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"Where is the accountability in the system?" I dunno, Mr. Mayor of the third biggest city in the united states, you loving tell me. This is his joint. He runs the town. Who is he even supposed to be mad at? His DA? His police force? The best possible interpretation for Rahm here is that he and his underlings are loving morons. I don't know what the hell happened in this story, but clearly the CPD hosed up so terribly that even if Smollett did fake the whole thing whatever CPD did was so much worse they had to drop the entire thing. Just imagine all the people who aren't famous actors who are caught up in this corrupt bullshit joke of a city police force. Failed Imagineer posted:"Whitewash" is just too many levels of Even when that piece of poo poo said it it looked like he had a second of reflection that maybe he shouldn't have said that. 1glitch0 fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Mar 26, 2019 |
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kidkissinger posted:How does he think debates work exactly?
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I fuckin hope he faked that poo poo and completely owned those racist idiots. That being said, I'm convinced that poo poo happened
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DAs are state officers. Thus, Rahm has no actual control over them except perhaps in the “I could endorse your primary opponent” sense.
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Where is the accountability indeed, Mr. "tried to keep the McDonald shooting video from getting out, then refused to resign and threw the superintendent under the bus"
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Honestly it’s irrelevant if he faked it because that poo poo actually happens to people. Whatever happened the best case scenario is that it’s perceived as legitimate and people pay attention to all the racist violence that is going on. Also gently caress the police and gently caress Rahm Emanuel.
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Not sure if this was posted before but, who feels like laughing at Alex Jones? Here he is getting laughed at by and then kicked out of a whole restaurant for being his normal charming self: https://www.klbjfm.com/blogs/man-stuff/viral-junk/alex-jones-loses-his-poo poo-gets-kicked-out-lucys-austin Kind of gives me a tiny glimmer of hope that everyone was laughing at him.
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https://twitter.com/animalspng/status/1109758902575480832 Sound on for the tax.
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Smollett hiring a couple Nigerian immigrants to pose as white supremacists and fake an attack on him in a public space never passed the smell test. What's the point in arranging for other participants in a false flag who couldn't stand up to the slightest scrutiny of their identity? Chicago PD immediately rounding up the closest immigrants to a crime (even a hate crime) and trying to coerce a confession out of them on the other hand...
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InsertPotPun posted:Well...yeah. That's my entire point: the Nazis were ok with Socialist ideas as it enriched THEM and ONLY THEM. The "equality" they sought was only for them. Most dictators and fascists have plenty of socialist ideas but the entire appeal is "it won't apply to THEM". I'm telling you that it is incorrect to call them "socialist ideas". The Nazis also had "democratic ideas" in that they had elected officials while banning other parties. It is pointless to quibble over the level to which Nazis were socialist or democratic, or anything else. We already have a word for what they were, which is "fascist".
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Shifty Pony posted:Just in case you were wondering what Netanyahu's next goal was now that Trump recognized Israeli annexation of the Golden Heights: Yes, it's a defensive war when you are attacking neighbors. Then again, after world war 2 everyone claims that they are acting preemptively.
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The Super-Id posted:Honestly it’s irrelevant if he faked it because that poo poo actually happens to people. It's very loving relevant The Super-Id posted:Whatever happened the best case scenario is that it’s perceived as legitimate and people pay attention to all the racist violence that is going on. Ah yes this is the best case, and not half of america pointing to it in reference to true and legitimate hate crimes and assuming it's all being made up by ~~the left~~ what is more legitimizing than falsely planning a hate crime against yourself
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Koalas March posted:Reminder I'm on the same $600 meds as Lowtax for nerve pain. If I lose my insurance I'm fuuuucked. Have you tried gabapentin? Lyrica is a scam.
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Xombie posted:I'm telling you that it is incorrect to call them "socialist ideas". The Nazis also had "democratic ideas" in that they had elected officials while banning other parties. It is pointless to quibble over the level to which Nazis were socialist or democratic, or anything else. We already have a word for what they were, which is "fascist". Thank you for doing this, I just couldn't muster the strength today.
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Angry_Ed posted:Yes let's imprison a Black Man and a White Woman for centuries of crimes committed by White Men. You think GWB would go into prison if we did this? gently caress no he wouldn't. This is a stupid thought experiment. I don't even know why I responded to it other than just finding it so loving asinine. I'm not really being serious. You shouldn't jail your political opponents. Bush Jr. should be in prison. Cheney should be in prison. Powell should be in prison. Trump should be in prison. Most of congress should be in prison. But ethically, I have a hard time seeing why two out of the thousand of people who should be prison go to prison is the wrong choice, even if it's for the wrong reasons. mdemone posted:This is similar to the accelerationist fallacy. There has never been, and is never going to be, a situation where emergent fascism was subverted and destroyed by a democracy. I'm not sure I understand your meaning. The idea isn't that democracy saves us, it's that rich elite assholes suddenly realize this is real life and they might need to actually do things so they don't end up in a prison cell. Pretty sure if Obama and Hillary ended up in a jail cell tomorrow, people like Pelosi and Schumer would start worrying a lot less about Omar and Israel and start worrying about their asses. Maybe that is accelerationist talk. And I'm just jabbering on the internet. Who knows. But I know what we've been doing since Nixion ain't been working.
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The top reply going with the "Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East" canard: https://twitter.com/Sowellnomics/status/1110427484913311744
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Karen Handel (GA-6 rep, beat Jon Ossoff in that special election for Tom Price's seat, then lost to McBath in 2018) announced she's running again to take her seat back. Local twitter wasn't feeling it.
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WaPo reporting that House failed to override Trump's veto, meaning his emergency declaration can go through. https://www.washingtonpost.com/powe...8d5f_story.html quote:President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border survived a critical vote in the House on Tuesday, as Democrats failed to muster the necessary two-thirds majority to override his veto. Not seeing a vote breakdown anywhere yet.
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kidkissinger posted:How does he think debates work exactly? replace the word “debate” with “gently caress” and everything Ben Shapiro says will be put into much clearer perspective
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VH4Ever posted:Not sure if this was posted before but, who feels like laughing at Alex Jones? Here he is getting laughed at by and then kicked out of a whole restaurant for being his normal charming self: "I was already leaving" -a true alpha man who has been taking his Super Male Vitality
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Sundae posted:WaPo reporting that House failed to override Trump's veto, meaning his emergency declaration can go through. I saw earlier it was all Democrats and 18 Republicans. It still now needs to survive multiple lawsuits, and then if it does, it's on to years and years of eminent domain lawsuits
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malbogio posted:Smollett hiring a couple Nigerian immigrants to pose as white supremacists and fake an attack on him in a public space never passed the smell test. see also: impact font “durrr i is stupid” AOC image macros Augus fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Mar 26, 2019 |
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Kinda funny in a sad way seeing right all the right wing dipshits going "wha? I agree with Rahm???" when the most credible accusation of corruption in the process (to Smollett's purported benefit, that is) is through a close friend of Rahm's wife. (also yeah, no poo poo a bunch of people with no moral compass wind up agreeing with Rahm all the time, ofc)
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Family Values posted:The top reply going with the "Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East" canard: That guy's a "black people don't succeed because they don't work hard like me" douche
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Rosalind posted:"I was already leaving" -a true alpha man who has been taking his Super Male Vitality Right and I know dude was always pretty thick but my favorite part, and I say this as a fat man, were the people scoffing with surprise at how fat he is now in that polo. What a tool.
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Wilhelm posted:It's very loving relevant Did you read my post? I said the best possible case was people perceiving it as legitimate. Personally I think everything the CPD did is shady as poo poo. I won’t stop believing what Smollett said until he confesses that he planned the whole thing, and even then I’d be extremely skeptical it was coerced in some way. What are you saying exactly? That you think it would be better in someway if everyone believed he faked it? The half of America that thinks he faked it despite no real evidence is loving irrelevant and hates him because of his skin color and sexual orientation so gently caress them and their beliefs.
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They're already trying to pin Smollett "escaping justice" on Obama because he worked for his campaign or something lmao
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ummel posted:Have you tried gabapentin? Lyrica is a scam. I suggested this to Lowtax as well. Lyrica is literally an expensive version of the same active ingredient as Gabapentin with an extra metabolic step to activate it. There's rare cases of people having a preference one way or another but on paper it's the same thing but much cheaper. You probably know about GoodRx too but it's worth a shot
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ummel posted:Have you tried gabapentin? Lyrica is a scam. Why do you say that? Since I've been on it, it seems to help a lot. Also that's neurontin right? I took that when I was 14 and had some really bad side effects.
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lol just comes out and says it. https://twitter.com/ShibleyTelhami/status/1110607879063683073
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Strange Poon posted:They're already trying to pin Smollett "escaping justice" on Obama because he worked for his campaign or something lmao Someone should ask the prosecutors what they think about the case.
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Remember that Rahm was literally in tears on TV because as he described it "this was going to make it harder for REAL hate crime victims to be believed." Now that it turns out the case against Smollett was bogus you'd think Rahm would be happy since he probably didn't fake a hate crime and was in fact a victim. However he's spitting mad so it's almost like this was never about compassion for hate crime victims at all.Groovelord Neato posted:lol just comes out and says it. These guys saying this and how they are going to get rid of the freshmen is REALLY almost designed to make the Democratic leadership look as terrible as possible. Eggplant Squire fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Mar 26, 2019 |
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mdemone posted:Someone should ask the prosecutors what they think about the case. research isn’t part of journalism anymore, sorry op
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The Super-Id posted:The half of America that thinks he faked it despite no real evidence is loving irrelevant Good god, you're in Qanon or truther territory here.
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Baronash posted:Good god, you're in Qanon or truther territory here. How so?
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theflyingorc posted:That guy's a "black people don't succeed because they don't work hard like me" douche Even worse. https://twitter.com/Tioranta/status/1110607543829741568
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Baronash posted:Good god, you're in Qanon or truther territory here. Every bit of evidence supporting the theory that Smollett faked the attack, that I've seen so far, has been later discredited -- for example, the check he wrote the attackers turns out to have been for personal trainer services. At this point I'm with the guy above who said those two dudes probably attacked Smollett for their own reasons, lied to the cops or were encouraged to lie by the cops, and then the cops ran with the attacker's narrative because it was easier for racist chicago cops to believe.
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