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JeffersonClay
Jun 17, 2003

by R. Guyovich

skylined! posted:

so does anyone want to take their best guess at why all of these Russians are releasing details of this meeting, other than maximum chaos from Putin

Dance, puppet!

It's one or the other and there's no downside for putin.

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Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010


I said it before, reality runs on irony now. Donald being a cuck fetishist and /t_d being forced to defend it is very likely imo.

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

yeah the hilarious thing is even if trump had been impeached less than 24 hours after being sworn in this would still have been a huge victory for russia

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


Mantis42 posted:

I said it before, reality runs on irony now. Donald being a cuck fetishist and /t_d being forced to defend it is very likely imo.

Agree.

And that one person already dropped that she was boning the head of security at Tiffany's there at Trump Tower.

Ague Proof
Jun 5, 2014

they told me
I was everything
I'm pretty sure one of his ex-wives cheated on him with the security guard, or that was the rumour anyway.

aware of dog
Nov 14, 2016

Ague Proof posted:

I'm pretty sure one of his ex-wives cheated on him with the security guard, or that was the rumour anyway.

That was Melania, if rumors are to be believed. Supposedly they were going to get divorced, but then Trump won the election.

empty whippet box
Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

This is the correct way to handle a lovely co-worker.

https://twitter.com/TimAeppel/status/885843636050677761

Texas continues to be terrible.

quote:


As a side note, reported that between the 2013-2014 school year there were forty Houston students investigated for using allegedly counterfeit money at lunch and that those investigated are disproportionately black and Hispanic.

Many of those students qualify for free school lunch and some of them could spend two to ten years behind bars.

Jaxyon
Mar 7, 2016
I’m just saying I would like to see a man beat a woman in a cage. Just to be sure.

What school-to-prison pipeline?

Crabtree
Oct 17, 2012

ARRRGH! Get that wallet out!
Everybody: Lowtax in a Pickle!
Pickle! Pickle! Pickle! Pickle!

Dinosaur Gum

Party Plane Jones posted:

https://twitter.com/nhbaptiste/status/885953685192404993

West Virginia should have been folded back into Virginia; god drat.

No, they'll only turn the state completely red. They dug themselves a coal coffin, let them be crushed in it.

Despera
Jun 6, 2011
In West Virginia the ticks are more cultured than the hicks

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Despera posted:

In West Virginia the ticks are more cultured than the hicks

Another hot take about the working class.

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
Hey, I found the worst pop-culture analogy article

https://twitter.com/pbump/status/885930001450754048

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

Trabisnikof posted:

Another hot take about the working class.

Eh if they vote in Captain Fat Stache....

Despera
Jun 6, 2011

Trabisnikof posted:

Another hot take about the working class.

Marx would have gone full capitalism now if the people in West Virginia were representative of the working class comrade.

Push El Burrito
May 9, 2006

Soiled Meat

Trabisnikof posted:

Another hot take about the working class.

*votes for man that literally went to jail for murdering them*

Please don't criticize these people!

highme
May 25, 2001


I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!


Oxxidation posted:

I just did a quick Google and learned that there is approximately $1.5 billion in $2 bills still currently in circulation. That's magical.

Casa Diablo, the Portland strip club notorious for being A) vegan & B) the place where the stripper that Corey Booker befriended on Twitter works, only gives $2 bills for change.

botany
Apr 27, 2013

by Lowtax

quote:

About half the homeless suffer from a mental illness and a third abuse either alcohol or drugs. You’d be crazy not to have a reflexive disgust of a population like that. Is that really so hard to get?

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/07/are-people-disgusted-by-the-homeless/

gently caress motherjones for giving that piece of poo poo a forum.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Push El Burrito posted:

*votes for man that literally went to jail for murdering them*

Please don't criticize these people!

Criticize their politics all you want but smugly talking about how uncultured they are is a perfect example of classism.

Herm yes, I wonder why people living in rural communities devastated by companies exporting wealth to the cities aren't as culture as urban elites.

Robot Hobo
May 18, 2002

robothobo.com

The Glumslinger posted:

Hey, I found the worst pop-culture analogy article
It may not be a good article, but earlier today when the total number of people in the meeting kept rising, I started to think of this entire election conspiracy as a really bad Ocean's Eleven reboot. They just kept adding people to the heist crew to fill in all the skills they needed... Except it turns out nobody but the Russian spies had any skills at all.

Heck Yes! Loam!
Nov 15, 2004

a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

Trabisnikof posted:

Another hot take about the working class.

White Knighting the stupid fuckers of West Virginia while pretending to support labor. Beautiful.

Hollismason
Jun 30, 2007
An alright dude.
What gets me about that story is that the school has a pen to check for counterfeits. Like they apparently get so much counterfeit currency they have to have a pen?


What is school lunch 1.50? Like are kids regularly coming in with 100 dollar bills and 20s to pay for school lunch?

highme
May 25, 2001


I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!


dwarf74 posted:


Until we logged into their system and paid that fifty loving cents we got calls and emails every. loving. day. For fifty cents.


My wife has gotten one or two calls a week for the last two years from my daughter's high school because her lunch balance is low. It's always been $0 and my daughter has not once eaten lunch on campus.

Hollismason
Jun 30, 2007
An alright dude.
Where was it at that they called a general assembly to shame the kids who owed money for food.

boner confessor
Apr 25, 2013

by R. Guyovich

Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

White Knighting the stupid fuckers of West Virginia while pretending to support labor. Beautiful.

i dont see how a guy saying he wants to run for senate but who has not actually done so is somehow an indictment on the people of west virgina but don't let that stop you from claiming they're all stupid while yourself pretending you care about the working class

i realize it's fun to poo poo on the rural poor but it's pretty transparently tasteless to wrap it up as leftist political posturing instead of just being spiteful

Despera
Jun 6, 2011
The people who are white knighting west virginians, have you ever been to the state? The state out of the 50 that supported Trump the most?

Push El Burrito
May 9, 2006

Soiled Meat
Well folks I'm off to the Appalachia ballet.


I grew up poor in Arkansas and am now doing ok in Arkansas which makes it ok for me to make fun of rural poor people.

Edit: Also if there's one thing that's worse than white southern poor folks it's white southern middle class folks in the suburbs who like to act like rednecks on the weekend before going back to their insurance jobs.

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


Well at least it produced the McElroy Brothers

Reik
Mar 8, 2004

Push El Burrito posted:

Well folks I'm off to the Appalachia ballet.


I grew up poor in Arkansas and am now doing ok in Arkansas which makes it ok for me to make fun of rural poor people.

It's always okay to make fun of rural poor people. What are they gonna do? They're poor.

Despera
Jun 6, 2011
These people still support coal after coal murdered their ancestors, destroyed the landscape and poisoned the water. The people who gave us "the war on coal" despite coal producing fewer jobs than Wendy's.

Timeless Appeal
May 28, 2006

Hollismason posted:

What gets me about that story is that the school has a pen to check for counterfeits. Like they apparently get so much counterfeit currency they have to have a pen?


What is school lunch 1.50? Like are kids regularly coming in with 100 dollar bills and 20s to pay for school lunch?
A lot of adults don't really carry cash around anymore and don't have extra bills just laying around the house. So when they give their kids money for school lunch they often just give them a twenty from the ATM.

boner confessor
Apr 25, 2013

by R. Guyovich

Push El Burrito posted:

I grew up poor in Arkansas and am now doing ok in Arkansas which makes it ok for me to make fun of rural poor people.

the funny thing is watching people who like to mock the rural poor do a sudden 180 when they realize the rural poor person is a person of color and they have to rebalance their proper leftist attitudes

sean10mm
Jun 29, 2005

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, MAD-2R World
Never seen this derail here before.

Despera
Jun 6, 2011

boner confessor posted:

the funny thing is watching people who like to mock the rural poor do a sudden 180 when they realize the rural poor person is a person of color and they have to rebalance their proper leftist attitudes

Yeah like Obama and his clinging remark. Oh wait.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Despera posted:

The people who are white knighting west virginians, have you ever been to the state? The state out of the 50 that supported Trump the most?

Indeed, the entire population is to blame for what 38% of the population did.



Despera posted:

These people still support coal after coal murdered their ancestors, destroyed the landscape and poisoned the water. The people who gave us "the war on coal" despite coal producing fewer jobs than Wendy's.

What alternatives do you have for those communities? Give up and move? Build a solar panel factory?

Push El Burrito
May 9, 2006

Soiled Meat

boner confessor posted:

the funny thing is watching people who like to mock the rural poor do a sudden 180 when they realize the rural poor person is a person of color and they have to rebalance their proper leftist attitudes

Yeah because people of color tend to vote for people who help them and get outvoted by white people who don't care how much they get hurt as long as the minorities get hurt more.

Bicyclops
Aug 27, 2004

*In an extremely thick Boston accent* Yarr, and those rural poor from West Virginia have wicked stupid accents!

Rodatose
Jul 8, 2008

corn, corn, corn

Despera posted:

Marx would have gone full capitalism now if the people in West Virginia were representative of the working class comrade.

do you know what the word lumpenprole means

there's a short section in the chapter about compulsory education in capital about how capitalism made a generation with a sub-population of physically and mentally "degenerated" brits.

e:
the point being marx lived in the time where the forces of progress were a lot more patriarchal and disdainful of cultural groups outside of their own. they wouldn't be uniquely appalled by west virginians. would probably call them wretches or unfortunates in their writing

Rodatose fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Jul 15, 2017

Sneakster
Jul 13, 2017

by R. Guyovich

Party Plane Jones posted:

West Virginia should have been folded back into Virginia; god drat.

West Virginia broke away from Virginia over slavery.

They also voted for the pinko in the democratic primary, and to the guy willing to pretend to pander to them in the general. Foolish as it is, they were voting in their own best interests, aside from the blatant lies about everything.

Fascists get into power when liberals suppress socialists. A lot of people here seem to think the political shift resulting from the southern strategy was a one way street.


Despera posted:

These people still support coal after coal murdered their ancestors, destroyed the landscape and poisoned the water. The people who gave us "the war on coal" despite coal producing fewer jobs than Wendy's.

I'm pretty sure they support any industry that pays enough to live on.

E:

Rodatose posted:

do you know what the word lumpenprole means

there's a short section in the chapter about compulsory education in capital about how capitalism made a generation with a sub-population of physically and mentally "degenerated" brits.

Don't forget Jews and Mexicans.

sean10mm
Jun 29, 2005

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, MAD-2R World
Trump's primary source of support was never the poor. Not in the primaries and not in the general election.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-mythology-of-trumps-working-class-support/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/05/its-time-to-bust-the-myth-most-trump-voters-were-not-working-class/

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Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe

Trabisnikof posted:

What alternatives do you have for those communities? Give up and move? Build a solar panel factory?

If they would rather die they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

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