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Hey man, that's Tucker Carlson, the guy who gives the biggest voice to liberal voices in mainstream media. Show some respect. edit: White kitties, so we don't offend Tucker. https://twitter.com/EmrgencyKittens/status/1113467487549628417 STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Apr 5, 2019 |
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on the one hand: https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/3267/70-Of-The-Materials-Used-To-Make-IKEA-Products-In-2018-Were-Either-Renewable-Or-Recycled on the other hand: A Conservative Political Marketing Firm helping to bring America back to its greatness https://www.facebook.com/AppSame
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SHES BEEN BUYING USED HER WHOLE loving LIFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
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i am harry posted:SHES BEEN BUYING USED HER WHOLE loving LIFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF Even funnier, the tv stand was probably not even wood
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Apr 5, 2019 03:08
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*Drives 3/4 ton gasoline truck* *Gets 6 mpg* "Yeah but AOC forgot to recycle a paper bag once" It's bad faith bullshit, don't promote garbage.
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Apr 5, 2019 03:13
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Seems like AOC participates in a society. Nothing gets past this guy!
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Apr 5, 2019 03:15
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pacerhimself posted:*Drives 3/4 ton gasoline truck* Not only are you absolutely correct, but I think the bag recycling critique literally happened a little while ago.
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Apr 5, 2019 03:17
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Apr 5, 2019 03:25
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Remind me why I'm supposed to believe WikiLeaks any more than I believe RT.
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Apr 5, 2019 03:28
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To be fair if I were a high level source in Ecuador I'd be ringing Julian's rear end every other week with the same poo poo and it would never stop being funny to me
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luxury handset posted:no idea, i mean herman cain sucks for a lot of reasons but he's arguably qualified for the job as far as i know My understanding, and someone who knows more about the Fed than I do should correct me, is that The Federal Reserve Board is the national group that actually reviews and sets policies, and the twelve Federal Reserve Banks (where Cain has his "Federal Reserve" experience, as a chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank) carry out the services and regulations that the Fed in Washington DC set up. This is a gross oversimplification, but it sounds kind of like arguing that because I was on a manager track at a Barnes and Noble store at the end of college, I have the experience and expertise to be a good CEO for a major retail chain. I'm certainly more qualified to run a bookstore chain than I would be to run a branch of the military, but it doesn't mean I'd be any good at it.
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So does Assange still have that cat or was it liberated from him?
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luxury handset posted:no idea, i mean herman cain sucks for a lot of reasons but he's arguably qualified for the job as far as i know Cain, to his credit, is, as far as I know, a literal rocket scientist (  ), which although impressive, I don't see how that makes him qualified to handle federal monetary policy.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:So does Assange still have that cat or was it liberated from him? The cat was already extradited for crimes against mouse-kind.
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Mr Interweb posted:Cain, to his credit, is, as far as I know, a literal rocket scientist ( The Detroit Lions have a rocket scientist as head coach and it's going great for us! 
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Edge & Christian posted:My understanding, and someone who knows more about the Fed than I do should correct me, is that The Federal Reserve Board is the national group that actually reviews and sets policies, and the twelve Federal Reserve Banks (where Cain has his "Federal Reserve" experience, as a chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank) carry out the services and regulations that the Fed in Washington DC set up. In that case the Reserve Bank is kind of like a minor leagues to the Big Show Federal Reserve Board. It seems like a perfectly fine path experience-wise. Trump spews stupid every time he breathes, but this is remarkably not that dumb. When that happens you can be reasonably certain someone else made the suggestion and Trump came back 5 minutes later with his brilliant idea to put Herman Cain on the Federal Reserve.
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Kerning Chameleon posted:That's an indictment against capitalism and classism, not an argument in favor of institutionalized sports. Just want to quickly remind you that East Germany ran a secret set of experiments on youth (as young as 12) and adult athletes for decades, injecting them with experimental compounds and steroids to secure its Olympic wins. As for breaking bones, the USSR literally pushed a young gymnast to paralyze herself for life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Mukhina Elena Mukhina posted:...for our country, athletic successes and victories have always meant somewhat more than even simply the prestige of the nation. They embodied (and embody) the correctness of the political path we have chosen, the advantages of the system, and they are becoming a symbol of superiority. Hence the demand for victory – at any price. As for risk, well... We've always placed a high value on risk, and a human life was worth little in comparison with the prestige of the nation; we've been taught to believe this since childhood.[...]There are such concepts as the honor of the club, the honor of the team, the honor of the national squad, the honor of the flag. They are words behind which the person isn't perceived. I'm not condemning anyone or blaming anyone for what happened to me. Not Klimenko or especially the national team coach at that time, Shaniyazov. I feel sorry for Klimenko – he's a victim of the system, a member of the clan of grownups who are 'doing their job.' Shaniyazov I simply don't respect. And the others? I was injured because everyone around me was observing neutrality and keeping silent. After all, they saw that I wasn't ready to perform that element. But they kept quiet. Nobody stopped a person who, forgetting everything, was tearing forward – go, go, go!
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:So does Assange still have that cat or was it liberated from him? cat was adopted out in november in part because assange was too lazy to take care of it
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Pembroke Fuse posted:As for breaking bones, the USSR literally pushed a young gymnast to paralyze herself for life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Mukhina After years of casual study I feel like I'm still hazy on what parts of this attitude are "actual socialist thought" and which parts are "insane USSR nationalism that has nothing to do with socialism" I'm guessing that the above is almost 100% the latter, since I can't imagine anyone in this thread would think highly of a system that denigrates the individual human life in favor of the glorification of the state and the flag and the ideology But I can at least state with some surety that the vast bulk of America knows for sure that any step down the socialist path leads inexorably to Lysenkoism and gulags and the robotic parroting of sayings out of a little book
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Edge & Christian posted:My understanding, and someone who knows more about the Fed than I do should correct me, is that The Federal Reserve Board is the national group that actually reviews and sets policies, and the twelve Federal Reserve Banks (where Cain has his "Federal Reserve" experience, as a chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank) carry out the services and regulations that the Fed in Washington DC set up. I imagine you'd probably be a fine CEO in all honesty, the elites have lied about the importance and stature of CEOs all along because the more people believe their bullshit the easier it is for them to justify their disgusting overcompensation. Assuming you're not some dipshit libertarian like Eddie Lampert anyway.
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So Cohens attempting to Arabian nights his way out of going to jail? Won't work, but I mean nice try I guess.
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Krispy Wafer posted:In that case the Reserve Bank is kind of like a minor leagues to the Big Show Federal Reserve Board. It seems like a perfectly fine path experience-wise. By contrast, "the Fed" has traditionally had a board full of economists and heads of banks. The two most recent departures from the Fed were both people with advanced degrees in Economics and careers teaching and writing about economics and monetary theory and etc. All of Trump's other nominees (Goodfriend, Liang, Moore) have advanced degrees in Economics. Herman Cain's degrees are in Mathematics and Computer Science, which makes him more qualified to be on the Fed than (say) Ben Carson is qualified to be in charge of HUD, but the fact that he was a Federal Reserve Bank executive 20+ years ago is kind of like saying that because I have an advanced degree in Literature and did a decent job with customer service and merchandising, making sure the cash registers lined up at the end of the day, and could properly adjust inventory when a truck shipment came in (and then stopped working in retail years and years ago) that I'm a solid pick to run Barnes and Noble now. It's not Trump's craziest pick but that doesn't mean it's good. Unless again, I am missing something signficant. It's not even a "mayor to governor to president" progression of increasingly large responsibilities, it feels like dramatically different ones between "making sure banks have enough money and are following regulations" and "determining what those regulations are".
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dr_rat posted:So Cohens attempting to Arabian nights his way out of going to jail? "I understand that you want me to testify, but have you heard my brother's testimony?"
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Apr 5, 2019 04:24
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You know, props to the hustle but I don't see how this ends any way but 'actually we can just take them and if we need help...well we'll know where to find you...'
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Data Graham posted:After years of casual study I feel like I'm still hazy on what parts of this attitude are "actual socialist thought" and which parts are "insane USSR nationalism that has nothing to do with socialism" Entertaining this question out loud will reveal REALLY crazy people to you
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Apr 5, 2019 04:31
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Bernie just said on the Daily Show that he is making the last 10 years of his taxes public on April 15th, then told Trump to do the same hopefully the house gets Trumps by then at least. (not likely)
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Edge & Christian posted:My understanding to extend the bookstore metaphor a little is that the Federal Reserve Banks (which are responsible for carrying out policies set at the Federal level, not setting any policy) are generally stocked with local businesspeople. The board Herman Cain was on in the early 1990s currently has on its board the owner of a lumber company, the vice president of an irrigation company, a couple of insurance executives, and a couple of bankers. You make a good point. In a perfect world I'd rather the Fed board be filled exclusively with economists and academics. Businessmen and women may know a lot about economics, but their opinions are going to be clouded by their career experience. Trump's a great example of this. If he was on the Fed board he'd be ringing the lower interest rates bell all the time because he's in real estate and low rates are great for selling condos. It wouldn't occur to him to slow the economy down before it hits a trigger point and spirals into double digit inflation. Cain is the best choice I can imagine Trump making. But my opinion is clouded by the fact I thought Trump was trying to replace Jerome Powell with Cain. So hearing he's only being nominated for a board seat was enough of a relief to make me cool with the choice. Like thinking you have cancer and finding out it's only crabs.
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I mean... that's good and all, but nothing matters and nothing he produces will actually do anything
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Data Graham posted:After years of casual study I feel like I'm still hazy on what parts of this attitude are "actual socialist thought" and which parts are "insane USSR nationalism that has nothing to do with socialism" The reason I mentioned East Germany is because the GDR was a fully-industrialized state (rather than a developing state like Tsarist Russia) that adopted Soviet-style socialism... and behaved in almost every respect in the same way that the USSR did. Ditto for say Czechoslovakia. Same goes for the PRC (although closer to Russia in terms of starting point than the GDR). There are enough parallels between how these states behaved that it goes a bit deeper that "Russian nationalism". There's also something to be said for the idea that if 70 years of Bolshevik rule didn't strip away Russian nationalism... no end of class warfare ever would. I'm a MOP socialist... I legitimately believe that the people should own the means of production and that in the coming decade we have one final attempt to institute fundamental social and economic change in order to avert climate change-driven extinction. But I'm getting really, really tired of ahistorical approaches to socialism/communism. Socialist jingoism, socialist "nationalism" (i.e. state-worship/leader-worship), the socialist carceral state, socialist xenophobia, intolerance and oppression were all historical facts of life for millions. Until I see socialists actually integrate fundamental civil and political rights into their conception of social/economic rights... I guess I'm going to continue not just blaming "Russian nationalism" or "East German nationalism" for problems that seem to transcend both nation-states and political systems. There are problems of individual agency, social management and state-building that legitimately transcend, or at the very least, deeply intermingle with class (accrual of power in hierarchies, gatekeeping, cognitive fallacies, tribalism and othering, desire for agency, the desire for internal consistency, etc). If we want to build something better, we should probably give them some thought.
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Wait a minute. I feel like I'm misunderstanding something here; the letter someone posted earlier from Cohen's lawyers implied that he needed time to figure out which documents were personal or fell under client confidentiality, which implies that the prosecutors haven't seen them yet, right? And if the prosecutors have seen them, in theory they'd have gone over them and wouldn't really need his help? Am I misremembering or misunderstanding, or is that tweet misleading?
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Krispy Wafer posted:Cain is the best choice I can imagine Trump making. But my opinion is clouded by the fact I thought Trump was trying to replace Jerome Powell with Cain. So hearing he's only being nominated for a board seat was enough of a relief to make me cool with the choice. Like thinking you have cancer and finding out it's only crabs.
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Edge & Christian posted:Sure, rated on the curve of "Trump appointees" in the same way you'd rate "calls from your doctor that they say they need to discuss in person" Cain is not the worst case scenario. But I was confused by people calling Cain/crabs "good".
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Besesoth posted:Wait a minute. I feel like I'm misunderstanding something here; the letter someone posted earlier from Cohen's lawyers implied that he needed time to figure out which documents were personal or fell under client confidentiality, which implies that the prosecutors haven't seen them yet, right? And if the prosecutors have seen them, in theory they'd have gone over them and wouldn't really need his help? I'm going to guess a lot of it is covered by attorney/client privilege. Illegal stuff isn't, which is why the SDNY could pursue charges related to tax fraud and illegal payoffs, but notcrimes.txt would be protected. That's why it's a terrible idea to have your fixer also be your lawyer since it pierces some of that attorney/client veil. Mueller and company know exactly what Sean Hannity was up to, but if it's not illegal it won't ever see the light of day. Rent-A-Cop posted:Crabs are basically a free pet I don't get what your problem is. One free cat is great. Hundreds of free cats are not great.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Hundreds of free cats are not great. Just gonna have to agree to disagree on that one.
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VitalSigns posted:No, from what I remember the pilot was America lost the cold war in 1990 and went Stalinist. Hmm. Hillary may have been president twice in Sliders. The one I was thinking of may not have been the pilot, but it was really early on and was just a throwaway joke. It could had her picture on a newspaper saying President Clinton does something or other. I remember the matriarchal world episode but don't remember the Clintons being a part of it. But my old brain could be forgetting. If any show needs a reboot it's Sliders. This time without a network and showrunners determined to destroy it. I'm not sure there's ever been a show where the writer's were THAT mean spirited to its audience and characters for no apparent reason.
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