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i mean thats what theyve been doing all along who even needs context?
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*New millionaire trend is making poor people fight to the death in elaborate torture/rape dungeons. Republican voters: "Job creators!"
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Sep 12, 2018 14:34
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Casimir Radon posted:*New millionaire trend is making poor people fight to the death in elaborate torture/rape dungeons. Videotaping the torture, or torturing with duct tape?
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Sep 12, 2018 14:35
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Mister Sinewave posted:This past couple years feels like turning into that Roddy Piper movie THEY LIVE except instead of seeing everything reduced to OBEY and SLEEP and poo poo it all says GUILLOTINES We've needed a national anthem change for a while. https://youtu.be/acT_PSAZ7BQ
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Sep 12, 2018 14:52
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BigDave posted:I have not. It's pretty much exactly what it sounds like. If someone earns below a line then the government pays them some amount instead of charging them tax. It's been put forth as a more pragmatic/affordable way to approach universal basic income. The Economist has a good article about UBI where they talk about it but I'm on my phone and can't find it.
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Sep 12, 2018 15:02
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DaNerd posted:It's pretty much exactly what it sounds like. If someone earns below a line then the government pays them some amount instead of charging them tax. It's been put forth as a more pragmatic/affordable way to approach universal basic income. The Economist has a good article about UBI where they talk about it but I'm on my phone and can't find it. Its also the only way capitalism will survive, since despite the wealth vacuum, still depends on the purchasing power of lower/middle class Americans to feed into it to be viable.
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Sep 12, 2018 15:08
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CommieGIR posted:Its also the only way capitalism will survive, since despite the wealth vacuum, still depends on the purchasing power of lower/middle class Americans to feed into it to be viable. Uhhh if the top 1% have 100% of the money who cares? (I wonder if the super rich actually think holding 100% of the money is a good thing)
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Sep 12, 2018 15:11
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boop the snoot posted:Uhhh if the top 1% have 100% of the money who cares? Thats when they go full Bond Villain and stow away to an Island or Mountain fortress. Or be Bezos and just trying to figure out ways to launch your wealthy rear end into space away from the poors.
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Sep 12, 2018 15:15
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They're incapable of thoughts or feelings beyond accumulating more wealth to the extent that they're killing the planet, so no i doubt that they really have put much thought into that, and even then who cares. The rich and conservative people are literally a threat to life on earth and will probably be the cause of the biggest extinction event since like 60 million years ago. Lol
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Sep 12, 2018 15:16
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Conservatives are being silenced!!! https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1039577325828882438?s=19 Lmao gently caress this lovely world
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Sep 12, 2018 15:26
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CommieGIR posted:Thats when they go full Bond Villain and stow away to an Island or Mountain fortress. Peter Theil is trying to do this to New Zealand. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand
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Sep 12, 2018 15:42
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Ben Folds seems to have gotten sick of the current poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhJ3rL1IDpo
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Sep 12, 2018 16:01
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ben folds owns
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Sep 12, 2018 16:28
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Stormpost: the precipitation forecast makes it look like a decent bit of the NC coast between Wilmington, Havelock and Jacksonville might be getting over half a loving METER of rain over 5 days. Like, knee-deep water, coming from the sky, for every square meter. That's only the Global British Standard (GBS) model. The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (GCMWF) model only predicts 46" of rain, and the Global US Standard (GFS) model is predicting 57" of rain. You can look at more models here: https://weather.us/model-charts/standard/north-carolina/acc-total-precipitation/20180918-0000z.html. The official US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predictions only go to 20-25" of rain. But still, there is no place on Earth than can handle two feet of rain in two or three days without flooding. 
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Sep 12, 2018 16:35
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:ben folds owns  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A2-ACZhg_g TMBG is still on-tour, if you want to feel old. The first live show I went to was to see them in Ann Arbor.
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Sep 12, 2018 16:35
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I’m 72 inches tall. 46 inches of rain is mind boggling.
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Sep 12, 2018 16:37
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Congratulations Jimmy Carter, you just won tickets for the guillotine https://apnews.com/85d5e600f3524c07bd0ca641a15d6e61?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP_Politics
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Sep 12, 2018 16:40
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mods changed my name posted:Congratulations Jimmy Carter, you just won tickets for the guillotine Lol that a “very liberal program” in his mind is universal health care, something that poles well on both sides of the isle. (as long as it’s not branded as Obamacare.) I wonder where he thinks owning the means to production falls? Maybe there is a reason he was a one term president.
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Sep 12, 2018 16:47
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He's still an old white man who is probably still fairly rich. He would be the last to the guillotine because of all of his great humanitarian work but he still has to go
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Sep 12, 2018 16:55
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mods changed my name posted:Congratulations Jimmy Carter, you just won tickets for the guillotine Yea I love Jimmy carter and all but dude is 94 years old so uh he may not be totally in touch. He can continue to build homes for the poor and watching sunsets on his broke peanut farm tho. 
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Sep 12, 2018 16:58
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the fact he did and still does habitat for humanity since he was president gives him a pass from me, idc
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Sep 12, 2018 16:58
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Same. Jimmy Carter isn't a bad guy. He'll probably die framing a window for some poor family with 7 kids.
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Sep 12, 2018 17:11
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:the fact he did and still does habitat for humanity since he was president gives him a pass from me, idc Yeah, he's an old white dude but he's done enough good that he gets passed over by the mob so that he can die of heart failure a year or two later anyway.
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Sep 12, 2018 17:11
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He's history's greatest monster!
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Sep 12, 2018 17:14
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...orgia-hometown/ Good article on Carter. The man has definitely tried to make the world a better place without selling out.
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Sep 12, 2018 17:14
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It's just disappointing
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Same. Jimmy Carter isn't a bad guy. He'll probably die framing a window for some poor family with 7 kids. I feel he could have had a bigger impact on this nation with a career at SPLC.
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Sep 12, 2018 17:19
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i dont really expect jimmy carter to be a hardline socialist
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Sep 12, 2018 17:19
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It's always seemed pretty weird to me to preach Jesus poo poo while simultaneously denying millions of people the right to live because of money but what do i know
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Sep 12, 2018 17:20
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no see jesus doesnt love poors so its ok and the middle class definitely isnt going to almost entirely collapse and im just a temporarily embarrassed millionaire
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Sep 12, 2018 17:21
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golden bubble posted:That's only the Global British Standard (GBS) model. The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (GCMWF) model only predicts 46" of rain, and the Global US Standard (GFS) model is predicting 57" of rain. You can look at more models here: https://weather.us/model-charts/standard/north-carolina/acc-total-precipitation/20180918-0000z.html. The official US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predictions only go to 20-25" of rain. But still, there is no place on Earth than can handle two feet of rain in two or three days without flooding. Excellent, national models are only predicting just under a meter of rain over three days, but it's nowhere near the ludicrous estimates of more than a meter of rain. The fact that conservative estimates correct the potential to around a level of "loving catastrophic" from estimates of "beyond any amount of loving catastrophic we could imagine" is almost more terrifying than the weird models that have Florence going up and down the NC/SC coastline for five loving days before peacing out towards the NY coastline. /edit: That wasn't meant as a dig at you. It's just that I know the catastrophe-covering threads on SA tend to hype the worst possible outcome from following them over the past couple of years (which is why I take them with a grain of salt), but when the most defensive predictions still amount to what is going to be an absolute nightmare, it just scares the crap out of me. I have an army buddy from Charleston whose grandpa took off to Savannah with his family yesterday, while another buddy in chapel hill is staying put. And while Chapel hill is nowhere close to what Wilmington is facing, it just kinda freaks me out. Duzzy Funlop fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Sep 12, 2018 |
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:Lol that a “very liberal program” in his mind is universal health care, something that poles well on both sides of the isle. (as long as it’s not branded as Obamacare.) I wonder where he thinks owning the means to production falls? Carter was a one-term president because he had zero relationship with congress and got into dickwaving contests with his own party as the economy and the world were crumbling around him. He's not a bad person, but he was unquestionably a bad president.
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mods changed my name posted:It's always seemed pretty weird to me to preach Jesus poo poo while simultaneously denying millions of people the right to live because of money but what do i know If the article is accurate, I think he was merely discussing UHC as a matter of political strategy, rather than the concept or merits of UHC itself. Take that as you will, but it's not the same thing.
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Sep 12, 2018 17:24
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Does the message of "wait till its more convenient" or whatever jive with the life of christ and his sacrifice while spreading the good news of our lord, God?
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Excellent, national models are only predicting just under a meter of rain over three days, but it's nowhere near the ludicrous estimates of more than a meter of rain. To be fair, the Canadians are much more optimistic than the rest. The Global Canadian Standard is calling for 29" of rain.
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Sep 12, 2018 17:28
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"good things aren't possible right now" - Jesus
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mods changed my name posted:"good things aren't possible right now" - Jesus I mean most religion is founded in fatalistic principles of enduring suffering right now for unseen reward after you die so yeah it's probably not surprising most religious conservatives aren't a fan of UHC or world peace.
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Sep 12, 2018 17:31
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Hmm good point. It seems that yet again, Marx was right.
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Sep 12, 2018 17:34
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Come to think of it, any damage Chapel Hill sustains is probably duly deserved from a history of not wanting black people around. That place was a loving mystery to me when I went there for a wedding. It was like 'Get Out', except I was one of the white people there that wasn't read-in on what they're using black folks for
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Seriously, when we were being ferried from the hotel to the ceremony and then along to the reception while taking a tour of downtown Chapel Hill on a Saturday with all the fraternities having cookouts and pep-rallies on their front lawn, I jokingly asked "Where do you hide your black people?, and everyone within earshot chuckled in this aww-shucks kind of manner like the naive German dude didn't know the lay of the land
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