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InsertPotPun posted:They don't actually mean it, it's just another way to shut down discussion so it defaults to their position. They don't actually need to convince you, they just need you to shut up. 
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Thanks I was looking for that the other day but couldn’t find it for the life of me
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Feb 26, 2019 17:30
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Wait, is that satire, or sincere, I genuinely can't tell.
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Feb 26, 2019 17:47
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Keeshhound posted:Wait, is that satire, or sincere, I genuinely can't tell. Satire. You can tell because the bird is a caricature of Mallard Fillmore, a lovely conservative newspaper comic.
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Feb 26, 2019 18:05
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I posted the onion’s “america when we do/don’t talk about race” comic on facebook and some conservative acquaintances took it seriously.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I posted the onion’s “america when we do/don’t talk about race” comic on facebook and some conservative acquaintances took it seriously. Like they agreed with it? 
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Feb 26, 2019 21:45
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and I grabbed a screenshot Love both the faux concern trolling and taking away her role in any of her success.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I posted the onion’s “america when we do/don’t talk about race” comic on facebook and some conservative acquaintances took it seriously. I'm too terrified to share anything by Stan Kelly in mixed company for exactly this reason
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Feb 26, 2019 22:03
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Ambitious Spider posted:and I grabbed a screenshot But the majority of the country likes her outrageous ideas.
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Feb 26, 2019 22:14
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Bombadilillo posted:But the majority of the country likes her outrageous ideas. "Those polls are bullshit, everyone I talk to in my Internet bubble disagrees with them so clearly most Americans disagree with them!" Literally an argument I saw on a post about Michigan joining the lawsuit against the President's national emergency declaration. 
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Feb 26, 2019 22:21
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Soviet Commubot posted:"Those polls are bullshit, everyone I talk to in my Internet bubble disagrees with them so clearly most Americans disagree with them!" Wtf is your language set to?
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Feb 26, 2019 22:22
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jojoinnit posted:Wtf is your language set to? Breton, I translate Facebook into it when I have a few minutes here and there.
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Feb 26, 2019 22:27
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Soviet Commubot posted:"Those polls are bullshit, everyone I talk to in my Internet bubble disagrees with them so clearly most Americans disagree with them!" The fact that they can actually say that without realizing what they've done is how you know they're so pathetically hopeless.
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Soviet Commubot posted:"Those polls are bullshit, everyone I talk to in my Internet bubble disagrees with them so clearly most Americans disagree with them!" “How could Nixon have been elected? No one I know voted for him.” (That quote was likely not as stupid in context, but it’s still a good illustration.)
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Brawnfire posted:Like they agreed with it? You know the answer
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Feb 27, 2019 02:54
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Imagine sharing this low effort poo poo and thinking "I've really got her this time!"Copy Paste Joke Artist posted:A plane is on its way to Washington DC, when Democrat Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in economy class, gets up and moves to the first class section and sits down.
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borkencode posted:Imagine sharing this low effort poo poo and thinking "I've really got her this time!" For a second I actually thought it was building to something other than "[enter group here] are dumb!"
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Feb 27, 2019 04:09
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Ambitious Spider posted:and I grabbed a screenshot
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Feb 27, 2019 04:16
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InsertPotPun posted:So like...they've been secretly indoctrinating AOC her entire life, up to and including getting her to run for office, just so that eventually there'd be a young, fresh face willing to say such WACKY ideas as "hey, maybe don't kill the planet so strangers can get paid"? Besides the standard racism and misogyny, isn't a lot of the AOC smear supposed to reinforce the idea that millennials are still 15 years old and have no real life experience?
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The idea that AOC is a plant is particularly hilarious when you realize that in order to place her, they decided to knife a 10-term incumbent and Democratic Caucus Chairman to give her a seat. drat, you think if they had all this under such a tight control they would have had her land a different seat. I guess old Joe was prepared to make the sacrifice for the party, though.
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Feb 27, 2019 16:56
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Also, the dem establishment has been secretly more left-wing than they let on all this time. For, uh, reasons. Taqqiya!
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And they're still not dropping the mask even when it's come out that a majority of Americans support these left-wing policies. That's commitment!
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Pththya-lyi posted:And they're still not dropping the mask even when it's come out that a majority of Americans support these left-wing policies. That's commitment! Uh, I'll think that you'll find the majority of right-wing voters don't support them, and those are the only real Americans. Check mate.
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Feb 27, 2019 17:25
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 Curious what godless Sharia law looks like
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Moon gods.
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Feb 27, 2019 17:36
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That thread I posted an excerpt of earlier produced one of the stupidest things I've seen on Facebook
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Soviet Commubot posted:That thread I posted an excerpt of earlier produced one of the stupidest things I've seen on Facebook Lol Can you imagine the screaming if the roles were reversed and the popular vote for a Republican was higher than the electoral votes that resulted in a Dem presidency?
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Soviet Commubot posted:That thread I posted an excerpt of earlier produced one of the stupidest things I've seen on Facebook 
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Sharia law is literally the only thing on that list I don't want. I think I'd be willing to compromise that for the rest of it, though.
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Guavanaut posted:If the thread title weren't being held in memoriam, it would have to loving be popular vote doesn't reflect the majority view She means the majority of the Money
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Also, the dem establishment has been secretly more left-wing than they let on all this time. For, uh, reasons. Taqqiya! To these guys, treating women and minorities like people is indistinguishable from radical leftist anarcho-communism.
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PerniciousKnid posted:To these guys, treating women and minorities like people is indistinguishable from radical leftist anarcho-communism. Well you have to remember that ultimately what the right wing wants is a return to serfdom. That's why they're so against education and workers rights: They want uneducated worker bees who are too busy trying to not die to consider the fact that they're expected to be kissing-the-ground-grateful for the privilege of working 18 hours a day in exchange for a sandwich and a straw mat to lay down on. More people being able to vote muddies the waters for the only people whose opinions actually matter to them.
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Ashcans posted:The idea that AOC is a plant is particularly hilarious when you realize that in order to place her, they decided to knife a 10-term incumbent and Democratic Caucus Chairman to give her a seat. drat, you think if they had all this under such a tight control they would have had her land a different seat. I guess old Joe was prepared to make the sacrifice for the party, though. My response was basically “if only , instead of...” followed by recent applause of trump’s socialism line and Feinstein and those kids”and then a bunch of people all said how awesome capitalism was and I moved on with my life. I play Quizzo with these people every week so I’ll just hope my friend breaks up with her stupid boyfriend.
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VitalSigns posted:She means the majority of the Money She means the majority of white people.
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Going by number of counties is such a weird way to do it. I once got in an argument with someone over counties, where I was saying that it makes sense to have counties as a way to avoid duplication of services over rural areas and unincorporated towns; they were saying that they were ridiculous bloat. Turns out, in my state is an anomaly, with a small number of counties covering huge portions of land. What the hell does Georgia need 159 counties? One has like a thousand people. Hell, if we're going to decide that counties are the ultimate form of representation, might as well split states into billions of counties, with one person having hundreds or thousands in their fief.
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Nebraska has 92. Lots of them have 400 people and make all their money by giving out of staters speeding tickets. I got one in one of those once. Let's see... pay $150 or visit Banner County NE again for any reason? I'll hock it up.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:
you tend to get more counties/townships/whatevers in the eastern states since they are older, and counties are the main source of service provision for rural areas. states in western counties tend to be bigger just because by the time many of these counties were established you had things like the telegraph and railroad to make them easier to govern, also most of the land out west is vast arid wastes that don't have much population to provide services to. this is why america west of the rockies is heavily urbanized instead of being spread generally across the rolling green hills east of the mississippi in georgia's particular case, it was very easy to mint new counties as a state process and also statewide electoral votes were determined at the county level, so more counties = more rural dominance of state politics the number of counties is actually capped in the georgia state constitution because 159 is way loving too many, but it's near impossible to get rid of a county, so the trend is for city/county consolidation as many of these counties only have one town worth anything in them anyway
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