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Roy Moore will win and will end the "believe woman" movement by killing its momentum and doom millions to sexual assault without any reprocussions Tax bill will pass and destroy the economy Democrats will pussy out of a gov't shutdown No DACA Fix, Everyone who fails paper bag test is deported Gerrymandering is upheld in SCOTUS 2017 election rallies republicans and gerrymandering keeps both houses red 2019 and 2020 the Republicans successfully end social security and medicare 2020 Trump is re-elected 2024 Democracy ends, facism begins Welcome to your future
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Covok posted:Roy Moore will win and will end the "believe woman" movement by killing its momentum and doom millions to sexual assault without any reprocussions Go outside.
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Covok posted:Roy Moore will win and will end the "believe woman" movement by killing its momentum and doom millions to sexual assault without any reprocussions Hell yeah, bring it.
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Nov 29, 2017 18:09
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https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/935918248142475264 get help covok
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This has been a particularly crazy presidential Twitter morning, even for trump. Can't wait to hear what the Washington post contacted him for comment about or whatever probably triggered it.
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Other tax bill news: https://twitter.com/RichardRubinDC/status/935913554221391872 https://twitter.com/crampell/status/935912655952531456 https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/935896851945009153
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There was an article I read this morning, don't recall where, that suggested that leadership thinks Johnson's vote is an actual problem: his demands are so expensive they're not sure they can meet them and he's getting more and more pissed off at how he's being treated. He may actually be a problem for them.
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Nov 29, 2017 18:11
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eviltastic posted:Other tax bill news: Republicans helping the poor. WTF
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Covok posted:Roy Moore will win and will end the "believe woman" movement by killing its momentum and doom millions to sexual assault without any reprocussions
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Nov 29, 2017 18:12
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lizardman posted:We're reaching a point where being 'Christian' in America means two-and-a-half specific things: The rhetoric coming from the Religious Right is getting pretty damned vicious towards anyone who isn't a strait white Christian cis-male : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GB5-R3pfZo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6AsXLYJpJk This video includes the beautiful line: "What we Christians are experiencing right now is what the Jews experienced in the 30's and 40's in Nazi Germany". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-3S5exLpSA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Zq4e9jgdo
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Is there anything to actually worry about from the loss of Net Neutrality?
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evilweasel posted:There was an article I read this morning, don't recall where, that suggested that leadership thinks Johnson's vote is an actual problem: his demands are so expensive they're not sure they can meet them and he's getting more and more pissed off at how he's being treated. He may actually be a problem for them. Might be this wapo bit https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...0879_story.html e: contra slate mentioning this bit that doesn't come up in that piece quote:The two senators who want further breaks for pass-through businesses, Johnson and Montana Sen. Steve Daines, are also working through their issues. Johnson, who sometimes announces threats he doesn’t mean whatsoever, had said Monday that he wouldn’t vote for the bill in committee without an agreement. That changed during lunch, when Trump personally called him out and asked him to have a little faith. When Johnson emerged from lunch, he said he would vote for the bill in committee under the understanding that he had received “commitments we are going to get this fixed.” He and Daines will receive some sort of accommodation as the bill moves to the floor. They can choose either to accept it, or to kill their party’s signature legislative effort. Do not expect the latter. eviltastic fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Nov 29, 2017 |
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Grouchio posted:Is there anything to actually worry about from the loss of Net Neutrality? loving yeah? Did you just wake up from a coma?
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Grouchio posted:Is there anything to actually worry about from the loss of Net Neutrality? I mean, I don't think Comcast and AT&T really want to get into the censorship business, they just want to charge more money. My concern is that google and amazon will carve out an area for their streaming services, but any new competitors will not have a chance.
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Grouchio posted:Is there anything to actually worry about from the loss of Net Neutrality? Expect to pay much more for much less.
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Grouchio posted:Is there anything to actually worry about from the loss of Net Neutrality? Not if you like the way your current cable TV bill is.
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Optimus Prime Rib posted:I think people on the outside of the evangelical milieu underestimate how captive evangelicals, especially rural white evangelicals, are to the Republican party because of a sincerely-held belief that abortion is morally wrong. To them a vote for a Democrat is a vote for killing babies, pure and simple, and that trumps any other issue in their mind. You can point out any number of ways that thinking might be wrong, but to them it is just that simple. It's why you get Trump voters in 2016 saying they wouldn't leave their wives alone in a room with him, and the Federalist pushing "God uses morally evil people for his purposes" to justify a vote for Moore. It's also that most of the Christian media that evangelicals are pushed towards is very Southern, very rural, and very Republican.
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Nov 29, 2017 18:17
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Grouchio posted:Is there anything to actually worry about from the loss of Net Neutrality? Internet divvied up into tiers Information effectively censored Rich will now control all you hear and see and truth dies No netflix ISP raise prices through roof
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Pollyanna posted:Expect to pay much more for much less. Oh, and what you do get will be much more restrictive and of lower quality. Imagine Guatemalan internet in the US.
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Nov 29, 2017 18:18
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Evil Fluffy posted:Roy Moore was always going to win unless there is an insane amount of turnout by Dems, in a state that has been making sure they have as hard a time as possible when it comes to voting, while Republicans stay home. Over a month, especially given the wide net of sexual assault allegations lately, is plenty enough time for Alabama to normalize "decades-old ephebophilia, but not even true because Gloria Allred is involved" No amount of Dem turnout can beat a regular turnout there for good ol' boy Roy, and I think the rightwing media has played up Franken etc to the point even the crotchety neocon voters there who initially gasped, "oh my heavens!", are now resigned to voting "against Doug Jones, for America". quote:Republicans know that demographics are against them. But demographics don't mean as much when you simply make sure that certain people have an extremely hard time voting, while tossing in some Gerrymandering. Ending chain migration would also nullify the "demographics" forecast after a decade or two of lagtime, and who knows what group would be the biggest influx if we switch to a merit system. Slavs? South East Asians? Oh, and I really doubt Gerrymandering is even close to having a smaller effect than modern voter suppression, even as bad as that has gotten.
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Grouchio posted:Is there anything to actually worry about from the loss of Net Neutrality? Would you pay your ISP an extra $4.95 a month to read SA?
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eviltastic posted:Might be this wapo bit https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...0879_story.html Yep, this is it. This is the section that seemed like a big deal: quote:The extraordinary exchange with Trump took some fellow GOP senators aback as the depths of Johnson’s anger became clear. And it left some GOP leaders and aides questioning whether Johnson could ever get to “yes” on the tax bill, even though as a conservative businessman he would seem to be a natural constituency for the legislation.
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Nov 29, 2017 18:19
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Grouchio posted:Is there anything to actually worry about from the loss of Net Neutrality? You couldn't access the telus company union website using a telus internet connection from 2005 to 2006
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Eltoasto posted:I mean, I don't think Comcast and AT&T really want to get into the censorship business, they just want to charge more money. My concern is that google and amazon will carve out an area for their streaming services, but any new competitors will not have a chance. Google will deffo act like the good guys and offer all their services "content neutral", but this is because there is no site too niche for AdSense
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evilweasel posted:Yep, this is it. This is the section that seemed like a big deal: I edited, he's gotten some kind of offer, per other reporting.
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Vladimir Putin posted:Republicans helping the poor. WTF Mike Lee isn't doing it to help the poor. He's doing it to retain the votes of large Mormon families in Utah.
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Netflix/Hulu has the scale to pay ISP bandwidth ransoms and will probably pass the costs onto customers. YouTube will probably further monetize. Bandwidth fuckery will start immediately, bandwidth caps will probably go nation wide and tend down immediately, fast lanes/bandwidth ignoring packages will start immediately. Actual channelization will probably start somewhere a few years down the line where content is completely walled unless you pay for a premium tier/package to access it.
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eviltastic posted:e: contra slate mentioning this bit that doesn't come up in that piece Yeah, this is the other side. It seems clear they're going to tell him to go gently caress himself and dare him to stand up for himself. I don't think he'd be willing to actually sink it. However, I think that leadership may be overplaying his hand: if there's one thing that was clear from the whole Obamacare repeal debacle, it's that a bill is never dead until it's dead. Why would he believe if he votes against it they can't have zombie Trump Tax Cuts in a month that gives him what he wants?
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Vladimir Putin posted:Republicans helping the poor. WTF Apparently Child Tax Credit expansion has been a pet project of Rubio and Lee for a while. I first found out while reading this article about a really good Child Allowance (basically a UBI for children) being proposed by Sherrod Brown and Michael Bennet. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/26/16552200/child-allowance-tax-credit-bill-michael-bennet-sherrod-brown
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Covok posted:No netflix The spark of the middle class Revolution
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DreamShipWrecked posted:The spark of the middle class Revolution https://twitter.com/sppeoples/status/935922048706207744
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Grouchio posted:Is there anything to actually worry about from the loss of Net Neutrality? A general slowdown of society and the economy as less people have access to internet, there are less voices sharing their ideas, and less people are able to engage in commerce as buyer or seller. It would lead to a smaller society as more people get cut off from one of the main means of engaging with the world.
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There are no heroes https://twitter.com/AP/status/935921836856172546
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I laughed at this https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/935922444329738240
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That makes two in two days--Kennedy and Tillis. This is what happens when the right hand doesn't have a loving clue what the left is doing.
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All your worst nightmares are slowly coming true and there is nothing you can do about it.
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eviltastic posted:I edited, he's gotten some kind of offer, per other reporting. I don't think he has. I read those two together: there has been a specific offer reported, he has not gotten it and he wouldn't accept it if it was made. But he has received a commitment that they will take care of his issues, which is why he voted to proceed. So I read that as that there has been no offer, only an agreement to make an offer. It seems likely to me that the offer is going to be the one being shopped to the press and that he has rejected to the press.
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