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Nessus posted:I thought his trump tower office rent hike was one of the few things that was actually justifiable and not particularly usurious Was it? I assumed it was him milking it because, well, it made sense. I'm probably wrong then since I assumed.
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Islam is the Lite Rock FM posted:Was it? I assumed it was him milking it because, well, it made sense. I'm probably wrong then since I assumed.
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Nessus posted:I mean the rent's probably inflated and there is likely no reason for them to be in his building other than TRUMP! *click*, but they moved from being his shoestring primary operation to being the nucleus of the national GOP campaign. So moving them up a few floors into actual office space made sense. I guess their defense was more space -> more cash so I'm wrong.
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https://twitter.com/absurdistwords/status/790692034818482176 Racism in America is out, bold, proud and just as vile as it ever was. http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2016/10/miss-naacp-white-students-put-noose-around-black-students-neck-yanked-backward/ A white friend pointed this out to me, unclear on how to process this. Distressed and aghast. Racism has always been here. Its visible now Black people aren't surprised because this is status quo. But the genteel post-60s style of racism made it less obvious Had lots of us twisted too, thinking the worst was over. But with the rise of the Alt-Right (read: mainstream KKK) fueled by approval on social media, it's just not as taboo to be racist anymore. Racists feel like this is their time. They've hidden in the dark for too long, hiding and speaking in code. "friend of the family" is back y'all https://twitter.com/absurdistwords/status/790695260989054980
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Predictably, Bill Mitchell is melting down about the IBD poll. Ranting and raving about dishonest pollster putting the thumb on the scale by oversampling D+9 Every single poll that Hillary is winning is D+9.
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bad boy in the boy band posted:Why is this even a thing? Is it a threat to the voting process if some dumbass Millenial takes a ballot selfie? If someone pays you to vote a certain way they could insist on a photo to prove you did it, so they made the photo illegal. But you're already breaking the law by selling your vote.
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canepazzo posted:Then there's this: that has to be illegal, cmon!
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Cardboard Box A posted:You published a cable reporting on a friend of mine recommending that US support Medvedev, not Putin. My friend, Nemtsov, is now dead. To be fair, the FSB had that cable long before Wikileaks did.
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Cardboard Box A posted:https://twitter.com/absurdistwords/status/790692034818482176 Yeah as horrible as that article is, as the tweet said, none of this surprises me. Which makes me sad. And angry. More poo poo like this is going to keep happening. Black people are gonna keep losing their lives and no one gives a gently caress.
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Agrajag posted:that has to be illegal, cmon! Probably just skirting it. You can't receive royalties on your own books you buy with campaign donations, but the selling autographs might pass muster. I don't know though i'm not a law jerk
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Three books that developed my personal politics? Autobiography of Malcolm X, even though I would say it was more a stepping stone. Hubris/Nemesis by Ian Kershaw. The written history addendum of the Fall of Eagles, by C L Sulzberger.
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Three books that informed my politics: Capital vols 1, 2 and 3 of course
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Cardboard Box A posted:You published a cable reporting on a friend of mine recommending that US support Medvedev, not Putin. My friend, Nemtsov, is now dead. What's the deal with this? As far as I am aware there wasn't exactly a difference in policy between Putin and Medvedev. Why would you support one over the other? And why would that be a reason for an assassination? Did I give Medvedev to little credit? Did he genuinely try to stand up to Putin on some issue?
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Agrajag posted:what are the chances Trump is pocketing the majority of the campaign funds he raised by spending them on companies he owns? We already know he's doing this so 100%
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Whatever I'll jump in. I read Lies My Teacher Told Me, Autobiography of Malcolm X, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, The Vagina Monologues, A People's History Of The United States, and not a book buuuuut I watched a lot of Star Trek (all of them) as a kid. In fact TV has influenced me just as much. ER was another big one. My politics were also informed by growing up Jewish/Catholic, going to Mormon after school programs (my neighbors were Mormons when I was a kid and I went to church functions and other fun stuff with their kids) and even a trip to Utah which I enjoyed a lot but also going to black Baptist churches and basically experiencing a bunch of different religions was really cool and fun to me. I even researched Buddhism and read a neat book by the Dalai Lama, but I can't remember which book it was now. It's weird looking back because I loved Mormonism the mist I think. Everyone was super nice, I remember being disappointed-but-not-surprised.gif when I found out as a teenager that they wouldn't even let black people in until recently. I think I was only surprised because it was the only white group where it wasn't like "Why are you here??"
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http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/meet-the-economist-running-for-president/ It's really nice of Nate to give a platform to lovely right wing economists who don't know how the economy loving works
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TX update: basically every urban County in the state has broken records for early voting first day turnout.
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https://twitter.com/AlisynCamerota/status/790885148778692608 This video is pure, unadulterated anti-arzy. Check out those Florida numbers  Also, Upshot/Sienna poll of NC: 46-39 Hillary. canepazzo fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Oct 25, 2016 |
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canepazzo posted:Predictably, Bill Mitchell is melting down about the IBD poll. Ranting and raving about dishonest pollster putting the thumb on the scale by oversampling D+9 A poll drawing a biased sample is not bad. Not at all. They'll re-weight and/or post stratify based on demographics. Doing that, a poll with 10 million democrats and 100 republicans would result in a better prediction than one with 100 democrats and 100 republicans. And that first poll could still easily show the Democratic candidate down, if she was in fact down. Koalas March posted:Whatever I'll jump in. I read Lies My Teacher Told Me, Autobiography of Malcolm X, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, The Vagina Monologues, A People's History Of The United States, and not a book buuuuut I watched a lot of Star Trek (all of them) as a kid. In fact TV has influenced me just as much. ER was another big one.
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canepazzo posted:https://twitter.com/AlisynCamerota/status/790885148778692608  Go voters go!
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Koalas March posted:The Vagina Monologues
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canepazzo posted:https://twitter.com/AlisynCamerota/status/790885148778692608 I *really* hope this means Rubio is toast. This blog is also a pro follow: http://www.ktnv.com/news/ralston/the-nevada-early-voting-blog Hoping this bodes well for Cortez Mastro. Early indications seem to be that Dems are running up the score where it really counts, i.e. in states with competitive senate races.
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canepazzo posted:Predictably, Bill Mitchell is melting down about the IBD poll. Ranting and raving about dishonest pollster putting the thumb on the scale by oversampling D+9 Bill Mitchell is a loving moron and posting/discussing the stupidity that flows from his Trump-rotted mind outside of CSPAM should be a probation in my opinion.
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Chinese Gordon posted:I *really* hope this means Rubio is toast. Nah. He's probably quite comfortable ahead. There are countless people who just hate Trump way more than they hate the democrats.
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Shifty Pony posted:Bill Mitchell is a loving moron and posting/discussing the stupidity that flows from his Trump-rotted mind outside of CSPAM should be a probation in my opinion. It's pretty funny tho
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Cingulate posted:Only 3. ❓❔❓❔ I don't get it.
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So ThinkProgress posted this hypothetical scenario where the lame duck Senate attempts to confirm Garland in order to stop Hillary from nominating someone younger and more liberal, only to get filibustered by Cruz. It seems hilariously plausible to me, really. That sort of "gently caress the party, I
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Cardboard Box A posted:8. One way to do that would be to to tell his supporters the system’s so rigged they should boycott in protest rather than waste their time. I have two remaining hopes for the election. One is that this happens. The other is that after he loses, Trump "owns" the loss by claiming that he was a democratic plant all along and all the racists who fell for it are sad losers. He'd be lying, of course, but it would go a long way towards ripping that movement apart. Cardboard Box A posted:Racism in America is out, bold, proud and just as vile as it ever was. http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2016/10/miss-naacp-white-students-put-noose-around-black-students-neck-yanked-backward/ It's awful. We had just the same legitimisation happening in the UK after the Brexit vote; my father witnessed a man going off on a horribly racist tirade against an Indian shopkeeper, and when the man's own wife called him out for it he just said "No, it's all right now, we voted Leave."
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https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/790886355647729664Agrajag posted:that has to be illegal, cmon! Looks like someone has never heard of the Art of the Deal. 
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cant cook creole bream posted:Nah. He's probably quite comfortable ahead. There are countless people who just hate Trump way more than they hate the democrats. Right, but every point on the registered Dem turnout is bad for Rubio, since the vast majority of those voters will either leave the bottom of the ballot blank or vote Murphy. I can't see many specifically anti-Trump Dems plumping for Rubio.
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So influential books is an interesting topic. I'd have to say more than any other book it's Catch-22 for me. That book is amazing. First it's a comedy, then it's a tragedy and then it's a horror, even though it's the exact same story each time. Plus the key message is that large institutions don't give a gently caress about you, which is absolutely true. Also that pure capitalism can result in pure evil in the pursuit of profit. Great book. Read it every summer from age 13 to 18 Other influencing ones are probably my neo-Keynesian econ books and also Marx's Das Capital (although I only read excerpts) which k read for my history of economic thought class. Only in seeing how Marxian, Neoclassical, Austrian and Keynesian analysis all yield different solutions to the same problem can you realize that economics is not the panacea some people say it is. And probably the last specific book is The Black Swan by Taseb which I spoke about a bunch yesterday. Honorable mentions: Animal Farm Brave New World The Castle Waiting for Godot
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Roland Jones posted:So ThinkProgress posted this hypothetical scenario where the lame duck Senate attempts to confirm Garland in order to stop Hillary from nominating someone younger and more liberal, only to get filibustered by Cruz. This would be *incredible*.
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Why's it illegal to sell my vote? I thought money was speech now.
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Because she would have a democratic Senate and wouldn't have to pick someone the Republicans would theoretically approve of.
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Guy Goodbody posted:Why didn't Obamacare stop that? From many pages ago, but I will point out that nominal healthcare costs rising linearly implies a decrease in the percentage terms rate of increase that is usually used. Generally speaking healthcare inflation is still faster than economy wide inflation but overall the pattern over the Obama admin is a convergence in the two.
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Lurker here, going to chime in on formative books: Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton - You went to high school. Life is so hard. Still, we can find peace and joy through the wonder of forgiveness. It's Even Worse Than it Looks by Thomas Mann and Norm Ornstein - Two beltway moderates try to explain how our current governmental dysfunction really is overwhelmingly the republican's fault and how the structure of our democracy is poorly equipped to counter the issues. The Better Angels of Our Natureby Steven Pinker - Things are actually getting better all the time. Be vigilant, work hard, but know that we're doing amazing things to make the world a better place daily.
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Admiral Ray posted:The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow Polybius91 posted:1984. I know this is a red flag for a lot of people because of how the book's been waved around by right-wingers and libertarians who don't understand the first thing about it, but I really it helped me understand the political climate I grew up in. I read this when I was fourteen, in 2005, when the Iraq war as in full swing, the US was torturing prisoners, the law that authorized sweeping domestic spying was called the Patriot Act, and you were a coward and a traitor if you ever questioned the spurious and shifting justifications for these things. "We have always been at war with Eurasia" stops being hyperbole pretty loving fast if you look at how the right wing media operates.   Koalas March posted:not a book buuuuut I watched a lot of Star Trek (all of them) as a kid. In fact TV has influenced me just as much.
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