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Wisconsin is a gorgeous state with awesome food, rad towns, and people who make despicable political choices. edit: cat tax 
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fsif posted:He was on one of the Sunday shows the other weekend and spoke frankly about the troubles ailing modern America, like how families never eat dinner at the table together anymore. This is one of those things that at its core has merit, it's harder for parents to have both the time and finances to raise children and our educational systems encourage children to overburden themselves with coursework and activities they don't really care about or want to do because "gotta get a job one day, but first I need to get into college and get scholarships to afford it". Of course they'll ignore the fact that income has effectively dropped and people need to work more to afford basic living expenses, let alone kids. Instead they'll just complain about the dirty feminists that said maybe women should do more than make babies or how kids don't respect their elders anymore.
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May 25, 2017 17:25
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If Gianforte wins I hope every DC reporter who ever needs a statement from him approaches him in the most antagonizing way; either super meekly, flinching any time he moves, or a whole "just try it" pushy approach like parody-Ben Jacobs from Gianforte's statement. In this situation where he wins and nothing happens from assaulting another human being in front of witnesses and on recorded audio, there's no way DC journalists aren't total dicks to this guy, right?
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May 25, 2017 17:27
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https://twitter.com/perlberg/status/867777036986830848
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May 25, 2017 17:29
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The derail we need, but not the one we deserve.
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May 25, 2017 17:29
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"When German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited President Donald Trump at the White House in March, she brought a visual aid to help Trump understand the menace posed by his would-be friend, Russian President Vladimir Putin. Merkel brought a 1980s map of the former Soviet Union and noted the way its borders stretched for hundreds of miles to the west of Russia’s current boundary, according to a source who was briefed on the meeting. The German leader's point was that Putin laments the Soviet Union’s demise and, left unchecked, would happily restore its former borders. Merkel left Washington unconvinced that Trump had gotten the message, the source said." The leader of Germany had to bring a loving visual aid to explain to the President of the United States of Goddamned America the state of affairs just 30 years ago.
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May 25, 2017 17:30
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https://twitter.com/KyungLahCNN/status/867773978546511872 I'm sorry in advance for everyone who is expecting tonight to be the onset of the Great Mattering
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May 25, 2017 17:30
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So I went digging for a particular post wherein I wrote something to the effect of "my expectation is that ~35% of the country will go full fascist while the rest of us watch in horror and try to figure out what to do" and was not able to find it. (If anyone happens to remember that quote, would you pretty please be so kind as to post it here? I believe I wrote it in this thread, but it might have also been of the US Pol threads.) So while I did not find that quote, I did stumble upon some of my older material that is now suddenly very relevant now that the GOP is showing just how comfortable it is with open violence against reporters. I will be quoting several of these old posts and including a bit of commentary to put them in perspective, starting with the post below. This is from March 3rd, 2016. The context of this was outrage over the looming SSM SCOTUS decision. Here we can see several examples of GOP-establishment figures like Ted Cruz openly courting Narrativists by appealing to their inner narrative. In other examples we can see how the most extreme segemnts (what I call "high-compaction Narrativists") served as bellweathers for the growing violent extremism within Religious Cluster Narrativists as a reaction to the extreme narrative dysphoria resulting from legalized SSM. I predicted at the time that there was a strong potential for this situation to cause "narrative convergence"; the phenomenon wherein which one Cluster of Narrativists achieves a higher level of compaction and then drags other Narrativists Clusters up to the same level of compaction via changes in the language used by Narrativists to communicate with each other. In simplified terms I am arguing that the threat of legal SSM was percieved as so dire that it drove various Religious Cluster Narrativists to the brink of advocating violence and that certain GOP politician massively worsened this situation by attempting to coldly exploit the situation for political gain. (In the process of doing so they granted much greater perceived legitimacy to the calls for violence.) Over time the calls for increased extremism emanating out of the Religious Cluster gave social cover/fuel for other Clusters to become more radicalized themselves. The entire thing is a cycle feeding upon itself; a smoldering brush fire that amoral sociopaths poured kerosene on because they though they could control the fire enough to profit off the destruction. (They were very loving wrong.) Prester Jane posted:Within Narrativist circles Gay Marriage is a massive issue of supreme importance, and the only reason you are not hearing much about it is because the rhetoric has become so extreme that the mainstream media has more or less simply ignored it as there is no way to spin how bad it is becoming. Rachel Maddow seems to be one of the few exceptions to this so far.
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May 25, 2017 17:30
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Zophar posted:4 of our last 9 senators elected since 1970 have been Democrats. True but but he got like 65% of the vote in the general... I doubt he's worried about losing to a Democrat. Elotana posted:https://twitter.com/KyungLahCNN/status/867773978546511872 Oh it matters. Just in the wrong direction. It's a net positive to Gianforte.
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May 25, 2017 17:30
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Pleads posted:If Gianforte wins I hope every DC reporter who ever needs a statement from him approaches him in the most antagonizing way; either super meekly, flinching any time he moves, or a whole "just try it" pushy approach like parody-Ben Jacobs from Gianforte's statement. Whoever the tallest and most jacked reporter in the US is, assign that guy to him exclusively. e: and some extremely aggressive but small women.
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May 25, 2017 17:31
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Pleads posted:In this situation where he wins and nothing happens from assaulting another human being in front of witnesses and on recorded audio, there's no way DC journalists aren't total dicks to this guy, right? The problem with American culture, specifically in regards to the right wing, is that there are a lot of people who will view Gianforte as being in the right, so any aggression presented by the media will play into that narrative. The GOP likes to fetishize dicks almost as much as they like to preach against touching them.
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May 25, 2017 17:33
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The next president, regardless of party or how they got into office, had better invest in facial protection because the amount of asskissing and brown nosing needed to fix relations is gonna be a nightmare. First month alone might be alternating grovelling phone calls with actions to get the State Department functional again.
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May 25, 2017 17:35
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Fart City posted:The problem with American culture, specifically in regards to the right wing, is that there are a lot of people who will view Gianforte as being in the right, so any aggression presented by the media will play into that narrative. The problem with normalizing violence against political opponents is... it normalizes violence against political opponents, and that door swings both fuckin' ways. I'm saying we might have just witnessed "he choke-slam heard round the world" in regards to political norms in the US.
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May 25, 2017 17:36
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https://twitter.com/shimonpro/status/867350437288185856 Apologies if already posted.
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May 25, 2017 17:38
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RuanGacho posted:WI isn't allowed to show it's face in public until Paul Ryan, Scott Walker and Donald Trump are out of office. IDK what people expected us to do when the Koch Brothers decided to point their orbital money cannon at the state and flip us red. scuz posted:Wisconsin is a gorgeous state with awesome food, rad towns, and people who make despicable political choices. And everyone who makes good choices also is smart enough to live in Madison or Milwaukee and unlike Chicago they don't carry enough weight to eclipse the entire rest of the state on their own.
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May 25, 2017 17:38
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So they figured out that trying to stop the investigation on a technicality by appointing his former lawyer wouldn't work, I take it.
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May 25, 2017 17:39
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This is normal https://twitter.com/michaelcrowley/status/867777125901795329
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May 25, 2017 17:39
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Ah yes, the well respected bitch had it coming defense. This country is doomed. Does anyone see a release valve for the poisoned level of discourse in this country? The best way I can see out of this is that the accelerationists are right.
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May 25, 2017 17:40
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:This is normal Maybe she heard that Trump really likes maps
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May 25, 2017 17:41
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Elotana posted:https://twitter.com/KyungLahCNN/status/867773978546511872 The people that are still intending to vote for Gianforte are lost causes; no one ever expected this to reach them.
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May 25, 2017 17:42
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Andrast posted:Maybe she heard that Trump really likes maps There is not a doubt in my mind that she showed him that map because of his electoral map obsession.
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May 25, 2017 17:43
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Alter Ego posted:The people that are still intending to vote for Gianforte are lost causes; no one ever expected this to reach them. It'll definitely make some of the non radicalized ones stay home
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May 25, 2017 17:43
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Andrast posted:Maybe she heard that Trump really likes maps Unfortunately the map showed huge swaths of the planet red and Trump misunderstood completely.
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May 25, 2017 17:44
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Lemming posted:It'll definitely make some of the non radicalized ones stay home
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May 25, 2017 17:44
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ReidRansom posted:This dude has been setting himself up hard to survive the coming backlash and post-Trump fallout. He's been pretty consistent from pre-trump election to post-trump election. He's basically a republican with bad policy ideas, but a decent human being otherwise, basically a unicorn amongst the GOP.
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May 25, 2017 17:45
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2nd Rate Poster posted:Ah yes, the well respected bitch had it coming defense. We all need to start doing our civic duty and becoming part of the institutions that need us.
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May 25, 2017 17:45
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Zophar posted:https://twitter.com/shimonpro/status/867350437288185856 So this is gonna be like the State Department isn't it? We're just going to not have a director of the FBI cause Trump has the attention span of a fly
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May 25, 2017 17:45
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ThePeavstenator posted:This is one of those things that at its core has merit, it's harder for parents to have both the time and finances to raise children and our educational systems encourage children to overburden themselves with coursework and activities they don't really care about or want to do because "gotta get a job one day, but first I need to get into college and get scholarships to afford it". The point is that he's a US Senator who is witness to a nation facing innumerable domestic issues, many matters of life and death, and he's using his platform to focus on how our cultural values have deviated from the Cleavers'.
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May 25, 2017 17:46
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https://twitter.com/colinjones/status/867766729002422274
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May 25, 2017 17:46
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farraday posted:Unfortunately the map showed huge swaths of the planet red and Trump misunderstood completely. Trump walks away from meeting thinking he was elected President of the USSR.
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May 25, 2017 17:46
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Mister Fister posted:He's basically a republican with bad policy ideas, but a decent human being otherwise, basically a unicorn amongst the GOP. I'll believe it when he votes to impeach.
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May 25, 2017 17:47
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2nd Rate Poster posted:Ah yes, the well respected bitch had it coming defense. Rend this country asunder with a great continental quake. Only thing I can think of that could even theoretically push things in the right direction. We're all going to loving die the second the frothing fascist right tips and starts targeted murder en masse of everyone they know to not be One Of Them. They can't take on the military, even with their great underground vaults and gun closets that they can't even close the door to any longer. They CAN kill innocent neighbors and shoot up college campuses and bomb women's health clinics, though.
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May 25, 2017 17:47
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Lemming posted:It'll definitely make some of the non radicalized ones stay home Why? No-one stayed home over the horrible things Trump has done. Those prim and proper old Republican ladies you see don't faint as easily over nastiness as you might think.
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May 25, 2017 17:47
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The following two posts are from August 11th and 12th, respectively. These posts show how eager the militia movement was for any pretense to carry heavy weapons around minority neighborhoods in a blatant act of intimidation. Although the militia's have been quiet for a bit as a result of the post-Malheur crackdown; that crackdown has been effectively ended by the Trump administration. As the militias realize it is safe to poke their heads in public again you can expect them to begin appearing at political rallies in support of pro-Trump protesters. Their is a very strong risk for violence erupting from a scenario wherein some group like Oathkeepers shows up armed to protect some Proud Boys and opens fire on some antifa/minority protesters.Prester Jane posted:Oathkeepers in full gear out walking with protesters in Ferguson and conducting patrols of neighborhoods. Bonus stump speech for how Trump will save the country if he is elected. Prester Jane posted:Stole this from the freep thread.
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May 25, 2017 17:47
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I wish Macron had gone full Kali Ma on Trump and ripped out the black shriveled walnut he calls a heart
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May 25, 2017 17:48
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How does anyone take this man seriously -me for the millionth time
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May 25, 2017 17:48
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2nd Rate Poster posted:Ah yes, the well respected bitch had it coming defense. The other issue is what happens when some chinless, obese red-state, red-cap, redneck, white bread, white power, dipshit motherfucker finally gets in the wrong face and catches a well-deserved 38 between his piggy little eyes? I think that's the real question. What will we see from these shithuffers when fighting back isn't limited to a couple antifa scuffles, or bitchard spencer getting that ridiculous haircut knocked off his waterlogged head?
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May 25, 2017 17:48
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RuanGacho posted:WI isn't allowed to show it's face in public until Paul Ryan, Scott Walker and Donald Trump are out of office. yo dude we know wi's got some real poo poo people in its electorate don't forget reince prius came from this electorally retarded state
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May 25, 2017 17:48
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farraday posted:Unfortunately the map showed huge swaths of the planet red and Trump misunderstood completely. Or did he?
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Apoplexy posted:Rend this country asunder with a great continental quake. Only thing I can think of that could even theoretically push things in the right direction. We're all going to loving die the second the frothing fascist right tips and starts targeted murder en masse of everyone they know to not be One Of Them. They aren't capable if they don't run the government. It is time for the egalitarian renaissance. Sloober posted:yo dude we know wi's got some real poo poo people in its electorate Yeah I get it I'm just ribbing you guys. I know how hard it is, I have to do all I can to get rid of Dave Richert next election. RuanGacho fucked around with this message at 17:52 on May 25, 2017 |
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