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Some true bipartisanship in TYOOL 2017 e:
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:05 |
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# ? May 27, 2024 03:45 |
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:one of the biggest problem democrats face is that people who support them are easily deceived by those who don't. Every bad thing is the democrats' fault because they're the only rational actors! Is a thing plenty of people unironically apparently believe.
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:06 |
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Glazier posted:Yeah if you do that people won't read it, welcome to the future of "long form" content. i read plenty of long form articles but i'm not going to read one article chunked into 30 little tiny sections. twitter is for jokes and blurbs not long complex thoughts
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:07 |
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I take it no Spicey time today?
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:09 |
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Night10194 posted:Every bad thing is the democrats' fault because they're the only rational actors! It's like when the 2 year old shits in his pants and paints the walls with it. You can't yell at him! Yell at the 10 year old instead!
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:09 |
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Wasn't the point of twitter to prevent long complex thoughts, ala newspeak
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:09 |
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So obviously the congressional game is going to get some major coverage tonight. I wonder if they'll have commentators come in to call it-- give it the full broadcast experience. Or it'll end up being one camera behind home plate or something.
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:10 |
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Night10194 posted:Every bad thing is the democrats' fault because they're the only rational actors! more than is reasonable. There's plenty of mcmagic's out there who'd gladly destroy the party to feel like they've accomplished something close to ideological purity. Just look at TYT for another good example.
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:11 |
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Teddybear posted:So obviously the congressional game is going to get some major coverage tonight. I wonder if they'll have commentators come in to call it-- give it the full broadcast experience. Or it'll end up being one camera behind home plate or something. A lot of unathletic Congresscritters sweating this poo poo now
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:12 |
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ShredsYouSay posted:Wasn't the point of twitter to prevent long complex thoughts, ala newspeak You're thinking of Fahrenheit 451. Newspeak just didn't have words for some concepts.
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:13 |
A car is going to backfire in the parking lot and one of the congress guys that were bragging about packing heat yesterday will kill four people.
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:13 |
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Trump picked up 4 net points in the Gallup today. (59/36 to 57/38) That's a three-day average so he probably got a fair bump from this. Anecdotal evidence based on the number of assholes I've had to block on fb for "radical leftwing" bullshit posts supports the theory. God how are otherwise normal people so loving dumb.
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:14 |
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lol at this thread defending avowed nazi heidegger
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:14 |
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Kekekela posted:Trump picked up 4 net points in the Gallup today. (59/36 to 57/38) That's a three-day average so he probably got a fair bump from this. Anecdotal evidence based on the number of assholes I've had to block on fb for "radical leftwing" bullshit posts supports the theory. God how are otherwise normal people so loving dumb. Don't worry he'll be plumbing new depths within a week
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:15 |
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Kekekela posted:Trump picked up 4 net points in the Gallup today. (59/36 to 57/38) That's a three-day average so he probably got a fair bump from this. Anecdotal evidence based on the number of assholes I've had to block on fb for "radical leftwing" bullshit posts supports the theory. God how are otherwise normal people so loving dumb. Don't sweat it. It doesn't matter.
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:15 |
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HappyHippo posted:Don't worry he'll be plumbing new depths within a week Yep. Dude is way too dumb to capitalize on this
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:16 |
The kind of people that come back every time Trump ties his shoes by himself or wipes his own rear end without getting any on the walls are going to come back come election time regardless of whatever he does. It's like the types that "forgot" about the pussy grabbing comments when in reality they didn't really care but didn't want admit they were supporting those comments until they could be sure that other people didn't care either.
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:17 |
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Nevertheless, his floor is somewhere from 30%~35%. I doubt his approval will go much lower. His disapproval, however, technically has no ceiling
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:18 |
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boner confessor posted:i read plenty of long form articles but i'm not going to read one article chunked into 30 little tiny sections. twitter is for jokes and blurbs not long complex thoughts I agree, but we are olds so
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:19 |
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Pollyanna posted:Nevertheless, his floor is somewhere from 30%~35%. I doubt his approval will go much lower. His disapproval, however, technically has no ceiling His ceiling would be 70%~65% with those numbers.
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:20 |
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Pollyanna posted:Nevertheless, his floor is somewhere from 30%~35%. I doubt his approval will go much lower. His disapproval, however, technically has no ceiling I think we're gonna see him dip into the 20s, and it won't be long. My pessimism has been melting steadily as the mattering has continued. The investigation will progress, and he is actually guilty, and of more things than we know. So he will do crazier and crazier and more unacceptable things, and his approval will plummet. People give him bumps for poo poo like this but they never last. It's just 'oh, something happened in the news, yes I am a dutiful republican' responses.
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:22 |
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TheScott2K posted:A lot of unathletic Congresscritters sweating this poo poo now I would unironically love the game getting the full ESPN treatment in the future. It's at the Nats' stadium already, all the tech and facilities are there, just swing the staff in and have them work up some graphics. Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA-2B) BA: .201 1 - 4 (single) COOK: Safe Dem
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:23 |
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Pollyanna posted:Nevertheless, his floor is somewhere from 30%~35%. I doubt his approval will go much lower. His disapproval, however, technically has no ceiling Someone posted this a while back but I only recently got around to reading it. A South Korean talks about the scandal that got Park kicked out of office: http://askakorean.blogspot.ca/2016/12/the-lessons-of-choi-soon-sil-scandal.html?m=1 quote:Trump boasted that he would maintain his support even if he killed someone in the middle of New York city. Park Geun-hye had something similar—a “concrete floor” that supported her no matter what she did. No matter how badly Park Geun-hye performed as the president, the “concrete floor” never let her fall below 30 percent approval rating. Those who belonged to the “concrete floor” only consumed right-wing newspapers and cable TV news, and believed the ridiculous rumors about liberal politicians spread through conservative chat rooms, about how they were North Korean shills bent on bringing communism to South Korea. (My personal favorite? According to the rumors, Moon Jae-in is secretly hoarding 200 tons of gold bars that he stole from an innocent conservative man. As a frame of reference, the Bank of Korea has slightly more than 100 tons of gold.) It goes on to explain that last sentence. I don't know if this is the right scandal to completely undermine Trump's appeal, but it's not impossible for him to collapse completely
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:24 |
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Fun fact: Trump isn't the lowest approved western leader right now. Step forward the Strong and Stable Theresa May: https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/875347278596366336
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:25 |
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Skex posted: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. The story of Islamic extremism and terrorism in Algeria is an apt anology for this. Paraphrasing from what I recall when I learned about it in the early 00s: -Algeria has a growing extreme Islamist movement. There are Islamist parties and are potentially poised to win elections and promise that if they win there will not be any more elections as the will of God is not decided by democracy -Alegerian state security grows nervous and as a result infilitrates these Islamist groups -Algerian undercover agents encourage more extreme thinking, in hopes that a more radical message will decrease their popularity -Islamist parties become more extreme, start blowing up "secularists" -Algerian society reacts in horror, political gains dry up -Islamist groups continue to radicalize -Islamist parties now target anyone who isn't Islamic -More horror from Algerian public -Islamist groups continue to radicalize, splinter groups start forming -Islamist parties now target anyone not actively advocating for Islamic Revolution -Public is generally fed up with this now, recruiting for these terrorist groups drops precipitiously -The radicalize->expand target list->lose popularity cycle continues In the end the budding Islamic extremist movement in Algeria ended with a bunch of groups pushed out of society, focusing more on attacking each other than achieving their objectives. Their increasing radicalization and inability to accept any viewpoint other than their own isolated them from the rest of society and eventually resulted in them destroying themselves. IMO, the same stuff is happening in American politics, it's just moving a lot slower.
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:30 |
Teddybear posted:Fun fact: Trump isn't the lowest approved western leader right now. Step forward the Strong and Stable Theresa May: Someone check up on Jim Messina.
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:32 |
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A thought experiment that I'm sure has come up before but is worth considering: Assuming Trump somehow doesn't get nailed with obstruction and refuses to resign, and he gets obliterated in the 2020 election, does he give up the seat or does he try to claim some sort of fraud in the election to hold onto power? I just can't see Trump willingly doing a peaceful transition of power.
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:32 |
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Ogmius815 posted:See if you make up words that don't mean anything and write too goddamn much there's a certain class of people who will think you are smart. See also: Eripsa, Heidegger. There are a substantial number of people in D&D with severe lack of understanding how people with learning differences work. I realize this is a large category " learning differences" but I've seen some really dumb takes. Working on an OP.
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:34 |
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So, uh, Ben Sasse is a pretty loving weird dude, turns out:The Outline posted:Ben Sasse is a Millennial-bashing baby
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:35 |
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CascadeBeta posted:A thought experiment that I'm sure has come up before but is worth considering: Assuming Trump somehow doesn't get nailed with obstruction and refuses to resign, and he gets obliterated in the 2020 election, does he give up the seat or does he try to claim some sort of fraud in the election to hold onto power? I just can't see Trump willingly doing a peaceful transition of power. Trump will be so god drat happy to be done with this poo poo after four years
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:35 |
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Ogmius815 posted:See if you make up words that don't mean anything and write too goddamn much there's a certain class of people who will think you are smart. See also: Eripsa, Heidegger. Oh god, this, everywhere
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:36 |
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Ruh-Roh!quote:BREAKING: TRUMP TRIED TO CONVINCE NSA CHIEF TO ABSOLVE HIM OF ANY RUSSIAN COLLUSION
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:38 |
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CascadeBeta posted:A thought experiment that I'm sure has come up before but is worth considering: Assuming Trump somehow doesn't get nailed with obstruction and refuses to resign, and he gets obliterated in the 2020 election, does he give up the seat or does he try to claim some sort of fraud in the election to hold onto power? I just can't see Trump willingly doing a peaceful transition of power. I've been saying this since November. I simply can't see him admitting he was beaten in an election and doing the right thing.
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:39 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Ruh-Roh! It's okay. He's just new to this.
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:40 |
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Did anyone actually think that Eripsa was smart?
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:40 |
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FizFashizzle posted:Goon Project?!?!?! Tell me if you need some strategic planning, and I'm your gal.
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:42 |
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CascadeBeta posted:A thought experiment that I'm sure has come up before but is worth considering: Assuming Trump somehow doesn't get nailed with obstruction and refuses to resign, and he gets obliterated in the 2020 election, does he give up the seat or does he try to claim some sort of fraud in the election to hold onto power? I just can't see Trump willingly doing a peaceful transition of power. So, what, he's just going to lock himself in the Oval Office? Who do you really think is going to support him doing this? I have a hard time believing the police/secret service wouldn't just throw him out, let alone, say, the military turning on its own country.
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:44 |
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Party Plane Jones posted:
Otto Warmbier should have a good perspective on gaining strength of character from weakness from a neuromuscular disease. Let's ask him.
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:45 |
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B B posted:So, uh, Ben Sasse is a pretty loving weird dude, turns out: I, no-poo poo, had the blood of the first deer I killed when I was a teenager, rubbed all over my face by a couple of older cousins. It's why that was the last time I ever went hunting.
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:45 |
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I agree with Ben Sasse that a cross country road trip is a fantastic idea for a vacation if you can stand the people who come with you
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# ? Jun 15, 2017 18:45 |