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Zerilan posted:I think at this point what I want to see happen most is Trump/Cruz both getting hosed over at a contested convention, Paul Ryan as the nominee, and Trump's attempts to take his support third party result in a ridiculous landslide win for the dem nominee that results in a lot of anger at Ryan from the base. Really concerned about Clinton/Bernie being a one-term president, but if Ryan gets dragged down too in this mess I have no idea who the GOP could even push forward as a strong candidate in 2020. #Kanye2020
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/ScottBaio/status/716822976004358144 Let's send him over to a REAL desert where temperatures last year climbed so high that the current estimation is within 15-20 years they will be uninhabitable
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/ScottBaio/status/716822976004358144 While we're on the subject, if evolution, then why bananas? Just use your common sense, people.
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PhilippAchtel posted:While we're on the subject, if evolution, then why bananas? Just use your common sense, people. If I open this jar of peanut butter, nothing crawls out. 
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If this so-called "theory" of gravity were true, then why birds? Huh? WHY BIRDS?
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https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/716990380437323777 Lovin' this post-Scalia world.
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Apr 4, 2016 15:13
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/716990380437323777 It was a unanimous opinion - Scalia wouldn't have mattered
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Deceptive Thinker posted:It was a unanimous opinion - Scalia wouldn't have mattered He would've used his evil Svengali conservative mind control to make it 5-4.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/ScottBaio/status/716822976004358144
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CannonFodder posted:Why snow on mountain this year and no snow on mountain previous 4 years during the drought? Got an answer for that, science? February was the hottest February on record. Suck it.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/716990380437323777 Have an article to go along with this. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-voters-idUSKCN0X11GS
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The NYT did an interesting little piece about how the Obama administration's been getting the White House up to code, tech infrastructure-wise. Let's just say that the Bush White House was not exactly on the bleeding edge of technology. (Although, in possibly the ultimate Bush move, they seem to have focused on overhauling THE SITUATION ROOM in case of TERRORISM. Which was actually really important, since the Situation Room's communications technology was apparently from the JFK era.) Fun excerpts: - The White House email was running on Lotus Notes - They now have access to color printers, that can actually print two-sided (!) - 13,000 pounds of abandoned Ethernet and phone cables were discovered and removed from inside the walls of the White House - To be fair to the Bush staffers: Bush's deputy chief of staff apparently had to spend a good two years trying to replace a room filled with telephone switching equipment with its modern-day equivalent, which was the size of a mini-fridge. When you start off with that kind of handicap, things just aren't going to get upgraded perfectly across the board.
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poor life choice posted:I haven't done much reading on the guy, but I remember a politico article on Castro that barely qualifies as damning with faint praise. He's young and has a fantastic speaking voice, but I wonder at his credentials after someone pointed out to me that being mayor of San Antonio is basically just chief city council member, and a city engineer actually ran things. Does anyone have anything worth reading? Well that's what you want for a VP isn't it? Someone who speaks well and can stay on message. In my fantasy world, being VP gives him the experience to be President, in the real world? eh, we'll see. And you're correct into how San Antonio's mayorship is run. It's kind of like the separation of head of state and head of government.
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Combed Thunderclap posted:The NYT did an interesting little piece about how the Obama administration's been getting the White House up to code, tech infrastructure-wise. This is one of the many reasons I laugh real heartily when the FBI etc cries croc tears about Hillary using an outside email server that might not be as secure because you know, our tech infrastructure at the beginning of the obama presidency was just top loving notch.
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Just because your equipment is old doesn't mean it's insecure or bad, much like the fact that the White House's phone switching room's equipment status has no bearing on Clinton's email server
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gradenko_2000 posted:Could I get a link to the original HENRY article about how people who make 6 figures are actually really poor because so much of it goes to private schooling and such? Can't post anything HENRY related with posting this 
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While your statement is (sort of) accurate, Radbot, it is safe to say the entire internal infrastructure was pretty much in the same dismal shape.
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Radbot posted:Just because your equipment is old doesn't mean it's insecure or bad, much like the fact that the White House's phone switching room's equipment status has no bearing on Clinton's email server The IT infrastructure is/was really bad, old, and outdated. There's virtually no evidence to suggest that the private server would be any less secure than what would have been available through government email. Like they're comically inept.
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Radbot posted:Just because your equipment is old doesn't mean it's insecure or bad, much like the fact that the White House's phone switching room's equipment status has no bearing on Clinton's email server Right, it's all the data breaches that mean it's insecure.
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E: Its Satire. Ignore me.
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Apr 4, 2016 16:35
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CommieGIR posted:
What's the source for Gohmert's quote here?
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CommieGIR posted:
What's the source of this? e;fb
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duz posted:Right, it's all the data breaches that mean it's insecure. Really, what data breaches came from the phone switching equipment, the only equipment I mentioned in my post?
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Lotka Volterra posted:What's the source of this? http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/04/02/republican-demands-women-stay-at-home-opposes-bill-for-funding-girls-education/
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In which Vox unironically posts a garbage pro-Trump essay which might just be an April Fool's Day joke three days late. It's hard not to quote the whole thing, but here are some highlights: quote:My name is Pietro "Pete" Calautti. I am 32 years old. If you looked at the demographic data of my parents at the time of my birth — their income, their station in life, their country (and region within) of origin, where they lived, how long they had been in this country, and so on — a pretty reasonable guess as to where I would be right now would be "working in a pizzeria." Instead, I am a PhD student in cinema studies at a major public research institution. quote:Largely defined in opposition to mainstream conservatism and encompassing a wide spectrum of beliefs, some not even close to what would be understood as conservatism in the present day, the alt-right nonetheless started to feel like home, even if it was an umbrella term itself. We knew we had made it when conservative pundit Rick Wilson said we masturbate to anime on an appearance he made on MSNBC. quote:Trump has a realistic shot of breaking the left's stranglehold on the black vote. Black voters are starting to see that they are hurt more than any other demographic group by outsourcing and illegal immigration, and that the left is in the active process of displacing them as a voting bloc and replacing them with the post-1965 immigrant vote. quote:I like that Trump is confrontational. His success depends on it, I would say. quote:The future, not just in America but effectively around the globe, will be defined by globalists and anti-globalists. The neocons can return home to the Democratic Party (being a mutant strain of Trotskyists that went "right wing"), and the few Democrats still under the delusion that they are members of a party that gives a drat about labor can join up with the anti-globalists. And that's the future of American partisan politics — an explicitly anti-globalist party versus a globalist party of transnational elites. quote:Look at the events of Chicago. The professional left thought that political violence would surely bring down his campaign. What did Trump do? He did not apologize, and instead went on the offensive. And what was the result with his supporters? On March 15, he made anime real. quote:Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, who may or may not have been affiliated with the actual Nazi Party (and, yes, given the casual nature with which "Nazi" is thrown at the Trump campaign, the qualifier "actual" is necessary here), developed what she eventually called the spiral of silence. In short, if you don't see or feel your beliefs or attitudes reflected anywhere, you will assume you are in the minority and keep quiet, and this will form a negative feedback loop. You may not actually be in the minority, but because everyone like you also keeps quiet, it's only reasonable you'd believe this.
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CannonFodder posted:Ugh, commerce dodged a bullet with that one. I vaguely recall Ohio trying to sell off their state owned liquor stores  no it's worse than that, Kasich diverted the profits from liquor agency to his privatized JobsOhio fund that cannot be audited and has no oversight. He was gonna do something like sell off the Turnpike but once everyone who lives along it got wind of it, that lovely idea died fast.
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And if you follow that source, to their source, THAT source says the really awful bits are BS. http://politicops.com/louie-gohmert-opposes-bill-for-women-scientists-a-womans-job-is-to-be-at-home/
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CommieGIR posted:http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/04/02/republican-demands-women-stay-at-home-opposes-bill-for-funding-girls-education/ Apparently that is satire.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:In which Vox unironically posts a garbage pro-Trump essay which might just be an April Fool's Day joke three days late. quote:I’m a PhD student, and I can’t wait to vote for Donald Trump Oh the  of anyone assuming that being a political science PhD student makes you a political wunderkind, or, like, smart, at all, oh waitquote:I am a PhD student in cinema studies EDIT: Yeah this has to be satire but I mean come on, it's still near indistinguishable from the logic of actual Trump supporters (as well as actual PhD candidates who are nuts that I know). Combed Thunderclap fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Apr 4, 2016 |
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I'm also nearly certain that Vox piece is satire, seeing as that is the author's first and only article on the site. Seriously, guys?
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Lotka Volterra posted:Apparently that is satire. To be fair, their 'source' does a pretty poo poo job of pointing out that they are a satire site. And in today's political climate where Poe's law is the rule of the day, you really really need to be clear when you're joking.
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Lotka Volterra posted:I'm also nearly certain that Vox piece is satire, seeing as that is the author's first and only article on the site. Seriously, guys? Yeah, my bad. I get used to Ghomert saying reprehensible poo poo that reality starts to bleed.
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Give that guy a break, he's just an oppressed minority fearing for his safety in a hostile, uncaring world.
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I still can't believe the "manchildren who masterbate to anime" line actually happened. It's surreal.
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BobTheJanitor posted:To be fair, their 'source' does a pretty poo poo job of pointing out that they are a satire site. And in today's political climate where Poe's law is the rule of the day, you really really need to be clear when you're joking. That's why you gotta check to make sure the sources are well cited and not just buried in a chain of shady political websites. Preserve some measure of disbelief, man. CommieGIR posted:Yeah, my bad. I get used to Ghomert saying reprehensible poo poo that reality starts to bleed. No worries, that's why I asked because it was somewhat believable that Gohmert would say something that stupid.
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Combed Thunderclap posted:- The White House email was running on Lotus Notes Oh my God gently caress Lotus Notes so hard. That poo poo is secure by virtue of it being too slow to hack.
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SSNeoman posted:I still can't believe the "manchildren who masterbate to anime" line actually happened. It's surreal. Explain.
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Apr 4, 2016 17:33
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Ogmius815 posted:Explain. It's very strange that such a line would be said by very serious people on TV.
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Ogmius815 posted:Explain. Just like the editorial states, a pundit described Trump supporters as shut-ins who masturbate to anime on live TV.
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Boywhiz88 posted:Just like the editorial states, a pundit described Trump supporters as shut-ins who masturbate to anime on live TV. It was incredible. https://youtu.be/mbXfk5lpLew
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