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Crow Jane posted:So much for the tolerant left, amirite I love how this is a thing. Like... Democrats have been so hilariously centrist for so long, but been called leftists for their trouble. Leftists always hated these fascist pigs and now they're a more prominent voice in the party so the label just rings hollow, because Kamala "ICE plays an important role" Harris is just as leftist as AOC to the avid talk radio consumer.
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:I don't even GET Trump. Like GW was charismatic, even tho I hated his stupid guts, I could understand why people liked him. He's your racist Facebook uncle and he makes liberals mad. That is literally the only attraction--when you hear "He's just saying what we're all thinking", you can automatically translate it as "He's saying what I and my fellow racists are thinking".
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:I don't even GET Trump. Like GW was charismatic, even tho I hated his stupid guts, I could understand why people liked him. quote:This is America, not Denmark. In this country, tens of millions of people choose to watch FoxNews not simply because Americans are credulous idiots or at the behest of some right-wing corporate cabal, but because average Americans respect viciousness. They are attracted to viciousness for a lot of reasons. In part, it reminds them of their bosses, whom they secretly adore. Americans hate themselves for the way they behave in public, always smiling and nodding their heads with accompanying really?s and uh-huhs to show that they’re listening to the other person, never having the guts to say what they really feel. So they vicariously scream and bully others into submission through right-wing surrogate-brutes. Spending time watching Sean Hannity is enough for your average American white male to feel less cowardly than he really is. http://exiledonline.com/we-the-spiteful/ Note that it was written in 2011. Trump is a horrible person's ideal person: aggressively horrible and selfish, but no matter how dumb or horrible he is, he's the top bully and nobody can make him shut up or go away. Think back to grade school bullies. Everyone reacted to the bullies differently. Some people fought the bullies, some avoided them, etc., but some people decided the bully was an ideal to look up to. Those people are now Trump's base.
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Tibalt posted:What are you even talking about. This applies to like a half dozen of you who didn't read the article or the last two pages. the exec quoted talking about the pricing didn't mention cost of production at all, and said the pricing was put in place cause alternative treatments were expensive. i'm not sure why you think that the drug was pricey cause it cost a ton to produce. there's no evidence for that in the piece I quoted
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Foe gently caress sakes Ben, you don't even like Trump Is it that hard to think people don't irrationally hate the human pile of trash?
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While this is hilarious, the ongoing rehabilitation of GWB and his administration is seriously pissing me off.
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TulliusCicero posted:Foe gently caress sakes Ben, you don't even like Trump The rub is that Ben Shapiro does like Trump, in terms of ideology, he just thinks Trump is too vulgar to publicly support. (it's because Bush and Trump aren't that different  )Chilichimp posted:I love how this is a thing. Like... Democrats have been so hilariously centrist for so long, but been called leftists for their trouble. It's significant actually because right-wing media has spent so long working themselves into a tizzy over the supposed "communism" of people like Nancy "we're capitalists" Pelosi that basic social democracy from someone like AOC is simply incomprehensible to them.
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Nov 20, 2018 17:21
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Lightning Knight posted:Trump's likeability is a mystery to you because you aren't a bad person. The type of people attracted to Trump are bad people. The issue basically is that liberal media has decided to portray the "average Trump voter" as trailer-dwelling lower class white people, when in reality his base of support is well-to-do suburban white people. That the latter group may actually be atrocious people is anathema to the media because it implies the entire basis of American culture is rotten. Thread title?
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Tibalt posted:What are you even talking about. This applies to like a half dozen of you who didn't read the article or the last two pages. rest assured, we get that you are arguing that is not what is going on here. the part where your supporting evidence, in its entirety, is "pharmaceutical ceos wouldn't do a Bad, because decorum" is the part where you're inviting comment
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Nov 20, 2018 17:24
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Chilichimp posted:Thread title? Not as funny as the current one imo.
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Lightning Knight posted:Not as funny as the current one imo. The current one is worth a day or two, for sure.
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USPol: Wonder Drug Proves Too Costly, While Bespoke Guillotine Market Thrives USPol: Dow Down 800 Points, Guillotine Futures at All-Time High USPol: He's Not Centrist: He's My Brother Ate My Balls Redux fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Nov 20, 2018 |
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Nov 20, 2018 17:27
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I like how I call for the nationalization of insulin production but think mass executions aren't justified, and that makes me a centrist. The entire healthcare system surrounding renal disease should be nationalized too imo.
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Nov 20, 2018 17:31
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This is just poor homework on her part. Confederate hat and a Revolutionary war era Charleville musket. Were the confederates even still using those things?
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Nov 20, 2018 17:34
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Tibalt posted:I like how I call for the nationalization of insulin production but think mass executions aren't justified, and that makes me a centrist. i like turtles, while we're enjoying a round of non-sequiturs about things we enjoy
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Tibalt posted:The entire healthcare system yep
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DandyLion posted:This is just poor homework on her part. Confederate hat and a Revolutionary war era Charleville musket. Were the confederates even still using those things? They might have been by the end of the war.
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:i like turtles, while we're enjoying a round of non-sequiturs about things we enjoy
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DandyLion posted:This is just poor homework on her part. Confederate hat and a Revolutionary war era Charleville musket. Were the confederates even still using those things? I mean, it is likely that at least some were at the beginning of the war, since people showed up with whatever their fathers and grandfathers had left over from wars past.
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I watched the first episode and a half of the last season of House of Cards the other day. The main plot is apparently Kevin Spacey (the president) was assassinated by a shadow cabal of wealthy people in his own bed and Robin Wright is trying to figure out the conspiracy. When your awful, West Wingish show is even pointing at conspiracies of the wealthy, you know the inequality is resonating in pop culture.
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:I watched the first episode and a half of the last season of House of Cards the other day. The main plot is apparently Kevin Spacey (the president) was assassinated by a shadow cabal of wealthy people in his own bed and Robin Wright is trying to figure out the conspiracy. Eh, they just had to write in a plot point to get rid of the sex pest.
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DandyLion posted:This is just poor homework on her part. Confederate hat and a Revolutionary war era Charleville musket. Were the confederates even still using those things? Looks like it might be a Springfield Model 1861 which were very common during the war. But the difference is primarily whether they were rifled or not so who knows
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Nov 20, 2018 17:45
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Chilichimp posted:I love how this is a thing. Like... Democrats have been so hilariously centrist for so long, but been called leftists for their trouble. I forget who said it originally, but it's like the theory that as the right continued to scream "SOCIALISM" at even the weakest, most moderate Dem proposals and refused to compromise over the years, eventually it would come to pass where the harder left members of the Dems would start to go "well, gently caress it then" and go full-on towards socialist policies, because centrist bipartisanship is no longer working. And it's really only just beginning. 
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A good summary of why I'm reacting to Dem control of the house with extremely tempered enthusiasm. https://theweek.com/articles/808427/democrats-are-already-running-scared?utm_source=links&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=twitter
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I forget who said it originally, but it's like the theory that as the right continued to scream "SOCIALISM" at even the weakest, most moderate Dem proposals and refused to compromise over the years, eventually it would come to pass where the harder left members of the Dems would start to go "well, gently caress it then" and go full-on towards socialist policies, because centrist bipartisanship is no longer working. And it's really only just beginning. I wonder how long it will take for us to dump the stigma that socialism in any form will turn us into Stalinist Russia instantly rather than creating things like libraries. Look at the ACA, no one wanted it before it launched because SOCIALISM and now people are pissing blood at the idea of it being taken away. I know that it's by design but come on people
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Lightning Knight posted:I mean, it is likely that at least some were at the beginning of the war, since people showed up with whatever their fathers and grandfathers had left over from wars past.
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Tibalt posted:I like how I call for the nationalization of insulin production but think mass executions aren't justified, and that makes me a centrist. I think a lot of people aren't interested in distinguishing between the particularly greedy shitheads and the people who make reasonable decisions under capitalism when both have massive human costs. Pharma CEOs take a ton of heat because even the only rational business choice can produce horrible outcomes; it doesn't matter to the people with the disease if it's a capitalism problem or a pharma problem.
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Nov 20, 2018 17:51
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Never read the replies to her tweets, is always full of horny boys. "I don't own a gun..." I pray the Lord their posts to take
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This is just unfair. I don't like guns and my dick is very gnarled.
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Rent-A-Cop posted:It certainly wouldn't be surprising. Arms production in the Confederacy was hosed. They used a mismash of seized US arms, obsolete antiques, smuggled European stuff, and domestically produced knockoffs of widely variable quality all throughout the war. Now just imagine keeping that mishmash of weapons supplied with ammo. Logistics is a more bitter enemy than grapeshot.
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Is this person famous? She posts a lot of pictures of her boobs.
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Push El Burrito posted:This is just unfair. I don't like guns and my dick is very gnarled. #notallweirddicks
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:A good summary of why I'm reacting to Dem control of the house with extremely tempered enthusiasm.
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Tibalt posted:Peter DeFazio has a B rating from Progressive Punch and a 91% lifetime rating from the League of Conservation Voters, so it's a bit odd that this article points to his chairmanship of the climate change committee as some sort of huge betrayal by Pelosi. Since when do progressives like us care what Conservationtive voters think about the man?
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Tibalt posted:Peter DeFazio has a B rating from Progressive Punch and a 91% lifetime rating from the League of Conservation Voters, so it's a bit odd that this article points to his chairmanship of the climate change committee as some sort of huge betrayal by Pelosi. DeFazio has said he won't do what's necessary to stop climate change, it's not "technologically possible" (lol). Two choices: a) react to that reality b) post some meaningless rating from Good Progressives Inc
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Brony Car posted:Is this person famous? She posts a lot of pictures of her boobs. I only saw one gratuitous photo. I don't know about "famous" but she might be a goon based on this tweet: https://twitter.com/nachosarah/status/988940176343711744?s=19
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OAquinas posted:Now just imagine keeping that mishmash of weapons supplied with ammo. Logistics is a more bitter enemy than grapeshot.
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Crow Jane posted:#notallweirddicks   
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