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Boon posted:Slow news weekend, so I'm going to repost this Iron Stache video because it's honeslty such a good loving ad. That needs to be the national D message (notice it does not call him a D). Dems need more of this. More candidates like this. More message like this. More, more more. 
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skylined! posted:iron stache is funded by the dccc and tweeted an invite to Louise mensch yesterday Well that second bit is disconcerting but he's at least way loving closer to the mark than anything they've pushed in ages so I'll take it.
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Boon posted:Slow news weekend, so I'm going to repost this Iron Stache video because it's honeslty such a good loving ad. That needs to be the national D message (notice it does not call him a D). This is very good. Now compare it with this and let's discuss the differences.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Welcome to the Divided States of Apathetica. It reminded you of some poo poo that didn't happen?
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empty whippet box posted:It reminded you of some poo poo that didn't happen? Empty promises that could never be fulfilled because of bureaucratic red tape and established doctrines both legal and quasi-legal that the candidate didn't understand or *want* to understand? Yes.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:The left killed his dad, and now he's out for revenge. Coming to a conservative theater near you. He is:Berniebro Butcher Berniebros and conservatives are allies of convenience. Democrats are a waste unless they embrace the dumb socialist strawman Reagan created.
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Crabtree posted:Right, but China has a deeper problem that nukes wouldn't solve to subjugate the US - they want our fertile land because they're already building too many ghost towns to properly farm to feed themselves. China would probably wait until state split up and try to weasel their way into buying us out when we firesale our own country to afford more tax breaks for people that have fled to be oligarchs in Russia or the EU. China is far, far more interested in the Russian Far East. Russia has a significant amount of under-utilized medium-quality soil that the Chinese would love to get their hands on. Russia is actually mostly incapable of defending the entirety of its border and any resource war for China would likely start there. http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=82969&page=1
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enraged_camel posted:This is very good. loving lol, if he'd done some comedy tropes in there like typing for way too long and then it just saying "lol" or typing like twice and it being a max char tweet... and then at the end he just tosses the phone leisurely into the "Karen Handle Memorial Government Phone Disposal Bin" and then putting a corn cob pipe in his mouth and popping up one eyebrow looking dapper as gently caress. I should write campaign ads for youngs.
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enraged_camel posted:This is very good. Seriously? Christ.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:With the boomers dying out the boogie man factor for terms like Socialism has been dying with them. Hmm. Actually you may be right. Any studies on socialism's acceptance versus age groups anyone have handy?
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Pembroke Fuse posted:China is far, far more interested in the Russian Far East. Russia has a significant amount of under-utilized medium-quality soil that the Chinese would love to get their hands on. Russia is actually mostly incapable of defending the entirety of its border and any resource war for China would likely start there. http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=82969&page=1 Yep, there's a reason why when push comes to shove (i.e. Sino-Soviet split) China and Russia won't be friends. The U.S. and China may be strategic competitors, but not having a land border significantly reduces the chance for conflict. China and Russia have an incredibly long land border and quite a bit of bad blood over the last 200 years. I'm sure there's a general or two in the PLA that would like Vladivostok back.
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Pembroke Fuse posted:China is far, far more interested in the Russian Far East. Russia has a significant amount of under-utilized medium-quality soil that the Chinese would love to get their hands on. Russia is actually mostly incapable of defending the entirety of its border and any resource war for China would likely start there. http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=82969&page=1 Oh goody, a literal Tom Clancy plot.
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mynnna posted:Oh goody, a literal Tom Clancy plot. If anything, China would be more interested in the vast tracts of virgin, arable, naturally-fertilized (lol methane) farmland and oil fields that are about to open up under the permafrost in the "Middle of loving Nowhere" part of Russia. And that's pretty much a reiteration of the OP. I should sleep. =/ BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Jun 25, 2017 |
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mynnna posted:Oh goody, a literal Tom Clancy plot. Not sure how to interpret this comment, but more context (and perhaps less alarmist interpretation) is provided here: http://thediplomat.com/2016/01/russia-china-and-the-far-east-question/
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Pembroke Fuse posted:China is far, far more interested in the Russian Far East. Russia has a significant amount of under-utilized medium-quality soil that the Chinese would love to get their hands on. Russia is actually mostly incapable of defending the entirety of its border and any resource war for China would likely start there. http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=82969&page=1 No country that has nukes needs to "defend the entirety of their border."
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enraged_camel posted:No country that has nukes needs to "defend the entirety of their border." Russia sure seems to think so. Why do you think they're in Ukraine and Ossetia? Or why they've always desired buffer states?
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BIG HEADLINE posted:China's stockpile is much larger than estimated I don't think this is true. Their breakout ability is huge, but their stockpile is almost certainly where estimates put it. 
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Young Freud posted:Russia sure seems to think so. Why do you think they're in Ukraine and Ossetia? Or why they've always desired buffer states?
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enraged_camel posted:No country that has nukes needs to "defend the entirety of their border." This is true. I guess I should have phrased my comment as "Russia doesn't have the resources to police the entirety of its land border". I don't know what the rate of current illegal immigration into Russia from China is (or vice versa), and figures range by many orders of magnitude, but it can't be a really small problem. I don't think that China is going to start a nuclear war with Russia anytime in the foreseeable future, but if if a war over land and resources would break out, it would be likelier between Russia/China than US/China as some other poster seemed to suggest. I guess in the broadest sense, any nuclear conflict between any of the major powers would probably draw in the other ones soon enough, so it's unlikely that the concept of "localized" nuclear war has any serious merit.
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What's the argument from voters that are pro AHCA? Just that it is not Obamacare? Is that really all it is? I saw that Vox linked article from a few pages back discussing Fox News coverage of the AHCA as basically taking a dump on Obamacare vs. arguing why the AHCA is actually better and it got me wondering. Like, when I think healthcare, I think quality improvement in access to and service level of health services. Is that not a shared metric? What is the AHCA going to do better than Obamacare regarding health services?
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Rip Testes posted:What's the argument from voters that are pro AHCA? Just that it is not Obamacare? Is that really all it is? I saw that Vox linked article from a few pages back discussing Fox News coverage of the AHCA as basically taking a dump on Obamacare vs. arguing why the AHCA is actually better and it got me wondering. Like, when I think healthcare, I think quality improvement in access to and service level of health services. Is that not a shared metric? What is the AHCA going to do better than Obamacare regarding health services? When you start from the position that government spending is ipso facto immoral, anything that cuts anything is good. Then you hope that doesn't collide with your lived experience and if it does well maybe the only moral spending is my spending.
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Rip Testes posted:What's the argument from voters that are pro AHCA? Just that it is not Obamacare? Is that really all it is? I saw that Vox linked article from a few pages back discussing Fox News coverage of the AHCA as basically taking a dump on Obamacare vs. arguing why the AHCA is actually better and it got me wondering. Like, when I think healthcare, I think quality improvement in access to and service level of health services. Is that not a shared metric? What is the AHCA going to do better than Obamacare regarding health services? It's not Obamacare. It makes poor (minority) people suffer. They flat out don't believe anyone saying the plans bad. Fake News!
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Young Freud posted:Russia sure seems to think so. Why do you think they're in Ukraine and Ossetia? Or why they've always desired buffer states? Russia's fear isn't so much that the U.S. (or China) is going to invade, as much as that it will be encircled, dominated economically, and eventually dismantled, as many Russians feel the country was in the 90's. Their (misguided) belief is that the way to head this off is reasserting control over former client states.
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It's the BCRA now. And what it does is gut the poo poo out of Medicaid and therefore save precious taxpayer dollars so that they can be invested (by rich people) and spur growth (for rich people's investments).
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Rip Testes posted:What's the argument from voters that are pro AHCA? Just that it is not Obamacare? Is that really all it is? I saw that Vox linked article from a few pages back discussing Fox News coverage of the AHCA as basically taking a dump on Obamacare vs. arguing why the AHCA is actually better and it got me wondering. Like, when I think healthcare, I think quality improvement in access to and service level of health services. Is that not a shared metric? What is the AHCA going to do better than Obamacare regarding health services?
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tetrapyloctomy posted:It's the BCRA now. And what it does is gut the poo poo out of Medicaid and therefore save precious taxpayer dollars so that they can be invested (by rich people) and spur growth (for rich people's investments). Tax payer dollars saved only if you make over 250k or some poo poo. Trumpers won't see gently caress all of that.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:It's the BCRA now. And what it does is gut the poo poo out of Medicaid and therefore save precious taxpayer dollars so that they can be invested (by rich people) and spur growth (for rich people's investments). I simply sarcasm edit
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Mustached Demon posted:Tax payer dollars saved only if you make over 250k or some poo poo. Trumpers won't see gently caress all of that. Of course the bulk of them won't. But when has that ever mattered? "Money saved will be cycled back into the economy in order to create the jobs that Democrats have been strangling for the last eight years. Good jobs for hardworking middle-class workers, back where they should be: America." Edit: You're also discounting the number of people who aren't full-on MAGA idiots, but who still vote based on the central tenets of GOVERNMENT SPENDING IS BAD SPENDING and TAXATION IS THEFT. Right now my own goddamned professional organization can't take a public stand against the pile of filth that is this legislation because some key players think Medicaid is a waste of money. THESE ARE EMERGENCY loving PHYSICIANS, AND THEY THINK GUTTING MEDICAID IS A-OKAY. And why? Because Medicaid reimburses poorly they frame it as "inefficient" (read: bad for my compensation), and because federal taxes reduce their paycheck. Period. tetrapyloctomy fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Jun 25, 2017 |
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Raylen posted:I simply But think of how many jobs that mega-yacht will create, and how much manufacturing is required to make a mega-yacht. Why, if we keep cutting taxes on the rich we could see outstanding job growth in the up and coming "servant on a mega-yacht" market.
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Majorian posted:Russia's fear isn't so much that the U.S. (or China) is going to invade, as much as that it will be encircled, dominated economically, and eventually dismantled, as many Russians feel the country was in the 90's. Their (misguided) belief is that the way to head this off is reasserting control over former client states. Raylen posted:I simply How these mesh together is that Russia today is how the end game of that plays out. Even the billionaire kleptocrats themselves, once they've hollowed and burned the country from within, will blame foreigners and moral decay for their nation becoming a shadow of its former glory.
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No joke if the rich actually did buy megayachts it would actually be good, but they don't, they just hoard it in hedge funds or sleep on top of it like lovely dragons
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Mustached Demon posted:Tax payer dollars saved only if you make over 250k or some poo poo. Trumpers won't see gently caress all of that. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/model-estimates/distribution-affordable-care-act-taxes-dec-2016/t16-0310-repeal-38-percent-net Incomes between 200k-500k would see savings in the hundreds. It doesn't really get going until .1% earners, 165k in savings.
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:No joke if the rich actually did buy megayachts it would actually be good, but they don't, they just hoard it in hedge funds or sleep on top of it like lovely dragons High tax rate but lots and lots of tax writeoffs for consumer spending seems like it could fix this.
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