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Potato Salad posted:
those didn't involve him though. how could they be as important!
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Potato Salad posted:Red Scare trials. Japanese internment. Bill Clinton's impeachment. Birtherism, too.
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Potato Salad posted:Red Scare trials. Japanese internment. Bill Clinton's impeachment. There's a word that's right on the tip of my tongue, I think it starts with a B but I can't quite remember. e: ^^^^^^^ no not that one
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Does anyone like me? We're goons, we hate eachother only slightly less than we hate everything else, which is why it gets so terrible when theres no news.
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nerdz posted:Yeah, the main takeaway of this shooting is justification for skipping town halls. They hosed off away from the town halls well before this when their own voters dared to question them over AHCA. A good number of them are running away from any press. The only thing missing now are mason jars of piss.
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haveblue posted:There's a word that's right on the tip of my tongue, I think it starts with a B but I can't quite remember. It involves someone named Ben I think. Ben Carson? Has he been up to no good?
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haveblue posted:There's a word that's right on the tip of my tongue, I think it starts with a B but I can't quite remember. B-B-B-Benghazi!
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haveblue posted:There's a word that's right on the tip of my tongue, I think it starts with a B but I can't quite remember. I, too, think Benedict Arnold was unjustly slandered.
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https://twitter.com/adamcancryn/status/875372117730131970 also Tom Price says he has not seen the Senate version of the AHCA yet. Somehow.
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Agents are GO! posted:We're goons, we hate eachother only slightly less than we hate everything else, which is why it gets so terrible when theres no news. Greg the Stop Sign on SAclopedia posted:All goons secretly hate themeselves, each other, everything in the world, and themselves again in ascending order. You may have noticed. Extremely factual.
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twice burned ice posted:Quoting just so that more people will see that you think Heidegger wrote nonsense because you can't understand it. I like Heidegger. Being and Time is a great book. But lots of the words are untranslatable because they don't mean anything in the original German and the book would be way, way better if Heidegger was more rigorous with his language.
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:Every Democrat running for a Rs seat better be hosting town halls constantly, "inviting" their opponent and challenging an empty chair for answers to their constituents issues from now to 2018 i like this idea
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:Every Democrat running for a Rs seat better be hosting town halls constantly, "inviting" their opponent and challenging an empty chair for answers to their constituents issues from now to 2018 It worked for Clint Eastwood.
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:Every Democrat running for a Rs seat better be hosting town halls constantly, "inviting" their opponent and challenging an empty chair for answers to their constituents issues from now to 2018 Worked for Vince McMahon when he challenged God
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oohhboy posted:It worked for Clint Eastwood. Clint Eastwood was neither running for office nor proposing solutions.
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:Every Democrat running for a Rs seat better be hosting town halls constantly, "inviting" their opponent and challenging an empty chair for answers to their constituents issues from now to 2018 Dems adopting neighboring districts where Republicans hold the seat but refuse to meet with constituents is a fun idea too.
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Pollyanna posted:Putin Offers Political Asylum To James Comey, Citing Potential Prosecution In U.S. Vladimir Putin posted:This does sound and look odd: the director of a security service making records of his talks with the supreme commander and handing it over to the media through a friend of his. Stay safe, (*googles*) Alexander Bortnikov. 
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:Clint Eastwood was neither running for office nor proposing solutions. Nor all there.
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Autocrat Vladimir Putin thinks accountability is odd. What a surprise.
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Ogmius815 posted:I like Heidegger. Being and Time is a great book. But lots of the words are untranslatable because they don't mean anything in the original German and the book would be way, way better if Heidegger was more rigorous with his language. not to get into a philosophy derail, but there's a specific reason he has to use those terms. he's actually trying to be as rigorous as he can, part of the point he's trying to make is that language is so much a part of our everyday life that words carry meaning that goes unnoticed. so if he wants to talk about new concepts, he needs a way to make language new again. hence all the new terms. (they also have clear connotations in the original german, by the way.) brecht would later do something similar in theater with his concept of verfremdung. wittgenstein, who's probably more to your liking, once said that heidegger, much like himself, was constantly "running up against the boundaries of language", and both had to find ways of getting their point across despite these problems.
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:Clint Eastwood was neither running for office nor proposing solutions. No but Mittens lost. Remind Mittens doesnt know what a donut is.
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We invent new words not just to better define meaning, but also so that their use -- and thus nuanced meaning -- is conspicuous?
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:Clint Eastwood was neither running for office nor proposing solutions. He's got sunshine in a bag.
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2016 Commerce Secretary statement on Equal Employment Opportunity:quote:The Department of Commerce does not tolerate discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age (40 years of age and over), genetic information, or disability (physical or mental), including the provision of reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants and employees with disabilities or genetic information. Retaliation against those who initiate discrimination complaints, serve as witnesses, or otherwise oppose discrimination and harassment is strictly prohibited. 2017 Commerce Secretary statement on Equal Employment Opportunity quote:The Department of Commerce does not tolerate behavior, harassment, discrimination or prejudice based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability. We will also provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. Retaliation against those who initiate discrimination complaints, serve as witnesses or participate in the EEO process, or otherwise oppose discrimination and harassment is strictly prohibited. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Edit: goddamnit awful.app Shifty Pony fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Jun 15, 2017 |
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Toaster Beef posted:Yeah, he's basically become a non-factor here. Still see him in ads talking about the opioid epidemic, but mostly he's just waiting out the end of his term. There are 4-5 GOP Members of congress here in NJ that NEED to lose in 2018. I hope that this cascades down to their races too.
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i feel bad making fun of a guy who was shot but this can't really be his face, right they did one of those photoshops where they shrunk the face but left the head, right https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/875311014538919936
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ReidRansom posted:If it made them introspective about why people hate them so much and that led to a shift in their policies? Sure. But the immediate reaction seems to be that they're going to further insulate themselves from the public. I heard my own congressman (a shithead, to be sure, but not among the very worst of them) on the radio this morning saying that they're going to have to reconsider their levels of interaction with the public and how they do it, and that's not a good thing. Yeah. I mean, hoping that Scalise recovers shouldn't be contingent on him having some sort of Dickensian epiphany. But for Republican politicians in general, they have already been trying to cast the outcry over the AHCA as the work of nefarious leftist provocateurs and this gives them all the reasons in the world to go turtle.
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Shifty Pony posted:2016 Commerce Secretary statement on Equal Employment Opportunity: But... he held the flag!!
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Prester Jane posted:I appreciate the note of support. For the record with the bit about wishing on a monkeys paw from a homeless gypsy woman I thought it was pretty obvious I was making a joke. I don't have actual superpowers or anything of the sort. I just happen to have an unusual insight into a particular group of extremists who happen to be rather relevant at this point in our history. Considering the context of making that joke (I am very open about my schizophrenia and delusions of grandeur/believing one posses super powers are well known symptoms of that condition) I can appreciate that it would be very difficult for me to make it clear that I was jesting, particularly through the medium of the written word. In the future I will keep this in mind. Personally I think that your theories on Narrativists and compaction cycles make a lot of intuitive sense. And does seem to track fairly consistently with historical data. Where I think you go off the rails in prediction is that you forget that your own theory shows why extremist eventually dissipate into a none issue. Because the compaction cycles themselves shrink the contingent with each compaction while the group becomes hardened and more extreme they also become by necessity smaller as they slough off the less extreme members with each cycle. So while each successive iteration becomes more extreme they become smaller. Eventually one of two things happen they become so small as to become irrelevant or if one actually engages in political violence the rest will disavow them as a matter of self preservation, or the greater body politic will take action against them. Consider the OKC bombing. after that McVeigh the militia movement and nativists found themselves under intense scrutiny as the majority of the public say them as a threat to everyone and took action. The structure of the United States for all it's faults does provide a strong protection against the rise of fascistic authoritarian rulers. Look at the current situation, the right despite having managed to take control of the entirety of the government has largely been thwarted in enacting their agenda. There was a certain amount of wisdom in the thinking of the framers in wanting to create a system that is intentionally cumbersome with fighting factions. checks and balances are built in intentionally to prevent the sort of tyranny that the Republicans would love to enact. Nativist movements have always existed in this country and in the end they get stomped out. The KKK was at one time a very active and powerful force of nativists but they were completely wiped out in their initial iteration and the new iterations were but a shadow of the former. In the end the nativists fizzle and fail because human beings are social creatures and social creatures have a vested interest in eliminating threats to the society as a whole. By and large human beings want to be able to take care of themselves and their families in relative peace and security and any group that threatens that will eventually be dealt with in the harshest of terms. I always like to point out that the guillotine was invented by a liberal and that while the left is usually slow to move to violence they don't gently caress around once the decision has been made. If the narrativist nativists decide to go all 2nd amendment CW2 the generally docile masses will move to wipe them the gently caress out with great alacrity and brutality. Besides for the most part these people are cowards at heart. Conservatives are ruled by fear, it's the core of their identity. This is why it's only the mentally unstable that tend to resort to actual violence while the vast majority just talk poo poo. And why I'm not too concerned with them ratcheting things up, doing so would require them to find an actual spine and courage and even if they did the result would ultimately bring about their demise. And to be frank, I don't see these people committing suicide by cop to support the Great Cheetolini. Eventually once he becomes toxic enough they'll rationalize that he wasn't a true conservative and just a liberal plant/RINO like they have so many they've supported before (see W).
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ReidRansom posted:If it made them introspective about why people hate them so much and that led to a shift in their policies? Sure. But the immediate reaction seems to be that they're going to further insulate themselves from the public. I heard my own congressman (a shithead, to be sure, but not among the very worst of them) on the radio this morning saying that they're going to have to reconsider their levels of interaction with the public and how they do it, and that's not a good thing. Wonder why they didn't take these precautions after Gabby Giffords...
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:Every Democrat running for a Rs seat better be hosting town halls constantly, "inviting" their opponent and challenging an empty chair for answers to their constituents issues from now to 2018 No not and empty chair, Use someone in a chicken suit, Don't adopt their gimmick use one of our own that is tried and true.
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mcmagic posted:https://twitter.com/lloydblankfein/status/875385242386911232 Can we please stop reposting blankfein? The cost of these new monitors is killing my family.
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mcmagic posted:https://twitter.com/lloydblankfein/status/875385242386911232 give the man a break he may be the ceo of goldman sachs but he also personally mocked trump on twitter
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Skex posted:No not and empty chair, Use someone in a chicken suit, Don't adopt their gimmick use one of our own that is tried and true.  http://flagpole.com/news/in-the-loop/rep-jody-hice-town-hall-draws-100-people-and-a-chicken-but-no-hice
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Sinteres posted:Nate Silver's guess yesterday was about 70/30 Ossof, which are the same odds he put on Hillary last year. The old Nate Silver kiss of death.
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B B posted:So, even though Republicans are using reconciliation, there is apparently a way for Democrats to effectively filibuster AHCA through the reconciliation amendment process: This seems like a "One weird trick to defeat lovely legislation! Republicans hate it!" What's to stop McConnell from just changing the rules for reconciliation? Probably nothing. aware of dog fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Jun 15, 2017 |
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