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Nebakenezzer posted:Rudolf Hess and Joseph Goebbels would make an awful/hilarious choice for a "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" remake Ve had two bags of amfetamin, seventy-five pellets of more amfetamin, five sheets of minature swastikas, a salt shaker half full of amfetamin, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, blitzers, funnies...
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SplitSoul posted:Ve had two bags of amfetamin, seventy-five pellets of more amfetamin, five sheets of minature swastikas, a salt shaker half full of amfetamin, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, blitzers, funnies... Ve were somewhere around Stalingrad on the edge of the Eastern Front when the Red Army began to take hold.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Surely though FOX news will blame The difference between Trump and Romney or McCain is 2-3 million marginal voters who turned out for Trump, out of his 63 million total voters. They turned out for him largely because he's promised to make their lives better, and they don't have to admit that they've been conned to not turn out to vote in 2020 (or 2018 for that matter). It could be as simple as "Trump underestimated how powerful The Swamp was and he can't drain it" or "Trump was corrupted by The Washington Establishment" or "Trump's allies sold him out" or whatever other rationalization they have for him not doing what he promised. If he fails to deliver for those voters, it'll be 2008 Obama vs. 2012 Obama, only with Trump having far fewer voters that he can afford to lose.
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Business Gorillas posted:Mods give me a sixer with this as the reason tia you're welcome
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logikv9 posted:you're welcome  this made me laugh way too hard for some reason.
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This makes me want to be a bureaucrat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIYfiRyPi3o&t=138s
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That's a known risk for Americans who watch Yes Minister. The slow dawning realization of "wait, wait...so they have people...whose job it is...to know how to do things right?  "
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Doc Hawkins posted:That's a known risk for Americans who watch Yes Minister. The slow dawning realization of "wait, wait...so they have people...whose job it is...to know how to do things right? I've only seen clips so far and it's so gooood My favorite is this clip which both beautifully demonstrates the socratic method and expertly explains 'Salami Tactics' (like how Putin invaded Ukraine): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxbFk4viTSQ
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yes minister / yes prime minister was written by one left wing guy and one right wing guy, with the right wing perspective being that the undemocratic elitist civil service establishment was too powerful there's a reason Thatcher loved it
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Doctor Spaceman posted:yes minister / yes prime minister was written by one left wing guy and one right wing guy, with the right wing perspective being that the undemocratic elitist civil service establishment was too powerful As an American, I'm confused Is there any real ideology going on in Britian's civil service? I'd think the politicians would mostly ignore them, the same way ours mostly ignore federal employees
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Dreddout posted:As an American, I'm confused lots of conservatives (across many countries) are quite happy to weaken the bureaucracy; think of why Trump leaving a huge number of appointments empty, for example the modern idea of the deep state isn't a million miles from how the civil service is portrayed in the show
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Doctor Spaceman posted:lots of conservatives (across many countries) are quite happy to weaken the bureaucracy; think of why Trump leaving a huge number of appointments empty, for example i thinkn its because he's an idiot rather than any ideological reason
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Jose posted:i thinkn its because he's an idiot rather than any ideological reason "they don't do anything important and I don't want people I can't control in positions of nominal power" covers both bases Thatcher wrote some loving awful Yes Minister fanfic and then got the actual actors to perform it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwaX_DgHZkM
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Jose posted:i thinkn its because he's an idiot rather than any ideological reason I think Trump believes the propaganda, and the propaganda's written by these guys: 
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reagan and thatcher broke the brains of two whole generations
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Jose posted:i thinkn its because he's an idiot rather than any ideological reason also possibly (in part) because nobody wants to work in the donald trump administration
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I've never met a government worker here in Europe who wasn't left wing.
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A Handed Missus posted:
ah, good to see it wasn't terrorism, just a lone wolf
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oliwan posted:ah, good to see it wasn't terrorism, just a lone wolf I know you were really proud of that line but they call it terrorism in the first column
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Hot Times take: This attack could have been prevented if wed stopped all the eastern Europeans coming here and taking the jobs.
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walgreenslatino posted:I know you were really proud of that line but they call it terrorism in the first column headlines and columns are the same thing
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Accretionist posted:I think Trump believes the propaganda, and the propaganda's written by these guys: what we didn't know is that he wanted big government out of OUR VAPING RIGHTS
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oliwan posted:ah, good to see it wasn't terrorism, just a lone wolf If he wasn't part of a larger terrorist group, then it was a lone wolf attack. That's what that term means
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Doctor Spaceman posted:lots of conservatives (across many countries) are quite happy to weaken the bureaucracy; think of why Trump leaving a huge number of appointments empty, for example The deep state is what Trump and Bannondorf whine about when they can't do whatever they want because it'd be illegal and against 100 years of legal precedent I mean I know what you are saying; there's just a part of me that has to point this out that in one sense at least, the "deep state" is something morons blame for their failures, a made up entity.
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And it's an existing term. Deep State describes a state-within-a-state (with military/intelligence connotations) which either doesn't or doesn't really answer to civilian government. Turkey, Pakistan and the USSR are/were prime examples of states with robust Deep States. Trump & Co. are basically just using it to mean, "We're not an incompetent administration fighting against how things normally work, experiencing the resistance of the established process. We're experience the resistance of Obama and his people!"
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Accretionist posted:And it's an existing term. Interesting. I didn't know 'deep state' had respectable roots. It does amuse me though with Trump etc because CULTURE OF RESPONSIBILITY IN ACTION - our incompetence is other people's fault
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logikv9 posted:what we didn't know is that he wanted big government out of OUR VAPING RIGHTS see that liquid flooding the city? it's e-juice
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I don't think I'll ever not laugh at one of those
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