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vyelkin posted:Yeah the last time a major party candidate got 40% (actually 41%) of the vote in a two-way election they lost the electoral college 525-13. This is more like a 2.3 way election though.
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terrorist ambulance posted:I don't get how people figure he's this alpha male figure. He's a cheap whiny little loser, and whenever he loses he can't acknowledge any fault or wrong; the system must be crooked or wrong if it produced any result other than him being #1. People identify him as this swaggering alpha male character, but his whole life screams insecurity and weakness. Because he never admits he's wrong and they're primed to think that means he's never wrong.
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terrorist ambulance posted:I don't get how people figure he's this alpha male figure. He's a cheap whiny little loser, and whenever he loses he can't acknowledge any fault or wrong; the system must be crooked or wrong if it produced any result other than him being #1. People identify him as this swaggering alpha male character, but his whole life screams insecurity and weakness. I mean, my assumption has long been that this is true of most self-identified "alpha males" regardless of context
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Oct 1, 2016 22:37
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smg77 posted:The hits. They keep on coming. Holey moley
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There are dinosaur specimens described on only very partial pieces of skeletons, but scientists are able to make educated conjecture on whether it is a new species or not by comparing it to similar fossils we have, usually because those fossils usually aren't just a jawbone, it's pieces of jawbone, some of the hip and then teeth and such. If they are similar enough to another species it's easy enough to extrapolate they belonged to a similar animal. If they are too different from known fossils but still have the traits of a certain group it's usually just illustrated as one until we have more complete evidence to work from, placeholder reconstructions. Extrapolation isn't guesswork
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Sharkopath posted:There are dinosaur specimens described on only very partial pieces of skeletons, but scientists are able to make educated conjecture on whether it is a new species or not by comparing it to similar fossils we have, usually because those fossils usually aren't just a jawbone, it's pieces of jawbone, some of the hip and then teeth and such. If they are similar enough to another species it's easy enough to extrapolate they belonged to a similar animal. Conservatives think science is a collection of arbitrary definitive statements instead of a continually-refined set of approximations because they can't imagine ever questioning what you know and changing your mind based on new evidence.
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Oct 1, 2016 22:45
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So is this guy just another radio talking head?
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Bad Moon posted:Am I too late to shill my new play the Vagina Bones Monologues You should check out my new erotic novel, Censorship In Video Games Hates My Angry Gamer Butt And Pounds It With A Girl's Missing Vagina Bones
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EngineerJoe posted:What's this corncob thing. I saw that tweet but I still don't get it... As far as I've seen it explained there's no subtext to being a corncob. It's literally a random object/vegetable that he turns into. It's a terrible joke.
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sit on my Facebook posted:If you get owned real hard you turn into a corncob I get it. It ain't makin' me laugh, but I get it.
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Oct 1, 2016 22:47
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Who the gently caress is this Bill Mitchell? I've never heard of him before these tweets.
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Oct 1, 2016 22:48
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Shifty Pony posted:I get it. The joke isn't funny, but the word 'corncob' makes me giggle so I'll allow it
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sit on my Facebook posted:The joke isn't funny, but the word 'corncob' makes me giggle so I'll allow it Kumquat would be better.
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PhazonLink posted:So is this guy just another radio talking head? As far as I can tell, he doesn't even technically do radio he does internet broadcasts from his bedroom Like, that's not being sarcastic. The only photo I can find of him that isn't his publicity still is him with a microphone in his bedroom.
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Shifty Pony posted:Kumquat would be better. I used that as a Scrabble word once. Anyway that's my kumquat story.
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smg77 posted:The hits. They keep on coming. I like how the first response I see is "he could have called you worse get over it" 
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Crow Jane posted:... does he not realize that everyone listening at home could hear him fine?  How much are you willing to bet that he's going to go into the 2nd debate with grudges from the 1st debate?
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Oct 1, 2016 23:03
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hiddenriverninja posted:I like how the first response I see is "he could have called you worse get over it" Have you ever clicked on any Trump related tweet before?
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Phoenixan posted:It was so clear, we could even hear his breathing and everything. He's going to go into it and point out how much he won the first debate just like he did all the primary debates and recount how he called Little Marco and Low Energy Jeb out while Hillary tries not to laugh too much.
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terrorist ambulance posted:I don't get how people figure he's this alpha male figure. He's a cheap whiny little loser, and whenever he loses he can't acknowledge any fault or wrong; the system must be crooked or wrong if it produced any result other than him being #1. People identify him as this swaggering alpha male character, but his whole life screams insecurity and weakness. You couldn't be more wrong. How are you so wrong? Just look at the man:  Those bulging muscles, those long golden flowing locks.... I mean, I'm a straight dude and I want to have Trump brand babies every time I see him.
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I hope there's more bursts of laughter from the audience in the coming debates. He really doesn't like people laughing at him.
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terrorist ambulance posted:I don't get how people figure he's this alpha male figure. He's a cheap whiny little loser, and whenever he loses he can't acknowledge any fault or wrong; the system must be crooked or wrong if it produced any result other than him being #1. People identify him as this swaggering alpha male character, but his whole life screams insecurity and weakness. The fact of the matter is that is how most "alpha male" figures really are. They act like super tough guys and like nothing bothers them and they're all in charge, but it's an act. Actual confident figures who aren't horribly insecure tend to not be show offs or engage in any of that "Alpha male" bullshit. Hell, the new use for this term was bred on pick-up forums. You know, where misogynists lie about their sexual exploits to scam insecure young males/other misogynists out of money. The image came from people pretending to be confident, in control, and "able to get any woman they want by following 8 simple steps." So, it should come as no surprise they conflate the concept of an "alpha male" with Donald Trump, an accused rapist scammer. Hell, "accused rapist scammer" is a good description for most PUAs.
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Oct 1, 2016 23:12
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Odonata posted:You couldn't be more wrong. How are you so wrong? Just look at the man:
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FactsAreUseless posted:Tragically, no. You can rip youtube videos pretty easily but I added my own touch with the closed caption http://i.imgur.com/ECBhwEi.gifv
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Covok posted:The fact of the matter is that is how most "alpha male" figures really are. Well I mean yes, obviously, but it's not often that the act is so thin and transparent but so widely accepted. Media reports have him as this tough, tell truths to power, no nonsense guy - alt right has him as based and alpha and all his opponents as worthless effete cucks, etc. The dude literally spends his whole time whining like a 6 year old with a skinned knee but is uncritically accepted as this tough, masculine, capable sort. I get how stupid people could find the idea of excluding all muslims and mexicans from the country appealing, but really cannot stretch my mind far enough to figure out how anyone can see him as anything other than a blustering, insecure, whiny little babby.
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I read through some really old posts about Trump just to see what people said about him before he became...whatever the gently caress he is. Someone in Vilerat's fwd: fwd: fwd: thread mentioned that he's always been super miffed about being excluded from the Social Register while bragging that his kids are in it. Intrigued, I did some quick Googling and discovered this passage from The New Yorker in 2012:  Link here. I'm loving dying imagining him reading that and treating his presidential run as a stepping stone to entry into the Social Register. Edited to include original post, from 2011 jojoinnit posted:Trump is a terrible businessman. He started off with millions from is father and lost it all several times. He managed to bankrupt a casino. In Vegas. He mostly projects his wealth illusion with reality TV money. Remember that most of his namesake buildings were constructed with money from investors who still had faith in him. GalacticAcid fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Oct 1, 2016 |
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It's also because he's up against a woman and there's a lot of unexamined baggage going on behind the scenes, so the woman who can handle 12 hour congressional grillings and who's put up with 25 years of hard slander without snapping is portrayed as weak and sickly next to the fat jackass who screams like a stuck pig the second things don't go 100% his way or anyone even suggests he might not be the best, let alone that he's a pile of poo poo.
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lozzle posted:Hey now, The Wire is technically a police procedural. And it still go's out of it's way to nearly kill the Lesbian. After giving her a sex scene.
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lozzle posted:Hey now, The Wire is technically a police procedural. Even more so Homicide: Life on the Streets.
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GalacticAcid posted:Link here. I'm loving dying imagining him reading that and treating his presidential run as a stepping stone to entry into the Social Register. You joke, but one of the reasons Vince McMahon (the real one) wanted to get his wife elected Senator was because, while they're a big name among Connectitut's social elite, Senator is a lot more prestigious and dignified than wrestling guy.
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GalacticAcid posted:I read through some really old posts about Trump just to see what people said about him before he became...whatever the gently caress he is. Hahaha! Just imagine Donald read that sentence and for that reason alone he decided he must become president. Because not even he can retroactively make his grandparents that rich. He doesn't really seem interested in the policies, paperwork, presidential salary, stress, living in the white house, meeting foreign leaders, keeping any of his promises, or looking presidential in any form whatsoever. This is probably the only perk he actually wants. On the other hand if he was president there might be a portrait of him in every mayor public office space and military base.
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quote:Marcus Licinius Crassus speculated in real estate and owned numerous insulae in the city. When one collapsed from poor construction, Cicero purportedly stated that Crassus was happy that he could charge higher rents for a new building than the collapsed one. I believe Trump would do that.
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Night10194 posted:It's also because he's up against a woman and there's a lot of unexamined baggage going on behind the scenes, so the woman who can handle 12 hour congressional grillings and who's put up with 25 years of hard slander without snapping is portrayed as weak and sickly next to the fat jackass who screams like a stuck pig the second things don't go 100% his way or anyone even suggests he might not be the best, let alone that he's a pile of poo poo. In a way, it might be for the best that Clinton was paired against Trump. With all the implicit baggage around the idea of a woman president in America, setting her against such a horrible opponent may be the best way we get a woman in the white house and open people up to the idea so its easier going forward. If it wasn't Trump but Cruz, sexism would have certainly been enough to keep Clinton from the White House since Cruz could be good enough for sexists not to spam Hillary out of fear. Also, this was one my twitter feed: 
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Luigi Thirty posted:I believe Trump would do that. That's not even the most hosed up thing Crassus did on a regular basis. He literally invented the fire sale.
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Let's not talk poo poo like Crassus was a classical era Trump; He was a raging piece of poo poo, but he was a competent raging piece of poo poo.
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Elsa posted:You can rip youtube videos pretty easily but I added my own touch with the closed caption the caption is 
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Mister Adequate posted:Let's not talk poo poo like Crassus was a classical era Trump; He was a raging piece of poo poo, but he was a competent raging piece of poo poo. Also Crassus was probably even richer than he claimed.
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/635185617475923968 In case of deletion: @realDonaldTrump posted:How is Bernie Sanders going to defend our country if he can't even defend his own microphone? Very sad!
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