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punk rebel ecks posted:Why is this thread so much more level headed and civilized than all the other general political threads/boards? We're all state actors who agree ideologically and simply must continue peacefully until the opportunity to implement full communism now appears. You should see the discourse when conversation shifts to Lenin and Marx!
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:I'm really strongly in favor of community armories, gun safes, anything that puts even a trivial barrier between suicidal thoughts and pulling the trigger - but do you think people would voluntarily use them? This came up in the crazy political forwards thread a few years ago:  I think they almost hit a good idea. Why not offer guaranteed work at elementary schools for newly separated veterans where they can help kids with arts and crafts projects and Tee-Ball games? Keep them far away from guns of course, but I think it'd help them get reconnected to the world while they reintegrate with society.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I think they almost hit a good idea. Why not offer guaranteed work at elementary schools for newly separated veterans where they can help kids with arts and crafts projects and Tee-Ball games? Keep them far away from guns of course, but I think it'd help them get reconnected to the world while they reintegrate with society.
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Night10194 posted:This year wikileaks accused its detractors of being part of a global jewish conspiracy. They also claimed the Panama Papers release was a Soros/Jewish plot because they implicated Putin and some Russian businesses.
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Spiffster posted:After the week trump just had I feel that anything Wikileaks has would, if done correctly, break even. And that's a worst case scenario. If they really had anything to show they would have done it by now. Most likely Trump and Friends will continue trying to get out of the hole they dug by continuing to dig down and be smug about it. They have to actually have something first.
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Protecting children is sitting around doing nothing all day. That sounds like a pretty good dream job. Sitting around doing arts and crafts? Nightmarish
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Ego-bot posted:They also claimed the Panama Papers release was a Soros/Jewish plot because they implicated Putin and some Russian businesses. Say, was there any link to Trump in the Panama Papers or were they exclusively for ACTUAL movers and shakers and not pretenders like him?
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Night10194 posted:Say, was there any link to Trump in the Panama Papers or were they exclusively for ACTUAL movers and shakers and not pretenders like him? Yeah he had a bunch of shells.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:This came up in the crazy political forwards thread a few years ago: This is the worst idea I've ever seen
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Assange isn't alt-right, (((establishment))) aside. The guy who ghostwrote his autobiography has a great essay in the LRB about working with him. He's a raging, pathological narcissist with a clinical lack of empathy, but insofar as he has any coherent ideology at all it's that all large organizations, especially governments, are persecuting him.
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NikkolasKing posted:If it's any consolation, the Religious Right is dying according to what I've read. It doesn't have the power now that it once did. I sort of bought into the "if only the GOP could free itself from the religious right, then they'd be an okay political party!" line of thinking before, but the last couple years have exposed that line of thinking as sadly naive. The alt-right movement demonstrates that an American conservative movement with religious elements excised can be just as horrible, if not worse than still containing the religious right. Basically no matter what way you slice it, the GOP is a party composed of horrible people united almost solely by their hatred of everything not like themselves.
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:Assange isn't alt-right, (((establishment))) aside. The guy who ghostwrote his autobiography has a great essay in the LRB about working with him. He's a raging, pathological narcissist with a clinical lack of empathy, but insofar as he has any coherent ideology at all it's that all large organizations, especially governments, are persecuting him. That sounds like the alt right to me
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Islam is the Lite Rock FM posted:They have to actually have something first. There is always a chance they are bluffing, true. I am the kind of person that will always assume there is something they do have that will throw a monkey wrench into the gears to ruin a good week. I can wish at best it's something taken out of context and they are trying to spin something basic into a huge ordeal or all talk but until then I will worry. The only difference though and why I'm not  is that the course of one debate has changed the makeup of the polls drastically and I feel comfortable again in the presidential race. Most of my attention has shifted to Senate and local races at this point. Really don't want to have to worry about Clintons chances against Trump again. It's bad for my blood pressure.
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BiohazrD posted:This is the worst idea I've ever seen The one in the picture, or the one I had? Because I'm open to it being bad, but worst ever?
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Another reason to vote for Hillary Clinton: There's a strong chance we'll get to see Samantha Bee host the White House Correspondent's Dinner  .On the other hand, I can't even imagine who Trump would get to do it.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-donations-charlie-crist_us_57f2e982e4b0703f75909bb3quote:Donald Trump contributed 10 times as much money as was allowed by law to the 2006 gubernatorial campaign of Florida’s then-Attorney General Charlie Crist, according to a Huffington Post review of state campaign finance records.
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cult member at airport posted:On the other hand, I can't even imagine who Trump would get to do it. Milo. Yep.
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cult member at airport posted:Another reason to vote for Hillary Clinton: There's a strong chance we'll get to see Samantha Bee host the White House Correspondent's Dinner Chris Christie in a jesters outfit and he will make him dance for dimes. He is a sad little monkey when Trump is involved in his life 
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cult member at airport posted:Another reason to vote for Hillary Clinton: There's a strong chance we'll get to see Samantha Bee host the White House Correspondent's Dinner Hannity four years straight.
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Shifty Pony posted:We have no conversation to be derailed from. Why is that San Francisco is so liberal but doesn't give a poo poo about cost of living? The Economist? Nope. Pyroxene Stigma posted:We're all state actors who agree ideologically and simply must continue peacefully until the opportunity to implement full communism now appears. So, what do you guys think about Karl Marx? How about Lenin?
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:This came up in the crazy political forwards thread a few years ago: I know that this idea conjures up warm mental images but watching kids is very hard and very stressful. I want my kids taught and supervised by trained educators, not by someone whose most recent brush with school was intense military training.
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Spiffster posted:There is always a chance they are bluffing, true. I am the kind of person that will always assume there is something they do have that will throw a monkey wrench into the gears to ruin a good week. I can wish at best it's something taken out of context and they are trying to spin something basic into a huge ordeal or all talk but until then I will worry. He probably has something but it's of zero consequence at all. Assange is so far up his rear end he thinks a pebble is mount Everest.
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U-DO Burger posted:I know that this idea conjures up warm mental images but watching kids is very hard and very stressful. I want my kids taught and supervised by trained educators, not by someone whose most recent brush with school was intense military training. Maybe switch it out to animal shelters. You know what I'm getting at though, right? The one thing about the proposal to put them in schools working with kids is that it opens up the question "Is it safe to put someone with PTSD in a school?" The answer is obviously no, but maybe it'd actually lead to people taking the problem seriously instead of letting them kill themselves off 20 at a time.
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punk rebel ecks posted:Why is this thread so much more level headed and civilized than all the other general political threads/boards? The paywall helps if you mean by comparison with reddit etc., but it's also the fact that we still use actual human moderators who put in a lot of work making sure that all the trash gets taken out on a consistent basis.
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cult member at airport posted:Another reason to vote for Hillary Clinton: There's a strong chance we'll get to see Samantha Bee host the White House Correspondent's Dinner If you can't find the incredible trainwreck joy we would get from a Scott Baio hosted Correspondent's dinner than I can't help you. Or maybe it'll be Ivanka spending 30 minutes making uncomfortable jokes about how much her father wants to cram his greasy slimy cocktail wienie inside her.
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Islam is the Lite Rock FM posted:He probably has something but it's of zero consequence at all. Assange is so far up his rear end he thinks a pebble is mount Everest.
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Azathoth posted:Assange is desperate to keep himself in the public eye because as soon as he's out of stuff, it's only a matter of time before he ends up on the street, and then it's either begging the Russians for asylum or extradition somewhere that he absolutely does not want to be. I figure all of this meaningless crap is just trying to buy time until someone gives him something actually newsworthy to leak. He's also desperate to be paid attention to because, you know, narcissist. I bet he loving hates Snowden.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Maybe switch it out to animal shelters. You know what I'm getting at though, right? I think so. We need programs that help reintegrate veterans and help them feel connected to society?
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punk rebel ecks posted:Why is that San Francisco is so liberal but doesn't give a poo poo about cost of living? I have yet to see any organized group that really cares about cost of living, Europe included.
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punk rebel ecks posted:The Economist? http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/07/opinion/reckonings-a-rent-affair.html Rent Control if one of the most studied things in economics. It doesn't work. And stop being a dumbass who won't read articles because you don't like a publications politics. The Economist is a well respected publication when it comes to economics.
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Night10194 posted:He's also desperate to be paid attention to because, you know, narcissist. Well yeah, that too, but I'd say that it's more his paranoia than anything else. I bet he thinks that anytime he sees a group of people he doesn't recognize at the Embassy that they're the ones who are gonna slap a bag over his head, then drag him out to a waiting car, then drag him to a waiting airplane, then drag him into a waiting CIA black site.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:The paywall helps if you mean by comparison with reddit etc., but it's also the fact that we still use actual human moderators who put in a lot of work making sure that all the trash gets taken out on a consistent basis. That's true, but it doesn't explain why C-SPAM is still so unreadable. Once they added the animated background I gave up on going in there.
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U-DO Burger posted:I think so. We need programs that help reintegrate veterans and help them feel connected to society? They're at high risk for being targeted by extremist groups for radicalization. 
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Night10194 posted:He's also desperate to be paid attention to because, you know, narcissist. Not to be superficial, but there is video of Assange's awkward rave dancing alone. And Snowden is a stone cold hottie.
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Azathoth posted:Well yeah, that too, but I'd say that it's more his paranoia than anything else. I bet he thinks that anytime he sees a group of people he doesn't recognize at the Embassy that they're the ones who are gonna slap a bag over his head, then drag him out to a waiting car, then drag him to a waiting airplane, then drag him into a waiting CIA black site. This, though, is also why I don't really worry about the guy. He's a paranoid as well as a narcissist and so he sees mountains in every molehill. He probably thinks that story about Clinton joking about droning him is a dead serious threat.
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