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Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Horseshoe theory posted:

Didn't an airplane take out most of the senior Polish government guys a few years ago?

an airplane almost took out Nigel Farage but you see how that worked out

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ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

Lastgirl posted:

ah yes, an airplane is the most effective way to topple a government

many other methods surely, but nothing says it like an airplane

Don't be silly. you need two

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!
I wouldnt be surprised if Bernie stopped time and took an airplane out of the sky and pulled a Roda Rora! on his political enemies

the man is a menace

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
"I get paid more because I'm better than you" - the democratic party

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar

Get me photos of Bernie Sanders!

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

ThndrShk2k posted:


Get me photos of Bernie Sanders!

Jonathan capehart as spiderdem just encountered his greatest villain

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
it feels like the Democratic Party wants something deleterious to American health care -be it the ahca or bcra or some asinine compromise bill- to pass so they can run on 'bringing back Obamacare' or something worse so that they don't actually have to think up anything offensive to their bastard donors

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007
Probation
Can't post for 6 hours!

Lastgirl posted:

ah yes, an airplane is the most effective way to topple a government

many other methods surely, but nothing says it like an airplane

I'm p sure Tom Clancy wrote a book where some ultra nationalist Japanese guy kamikazes into the Capitol making Clancy's self insert president

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar

Taintrunner posted:

Jonathan capehart as spiderdem just encountered his greatest villain
[Sanders the] Spy Dem-Man is a menace!

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

ThndrShk2k posted:

[Sanders the] Spy Dem-Man is a menace!


the Bern Goblin must be stopped!

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

Raskolnikov38 posted:

I'm p sure Tom Clancy wrote a book where some ultra nationalist Japanese guy kamikazes into the Capitol making Clancy's self insert president

Yeah that's how Debt of Honor ended, which was more indication that Clancy had been driven (more) insane by the end of the Cold War and lack of an ever-present Soviet adversary.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Yeah that's how Debt of Honor ended, which was more indication that Clancy had been driven (more) insane by the end of the Cold War and lack of an ever-present Soviet adversary.

Clancy was a classic case of stolen valor especially how he would always wander around wearing military and how all his book had ultra-heroic military types.

He basically made the book versions of the nazi heroic sniper film from Inglorious Bastards.

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
did Tom Clancy die

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

GalacticAcid posted:

did Tom Clancy die

Yeah, a few years ago.

etalian posted:

Clancy was a classic case of stolen valor especially how he would always wander around wearing military and how all his book had ultra-heroic military types.

He basically made the book versions of the nazi heroic sniper film from Inglorious Bastards.

His earlier Cold War ones are at least passably interesting and decently written. Everything from Sum of All Fears on is, at best, staggering unbalanced and choked with unreasonable levels of hero worship and jingoism.

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
Lol good

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

Wanna say Kelly even did a cartoon on it.

Turdfuzz
Jul 23, 2008

Yinlock posted:

I feel like there IS a point to be made about people building bernie up into this divine like figure

but uh the answer is not triple down on hating him until you've convinced yourself he's literally hitler

like every prez canddidate ever who gets far enough gets a weirdo following u fucken ding dong
goddamn yinlock
u dumb rear end in a top hat

Turdfuzz
Jul 23, 2008

yaaaaaassss abuela kill me

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Yeah, a few years ago.

He had estate sale which included lots of stolen valor artifacts.

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
guy in the train station today with a handcuffed briefcase claiming he was a 7 star general I nearly died laughing at how hard he was stealing valor

Feldegast42
Oct 29, 2011

COMMENCE THE RITE OF SHITPOSTING


Holy poo poo that got me to laugh

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007
Probation
Can't post for 6 hours!

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Yeah, a few years ago.


His earlier Cold War ones are at least passably interesting and decently written. Everything from Sum of All Fears on is, at best, staggering unbalanced and choked with unreasonable levels of hero worship and jingoism.

I really liked his WW3 novel despite everything relating to the Iceland plot

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Feldegast42 posted:

Holy poo poo that got me to laugh

How long until Bernie starts taking pilot lessons in Florida?

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


Yinlock posted:

I feel like there IS a point to be made about people building bernie up into this divine like figure

is this even a thing or is it just the fever dreams of shills? people have cooled down a lot on bernie since 11/9. even s4p is mostly posting news about progressive candidates nowadays

I don't care what happens with bernie anymore and I'm far from unique with this. I want more leftists in every single election, bernie was just a start

ate shit on live tv
Feb 15, 2004

by Azathoth
I care about bernie because he is the only senator, or even elected official, that is consistently advocating for Single Payer without acting like "saving the ACA" is somehow opposed to it.

*meme with two levers*
One labeled "Save the ACA" the other labeled "advocate for single payer"

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
s4p self-purged because the crazies got upset that the mods banned memes and thus lead to his loss

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Taintrunner posted:

Jonathan capehart as spiderdem just encountered his greatest villain

Bruce Rappaport, mild mannered maple syrup distributor by day

Bernieman by night, dispensing socialist vigilantism

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

I care about bernie because he is the only senator, or even elected official, that is consistently advocating for Single Payer without acting like "saving the ACA" is somehow opposed to it.

*meme with two levers*
One labeled "Save the ACA" the other labeled "advocate for single payer"

The ACA is just a lovely bandaid, which will hopefully be replaced someday by UHC or single player.

Of course the whole country in general is loving stupid especially conservative types. They would rather have the current wasteful system than recognize single payer is a solution that has already worked in other capitalist countries.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
https://twitter.com/kibblesmith/status/886655000981770240

ate shit on live tv
Feb 15, 2004

by Azathoth

etalian posted:

The ACA is just a lovely bandaid, which will hopefully be replaced someday by UHC or single player.

Of course the whole country in general is loving stupid especially conservative types. They would rather have the current wasteful system than recognize single payer is a solution that has already worked in other capitalist countries.

I mean yea. The ACA is poo poo from a butt, but advocating for Single Payer isn't opposed to preserving the ACA which despite being awful, is still better then literally nothing.

Condiv
May 7, 2008

Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod


etalian posted:

The ACA is just a lovely bandaid, which will hopefully be replaced someday by UHC or single player.

Of course the whole country in general is loving stupid especially conservative types. They would rather have the current wasteful system than recognize single payer is a solution that has already worked in other capitalist countries.

remember when the supremely disappointing aca was passed, and we were assured it was ok cause it was jsut a first step

:lol: now it's here forever

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

etalian posted:

The fact that contract work is becoming so common is another sign that the whole US economy is really hosed up in terms of worker's rights.

nah, it really just demonstrates that the DoL is lacking in the will or the resources to prosecute this stuff

misclassifying workers as 1099s isn't allowed, but companies can get away with blatantly illegal poo poo anyway, the government doesn't get involved unless someone reports it and then it can sit in court for years

Vox Nihili posted:

im glad bernie sanders created the left wing whole cloth as an act of pure will

no, don't you see

in those people's world, the Democrats were left wing until radical socialist Bernie Sanders tricked college kids into thinking that only people with his personal seal of approval could be called the left

that's why lanyards get really sour when Bernie says a Dem isn't progressive. to them, "progressive" and "liberal" are synonyms, and they think anyone to the left of Kasich is a progressive and a lefty

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

anime was right posted:

this is a really puzzling paragraph from the nyt:

"Still, Democrats acknowledge that there is a palpable appetite on the left for comprehensive government health care. A number of the party’s potential 2020 presidential contenders, including Senators Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California, have signaled support for some version of universal government care, though neither Mr. Booker nor Ms. Harris has endorsed the single-payer proposal in his or her home state."

that is some weird-rear end vague doublespeak for the two candidates most likely being propped up by wall st, go figure
it's called lip service

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

Willa Rogers posted:

bad dems hijacked "universal care" to mean "forced to purchase overpriced private insurance" so they can both gently caress off.
universal healthcare to dems means 30 million americans without health coverage. the others get copays and deductibles and prescriptions so high they actively avoid healthcare when possible.

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

point 4 seems to contradict the narrative that bernie's young supporter demographic was just aggressive college frat boys

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

I mean yea. The ACA is poo poo from a butt, but advocating for Single Payer isn't opposed to preserving the ACA which despite being awful, is still better then literally nothing.

In my view the Medicaid expansion showed how effective single pay would be.

Just do Medicare for all, not mention how countries like Taiwain used Medicare as a model when they developed their own single payer system.

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

logikv9 posted:

s4p self-purged because the crazies got upset that the mods banned memes and thus lead to his loss

but memes are magic

Turdfuzz
Jul 23, 2008

like it or not memes are the future

Agnosticnixie
Jan 6, 2015
It's kinda great, like half of Bernie's supporters are ready to go, Tarpeianically "remember that Bernie is a compromise" while the Clinton diehards are still on their "Khaleesi!" overdose but it's the left of the dems that's got the personality cult issue.

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Mia Wasikowska
Oct 7, 2006

memes are the dna of the soul

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