 20 minutes brought him to a boiling point.
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Bait and Swatch posted:Can't second this enough. It was and is awkward every time. Though my fondest/strangest memory was when I went to vote on my lunch in 08 and was in uniform. Some old man in a wheelchair and oxygen tank asked if I was in "the Cav" since he saw my first cavalry division patches. When I said yes he said "I spent two years in a Chinese prison camp cuz of the Cavvvv! You know what that patch means boy?" By this point, everyone in line was watching our exchange. Sounds like an angry vet. Wikipedia posted:During the Korean War, there were disparaging rumors about the 1st Cavalry Division's fighting abilities, including a folk song of the time called "The Bug-Out Ballad".[5] The series of engagements that are rumored to have given rise to the song were due (at least partly) to the myth that the division lost its unit colors.[6] Other Army and Marine units disparagingly described the division shoulder insignia as representing 'The horse they never rode, the river they never crossed, and the yellow speaks for itself'. Another version goes: "The shield they never carried, the horse they never rode, the bridge they never crossed, the line they never held, and the yellow is the reason why." The incident that apparently gave rise to this rumor appears to be the Battle of Unsan, which took place on 1–2 November 1950 at Unsan, Korea. In that battle, the 8th Cavalry regiment, a component of the 1st Cavalry Division, was pushed back from positions in and around the town of Unsan by superior Chinese forces. The regiment was severely battered, experienced heavy casualties, and lost a considerable amount of equipment. This was one of the first major Chinese operations in the Korean War and, like the Changjin (Chosin) Reservoir Battle of this same period, it took the United Nations Command by surprise.
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I thought that this was a concise and interesting take on how the Republicans with the help of the RWM created Trump: https://storify.com/AntheaButler/repubilcan-disaster
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Rick_Hunter posted:Sounds like an angry vet. FIRST TEAM!
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Sir Tonk posted:FIRST TEAM! I feel a horrible urge to say Live the Legend.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Dana Loesch shilling for something called Patriot Mobile, which is apparently for people who are tired of "far left" mobile phone companies. Christ. I work for a regional cell phone carrier, and every great once in awhile I have folks come in looking to switch from a major carrier because they read some article about how their current company somehow supports PP. Customer behavior already baffles me, but I still always struggle to not delve deeper on that particular quirk long enough to get the sale.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Dana Loesch shilling for something called Patriot Mobile, which is apparently for people who are tired of "far left" mobile phone companies. Christ. That's hardly a new phenomenon. Credo mobile is a subcarrier of sprint and advertises itself as the "progressive" carrier and gives "a portion of your bill" to some whatever Al Gore cause or something.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Dana Loesch shilling for something called Patriot Mobile, which is apparently for people who are tired of "far left" mobile phone companies. Christ. Yeah there's a huge market for "X but conservative!" services now thanks to how badly they want to isolate themselves. Same with "X but Christian!" There's a "faith-based" investment and financial services thing in these parts that advertises itself as such on its hideous, bright light-up sign in its really fancy building. While ignoring what Jesus had to say about such things. Well, ignoring the electric bling sign, anyway.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Yeah there's a huge market for "X but conservative!" services now thanks to how badly they want to isolate themselves. Same with "X but Christian!" There's a "faith-based" investment and financial services thing in these parts that advertises itself as such on its hideous, bright light-up sign in its really fancy building. While ignoring what Jesus had to say about such things. Well, ignoring the electric bling sign, anyway. I want so much for the logo to be a camel and a needle.
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mr. mephistopheles posted:Dana Loesch shilling for something called Patriot Mobile, which is apparently for people who are tired of "far left" mobile phone companies. Christ.  I need to figure out who created the old Conservative Web Browser and see if he'll say how much he made off of it. This is such an easy group of people to fleece, they're happily paying for lovely email for fucks sake. edit It's still around, of course. http://conservativewebbrowser.conservative-americans.com/ Sir Tonk fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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deoju posted:The NY Times had this article yesterday about a how a Fox News intelligence expert was exposed as a total fraud. It's an interesting read. This is incredible, this guy is like so many radio blowhards with no credibility. Only, he was already a successful small-time career criminal before he got flipped by the feds; and so all he had to do was get with the talking points and he was ready to put in work on cable TV. It reminds me of some bullshit karate instructors I've met, suddenly they decide that they had to be in special forces or something. They start leaving a green beret sitting around. "Oh that old thing?"
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Anyone wanna bet they're still leasing network bandwidth, IP addresses, and services off the big "liberal" companies like nearly all the other smaller or "independent" cellular and internet providers do?
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Yeah there's a huge market for "X but conservative!" services now thanks to how badly they want to isolate themselves. Same with "X but Christian!" There's a "faith-based" investment and financial services thing in these parts that advertises itself as such on its hideous, bright light-up sign in its really fancy building. While ignoring what Jesus had to say about such things. Well, ignoring the electric bling sign, anyway. Reminder, the GBS thread on Teaparty Community, a facebook ripoff is pretty good. I think the son of the creator even regged to defend the lovely site.
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Haha, that's amazing. Something about charging a still pretty hefty fee for "Freedom of Speech" tickles me in just the right way. 
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