FactsAreUseless posted:

haveblue posted:

In addition to all the conventional terrible stuff Steve Bannon has done, back in the 90s he was also involved in the implosion of the Biosphere 2 ecology experiment in Arizona.

FactsAreUseless posted:

I mean there was the big recall and stuff, I can definitely imagine being angry about government regulation if I was a tea party type.

FactsAreUseless posted:

FactsAreUseless posted:

CommieGIR posted:

What happened to Conservatives buying American makes?

FactsAreUseless posted:

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This time, Toyota found that rust can form on the suspension arm threads if the nuts for the rear wheel alignment weren't tightened correctly. If that happens, the suspension arm could separate from the vehicle and cause the driver to lose control.

Phone posted:

Toyotas are American, you car racist.

axe_vendetta posted:

Seems to be a voluntary recall by Toyota. I don't hear them complaining about government heavy handedness.

berserker posted:

Regardless shouldn't these crazies be saying "gently caress the Nips and their Toyota trash" while riding around in a God-Given Red Blooded American Ford F3500? (regardless of where Toyotas were actually manufactured... that would take thought)

silvergoose posted:

First time he was elected a 3rd party rear end in a top hat siphoned off a huge amount of the D vote.

Second time he elected same goddamn thing with the same goddamn 3rd party rear end in a top hat.

zoux posted:

OH my god these memes are from this year?

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Bannon’s enrollment is apparent violation of crucial swing state’s election law requiring voters to be legal residents of county they register in

FactsAreUseless posted:

I would assume so, it's an election year.

zoux posted:

One has that meme pic from David Cameron from years ago.

Stinky Wizzleteats posted:

donald trump will be absolved of his failure

zoux posted:

One has that meme pic from David Cameron from years ago.


https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/769251131239362560

If Steve King won't even call her a bigot...

berserker posted:

Regardless shouldn't these crazies be saying "gently caress the Nips and their Toyota trash" while riding around in a God-Given Red Blooded American Ford F3500? (regardless of where Toyotas were actually manufactured... that would take thought)

Moatman posted:

They caught on that Toyota assembled their trucks in the US, unlike FORD WHO GIVES ARE JOBS TO THOSE GODDAMN MEXICANS.
And yeah, I've heard basically that exact argument.

Goatman Sacks posted:

I miss eugenics chat

OddObserver posted:

Then look up Buck v. Bell (got mentionned in the SCOTUS thread) and be horrified.

berserker posted:

Are they forgetting that Ford was a huge racist and Nazi sympathizer?

FactsAreUseless posted:

This is really important to keep in mind. Information saturation also plays a large part. There were reports of people in polls saying the media seemed dishonest based on the number of anti-Trump ads that were running. People don't have the capacity to consciously process every bit of information they come across.

One of my favorite information saturation stories regards Iraq WMD. In the mid-2000s, the media spent a lot of time reporting that we found no WMD in Iraq. "No WMD" they said," "No WMD in Iraq." Something like 70 percent of Americans, when polled, said that Iraq had WMD. Why? Because the amount of information thrown at people is impossible to fully process, and people don't tend to hear negatives. They just heard "Iraq" and "WMD" a lot, and formed a connection. People often know things without really learning them, and don't question why. It's because all the information we see - and I mean all of it, from traffic lights to food labels - our brain has to process, and most of that processing is subconscious. It takes a lot of time and work just to be an active media consumer.

Boogaleeboo posted:

No one will ever let that happen because this is likely to cost them the Senate and it's actually possible it could cost them the House. It won't cost them the House, but it's a thing that can be brought up in conversation now without being laughed out of the room. That's a change, any other Republican candidate and nobody would be even talking about the House being in play

berserker posted:

Are they forgetting that Ford was a huge racist and Nazi sympathizer?

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Relax. A few things - first off, Rs eat their own. "Conservatism can never fail, only be failed" has been enough to take down plenty of actual republicans, and Trump's outsider status and shaky grasp on what his platform is even supposed to be is going to make that even worse for him. Secondly, he really really really sucks at campaigning, managing a team, all that community organizing stuff that keeps momentum up in a movement. That's going to be even worse after his staff jumps ship, especially since I guarantee he's going to screw people out of their last paychecks and expense reimbursements.

Iron Crowned posted:

I work with someone who calls Toyotas "tojo cars," I wish I was kidding

Tempest_56 posted:

My gut says it's going to go the other way when the poo poo hits the fan. Trump's been prepping the stage for months about how the GOPe is sabotaging him from the inside - he can't admit defeat, but he can throw Ryan/Priebus/etc under the bus as having been the ones who Failed Conservatism to protect their own egos. In the current climate, there's a pretty substantial portion of the GOP base that would buy that. Trump may not be well liked even by the base, but the GOPe isn't exactly popular either.

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

I never thought about it that way, that's great.

My frustration with trigger warnings as used on the internet (real usage I've personally seen in feminist spaces, not the reddit bogeyman version) is that even at its best it's bad writing. It's so clunky and facile to write TW: VIOLENCE before a link to a headline like "Killing Spree Claims 6" and I think it's easy to slide into TV tropes style keyword spam when well-meaning people try to be mindful and list every trigger the community has ever had to watch out for. It's better to just use your words and write an introduction. If you want to talk about a story that has rape in it, just say so. I hate it when writers on the internet interrupt themselves to stick a trigger warning in there when an actual sentence would work just as well and scan better.

There's also a lot of misconceptions about how triggers trip. Just mentioning that a thing exists doesn't normally do it - it has to be graphic, something that brings the experience to life. A combat veteran with PTSD might avoid fireworks displays, but that doesn't mean they want you to TW the Katy Perry song just because she uses the word.

Preaching to the choir here, I know, but communication matters and I think trying to take shortcuts just makes everything worse.

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Editor’s Note: Like this phenomenal article, Everyday Feminism definitely believes in giving people a heads up about material that might provoke our reader’s trauma. However, we use the phrase “content warning” instead of “trigger warning,” as the word “trigger” relies on and evokes violent weaponry imagery. This could be re-traumatizing for folks who have suffered military, police, and other forms of violence. So, while warnings are so necessary and the points in this article are right on, we strongly encourage the term “content warning” instead of “trigger warning.”

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Common Trigger Warnings

Below you will find a list (in no particular order) of common trigger warnings. If discussing one of these things, it is considered common courtesy to put a simple “Trigger Warning: [Subject]” before a post.

Please note: This is a work in progress. If there are any triggers you feel are missing, please feel free to drop us an ask.
◾Swearing
◾Rape
◾Abuse (physical, mental, emotional, verbal, sexual)
◾Child abuse/pedophilia
◾Self-injurious behavior (self-harm, eating disorders, etc.)
◾Talk of drug use (legal, illegal or psychiatric)
◾Suicide
◾Descriptions/pictures of medical procedures (even if they don’t contain blood or gore)
◾Descriptions/pictures of violence or warfare (including instruments of violence, such as knives or guns)
◾Corpses, skulls or skeletons
◾Needles
◾Discussions of -isms, shaming, or hatred of any kind (racism, classism, hatred of cultures/ethnicities that differ from your own, sexism, hatred of sexualities or genders that differ from your own, anti-multiple, non-vanilla shaming, sex positive shaming, fat shaming/body image shaming, neuroatypical shaming)
◾Any time slurs are used (this includes words like “stupid” or “dumb”, which are still widely considered to be socially acceptable)
◾Trans* degendering, or anti-trans* views of bodies
◾Dismissal of lived oppressions, marginalization, illness or differences
◾Kidnapping (forceful deprivation of/disregard for personal autonomy)
◾Discussions of sex (even consensual)
◾Death or dying
◾Spiders
◾Insects
◾Snakes
◾Vomit
◾Pregnancy/childbirth
◾Blood
◾Serious injury
◾Trypophobia (Link is safe.)
◾Scarification
◾Nazi paraphernalia
◾Slimy things
◾Anything that might inspire intrusive thoughts in people with OCD

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This is not a PG-13 publication. We do not turn away anything for having triggers. And we do not post warnings for the following:
•profane language
•sexually explicit content
•horror
•offensive language and derogatory terms when presented creatively, artistically, and responsibly

The following triggers require a warning if your writing includes them. Any other triggers are to be added at your discretion.
•Abortion
•Abuse: Physical
•Abuse: Emotional
•Abuse: Sexual
•Abuse: Animal
•Racism
•Self-Harm: General
•Self-Harm: Cutting
•Self-Harm: Eating Disorder
•Violence: General
•Violence: Gore
•Violence: Descriptive Hate Crime
•Violence: Mutilation

Atahualpa posted:

On what basis are competitive races being categorized as "likely", "lean", and "toss-up", since it doesn't appear to line up strictly with the polling margins? And so on.