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vyelkin posted:The only way to be dumber than accelerationists is to be that guy in this thread a while back who said he would vote for Trump because he was afraid Hillary Clinton would take his video games away. Ahahahahahah wait really?
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lozzle posted:Yeah but the ancap libertarians actually want that hellscape as the end goal because taxation is theft, businesses should have the right to refuse service to whoever they want for any reason, etc. etc. So the difference is that the accelerationists are ignorant whereas the ancap libertarians played Fallout and had power fantasies about being the hero of the wasteland?
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Artificer posted:Ahahahahahah wait really? Yeah I don't remember the details but it was along the lines of "In the 90s Hillary Clinton said something about being concerned about violence in video games, therefore Trump 2016"
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Sep 26, 2016 05:09
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vyelkin posted:Just to add some real numbers to my above point about Nevada. It's not just for President either. In 2010 Senate the polling average in Nevada showed Sharon Angle with a 2.7% lead going into the elections then Harry Reid won by 5.6%. In 2012 it showed Heller up 4% and he ended up winning by 1.2%. Besides, if there's any state in the nation who should understand what a colossal loving idiot you have to be to bankrupt a Casino, it's Nevada. Sinister_Beekeeper posted:Until this year, I had never heard the term used outside of referring to school shooters, especially Columbine. That's because shortly after the Crime Bill zenith of the Superpredator fears, new studies started coming out showing that it was all bullshit. Then we found out that the decades long crime wave in the nation had peaked, and we're still coming down 20 years latter. New research into the crime wave then came to far different conclusions, with various environmental and social factors appearing to have driven the crime increase from the 60s to the 90s that had nothing to do with psychopathic black youths scaring nice white people. Neeksy posted:I can't fathom self-described leftists voting for Trump or casting a ballot for Stein/Johnson without experiencing head-exploding cognitive dissonance. Tossing aside the specifics of Trump himself, he's the Republican candidate who is essentially the party's chance to turn the whole country into Kansas with no real opposition. If you're subscribing to the brilliant political ideas of Jimmy Dore then you should really take a moment and think about when it was that you acquired your crippling brain injury. Hopefully it's not too late for your doctor to help.
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Sep 26, 2016 05:09
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vyelkin posted:The only way to be dumber than accelerationists is to be that guy in this thread a while back who said he would vote for Trump because he was afraid Hillary Clinton would take his video games away. What video games are we talking about here?
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Gyges posted:If you're subscribing to the brilliant political ideas of Jimmy Dore then you should really take a moment and think about when it was that you acquired your crippling brain injury. Hopefully it's not too late for your doctor to help. Who exactly is Jimmy Dore and why does he have a sizable platform? I've only ever seen other people reference his idiot ramblings.
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Sep 26, 2016 05:16
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Neeksy posted:Sorry about your idiot nihilist/accelerationist friends, may they be the first up against The Wall in our dystopian YA-novel Trumpist future. Yeah, most of them I haven't really talked to since college so I just flushed them down the Facebook toilet.
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Neeksy posted:Who exactly is Jimmy Dore and why does he have a sizable platform? I've only ever seen other people reference his idiot ramblings. He's a guest host on The Young Turks and by far the most annoying and insufferable among them
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Sep 26, 2016 05:17
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Neeksy posted:Who exactly is Jimmy Dore and why does he have a sizable platform? I've only ever seen other people reference his idiot ramblings. A non-centrist liberal that does not feel that centrist liberal Hillary Clinton is the best fit. He is now Hitler. Edit: and a mass murderer.
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Sep 26, 2016 05:17
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Grognan posted:A non-centrist liberal that does not feel that centrist liberal Hillary Clinton is the best fit. He is now Hitler. Hitler definitely wasn't centrist.
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Sep 26, 2016 05:19
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Grognan posted:A non-centrist liberal that does not feel that centrist liberal Hillary Clinton is the best fit. He is now Hitler. so he's the dudes from Columbine
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Sep 26, 2016 05:19
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They'll pry Civ VI from my cold, dead hands.
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Neeksy posted:So the difference is that the accelerationists are ignorant whereas the ancap libertarians played Fallout and had power fantasies about being the hero of the wasteland? Yeah pretty much.
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Grognan posted:A non-centrist liberal that does not feel that centrist liberal Hillary Clinton is the best fit. He is now Hitler. Please explain why Jimmy Dore is not an accelerationist idiot.
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Sep 26, 2016 05:21
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I half-wonder if some of this dribbling out of weird poll results is meant to skew the big trackers and create a momentum narrative for... whatever reason (donor hustling?) I mean we had people like, doing weird poo poo on PredictIt in 2012 for R-Money.
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Sep 26, 2016 05:23
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Neeksy posted:Who exactly is Jimmy Dore and why does he have a sizable platform? I've only ever seen other people reference his idiot ramblings. This got posted in the thread a few days back. It's not recommended viewing if you've got high blood pressure or think Hillary isn't literally the devil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH_pgiRdm7U
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Sep 26, 2016 05:23
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ImpAtom posted:Huh. Well, thank you for the correction then. It's something I see a lot... and I'm a nerd that actually watches shows like this and suddenly I had an opportunity to be a huge nerd.
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Sep 26, 2016 05:24
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Burden of proof is on you, anything except the drat Bellamy salute is being labeled the negative label of flavor. Talk to me when someone goes to bat for the poor of color, non-color, or actually impinges on money holders in american politics without the goddamn communists out there. (countdown until someone implies I just want Trump to win)
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Sep 26, 2016 05:26
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Grognan posted:
There's this woman named Hillary Clinton, you might have heard of her.
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Grognan posted:Burden of proof is on you, anything except the drat Bellamy salute is being labeled the negative label of flavor. The video posted above you is my proof.
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Sep 26, 2016 05:28
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Grognan posted:Burden of proof is on you, anything except the drat Bellamy salute is being labeled the negative label of flavor. I've watched hours and hours of live Young Turk coverage off the debates and the election days and I can attest that Jimmy is terrible without exageration.
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Eschers Basement posted:Every vote counts Whoa, whoa there. You mean every Democrat vote counts. Let's not pretend otherwise.
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Eschers Basement posted:No problem. That's how you can look at it I guess? But, I only have so much 'moral outrage', and when I need to drive a car to get to work. Or eat food, I just have to stop caring or completely shut down as a human being. It's the same thing that allows people to walk past homeless on the street. You can only do so much. And casting a vote is a lot easier than not buying a car, or computer, or clothes, or the head of lettuce. I don't subscribe to your everything or nothing moral lens.
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Indigofreak posted:That's how you can look at it I guess? But, I only have so much 'moral outrage', and when I need to drive a car to get to work. Or eat food, I just have to stop caring or completely shut down as a human being. It's the same thing that allows people to walk past homeless on the street. You can only do so much. And casting a vote is a lot easier than not buying a car, or computer, or clothes, or the head of lettuce. I don't subscribe to your everything or nothing moral lens. No it's OK, we get it. You can only muster the energy to sustain your own tissues, and nobody else's. Man, you must be living hand to mouth.
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All I know is I want Hillary to do well in the debates and Trump to not do well so I don't drink myself to death a week before the Hawaii vacation my wife and I have planned for a year It's gonna really keep me from being mellow with the local braddahs if we're staring into the face of Azathoth beforehand
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Speaking for myself, I had never even heard of him before watching that 'debate', but good lord he does not come off well in it. The combination of his utter assuredness in his completely unrealistic scenario of a trump victory and his inability to take criticism of why his scenario wouldn't work just combine into an insufferable mass, and it would be hard to take anything he has to say seriously in the future.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:This got posted in the thread a few days back. It's not recommended viewing if you've got high blood pressure or think Hillary isn't literally the devil. Yeah, this is what I heard of him. When Dore laughs whenever he gets nailed as an idiot who doesn't actually know the basics of how congress works it's really infuriating because you just know he has emotional distance from this since he will be economically shielded from the consequences of a full-GOP government for at least two years if not more. "Hillary is a spineless mainstream Dem! But also the Dems have iron spines and will totally filibuster the Heritage Foundation's Supreme Court picks for an unheard-of two-year period!"
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Chokes McGee posted:All I know is I want Hillary to do well in the debates and Trump to not do well so I don't drink myself to death a week before the Hawaii vacation my wife and I have planned for a year Earnest suggestion, take it or leave it - log off until after this vacation. Catch up on news from a weekly or biweekly (The New Yorker, The Nation, The Economist, or even The New York Review of Books) instead of the daily / hourly trash so you can stay informed without falling into an Arzy / talking head trap. The real effect won't be known for a couple weeks anyway and there's no point worrying yet. Vacations are important and you shouldn't waste yours.
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vyelkin posted:Yeah I don't remember the details but it was along the lines of "In the 90s Hillary Clinton said something about being concerned about violence in video games, therefore Trump 2016" Oh look, it's nerd night for me. This actually kind of happened, in the mid-2000s with the Hot Coffee blowup in GTA San Andreas. There's a bunch of news articles from the time covering her announcing wanting to do something about games and poo poo, but in spite of her wanting legislation restricting sales of adult games to minors, I can't find any record of her doing much more than saying "Hey, there ought to be a law," And then... it disappeared like so much steam. Either someone pointed out the problem with that as a 1st Amendment issue or the media attention died down and she didn't pursue it. That didn't stop Rockstar from blaming her for the Hot Coffee controversy even though she was rather peripheral to it at best... http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-11-30-who-spilled-hot-coffee quote:As news of the Hot Coffee content spilled into mainstream culture, the issue became politicised. Senator Hillary Clinton called for federal game regulation and the Federal Trade Commission launched its own investigation. A Class Action Complaint For Violations Of Federal Securities Laws was brought against Take-Two, with the plaintiffs alleging: “By merely 'wrapping' rather than removing the Adult Content, Defendants knew that the Adult Content would inevitably be made widely available.” quote:But the Rockstar boss couldn't resist one final dig at his critics. San Andreas' follow-up, GTA 4, was based in a fictionalised version of New York. The face on the game's version of the Statue of Liberty bore a striking resemblance to Hillary Clinton. Instead of a flaming torch, she clutched a mug of steaming coffee.  EDIT: Oh look, she did join up with Lieberman try to make it a law... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Entertainment_Protection_Act Rebochan fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Sep 26, 2016 |
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Indigofreak posted:That's how you can look at it I guess? But, I only have so much 'moral outrage', and when I need to drive a car to get to work. Or eat food, I just have to stop caring or completely shut down as a human being. It's the same thing that allows people to walk past homeless on the street. You can only do so much. And casting a vote is a lot easier than not buying a car, or computer, or clothes, or the head of lettuce. I don't subscribe to your everything or nothing moral lens. Plus, if you vote Hillary and Trump wins, imagine what a  rear end in a top hat you can be about everything when it goes to poo poo.
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Neeksy posted:Yeah, this is what I heard of him. When Dore laughs whenever he gets nailed as an idiot who doesn't actually know the basics of how congress works it's really infuriating because you just know he has emotional distance from this since he will be economically shielded from the consequences of a full-GOP government for at least two years if not more. Don't forget "McConnell abolishing the filibuster for supreme court nominees is as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan"
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GalacticAcid posted:Earnest suggestion, take it or leave it - log off until after this vacation. Catch up on news from a weekly or biweekly (The New Yorker, The Nation, The Economist, or even The New York Review of Books) instead of the daily / hourly trash so you can stay informed without falling into an Arzy / talking head trap. The real effect won't be known for a couple weeks anyway and there's no point worrying yet. I'm seriously considering buying a burner and leaving my tablet and laptop at home specifically for this reason. Not having Google Trips though would be an issue.
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Kilroy posted:
Not that you have trouble being that already.
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Grouchio posted:Does Clinton have the upper hand with tonight's moderator placement? Supposedly Holt knows he will never have any sort of career after this if he fucks this up and just stands there like a wet sock when Trump vomits out lies. Understandably, the response to this has been skepticism.
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VitalSigns posted:Don't forget "McConnell abolishing the filibuster for supreme court nominees is as likely as the moon falling into Lake Michigan" So Jimmy Dore is not just an idiot but somehow a popular idiot? Are all TYT dumb like him or is he uniquely thick?
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computer parts posted:Not that you have trouble being that already.  than
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Neeksy posted:So Jimmy Dore is not just an idiot but somehow a popular idiot? Are all TYT dumb like him or is he uniquely thick? Cenk is/was an Armenian genocide denier so all signs point to yes.
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Grouchio posted:Does Clinton have the upper hand with tonight's moderator placement?
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Kilroy posted:He's probably not going to do any "fact-checking" if that's what you're asking. He's also a Republican, for what that's worth and despite Donald Trump's claims to the contrary.
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