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selec posted:I kinda hate that our government can always seem to “afford” poo poo like war and graft, and that ostensible allies are on board with the ability to not give a poo poo about those expenditures, but suddenly become extremely stingy about spending that money on social programs. That’s about the size of it, I loving loathe that hypocrisy. Obama is an enormous, glaring example of this. Ostensibly liberal, but incredibly loving stingy with giving money to the poor instead of the war. I made a joke where I called Asheville good, and you posted this Get a normal brain
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Even if the entire point of that research was just to get us videos of a shrimp running on a treadmill it would have been worth the money.
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theflyingorc posted:I made a joke where I called Asheville good, and you posted this Asheville’s a great town,, sorry for talking politics in your politics thread
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Pigbuster posted:Even if the entire point of that research was to get us videos of a shrimp running on a treadmill it would have been worth the money. Put a headband on the shrimp and make it a montage and you got the makings of a Netflix original series.
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:I don't mean to be combative, but I'm passionate about this. Apologies if I come off like a dick. What did Trump do that banned bump stocks, and why couldn't Obama have done that
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selec posted:Pretty easy for him to tut tut freshmen Congress members with questions on How Are They Gonna Pay For It for programs designed to save lives and our entire planet. Why doesn’t he take senior members to task on the same question when they vote for multi-billion dollar increases to military budgets that Trump requests? Yeah, he found money to bail out the entire loving banking system, we can find money to not let the planet burn and kill us all.
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FizFashizzle posted:Yeah but I want to keep my quiet little mountain home, dammit. Never you mind.  My grandfather had two houses and huge lands. 5 years later he managed to die in a rental apartment with not even enough money left to pay for his funeral. This boomer thing just triggers when they get old. Like some wealth self-destruct mechanism. Katt fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Mar 28, 2019 |
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VitalSigns posted:What did Trump do that banned bump stocks, and why couldn't Obama have done that Obama *could* have, but bump stocks weren't in the public consciousness until after the Vegas shooting, which happened during Trump's presidency. Also, as I've said before, banning a particular accessory is literally the absolute least you can do to fix it and that's not even really a fix. It will have a negligible effect on gun violence. Bump stocks should be banned, yes, but as part of a bigger package of gun reform, and not just as a standalone measure.
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:Obama *could* have, but bump stocks weren't in the public consciousness until after the Vegas shooting, which happened during Trump's presidency. Also, as I've said before, banning a particular accessory is literally the absolute least you can do to fix it and that's not even really a fix. It will have a negligible effect on gun violence.
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The only bad president anyone is defending is Obama
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All presidents are bad, but some presidents are worse than others.
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:Obama *could* have, but bump stocks weren't in the public consciousness until after the Vegas shooting, which happened during Trump's presidency. Also, as I've said before, banning a particular accessory is literally the absolute least you can do to fix it and that's not even really a fix. It will have a negligible effect on gun violence. Well, I'm glad after 8 years of mass shooting and weepy sad speeches about how sad he was that Obama did less then literally the absolute least he could do.
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1glitch0 posted:Yeah, he found money to bail out the entire loving banking system, we can find money to not let the planet burn and kill us all. Right? All I’m saying here is this country can find the money for anything we want to do; it’s just that any media platform of any size is controlled by people who do not want the same things we do, and Obama buddies up to them, not us. So now he wants different things than we do too. He picked a side, and it wasn’t the side of people too broke to use their insurance, or kids hoping to have a planet worth living on in a few decades. He may say he’s on our side, but you’d have to be loving disastrously naive and credulous to believe that from all we’ve heard and seen since he left office.
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:The only bad president anyone is defending is Obama  1glitch0 posted:Well, I'm glad after 8 years of mass shooting and weepy sad speeches about how sad he was that Obama did less then literally the absolute least he could do.
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Mar 28, 2019 19:00
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Yes. Why couldn't famous black president Obama make changes to gun laws in this country? Perhaps it will always be a mystery why he didn't do this very easy thing.
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Obama was probably the best president we've had in 50 years and I am not saying that in a positive way.
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Katt posted:Never you mind. I’m handling the care of an elderly relative who had a stroke. She has a decent amount of money squirreled away but you would be absolutely amazed (or might already know) how expensive long term care is if you need memory care. She could easily live another decade and if she does I won’t be surprised at all if she burns through everything.
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Is he trying not to melt steel beams? AlBorlantern Corps posted:Jet fuel can't melt steel crucifixes God drat it. The corruption is just so loving blatant.
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Push El Burrito posted:Obama was probably the best president we've had in 50 years and I am not saying that in a positive way. 
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selec posted:Right? All I’m saying here is this country can find the money for anything we want to do; it’s just that any media platform of any size is controlled by people who do not want the same things we do, and Obama buddies up to them, not us. So now he wants different things than we do too. Yeah, even the bailout itself was a joke. "We have to save the banks or the economy will collapse!" "Maybe we should bail out the homeowners from being underwater on their mortgages." "Whoa... hold on, we can't reward irresponsible behavior!"
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Katt posted:Never you mind. The "Boomer thing just triggers when they get old" is actually just having to use our hosed up healthcare system that's a toilet flushing infinite money.
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xrunner posted:I’m handling the care of an elderly relative who had a stroke. She has a decent amount of money squirreled away but you would be absolutely amazed (or might already know) how expensive long term care is if you need memory care. She could easily live another decade and if she does I won’t be surprised at all if she burns through everything. Yeah, a few years of memory care will loving wipe out pretty much anyone whose wealth isn't self-sustaining. So much Boomer wealth is going to evaporate into the pockets of nursing home cartel shareholders.
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Katt posted:My grandfather had two houses and huge lands. 5 years later he managed to die in a rental apartment with not even enough money left to pay for his funeral. This boomer thing just triggers when they get old. Like some wealth self-destruct mechanism. Now imagine if your parents never had any generational wealth to potentially pass on. mango sentinel posted:The "Boomer thing just triggers when they get old" is actually just having to use our hosed up healthcare system that's a toilet flushing infinite money. Yes it's this. They're going to suck a dying old dry because they can.
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xrunner posted:I’m handling the care of an elderly relative who had a stroke. She has a decent amount of money squirreled away but you would be absolutely amazed (or might already know) how expensive long term care is if you need memory care. She could easily live another decade and if she does I won’t be surprised at all if she burns through everything. We have free healthcare and in his last month of life he laid a new floor over at his girlfriends apartment and I suspect he bought it too 
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mango sentinel posted:The "Boomer thing just triggers when they get old" is actually just having to use our hosed up healthcare system that's a toilet flushing infinite money. This was Sweden with free healthcare.
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Katt posted:Never you mind. If your family has any assets at all, MAKE A RETIREMENT PLAN WITH AN ELDER LAW ATTORNEY. Otherwise it *will* all get eaten by end of life medical costs.
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1glitch0 posted:Well, I'm glad after 8 years of mass shooting and weepy sad speeches about how sad he was that Obama did less then literally the absolute least he could do. Ok well gently caress him for not banning an accessory which will do nothing. Any type of gun reform would have expanded extensive political capital, so forgive him if he didn't blow his wad on "random accessory."
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InsertPotPun posted:Yes. Why couldn't famous black president Obama make changes to gun laws in this country? Pretty dick move that they didn't give a black president a pen in the oval office so he could sign an executive order.
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Rent-A-Cop posted:Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter is the reason why we have government shutdowns
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:If your family has any assets at all, MAKE A RETIREMENT PLAN WITH AN ELDER LAW ATTORNEY. Hey do this even if the situation's already gotten bad and you're looking at a medicaid spend down or something similar, an attorney may still be able to help.
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theflyingorc posted:Majorian's most consistent position is that if people simply were more passionate about things, they would have succeeded. That's never been my argument. My argument has always been that you have a better chance of succeeding if you try hard, and your voting constituencies will reward you for that. Come on, I know you're joking, but I'm kind of amazed that this is still something you haven't internalized. 
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1glitch0 posted:Pretty dick move that they didn't give a black president a pen in the oval office so he could sign an executive order. You'd think after 2 years and 3 months of Trump people would realize that Executive Orders aren't unstoppable but I guess it's time for a refresher. Barack Obama signed an executive order to close Guantanamo Bay. The Republicans, predictably, found ways to impede the progress of this via Appropriations and Funding bills that removed funding for things like transfers, as well as complaining about how it's too risky and dangerous to have those evil terrorists on our own soil in regular people courts instead of secret tribunals. So do you really think, with even less of congress in Democratic control at the time of Sandy Hook, that an executive order for gun control would pass without challenge? Majorian posted:That's never been my argument. My argument has always been that you have a better chance of succeeding if you try hard, and your voting constituencies will reward you for that. Come on, I know you're joking, but I'm kind of amazed that this is still something you haven't internalized. Sounds more like to me that you think empty feel good gestures like banning bump stocks are infinitely better than trying and failing to have meaningful gun control debates including having a sit-in in congress to try and force the GOP to debate, which actually didn't reward the Democrats at all if 2016 was any indication. Angry_Ed fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Mar 28, 2019 |
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christchurch wasn't even two weeks ago. https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1110942121471721474
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...how would a Christian University supply jet fuel?  They aren't even clever with coming up with grift reasons TulliusCicero fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Mar 28, 2019 |
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Lycus posted:Watch them uncover how the CPD manufactured evidence. It's clear to anyone who's
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Groovelord Neato posted:christchurch wasn't even two weeks ago. 
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