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Fulchrum posted:Aliens pretending to be Japanese men covered in spiky armor? e: AstheWorldWorlds posted:I mean, how likely is it we achieve some kind of decent system through the political process in the lifetime of, say, a 28 year old? It took ~35 years to get Canada's healthcare system up and running. I realize the US has some pretty unique hurdles in that regard, but you also have some advantages we certainly didnt. I know it doesnt feel like it, but you probably will see some significant changes in your lifetime. Furnaceface fucked around with this message at 08:45 on Dec 21, 2017 |
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pkay posted:Well he did do 8 years. Yes, which was deemed to be cruel because others who have done the same thing didn't get such a long sentence. Which in reality means that they used to fact that executives never go to jail as *legal precedent* to pardon the dude
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Here's a good idea for if you should shut the gently caress up - see if you are making arguments someone who wanted to scream the n word would make. If you are, shut the gently caress up you immense piece of poo poo.
I meant from the good cartoon, not the dumb one.
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Waroduce posted:Lol 100k in any non trash fly over city is like keeping your head above water money. It's double the median income for New York City.
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Push El Burrito posted:It's double the median income for New York City. Most people in NYC are not keeping their heads above water.
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Waroduce posted:Lol 100k in any non trash fly over city is like keeping your head above water money. And yet there are people in those cities surviving on minimum wage. It's almost as if rich white people have unrealistic living standards s
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100k goes a lot farther when daycare is free, healthcare is free, education is free and social services are widely available.
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Fulchrum posted:Here's a good idea for if you should shut the gently caress up - see if you are making arguments someone who wanted to scream the n word would make. If you are, shut the gently caress up you immense piece of poo poo. What are you raging about here? Me using the word retard? Ok I won't use the word retard anymore.
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pkay posted:What are you raging about here? Me using the word retard? Ok I won't use the word retard anymore. SHUT! UP!
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pkay posted:What are you raging about here? Me using the word retard? Ok I won't use the word retard anymore. ok good
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Grapplejack posted:Like six-ish years ago I thought the Republicans would be able to recenter by dropping the emphasis on the religious right and applying an acceptance of gay rights / marriage and more Latino outreach in order to lock in the more right-leaning members of those demographics to keep themselves relevant in what I saw as the end of the neoconservative movement. Considering the average age of Fox News viewers and Trump voters (Republicans in general, hell), I can't help but imagine Fox News as some giant vulture flying overhead all the time, regurgitating easily digestible outrage to a bunch of elderly folks whose spit and bile glands aren't juicing as well as they used to, in exchange for an indirect cut of revenue (via advertisers) from sales of Ensure, catheters, and gold coins.
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Fulchrum posted:SHUT! UP! See this is why Trump won.
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Furnaceface posted:
Not just healthcare. Across the board, it's too much and with a system not geared towards change whatsoever. If anything, the American political system was intentionally designed to make the kind of robust changes people need as difficult to pass as possible. This is to say nothing of the difficulties in implementing anything robust in a federal system, which if you are familiar with the New Deal had significant roadblocks placed into its path that threatened to outright block it due to this angle of attack.
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Push El Burrito posted:It's double the median income for New York City. Four of the five richest counties in the country are in the DC Metro area, and all of them are $100k+ median income. And living in this area, and living right around that line, I can tell you that most people are living right at the limit of their earning, and those who are not are paying for it with lower qualities of life and happiness.
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pkay posted:See this is why Trump won. You are making the man who unironically said "The only hope for Democracy lies with Mark Zuckerberg" look like a saintly genius in comparison to what you are posting right now. Please take some time away from a keyboard to contemplate both why you feel the constant need to use and defend the use of a slur as well as this idiotic statement.
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Trabisnikof posted:100k goes a lot farther when daycare is free, healthcare is free, education is free and social services are widely available. also if we, for example, improved housing density in the places people would like to live even without getting into "there are some jobs, like hospital doctoring in rural shitholes, that require a certain amount of incentives to actually get people to work there", if we somehow mandated equal cost of living everywhere in the country, there'd be a hojillion people wanting to live in the Bay Area and somewhat fewer wanting to live in, let's say, East Texas I also reject the "well people don't die of starvation living in the greater San Francisco area on minimum wage" as a sufficient solution but basically this entire discussion is based on a very extremely stupid premise statement ("tax everyone earning above $100k at effectively 100%") and therefore it isn't going to go anywhere good anytime soon
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AstheWorldWorlds posted:Not just healthcare. Across the board, it's too much and with a system not geared towards change whatsoever. If anything, the American political system was intentionally designed to make the kind of robust changes people need as difficult to pass as possible. This is to say nothing of the difficulties in implementing anything robust in a federal system, which if you are familiar with the New Deal had significant roadblocks placed into its path that threatened to outright block it due to this angle of attack. IMHO the founders of this country were terrified of having their newborn democratic republic turned into a dictatorship or monarchy, and virtually everything they shoved into the Constitution was geared toward making it hard to change the whole system overnight. It was never meant to rapidly adapt to the needs of a shifting population or to respond to rapid changes in technology - in fact, it ironically set itself up to be the anti-monarchy. In a despotic society, the leader can turn the country on a dime, if they can get their underlings to fall in line. It is unfortunate that the only way to hit reset on a government is to have a revolution.
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Mendrian posted:IMHO the founders of this country were terrified of having their newborn democratic republic turned into a dictatorship or monarchy, and virtually everything they shoved into the Constitution was geared toward making it hard to change the whole system overnight. It was never meant to rapidly adapt to the needs of a shifting population or to respond to rapid changes in technology - in fact, it ironically set itself up to be the anti-monarchy. In a despotic society, the leader can turn the country on a dime, if they can get their underlings to fall in line. ehhhh...if we ever get out of a hyper-partisan time - which we've been in a few times before - we can make some changes for the better. The problem is needing 2/3rds agreement. Those same anti-monarch difficulties are protecting the hell out of us right now. If the Republicans could change the constitution right now, America would literally be over.
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theflyingorc posted:ehhhh...if we ever get out of a hyper-partisan time - which we've been in a few times before - we can make some changes for the better. The problem is needing 2/3rds agreement. Arguably the reason the Republicans can even do this poo poo is because of how the government is constructed.
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Mendrian posted:IMHO the founders of this country were terrified of having their newborn democratic republic turned into a dictatorship or monarchy, and virtually everything they shoved into the Constitution was geared toward making it hard to change the whole system overnight. It was never meant to rapidly adapt to the needs of a shifting population or to respond to rapid changes in technology - in fact, it ironically set itself up to be the anti-monarchy. In a despotic society, the leader can turn the country on a dime, if they can get their underlings to fall in line. That's the positive, upbeat interpretation yeah.
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Mendrian posted:IMHO the founders of this country were terrified of having their newborn democratic republic turned into a dictatorship or monarchy, and virtually everything they shoved into the Constitution was geared toward making it hard to change the whole system overnight. It was never meant to rapidly adapt to the needs of a shifting population or to respond to rapid changes in technology - in fact, it ironically set itself up to be the anti-monarchy. In a despotic society, the leader can turn the country on a dime, if they can get their underlings to fall in line. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi9iCOsD8Sg
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Related https://twitter.com/CalebMelby/status/943514018790236160
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The leopards weren't supposed to eat my face, how could this happen?
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The bill really is as gently caress-you as it could possibly be to as many people as possible. Oh well, we'll get $200 more back!! (for the tax year 2018, so in 2019, right?)
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logger posted:The leopards weren't supposed to eat my face, how could this happen? lol if this causes finance workers to unionize not gonna happen but a man can dream
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Meanwhile, in the socialist hellscape of Sweden https://twitter.com/alisonkgerber/status/943429743965286400 (it's a really long thread)
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Moatman posted:Meanwhile, in the socialist hellscape of Sweden There's not even the faintest hope of a US party that would ever advocate anything like this, let alone a voting base for one.
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And FinTech is going to liquidate them.
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Playstation 4 posted:You are making the man who unironically said "The only hope for Democracy lies with Mark Zuckerberg" look like a saintly genius in comparison to what you are posting right now. Please take some time away from a keyboard to contemplate both why you feel the constant need to use and defend the use of a slur as well as this idiotic statement. I said I wouldn't use that word again and this guy is still raging. So gently caress him. I honestly didn't know that this was considered a slur, especially in the context in which I used it.
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pkay posted:I said I wouldn't use that word again and this guy is still raging. So gently caress him. I honestly didn't know that this was considered a slur, especially in the context in which I used it. If someone engages you in good faith and says you're doing something harmful, and you honestly didn't realize you were doing something harmful, the proper response isn't to continue trying to score points off them. Especially with something as tired as "this is why Trump won."
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And btw, nobody's perfect. Nobody's saying you're an rear end in a top hat for using a slur in the first place, since they're ingrained in our culture. But you are an rear end in a top hat if you cling to it and defend it for no reason. A few times just in the past day, I've noticed that I used a slur in a post and just went back and edited it. No rending of clothes or gnashing of teeth required.
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Moatman posted:Meanwhile, in the socialist hellscape of Sweden Jesus Christ, why is this 3000-word essay a twitter thread? For anyone else who wants to read this in simple-text format: quote:So I'm an American living in Sweden, the socialist nanny-state hellscape of the GOP's fantasies. Here's what it's like to live in a country with a high effective tax rate and a commitment to spending for the common good: I don't worry that a minor accident, illness, or other bump in the road will derail my family's future or mean that we lose everything. We have excellent health care and social insurance, and the state steps up when we are in a crisis.
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Fulchrum posted:Here's a good idea for if you should shut the gently caress up - see if you are making arguments someone who wanted to scream the n word would make. If you are, shut the gently caress up you immense piece of poo poo. Yea, calling me an immense piece of poo poo surely is the way forward. Once again, gently caress this guy and everything he stands for. I agreed to stop using the word and he continued to have a ragegasm.
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It's petty and spiteful to find this as darkly humorous as I do, but hey! See how it feels, rear end in a top hat?
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KickerOfMice posted:It's petty and spiteful to find this as darkly humorous as I do, but hey! See how it feels, rear end in a top hat? Just wait til they are completely replaced by AI.
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VikingofRock posted:Jesus Christ, why is this 3000-word essay a twitter thread? For anyone else who wants to read this in simple-text format: But, but...! American exceptionalism! Socialism lead to Communism, and that to the USSR! Which is kind of a moot point now, since Putin is in the driver's seat... ...a driver's seat with no steering wheel, but still!
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Obama and Hillary are polling so poorly with me right now, I don't even...
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Who is Rubashkin? Why would Trump care? Why now?
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Rinkles posted:Who is Rubashkin? Why would Trump care? Why now? He's an evil Rabbi whose sentence T-bagz just commuted. e- Okay I don't know if he's evil evil, or just a dickhead, but cmon... Now THAT's a smugface if I've ever seen one. KickerOfMice fucked around with this message at 11:09 on Dec 21, 2017 |
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Is it a favor to someone?
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