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evilweasel posted:stress makes him lose it more, and he's stuck in a trap of his own making that has no exit and he's madly flailing around looking for an escape he knows won't be there. He also has not felt an actual punishment for any of his actions yet. He's still the president, the GOP still defers to him 99% of the time, and his businesses haven't been attacked. There's been 2nd or 3rd degree punishments, like the GOP losing the house, but he's so loving stupid he'll only make the connection between action and consequence if he's whacked in the face with a rolled up newspaper halfway through his dumbass sentence.
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Esplanade posted:What alignment do you have to be to wield that? Under the Class Restrictions section it just says “Ruling”.
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VH4Ever posted:Just to editorialize for a bit..THIS is the real promise and greatness of America, when it's done right. THIS is the cool stuff I love seeing, the stuff that makes me feel like we're moving in a good direction in some way. The trouble is it doesn't happen nearly enough but it makes my heart swell seeing stuff like this and gives me hope for a better tomorrow. Amen. We have to take the victories when they come. Nothing going on yesterday, today, or tomorrow should discount the significance of this. Sure, it may end up all being a wash in the end, but drat - this is cool. And that moment is real. Sure, zoom out and poo poo is dire. But without the motivation of the small (yet significant) victories, how do we expect ourselves to maintain the energy to keep fighting the good fight? The fight for progressive values has always been a long and uphill battle. In this dark period I try to remind myself to "stop" and appreciate moments like this, because on the offhanded chance progressive values ultimately win the day, it's people like her who are leading the charge.
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A GIANT PARSNIP posted:and his businesses haven't been attacked. His charity being forcibly dissolved should count for this imo
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Trump has always been a racist, a narcissist, and laughably incompetent but his ability for his mind to seemingly shift in and out of different realities is a more recent development. yeah, i think he is legit losing it now. A GIANT PARSNIP posted:He also has not felt an actual punishment for any of his actions yet. He's still the president, the GOP still defers to him 99% of the time, and his businesses haven't been attacked. he lost his slush fund "charity" and more of his empire is on the chopping block from various state agencies. deep down he knows the house loss is on him and his people are abandoning him. i like to think we are at the beginning of the end for trump at least.
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Jan 3, 2019 02:09
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KickerOfMice posted:My love was an art history major / classics so this is only coming secondhand from my soft brain. I could be wrong. But let me tell you how stunningly arresting unexpectedly reading the phrase "graphically pornographic toilet" is. I thought that the vatican had a loot-pile of stolen art somewhere? There's tons of shady poo poo that the Vatican has done (speaking as a Catholic) but i would not joke about the porn-toilet. https://www.google.com/amp/s/slate.com/human-interest/2011/12/vatican-guide-the-popes-pornographic-bathroom.amp The Art Curious podcast has an episode about it as well.
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Jan 3, 2019 02:09
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LOL @ this Mr Clean looking motherfucker ballwashing Dear Leader at the cabinet meeting today.
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Jan 3, 2019 02:10
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Fallom posted:His charity being forcibly dissolved should count for this imo I'm guessing he sees it as the Democrats doing something mean to him, not something that's a consequence of his actions.
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Jan 3, 2019 02:12
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citybeatnik posted:It really wasn't, no. The Vatican paid for lots of artists through the ages for things ranging from sculptures to frescos to maps to a graphically pornographic toilet in one of the apartments there. The bolded: If anyone could recommend a good book about this, I'll be your friend forever. That actually sounds pretty fascinating.
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A GIANT PARSNIP posted:He also has not felt an actual punishment for any of his actions yet. He's still the president, the GOP still defers to him 99% of the time, and his businesses haven't been attacked. This is literally why the shutdown is happening though, his base was revolting over his abandoning of the wall. He was "punished" by having people like Ann Coulter call him a coward.
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KickerOfMice posted:You know the art there that wasn't the structures and the chapel was almost all stolen from the filthy heathens in the crusades, right? I would like to recommend anyone that gets the chance to go to the vatican and look at the art for real because you expect it to be one thing and it is 100% not that thing and is like, the coolest and most kooky art collection like, ever. sfera con sfera is my absolute favorite art ever (it moves and you can touch it, it represents the "complexity and fragility of the world")  but it's all stuff like:       where you think it will be stuffy christian art but it's all peak nonsense and style.
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Involuntary Sparkle posted:I'm guessing he sees it as the Democrats doing something mean to him, not something that's a consequence of his actions. He let it go so easily that I have to think this is one case where he knew they had him over a barrel without any way to spin his way out of it. It's so crazy how little of a fuss Trump put up over that whole event that there has to be some meaning to it.
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Priapus Unbound posted:Cursory googling led me to this shiesty-looking but overall seemingly complete page which has the UVA letter and a link to the lecture on soundcloud where the incident happened so you can hear the actual incident in question instead of wondering if he was being racist: It sounded like a parent disciplining their lovely bratty kid. He had no idea how to even try to spin a good story out of it or admit he is an entitled middle class white kid with a lot to learn about the world.
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CmdrRiker posted:It sounded like a parent disciplining their lovely bratty kid. He had no idea how to even try to spin a good story out of it or admit he is an entitled white kid with a lot to learn about the world. It's an Indian guy, but probably the same level of entitlement.
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Jan 3, 2019 02:16
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KickerOfMice posted:The bolded: If anyone could recommend a good book about this, I'll be your friend forever. That actually sounds pretty fascinating. church of spies by mark riebling is the one i was referencing.
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Jan 3, 2019 02:17
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Dapper_Swindler posted:he lost his slush fund "charity" and more of his empire is on the chopping block. "On the chopping block" isn't enough for him to actually learn a lesson, and in the scheme of things his charity was one of hundreds of trump branded grifts that eventually dried up. Trump Foundation had what, $10 million tops on hand, only a portion of which was used as a slush fund? Trump Organization has almost $10 Billion a year in revenue. He won't feel an attack on his business until they come for trump tower or mar a lago. Lemming posted:This is literally why the shutdown is happening though, his base was revolting over his abandoning of the wall. He was "punished" by having people like Ann Coulter call him a coward. I agree - the only possible punishment he's felt yet from any action at all are his best buddies at fox and friends calling him dumb for caving on the wall.
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:So right now there's no chief of staff, attorney general, secretary of defense, secretary of interior. Am I missing any vacant position? That's not a cabinet; that's an end-table.
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Jan 3, 2019 02:18
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citybeatnik posted:church of spies by mark riebling is the one i was referencing. Thanks very much! 
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Silver2195 posted:I believe that in addition to a) and b), a survey showed that a surprising number of med students (or maybe it was interns or even actual doctors; I'm not sure which is worse in the long run) literally believe that black people have higher pain thresholds than white people. I remember that article, and all I can say is that I've never been taught a single thing about black people having a lower pain tolerance, and never heard it from anyone. The closest thing was a doctor in India who said "Greek men are bitches" so ymmv
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I would like to recommend anyone that gets the chance to go to the vatican and look at the art for real because you expect it to be one thing and it is 100% not that thing and is like, the coolest and most kooky art collection like, ever. Yeah, stumbling around the Vatican was god drat breath taking and i'm not sure why folks assume that it's all boring poo poo when it's a collection built by an institution that's been around for almost two thousand years. And some of the art was donated by some very enthusiastic-if-unskilled artists. Then you get stuff like the Roman sepulcher that got turned in to a bath tub because some cardinal wanted a tub and they had a spare laying around.
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CmdrRiker posted:It sounded like a parent disciplining their lovely bratty kid. He had no idea how to even try to spin a good story out of it or admit he is an entitled middle class white kid with a lot to learn about the world. What is going to gently caress him is that Daily Stormer/4chan/reddit are talking about him and the school is going to be inundated with emails.
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VH4Ever posted:Honestly the debate happening here about "rich people" misses an important point, and that's because the posts I've seen thus far only talk about how to deal with that problem under the system of laws in this country. To that idea I say: good loving luck. Stuff like the Panama Papers and other similar leaks over the last few years should have demonstrated that there's a level of wealth you attain where laws of a particular country no longer apply to you. Not sure how you combat this without the whole Western World coordinating together and even then, not sure how best to crack that nut. Take a look into the work towards "registers of beneficial owners".
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I would like to recommend anyone that gets the chance to go to the vatican and look at the art for real because you expect it to be one thing and it is 100% not that thing and is like, the coolest and most kooky art collection like, ever. You post this but not "The Resurrrection"? I would but I'm on my phone right now.
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Esplanade posted:What alignment do you have to be to wield that? He's not wielding it because he's holding it upside down. The little knob thing on the end is the actual head, but the seal on the handle has become more and more ornate over the years so now it gets carried upside down to show off the seal instead. It's a metaphor for the entirety of UK politics, honestly.
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FizFashizzle posted:I remember that article, and all I can say is that I've never been taught a single thing about black people having a lower pain tolerance, and never heard it from anyone. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3654683/ https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/pain-and-ethnicity/2013-05
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citybeatnik posted:No. But as i've mentioned before my encounters with the phrase out in the real world tend to be from straight white dudes shouting it. Wealth and class play a massive part in things yes but i find it reductive to the point of parody to say that they're the only driving force when you have institutional racism all over the drat place. I can't speak for all straight white dudes (also, when did that become synonymous with contemptible right wing mouth-breather?), but I find that identity politics has descended into parody. It seems like a cheap pop topic that do nothing milquetoast centrist corporate Democrats will pull out to look progressive while doing nothing that challenges anything. Example, over the summer the DNC held a meeting in which they 1)mildly reduced the role of super delegates in subverting the will of primary voters 2) adopted non binary gender language in their charter. If I'm an rear end in a top hat for rating health care for all, progressive taxation, increasing the minimum wage, stronger unions, reduced military hegemony, ending the drug war, ending mass incarceration, ending reliance on fossil fuels, comprehensive immigration reform, increasing the size of the house of representatives, ending the filibuster, statehood for DC & Puerto Rico, etc; over whatever pet issue the lesbian left handed albino dwarves of partially Aleutian descent are on about this week, then I'll be the rear end in a top hat. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Harry Reid is dying.quote:Reid’s decision, in 2013, to get rid of the filibuster for judicial appointments. Reid remains unrepentant about this. “They can say what they want,” he told me. “We had over 100 judges that we couldn’t get approved, so I had no choice. Either Obama’s presidency would be a joke or Obama’s presidency would be one of fruition.”
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Fallom posted:It's an Indian guy, but probably the same level of entitlement. Oh drat, sorry. Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:What is going to gently caress him is that Daily Stormer/4chan/reddit are talking about him and the school is going to be inundated with emails. I hope he learns something. The worst part was how he didn't know how to even address the idea of anyone having bad feelings other than him.
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1glitch0 posted:GOP doing a great job separating themselves from Trump. I assume you could only choose one option.
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Maine continues to be “That otherwise useless clump of land that holds up the Maritimes.”
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inignot posted:I can't speak for all straight white dudes (also, when did that become synonymous with contemptible right wing mouth-breather?), but I find that identity politics has descended into parody. Because straight white dude is basically a tribalistic identity at this point? quote:It seems like a cheap pop topic that do nothing milquetoast centrist corporate Democrats will pull out to look progressive while doing nothing that challenges anything. Example, over the summer the DNC held a meeting in which they 1)mildly reduced the role of super delegates in subverting the will of primary voters 2) adopted non binary gender language in their charter. Yikes, also way to equate non-binary people getting a bit of formal recognition wiuth 'lesbian left handed albino dwarves of partially Aleutian descent' Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Jan 3, 2019 |
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inignot posted:I can't speak for all straight white dudes (also, when did that become synonymous with contemptible right wing mouth-breather?), but I find that identity politics has descended into parody. It seems like a cheap pop topic that do nothing milquetoast centrist corporate Democrats will pull out to look progressive while doing nothing that challenges anything. Example, over the summer the DNC held a meeting in which they 1)mildly reduced the role of super delegates in subverting the will of primary voters 2) adopted non binary gender language in their charter. 
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FizFashizzle posted:It's not that, it's that Dude the first time I had a trigeminal neuralgia flare up the pain was so bad I could barely speak, turn my head or move my (right) arm the ER doc told me it was a migraine and to go home and take some ibuprofen without running a single test, despite knowing my mom found me in the bottom of the shower, picked me up and drug me over there and I described it as an electrical burning between sobs. I had to go through several more ER visits and neurologists before anyone even acted like they believed me My current neurologist is my hero tbh. He is my McDreamy 😂😂 Koalas March fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Jan 3, 2019 |
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inignot posted:I can't speak for all straight white dudes (also, when did that become synonymous with contemptible right wing mouth-breather?), but I find that identity politics has descended into parody. It seems like a cheap pop topic that do nothing milquetoast centrist corporate Democrats will pull out to look progressive while doing nothing that challenges anything. Example, over the summer the DNC held a meeting in which they 1)mildly reduced the role of super delegates in subverting the will of primary voters 2) adopted non binary gender language in their charter. The super delegates technically exist, but there's no way for them to pick at this point, so mildly reduced is wrong. As for that second paragraph, what set that off?
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inignot posted:I can't speak for all straight white dudes (also, when did that become synonymous with contemptible right wing mouth-breather?), but I find that identity politics has descended into parody. It seems like a cheap pop topic that do nothing milquetoast centrist corporate Democrats will pull out to look progressive while doing nothing that challenges anything. Example, over the summer the DNC held a meeting in which they 1)mildly reduced the role of super delegates in subverting the will of primary voters 2) adopted non binary gender language in their charter. Straight white dudes telling PoC, women, or LGBT folks that is, to me, the same as shouting "all lives matter!" at them. If KM or any other person wants to weigh in and tell me that I'm wrong then I'm cool with their take. But, you know, good on you for volunteering to be an rear end in a top hat?
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There is no effective socialism without feminism and anti racism; an anti racist or feminist worldview that does not specifically address economic inequalities is just as hollow. When people talk about intersectionality, it means an analysis that accounts for all the ways in which we differ, and socioeconomics cannot be excluded if you want to get any meaningful understanding. When people say “white feminism” they are describing the attempts to divorce feminism from antiracism and anticapitalism. It turns it into a hectoring insistence that we need More Women Prison Guards and doesn’t do a drat thing to address root causes.
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