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Majorian posted:Powerful painting too. The painting is saying the same thing.
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Jack2142 posted:Summary execution by disco theme firing squad. 
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Dec 26, 2018 07:58
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Jarmak posted:All of this is true but none it tells me why two years probation isn't an appropriate sentence. Given that it was a semi auto pistol he had to have that bitch cocked when he went there. It takes effort to pull the slide and him picking it up by the grip isn't enough by any chance. This is not safe or responsible no matter who you are. You NEVER carry a gun cocked unless you are in a situation where you have to use it. Two years probe is extremely light considering he did that. Even 19th century cowboys knew better and would carry with the hammer closed on an empty chamber SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Dec 26, 2018 |
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Dec 26, 2018 08:00
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:it turns out remembering the past is useful, in the discussing politics game. That doesn't change the fact that the things you're posting are extremely not normal and you have legitimate mental problems I don't know what exactly they are but you concern me with nearly every post
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Dec 26, 2018 08:04
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friendbot2000 posted:It is just so goddamn hellish...how do you gently caress up Christmas decorating this badly? "I was a fashion model so I know fashion and style better"
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Dec 26, 2018 08:06
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Arglebargle III posted:I know this was a while ago but has anyone noticed the Soviet Union isn't on here? There's no way Italy or Canada had a larger economy than the USSR in 1966. It's just World Bank members, right?
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Dec 26, 2018 08:08
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BrandorKP posted:The painting is saying the same thing. Yes, I'm aware of that. It's an interesting way of conveying the message at this particular moment in history, though. Don't be pedantic.
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Dec 26, 2018 08:09
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Majorian posted:I don't think theflyingorc was one of them, but this is genuinely something that happened. Folks were incensed that Luis Gutierrez didn't place his faith in Pelosi and Schumer's ability to make a deal with Trump and hold him to it. So your definition of a centrist is anyone who, when they hold no chambers of congress, and neither of the other branches, cannot force a deal. That's definitely not a dumb as gently caress standard.
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Fulchrum posted:So your definition of a centrist is anyone who, when they hold no chambers of congress, and neither of the other branches, cannot force a deal. I'm not sure what my definition of a centrist has to do with anything, Fulchrum.
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Dec 26, 2018 08:12
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Arglebargle III posted:I know this was a while ago but has anyone noticed the Soviet Union isn't on here? There's no way Italy or Canada had a larger economy than the USSR in 1966. A command system economy presents some challenges to accurate GDP measurement in relation to non-command system countries. Specifically, the large second economy is entirely unaccounted for, and the official reports are likely distorted due to intra-party pressures and propaganda efforts. Anything they put in there wouldn't really be measuring apples to apples.
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Dec 26, 2018 08:14
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Majorian posted:Don't be pedantic. I'm not trying to be. What's she's done there is a very, very hard thing to do successfully. And she's done it, not somebody else writing it for her. My brain is saying, "This person has it."
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Dec 26, 2018 08:20
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Merry Christmas Pol goons. Out here on the wet west coast I spent a lovely day with family and reading the book my wife gave me (the Beastie Boys Book - if you’re an 80s kid read it and play a song from the bands that get mentioned, holy poo poo) and I just finished playing Mario + Rabbids and realized I didn’t think about the tangerine toddler once today. A Xmas loving miracle. On to tomorrow we go!
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Dec 26, 2018 08:21
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BrandorKP posted:I'm not trying to be. What's she's done there is a very, very hard thing to do successfully. And she's done it, not somebody else writing it for her. Fair enough, I was just commenting on the painting, completely independent of AOC's comment. (which is extremely good and makes me even more hopeful for her political future) I think it's a good one. The contextualization of the Holy Family as refugees has always struck me as, well, super appropriate.
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Dec 26, 2018 08:25
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Majorian posted:I'm not sure what my definition of a centrist has to do with anything, Fulchrum. It was the conversation being had before certain posters decided to rant Your missing that is excusable though
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Dec 26, 2018 08:25
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:I know it’s because one is from a video and the other is from a photographer who knows what they’re doing, but it still feels significant that the shot of Michelle Obama is so much more colorful than the one of Trump. Only the Trumps could make the White House look like the hotel from the shining. https://twitter.com/jkramon1313/status/1077754869702950912?s=21
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Dec 26, 2018 08:33
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SocketWrench posted:Given that it was a semi auto pistol he had to have that bitch cocked when he went there. It takes effort to pull the slide and him picking it up by the grip isn't enough by any chance. This is not safe or responsible no matter who you are. You NEVER carry a gun cocked unless you are in a situation where you have to use it. It has been a minute since i watched this video, but if memory serves me right, it was a glock, which has a double trigger safety which means no safety at all in most situations. Condemning his gun safety is tantamount to questioning the gun safety practices of glock and LEOs. Glock: America's Gun is a pretty good book about both these things.
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Dec 26, 2018 08:33
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theflyingorc posted:It was the conversation being had before certain posters decided to rant Yes, my apologies Marjorian. Majorian posted:Fair enough, I was just commenting on the painting, completely independent of AOC's comment. (which is extremely good and makes me even more hopeful for her political future) I think it's a good one. The contextualization of the Holy Family as refugees has always struck me as, well, super appropriate. I mean, even Delonas has done that. Its not exactly an original concept.
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Dec 26, 2018 08:37
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Fulchrum posted:I mean, even Delonas has done that. Its not exactly an original concept.  I said I found a painting powerful, and you're going to try to argue with me on that?
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Dec 26, 2018 08:38
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Oh my god there’s a dedicated Musk thread? ahem
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Fulchrum posted:The shadows of the chandeliers also make it look like paint is faded and peeling on the walls, which only adds to the effect. Oh man, you're right. It's like they found every visual cue they could to steal from Hollywood when it's making sure the audience knows that Ebenezer Scrooge or the ancient spirit in a haunted house is a Bad Person and thought somehow it made Trump look more personable. Long shadows and dim lighting. The ghoul king and his queen/right hand woman sitting alone. The sterile display of wealth that's obviously just for looks and no one uses the area to actually live. The creepy painting of a dead predecessor in the background (Okay it's an excellent painting of Lincoln, but fits the "painting of long dead ancestor/previous position holder" quite well).
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Dec 26, 2018 09:44
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SocketWrench posted:"I was a fashion model so I know fashion and style better" I mean, her designs are legitimately striking and interesting. I actually love them, but I also have Christmas and forced cheer and all the bullshit that comes with this holiday. So anything that subverts those norms is great. But I mean, that's not what the White House Christmas display should be about so loving lol
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Dec 26, 2018 09:49
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osker posted:It has been a minute since i watched this video, but if memory serves me right, it was a glock, which has a double trigger safety which means no safety at all in most situations. Condemning his gun safety is tantamount to questioning the gun safety practices of glock and LEOs. Glock: America's Gun is a pretty good book about both these things. Yes, but at some point this dude said "I'm gonna take a gun to a dance. I'll load a mag and chamber a round". That's my point. He went in quick draw and oops, shot someone.
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Dec 26, 2018 09:57
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squirrelzipper posted:Only the Trumps could make the White House look like the hotel from the shining. Built by slaves, and home to an almost continuous stream of rapists and genocidal maniacs. WH is haunted as fuk
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Failed Imagineer posted:Built by slaves, and home to an almost continuous stream of rapists and genocidal maniacs. WH is haunted as fuk If I remember correctly Melania was on the ball and had the place exorcised... actually I seem to recall reading that White House exorcisms have been a pretty regular thing as new families move in.
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Mr Interweb posted:ok some of these have to be photoshopped right The mad king Trumpgaryon
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Arglebargle III posted:I know this was a while ago but has anyone noticed the Soviet Union isn't on here? There's no way Italy or Canada had a larger economy than the USSR in 1966. Stereotype posted:A command system economy presents some challenges to accurate GDP measurement in relation to non-command system countries. Specifically, the large second economy is entirely unaccounted for, and the official reports are likely distorted due to intra-party pressures and propaganda efforts. Anything they put in there wouldn't really be measuring apples to apples. I don't think it's anything as sinister as that, really. I'd wager it's because the USSR did not calculate its GDP at all. GDP is defined under the System of National Accounts standard outlined by the UN and World Bank. The USSR instead utilised Net Material Product defined under the Material Product System standard. The two are similar in principle, but slightly different in practical calculations, with one huge, glaring difference: the NMP completely ignores the services sector. There are some tools for approximating GDP out of NMP (rule of thumb is NMP in the USSR for most of its existence was around 3/4 of what its GDP would have been), but it's still an imprecise estimate rather than an actual economic value. There's also the matter of the price indices - to calculate GDP or NMP, one must have an idea of what is a "fair price" for a given commodity in a given country, and in command economies the governments considered money to be much more fungible than it actually is. (Also, whenever you see those big sudden jumps that the graph goes to such lengths to display as gradual changes? All of them were caused by changes to GDP methodology rather than actual economic developments. Italy overtakes the UK in 1987 because it starts including an estimate of the black market and the underground economy, increasing the country's GDP by 20 percent overnight - this practice eventually became the standard. Also, China's GDP until like 2005 is an estimate, because China did not take part in price surveys until then, nor did India. However, I presume the results of 2005's survey are somehow retroactively included in the chart already, since it resulted in cutting China's GDP down by 40% in 2007, and that's just not there in the graph.)
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:The mad king Trumpgaryon You've heard of Twitter? The mad president was obsessed with it. He loved to watch Fox and Friends , the way their skin whitened and cracked and stretched against their bones as they praised him. He insulted Republicans he didn't like. He insulted Majority Leaders who disobeyed him. He insulted anyone who was against him. Before he was elected, half the country was against him. Trump saw traitors everywhere. So he had his fleshcrawler place blame for a shutdown on the Democrats, on the set of Face the Nation. Undermining housing, transport, food safety. Even stopped the costs for the White Keep itself. Finally, the day of reckoning came. [All this bit omitted to stop the Secret Service paying me a visit] Then he... turned to his Fleshcrawler. "Build the wall" he said.
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Dec 26, 2018 12:05
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hexate posted:Pages back, but one line from Nathan Robinson's takedown of Jordan Peterson really stuck with me. (https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-deserve). There's a lot of problems but the main ones are people are really, really bad at thinking critically in this country. We are largely anti-intellectual, philosophy and the arts were highly derided as something to pursue 20 years ago, when I was college-aged. I'm not surprised 20-30 somethings have turned out unable to spot grifters and deal with nuance. Racism in this country is so bad I doubt it will vanish even with the population more educated - so we have to keep pushing equality into the culture, the BLM has done an amazing job of getting people into politics and people of color into political positions. Quite a few leftist YouTubers have turned people around and got them out of the alt right, by essentially teaching them things about critical thinking and racism, etc so we could use more of that. Most of all we need to give them something to live for other than feeling so miserable they need to take it out on others. There's a reason the New Green Deal is popular with most Americans. People WANT to feel good, useful, and challenged, but the right wing politicians and grifters are doing everything it can to keep people stewing in toxic habits like conspiracy theories, racism, being scared of literally everyone else, desperately groping for answers from people who project confidence that they have all the answers. e: for clarity thin blue whine fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Dec 26, 2018 |
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The whitehouse Christmas displays are an extremely average displays any large mid class department store would have and no trump actually designed any of them and it’s been this threads tan suit crisis every time it’s posted.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:The whitehouse Christmas displays are an extremely average displays any large mid class department store would have and no trump actually designed any of them and it’s been this threads tan suit crisis every time it’s posted. No this is comically wrong. You're right that the actual decorations are generic in that sense, but their overall use and in particular the fact that everything is minimally lit with harsh flourescent lighting is absolutely weird af e: probably actually lit with completely white LEDs or some of the least warm CFLs ever Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 12:52 on Dec 26, 2018 |
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Dec 26, 2018 12:48
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Also people in this thread saying they're hilarious and soulless is in no way comparable to the scale of the media hysteria over Obama wearing a..well, normal suit. Besides. A lot of people are even saying they look good, just maybe not appropriate.
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Dec 26, 2018 12:53
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Herstory Begins Now posted:No this is comically wrong. You're right that the actual decorations are generic in that sense, but their overall use and in particular the fact that everything is minimally lit with harsh flourescent lighting is absolutely weird af It’s lit exactly like a fashion runway would be lit. Because Melania is coping with the stress of being First Lady* of the United States by mentally regressing to her super model days and just living there until the nightmare is sufficiently over for her.
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Dec 26, 2018 12:53
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I think those displays are awesome and the only good thing to come out of this nightmare timeline. Dunno why everyone is always dunking on them. Comparing them to the tan suit is spot on.
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Dec 26, 2018 13:00
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The book tree in the library was pretty sweet.
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Dec 26, 2018 13:10
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I think the Christmas decorations would go down a lot better if there was any sense at all of joy or goodwill coming out of the White House to go with them. If they were being unveiled with an impish smile by a president with a soul then I’d probably be totally on board as a neat subversive take on the whole thing. But it’s from Trump, who’s pretty much the living breathing antithesis of Christmas spirit. So it doesn’t come off as a subversive take so much as an outright attack. “Oh, so you thought I would give you something pretty to look at for Christmas? Unleash the festive offal piles.” In terms of actual reasons to be mad at Trump it doesn’t even make the top thousand, I just think it’s perversely funny how he has to warp everything he touches.
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Dec 26, 2018 13:18
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The Addams Family was a comedy partly because Gomez and Morticia were obviously madly in love with each other. The macabre aesthetics acted as an ironic contrast rather than enhancing a horror premise.
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Dec 26, 2018 13:44
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:The whitehouse Christmas displays are an extremely average displays any large mid class department store would have and no trump actually designed any of them and it’s been this threads tan suit crisis every time it’s posted. Every time Melania's decorations are posted most people like them.
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Dec 26, 2018 13:46
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Ate My Balls Redux posted:Every time Melania's decorations are posted most people like them. ???????? Proof?
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Pollyanna posted:???????? I think they are loving metal and people here usually agree. I'm not sifting through a bunch of pages tho
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Not exactly surprising, but.. https://twitter.com/tripgabriel/status/1077887564663656449?s=20
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