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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. Exactly this. It's not important to know when precisely the French revolution occurred, but it is certainly relevant to know that it happened shortly after the American revolution to put it in context.
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gently caress out of here. The Purple Tape hands down.
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WaPo has a great story about Trump using a pseudonym to act as his own spokesman. Fantastic. quote:In the 1980s, when reporters called the Trump Organization to request an interview with the boss, they were sometimes referred to a spokesman, instead. That a busy and image-conscious executive such as Donald Trump would place a buffer between himself and the media was hardly unusual, but there was a twist: The spokesman, John Barron, was actually Trump, hiding behind a fake name. quote:Remarkably, Trump kept up the charade for a full decade, as reporters unwittingly quoted Barron as if he were a real person. In a LexisNexis search, the first mention of the name appears on June 6, 1980, in a New York Times report about Trump’s controversial decision to destroy two Art Deco sculptures he had conditionally promised to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In that instance, Trump used the alias to stall for three days before finally giving an interview under his own name; when he did, he told the Times that he had been out of town and unavailable (!). quote:Trump might have gotten away with his ruse even longer if not for a lawsuit in which he testified, under oath in 1990, that “I believe on occasion I used that name.”
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Mar 21, 2016 18:14
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Clinton and Trump courting the gently caress out of Israeli.
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Jimbozig posted:Exactly this. It's not important to know when precisely the French revolution occurred, but it is certainly relevant to know that it happened shortly after the American revolution to put it in context. Also it's good to note the revolutions/attempted revolutions popping up across Europe in the generation or two after the Napoleonic wars in context of industrialization and post-enlightenment thought.
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Mar 21, 2016 18:15
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Scalia's death continues to pay dividends: Colorado pot survives to smoke another day.
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Mar 21, 2016 18:18
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Am I wrong to be excited for the Five-way tonight on CNN? Is there a TVIV thread yet? 
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Mar 21, 2016 18:18
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https://twitter.com/chucklindell/status/711965520283631616
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Scalia's death continues to pay dividends: Colorado pot survives to smoke another day. Although that was a 6-2 vote so even Scalia couldn't have tipped the scales enough to grant cert.
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Mar 21, 2016 18:31
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It's the principle.
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Mar 21, 2016 18:35
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I'm glad that the states bordering CO continue to flail against legal pot.
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Mar 21, 2016 18:48
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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. The dates are important to provide scale. Without dates "The modern civil rights movement" is a chapter in a history book. With dates it becomes a multi decade struggle from Brown v Board in 1954 to the CRA of 1974 and continuing on to today. Also without dates you can't have context. If you don't know when something happened you can't see movement overtime or see other events that impacted it. Rote memorization of dates is bad, but the current tenancy to ignore them isn't much better.
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Tight Booty Shorts posted:I'm glad that the states bordering CO continue to flail against legal pot. Sorry from Oklahoma. Our budget crisis is so bad some school districts are going to 4-days next semester but goddamn it we'll fight to the end to stop a nearby state from doing something we don't like! Oh, we're also going to remove the separation of church and state clause from our Constitution. Priorities. 
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Mar 21, 2016 18:54
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Kro-Bar posted:Hot takes from the senator from Mass. haha  
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Mar 21, 2016 18:59
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lol "affordable college" is not at risk, it is long gone.
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Mar 21, 2016 19:01
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colonel_korn posted:haha A bunch of my friends are bemoaning this post as 'stooping to Trump's level,' to which I say, BRING ON THE STOOPING. The idea that remaining ~above it all~ is the best way to win elections is insane to me.
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Mar 21, 2016 19:02
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Yeah it seems like all the stuff she names as "in the balance" have in fact fallen off the balance.showbiz_liz posted:A bunch of my friends are bemoaning this post as 'stooping to Trump's level,' to which I say, BRING ON THE STOOPING. The idea that remaining ~above it all~ is the best way to win elections is insane to me. Does a calm explanation of Trump's character flaws really seem like it's "on Trump's level" to them? Liberal cowardice is sad.
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speech is starting linking the time stream http://time.com/4265796/watch-live-stream-online-president-obama-travels-in-cuba/
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Mar 21, 2016 19:05
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Kro-Bar posted:Although that was a 6-2 vote so even Scalia couldn't have tipped the scales enough to grant cert. Probably not, but it's also not inconceivable that Scalia might have convinced one of the other justices to at least hear the case.
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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. Haha, yeah, as I was typing that I thought "maybe I should choose a different example." My dad texted me a while back asking if anything new had developed in Syria, and I texted back that picture of a (n Iranian provided?) T-62 fighting alongside an export model Abrams. He replied with a photo of his hand holding a glass of whiskey held in front of a TV playing Big Trouble in Little China. I feel like there's a powerful metaphor in here for life in the post cold war, mass media age, though that might just be a headache coming on.
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Mar 21, 2016 19:10
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foobardog posted:Am I wrong to be excited for the Five-way tonight on CNN? Is there a TVIV thread yet? Eh, I'd be excited if it were all of them on stage with each other, but 5 interviews isn't super exciting imo.
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Mar 21, 2016 19:13
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showbiz_liz posted:A bunch of my friends are bemoaning this post as 'stooping to Trump's level,' to which I say, BRING ON THE STOOPING. The idea that remaining ~above it all~ is the best way to win elections is insane to me. Racing to the bottom is dumb and ineffectual. Just like your posts.
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Mar 21, 2016 19:17
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ReidRansom posted:Eh, I'd be excited if it were all of them on stage with each other, but 5 interviews isn't super exciting imo. Is it just interviews? I don't know what CNN means by a "forum". Oh well, I'll still watch probably.
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Mar 21, 2016 19:26
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colonel_korn posted:haha gently caress, I wish Warren was going to be the first female President, not, Clinton. Maybe Clinton will step aside in 2020, but I assume the likely Castro VP will be the front runner in that case.
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Mar 21, 2016 19:28
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foobardog posted:gently caress, I wish Warren was going to be the first female President, not, Clinton. Maybe Clinton will step aside in 2020, but I assume the likely Castro VP will be the front runner in that case. Hahahahahahahahaha! You think Hillary Clinton would willingly not run for a second term? In no universe does that happen.
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Mar 21, 2016 19:31
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Did Elizabeth Warren start mattering? I just checked and the sky is its normal color.
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Mar 21, 2016 19:32
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foobardog posted:gently caress, I wish Warren was going to be the first female President, not, Clinton. Maybe Clinton will step aside in 2020, but I assume the likely Castro VP will be the front runner in that case. I love Warren, but she is an atrocious campaigner and would get loving killed in a democratic primary let alone a general if she made it that far. Besides, her being a senator in probably the most liberal state in the nation is literally the best place for someone like her.
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Elizabeth Warren wants to gut one of the major funding sources of the ACA because medical device companies lobbied her.
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Mar 21, 2016 19:33
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WampaLord posted:Hahahahahahahahaha! Yeah, I don't think it's at all likely she would. I don't know. I'll vote for her, but I really want her and all the other 90s third-wayers to go away and let the Democratic Party move to the left more. And hopefully, not just absorb the moderate Republican exodus. SedanChair posted:Did Elizabeth Warren start mattering? I just checked and the sky is its normal color. A Winner is Jew posted:I love Warren, but she is an atrocious campaigner and would get loving killed in a democratic primary let alone a general if she made it that far. computer parts posted:Elizabeth Warren wants to gut one of the major funding sources of the ACA because medical device companies lobbied her. I just want a little hope. 
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computer parts posted:Elizabeth Warren wants to gut one of the major funding sources of the ACA because medical device companies lobbied her.
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Elephant Ambush posted:Racing to the bottom is dumb and ineffectual. Just like your posts. Which is exactly why people hate Trump for "telling it like it is". Oh wait.
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Mar 21, 2016 19:35
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Josh Lyman posted:So you mean she's a shill like every other politician? You should have seen the dismay this weekend when Bernie said his plan for the nomination involved flipping superdelegates. They'll all disappoint you, guys.
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Mar 21, 2016 19:36
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ErichZahn posted:speech is starting linking the time stream Smart man, planned it right after the Apple event ended.
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Mar 21, 2016 19:38
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HE PROMISED TO RELEASE POLITICAL PRISONERS BEFORE THE NIGHT ENDS WHAT THE poo poo.
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Xae posted:The dates are important to provide scale. Without dates "The modern civil rights movement" is a chapter in a history book. With dates it becomes a multi decade struggle from Brown v Board in 1954 to the CRA of 1974 and continuing on to today. I just want to point out that it's ironic that this is an incorrect date and timeframe. And to counter this example, the emphasis on 1954-1964 (or, more traditionally, 1968 to include the VRA and end with the murder of MLK) can flatten the longer freedom struggle and give the false impression that the Civil Rights Movement emerged from Brown or Montgomery as opposed to those being the results of decades of activism. Dates are important for differentiating of course, but I have students who can tell me a shitload of important stuff about the freedom struggle but maybe only remember that it's "early to mid twentieth century." That said, I generally agree. Dates are meaningless on their own, but chronology and temporal context is important.
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ErichZahn posted:HE PROMISED TO RELEASE POLITICAL PRISONERS BEFORE THE NIGHT ENDS WHAT THE poo poo. poo poo is getting heated.
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ErichZahn posted:HE PROMISED TO RELEASE POLITICAL PRISONERS BEFORE THE NIGHT ENDS WHAT THE poo poo. Link?
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Which is exactly why people hate Trump for "telling it like it is". Oh wait. Yes I'm sure all Hillary and Bernie supporters would love it if their candidates started throwing temper tantrums and engaging in twitter slapfights at the drop of a hat. Democrats and Socialists are just chomping at the bit for an excuse to behave exactly like their childish political opponents.
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