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Wow, this is something. Blaming the voters for rigging the election by not voting for Trump.quote:That leaves them in a bit of rhetorical purgatory, forced to respond to Trump but unwilling to pick a fight with him. Young said Thursday there could be a "psychological rigging of the election" — meaning Indiana voters don't show up to the polls on Election Day. But he declined to explicitly rebuke or defend Trump's refusal to back the election results. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/ernst-and-young-trump-230090
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dex_sda posted:SpaceX rockets began with designs cribbed from Russian rockets. So that's the reason they seem to be constantly exploding.
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illcendiary posted:I'm not familiar with The National, but if their image or lyrics are somewhat progressive, you'd be surprised how much of that flies over peoples' heads. Like how people still think songs like "Fortunate Son" or "Born in the USA" are patriotic?
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Crow Jane posted:The National just announced they're hosting a GOTV concert November 2nd in Cincinnati for Hillary. They put on a great show and if anyone's near there you should go. They've never been secretive about their allegiances - they sold an Obama shirt with "Mr November" written on it - but still some folks tend to miss it.
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Oct 21, 2016 14:12
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illcendiary posted:I'm not familiar with The National, but if their image or lyrics are somewhat progressive, you'd be surprised how much of that flies over peoples' heads. Noted Rage Against the Machine fan Paul Ryan is living proof. Paul D. Ryan if your nasty.
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comingafteryouall posted:Wow, this is something. Blaming the voters for rigging the election by not voting for Trump.
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Crow Jane posted:The National just announced they're hosting a GOTV concert November 2nd in Cincinnati for Hillary. They put on a great show and if anyone's near there you should go. I like The National and everything but their music dovetails wonderfully with people who complain about how stupid rap music is.
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Oct 21, 2016 14:14
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WampaLord posted:Like how people still think songs like "Fortunate Son" or "Born in the USA" are patriotic? A DJ at a wedding I was at this weekend sang the chorus of "You Are My Sunshine" to the couple and called it a romantic song.
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Oct 21, 2016 14:15
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Inferior Third Season posted:People are different and have different reactions. But most women that get abortions don't regret them. Many are expecting to feel bad about it but never do, and think something is wrong with them, because the anti-choice movement has been successful in portraying the process as a sad and traumatic experience. This is not to say that it wouldn't be a sad and traumatic experience for some, but it is not for many others. I think we are agreeing then.  No-one should feel they *have* to feel a certain way. If a person feels depressed about their abortion, or completely OK with it, both are OK. My experience with decisions is that few (non-depressed) people ever truly regret a decision, because it becomes part of your life story.
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N. Senada posted:This and the Amy Schumer (correct comedian?) reaction reinforce something that I encountered as a kid: people have this "all media is for me" mentality and as soon as some artist/athlete/person steps outside of their political comfort zone they become halal. It happened to the Dixie Chicks and I was always shocked that people who never seemed to give a poo poo about politics all of a sudden cared that these ladies had an opinion they didn't like. It's a real white person thing, I think. I saw this with Liam Neeson making comments about advocating for gun control and you'd have people attacking "him" on Facebook ads for his movies as if he had killed their dog. People can't discern fiction from reality anymore.
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Crow Jane posted:The National just announced they're hosting a GOTV concert November 2nd in Cincinnati for Hillary. They put on a great show and if anyone's near there you should go. Another theme from this election that I'm loving loving is people threatening to unsubscribe from Facebook pages or unfollow Twitter accounts when they see something they don't like. "Keep this up and you'll lose a reader!" like seriously the most impotent useless threat possible.
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dex_sda posted:Most of NASA's tech was cribbed from Russians, or made by real Americans like Doctor Wernher Von Braun. I believe every single rocket engine in operation right now works on metallurgy the Russians made specifically for the program. SpaceX rockets began with designs cribbed from Russian rockets. The only reason USA won the (last stage) of the space race is that they threw orders of magnitude more money and manpower at the problem: https://youtu.be/P5shc52QLQ0 I definitely get that the Russians among others contributed, in the past, to what is now the American space program. One could construe it as weapons research (yum yum ICBMs make good carrots) but nevermind that. Are there any compelling spacenerd systems currently under development and/or meaningful scientific research underway? The latest I'm aware of is the failed Phobos-Grunt Russian-Chinese effort that never left LEO. There's been some interesting work done there on Hall-effect thrusters as well IIRC. I suppose us yanks aren't privy to any of the cool stuff, but I do appreciate RT's coverage of rocket launches via youtube. Meanwhile, the VOTER FRAUD crackdown continues in the heartland: http://wlfi.com/2016/10/21/group-named-in-indiana-probe-was-registering-black-voters/ quote:INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A Democratic-aligned group at the center of an Indiana investigation into possible voter fraud said Thursday it focused on registering black residents of Indiana because the state had the nation’s lowest overall voter turnout in 2014.
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The moment that true Americans discovered that Bradley Cooper was a democrat was one of my highlights of this election season.
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Chin Strap posted:A DJ at a wedding I was at this weekend sang the chorus of "You Are My Sunshine" to the couple and called it a romantic song.
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Chin Strap posted:A DJ at a wedding I was at this weekend sang the chorus of "You Are My Sunshine" to the couple and called it a romantic song. My favorite thing was people using Green Day's Good Riddance as a high school graduation song. Or send off for a TV show.  Seinfeld clip show!
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N. Senada posted:Noted Rage Against the Machine fan Paul Ryan is living proof. I mean, it's not like you have many options as a right winger. Either you enjoy music with differing ideologies, or you do not listen to enjoyable music at all. Bushiz posted:I like The National and everything but their music dovetails wonderfully with people who complain about how stupid rap music is. I consider that not insignificant - the man has perfect credibility on a lot of topics where many other critics of Trump don't.
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Oct 21, 2016 14:21
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illcendiary posted:I'm not familiar with The National, but if their image or lyrics are somewhat progressive, you'd be surprised how much of that flies over peoples' heads. They just write really sturdy anthemic alt-rock which is perfectly crafted, but yeah if you're a dumbfuck you can easily miss all the messages and stick around for the riffs
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Oct 21, 2016 14:22
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RATM and Ryan deserve each other because they're both idiots.Cingulate posted:Eminem tweeted a track where he's dissing Trump yesterday or so.
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Oct 21, 2016 14:23
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Apparently there's some kind of big DDoS attack against the servers that house twitter, Reddit, and a few other big sites. How big an attack does it take to knockout Twitter and Reddit, goddamn.
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Oct 21, 2016 14:23
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illcendiary posted:I'm not familiar with The National, but if their image or lyrics are somewhat progressive, you'd be surprised how much of that flies over peoples' heads. They have a song called Mr. November and in 2008 they sold T-shirts with Obama's face on it and Mr November printed below it as a fundraiser for Obama. I think that makes their political leanings pretty obvious. People dumb. WeAreTheRomans posted:They just write really sturdy anthemic alt-rock which is perfectly crafted, but yeah if you're a dumbfuck you can easily miss all the messages and stick around for the riffs This description makes them sound like U2 if they were sad...I can buy that. ZoCrowes fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Oct 21, 2016 |
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VanSandman posted:How big an attack does it take to knockout Twitter and Reddit, goddamn. appears that the outage is limited to a few areas
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Oct 21, 2016 14:26
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VanSandman posted:How big an attack does it take to knockout Twitter and Reddit, goddamn. The problem seems to be with one of Amazon's datacenters, they run a huge proportion of the internet behind the scenes now. DDoSes these days can be in the terabit per second range, it's getting bad.
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VanSandman posted:How big an attack does it take to knockout Twitter and Reddit, goddamn. It's just until their fail-over servers kick in. This is assuming that everything works perfectly, which it never does, especially at scale.
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VanSandman posted:How big an attack does it take to knockout Twitter and Reddit, goddamn.   Edit: DNS-based attacks, gigity http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-spotify-twitter-github-and-etsy-down-in-apparent-dns-attack-2016-10 Father O'Blivion fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Oct 21, 2016 |
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rscott posted:It's the other way around, people have issues historically with Russia because of Stalin being the worst Stalin was Georgian. Ayn Rand on the other hand called Russia her homeland until in the US she did stand and then adopt this country grand. Understand? FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Oct 21, 2016 |
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https://twitter.com/kyletblaine/status/789454269632094208 That nasty woman. 
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Young Freud posted:So that's the reason they seem to be constantly exploding. Soyuz has a better safety record than the space shuttle.
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 Yes, this is what we need. drat, he's only running against a Green party nominee. No Democratic nominee. comingafteryouall fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Oct 21, 2016 |
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The question is no longer, "will the GOP draw the wrong conclusion" The question is now, "will they draw the correct one?"
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BarbarianElephant posted:I think we are agreeing then. A lot of people in the abortion movement are very touchy about language because there is a protracted war in the movement between the pearl clad ladies who lunch that have made planned parenthood boards nationwide into their little social clubs and the crusty punks with weird hair that are slowly gaining ground on them. It's why, if you pay attention to these sorts of things, you see the idea of "choice" get phased out for "reproductive justice/access", and the slow abandonment of language like "safe, legal, and rare" and "good women have abortions" entirely, as well as people trying to remove gendered language entirely from the abortion vocabulary. We get a little on edge anytime someone says something that could remotely be interpreted as "abortions are a big decision that is already hard enough" or similar.
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Counter point: RATM owns. I will give some credit to Trump last night, he had two good jokes. The "Pardon Me" and the Melania jokes were pretty good. After that he just forgot the whole point of jokes is to point at something without calling it out directly. You don't say someones corrupt, but you hint in that direction. You don't talk about how Trump has burned through Campaign Managers at an alarming rate, but you poke fun at it. He was booed and rightly so.
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I hope we get more, "what the hell, the liberals WERE right about to loving pigs!" articles from conservative women before the election is over
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Oct 21, 2016 14:35
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Guess the state he's from! I got it wrong on the first try. I was thinking surely it was NC. e: The GOP congressman who tells women when they're being nasty.
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OgreNoah posted:I'm going to enjoy a The Last Word when it's over. Green Chartreuse, Gin, Maraschino liqueur, and lime juice. The lime juice sounds like an... interesting choice, but otherwise I'd try it. I'll have to remind myself to get one come Election Day/Night.
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No Butt Stuff posted:Guess the state he's from! I guessed it was my state and I was sadly correct.
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:The lime juice sounds like an... interesting choice, but otherwise I'd try it. I'll have to remind myself to get one come Election Day/Night. It's a great cocktail, the lime juice works very well.
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WampaLord posted:Like how people still think songs like "Fortunate Son" or "Born in the USA" are patriotic? I'd argue that there's few things more patriotic and (specifcally) American than speaking out against the government's faults.
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I hope someone with a camera and mic finds Reince Priebus on election night.
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Ciaphas posted:Poor bastard. On the bright side, he probably considers it a supreme test from God on his patience and faith, so it all works out! 
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No Butt Stuff posted:Guess the state he's from! I was going to guess Minnesota because that sounds like a line from a Prince song.
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