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Casimir Radon posted:I fully expect some sort of stupid stunt
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https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/consumer-financial-protection-bureau-settles-broker-high-interest-credit-offers/quote:Washington, D.C. — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) today announced a settlement with Mark Corbett, a broker of contracts offering high-interest credit to veterans.
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Apparently he can't afford more than that dollar penalty what like because nobody paid him?
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Move out to the cornfields and tell me those people vote democrat. I literally live in a district so red (it was a Democrat lock until the Third Way  ) that there are DSA members in the local chapter talking about how some local races had Democrats that were such absolute dogshit that it was actually better *on a policy level* to vote for the Republican candidate (again, in the local races), but, and here's the important bit:ain't none of that matter at all in a Presidential election because it's a statewide FPTP and the entirety of southern IL has basically 1/5 the population of Cook County So, again, gently caress any and all of these centrist candidates; they don't get my vote unless they earn it Sorry y'all for the late reply but I've got to squeak this in between a placeholder probation and the actual probation I'm still waiting on Professor Bling fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Jan 24, 2019 |
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I sort of wonder if Illinois would be better served if Chicago became its own city-state. Outstate parts of Illinois are rural as hell and have hugely different interests while Chicago wouldn't have to worry about fighting farm towns over actual good urban policy. Also Chicago seems much more culturally relatable to Wisconsin and Michigan vs. cornland.
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Hell, anything south of I-64 should probably just be split between Missouri and Kentucky, because it's ridiculously separate from even central Illinois (which, for flat cornland, fancies itself "cultured"). I mean, we've got hills down here. Shawnee Nat'l Forest takes up the majority of our landmass, and the biggest "city" in southern IL has 44-some-odd thousand people in it. Of course, 50 cents of every dollar spent in southern IL is outside money, so we'd wither on the vine without actual support (because we've been treated like an inland colony and had all our "wealth" and resources siphoned off to STL and Chicago). I'm sure that rural NY feels the same way about NYC and I seem to remember rural CA feeling the same way about SF, LA, and SD. Still, probably the weirdest thing I experienced living near Chicago was going to the MUSI and seeing the "coal mine" exhibit's elevator and realizing "oh, my great-grandad worked that mine before they closed it, shipped all the equipment north, and turned it into some city folk's entertainment" Professor Bling fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Jan 24, 2019 |
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DoktorLoken posted:I sort of wonder if Illinois would be better served if Chicago became its own city-state. Outstate parts of Illinois are rural as hell and have hugely different interests while Chicago wouldn't have to worry about fighting farm towns over actual good urban policy. Can confirm people from dekalb sound like wisconsin
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I don't think AOC makes sense with her talk of billionaires being uneth-- https://www.wsj.com/articles/billionaire-ken-griffin-buys-americas-most-expensive-home-for-238-million-11548271301 quote:Billionaire Ken Griffin Buys America’s Most Expensive Home for $238 Million That is equivalent to almost 2000 years of leases on the 3br townhouse I had in college, or 2000 one year leases if you want to look at it like that. Somethingsomething homeless veterans somethingseomething.
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colachute posted:I don't think AOC makes sense with her talk of billionaires being uneth-- It kills me how on the nose that Justin Timberlake movie was.
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M_Gargantua posted:Venezuela: I Am America, (And So Can Coup) Don't read that thread if you value your sanity.
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It's really late so I thought that Ken Griffey Jr. somehow became a billionaire
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colachute posted:I don't think AOC makes sense with her talk of billionaires being uneth-- With that much money he could have built a massive underground Fallout style vault stocked for 50 years worth of food, water, fuel, vehicles, guns, ammo, and supplies to survive the coming global warming apocalypse... and the dude buys a loving penthouse lmao what a stupid gently caress Maybe I've been playing too much Fallout New Vegas and reading too much climate apocalypse poo poo.
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Don't read that thread if you value your sanity. Alternatively, only read Chuck Boone's posts. Dude does a great job of collecting news and summarizing the horror show that the county has become. There's also great posts from thread regulars who grew up in Venezuela, though only Blue Nation is still there. It's honestly not a bad thread, so much as one that's fine for long stretches of time in between getting blown up by news that attracts D&D or CSPAM posters who seem to think that opposing Maduro automatically means you support some form of US-backed regime change that will make things even worse you guys (though they never quite explain how).
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I dunno, I think after our track record in the last couple decades the burden of proof is really on anyone who is pro-regime change by America to explain why this time it'll be different. Maduro and his people are corrupt and brutal assholes, but that doesn't mean sticking our dick into another hornet's nest is going to make it better.
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Crakkerjakk posted:I dunno, I think after our track record in the last couple decades the burden of proof is really on anyone who is pro-regime change by America to explain why this time it'll be different. Nobody in the thread is actually pro-regime change 
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The only thing I can trust the American government/military to do is smash another countries conventional government/military into little bits in a conventional conflict. Any deviation from that very specific field and it's a crapshoot.
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Vasudus posted:The only thing I can trust the American government/military to do is smash another countries conventional government/military into little bits in a conventional conflict. Any deviation from that very specific field and it's a crapshoot. bro we are gonna win afghanistan any day now
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Chances are some of the people planting IEDs in Afghanistan never knew a world without American soldiers around.
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Vasudus posted:The only thing I can trust the American government/military to do is smash another countries conventional government/military into little bits in a conventional conflict. Any deviation from that very specific field and it's a crapshoot. Couldn't even do that in Vietnam! Does it make a difference that nearly every Latin American country recognized Guaido as legitimate president? Can they pressure Venezuela's military to switch from Maduro?
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Torrannor posted:Couldn't even do that in Vietnam! Some articles are quoting anonymous American intelligence officers who have said the head of the military told Maduro to resign.
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https://twitter.com/ueunion/status/1088180786438832134?s=21 It’s about loving time
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Torrannor posted:Couldn't even do that in Vietnam! We... weren't trying to?
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:https://twitter.com/ueunion/status/1088180786438832134?s=21 Queue every right-wing media outlet tripping over themselves to say "Who needs those bimbos of the sky anyways? We'll serve ourselves!"
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https://twitter.com/nielslesniewski/status/1088432465478369282 Eat the rich.
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https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1088441318794317825?s=19 Beaten, but Wilbur Ross should be too.
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facialimpediment posted:https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1088441318794317825?s=19 jesus loving christ, just guillotine all these loving ghouls
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Crakkerjakk posted:I dunno, I think after our track record in the last couple decades the burden of proof is really on anyone who is pro-regime change by America to explain why this time it'll be different. Maduro loving sucks but Guadio is just straight up loving worse. Imagine you take Bolsnaro's fascist bullshit and then add in a dash of racism and bunch of murder. https://twitter.com/MikePrysner/status/1088172453233188864 Careful clicking the actual twitter thread because there's a dude being lit on fire in that timeline
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facialimpediment posted:https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1088441318794317825?s=19 Swamp: Drained 
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Bolow posted:Maduro loving sucks but Guadio is just straight up loving worse. Imagine you take Bolsnaro's fascist bullshit and then add in a dash of racism and bunch of murder. I've been of the opinion for a while that the best thing the US can do in the vast majority of cases of dickheads loving up their own country and people is to provide humanitarian aid, accept refugees, and sanctions targeted only at the rulers at the top so they can't stash the gains from looting their country abroad. That said, pretty sure Maduro & Co have also been murdering people. Near as I can tell this is just more flavors of "assholes abound."
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quote:I'm sure that rural NY feels the same way about NYC and I seem to remember rural CA feeling the same way about SF, LA, and SD. The thing here though is that NY has several other decent sized metro areas like Buffalo, Albany, Rochester, Syracuse, etc. aside from NYC and is otherwise dotted with small cities that were business/manufacturing centers in their own right. That's how Michigan and WI are outside of their respective major metros, lots of 50-100k size old industrial cities interspaced with mostly agricultural land (but with hills). When I go somewhere like rural Illinois or Iowa they feel desolate in comparison being mostly farm land with really tiny farm towns here and there, correct me if I'm wrong however.
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DoktorLoken posted:The thing here though is that NY has several other decent sized metro areas like Buffalo, Albany, Rochester, Syracuse, etc. aside from NYC and is otherwise dotted with small cities that were business/manufacturing centers in their own right. That's how Michigan and WI are outside of their respective major metros, lots of 50-100k size old industrial cities interspaced with mostly agricultural land (but with hills). I wouldn't say that about WI, if you for example drive from Chicago to Minneapolis once you go past Madison or Milwaukee the largest town you go through is a small tourist trap. Ohio is definitely what you say though, you're never too far from a moderately sized city.
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hobbesmaster posted:I wouldn't say that about WI, if you for example drive from Chicago to Minneapolis once you go past Madison or Milwaukee the largest town you go through is a small tourist trap. I thank you for not referring to St Paul in that way. 
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Crakkerjakk posted:I've been of the opinion for a while that the best thing the US can do in the vast majority of cases of dickheads loving up their own country and people is to provide humanitarian aid, accept refugees, and sanctions targeted only at the rulers at the top so they can't stash the gains from looting their country abroad. There's no good option, but the least poo poo one is probably not enabling some loving fascists so they can privatize the oil reserves after they seize power. But poo poo this is basically us_latin_america_policy.txt. Gonna loving laugh real loving hard when the pissgolem stands down because daddy told him no though. https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1088392989125341184
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BigDave posted:I thank you for not referring to St Paul in that way. Refers exclusively to wisconsin and despite being from saint paul I often say Minneapolis because it takes people a while to register what I meant if I say saint paul or twin cities. 
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