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If nothing else, the recount sure is bothering the hell out of Trump. http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/politics/trumps-unhinged-freakout-over-possible-recount-has-even-skeptics-saying-do-it-now/ Even if nothing comes of it, it's worth it to see him squirm.
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citybeatnik posted:Bring back earmarks. I'll gladly take $0.000001 of my tax dollars going towards funding some bridge in fuckoff nowhere if it means that there'll actually be some sort of compromise on the House floor. I wish. But I don't think "repair damage to the political system" is in the vocabulary for the next few years.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 05:32 |
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Anchor Wanker posted:OTOH, its hard to be friends with people that want to discriminate against your LGBT/Muslim/Poor/black/women loved ones and family members. Not everyone who votes gop wants lgbt/muslim/poor/black/women discrimination. The vote shows they're ok with it but it doesn't necessarily mean they want them as second class citizens. In fact, it's a good avenue to turn them into Democratic voting neoliberals by sharing your friends/family's lovely experiences.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 05:34 |
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Peven Stan posted:Social pressure has worked more to keep interracial marriage off the table for the vast majority of white people. Despite all the whining about white genocide only 4% of white men and 2% of white women intermarry. Putting a law in place serves no purpose society and media don't already reinforce and makes them look like dickheads. Anti-miscegenation laws aren't just about intermarriage
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Mustached Demon posted:Not everyone who votes gop wants lgbt/muslim/poor/black/women discrimination. The vote shows they're ok with it but it doesn't necessarily mean they want them as second class citizens. In fact, it's a good avenue to turn them into Democratic voting neoliberals by sharing your friends/family's lovely experiences. Obviously, but the fact that the GOP has "gently caress all those guys" as a part of their platform means they are gonna attract people who share those views. Nobody should be expected to even pretend to like those people.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 05:43 |
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Reminder Logcabin Regressives are a thing. FYGM if your not rich.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 05:52 |
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Mustached Demon posted:Not everyone who votes gop wants lgbt/muslim/poor/black/women discrimination. The vote shows they're ok with it but it doesn't necessarily mean they want them as second class citizens. In fact, it's a good avenue to turn them into Democratic voting neoliberals by sharing your friends/family's lovely experiences. Yeah, I'd say that most people who vote Republican are fine with individual minorities/lgbt people in their lives, they just have intense apathy towards their political struggles as a group because most of them only interact with other straight white people on a daily basis.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 05:53 |
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Don't forget there's plenty of minorities within the Republican party who can overlook that for their class benefits that comes from making GBS threads on the poor as a whole. Or accepting themselves as "one of the good ones". This blindness to the fact that no minority or oppressed group walks in lockstep is part of the failure of liberal discussion of issues.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 06:02 |
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Captain Oblivious posted:I wish. But I don't think "repair damage to the political system" is in the vocabulary for the next few years. I only want my $0.000000001 of tax dollars to go to blowing up that bridge. Can't let the poor get too complacent. They've mooches off me long enough!
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Yeah don't underestimate the lack of fucks given about bad things that don't affect someone. It's also your chance to share your experiences to convince them to give a gently caress.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 06:23 |
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Crowsbeak posted:Actually when the dems retake power if the Republicans try to use the courts to prevent any changes I say its time for the dems to begin pack the judiciary. Assuming the GOP doesn't beat them to the punch
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 06:26 |
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Kilroy posted:15 Supreme Court Justices. Then we'll make it 24. Or else we'll give the GOP the option of bringing it back to seven. With all new judges and we get to choose four our the seven.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 06:31 |
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By 2030 there are 371 Supreme Court judges
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 06:36 |
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Fojar38 posted:By 2030 there are 371 Supreme Court judges That's a lot of Street Judges.
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Edit: never mind! Found some stuff.
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Fojar38 posted:By 2030 there are 371 Supreme Court judges
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 07:00 |
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Goosed it. posted:Are there any links about this kind of thing? My dad is old and progressive, but despite be subscribes to the idea the if you're not with it enough to get id, then you're not with it enough to vote. I've explained why that's not accurate to him, but it would be helpful to have some sources. I've looked and been pretty unsuccessful. http://wtkr.com/2015/10/09/final-over-a-dozen-driver-license-locations-shut-down-in-alabama/ Of course, id laws make sense in a vacuum. But then you look at how they are implemented. Virtually none of these id laws apply to absentee voting. So ask him why is voting in person something that requires an id but not absentee voting? Absentee voting tends to favor republicans, is the correct answer. Or ask him why some of these id laws will allow the use of concealed permits but not student ids.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 07:02 |
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As long as we get Chief Justice Dogg.
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Mustached Demon posted:As long as we get Chief Justice Dogg. Nate Dogg propped up in his chair, wearing sunglasses.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 07:06 |
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:27 of them are Scalia. If we can get 28 Ginsbergs I'm OK with that.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 07:07 |
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Meredith Baxter-Burnout posted:Nate Dogg propped up in his chair, wearing sunglasses. Snoop Dogg you uncultured swine.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 07:08 |
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 07:15 |
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You can't be any geek off the street.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 07:26 |
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Crabtree posted:Imagine a world where Trump tweets everything's fine and all of media falls in line to spread his word no matter how worthless the dollar becomes as he continues to do nothing but say "everything's fine". More like "Everything Is Awesome." I mean, we did just elect President Business, right?
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 08:57 |
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Maybe Martin Luther King was wrong.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 09:19 |
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Ghetto Prince posted:Maybe Martin Luther
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 09:34 |
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citybeatnik posted:Bring back earmarks. I'll gladly take $0.000001 of my tax dollars going towards funding some bridge in fuckoff nowhere if it means that there'll actually be some sort of compromise on the House floor. There has been some pretty loud rabble about bringing it back by the Republican House now that Boehner is gone. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/republicans-earmarks-congress/508328/ quote:...A group of Republicans has pushed for the return of earmarks at the beginning of each session of Congress since the ban took effect, but the effort never gained traction in large part because Boehner stood in the way. “As long as I’m speaker, there will be no earmarks,” he said in 2014. When Boehner resigned the next year, his staff created a gauzy, documentary video hailing the ban as central to his legacy and highlighting his record of never seeking an earmark during his quarter-century in the House. “It’s been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made,” he said in the video. Call your representative and tell them you'd like to see earmarks come back! You know, as stupid as that phone call would sound.
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RuanGacho posted:If you internet based socialists are going to gripe there's just no possible way to manage the logistics of taking 1400 simultaneous votes in the day and age I can order same day flowers to the other side of the planet without speaking to another human being I will in fact hunt you all down and beat you with the limbs of the change averse boomers you've decided to make your spirit animals. mods change my name to based socialist
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 10:20 |
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Pollyanna posted:If nothing else, the recount sure is bothering the hell out of Trump. The simplest explanation would be Trump legitimately believes the Infowars stuff about voter fraud. A devious explanation would be Trump knows he can exploit concerns of election fraud to pressure more state governments to require voter ID.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 13:36 |
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HorseRenoir posted:Yeah, I'd say that most people who vote Republican are fine with individual minorities/lgbt people in their lives, they just have intense apathy towards their political struggles as a group because most of them only interact with other straight white people on a daily basis. Seems a bit strange to preemptively assume only about ten percent of the American population is actively racist, sexist, or homophobic.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 13:45 |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/us/politics/obama-expands-war-with-al-qaeda-to-include-shabab-in-somalia.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0quote:Obama Expands War With Al Qaeda to Include Shabab in Somalia How many countries in total is the US waging war in now? Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Cameroon, I'm assuming Pakistan is still active as well. Anything I'm missing?
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botany posted:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/us/politics/obama-expands-war-with-al-qaeda-to-include-shabab-in-somalia.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0 What the holy gently caress is Obama doing? Why is he expanding war powers with trump incoming?
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Condiv posted:What the holy gently caress is Obama doing? Why is he expanding war powers with trump incoming?
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 13:59 |
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Hypothesis: those people in Somalia are bad and need killing? Probably as simple as that.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 13:59 |
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Condiv posted:What the holy gently caress is Obama doing? Why is he expanding war powers with trump incoming? In order to quickly resolve the situation in Somalia and pull out before Trump's puffy fingers reach the levers of power, as stated in the article.
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greatn posted:Hypothesis: those people in Somalia are bad and need killing? Probably as simple as that. Yeah in no way is doing that under the most tortured interpretation of the 2001 resolution going to backfire once Trump realizes he can declare war on anybody he can play "6 degrees of separation to Al Qaida" with.
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botany posted:Yeah in no way is doing that under the most tortured interpretation of the 2001 resolution going to backfire once Trump realizes he can declare war on anybody he can play "6 degrees of separation to Al Qaida" with. As if Congress was going to deny him an AUMF in any situation where they wouldn't be challenging this interpretation anyhow.
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# ? Nov 28, 2016 14:09 |
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Captain Oblivious posted:It's this one. Every couple days Cravius swings by, spouts off a couple low effort Republican talking points then stops posting for a while. This time his method of choice is "racism doesn't exist unless it's actively wearing a white hood and burning a cross". so gbs/c-spam then
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Brainiac Five posted:As if Congress was going to deny him an AUMF in any situation where they wouldn't be challenging this interpretation anyhow. "Might as well not pass any laws ever then" agrees congress.
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botany posted:How many countries in total is the US waging war in now? Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Cameroon, I'm assuming Pakistan is still active as well. Anything I'm missing? This was not a rhetorical question by the way. I'm sure I'm missing some stuff here, or maybe got something wrong. Does anyone have a full list?
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