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Gorilla Salad posted:Whoah, d you have a link on that "Trump winning EVERY close State in 2016 by incredibly small margins" because that suspicious as all hell. Because this quote quote:Ask any statistician and they’ll tell you that a reasonable distribution of the results would have been Trump winning one of the states by one percent, won one of them by perhaps three percent, won one of them by two percent, lost one of them by one percent, or something along those lines. But instead the voting tallies looked startlingly different from any natural distribution. In fact they looked startlingly the same.
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:He was born in the 70s, so a genXer. It sucks being the middle generation, so all he's got left is being useless and complaining about millenials not just taking it up the rear end from baby boomers like they did, and liking it too. Please don't let one idiot troll push the idea that everyone from his generation shares his stupidity. I don't know anyone from Gen X (mid to late '60s births) who talks poo poo about millennials. If anything we identify with many of the problems they've faced.
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Simplex posted:Because this quote Facts are useless. Trump won every one of those states by exactly one percent, and the GOP also won the recent two elections by one percent. Furthermore,
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Hellblazer187 posted:Yeah, Bill Gates owns. Saying the rich should pay more taxes to help the poor, and saying that the Kochs are cancer, isn't the same as "hating the rich." It's dumb to hate the rich. The Bill and Melinda gates foundation has massively funded the complete eradication of polio in India, hard at work in other countries. You can hate on the operating system, but here's a couple rich people who won't be shitballs when they're alive, and then think that building a university and a couple of musems will clear the board... MISTER CARNEGIE... KickerOfMice fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Jun 25, 2017 |
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OctaMurk posted:Facts are useless. Trump won every one of those states by exactly one percent, and the GOP also won the recent two elections by one percent. Furthermore, Also even if every state was won by the same percentage what does that mean? It's not like the states all have the same population, 1% for Florida is a much larger number of votes than 1% of Wisconsin.
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Jun 25, 2017 19:48
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KickerOfMice posted:The Bill and Melinda gates foundation has massively funded the complete eradication of polio in India, hard at work in other countries. You can hate on the operating system, but here's a couple rich people who won't be shitballs when they're alive, and then think that building a university and a couple of musems will clear the board... Carnegie figured out that real life morality works like a video game, and you can mistreat your workers and abuse the poor all you want as long as you earn enough morality points to get the Good End.
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Quorum posted:Carnegie figured out that real life morality works like a video game, and you can mistreat your workers and abuse the poor all you want as long as you earn enough morality points to get the Good End. Appropriately enough, rich people see morality as something that can be balanced like a bank account. Just deposit more good deeds and eventually you will get back on the moral side.
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Jun 25, 2017 19:55
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Potential BFF posted:A war with Iran would be such a profound clusterfuck that a sick little piece of my mind is intrigued at the prospect. The first antiship missile slamming into an oil tanker and the subsequent $10/gal gas would be a hell of a thing to behold. Well, if you want to see new ground broken in low approval ratings, $10/gallon for gas would do it.
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Jun 25, 2017 20:09
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I'm still kind of surprised at how little of a poo poo the world seems to be giving about the sauds basically going "remove this media company we don't like and become our vassal state or else" to Qatar I mean i know its normal for the world to roll over for the sauds but that seems a little extreme
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Jun 25, 2017 20:11
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Three weeks ago, I would have said that flipping voting machines by the Russian was the equivalent of birtherism, a conspiracy theory that people want to be true. But now we know that the Russians managed to do things not too far off, they managed to access voter information and attempt to alter it. So the election results being changed is now something that, while I don't think it is probable, is possible. It is something that can be reasonably extrapolated from the information we do have.
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Their progress certainly demands a response to make sure next time they aren't able to actually alter the votes. Which is why I support the DNC float the idea of running some obvious Putin crony in 2020, then the GOP will actually give a poo poo.
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The DNC should just ask Russia to hack the 2018 midterms. After all, it's not a crime!
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"Russia please hack the RNC" "To pieces"
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You guys really thought that if collusion was discovered it would change the actions of the Republicans in congress? lol
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Gorilla Salad posted:Whoah, d you have a link on that "Trump winning EVERY close State in 2016 by incredibly small margins" because that suspicious as all hell. EDIT: Take 2008, for example. Is it suspicious that New York, California, and Illinois are all within one percentage point of each other? Or howabout Florida, Ohio, and Virginia? It's not really all that surprising. HootTheOwl fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Jun 25, 2017 |
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Dick Trauma posted:Please don't let one idiot troll push the idea that everyone from his generation shares his stupidity. I don't know anyone from Gen X (mid to late '60s births) who talks poo poo about millennials. If anything we identify with many of the problems they've faced. You haven't been reading right-wing Gen X forums then, like the old Dan Carlin/now Martin Hash one, then. They loving despise "entitled spoiled millennials" just as much as their "Boomer parents", and are salivating at the idea that Post-Millennials may end up becoming Radical Traditionalists.
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Jun 25, 2017 20:39
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business hammocks posted:Appropriately enough, rich people see morality as something that can be balanced like a bank account. Just deposit more good deeds and eventually you will get back on the moral side. Funny you mention this, I was having a debate on healthcare with a republican making $220k+ a year and it basically came down to how many thousands of additional preventable deaths he was okay with for cuts and when he would care about them. quote:I value a life based on the contribution a person makes to society quote:We're trying to identify where these 2000 people are coming from and evaluate their contributions to society quote:I'd calculate it as assets - liabilities. The sum value of what you put out (value produce through your work, value you produce through "cultural productions" such as art or music, value produced in social groups (higher value assigned to leadership roles), etc). Then subtract what you take away from society (crimes, draw on public resources, environmental damage, etc)
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Google Butt posted:Funny you mention this, I was having a debate on healthcare with a republican making $220k+ a year and it basically came down to how many thousands of additional preventable deaths he was okay with for cuts and when he would care about them. Tell him you hope he has a mentally disabled child and a government agent chooses a random age to show up and shoot him in the head
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Google Butt posted:Funny you mention this, I was having a debate on healthcare with a republican making $220k+ a year and it basically came down to how many thousands of additional preventable deaths he was okay with for cuts and when he would care about them. Did you point out that by those metrics (especially crimes, environmental damage and contribution to society), most people in the upper tax brackets are actively worthless?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:It's kinda funny how often I've asked doctors "how much will this cost?" and gotten only a confused stare back. There is pretty much no way to have any idea how much it will cost. If supplied a list by the hospital one may refer to what will be billed, but the actual payout is dependent first on confidential contracts with various insurance companies and then on the actual stipulations of the patient's policy. It's the worst setup ever for anyone except the insurance companies, which I know will come as a huge shock.
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Simplex posted:Because this quote Right, statisticians assuming that all events are independent are exactly the sort of statisticians that must have been consulting in finance industry during the lead up to 2008 crisis.
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Google Butt posted:Funny you mention this, I was having a debate on healthcare with a republican making $220k+ a year and it basically came down to how many thousands of additional preventable deaths he was okay with for cuts and when he would care about them. Human minds that operate within this set of rules utterly loving mystify me. quote:
This is how I imagine Patrick Bateman would think. That must just really be a terrible world to live in.
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Google Butt posted:Funny you mention this, I was having a debate on healthcare with a republican making $220k+ a year and it basically came down to how many thousands of additional preventable deaths he was okay with for cuts and when he would care about them. Conservatives are psychopaths.
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glowing-fish posted:Three weeks ago, I would have said that flipping voting machines by the Russian was the equivalent of birtherism, a conspiracy theory that people want to be true. I think this is something that people really need to temper their expectations on. Russia potentially tampering with election results is something that would rile a lot of people up and you could see a good deal of consensus across party lines that this is a bad thing. On the other hand, historically people tend not to give much of a gently caress about domestic tampering with election results as long as it benefits their party. So even if an investigation turns up evidence of vote tampering, how do you go about tying that tampering to the Kremlin, and not to a Republican election official in Georgia? Because one people may care about, the other they won't
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Conservatives are psychopaths. Absolutely. It was neat watching him deflect "You are in support of thousands of additional preventable deaths for a tax cut" over and over, though.
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Jun 25, 2017 20:58
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the palmer report has slightly less credibility than I, a tenured poster on the something awful forums, do
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You too can get an MBA and be the judge of life value.
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Google Butt posted:Absolutely. It was neat watching him deflect "You are in support of thousands of additional preventable deaths for a tax cut" over and over, though. The world would be a better place without him.
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Google Butt posted:Funny you mention this, I was having a debate on healthcare with a republican making $220k+ a year and it basically came down to how many thousands of additional preventable deaths he was okay with for cuts and when he would care about them. This guy's responses sound like he was born in the wrong time period. He's much more fit to be a plantation owner. Just insert the word 'negro' into his responses and they fit perfectly.
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Google Butt posted:Absolutely. It was neat watching him deflect "You are in support of thousands of additional preventable deaths for a tax cut" over and over, though.
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awesmoe posted:the palmer report has slightly less credibility than I, a tenured poster on the something awful forums, do Isn't the Palmer Report as credible as Louise Mensch?
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Forgall posted:Usually they just deny there are going to be any deaths. Ah! quote:And if you do support the left, you support x deaths from poverty because of the poorly-conceived economic policies. And poverty is the #1 risk factor for death.
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Google Butt posted:Funny you mention this, I was having a debate on healthcare with a republican making $220k+ a year and it basically came down to how many thousands of additional preventable deaths he was okay with for cuts and when he would care about them. please do this and report back, thank you
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Google Butt posted:Funny you mention this, I was having a debate on healthcare with a republican making $220k+ a year and it basically came down to how many thousands of additional preventable deaths he was okay with for cuts and when he would care about them. Your friend is a social darwinist nazi.
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I used to think all dogs were good dogs. Not anymore.
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Google Butt posted:Funny you mention this, I was having a debate on healthcare with a republican making $220k+ a year and it basically came down to how many thousands of additional preventable deaths he was okay with for cuts and when he would care about them. This is why it's hypocritical when the Republicans started talking about death panels when healthcare reformists bring up rationing of care. We already ration based on inequality but if you believe that if you can't afford coverage you don't deserve it then it suddenly becomes OK. This is especially hosed up and doesn't make sense when you start talking about this whole lifetime cap bullshit. But again, good luck getting through to people who have this mindset.
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this is one of my favorite tweets in a while https://twitter.com/GenXtremist/status/878799576425259008
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Mulaney Power Move posted:This is why it's hypocritical when the Republicans started talking about death panels when healthcare reformists bring up rationing of care. We already ration based on inequality but if you believe that if you can't afford coverage you don't deserve it then it suddenly becomes OK. This is especially hosed up and doesn't make sense when you start talking about this whole lifetime cap bullshit. But again, good luck getting through to people who have this mindset. He basically said that I don't understand the economics of it, lol.
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Google Butt posted:He basically said that I don't understand the economics of it, lol.
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