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RuanGacho posted:For some reason NPR is doing a parade of interviews with Republicans and I just heard the rep of NY-21 tell the country that "Even more economists say tax cuts create jobs". [Than say that trickle down is perhaps a myth as suggested by the host]. I did the same today after yelling in my car at her. NPR is poo poo now.
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Praxis Prion posted:I did the same today after yelling in my car at her. NPR is poo poo now. NPR was always poo poo.
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RuanGacho posted:Let's just give up the pretense and ask IBM to make President Watson and see what comes of it. https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist  lateral move at worst
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Craig K posted:https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist At least then the Racist Markov generator will also be able to recite facts about things. Come to think of it, does Trump pass the Turing test?
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Craig K posted:https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist That's Twitter only. We could turn an AI into a genocidal maniac in a day if everyone in America chipped in.
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RuanGacho posted:Let's just give up the pretense and ask IBM to make President Watson and see what comes of it. IBM owes a ton of their success to selling punch card technology to the Nazis so this would probably end badly.
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TheBalor posted:Then what the hell is he doing in Iowa? Windsor Heights Dairy Queen is good place for u kno what
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Hey guys what is some sufficiently ideologically pure national news media I can read?
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Mr. Peepers posted:Hey guys what is some sufficiently ideologically pure national news media I can read?
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Mr. Peepers posted:Hey guys what is some sufficiently ideologically pure national news media I can read? @dril
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Mr. Peepers posted:Hey guys what is some sufficiently ideologically pure national news media I can read? the Anti Empire report https://williamblum.org/aer/read/153
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Mr. Peepers posted:Hey guys what is some sufficiently ideologically pure national news media I can read? The PPJ Twitter dump.
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Mr. Peepers posted:Hey guys what is some sufficiently ideologically pure national news media I can read? IGN.com
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While in a burger induced haze I caught some of the 'debate' going on in the Senate tonight and it seemed this idea of tax burden was being pushed quite a bit and that those that pay the most taxes, the uppermost bracket, would have their burden increase further while everyone else's burden would decrease. How does that work other than if a small group owns a disproporationate amount of over the overall wealth they will logically be the largest tax contributors? I'm not understanding how if the rich are going to be paying so much more in taxes as they suggest that there is then going to be a 1.5T debt. Just trying to reconcile the logic. Also, someone clear this up for me - I keep hearing debt and deficit being thrown around seemingly interchangeably. Which is it actually?
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I read an article about how this tax bill can turn into the funding for 3T of government spending under the next unified D government. So we have that going for us...
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Crabtree posted:How many times may we relive this hell of them hitting this poo poo back and forth until midterms? Would you prefer they pass the poo poo they intend to do as fast as possible?
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Crabtree posted:How many times may we relive this hell of them hitting this poo poo back and forth until midterms? They are going to end Social Security and Medicare in the 2018 lame duck session.
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Glazier posted:NPR was always poo poo. NPR Politics and Up First are top notch podcasts. Planet Money and The Indicator also, if you're an econ wonk.
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Rip Testes posted:While in a burger induced haze I caught some of the 'debate' going on in the Senate tonight and it seemed this idea of tax burden was being pushed quite a bit and that those that pay the most taxes, the uppermost bracket, would have their burden increase further while everyone else's burden would decrease. How does that work other than if a small group owns a disproporationate amount of over the overall wealth they will logically be the largest tax contributors? I'm not understanding how if the rich are going to be paying so much more in taxes as they suggest that there is then going to be a 1.5T debt. Just trying to reconcile the logic. Also, someone clear this up for me - I keep hearing debt and deficit being thrown around seemingly interchangeably. Which is it actually? I'm not sure what the hell you're talking about regarding tax burden. If I'm reading you correctly people are lying liars who lie. Deficit is the annual difference between spending and revenue if spending is more than revenue. Debt is the accumulated result of the deficit, ie the amount of money owed to creditors through treasury bonds which are incredibly, implausibly, preposterously, ludicrously cheap to sell right now.
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RuanGacho posted:Let's just give up the pretense and ask IBM to make President Watson and see what comes of it. If corporations can be people, can I vote for President Gallup? At least they will listen to me.
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mcmagic posted:They are going to end Social Security and Medicare in the 2018 lame duck session. Then they lose every election for a decade. Followed by New deal part 2: the dealing.
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Mustached Demon posted:Then they lose every election for a decade. Followed by New deal part 2: the dealing. Voters have short memories. Also, Gorsuch will most definitely find ND: 2 unconstitutional.
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Mr. Peepers posted:Hey guys what is some sufficiently ideologically pure national news media I can read? The Onion.
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Bad news guys, according to CNN Hillary's approval rating is at an all-time low
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mcmagic posted:Voters have short memories. Also, Gorsuch will most definitely find ND: 2 unconstitutional. Then Notorious RBG stabs him in the throat with a rusty pair of scissors once used by FDR.
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Petr posted:Bad news guys, according to CNN Hillary's approval rating is at an all-time low She failed to save us from this so, yeah... I recognize I'm putting my collective disappointment with our entire society on her shoulders, but I'm a lovely middle class white man and well... We're bad people.
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Petr posted:Bad news guys, according to CNN Hillary's approval rating is at an all-time low She was a horrific candidate.
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mcmagic posted:She was a horrific candidate. I feel like, given who won, this is a misuse of the word horrific. We now know what horrific looks like.
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I don't know how you guys can be so sure of the BLUE WAVE you're always crowing about. If this dickbags tax bill artificially inflates the growth rate of the economy at the time it's most likely to and designed to, what makes you think most idiots are going to see anything other than that and a standard deduction that's twice as big on their most recent 1040 when they go to the ballot box? It's a dirty loving plan to sell out our entire future to trick their way past a single midterm, but why should we assume it will fail considering how dumb people had to be to vote for Trump in the first place?
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Chilichimp posted:She failed to save us from this so, yeah... Ultimately Hillary herself isn’t really the cause so much as a symptom of what brought us to this point. Won’t care too much if she becomes its avatar regardless.
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mcmagic posted:Voters have short memories. Also, Gorsuch will most definitely find ND: 2 unconstitutional. Right, as evidenced by the South still voting the way they do based on the civil rights act 50 years ago. Sanguinia posted:I don't know how you guys can be so sure of the BLUE WAVE you're always crowing about. If this dickbags tax bill artificially inflates the growth rate of the economy at the time it's most likely to and designed to, what makes you think most idiots are going to see anything other than that and a standard deduction that's twice as big on their most recent 1040 when they go to the ballot box? It's a dirty loving plan to sell out our entire future to trick their way past a single midterm, but why should we assume it will fail considering how dumb people had to be to vote for Trump in the first place? The stock market has been really high for the entire Trump presidency, yet his approval rating has plummeted and the Rs just lost an alabama seat.
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Snowman_McK posted:I feel like, given who won, this is a misuse of the word horrific. We now know what horrific looks like. No that is wrong. She isn't a horrific person and she wouldn't have been a horrific president. She was, however. a horrific candidate. Trump is horrific in pretty much every aspect.
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BrianBoitano posted:NPR Politics and Up First are top notch podcasts. What irks me about NPR politics is that they clearly realize the GOP/Trump points are bullshit, and hint heavily at it, but are afraid to flat out say it.
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Sanguinia posted:I don't know how you guys can be so sure of the BLUE WAVE you're always crowing about. If this dickbags tax bill artificially inflates the growth rate of the economy at the time it's most likely to and designed to, what makes you think most idiots are going to see anything other than that and a standard deduction that's twice as big on their most recent 1040 when they go to the ballot box? It's a dirty loving plan to sell out our entire future to trick their way past a single midterm, but why should we assume it will fail considering how dumb people had to be to vote for Trump in the first place? The economy is doing better than it has in two decades and Trump is still the least popular President of the modern age and his entire political party is in a tailspin. People hate Trump. He's detestable. He can't even skate by with some fake folksy country wisdom like W did for some years. The economy can't save him.
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Mantis42 posted:And its not passing. Why not? You are really, really strangely confident considering how loving close it was last time and that the GOP has dropped all pretenses and are all getting worse moving forward. Drop a bunch of Congressman and Senators in the elections and you have a Congress primed to nuke it all on their way out. Boon fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Dec 20, 2017 |
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mcmagic posted:No that is wrong. She isn't a horrific person and she wouldn't have been a horrific president. She was, however. a horrific candidate. Trump is horrific in pretty much every aspect. Well that about covers it.
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Sanguinia posted:I don't know how you guys can be so sure of the BLUE WAVE you're always crowing about. If this dickbags tax bill artificially inflates the growth rate of the economy at the time it's most likely to and designed to, what makes you think most idiots are going to see anything other than that and a standard deduction that's twice as big on their most recent 1040 when they go to the ballot box? It's a dirty loving plan to sell out our entire future to trick their way past a single midterm, but why should we assume it will fail considering how dumb people had to be to vote for Trump in the first place? The tax bill is repealing the individual mandate, which is going to hurt everyone's wallet other than millionaires far, far more than they'll save.
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I still believe that Hillary would have, in a vacuum, been a quality President but she would have been bogged down with ENDLESS manufactured scandals and attempts by the Republican controlled Congress to derail literally every action she made. There would have, without a doubt, been articles of impeachment drawn up within days just because. She would have accomplished nothing and lost in 2020 as people stupidly go "well I guess both sides really are the same after all" and allow the Republicans to take a supermajority in Congress. Can you imagine a 2018 midterm with Hillary as President? Holy hell it would have been a Dem wipeout. The GOP would have 55-58 Senators, easy. Shimrra Jamaane fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Dec 20, 2017 |
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Mustached Demon posted:Fat weighs less than muscle. I'm sorry, but as a physics teacher I must insist that you say "fat is less dense than muscle", or "a given volume of fat would weigh a little less than that volume of muscle (for humans at least, and possibly for all animals)". Thank you. Also, gently caress all the Republican looters in power.
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