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Louisiana has a jungle election system where November 8 is the primary election and then the top two vote getters have a runoff election December 10th, unless one candidate gets over 50% on November 8th
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HookedOnChthonics posted:That really depends on your perspective and priorities, but I'd generally say quite excellent, but with certain very negative externalities. Please defend the money spent on the F-35 as better invested there, instead of into art, or megaprojects like bridge-repair, road maintenance, or dam maintenance I don't have an issue with US military capability. I have an issue with the relentless masturbatory money-funnel that hurls taxpayer money at Boeing and Northrop-Grummond instead of at schools.
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Oct 22, 2016 21:22
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Pakled posted:The debate is four Republicans (including Duke) and two Democrats. Duke is running as a republican?
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Oct 22, 2016 21:22
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Bassetking posted:Please defend the money spent on the F-35 as better invested there, instead of into art, or megaprojects like bridge-repair, road maintenance, or dam maintenance If it makes you feel better, it's probably not an "X or Y'. It's "X or nothing".
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Oct 22, 2016 21:23
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Complaint Compilation posted:Duke is running as a republican? is that really a surprise at this point?
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Oct 22, 2016 21:23
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HookedOnChthonics posted:If you fundamentally disagree with that stance then yeah spend it all on massive over-engineered public art megaprojects or something, sure. Yeah, those are the only options. Reckless military spending or public art projects. God for-loving-bid we invest in schools or public health or infrastructure or anything else.
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Oct 22, 2016 21:24
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Instant Sunrise posted:is that really a surprise at this point? Can't the LAGOP forbid him from running as one?
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Oct 22, 2016 21:25
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Bassetking posted:First, you'll have to get the land to make those units. Good loving luck doing that without eminent domain, or going so far away from where the people would be living otherwise that you'd need to also build and maintain high-speed light-rail in order for them to get to and from work. High-speed rail and light rail are generally opposite things yo - high speed rail is large heavy rail vehicles traveling long distances (because otherwise you spend very little time at the high speed instead of in speeding up and slowing down), light rail generally doesn't travel faster than like 70 mph because it's serving multiple close together stops in a local area. That aside, many of the places that need public housing most badly actually have a lot of semi-empty rundown areas that it wouldn't cost much to simply buy out as normal, rather than enforce the buy-out via eminent domain.
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Oct 22, 2016 21:26
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Barbe Rouge posted:Can't the LAGOP forbid him from running as one? This is what I was wondering, is there a concrete political equivalent of the phrase "No. gently caress you?"
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Oct 22, 2016 21:27
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there wolf posted:But how good of one? The US military I hear is actually fairly effective at being an anti-poverty measure because of the job training aspects that open up doors and avenues for prosperity once you get out. But you know, if we had like a one world government we wouldn't need to have a military except as Just In Case for Aliens, disaster relief, and whatever rebels and insurrectionists resisting the world government happen to be running around. A huge sum of money is spent on maintaining nuclear stockpiles for example, that isn't needed. Keeping some military craft in working order just to keep certain skill sets from dying out I don't object to of course but once the entire world is your oyster you just have so much excess that could be more efficiently redirected and used to solve real world problems. How serious is development on arcologies for instance? Do we have plans for adding another 3 billion people? Where will there live? Do we start colonizing the ocean with those underwater skyscrappers? I feel like the funds are there once you stop worrying about some countries lobbing nukes at you.
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Oct 22, 2016 21:31
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freckle posted:Louisiana can't sink into the sea fast enough. Good call, it was definitely white folks that suffered the last time that happened.
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Oct 22, 2016 21:32
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Public housing is politically toxic to a lot of politicians and voters because if you build public houses you might start to depricate the value of all the houses people own, thus scuppering the Thatcherite dream that is buying a house and it magically accruing value forever with no negative consequences for the rest of the economy.
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Oct 22, 2016 21:33
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fishmech posted:High-speed rail and light rail are generally opposite things yo - high speed rail is large heavy rail vehicles traveling long distances (because otherwise you spend very little time at the high speed instead of in speeding up and slowing down), light rail generally doesn't travel faster than like 70 mph because it's serving multiple close together stops in a local area. That aside, many of the places that need public housing most badly actually have a lot of semi-empty rundown areas that it wouldn't cost much to simply buy out as normal, rather than enforce the buy-out via eminent domain. Those areas have cash strapped local governments that have trouble keeping things like the streets paved and the lights on, so there would have to be a steady long term federal government source of funding that can't be easily hosed with for the public housing to succeed e: if we got rid of the mortgage interest tax deduction for people making over like $100k and took that money and put it in a federal public housing program would that be enough money on its own? rscott fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Oct 22, 2016 |
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Oct 22, 2016 21:33
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Mr Hootington posted:https://twitter.com/cher/status/789898335104622593 Haha I love that she dropped into non-caps for that.
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Oct 22, 2016 21:37
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https://twitter.com/vaughnhillyard/status/789909745717112832 What are the issues this man is referring to? Does it involve people that are not white?
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Oct 22, 2016 21:40
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big money big clit posted:Good call, it was definitely white folks that suffered the last time that happened. Yes thats what I meant. And not the fact that global warming with have a good chunk of it under water in at least a century.
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Oct 22, 2016 21:40
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Barbe Rouge posted:Can't the LAGOP forbid him from running as one? Complaint Compilation posted:This is what I was wondering, is there a concrete political equivalent of the phrase "No. gently caress you?" No. When Duke ran for governor and got the nomination, the state GOP endorsed his opponent with the tagline "Vote for the Crook -- It's Important".
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Oct 22, 2016 21:41
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Mr Hootington posted:https://twitter.com/vaughnhillyard/status/789909745717112832 Conservative economic policies are weirdly popular when polled in isolation, but still wouldn't help Trump win.
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Oct 22, 2016 21:42
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Mr Hootington posted:https://twitter.com/vaughnhillyard/status/789909745717112832 Much like during September I wished it was the heady days of August and the seemingly ever-growing landslide to come, here in October (and soon to be November) the Trump Voter dreams of the days when they were almost maybe sorta tied.
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Oct 22, 2016 21:43
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Teddybear posted:No. When Duke ran for governor and got the nomination, the state GOP endorsed his opponent with the tagline "Vote for the Crook -- It's Important". Yeah, I read about that. The "wizards under the sheets" quote is pure gold.
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Oct 22, 2016 21:47
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HookedOnChthonics posted:That really depends on your perspective and priorities, but I'd generally say quite excellent, but with certain very negative externalities. I'm really just interested in how effective the military is at employing people and having them move on to something better after they leave since I've never known anyone who stayed in the service till retirement age and then just sat back and collected a pension.
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Oct 22, 2016 21:48
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Cingulate posted:That makes sense to me. In my defense, I've never been to NYC, and the parts of US cities I've seen were very segregated. NYC is absolutely not segregated like that. In fact where the show is set is an ethnic neighborhood with tons and tons of minorities, even more than white people, so it makes it especially heinous. You'd be shocked about how many white people come to Brooklyn and are surprised it's mostly black and brown people considering tv shows set in Brooklyn feature nothing but white people (except Brooklyn Nine Nine).
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Oct 22, 2016 21:48
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Teddybear posted:No. When Duke ran for governor and got the nomination, the state GOP endorsed his opponent with the tagline "Vote for the Crook -- It's Important". I don't think that slogan came from the GOP, and don't think there was an actual endorsement from the state party. Buddy Roemer endorsed Edwards though, as did George HW Bush.
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Oct 22, 2016 21:50
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Just saw a Pro-Trump PAC Bengazi commercial on TV that had pictures of Vilerat and had his mom talking about all the poo poo and it just made me furious. Please let this election season end 
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Oct 22, 2016 21:51
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Please don't bully the F-35, they're almost done with the firmware update that will let it use its guns.
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Oct 22, 2016 21:52
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speng31b posted:Conservative economic policies are weirdly popular when polled in isolation, but still wouldn't help Trump win.  People are very FYGM.
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Oct 22, 2016 21:55
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*still falls out of the air for no reason, can get owned by a guy in a hang glider with an 22LR*
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Oct 22, 2016 21:55
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freckle posted:Yes thats what I meant. Yea, it's going to be very good when all of the poor and heavily black parts of the state are underwater. Good call. That'll show those people who voted for David Duke!
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Oct 22, 2016 21:56
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Phone posted:*still falls out of the air for no reason, can get owned by a guy in a hang glider with an 22LR* "Because it crosses the international date line" is actually funnier than "for no reason"
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Oct 22, 2016 21:58
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gfsincere posted:NYC is absolutely not segregated like that. In fact where the show is set is an ethnic neighborhood with tons and tons of minorities, even more than white people, so it makes it especially heinous. You'd be shocked about how many white people come to Brooklyn and are surprised it's mostly black and brown people considering tv shows set in Brooklyn feature nothing but white people (except Brooklyn Nine Nine). I'm reminded of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUc0vbSlanM
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Oct 22, 2016 21:58
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big money big clit posted:Yea, it's going to be very good when all of the poor and heavily black parts of the state are underwater. Good call. That'll show those people who voted for David Duke! I apologize for my flippant post. freckle fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Oct 22, 2016 |
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Oct 22, 2016 21:58
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big money big clit posted:Good call, it was definitely white folks that suffered the last time that happened. Let me tell you about Denham Springs, and why its white majority (78%) deserved to be flooded.
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Oct 22, 2016 21:58
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speng31b posted:Conservative economic policies are weirdly popular when polled in isolation, but still wouldn't help Trump win. Conservative economic principles are weirdly popular, but conservative economic policies are not. Do you want smaller government with fewer services or bigger government with more services? Smaller government wins by double digits. What parts of the federal government should we spend more on? What should we spend less on? Every single category of spending, except for foreign aid, people want more spending on. Defense, education, healthcare, welfare, police, infrastructure, and literally everything else has majority support for more spending. Bootstraps polls extremely well, but people also think that the system is rigged when they are disadvantaged. People really like the idea of small government, individual responsibility, and bootstraps. But when you ask them to adopt specific policies to support those ideas, they hate it.
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Oct 22, 2016 21:59
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What is the best jet? It is the F-15C Eagle. For more information, see Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War.
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Oct 22, 2016 21:59
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Dr.Zeppelin posted:"Because it crosses the international date line" is actually funnier than "for no reason" *falls out of the sky for multiple reasons, can still get out outmaneuvered by a guy in a hang glider with a 22LR*
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Oct 22, 2016 21:59
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Mr Hootington posted:https://twitter.com/vaughnhillyard/status/789909745717112832 literally depressed voter turnout dot vid
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Oct 22, 2016 21:59
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Volcott posted:What is the best jet? It is the F-15C Eagle. For more information, see Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War. Fun fact: I rented that at Blockbuster when I was younger and I misread the title as "The Balkan War" so I thought I'd be flying missions over Kosovo or something like that but nope.
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Oct 22, 2016 22:04
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Volcott posted:Please don't bully the F-35, they're almost done with the firmware update that will let it use its guns. It still cant fly in the winter months, which is doubly funny when they continue to try to get Canada back on board with buying it. Please buy this expensive plane that will only work for 6 months of the year. 
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Oct 22, 2016 22:07
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skylined! posted:literally depressed voter turnout dot vid Is it cruel of me to hope for a super cut video of just sad people in MAGA hats standing in line to vote?
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Bassetking posted:First, you'll have to get the land to make those units. Good loving luck doing that without eminent domain, or going so far away from where the people would be living otherwise that you'd need to also build and maintain high-speed light-rail in order for them to get to and from work. I see. Alec Bald Snatch posted:public housing's been a thing for nearly a century I mean having public housing be a huge force in general that just doesn't focus on poor residents. Like a city where the government rents out 33% of all apartments or more. pumpinglemma posted:BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE COMMUNISM. (We did this in the UK for quite a long time, it worked well, then Thatcher pretty much sold the lot and banned councils from building more. Now most of the old council houses are being rented out to the next generation at extortionate prices.) Sad.
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