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Gene Hackman Fan
Dec 27, 2002

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

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anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool
candice isnt real or shes trying really hard to get a 300k job yelling at people on twitter which lets face it they will probably give her

Gunshow Poophole
Sep 14, 2008

OMBUDSMAN
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Clapping Larry
speakina facing it I see she's fixed her eyebrows

Chillgamesh
Jul 29, 2014

anime was right posted:

candice isnt real or shes trying really hard to get a 300k job yelling at people on twitter which lets face it they will probably give her

Isn't she the one that set up a giant donut botnet to astroturf centrist comments on twitter?

Gene Hackman Fan
Dec 27, 2002

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Chillgamesh posted:

Isn't she the one that set up a giant donut botnet to astroturf centrist comments on twitter?

no, that was the former employee of newt gingrich, sally albright

Corky Romanovsky
Oct 1, 2006

Soiled Meat

nah, socioeconomics not that complicated

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



now i'm just a simple country folk, but seems to me congress is gettin' a bit too big for their britches what with all them data centers

forbidden dialectics
Jul 26, 2005





Chillgamesh posted:

Isn't she the one that set up a giant donut botnet to astroturf centrist comments on twitter?

no, candace is a LAWYER who photoshopped hillary clinton's face onto her face and made it her twitter avi

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


Whats really amazing is when you realize the cold war worked as a means to put pressure on the elite like better take care of the uppity poors or else Moscow will get a toehold in america and before you know it little johnny is a young pioneer singing about Lenin and the second the ussr collapsed they were like well we won i guess we can start unravelling all these concessions we gave the working class decades ago to prevent a revolution lol

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

Chillgamesh posted:

*woman finally has a chance to sit down after a long day working her two jobs as a cashier and frycook and putting her kid to bed* Sigh... if only someone would give new college graduates a deferment on their loans, if they plan to open a business

it's like they forget that no one actually likes capitalism

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


anime was right posted:

candice isnt real or shes trying really hard to get a 300k job yelling at people on twitter which lets face it they will probably give her

not gonna link it here but you can google her name and the city she says she lives in on her twitter bio and find her law firm so i’d say yes, she is somehow real

Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy

basic hitler posted:

Whats really amazing is when you realize the cold war worked as a means to put pressure on the elite like better take care of the uppity poors or else Moscow will get a toehold in america and before you know it little johnny is a young pioneer singing about Lenin and the second the ussr collapsed they were like well we won i guess we can start unravelling all these concessions we gave the working class decades ago to prevent a revolution lol

Also, they're even more up their own assholes then their predecessors were a century ago. They don't even have the crap Protestantism to tell them to be moralistic shitheads who give out breadcrumbs anymore to even be like the early progressives.

The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

forbidden dialectics posted:

no, candace is a LAWYER* who photoshopped hillary clinton's face onto her face and made it her twitter avi

*not actually a lawyer

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!
oh dear we're back into the Candice Aiston saga are we

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin

Byolante posted:

Where is the proof the Russian government hacked the dnc servers any way? The dnc refused to let anyone legitimate do forensics. There is no reason to believe it.

Skull.gif linked a pretty comprehensive blog on it in the Trump thread and the two most compelling points were that the bitly link used to phish podesta came from a logged in account used in other gru phishing, and also a lot of tracing Bitcoin purchases (which we know the feds are very into) for dnc hacking infrastructure back to gru

Those two took me to finally accept it was probably the ruskies although we'll never know for sure

Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Feldegast42 posted:

I'm still pretty worried that they can flip her (not that she is secretly a bad dem, but she is relatively young and inexperienced and these fucks have had decades worth of experience corrupting idealists into centrists)

most of the corrupted idealists were more or less fine with being corrupted and were corrupted in an era without resurgent socialism or the social media spotlight

i'm not terribly concerned

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


You should be weary. Her upset is what's important right now. She has yet to prove herself as a quality leftist in the long term. It would be smart to be weary and not be too confident she won't get bought out. We'll see. If she keeps company like bernie i won't worry too much but if she starts becoming pals with succdems then start worrying

The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Lastgirl posted:

oh dear we're back into the Candice Aiston saga are we

this is like in an old super nintendo rpg where you think you defeated the final boss then lightning starts flashing and the music goes from frenetic to ominous and they come back in their true form

KaptainKrunk
Feb 6, 2006


basic hitler posted:

Whats really amazing is when you realize the cold war worked as a means to put pressure on the elite like better take care of the uppity poors or else Moscow will get a toehold in america and before you know it little johnny is a young pioneer singing about Lenin and the second the ussr collapsed they were like well we won i guess we can start unravelling all these concessions we gave the working class decades ago to prevent a revolution lol

yeah, once it became clear by the late 1960s that the Soviet Union's growth model was pretty badly compromised and was no longer a legitimate threat like it was in the 1940s and 1950s the neoliberals came out of the woodwork

FreakerByTheSpeaker
Dec 3, 2006

You got your good things
And I've got mine



Jesus do I love the Onion.

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

KaptainKrunk posted:

yeah, once it became clear by the late 1960s that the Soviet Union's growth model was pretty badly compromised and was no longer a legitimate threat like it was in the 1940s and 1950s the neoliberals came out of the woodwork

Was it clear by the late 60s though? Or did you mean late 70s?

FreakerByTheSpeaker
Dec 3, 2006

You got your good things
And I've got mine
I was under the impression the feds were caught completely flat footed by the collapse of the Soviet Union.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

It's actually about sensible moderate leadership in US politics

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Shear Modulus posted:

now i'm just a simple country folk, but seems to me congress is gettin' a bit too big for their britches what with all them data centers

tax credits for districts with less than two data centers

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

FreakerByTheSpeaker posted:

I was under the impression the feds were caught completely flat footed by the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The actual event caught most everyone off guard as did the speed of collapse. Gorbachev becoming general secretary was presumed to be the latest round of Soviet reformism that would patch over the weaker parts of their economy and grant some superficial relaxation of social and political controls while getting them out of their nightmarish quagmire in Afghanistan, not herald the beginning of the end.

Lessail
Apr 1, 2011

:cry::cry:
tell me how vgk aren't playing like shit again
:cry::cry:
p.s. help my grapes are so sour!

Shear Modulus posted:

now i'm just a simple country folk, but seems to me congress is gettin' a bit too big for their britches what with all them data centers

consolidate to nothingness, radical

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008


https://twitter.com/heatherrook/status/1021216696051355649

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

FreakerByTheSpeaker posted:

I was under the impression the feds were caught completely flat footed by the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The Dead Hand has some great bits on how the Clinton administration couldn't keep up with how fast Russia collapsed, up to and including fissile material that was sitting in unlocked, unguarded warehouses

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


lmao this fucker

https://twitter.com/saletan/status/1021192375337668608?s=21

MaxxBot
Oct 6, 2003

you could have clapped

you should have clapped!!
Please provide a home for the poor neocon political refugees who just want to turn the entire mideast into a sheet of glass

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy

gradenko_2000 posted:

The Dead Hand has some great bits on how the Clinton administration couldn't keep up with how fast Russia collapsed, up to and including fissile material that was sitting in unlocked, unguarded warehouses

This book owns.

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。

Lastgirl posted:

oh dear we're back into the Candice Aiston saga are we

maggie: out

candice: in

Gene Hackman Fan
Dec 27, 2002

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/KrangTNelson/status/1021141236135145472

World War Mammories
Aug 25, 2006


basic hitler posted:

Whats really amazing is when you realize the cold war worked as a means to put pressure on the elite like better take care of the uppity poors or else Moscow will get a toehold in america and before you know it little johnny is a young pioneer singing about Lenin and the second the ussr collapsed they were like well we won i guess we can start unravelling all these concessions we gave the working class decades ago to prevent a revolution lol

Gumball Gumption
Jan 7, 2012


How stupid do you have to be to look at the record low voter turnouts and go "We shouldn't change the message"

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


Gumball Gumption posted:

How stupid do you have to be to look at the record low voter turnouts and go "We shouldn't change the message"

When the message that is gaining traction is the one you're specifically paid to marginalize as much as possible it doesnt matter how smart or dumb you are

Grognan
Jan 23, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Gumball Gumption posted:

How stupid do you have to be to look at the record low voter turnouts and go "We shouldn't change the message"

feature, not bug

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。
spoilers for the opening of this week's chapo but

quote:

That’s what drives us at OZY: the idea that more is possible. And we’re not afraid to challenge assumptions about the way the world is in order to see the world the way it could be. That conviction is right in our name. Yup, it’s from the Percy Bysshe Shelley poem “Ozymandias.” And yup, most folks read that poem as a caution against big egos and the impermanence of power.

We read it differently. To us, the poem says think big, but be humble , lest you end up “two vast and trunkless legs…in the desert.”

We know that’s an unconventional interpretation. And that’s who we are. Because in a world littered with conformity, we like to see things differently. We hope, through OZY, you will too.

forbidden dialectics
Jul 26, 2005







(yes its real)

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Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Rand alPaul posted:

Does Sharice have a degree in political science?

my fav centrist take on aoc's degrees is "heh she knows nothing despite her fancy education" despite the obvious conclusion being "she knows more than me"

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