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Radish posted:Captain America 2 was actually prophetic but instead of super science Nazis we beat in WW2 the US government was infiltrated and taken over by the Confederacy we beat in the Civil War This is the lie Northerners like to tell themselves to absolve their ancestors of racism.
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:
WHY CAN'T I SAY it has been a conservative thing for a while but actual pundits are smart enough to know how that would fly so they don't push that one. However now that Trump has normalized Breitbart, Stormfront, and Alex Jones I expect to hear that one by at least somebody on a CNN panel in the coming years. computer parts posted:This is the lie Northerners like to tell themselves to absolve their ancestors of racism. Nah the North is pretty racist too.
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Voting to impeach clinton will become the new Obamacare appeal vote in the house.
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Assassin's Creed: Liberation (the Vita game that got a PS3/PC port) has a half-black female protagonist
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Nov 4, 2016 14:40
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Harrow posted:It's too late for me. I've already become one with Arzy. But it isn't too late for the rest of you! Save yourselves! Embrace your latino brothers and sisters, they will save the world.
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Der Waffle Mous posted:I was so excited to get a native protagonist who wasn't a bad stereotype but the game around him was lousy. The entire game is: Introduce gameplay element Use element in incredibly restrictive way Participate in historical event in incredibly restrictive way Introduce gameplay element Use element in incredibly restrictive way Modern day story no one cares about Introduce gameplay element Use element in incredibly restrictive way Kill yourself because you can't take it anymore
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Islam is the Lite Rock FM posted:Voting to impeach clinton will become the new Obamacare appeal vote in the house. The 90s called, they want Newt Gingrich back.
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:Didn't they literally out the identity of an undercover CIA agent for some reason or another and nobody really even gave a poo poo? Yup. Valerie Plame. This was around the time Cheney was sending Iraq talking points to newspapers on deep cover, and then citing those same articles later on talk shows as proof that everyone agreed with the administration's assessments. e: people did care, for what it's worth. Highest level conviction since Iran-Contra. But of course Busy commuted Libby's sentence so..... fosborb fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Nov 4, 2016 |
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Nov 4, 2016 14:42
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RevKrule posted:The only thing that's made Trump sink like a stone has been outright attacks on women. Seriously, he has ties to embargo Cuba and Iran and no one cares. His ties to Russia have been exceptionally publicized and no one cares. His terrible university scam has been exposed and no one cares. Some of it's fatigue, some of it's there's minutia that people need to wade through (even a little) to understand just how horrible he is as a person but it's not easily soundbytable. What if Trump stabs a dude on live TV?
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Charlz Guybon posted:Eh...being tied when last time you were ahead by 100k in registration doesn't sound so good. The 55/45 gender split and the Hispanic surge does though. Kind of a mixed bag. The polls are telling us that the Republican surge in FL early voting is coming from people who voted on election day in 2012. So, they are cannibalizing their election day vote. On the Dem side, a lot of it is genuinely new voters or voters who only voted once in the last 3 elections.
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Harrow posted:https://twitter.com/BrentNYT/status/794519693985980416
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btw, if people need to calm down and not Arzy, read http://www.electoral-vote.com/ on a daily basis. I've been reading it since the 2004 election and its pretty good, and not nearly as breathless as 538 has been lately. Even if they are wrong they will at least relax you a bit until then.
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Radish posted:Captain America 2 was actually prophetic but instead of super science Nazis we beat in WW2 the US government was infiltrated and taken over by the Confederacy we beat in the Civil War There was a really good article (maybe 1-2 years old) about how the reconstruction failed but I can't for the life of me remember who wrote it. Does anyone know which one I'm talking about?
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That was the Assasin's Creed 4 DLC. This was the Vita game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5RxYUw4DFY
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:The 90s called, they want Newt Gingrich back. Seeing Raul Labrador grow a nasty beard and wear skinny jeans will be surreal.
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Radish posted:Nah the North is pretty racist too. How do people explain why Reconstruction and Jim Crow were such a poo poo-show in the South otherwise? Hint: It had to do with President Andrew Johnson and Northern Confederate sympathizers in political power that enabled the legacy of the Antebellum South to survive and persist up through the Civil Rights Era of the 1960s. 
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Radish posted:WHY CAN'T I SAY it has been a conservative thing for a while but actual pundits are smart enough to know how that would fly so they don't push that one. However now that Trump has normalized Breitbart, Stormfront, and Alex Jones I expect to hear that one by at least somebody on a CNN panel in the coming years. One thing I'm interested in when it comes to the whole "n-word" discussion is if there's a difference between using a word and mentioning a word. This pop philosophy video brings it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ESU5ONMMxs&t=160s (Check out the huge dislikes for daring to say that maybe you should consider that the words you say might affect someone else.) I'm going to use one of those not-actually-offensive white slurs here so as to avoid accidentally crossing a line. Is there a difference between someone saying, "The word 'cracker' is offensive to white people," and someone saying, "Man, those crackers sure can't dance" or "Only crackers vote for Donald Trump?" When it comes to language, I mean. Should someone instead say "the c-word" in that first sentence (yes, I know that means something else, just bear with me for the sake of argument) to sidestep it altogether?
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Northjayhawk posted:The polls are telling us that the Republican surge in FL early voting is coming from people who voted on election day in 2012. So, they are cannibalizing their election day vote. On the Dem side, a lot of it is genuinely new voters or voters who only voted once in the last 3 elections. The news out of Nevada really seems unequivocally good. Florida really is "well she might win and she might not".
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All the Dynasty Warrior Gundam games let you play as a crossdressing black man.
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fosborb posted:Yup. Valerie Plame. This was around the time Cheney was sending Iraq talking points to newspapers on deep cover, and then citing those same articles later on talk shows as proof that everyone agreed with the administration's assessments. The W. Bush administration really was shittier than anyone, including myself, remembers.
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For gently caress's sake, Politico:
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:How do people explain why Reconstruction and Jim Crow were such a poo poo-show in the South otherwise? The usual narrative is "the 1876 Republicans were cowards and the secret Illuminati in the South has been directing things ever since (or until 1964)". In reality it's "white people wanted to punish other white people, then most of the first group got bored/were in an economic depression and didn't really give much of a poo poo anymore. And both groups hated black people, just one more visibly than the other".
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:I'm all for loving over drug companies but prop 61 isn't really that simple. The prop doesn't require the drug companies to sell their drugs at the same price as the VA, it requires the state agencies to buy them at that price. Which leads to a simple question that the prop doesn't answer: what happens if MediCal says "we're required to buy medicine X at Y price" and the drug companies say "gently caress you, that's too low for us to make a profit, we're not selling"? To follow up with this, there's some hilarious history here. Medi-Cal operates what's called a contract formulary. They typically reimburse prescriptions at Average Wholesale Price (AWP for short, it's an imaginary drug cost pulled out of the drug-industry's collective rear end). Once a year they choose specific drugs for their formulary, and those are the medications the plan covers. To entice Medi-Cal to choose their drugs for the formulary, drug companies offer reimbursements on prescription costs to Medi-Cal. This was supposed to save the state money, but what happened is Medi-Cal "for some reason" would only cover expensive branded drugs on the formulary instead of cheap generic drugs which were not on the formulary. The price differences were staggering. A 30 count bottle of Zyprexa 20mg cost like $1200 when a 30 count bottle of generic olanzapine 20mg cost $45. I don't know how much Eli Lilly was reimbursing Medi-Cal for each fill of Zyprexa 20mg, but I suspect it was less than $1150. Any questions as to why Eli Lilly is interested in California politics? They did this with all sorts of medicines, costing taxpayers huge amounts of money. Spoondick fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Nov 4, 2016 |
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Guy Goodbody posted:What if Trump stabs a dude on live TV? Pfft, Japan already beat us to it.  
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Guy Goodbody posted:What if Trump stabs a dude on live TV? It would be deflected by his belt buckle
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:The W. Bush administration really was shittier than anyone, including myself, remembers.
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DaveWoo posted:For gently caress's sake, Politico: This "Clinton's got this, election looks over" conventional wisdom is bad for business. They need clicks, man.
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Guy Goodbody posted:What if Trump stabs a dude on live TV? If a minority: no one cares If white: a sympathizer of the enemy cause
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Radish posted:It would result in the horrifying TV clips of conservative pundits explaining that since the word is used in hip hop videos who are black people to complain when Trump uses it like they did with the pussy grab/Beyonce stuff.
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DaveWoo posted:For gently caress's sake, Politico: Here's another headline: "What else, at this point, is there to write about?"
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Harrow posted:One thing I'm interested in when it comes to the whole "n-word" discussion is if there's a difference between using a word and mentioning a word. This pop philosophy video brings it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ESU5ONMMxs&t=160s (Check out the huge dislikes for daring to say that maybe you should consider that the words you say might affect someone else.) The issue with 'cracker' is it's not remotely equivalent since white people have never been oppressed racially in this country so there is no history behind that word. There's no implied threat of systemic violence, murder, segregation, or anything it's just rude and I guess maybe hurts feelings. It misses the entire point and distills racial issues in america into a sports match where you have two sides with equal grievances when that is absolutely not the case but doing that benefits the people that victimized the other for centuries so it gets a lot of push.
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http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/03/politics/eric-trump-on-david-duke/ I need to relax, because I shouldn't be able to become an instant Eric Trump fan in under four seconds.
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DaveWoo posted:For gently caress's sake, Politico: Guest author - Nate Silver.
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DaveWoo posted:For gently caress's sake, Politico: Batten down the hatches! Hoist the sails!   POLITICO IS ARZYING!!! 
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Teriyaki Koinku posted:Pfft, Japan already beat us to it. That was a politician being stabbed. I'm talking about Trump calling a dude out of the crowd in the middle of a speech, slitting his throat with a karambit, and then yelling "Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for his Skull Throne!" I bet that would move the needle a bit
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They really, really want to push the horse race narrative, that's for sure
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Harrow posted:https://twitter.com/BrentNYT/status/794519693985980416 It was the same with WJC, they had 0% chance of getting the Senate to go along with the impeachment in 98. They did it anyway to a.) embarrass him and b.) be worthless obstinate shitheels and that was the pre-Breitbart Republican party
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Radish posted:The issue with 'cracker' is it's not remotely equivalent since white people have never been oppressed racially in this country so there is no history behind that word. There's no implied threat of systemic violence, murder, segregation, or anything it's just rude and I guess maybe hurts feelings. It misses the entire point and distills racial issues in america into a sports match where you have two sides with equal grievances when that is absolutely not the case but doing that benefits the people that victimized the other for centuries so it gets a lot of push. I think they know that, they are simply using that as an replacement for actually offensive and harmful words to demonstrate a point.
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Radish posted:The issue with 'cracker' is it's not remotely equivalent since white people have never been oppressed racially in this country so there is no history behind that word. There's no implied threat of systemic violence, murder, segregation, or anything it's just rude and I guess maybe hurts feelings. It misses the entire point and distills racial issues in america into a sports match where you have two sides with equal grievances when that is absolutely not the case but doing that benefits the people that victimized the other for centuries so it gets a lot of push. I disagree. Cracker, I believe, came originally from an 1800s slur for Southern white people who were so poor they mixed dirt and mud to eat for food which were euphemistically referred to as crackers. On the Antebellum/post-Civil War Southern power hierarchy, poor "cracker" whites were just above black slaves and freedmen for being poo poo on. They were considered as useful idiots by aristocratic plantation owners to rile up racial hatred and violence, hitting two birds with one stone by keeping poor whites occupied and distracted from their economic oppression by strong-arming black people on their behalf and to strike fear into black people who might think about getting too 'uppity' or vocal for white landowners' tastes. e: So, no, not due to racial oppression but due to economic oppression, the latter of which is also a strong and proud tradition in this country. In fact, we were super racist even towards other white people! There's a reason why there's a stereotype of Irish boxers back in the turn of the 20th century and how that transitioned to black and minority boxers (ie, it was one of the few avenues available to the oppressed to get ahead in society and improve their lot in life). There's also a reason why the term 'WASP' exists, meaning White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. A big point of contention in the politics of the Gilded Age was fierce partisanship between Protestants and Catholics, Drinkers and Prohibitionists, etc. You think partisanship and political rhetoric is bad now? Try reading up on the Stalwarts, Half-Breeds, Mugwumps, etc of the 1870s and 1880s. I mean, for gently caress's sake, we even had a President get assassinated during that broiling political environment: James A. Garfield and later William McKinley. Teriyaki Koinku fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Nov 4, 2016 |
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