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Everyone knows that Japan is mere turns away from winning a culture victory and I'm happy for them.
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I dunno man, they've managed to gently caress up their chances at both military and economic victories in the past.
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sexpig by night posted:It's not a complex idea. The Russia poo poo is good to investigate, but you can't make a platform out of investigation. People care about it, and it super clearly was something shady that happened, we should support looking at it, but 'I'M GONNA GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS RUSSIA STUFF' doesn't answer 'how are you gonna improve my life?' Old article, Vox, CAP, I know, I know, I know. But I think Warren has a pretty good angle on it. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/16/15646950/elizabeth-warren-russia-democrats
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Flip Yr Wig posted:Old article, Vox, CAP, I know, I know, I know. But I think Warren has a pretty good angle on it. yea I remember her taking that stance and that's a REALLY good pivot. If we can turn the talking points from "THE SCARY RUSSIANS ARE COMING" to "This obvious shady poo poo with a billionaire and Russian oligarchs working together to smear a millionaire who also has her own weird ties to other, different, oligarchs, is a fantastic example of how the power here is completely in the hands of the wealthy" that'd be a really good improvement.
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I know Adomian runs with Gorka as a Machiavellian genius but I'm starting to think that he is actually more like Alan Partridge.
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Nov 1, 2017 00:34
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Adomian's Gorka is an extremely flattering portrait of someone who in reality is a terminally stupid, useless man
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Crane Fist posted:Adomian's Gorka is an extremely flattering portrait of someone who in reality is a terminally stupid, useless man 
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I don’t get how Gorka’s car hasn’t been constantly in the shop for new paint jobs due to keying
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Dr.Radical posted:I don’t get how Gorka’s car hasn’t been constantly in the shop for new paint jobs due to keying 90% of the world has no idea who he is and when he dies he'll be forgotten as everything but a punchline
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sexpig by night posted:90% of the world has no idea who he is and when he dies he'll be forgotten as everything but a punchline I mean, if I saw a car parked on the sidewalk with the license plate reading ART WAR, I wouldn't need to know it was our boy Dr. Gorka to expect the average American to just key that car on instinct.
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Nov 1, 2017 02:10
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someone needs to switch that plate out with one that says rear end MAN well both plates since that's a virginia tag
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karmicknight posted:I mean, if I saw a car parked on the sidewalk with the license plate reading ART WAR, I wouldn't need to know it was our boy Dr. Gorka to expect the average American to just key that car on instinct. idk that seems like the car of someone eager for an excuse to shoot me
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Why was everyone engaging w A lovely Poster and ignoring that beautiful cold open? Felix loving brought it between his last Bane and Joker riffs. I’m gonna be quoting “You merely adopted Islam, I was born in it” and “Watch me make this ambassador disappear.” I cackled out loud waiting for the light rail listening to it. Also, Felix loving up redux and then making GBS threads on the Silent Zen tour person. Also, Virgil was loving bringing it to. I’m kinda glad they had technical difficulties on Sunday because this was loving great. Finally, A lovely Poster, no one is saying give up. As many people have already said, this investigation will have no impact short of Mueller indicting Trump for breaking laws relating to his finances or something. It’s a far more productive use of our energy to promote viable leftist candidates and policy, and to show these dumbass centrist/Third Way ducks that their policies are worthless and only invite failure.
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Trabisnikof posted:idk that seems like the car of someone eager for an excuse to shoot me yea if anything me knowing it belongs to a dumpy actual nazi's failson who makes money off poo poo like going around telling right wing idiots "THE WEST MUST BE KEPT SAFE" and graphs like is what would make me likely to gently caress with it. If I just saw it without context I'd think it's some lovely weekend warrior type who parked there to open carry protest into Dairy Queen and routinely beats off to the dream of shooting randos.
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Cause the topic comes up in this thread a lot http://pareene.kinja.com/on-the-tarfu-report-1820029536
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gently caress, tarfu was so good and funny 
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also fuckin lol at the idea that even if the whole russia investigation poo poo finds explicit evidence that vladimir putin himself personally and literally bought the entire us election, the democrats wouldn't still find some way to completely fumble it and jam their heads further up their own asses until they die huffing poo poo fumes.
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Nov 1, 2017 08:28
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Boywhiz88 posted:Finally, A lovely Poster, no one is saying give up. As many people have already said, this investigation will have no impact short of Mueller indicting Trump for breaking laws relating to his finances or something. It’s a far more productive use of our energy to promote viable leftist candidates and policy, and to show these dumbass centrist/Third Way ducks that their policies are worthless and only invite failure.
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Pedro De Heredia posted:Jeff Sessions losing his job because of findings from this investigation (which is a real possibility) has a far bigger impact than a viable socialist getting elected to the city council in some midwest city.
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Also as has been pointed out before, just getting Jeff Sessions fired isn't enough, you need to make sure that he isn't replaced with another lovely reactionary, and that isn't something that is solved by this investigation You need to have an actual vision for a better future instead of just being against something
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I'm with Virgil: I want to see Trump people suffer. I understand Matt's position, and he's not wrong. But this is all I can hope for.
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Nov 1, 2017 12:42
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Sure. But Jeff Sessions being fired is still good. It helps if your opponents are under a dark cloud all the time. It depresses their side. That something isn't enough, or that it can lead to complacency, doesn't mean it can't also be good. Pedro De Heredia fucked around with this message at 12:47 on Nov 1, 2017 |
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prefect posted:I'm with Virgil: I want to see Trump people suffer. even when they all get pardoned and mueller gets fired, you can still laugh at how hosed up everything is
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Nov 1, 2017 12:44
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"re-dwah"
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Pedro De Heredia posted:Sure. But Jeff Sessions being fired is still good.  I'm totally on board with "you can't just be anti-something; you have to be pro-something-else".Serf posted:even when they all get pardoned and mueller gets fired, you can still laugh at how hosed up everything is That's a sad, crying laugh, though. It's not really fun.
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Any leftist's chance of getting elected in America probably improves in an environment where liberals/Democrats have a better chance of being elected. That environment is likely one where people's view of the Republican Party is extremely negative. Anything that makes people think the Republican Party and the Republican administration are bad (except things that go against the mission of the left, like 'they haven't sufficiently nuked Iran') is probably a net good for leftism. The last PPP poll on this I saw said that 49% of voters support impeaching Trump. That is, politically, a good thing, even if he is never impeached. It's also not like the Russia stuff has distracted too much from anything else. Voters seem fully aware of Trump's and the Republican Congress' disastrous healthcare reform attempts.
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prefect posted:That's a sad, crying laugh, though. It's not really fun. learn to embrace the insanity because its how we move forward from here. the problem with the democrats is that they're sitting there still trying to play chess, but the republicans long ago won the game, flipped the board and are burning down the room. we gotta adapt to the new world
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Nov 1, 2017 12:58
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People really overestimate the whole 'positive vision of the future'. Plenty of people have won elections with meaningless platitudes and/or a thoroughly grim view of things. Clinton just sucked. Most people on the left were fully prepared for her to win, and it's not like they were going to take her victory as a sign that centrism works in the public.
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Pedro De Heredia posted:Any leftist's chance of getting elected in America probably improves in an environment where liberals/Democrats have a better chance of being elected. That environment is likely one where people's view of the Republican Party is extremely negative. not if their view of democrats is just as negative. and guess what
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rumble in the bunghole posted:I’ve never seen any hypothetical reason for Russia interfering with the US, unless there’s a hidden Influence meter that will get a victory in the giant game of Civilisation the rich are playing or Russia’s spy agencies are as incoherent as the rest of the world. If Russia had control of the US, America would not be so tight with Saudi oil interests or backing Syrian groups fighting the ones the Russians back. Maybe there’s something I’m not seeing but the Russia poo poo doesn’t answer anything. They want he sanctions on them lifted and Hillary would never do it while Trump was open to the idea. Unfortunately for them they forgot Trump’s signature move is loving over anyone who has ever helped him
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Crane Fist posted:Adomian's Gorka is an extremely flattering portrait of someone who in reality is a terminally stupid, useless man
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The problem is that liberals, the #resistance and the DNC are banking everything on the Trump investigation while furiously purging any vaguely left leaning people from Democratic party. The Trump investigation is good and funny but there's nothing to really get excited about until the Democrats unfuck themselves, which looks pretty unlikely outside of stuff like Corey Booker getting on board with single payer. Like, everyone though the pussy-grabbing video would sink Trump and it didn't, and every scandal after that hasn't sunk Trump, so excuse leftists for not getting too excited about this investigation.
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prefect posted:I'm with Virgil: I want to see Trump people suffer. MikeCrotch posted:The problem is that liberals, the #resistance and the DNC are banking everything on the Trump investigation while furiously purging any vaguely left leaning people from Democratic party. Calling for a deep-state coup against a president you hate is such a typically wingnut Republican affectation. Pedro De Heredia posted:People really overestimate the whole 'positive vision of the future'. Plenty of people have won elections with meaningless platitudes and/or a thoroughly grim view of things. Clinton just sucked. Most people on the left were fully prepared for her to win, and it's not like they were going to take her victory as a sign that centrism works in the public. We thought that the liberal End of History worldview imploded on 9/11, but apparently it carried on for a lot of rich and influential people right up through the 2016 election.
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emdash posted:gently caress, tarfu was so good and funny Yeah, that's a downer. Is there actually anything behind the allegations being thrown at Taibbi recently? From everything I've read it seems like his name is being dragged through the mud on account of some creepy edgelord poo poo Mark Ames wrote at The Exile and Taibbi is taking heat for it just because they worked together at the time. It all seems like guilt by association.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Yeah, that's a downer. Is there actually anything behind the allegations being thrown at Taibbi recently? From everything I've read it seems like his name is being dragged through the mud on account of some creepy edgelord poo poo Mark Ames wrote at The Exile and Taibbi is taking heat for it just because they worked together at the time. It all seems like guilt by association. He also wrote some of the lovely edgelord stuff way back then, but like you suggest it is being blown out of proportion. It is easy ammo for people who dislike him for other political reasons IE neoliberals, or the sort of people who want to be outraged more than they want to build a better society, the kind to whom forgiveness is a foreign concept.
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The Crotch posted:I could feel Felix's power spiking when he said "redoix". Even better was Virgil slow-rolling him on it.
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