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Majorian posted:Seconded. I like Michael. He has really good interviews and opinions on foreign policy. Then don't let me stop you guys from enjoying him.
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HootTheOwl posted:Then don't let me stop you guys from enjoying him. No, seriously, I'd like to know if I'm missing something.
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"The Thrill is Gone" tax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fk2prKnYnI "Free, free, free, from your spell." Slow crescendo..... Take a break, its just a tax. Otteration fucked around with this message at 04:37 on May 26, 2019 |
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1glitch0 posted:I know this will be an unpopular opinion here but I have always been against the concept of "hate crimes" since it became a thing because I knew it would eventually become something the powerful could use against the less powerful. And here we are. A crime is a crime. It doesn't matter why someone did it. Once the government was given the authority to decide what a "hate crime" was it was inevitably going to lead to this. It's basically thoughtcrime legalized in real life. Hate crime laws imply a specific type of intent: the intent to terrorize minorities. This is important in distinguishing crimes against a person versus crimes against a person who is a representative of a specific, usually minority group (especially with the intent to silence or terrorize that group). They serve a very useful purpose. But really, you can apply this logic to all laws in general. Once a state decides to abuse the system, no system will protect you. Once the government was able to decide what a "crime" was, there was inevitably going to be the risk that a hostile government would abuse the legal system for its own ends.
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HootTheOwl posted:Then don't let me stop you guys from enjoying him. No!. It's not enough for us to like him. YOU need to like him as well! NOW SPILL IT COWARD 
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Majorian posted:No, seriously, I'd like to know if I'm missing something. Basically he's not funny, arrogantly long winded, and completely blind to any viewpoint other than his own. I find the way he treats foreigners and women to be belittling and overall I just don't like him.
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Calibanibal posted:reaffirming my longheld belief that Crossfit is a chud cult Only a chud cult could have such terrible, terrible form on their chin ups.
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HootTheOwl posted:Basically he's not funny, arrogantly long winded, and completely blind to any viewpoint other than his own. I find the way he treats foreigners and women to be belittling and overall I just don't like him. Thanks for the answer! I'm not seeing how he treats foreigners and women in a belittling fashion at all, but I guess I can chalk the other things you said up to personal taste. YMMV and all that. 
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1glitch0 posted:I know this will be an unpopular opinion here but I have always been against the concept of "hate crimes" since it became a thing because I knew it would eventually become something the powerful could use against the less powerful. And here we are. A crime is a crime. It doesn't matter why someone did it. Once the government was given the authority to decide what a "hate crime" was it was inevitably going to lead to this. It's basically thoughtcrime legalized in real life. Why someone did a crime is incredibly important and why manslaughter and murder are not the same crime.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:gently caress the cpd, and extra gently caress them all for making me think smollet was semi guilty for a bit You think Saturday Night Live is gonna take back its jokes? No, the old white fucks and boomers that harped about how that colored boy was not right in the head have forgotten who Smollett is right now conveniently, including my folks. Midwestern and southern whites deserve a goddamn ICBM.
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DeadlyMuffin posted:Plus Grant was a pretty terrible president A lot of his bad reputation is due to lost cause historiography. He was well thought of at the time, and many modern historians have reevaluated his administration.
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Google translate: It is golf in Chiba with President Trump who has been welcomed as the first official of Dewa. The new era of peace is expected to continue as the US-Japan Alliance continues to be further shaken.
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PotatoManJack posted:Google translate: It says, basically: "the first official guest for the Reiwa Era of Japan is President Trump, playing golf in Chiba and reaffirming the unshakable alliance between Japan and the US going forward." With any luck, they'll both get stuck in a sand trap forever. Ershalim fucked around with this message at 06:00 on May 26, 2019 |
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I have a question about a thing. A few days ago on MSNBC I heard a random guy in rural Pennsylvania say he was disappointed that Trump hadn't really brought back manufacturing and coal mining as promised but had only brought low-wage warehousing jobs instead, and complained that people he knows can't take those jobs because they don't pay enough to support a family. (Unclear if he was employed) My question is, did he have a basis for claiming Trump brought warehousing jobs to Pennsylvania? It's a rather specific policy question so it's a longshot anyone here would know. Trump supporters and sympathizers are generally full of poo poo, yes, but this guy apparently lived in the local area and so it's a mistake to dismiss the claim without specific knowledge of the subject matter. I looked into it and found local news articles about a Pennsylvania state initiative that has been credited with bringing warehousing jobs, but nothing Trump related. Other local news articles say the trend got started around 2013, focused around Cumberland county and the I-81 area because it's a natural desirable area for a logistics hub. Amazon wanted to locate there. But maybe there's some administration policy initiative that could've had an impact I didn't find. The biggest problem I see with this claim is its general implausibility. Changing US policy to bring jobs to any specific place is generally tough, costly, difficult to assess whether the price is worth it, and 'freebie' cases where it clearly makes sense are rare. Furthermore Trump has barely been in office 2 years which according to economic consensus is barely enough time for policies implemented at the start of his administration to have had a significant impact. It could be another disconnect between political perception and economic reality, "The president always gets credit/blame for the economy" effect (economists have a shorter term than that) but I liked to know for sure.
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PotatoManJack posted:Google translate: Ershalim posted:It says, basically: "the first official guest for the Reiwa Era of Japan is President Trump, playing golf in Chiba and reaffirming the unshakable alliance between Japan and the US going forward." The difference between machine translation and an actual understanding of the languages involved.
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Eregos posted:I have a question about a thing. probably not. dude probably just was able to snag one of those jobs. alot of rural and south east PA is mostly lovely jobs like that outside nursing.
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 this, c'mon man.Anyway, since the new Japanese era started literally this month, they're making a big deal that President Leather Muppet here was the first big diplomatic visit and-- seriously, who thought either of these old hideous fucks would look fine up close?
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Congrats Japan, the first diplomatic thing your Emperor Naruhito does is placate a gently caress head that will let you get bombed by his friend Kim.
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Crabtree posted:Congrats Japan, the first diplomatic thing your Emperor Naruhito does is placate a gently caress head that will let you get bombed by his friend Kim. That's prime minister Abe not the emperor
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Wark Say posted:seriously, who thought either of these old hideous fucks would look fine up close? No one, that's why Abe took the picture himself.
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Crabtree posted:Congrats Japan, the first diplomatic thing your Emperor Naruhito does is placate a gently caress head that will let you get bombed by his friend Kim. Reminder that the US defensive alliance with Japan is based on either law or treaty (law I think) under US law. So if Japan got attacked and Trump chose not to help it would be illegal. Theoretically Trump would receive a court order to comply with the terms of the alliance, and if he refused, it could be another impeachable offense.
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Wark Say posted:
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Rodenthar Drothman posted:No one, that's why Abe took the picture himself. 
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I know it makes sense in a twisted way but it does always seem weird when two nationalists act friendly to each other.
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Riptor posted:That's prime minister Abe not the emperor I don't think people give a poo poo, including Abe himself, if he's the one involved. They're framing this as the new era's first political thing and he's just there to wipe after agent orange and try to make him do something good for Japan while he rants like this is still the 1980s.
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Eregos posted:I have a question about a thing. Business just happens, man. Whether stuff grows or dries up all depends on the needs and desires of companies, not on what Trump says. There was nothing he could do to revive coal because coal is not profitable or in that high a demand. It's more expensive than other processes in the biggest industry that would have a demand; Making electricity. They'd have to buy coal, have a place to store the thousands of tons needed, plus equipment and staff to constantly take care of it. Then the health issues it causes would hurt employees who are generally well off and require more money to pay for their health. And once used, they need to have a place to store the biproducts like ash, which is a nightmare to store safely both environmentally and safely. Morons that listened to his "I'll make coal great again" rants bought into it all the way because they wanted a lazy man answer for their issues rather than have to learn another way of living. Same as those dupe steel workers that thought he'd save and revitalize the steel industry. It's just not going to happen because there are cheaper, easier, and more economical ways of making it. Rather than moving on to different employment, they all wanted a lazy answer so they didn't have to do anything. Trump's promises were simply bullshit. Even companies he did meet with (and made a big poo poo storm about on twitter) continued to shut down or lay off employees simply because the expenses they had and the demand for their products is not eternal. This was all as stupid a dream as the morons that thought the president could control gas prices (aside from kicking off wars in oil countries to make it cost more) TL;DR Trump is a conman and anyone that thinks he controls what business does is a moron. He couldn't even control what his own businesses did (hence why they've all tanked)
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Eregos posted:Reminder that the US defensive alliance with Japan is based on either law or treaty (law I think) under US law. So if Japan got attacked and Trump chose not to help it would be illegal. Theoretically Trump would receive a court order to comply with the terms of the alliance, and if he refused, it could be another impeachable offense. Yeah, and not helping a US possession (Puerto Rico), loving pornstars behind your wife's back, conspiring with foreign powers to influence elections, making corrupt business deals, and supporting Nazis should be the end of a political career. Yet here we are V Payndz posted:But... but service guarantees citizenship! When der fuehrer says we is de master race We heil heil right in der fueher's face Not to love der fuehrer is a great disgrace So we heil heil right in der fuehrer's face When Herr Goebbels says we own the world and space We heil heil right in Herr Goebbels' face When Herr Goring says they'll never bomb dis place We heil heil right in Herr Goring's face Are we not the supermen Aryan pure supermen Ja we are the supermen (super duper supermen) Is this Nutsy land so good Would you leave it if you could Ja this Nutsy land is good We wouldn't leave it if we could We bring the world to order Heil Hitler's world to order Everyone of foreign race Will love der fuehrer's face When we bring to the world dis order SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 08:12 on May 26, 2019 |
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Otteration posted:"The U.S. Is Denying Citizenship to Service Members at an Unprecedented Rate" (When reality is more lovely and awful than a grotesquely exaggerated fictional fascist state, hoo boy.)
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:Like who should I look at for long-form articles? The New Yorker
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Otteration posted:"Black students on a field trip said they were told ‘no food, no drink, no watermelon.’ Now the museum is apologizing." The article says the museum worker told them "No food, No drinks, No water-bottles" but if drinks were already not allowed why would they have to specify no water-bottles? This is definitely them refusing to admit they were acting racist, their apology is entirely hollow someone should have been fired for that.
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logger posted:The article says the museum worker told them "No food, No drinks, No water-bottles" but if drinks were already not allowed why would they have to specify no water-bottles? I can easily picture someone taking a water bottle in and saying "it's not a drink, it's a water bottle!".
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logger posted:The article says the museum worker told them "No food, No drinks, No water-bottles" but if drinks were already not allowed why would they have to specify no water-bottles? Honestly I wish someone had gotten it on recording. I've seen people take those plastic water bottles into security checkpoints at airports and become all shocked and appalled that these would be tossed out because they clearly aren't drinks. I've also watched coworkers walk past "No food or drinks on pack floor" at Vlasic, so they'd go through with empty bottles, fill them up in the sink on the other side of the door, then head to the line. I mean the dude making a racist remark and covering it up wouldn't surprise me. But on the other hand people are plenty stupid when it comes to barred stuff.
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I mean he wouldn't have specified watermelons if he'd already said food either, soo Anyway from the sound of it that one remark was only one of many objectionable things that happened.
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Crabtree posted:I don't think people give a poo poo, including Abe himself, if he's the one involved. They're framing this as the new era's first political thing and he's just there to wipe after agent orange and try to make him do something good for Japan while he rants like this is still the 1980s. The emperor has literally nothing to do with this
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Payndz posted:But... but service guarantees citizenship! Here in America, service guarantees suffering until you die.
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SocketWrench posted:Honestly I wish someone had gotten it on recording. I've seen people take those plastic water bottles into security checkpoints at airports and become all shocked and appalled that these would be tossed out because they clearly aren't drinks. In college, a lot of times, non-water drinks were banned in my classes simply because water was a lot easier to clean up and wouldn't stain a carpet or attract bugs if they were spilled and no one cleaned them up. I wonder if that's why some people make that distinction between them in their heads.
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SocketWrench posted:New massage parlor owner? This is kinda lovely. Don't do this please
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