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Feldegast42
Oct 29, 2011

COMMENCE THE RITE OF SHITPOSTING

Seyser Koze posted:

but radiation glows blue :confused:

Well that explains anime hair

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Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

That is the most important thing I've heard a Democratic* politician say in my lifetime

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


etalian posted:

Isn't strange how hippies became Hill folk later on in life?

most of them didn't. hippies were a subculture that got disporportionate attention, and a lot of their clothing fashions got picked up by mainstream college kids who were participating only temporarily before graduating into their office jobs.

most young people in the late 60s and early 70s were shitheads and continued to be shitheads as they aged into the boomers we know and love

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

The rallying cry of the late 60s was that William Calley did nothing wrong.

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

I'm free if i escape into my mind, Bernard tyvm

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Seyser Koze posted:

but radiation glows blue :confused:

i thought that was only chernkov radiation

Bear Retrieval Unit
Nov 5, 2009

Mudslide Experiment
radiation is green glow, blue glow is magic.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ6IHa9rH_k

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
You guys have seen this painting before



It's been on Christmas cards, it illustrates the traditional American Thanksgiving, it's chintzy Americana bullshit.

That painting is called Freedom From Want. It was part of a series of four paintings Norman Rockwell did to illustrate a speech given by President Roosevelt. In that speech Roosevelt laid out the four freedoms all human beings should have. Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.



Freedom From Want doesn't just illustrate a traditional American scene, it illustrates a goal, a principle. That everyone in the world should have enough to secure "a healthy peacetime life". And that wasn't some far off vision, some meaningless statement of morals. That was an immediate goal. One that the US government should act to make happen.

Most politicians nowadays will at least pay lip service to the other three freedoms. But freedom from want hasn't just been forgotten, it's been loving buried. That quote from Bernie Sanders is the first time in my entire life I've seen a politician talk about freedom from want.

Calibanibal
Aug 25, 2015

missing conveniently from guy nobody's cute lil spiel are the last two paintings of the series, Freedom From Biting Insects and Freedom From This Mortal Coil

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Guy Goodbody posted:

Most politicians nowadays will at least pay lip service to the other three freedoms. But freedom from want hasn't just been forgotten, it's been loving buried. That quote from Bernie Sanders is the first time in my entire life I've seen a politician talk about freedom from want.

Bernie realizes the message of the New Deal still has resonance and meaning today.

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

Guy Goodbody posted:

You guys have seen this painting before



It's been on Christmas cards, it illustrates the traditional American Thanksgiving, it's chintzy Americana bullshit.

That painting is called Freedom From Want. It was part of a series of four paintings Norman Rockwell did to illustrate a speech given by President Roosevelt. In that speech Roosevelt laid out the four freedoms all human beings should have. Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.



Freedom From Want doesn't just illustrate a traditional American scene, it illustrates a goal, a principle. That everyone in the world should have enough to secure "a healthy peacetime life". And that wasn't some far off vision, some meaningless statement of morals. That was an immediate goal. One that the US government should act to make happen.

Most politicians nowadays will at least pay lip service to the other three freedoms. But freedom from want hasn't just been forgotten, it's been loving buried. That quote from Bernie Sanders is the first time in my entire life I've seen a politician talk about freedom from want.

somehow i appreciate this serious post in a sea of jacking off to constant misery porn.

and yet the fatal flaw is obvious. this is october, there's a turkey in there, which is thanksgiving, and that's clearly november.

1/10, no brownie points

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

Concerned Citizen posted:

i mean whether or not it's "electioneering" can be left up to you - the ads were donation sign up ads, but you could construe it as an appeal for a vote rather than a donation. there isn't much difference between the two. but anyway, the main thing is that 100% of the costs of those digital ads and staffing expenses came from hfa's share of the money.

here's how the law works: so the joint victory committee holds a fundraiser and raises $100,000 from 10 donors. each donates $10k.

hfa gets $27,000
dnc gets $73,000

the fundraiser cost $10k to put on. hfa would pay in proportion to what it raised, so they'd pay $2.7k out of the $10k. the dnc would cover the remainder. so hfa's total payout is $24,300.

as far as the digital ads go, since they're small dollar targeted, hfa would pay 100% of the costs for every dollar under $2700 raised. since that likely accounted for 99%+ of the donations, the dnc received nothing from those and paid nothing from those. so hfa didn't get additional cash out of it. it did, however, allow hfa to spend money that otherwise couldn't be used until after the primary on their donor acquisition program, which was a secondary benefit.
I got around to doing an analysis on the donations based on the FEC data.

Your claim that the digital ads could have been funded by HFA since they could have been predominantly funded by donations <= $2,700 is likely false. The vast majority of contributions come from donors contributing over $2,700.

I looked at the FEC data between 2015-09-01 and 2016-06-31 since that is what the politico article looked at. The California primary was 2016-07-07. Note that my analysis only spans this timeframe.

I see about $109 million raised for the HVF. 42k total contributors. An average donor contributed ~$2,594 on each year. Contributions under $2,700 per year (including those $2,700 amounts from the very big donors) that could have been sent to HFA made up only ~$25.8 million for 23.6% of the fundraising total. Donors that could afford >= $2,700 made up 84.8% of the contributions. Donors contributing over $10,000 per year made up 78.6% of the contributions. Donors contributing over $50,000 per year made up 53% of the contributions. Donors contributing over $100,000 per year made up 44% of the contributions.

Again, politico reported:

quote:

Beyond the transfers, much of the fund’s $42 million in direct spending also appears to have been done to directly benefit the Clinton campaign, as opposed to the state parties.

The fund has paid $4.1 million to the Clinton campaign for “salary and overhead expenses” to reimburse it for fundraising efforts. And it has directed $38 million to vendors such as direct marketing company Chapman Cubine Adams + Hussey and digital consultant Bully Pulpit Interactive — both of which also serve the Clinton campaign — for mailings and online ads that sometimes closely resemble Clinton campaign materials.

In effect, people at George Clooney's $300k plate fundraisers could write a check that would be used for electioneering purposes in the primary well in excess of the $2,700 per year contribution limit to Hillary's campaign. The Hillary campaign got around this limitation by using HVF as the electioneering vehicle since the HVF itself could not give $300k from large donors directly to the Hillary campaign. Nominally according to unenforced election law, joint fundraising efforts like HVF are not supposed to be used for electioneering during a primary.

Particularly galling examples of mega donations to the HVF are the Pritzkers. Combined, this couple on 2015 and 2016 donated a combined total of 1,453,600 during the primary season.

The FEC data lists contributions as small as $1. I assumed that having the same first name, last name, city, state, and zip meant you were the same person. I accounted for separate $2,700 contribution limits to HFA in the separate years 2015 and 2016.

The politico article made the following claims about fundraising, spending, and distributions between the timeframes of Sept 2015 and June 2016:
HVF raises 142 million
DNC gets 24.4 million
HFA gets 37.6 million
State Parties get $800k
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/dnc-leak-clinton-team-deflected-state-cash-concerns-226191

There is then about ~$33 million in difference between the contribution totals in the FEC data and what politico claims. A very large amount of that discrepancy goes away if I include all the FEC data up to the publishing date of that article. I don't know what is different between the FEC data set and politico's reporting.

The only reasonable conclusion is that the HVF was primarily funded by the wealthy donating way over $2,700 per year which could not be given directly to HFA.

comedyblissoption has issued a correction as of 02:00 on Oct 30, 2017

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



apparently this is in the new antifa game and it's a pretty good mocking of bad liberals

https://twitter.com/leslieleeiii/status/924457004281843713

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Shear Modulus posted:

apparently this is in the new antifa game and it's a pretty good mocking of bad liberals

https://twitter.com/leslieleeiii/status/924457004281843713

lmao

The Kingfish
Oct 21, 2015



I would die for Bernie Sanders.

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

BERNIE
BERNIE
BERNIE

I came to speak at my city recently and I couldn't get tickets even though I literally waited until the moment registration opened but it got registered out within 0.5 seconds

Calibanibal
Aug 25, 2015

Typo posted:

I came to speak at my city recently and I couldn't get tickets

:thunk:

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Shear Modulus posted:

apparently this is in the new antifa game and it's a pretty good mocking of bad liberals

https://twitter.com/leslieleeiii/status/924457004281843713

it's literally "antifa is good: the game" and it's pretty fuckin' fantastic

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

https://twitter.com/lanadelraytheon/status/924810024693547008

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


Taintrunner posted:

it's literally "antifa is good: the game" and it's pretty fuckin' fantastic

your allies include the black panthers and a fire and brimstone preacher who uses marxist gospel. its insanely good.

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008


Can't believe W would burn himself like that.

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-E-LDc384

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Vox Nihili posted:

Can't believe W would burn himself like that.

she clarifies in a follow up comment, that post is in the wholesome memes subreddit.

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

this is why the american is an intrinsically degrading and inhuman thing of dying value

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo

im so inspired that the most popular leftist politician is running against abolishing the wage system

navyjack
Jul 15, 2006



Agean90 posted:

your allies include the black panthers and a fire and brimstone preacher who uses marxist gospel. its insanely good.

Is the gameplay fun? I’m all for good stories, but the shooty bits have to work too.

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


navyjack posted:

Is the gameplay fun? I’m all for good stories, but the shooty bits have to work too.

i suck at shootmangs, but it's p fun so far

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


navyjack posted:

Is the gameplay fun? I’m all for good stories, but the shooty bits have to work too.

My biggest issue is that the maps all tend to be dreary ruins/industiral corridors. The gun sounds are anemic too. Other wise playing on the difficulty setting above normal (theres like 6 different difficulties) the game is well balanced between stealth and gunplay, which fits my ideal play style of "try to stealth, then screw up and kill everyone while duelwielding automatic shotguns"

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Office Pig posted:

this is why the american is an intrinsically degrading and inhuman thing of dying value

for decorum's sake

Gene Hackman Fan
Dec 27, 2002

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
some interesting news that was passed along to me: a cousin of mine (somewhat distant, like two or three steps removed) is running for the Texas house of reps. Michael Stackhouse, running for district 99:



of course, watch his progressive ideas be consolidation of state data centers, but this time to the cloud

papa horny michael
Aug 18, 2009

by Pragmatica
are we sure this isn't an andy daly stunt?

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
michael steakhouse running for district 69

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


https://twitter.com/lachancenaomi/status/924811188025913345

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


Gene Hackman Fan posted:

some interesting news that was passed along to me: a cousin of mine (somewhat distant, like two or three steps removed) is running for the Texas house of reps. Michael Stackhouse, running for district 99:



of course, watch his progressive ideas be consolidation of state data centers, but this time to the cloud

MIKE STACKHAÜS is a good name for a body builder, hope he doesnt let it go to waste by not being ripped

Gene Hackman Fan
Dec 27, 2002

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

papa horny michael posted:

are we sure this isn't an andy daly stunt?

well, as the member of the gene hackman fanily who told me about him neither knows nor cares who andy daly is*, if it is, daly's stunts have gone a long way from his "i can't land" skywriting kickstarter.

*(i mean, i know who he is, but any attempts to tell members of my family about the stuff i follow usually results in them zoning the gently caress out, so... take that for what you will)

Gene Hackman Fan has issued a correction as of 07:12 on Oct 30, 2017

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017



Oh come on.

Wrenever
Jul 22, 2007


Agean90 posted:

your allies include the black panthers and a fire and brimstone preacher who uses marxist gospel. its insanely good.

The DLC for the game also has a great playable character coming up:

quote:

The Adventures of Gunslinger Joe stars former pro quarterback Joseph Stallion as he fights Nazis all the way from Chicago's ruins into spaaaaaaaace.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Bernie Sanders

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Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Nonsense posted:

Bernie Sanders

:five:

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