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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/711937287559360512 "I'm Mitt Romney, and I... I suppose I have to approve this message."
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blackguy32 posted:Calculators help but math is so much more complex than that. Oh wow, you don't say.
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Mar 21, 2016 16:39
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Grapplejack posted:No but I should, it sounds like a good movie I'm pretty sure if she picks him they will both become famous enough for that not to happen.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Lol. I wonder if he has to take a break after every spot to go to the men's room and cry. He and Chris Christie should start a support group.
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Mar 21, 2016 16:41
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Tight Booty Shorts posted:Oh wow, you don't say. Also, philosophy is not that hard when you just state the obvious.
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UV_Catastrophe posted:In the event that they nominate a not-Trump at the convention and Trump goes third party, there's a good chance the republican party splinters. I think the Republican focus on individualism and "me first" egocentric ideology at the cost of society/the greater good created a massive blind spot and inability to counteract against somebody like Trump. The candidates field seriously needed to be winnowed down early and rallied behind someone against Trump before the tidal wave of his core base and primary wins was formed and rising, but the egos of the others (especially clear hangers-on like Carson and Fiorina) prevented this. Nobody was or is willing to take one for the team, especially with assholes like Ted Cruz in the mix. They simply couldn't react against Trump early enough for it to matter, either by dismissing him as a flash in the pan gimmick like before in 2012 or because of said blind spot (or even by ignoring the apparent need to turn away from the old white male vote as their key demographic in the aftermath of the 2012 election), and now it seems likely to mortally wound the GOP as a party. It's almost like a Greek tragic flaw bringing low Oedipus, it's delicious. 
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Mar 21, 2016 16:44
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With Mitt Romney, you can just call them "calls" the "robo" is implied. 
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:We live in crazy times. An outsider Republican candidate as TV reality show star "steals" the nomination by being too popular, so establishment seek to derail the election by running as a third party against their own party. To be fair, that's sort of what happened with John Tyler, although I don't think most publishers would touch a historical fiction based on the Tyler presidency.
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blackguy32 posted:My history professor said it best when he said memorizing dates isn't important because you can easily look up when something happened in a book. He really said a book or is this a line you heard in an old movie?
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Mar 21, 2016 16:46
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blackguy32 posted:Calculators help but math is so much more complex than that. Being able to read a map and know locations is also fairly important for a variety of reasons whether practical or just for context. At the very least for the sake of the kind of people that confuse Chechnya with the Czech Republic.
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The Sheriff that was supporting the Bundys and whom they were on their way to meet is under criminal investigation. http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovemen...recruiter_id=17 Bundy released a statement from jail asking people to 'Stand with the Sheriff'. Which will probably go as well as people standing for Bundy did 
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Gravel Gravy posted:Being able to read a map and know locations is also fairly important for a variety of reasons whether practical or just for context. At the very least for the sake of the kind of people that confuse Chechnya with the Czech Republic. No it's not. The reason they don't know the difference between Chechnya and the Czech Republic is because they don't care, and it's because they don't care that they didn't care to learn where they were on a map, it's not that learning where something is on a map makes you care.
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Gravel Gravy posted:Being able to read a map and know locations is also fairly important for a variety of reasons whether practical or just for context. At the very least for the sake of the kind of people that confuse Chechnya with the Czech Republic. Unless you're in an actual policy debate knowing where a location is doesn't really matter that much. Like Chechnya all you really need to know is that it's somewhere near Russia. That doesn't narrow it down by much, but functionally it doesn't matter if it's in the Middle East or next to China, since all of its relations are to Russia.
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TildeATH posted:No it's not. The reason they don't know the difference between Chechnya and the Czech Republic is because they don't care, and it's because they don't care that they didn't care to learn where they were on a map, it's not that learning where something is on a map makes you care. I'm not sure the lesson plan should be dictated by what the kids in the back row that set fire to the toilet paper in the school's bathroom care about though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9LVRHigxiE
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zoux posted:My opinion is that if someone is like "hell, I say bomb 'em all to the stone age" they should at least be able to pick out the country on a map. I'd go with either Agrabah or Uz-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan. They both sound suspicious and swarthy. 
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It kind of depends if this geography survey was open to any other resources or not. I mean if someone asked me point blank where Bhutan or Tuvalu are, I'd have no idea. But I do have a permanent internet connection sitting in my pocket, and I'm usually near a computer almost every hour of the day, so I can look up their location and entire history at a moment's notice. And even if you were educated and drilled in world geography in school, that's not information you're going to use very frequently, except in possibly annoying your friends with obscure knowledge. It's not surprising that sort of stuff slips away when you're busy thinking about day-to-day life. Also, here is a relevant XKCD which I mostly link to make the goons who hate XKCD fly into an irrational rage.
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dr_rat posted:Two VP's for the price of one! They're always finishing each other's... ... executive orders!
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Handy pic to post back at your aunts on facebook this week.
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Doctor Butts posted:I used to think dates weren't important but then I realized that dates help immensely when trying to build a chronology of events to remember what happened in the past, and why. Causes and effects are important. His history professor is correct and it's a point just about every history professor will reiterate: Memorizing years and dates is tremendously unimportant. What is important is understanding the relativity of events and how they influence each other. Specific dates aren't necessary for that. Nice, but not important to know off the top of your head.
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Captain Oblivious posted:His history professor is correct and it's a point just about every history professor will reiterate: Memorizing years and dates is tremendously unimportant. What is important is understanding the relativity of events and how they influence each other. Specific dates aren't necessary for that. Nice, but not important to know off the top of your head. Oddly enough, it's the History series' of Crash Course on Youtube that helped me realize that.
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Gravel Gravy posted:Being able to read a map and know locations is also fairly important for a variety of reasons whether practical or just for context. At the very least for the sake of the kind of people that confuse Chechnya with the Czech Republic. Honestly I think being able to point out a country on a map is less important than knowing who borders who. It's literally impossible to understand the Syrian civil war, for example, without knowing that Syria borders Iraq and Turkey. And Jordan. I'd love to see some world maps like those ones of America some folks had a bunch of Brits fill. Iowa Also Iowa Another square state
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Hot takes from the senator from Mass. https://twitter.com/elizabethforma/status/711951221490372609
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Is there any organization that's strategically encouraging donations to the most flippable Senate races? Like planning to collect 'donate' links for the ten Dem candidates in the best position to take a currently Republican seat, and share them widely?
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"They can't even find X on a map!" is just a common trope that gets rolled out when trying to point out how dumb a certain group is and every nods their heads at "Yes, those people sure are dumb!" and no one asks why knowing where exactly someplace is on a map is supposed to be so goddamn important and how it became the baseline for how "dumb" someone is.
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FCKGW posted:"They can't even find X on a map!" is just a common trope that gets rolled out when trying to point out how dumb a certain group is and every nods their heads at "Yes, those people sure are dumb!" and no one asks why knowing where exactly someplace is on a map is supposed to be so goddamn important and how it became the baseline for how "dumb" someone is. Because it's the minimum bar for being educated. It's important because if you don't know where stuff is, you are probably an incurious person with extremely wrong foreign policy positions. Oh and your vote counts the same.
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FCKGW posted:"They can't even find X on a map!" is just a common trope that gets rolled out when trying to point out how dumb a certain group is and every nods their heads at "Yes, those people sure are dumb!" and no one asks why knowing where exactly someplace is on a map is supposed to be so goddamn important and how it became the baseline for how "dumb" someone is. My favorite one of those is when Demarcus Cousins on the Basketball Olympic team(or was it FIBA) was asked that question. https://twitter.com/poormanscommish/status/508963143197151232
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blackguy32 posted:Calculators help but math is so much more complex than that. And that professor was Jeb Bush
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Honestly I think being able to point out a country on a map is less important than knowing who borders who. It's literally impossible to understand the Syrian civil war, for example, without knowing that Syria borders Iraq and Turkey. And Jordan. You know one way to figure out who borders who? Although I suppose that only works if you say have students who learn with visual aids or something.
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FCKGW posted:"They can't even find X on a map!" is just a common trope that gets rolled out when trying to point out how dumb a certain group is and every nods their heads at "Yes, those people sure are dumb!" and no one asks why knowing where exactly someplace is on a map is supposed to be so goddamn important and how it became the baseline for how "dumb" someone is. They should immediately produce a tablet with google maps open and ask "Would you be willing to learn where it is?" I'd be shocked if the percentage of people who answer no was any different than the percentage of people who werent even close.
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Boon posted:Oddly enough, it's the History series' of Crash Course on Youtube that helped me realize that. Anybody even mildly interested in world history should watch these videos, by the way. They're very well done, John Green is a wonderful presenter, and they actually contain, like, nuance and introspection. Good series.
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smg77 posted:The better question is if the brothers would swap places every once in a while to mess with Hillary. This would be fun, but once you spend some time with one twin the other is easier to pick out. Or maybe it's easy for me since my mother is a twin.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Honestly I think being able to point out a country on a map is less important than knowing who borders who. It's literally impossible to understand the Syrian civil war, for example, without knowing that Syria borders Iraq and Turkey. And Jordan. Dexo posted:What I wouldn't give to go back in time and tell myself in Early 2015 that Mitt Romney was going to be hard stumping for loving Ted Cruz.
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fade5 posted:We really have reached pure insanity, haven't we? Trump isn't president so no, no we haven't.
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fade5 posted:This is generally a good point, and I agree with it, but holy hell it's pretty much impossible to understand the Syrian Civil War even if you follow it. I know more than I ever wanted to know about Syria/Iraq/the Kurds/the Middle East and I can still barely follow what's going on in that clusterfuck of a war. Not yet, Pure insanity isn't until Trump is ratfucked at the convention, and decides to run third party. Or Trump gets the nomination and another republican runs third party.
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Dexo posted:Not yet, Pure insanity isn't until Trump is ratfucked at the convention, and decides to run third party. Or Trump gets the nomination and another republican runs third party. I was talking over the potential Romney/Perry/Coburn third party run with friends this morning, and it suddenly occurred to me how amazingly bookended this election is with 1968 if that happens - the most Wallace-like candidate will have the Republican election, and the most establishment Republican will be running on a third-party ticket.
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Coburn retired from Congress because he was having health issues and suddenly he's healthy enough to talk about running for President? Good loving luck. Also gently caress Tom Coburn.
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Oh shi- https://twitter.com/DavidJBohm/status/711953019487674368
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zoux posted:Because it's the minimum bar for being educated. It's important because if you don't know where stuff is, you are probably an incurious person with extremely wrong foreign policy positions. Oh and your vote counts the same. Not really. I mean, you should probably have a rough idea of where a country is and who it's neighbors are to have a good understanding of what a country's influence is, but pointing to an unlabeled maps and pinpointing countries that really have no bearing on your everyday life is a parlor trick, not a measure of someone's intelligence.
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zoux posted:Handy pic to post back at your aunts on facebook this week. It's always sad for reaganites to remember the day he capitulated and knelt before Zod. If only Zod hadn't arrived while the Super hero's union was on strike. All they wanted was increased workplace safety regulations in their industry. 
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