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CubanMissile posted:Oh yeah, I'm sure they want murder holes and cauldrons of boiling oil too. It just still blows my mind that they think they'll actually get it. Though really nothing should surprise me after they honestly expected Mexico to pay for it because Trump said so. They got their obviously unqualified fascist elected president. I'd say that the only thing making the wall more absurd than President Trump is the monumental cost involved in building it, but then again, when the Trump presidency still ends, I imagine that the amount of money he will have cost America through grift, waste, and the cost of investigations and poo poo will probably be somewhat comparable.
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Lightning Knight posted:I mean lets be honest the average MAGA type wants the wall to basically be like the northern border from Full Metal Alchemist. That would explain why Trump looks increasingly like a melting homunculus.
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deoju posted:One freeper wanted a mountain range of used tires placed along the border. That led to my favorite d&d title ever... USPOL: A Song of ICE and Tire. Yeah, that was also probably my favorite thread title. I think the full one was "USPOL: Game of Drones: A Song of ICE and Tires"
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theblackw0lf posted:So does anyone have a good read on why this was able to pass in such overwhelming bipartisan fashion? The bill was co-sponsored by a republican that threatened to hold up judicial appointments if McConnell didn't bring it to the floor.
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https://twitter.com/SwordAndScale/status/1074934600269524992 lmfao glad all the shitheads are making themselves known
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Google Butt posted:https://twitter.com/SwordAndScale/status/1074934600269524992 Wow. I'm mostly just sad that I stopped listening to that podcast years ago so I can't drop it now instead.
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Your Taint posted:Why wouldn't it be effective immediately? That's still plenty of time to bail. Same reason Cohen isn't going to prison until March next year even after being found guilty. They're not poor and/or brown.
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holysherm posted:CNN kicks a guy off the air for just saying there should be two states, one from river to sea, a week before Tucker Carlson says racist poo poo yet again and somehow Nate Silver thinks that the left will have to worry about being boycotted by advertisers too. Even then, it's not really a boycott. The advertisers are simply shifting their ad placement around Fox, not actually pulling their financial support. They're just pretending like they're taking a moral stand while Fox does not actually lose any money in the equation. So Nate is being a quivering dipshit over nothing and America's Favourite White Nationalist Tucker Carlson stays on the air and will be there until he dies because the Hannity Phalanx is impenetrable.
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RandomBlue posted:Same reason Cohen isn't going to prison until March next year even after being found guilty. They're not poor and/or brown. Or because the guideline range for his sentence is 0-6 months, and it makes little sense to assume someone will run if they know they're going to be out of jail in time for the start of basketball season.
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Baron Zephyrus posted:That would explain why Trump looks increasingly like a melting homunculus. homuncului have souls though.
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cr0y posted:https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/1075235978854449152?s=19 Every time I see Trump’s signature I’m reminded how obscenely ugly it is. If you insist on being lazy then just do legible initials. What the gently caress is that seismograph at the end even supposed to be? The amphetamines kicking in?
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a russian style . someone post russian cursive and its diagram of what its suppose to say. tia
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Caros posted:Wow. I'm mostly just sad that I stopped listening to that podcast years ago so I can't drop it now instead. Most true crime poo poo is secretly conservative. Back when Thinking Sideways existed, you could tell that the older guy on there was practically a fascist and had to be held back by the other two.
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Lycus posted:How's this bill playing with the "tough on crime" constituency? The "tough on crime" constituency will vote for Trump no matter what. Trump's aim with the bill is to woo minority voters, and getting Kim K's and Ye's stamp of approval is a big political boon for him.
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I love how these people preach a "marketplace of ideas" but then get cold feet the second any private entity engages with that concept seriously by deplatforming ideas too toxic for anyone to buy.
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Morbus posted:The thing is, like most things fascist, the wall is only useful insofar as it is an impossible goal with no practical ultimate realization. You're not supposed to ever finish it, and the whole point is that you can keep bringing it up again and again, while blaming its non-existance or insufficiency on your political enemies. Chuds riled up about immigration? "We need a wall". Got funding to build an impressive section and/or a fence? "Wall's not big enough! Blame Democrats!" They don't ever want that easy win or mission accomplished moment because a problem they can blame on someone else is better than a fake "win" they can claim for themselves. If you declare the border secure and never bring it up again, what do you tell your idiot racist base 4 months later when, surprise surprise, they still hate brown people? This is the correct answer. If the wall were ever actually built, Trump would shift to saying that people were getting over it because the Democrats didn't give enough funding, so the wall is only 20ft when it should have been 25.
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PhazonLink posted:a russian style . 
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Skippy McPants posted:I love how these people preach a "marketplace of ideas" but then get cold feet the second any private entity engages with that concept seriously by deplatforming ideas too toxic for anyone to buy. I don’t understand how these people can say “my property my rules” but also say “gently caress this private business for not letting me spout hate speech.”
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:https://twitter.com/gelles/status/1...ingawful.com%2F A ways back, but holy gently caress, lol. Chuds are gonna melt down
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Popete posted:Has there ever been any real discussion of what this wall would be in reality? Like is this supposed to be a huge rear end 20 foot high wall that spans the entire length of the border? Or is it just sections of the border and remote areas would remain relatively open? The wall, realistically, is not gonna happen beyond what we have now in fences. It's a moron fantasy because this wall would require cutting private and public property off because borders are not defined lines in the sand you are not allowed to own land over. Hell there's a golf course that straddles the border and a wall would hack it in half, this would be like killing his children...you know, if he cared about them in any way beyond wanting to gently caress one of them i am harry posted:Have you ever taken a close look at Donald's signature? After what is clearly the T, it appears to go "rumnph" Hell, look at anything he signs, it's like he does it in marker. There'll be a normal font signature nothing special, then there'll be that Trump scrawl of jagged lines in ultra bold Uh, yes, I can because I am not married and doing it behind my partner's back, and then not paying her hush money to keep quiet so I can be a racist rear end in a top hat running for president SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 09:07 on Dec 19, 2018 |
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CubanMissile posted:So we should spend billions on something that can be circumvented with a blow torch then. I'm about to blow your mind 
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Every time I see Trump’s signature I’m reminded how obscenely ugly it is. If you insist on being lazy then just do legible initials. What the gently caress is that seismograph at the end even supposed to be? The amphetamines kicking in? He probably worked for hours or hundreds of repetitions to get his signature to look so uniform and be recognizable. Branding and appearances are basically Trump's only skills.
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Boris Galerkin posted:I don’t understand how these people can say “my property my rules” but also say “gently caress this private business for not letting me spout hate speech.” I mean, in a veeeeery roundabout way they have half a point in that private business serving as the arbiter of which messages and which voices receive a platform is... not great. There's no contradiction in their mind because they think special rules are warranted for any company that promotes speech and ideas. What they fail to realize is that the market bias they're railing against always existed. But back in the days of single station news broadcasts the people left out in the cold were minorities that they either didn't know or didn't care about. It's a sticking point because these people were weened on "the best idea always wins," and "a well-regulated market creates the best outcomes for everyone" so they struggle mightly when confronted with a situation which disproves one or maybe both of those concepts. Skippy McPants fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Dec 19, 2018 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Also, a lot of white people are getting jailed by the opiod epidemic lol even the guy in the stock photo is white
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SocketWrench posted:A ways back, but holy gently caress, lol. Chuds are gonna melt down It’s not even letting them grandfather them in. I think the machine gun ban from the 1920’s or 30’s still allowed you to keep what you already had. My Chud friend made a decent argument against the bump stock ban in that you can create your own with a rubber band. The concept is so simple that it’s difficult to craft a law regulating it. It’s still bullshit because after the worst mass shooting ever we should be able to outlaw the specific niche product used to shoot so many people so it’s not easily done again. Yes, the next guy can use a rubber band, but that’s not as durable or easy to use as a custom made option.
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Krispy Wafer posted:My Chud friend made a decent argument against the bump stock ban in that you can create your own with a rubber band. The concept is so simple that it’s difficult to craft a law regulating it. This is a bullshit argument. People can build bombs with a Google search and the stuff they have laying around their house, that doesn't mean it should be legal for them to do it.
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Krispy Wafer posted:It’s not even letting them grandfather them in. I think the machine gun ban from the 1920’s or 30’s still allowed you to keep what you already had. Only Boris Galerkin posted:I don’t understand how these people can say “my property my rules” but also say “gently caress this private business for not letting me spout hate speech.” It bothers me, because in their bullheaded moronic way, they're right. Private companies shouldn't be the gatekeepers of speech, because it's so easy for government to quietly co-opt them to get around the 1st. Yes, ban the nazis, but atjack mostly goes after antifa until forced otherwise. Tumblr wants to get rid of "pornography" then bans all LGBTQ blogs entirely. Congress looks meaningfully in your direction and craigslist/backpage censor the poo poo out of their site. Add to that the weaponized mass reporting bots the alt-white uses and platforms being free to kick off anyone they want doesn't really seem to be so free after all. Harik fucked around with this message at 09:50 on Dec 19, 2018 |
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Harik posted:It bothers me, because in their bullheaded moronic way, they're right. They are not right. The most charitable reading I'm willing to proffer is that they're wrong for the right reasons. Their impulse to protect free speech from corporate whims is noble in a vacuum, but they're not screening for their own bias. For example, their Tumblr is alive and well.
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eke out posted:seriously what the gently caress is he even talking about Okay, I'm finally convinced. I'm in a prank show.
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i am harry posted:Have you ever taken a close look at Donald's signature? After what is clearly the T, it appears to go "rumnph" It would not surprise me if donny started the practice when photocopiers first came out and he got sick of signing multiple NDA's/agreements/broken contracts in blue pen. quote:- Just photocopy it Michael... According to google translate this means "Deprived of Lilies" 
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Chimp_On_Stilts posted:He probably worked for hours or hundreds of repetitions to get his signature to look so uniform and be recognizable.
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Skippy McPants posted:They are not right. The most charitable reading I'm willing to proffer is that they're wrong for the right reasons. Their impulse to protect free speech from corporate whims is noble in a vacuum, but they're not screening for their own bias. For example, their Tumblr is alive and well. Yeah, it is worth mentioning that patreon cracked down on some leftists and antifa groups last year and this fucker didn't make a peep about it. It isn't a principled stance, it is a tantrum in support of their favorite hard R dropping fascist poo poo head.
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FCKGW posted:I'm about to blow your mind
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1glitch0 posted:Okay, I'm finally convinced. I'm in a prank show. I'm only half joking when I say to friends I believe we are in a simulation built for alien amusement, and stupid poo poo will keep happening until at least 50 percent of humans realize what is going on, then the game ends
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:I'm only half joking when I say to friends I believe we are in a simulation built for alien amusement, and stupid poo poo will keep happening until at least 50 percent of humans realize what is going on, then the game ends lol look at this optimist over here. We're not in the simulation, we're a part of the simulation. There's no getting out, it's just a forever nightmare.
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I've (stupidly) touched the poop on a pro-Brexit Facebook page and I've had people invoking Qanon at me. It's spread across the loving channel, these people are insane. The profile picture of this group is a yellow vest, it seems the steer now is to wrap that movement up with Brexit, and mix in a bit of trump. (also ironic a brexit group is using a French symbol...).
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DrNutt posted:"I consider myself a liberal, but unlike SOME PEOPLE (liberals) I think for myself and am not just following orders." Wow yeah she's obviously a liberal guys let's let her write an essay about her relationship with a literal Nazi and post it uncritically. "Unlike all those other liberals I think for myself and ignore all those directives I get from George Soros" Also: Michael Flynn? Who's that? Trump's coffee boy, right? http://www.newshounds.us/fox_s_new_flynn_talking_point_nothing_to_do_with_trump_121818
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Google Butt posted:https://twitter.com/SwordAndScale/status/1074934600269524992 Remember to subscribe to pewdiepie too.
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