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Saagonsa posted:Abolishing our current form of law enforcement/policing does not inherently mean that there would be no other less lovely system that would enforce the laws that would replace it. i'm still not sure whether i like that particular adaptation of 'abolish' since it's at odds with the prior colloquial and practical use of the verb, but i don't have a better one to suggest, so i guess we're just stuck with the followup "by abolish we mean getting rid of the bad parts and the current structure and replacing it with something better, which furthermore would look something li-"
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Fart City posted:There has been a notable uptick of thinkpieces about how badly McConnell has hosed up our government as of late. Makes you wonder how history will consider his legacy. It feels like there is a very good chance he’ll be (arguably deservedly) vilified more than Trump. I mean, both are heinous shitbags, but McConnell’s competency puts him ahead of Trump in terms of destructiveness to the institution, in my book. He'll be forgotten and the words "partisan gridlock" will be chanted as an explanation for why we're all eating rats and fighting in a post-apocalyptic hellscape.
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DeeplyConcerned posted:He'll be forgotten and the words "partisan gridlock" will be chanted as an explanation for why we're all eating rats and fighting in a post-apocalyptic hellscape. There was an opinion piece during the Kavanaugh fracas that called him "the gravedigger of democracy" and I hope that stays around and catches on.
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haveblue posted:There was an opinion piece during the Kavanaugh fracas that called him "the gravedigger of democracy" and I hope that stays around and catches on. too bad future generations won't know what graves are, corpses will be either left to rot where they fall or devoured for their nutrients
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theflyingorc posted:Holy poo poo, great job sweeping Japanese internment under the rug P sure that was bad and not required to beat Hitler or the Japanese Empire, and the people who criticized internment at the time were right to criticize it
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Kobayashi posted:Supported by a president we all hate, protected by a Senate we can't change. I have to admit, your suggestion that we indict the entire US government as complicit and your tacit call for revolution is the stronger message. I'm in! lol did a horse kick you in the head or something truly a genius take: don't talk about the systemic nature of the problem. very good leftism
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GreyjoyBastard posted:i'm still not sure whether i like that particular adaptation of 'abolish' since it's at odds with the prior colloquial and practical use of the verb, but i don't have a better one to suggest, so i guess we're just stuck with the followup "by abolish we mean getting rid of the bad parts and the current structure and replacing it with something better, which furthermore would look something li-" Yeah I'm not a huge fan either but it seems to be the one that's seemed to stick
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Wicked Them Beats posted:https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1062722069463425025 I loving swear it is so drat predictable at this point. I bet the security tapes mysteriously stopped recording too because police officers apparently all have low grade uncontrollable superpowers which cause them to disrupt image sensors. If I ever have the misfortune of recording such an incident I'm going to sit on the footage until the inevitable "cop good!" bullshit story comes out then drop it to the local media. Hopefully someone who was there is doing exactly that.
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VitalSigns posted:P sure that was bad and not required to beat Hitler or the Japanese Empire, and the people who criticized internment at the time were right to criticize it Actually no progress was made and we lost to Hitler because many people on our side also did bad things, throw FDR out of the party already (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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eke out posted:nobody "in a 5-4 opinion..." me because you're super wrong if you think Clarence Thomas is going to abandon his insane originalism I'm not saying he will or won't, but banking on the intellectual honesty of Clarence Thomas, or any conservative SCOTUS nominee of the last 50 years, is a gamble. No one predicted that Kennedy would absolutely poo poo all over his legacy the way he did, either. Clarence Thomas's wife is a huge lobbyist for the same groups Thomas always sides with on healthcare. He never recuses himself. He's not honest by any reasonable metric.
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Unzip and Attack posted:I'm not saying he will or won't, but banking on the intellectual honesty of Clarence Thomas, or any conservative SCOTUS nominee of the last 50 years, is a gamble. No one predicted that Kennedy would absolutely poo poo all over his legacy the way he did, either. If we keep this up, we'll successfully out-debate a joke
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Something a little different The_Donald reacts to Fox News defending CNN over Trump quote:Trump should offer to reinstate Acosta if cnn drops the lawsuit.
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theflyingorc posted:Actually no progress was made and we lost to Hitler because many people on our side also did bad things, throw FDR out of the party already Uh ok If you want to white-knight Japanese internment be my guest but maybe we should have a new thread about it
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Shifty Pony posted:I loving swear it is so drat predictable at this point. I bet the security tapes mysteriously stopped recording too because police officers apparently all have low grade uncontrollable superpowers which cause them to disrupt image sensors. At this point I feel like I can just write the police report for them. It's simultaneously depressing and infuriating. I also like the little note at the end of the press release about "innocent until proven guilty." Not how it worked out for the innocent man they gunned down, but I suppose the hypocrisy is lost on them. Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:I've called fox screaming about that ugly bastard Shepard probably 20 times over the years. Imagine being the poor intern who has to field these insane calls complaining that Shep Smith isn't spending enough time on pizzagate or whatever the insane cause of the day is.
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Shifty Pony posted:If I ever have the misfortune of recording such an incident I'm going to sit on the footage until the inevitable "cop good!" bullshit story comes out then drop it to the local media. Hopefully someone who was there is doing exactly that. They're going to immediately come and get the footage and you're not going to be able to stop them. Back up to the cloud.
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Chomskyan posted:
Good. Hopefully leadership reads this survey.
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Chomskyan posted:
Good. Time to open the blood gates and shove decorum up the right’s collective asses.
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Edmund Lava posted:Good. Hopefully leadership reads this survey. Depends upon who replaces Pelosi, but I wouldn't count on it, much less expect them to care if they bothered to read it.
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Edmund Lava posted:Good. Hopefully leadership reads this survey. Schumer will become more conservative in his ongoing quest to be the 25th most liberal senator.
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“We have always sacrificed our people into the volcano to appease the Feeding God. Why would we change course going forward?”
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Chomskyan posted:
lol why did it rise in the face of gop obstruction.
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Huge_Midget posted:Good. Time to open the blood gates and shove decorum up the right’s collective asses. Get ready for the media narrative to change from "partisongridlach" to "obstructionist democrats" and "punishing the president".... actually  - my body is ready for this
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Jaxyon posted:They're going to immediately come and get the footage and you're not going to be able to stop them. also make sure you use landscape instead of portrait bullshit. jfc at it being 2018 and people have to be taught cam 101 stuff.
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Groovelord Neato posted:lol why did it rise in the face of gop obstruction. They wanted to reach 69.
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TulliusCicero posted:How dare someone who has a degree in a field talk with some level of knowledge in it There’s a thing about credentials - they’re fast pass checks for basics in a field - the meat of evaluating a person’s expertise is always their work / publication history. An undergrad by itself requires nothing you can even look at that way, and thus confers very little credibility.
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Chomskyan posted:
That's from March. I'm pretty sure someone posted the results of a more recent and more detailed survey that finished the other week ITT or in the old Trump thread that found that more self-identified liberals still favor compromise. I'd find it for you but you're posting a thing from March like it's new so I'm matching your effort.
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Groovelord Neato posted:lol why did it rise in the face of gop obstruction.
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Groovelord Neato posted:lol why did it rise in the face of gop obstruction. We were told that the shame of obstruction would obliterate the GOP in 2016
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I want to see Turtle freak as he realizes the house is investigating everything that’s happened in the GOP up until today, down to how much TP he uses to wipe his loose old rear end on a daily basis. I’ll bet he has some ridiculous skeletons in that closet and boy howdy I can’t wait until they’re dropped in front of the public.
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https://twitter.com/AP/status/1062781457758871554 One of the few remaining California Republicans will be in charge of herding Republicans for the next few years
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Kevin McCarthy is now the House minority leader. He's notable for being possibly the dumbest man in DC. He's the last of this trio 
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Fart City posted:“We have always sacrificed our people into the volcano to appease the Feeding God. Why would we change course going forward?” look, if you have a better way to ensure healthy agricultural yields, i'm all ears
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Groovelord Neato posted:guys what happened to the midterm tax cuts??? The same thing that happened to the evil caravan of gangbangers and terrorist monsters.
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Party Plane Jones posted:every day i yell into the void 'stop posting like poo poo' and every day i look into this thread in horror like it's a bathroom at a jack-in-the-box after an e.coli outbreak If only some posters had warned you that combining the DEMS R BAD quarantine zone with the Trump thread would just result in poo poo. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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