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Hollismason posted:They let me go in the booth with my Dad and he said I could pull lever and vote for who I wanted to. See, when I was in 8th grade during the Bush/Gore Election, my (rural Kansas) school actually held a mock presidential election for the students. I was the only kid in my class who voted for Gore because the (old, white, male) teacher brow beat everyone else to vote Bush. Said teacher shouted me down and told me to "Stop being a pussy or go move to Japan" because I voted for the LIEberal dummycrat. That was the last year my school did mock elections. They guised it as "These political conversations are getting too heated on both sides" and hand waived it away.
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When I was in middle school, my (suburban Philly) school held its own mock presidential election for the students. I helped implement it -- we had Commodore PETs on carts rolling from classroom to classroom recording votes. In the interest of fairness, we had all candidates we could find who were running on the ballot, not just the big two. And that is how my classmates elected Gus Hall, Communist Party USA by a substantial margin until the admins made us take his votes and split them between Mondale and Reagan evenly.
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Apr 6, 2016 22:06
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Its nice that a weasel can "apologize to families" in court and turn 29 dead into a misdemeanor. It be great if a crazy red neck got his hands on Blankenshit and we never saw him again, but they only go after easy targets that don't poison their water and kill their kin.
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Apr 6, 2016 22:08
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Luigi Thirty posted:I saw people in the personal finance Reddit talking about how this is actually horrible because it will make retirement funds more expensive and harder to find financial advisers or something. I don't see how this would affect the big Vanguard funds at all.
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Apr 6, 2016 22:11
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Hollismason posted:They let me go in the booth with my Dad and he said I could pull lever and vote for who I wanted to. Voter fraud is real. They warned us but we didn't listen.
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Apr 6, 2016 22:15
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This is a loving terrible interview for Bernie Sanders.quote:Daily News: Senator, I wanted to ask you. Because you've got this enormous support from young people, as President Obama did in 2008 and 2012. And you're promising a political revolution. But, if nothing changes in the Senate and in the House of Representatives, how are you going to be able to get anything done? I mean the real issue to me seems to be, what happens in the Senate? And what happens in the House of Representatives? loving lol
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Apr 6, 2016 22:19
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My school's mock election put Gore over Bush in a landslide because I went to a high school where WASPs were a very small minority. It was majority Hispanic and the rest split about evenly between Haitians and Jews. Not very many people buying into Compassionate Conservative. And that's your future, White America. Edit: If I remember correctly Bush even got beaten by the Workers World Party, almost certainly because students thought Monica Moorehead was a funny name.
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Meanwhile, in Oklahoma, it looks like in November voters will be asked to remove separation of church and state from the state constitution, just because the OK Government is still pissy about being forced to get rid of their gaudy 10 Commandments statue.  Fortunately there aren't any more pressing problems in Oklahoma, like a $1.3 billion defecit that's already closing nursing homes, forcing 88,000 elderly and disabled persons to wait months for their checks, slashing Medicaid payments by 25% and slashing hundreds and hundreds of teaching jobs and closing schools.* But lawmakers want to hold off until after the election before they address the budget crisis, so instead of doing anything worthwhile they're focusing on eliminating the separation of church and state, finding new and creative ways to increase the prisoner population* and doing their best to punt an abortion case up to SCOTUS. And all this suffering could be avoided if the state government would just loving RAISE TAXES! Goddamn it, this state infuriates me. *In a state that's already ranked 48th in education. *Oklahoma is behind only Louisiana in per capita prison population Kro-Bar fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Apr 6, 2016 |
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Epic High Five posted:Isn't there evidence that the political identity you form when you're young more or less sticks with you for life? Like, specific worries and interests may change but it's rare to go from frothing far left liberal to arch-neocon hey now it happened to me
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gradenko_2000 posted:Can I get a link to this? Here's the link for the DX interview, not sure for the other game mentioned: quote:
http://www.pcgamer.com/interview-the-art-of-deus-ex-human-revolution/3/ Later in the interview he talks about how in a lot of ways modern technology has curved past what was present in the original game, etc. I may be remembering some other interviews as well but that's one of them at least. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Apr 6, 2016 |
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axeil posted:The DEA is considering reclassifying weed. It's honestly not surprising. The DEA's big focus right now is Heroin and from what I've heard there's not a lot of agents who really give that much of a poo poo about banning marijuana aside from "It's the law".
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CelestialScribe posted:This is a loving terrible interview for Bernie Sanders. I keep seeing this, but I've read the interview and I don't get it. The pull quotes people are trying to skewer him on seem to be the same thing he's been stumping for months now.
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:I keep seeing this, but I've read the interview and I don't get it. The pull quotes people are trying to skewer him on seem to be the same thing he's been stumping for months now. I honestly think it's a pushed narrative.
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CelestialScribe posted:This is a loving terrible interview for Bernie Sanders. Actually it's completely fine, and people obviously get what he wants to do.
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Bernie's stance is that if he actually manages to pull off the nomination and win, it'll be by motivating millions to engage and stand up for his policies. He'd then use the bully pulpit to use them to apply pressure to congress. So yeah, light on details overall, but his logic is sound--if he does pull this off (short of Clinton keeling over or getting arrested) it'll be precisely because he has that sort of base. And the barb at the end is that even the GOP base sees him as straightforward and honest in his ideals, so they may back him against the establishment figures on some issues (like say, banking). All that said, it's a looong shot to come across. But if he does get to that position he might actually have the clout he's claiming.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I honestly think it's a pushed narrative. Ding! Ding! Ding! Seriously, nothing in that interview is noteworthy in that regard. While he didn't answer everything with perfection, everything that needed to be said was said. What's more noteworthy is why someone felt the need to attack him like that at all.
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Impressive that they got all the way though this meeting today without dying to an EMP dirty bomb cyberterrorist hijacking attack.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:It's honestly not surprising. The DEA's big focus right now is Heroin and from what I've heard there's not a lot of agents who really give that much of a poo poo about banning marijuana aside from "It's the law". Also, marijuana has been used to treat heroin addiction
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This seems really un-cool and not-good.quote:Each weekday, dozens of U.S. government aircraft take to the skies and slowly circle over American cities. Piloted by agents of the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the planes are fitted with high-resolution video cameras, often working with “augmented reality” software that can superimpose onto the video images everything from street and business names to the owners of individual homes. At least a few planes have carried devices that can track the cell phones of people below. Most of the aircraft are small, flying a mile or so above ground, and many use exhaust mufflers to mute their engines — making them hard to detect by the people they’re spying on. Check out these border patrol routes (and interactive maps in the article)!  https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/717817071615229957 https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/717817943145521153 https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/717821240187215873
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:I keep seeing this, but I've read the interview and I don't get it. The pull quotes people are trying to skewer him on seem to be the same thing he's been stumping for months now. Reading that interview, my concern is that he doesn't seem to have thought through the specific kinds of actions he'll actually be undertaking as president, and instead refers only to broad stroke policies. Yes, we know breaking up the banks is his campaign platform, but it's clear in the article that he hasn't thought through at all the specific actions he'll be undertaking, or their ramifications. I mean, we're talking about massive pillars of the global financial system here-breaking them up is all well and good, but what does he expect the end result to look like? What measures will be undertaken to prevent banks from growing that big in the future? What will he do when the banks contest the legality of being broken up? These are all important issues, and Sanders doesn't even know if he has the authority to carry out his stated actions. he doesn't.
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Joementum posted:This seems really un-cool and not-good. Dear lord. Ted Cruz already got his wish.
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Joementum posted:This seems really un-cool and not-good. The story on these broke last year, iirc it was rando planespotters collaborating on the internet who first figured it out before it hit the news
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CelestialScribe posted:This is a loving terrible interview for Bernie Sanders.
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UberJew posted:The story on these broke last year, iirc it was rando planespotters collaborating on the internet who first figured it out before it hit the news Its fun and easy, within a few minutes today I found this plane, registered to a known FBI front company: https://www.flightradar24.com/N168DK/954f7ff
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zoux posted:Dear lord. Ted Cruz already got his wish. "Some mosques were at the center of the circles traced by FBI planes, but BuzzFeed News could see no clear pattern indicating widespread surveillance of mosques."
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Trabisnikof posted:Its fun and easy, within a few minutes today I found this plane, registered to a known FBI front company: https://www.flightradar24.com/N168DK/954f7ff There's a mosque, and a muslim associate right in the middle there, as well as NASA Ames Lab and a Target.
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OAquinas posted:Bernie's stance is that if he actually manages to pull off the nomination and win, it'll be by motivating millions to engage and stand up for his policies. He'd then use the bully pulpit to use them to apply pressure to congress. And if Congress decides to obstruct Bernie, just like it's been doing to Obama for the last 5+ years? What then?
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It would have been much cheaper to buy spirographs from Target. edit: DaveWoo posted:And if Congress decides to obstruct
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DaveWoo posted:And if Congress decides to obstruct Bernie, just like it's been doing to Obama for the last 5+ years? What then? I for one would look forward to 4 month filibusters that's just various Republicans yelling 'SOCIALIST, SOCIALIST, SOCIALIST' while their base nods and goes 'well you can't let a Socialist do anything so this is only fair. Sure it sucks that our government is literally falling apart and we can literally not get anything done but that's fine.'
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Mr Hootington posted:edit: If the question is about which candidate I think would be better equipped to handle/work around an obstructionist Congress, I'd most likely choose Hillary over Bernie. I like Bernie, and I like what he stands for, but my main concern about him is that he keeps talking about a "political revolution" without really explaining how he would achieve it. And I'm not sure that he has a Plan B to fall back on if his revolution doesn't work out.
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DaveWoo posted:And if Congress decides to obstruct Bernie, just like it's been doing to Obama for the last 5+ years? What then?
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Did any major national political figures mention the Blankenship verdict today? He deserves a loving guillotine.
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DaveWoo posted:If the question is about which candidate I think would be better equipped to handle/work around an obstructionist Congress, I'd most likely choose Hillary over Bernie. I don't care. It is increasingly amusing to see people give the answer you give when it can apply to Hillary too. It will be fine though when she bends the republicans over and just fucks them so hard. Metaphorically that is.
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I like Bernie's plan, but I like Hillary's war chest of millions of dollars for downticket races even more.
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Iron Lung posted:There's a mosque, and a muslim associate right in the middle there, as well as NASA Ames Lab and a Target. Mosques.... Rocketry... and Targets? MY GOD.
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JeffersonClay posted:The IMF continues to abandon its 90's and 00's positions on austerity, government spending and growth. I appreciate that even though they felt like they had to quote unspecified "opponents" of the IMF, they threw some fact-checking shade on their jobs, jobs, jobs bullshit. quote:Last month, the IMF chief said that the U.S. could expand the economy by implementing family-friendly policies that could lead to more women in the workforce. Pointing to nations that have increased the ranks of working women by offering affordable child care and promoting “equal pay for equal work,” Lagarde said the U.S. economy would probably grow by 5 percent if an equal share of women had jobs as men.
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DeathSandwich posted:See, when I was in 8th grade during the Bush/Gore Election, my (rural Kansas) school actually held a mock presidential election for the students. I was the only kid in my class who voted for Gore because the (old, white, male) teacher brow beat everyone else to vote Bush. Said teacher shouted me down and told me to "Stop being a pussy or go move to Japan" because I voted for the LIEberal dummycrat. Hell, that happened with me in 2nd grade during the Reagan/Mondale election. In Wichita. Ain't just rural Kansas son.
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:I keep seeing this, but I've read the interview and I don't get it. The pull quotes people are trying to skewer him on seem to be the same thing he's been stumping for months now. He's essentially saying "When I win the Presidency, Congress will just change their minds and listen to America, no one will have to be voted out!"
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