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Max posted:Yeah I had the literal same thought this morning. I haven't gone to bed yet so I still have that waking nightmare feeling, it's great.
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I went to bed dosed up on NyQuil and a single glass of white wine and woke up a few minutes ago and just... stared at my hand in the dark. It was very cinematic. Hi Ec wish you were back under better circumstances:(
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Love you, Ecco. Welcome back. Sorry we're nightmare world now.
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Flying Leatherman posted:I woke up and last night wasn't a dream. Yeah same I took a long nap and it just sank in really again what this means and what that man represents. gently caress. gently caress trying to be hopeful before. It's really going down the drain.
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Oh, hey, Ecco is here. I had a whole thing where I was going to take a really extended break after the games I am in wrapped up (they are both going on for quite a while) for reasons that may or may not involve how I saw things happen, but now it feels like I don't even remember or care about that anymore. I'm glad Ecco is back, I like chatting with them, and I like chatting with you all, even if it seems like or looks like I actively don't sometimes. I'd much rather spend my time arguing with you all than just forcibly removing myself. Anyway, I may still take a break anyway, but it won't be as dramatic as I first envisioned it.
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100YrsofAttitude posted:Yeah same I took a long nap and it just sank in really again what this means and what that man represents. gently caress. gently caress trying to be hopeful before. It's really going down the drain. My wife gets pretty annoyed with me whenever I start doomsaying about anything in the world, like climate change and insane gun people, but she woke up this morning and told me she understood the feeling for the first time and that actually made me more upset than anything else.
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Max posted:Oh, hey, Ecco is here. Ecco's great as are the rest of you. I don't play much these days but the community's fine. Max posted:My wife gets pretty annoyed with me whenever I start doomsaying about anything in the world, like climate change and insane gun people, but she woke up this morning and told me she understood the feeling for the first time and that actually made me more upset than anything else. Yeah each time I try to think it's not going to be that bad. But his policy points, few as they are, are pretty catastrophic. And then I remember who he is and what he's going to be and it's unbelievable. Him? I ask. And that's that. I wasn't necessarily enthusiastic for Clinton, but she seemed like someone who can be president. He doesn't by any stretch of the imagination. 4 years at the least and then what.
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Max posted:My wife gets pretty annoyed with me whenever I start doomsaying about anything in the world, like climate change and insane gun people, but she woke up this morning and told me she understood the feeling for the first time and that actually made me more upset than anything else. Dear lord that's loving depressing. Sorry America.
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Nov 9, 2016 14:55
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I am honestly, seriously looking into moving to Australia on a student visa. gently caress the people who voted for that bloated bigot or third party
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Nov 9, 2016 15:00
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Man, I felt better on 9/11.
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Nov 9, 2016 15:24
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CCKeane posted:Man, I felt better on 9/11. Yikes
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They're still counting in New Hampshire, and Clinton is ahead. I hope it stays irrelevantly blue. Live free or die, bitches.
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Chic Trombone posted:I am honestly, seriously looking into moving to Australia on a student visa. Australia's worst! One time their PM disappeared.
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Mr. F! posted:Australia's worst! One time their PM disappeared. I have family in aussieland so its probably easier for me to get a visa there than other places is why I'm looking at Australia specifically
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CCKeane posted:Man, I felt better on 9/11. uh
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CCKeane posted:Man, I felt better on 9/11. I don't think it's nearly that bad but I am seriously looking into my irish citizenship lol
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MMM Whatchya Say posted:wouldn't be much of a disappearance if we knew what happened It's such a weird story. What was it like to live during that?
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Nov 9, 2016 15:51
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I'm not joking. The evening of 9/11 I was with my family and we were trading the phone off arranging ways to volunteer and help. We all knew it was awful but we all knew it was one day and we could get through it. How do we get through this?
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Cheap Trick souvenirs posted:I don't think it's nearly that bad but I am seriously looking into my irish citizenship lol I haven no idea what one could do there for work but I love that country. I get you Keane.
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Does Ireland need professional dodgeballers because if so do I have a deal for them.
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Nov 9, 2016 15:59
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CCKeane posted:I'm not joking. The evening of 9/11 I was with my family and we were trading the phone off arranging ways to volunteer and help. We all knew it was awful but we all knew it was one day and we could get through it. I know it looks negative right now, but Trump has multiple times in the race said that he was playing the extremes in order to win. His campaign team listened to right wing radio shows and distilled the callers fears into their campaign strategy. His entire plan and everything he's said so far has been a ploy to get in the White House. Look at the stances he took in the primaries. He was pretty drat moderate then. Hillary ran a poor campaign. I don't like that trump won more than anyone else, but I'm oddly hopeful that a lot of the worst stuff he's said is just exaggerated rhetoric
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Mr. F! posted:I know it looks negative right now, but Trump has multiple times in the race said that he was playing the extremes in order to win. It don't matter when that's enough to get elected. People think that's okay.
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CCKeane posted:It don't matter when that's enough to get elected. People think that's okay. He's been given a mandate to be as racist as he wants, even if he doesn't go through with it. What does that say about our country? CCKeane posted:Does Ireland need professional dodgeballers because if so do I have a deal for them. Could make you a good rugby man.
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Nov 9, 2016 16:05
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CCKeane posted:It don't matter when that's enough to get elected. People think that's okay. The weirdest thing that I've seen so far about this election is that 7 million fewer democrats voted this year
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100YrsofAttitude posted:He's been given a mandate to be as racist as he wants, even if he doesn't go through with it. What does that say about our country? I've got thighs like tree trunks.
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Nov 9, 2016 16:08
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CCKeane posted:I've got thighs like tree trunks. I'm pretty sure that's illegal
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Nov 9, 2016 16:14
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100YrsofAttitude posted:I haven no idea what one could do there for work but I love that country. They have a robust tech sector
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CCKeane posted:I've got thighs like tree trunks. You must have Irish heritage. Keane is super Irish. Cheap Trick souvenirs posted:They have a robust tech sector Well there you go. It's a country that suffers from population drain for sure. And while Dublin is becoming a mini-London (though it has 30 years to go probably) the rest of the countryside is void of people but absolutely amazing.
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100YrsofAttitude posted:You must have Irish heritage. Keane is super Irish. Yep, half Irish, grandfather was an immigrant.
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Mr. F! posted:I know it looks negative right now, but Trump has multiple times in the race said that he was playing the extremes in order to win. The issue isn't this mags. It's hearts and minds. The problem is all around us. It's our friends and family. The people who bought into the bullshit. What we, the rational people, believed were a crazy fringe minority.
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CCKeane posted:Yep, half Irish, grandfather was an immigrant. I'm pretty sure they have a grandfather clause. Like you could get citizenship. Italy does that for you Italo-Americans, and they're dying for young white blood. But then again they had Berlusconi before it was cool. 100YrsofAttitude fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Nov 9, 2016 |
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Moatillata posted:The issue isn't this mags. It's hearts and minds. The problem is all around us. It's our friends and family. The people who bought into the bullshit. What we, the rational people, believed were a crazy fringe minority. Well I don't believe every person who voted for trump was a racist piece of poo poo. Democrats have largely ignored working class people for a loooong time. The American working class sees the divide between them and the middle and upper class getting wider and wider and no one is trying to fix anything. To them, Hillary was an entity owned by special interests and lobbyists. Hillary had many plans to help those groups out and she would have if she was made president. But her campaign, and the media in general, was too busy slamming trump to explain any of the ways she could help those groups.
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100YrsofAttitude posted:I'm pretty sure they have a grandfather clause. Like you could get citizenship. Italy does that for you Italo-Americans, and they're dying for young :spoiler:white:/spoiler: blood. But then again they had Berlusconi before it was cool. I have Irish and German heritage. How does the grandfather clause work?
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Mr. F! posted:Well I don't believe every person who voted for trump was a racist piece of poo poo. Democrats have largely ignored working class people for a loooong time. a good and correct post. there are many people who have rightfully felt left out by the political game and this was their chance to try to reenfranchise themselves. it might seem like lunacy to suggest it, but the same voting bloc probably would have voted left (maybe not to the same degree in absolute value terms) in a hypothetical Sanders vs Cruz race as it was the same divide of washington insiders vs someone they can identify with as on the outside we can still be our best and improve ourselves and take this as another challenge for an already resilient people.
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