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pumpinglemma posted:I have a Chinese friend who unironically argues that Trump and Brexit prove democracy is a terrible system and China's approach is better. Obviously I don't agree, but I'm not particularly surprised the pro-army rule group is growing. whats chinas approach mean? Theyre sliding back into a dictatorship. Dont we have plenty of historical evidence that dictators are bad?
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thewalk posted:whats chinas approach mean? Theyre sliding back into a dictatorship. Dont we have plenty of historical evidence that dictators are bad? China's cultural appetite for nationalism seeps into a lot of Chinese people who are otherwise smart and reasonable.
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Sorus posted:How much of this is bullets? This is actually becoming a problem.
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thewalk posted:whats chinas approach mean? Theyre sliding back into a dictatorship. Dont we have plenty of historical evidence that dictators are bad? China's official position is that its brand of ostensibly worker-focused oligarchy is the best system. More stable than democracies, less tyrannical than dictatorships, and the guiding principles of the CCP prevent the exploitation of the weak (yeah right)
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actionjackson posted:"Gonna be I think I even see a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range on the shelf.
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thewalk posted:whats chinas approach mean? Theyre sliding back into a dictatorship. Dont we have plenty of historical evidence that dictators are bad? China used to be a Democracy?
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How much Alabama gun crime can be traced to guns stolen from gas stations like that?
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Pakled posted:China's official position is that its brand of ostensibly worker-focused oligarchy is the best system. More stable than democracies, less tyrannical than dictatorships, and the guiding principles of the CCP prevent the exploitation of the weak (yeah right) Also Papa Xi cult of personality bullshit.
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Caros posted:You are misreading it. They whisked him off to play golf, in order to keep him from getting any angrier and possibly trying to fire sessions again. This is the political equivalent of taking your shrieking child to dairy queen in order to get them to calm down. Except this man has access to the nuclear codes. "MAR-A-LAGO! MAR-A-LAGO! MAR-A-LAGO!" We need the equivalent of someone who can drive Trump to the McDonald's drive-thru then order a coffee for themselves. TyroneGoldstein posted:Brazen Bull. Generally considered a fictional torture device (like the iron maiden) from antiquity. gently caress that. Scaphism would be the way to go for Trump stooges. Charliegrs posted:I'm going to take a wild guess and say Medvedev will be president of Russia every 12 years then. Putin's 65 right now, so he's nearing the expiration limit for most of the Soviet premiers, save Gorbachev and Georgy Malenkov, so it's likely this will be the last go-around. Given the similarities in reign, comfort level, etc., I'd probably put Putin's retirement closer to Stalin and Brezhnev, who died at 75 and 76 after being in charge 29 years and 18 years, respectively.
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Katt posted:China used to be a Democracy? I think they're differentiating between dictatorship under one person (like Mao) and oligarchy.
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Fallom posted:My Facebook is just funny videos and people I know talking about the cool stuff they’re doing. I half suspect that the people who see an avalanche of garbage are doing it to themselves. depends what your family and life social circle consists of. For most of my 40 years of life my social circle built up in ohio, my family, military friends And then Obama got elected and I started to see how horrible many of them are via facebook. Then they elected Trump and like pigs rolling in their own poo poo joyously. Yeah you start cutting people off. Start building new social circles. But certain connections are harder to sever and then once in a while theyll post some fox news garbage they got from one of their contacts and the finger starts to hover over the de friend button
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Katt posted:China used to be a Democracy? It's more 'democratic' in local elections. It's never been a democracy beyond that, but I don't think anyone suggested it had been. They did have at least a semblance of one-party rule instead of one-person rule, but abolishing term limits puts them squarely in Mao territory.
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TheKingofSprings posted:People secretly want a dictator right up until they actually get a dictator? It's the same thing about kings, as long as that dictator has your same belief system or you perceive it as such, they're fine with it. If Trump decided tomorrow that, after some soul-searching, has converted to Islam and has begun transitioning to become a woman, and was willing to use the military to disarm the population and redistribute the wealth, you'd see his base come around to thinking they've elected the Anti-Christ. Krispy Wafer posted:It's more 'democratic' in local elections. At least with one-party rule, you still have factions vying for power.
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You can tell he's a lawyer because he clearly wrote that in a word processor and copy pasted it into the tweet box, hence the weird use of line breaks. Lawyers loving love manual line breaks.
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Rinkles posted:Does Trump have another plausible reason for hating McCabe---even just something to give this situation an ounce of legitimacy for the Fox crowd---because right now it just looks like he's afraid of the FBI? His wife is a Democrat. No, this isnt a joke.
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Young Freud posted:It's the same thing about kings, as long as that dictator has your same belief system or you perceive it as such, they're fine with it. If Trump decided tomorrow that, after some soul-searching, has converted to Islam and has begun transitioning to become a woman, and was willing to use the military to disarm the population and redistribute the wealth, you'd see his base come around to thinking they've elected the Anti-Christ. No they wouldn't. They would cut their penises off themselves on video while kissing a Quron. Their a cult, if he told them to believe the opposite of everything they think now, they'd follow.
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Rinkles posted:Does Trump have another plausible reason for hating McCabe---even just something to give this situation an ounce of legitimacy for the Fox crowd---because right now it just looks like he's afraid of the FBI? There was some shifty stuff going on with his wife and her Senate run. She got a big donation from a PAC associated with friends of the Clintons while at the same time her husband was investigating the Clinton email server. There are maybe two or three degrees of separation here, but it's close enough that McCabe shouldn't have been involved in the FBI investigation. Trump probably believes the $500k political contribution influenced the Clinton email results. So you've got FBI (hates), Clinton (hates even more), and a wife who was almost more successful than her husband (hates the most).
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Rinkles posted:Does Trump have another plausible reason for hating McCabe---even just something to give this situation an ounce of legitimacy for the Fox crowd---because right now it just looks like he's afraid of the FBI?
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Stickman posted:Feeding whipped cream to a dog is probably not the best, but what did the dog do?
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Covok posted:No they wouldn't. They would cut their penises off themselves on video while kissing a Quron. Their a cult, if he told them to believe the opposite of everything they think now, they'd follow. It's not so much if a cult, but rather it's important for them to have made the right choice. You can see that in pretty much everything they do/say.
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Covok posted:No they wouldn't. They would cut their penises off themselves on video while kissing a Quron. Their a cult, if he told them to believe the opposite of everything they think now, they'd follow. You must have forgotten when Trump floated the idea of gun control after Parkland and half of thedonald and the NRA freaked the gently caress out.
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Krispy Wafer posted:There was some shifty stuff going on with his wife and her Senate run. She got a big donation from a PAC associated with friends of the Clintons while at the same time her husband was investigating the Clinton email server. There are maybe two or three degrees of separation here, but it's close enough that McCabe shouldn't have been involved in the FBI investigation. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/949834366133456896.html
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Teddybear posted:You can tell he's a lawyer because he clearly wrote that in a word processor and copy pasted it into the tweet box, hence the weird use of line breaks. Lawyers loving love manual line breaks. so does everyone who uses slack :+1:
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PhazonLink posted:It's nice that news orgs use the worst pics of him.
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Office Pig posted:
I know we all love explanations that blame dumb Republicans, but to me it seems like the most likely explanation for the peak in "the president should not have to worry about congress" in 2011 (aside from bad study methodology) is that the left was sick of everything Obama did being blocked by Congress. 2011 Republicans absolutely did not want a more powerful president.
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Data Graham posted:so does I do this because in my mind Slack = (A)IM and so the manner of communication is more conversational where you say what’s on your mind as it comes to you and not in some long effort post with sentences and punctuation.
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Aramis posted:It's not so much if a cult, but rather it's important for them to have made the right choice. You can see that in pretty much everything they do/say.
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AmiYumi posted:Those are the most flattering pics, though. He’s that special case where someone really is as ugly on the outside as they are on the inside. Yeah, he's the Carlos II of Spain of American presidents, where even the best pictures of him still can't hide that he's got some major problems going on.
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Tayter Swift posted:https://twitter.com/popehat/status/975485103794044929?s=21 https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/975488992542998528?s=20
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Well poo poo.
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Krispy Wafer posted:There was some shifty stuff going on with his wife and her Senate run. She got a big donation from a PAC associated with friends of the Clintons while at the same time her husband was investigating the Clinton email server. There are maybe two or three degrees of separation here, but it's close enough that McCabe shouldn't have been involved in the FBI investigation. That's a lie and a half-truth combined. The lie: McCabe wasn't involved in the Clinton investigation until he was promoted into supervising it months after his wife's campaign had ended. The half-truth: McCabe's wife ran for the Virginia State Senate, and was given money by Clinton friend Terry MacAuliffe, who also was governor of Virginia at the time, so he was responsible for fundraising for Virginia Democrats. She wasn't just given money by friends of the Clintons because friends of the Clintons were looking out for Hillary and wanted to influence her, as is heavily implied by your phrasing.
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Young Freud posted:You must have forgotten when Trump floated the idea of gun control after Parkland and half of thedonald and the NRA freaked the gently caress out. They came home.
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AmiYumi posted:Those are the most flattering pics, though. He’s that special case where someone really is as ugly on the outside as they are on the inside.
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Marenghi posted:You forgot the 96 election. Where an unpopular Yeltsin looked set to lose to the Communist Party so the US got him a 10 billion loan through the IMF which helped him to buy the election. Its hard to blame them for USA election meddling thru facebook in comparison
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