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I hope everyone is making bank on the new hottest number-upping strategy! Investors Cash In on Ebola Bonds That Haven't Paid Out quote:A new way of financing the fight against global diseases lured investors with annual returns of more than 11%. The deadly Ebola outbreak in Africa is highlighting shortcomings of so-called pandemic bonds in halting contagions. As you can, death is good for business, 
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Facehammer posted:Secondly, centrists inherently view that mean point as something which they should chase, and fail utterly to realise both that it can move over time, and that it can intentionally be moved. I think it's more than that, they assume the mean opinion is objectively the best option. Not just what the voters prefer, but actually the most utilitarian or whatever. It's clearly crap and shoots far too low, assuming (for example) that we can only help some poor people have a better quality of life when the reality is if we wanted to we could help them all.
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namesake posted:^^^Median voter theory was always just an excuse to move left-wing parties to the right, like the laffer curve is always just an excuse to cut taxes. The underlying assumptions are just wrong. Absolutely. But the difference is that unlike the cynical cunts who first cooked it up as an excuse, an awful lot of today's centrists seem to actually believe it down to their bones. A whole generation of liberal politicians grew up utterly steeped in their own farts and the astounding uselessness of the Lib Dems, even beyond the constant betrayals of their core demographics, are the end result.
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Uhhhhh https://twitter.com/hyperfrank/status/1161738503769808901
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actual reality posted:The pandemic bonds, the first ever, are triggered by patterns in deaths from infectious diseases. A normal sentence to read.
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BizarroAzrael posted:https://twitter.com/linkshund/status/1161944381944934400?s=19 So what you're saying is that centrism is political nihilism and liberalism is an ideology which justifies political nihilism?
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nihilism is honestly far more intellectually robust imo
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nihiliberalism Chicken shops serve 45% Afro-Caribbean, 45% Asian, 45% Middle Eastern, and -35% Whites 
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why are they using "ethnic" as a like, collective noun, is that the term? like the difference between "ethnic traditions" and "he's an ethnic" - those two phrases read radically different to my eyes.
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CoolCab posted:why are they using "ethnic" as a like, collective noun, is that the term? like the difference between "ethnic traditions" and "he's an ethnic" - those two phrases read radically different to my eyes.
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It's the same as the difference between "black consciousness" and "he's a black" and they'd absolutely be doing that if it were 20 years ago, if not worse like "coloured contact lenses" and...
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Aug 15, 2019 12:23
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The ethnics and the urbans with their hippity hop and sneakers.
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Aug 15, 2019 12:24
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Just laughing imagining the bonus that some City banker lizard got for dreaming up pandemic bonds, probably only a fraction of what the brain geniuses behind CDOs raked in, but still. We are a stupid race
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Aug 15, 2019 12:25
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*opens chicken box* Bare #knifefree fam, don't blade #ethnic mans. *closes chicken box, unfolds knife, stabs own eyes*
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I hope everyone is making bank on the new hottest number-upping strategy! Why do I get the feeling that this exact thing will happen if Yanis Varoufakis' green new deal bond plan ever bears fruit in the next 10 years. The bonds will be released, billionaires across Europe will flock to buy them and surprise surprise, it'll be nearly impossible to use the funds for anything environmentally related because of arcane conditions and requirements.
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Guavanaut posted:nihiliberalism Annihilate Liberalism
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CoolCab posted:why are they using "ethnic" as a like, collective noun, is that the term? like the difference between "ethnic traditions" and "he's an ethnic" - those two phrases read radically different to my eyes. It's racism OP
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rip epstein, tripped down the stairs https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1161960004200620033?s=19
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https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1161699838372827136 This is a particularly galaxy-brained idea.
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ShredsYouSay posted:https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1161699838372827136 If he spent less time tugging his "hat" he might have more time to try and not sound like a loving simpleton
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Tesseraction posted:rip epstein, tripped down the stairs Note that you only break your neck via hanging if you can get the noose high enough to support your entire body-weight after it goes taut (and find a higher point to jump from, but that's not so difficult). There was nothing in Epstein's cell that high that he could have both reached and attached the rope to.
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its good that jo swinson has publicly announced she intends to gently caress over anyone who might consider voting lib dem again because of brexit before an election rather than just loving them over after
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Tesseraction posted:rip epstein, tripped down the stairs So they actually went and ripped off The Wire?
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Darth Walrus posted:Note that you only break your neck via hanging if you can get the noose high enough to support your entire body-weight after it goes taut (and find a higher point to jump from, but that's not so difficult). There was nothing in Epstein's cell that high that he could have both reached and attached the rope to. Yeah he hanged himself from the bunk bed and unless he's 3 feet tall (he's not) you'd be on the ground.
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Tesseraction posted:Yeah he hanged himself from the bunk bed and unless he's 3 feet tall (he's not) you'd be on the ground. i mean he could lift his legs up so he was about 3 foot tall
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Darth Walrus posted:Note that you only break your neck via hanging if you can get the noose high enough to support your entire body-weight after it goes taut (and find a higher point to jump from, but that's not so difficult). There was nothing in Epstein's cell that high that he could have both reached and attached the rope to. I'd assumed they were going for "state calls it a suicide, but everyone else, up to and including president twitter himself, says it's murder" as a way of witness intimidation, as in "anyone else who is thinking of coming forward, we can kill you too no matter where you are or who you are and it'll be a tragic suicide and nobody will do a thing." But that doesn't work if there's an actual homicide case, unless they find a patsy, like Bob poo poo of the Aryan All Jews Are Noncers League had a full set of keys that he made out of spoons, case closed, it was the bad racist. But then that clouds the suicide as witness intimidation angle.
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Guavanaut posted:So what happens if they actually decide there was foul play? I'm not sure how 'we'll kill you and cover it up' clouds the witness intimidation angle in this hypothetical, whether it's a homicide due to neglicence of oversight, or a patsy, or both? You still end up dead if you look like you might break anything, either way.
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I go away for a few days and come back to find the Libdems as expected.  Not suprising it's written, or at least headed by a forty-something white dude. Jose posted:its good that jo swinson has publicly announced she intends to gently caress over anyone who might consider voting lib dem again because of brexit before an election rather than just loving them over after The libdem existance is a continual cycle of "But we elected a liar, a homophobe, the man who sold off Royal Mail, and a Tory woman, and said we'd stop No Deal Brexit - unless faced with a Corbyn government with him literally offering everything we've been asking for in the press - how do we keep losing voters? Maybe we need to be more radically centrist!"
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Tenebrais posted:Liberalism was such a dominant ideology for so long that a lot of its adherents didn't, or still don't, realise it is one and thought it was just an apolitical ground state. Isn't that happening to most people?
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:As you can, death is good for business, The 72nd rule of aquisition.
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The obvious issue with Swinson's position is that she very enthusiastically jumped into bed with the Tories during the coalition years (more enthusiastically that most Tories did, in fact) and has said she'll do it again. If she did that in the spirit of compromise she should be happy to accept Corbyn's proposal, but it seems that instead she just wants there to be a Conservative government instead of a Labour one.
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Darth Walrus posted:Note that you only break your neck via hanging if you can get the noose high enough to support your entire body-weight after it goes taut (and find a higher point to jump from, but that's not so difficult). There was nothing in Epstein's cell that high that he could have both reached and attached the rope to. What if he'd tucked and bombed like youre not allowed to do in the swimming baths?
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Guavanaut posted:nihiliberalism
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I am enjoying James Ball's melt down on twitter about the letter Labour’s line today is its variant of Caroline Lucas’s all-women Cabinet: “we’ll do the thing that will avert disaster but only entirely on our own terms, even though the differences are all cosmetic”. When this crap enables no-deal, voters rightly won’t forgive any of them. — James Ball (@jamesrbuk) August 15, 2019 The best part is where he says "corbyn should do x but isn't so this won't work" and someone points out that is exactly what JC is doing, so James doubles down with "but, but it's Jeremy Corbyn!" What a twat. loving liberals man (don't call them centerists, they are nowhere near it unless you are talking about arseholes).
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Guavanaut posted:So what happens if they actually decide there was foul play? This Vanity Fair article may provide a clue. quote:The sinister depravity of Epstein’s sexual world, and Maxwell’s role in enabling it, was mostly kept hidden. The two were fixtures on a certain rarefied Manhattan circuit. Epstein was as a practical joker who liked messing with people he regarded as lower on the food chain. A prominent 1990s Sports Illustrated model who dated Epstein describes meeting Donald Trump at one of Trump’s parties in the penthouse of the Plaza Hotel back then, and Trump goading Epstein to get her number. “Jeffrey said he wouldn’t give it to him and he had to get it from me,” she says. She finally gave it to him on another occasion, but he lost the number. “Trump called Jeffrey trying to get it again, saying ‘She gave it to me! You know she gave it to me! You can give it to me now!’ but Jeffrey wouldn’t do it.” She laughs. “Donald was such a joke to all of the models back then—we all knew he was bankrupt and had no game. I remember Jeffrey once saying he was going to be late to pick me up because he had to drop off food for Donald—he was at home crying under the covers.” Epstein's clientele were the New York machine, wildly wealthy, wildly corrupt old money Democrats. Trump was never a part of their set, despite desperately wanting to be, and may well see the Epstein case as a weapon against the people who looked down on him all his life. Barr seemed sincerely angry about the dude's death, and it may well be that we'll see a more muscular and aggressive investigation of this case (if still a very partisan one) than we might otherwise.
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https://twitter.com/rulesObeyer/status/1161820065773182976 welcome to the future. scroll up the thread for an endless stream of Amazon ambassador accounts (chatbots?) praising the beneficent Bezos
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dispatch_async posted:https://twitter.com/rulesObeyer/status/1161820065773182976 Wow there is a lot of news at the moment that is just making me go aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Darth Walrus posted:This Vanity Fair article may provide a clue. barr's dad got epstein a job as a high school teacher and one of epsteins victims said him and trump had an argument because trump took her virginity when epstein wanted to. I doubt eihter of them really want anything to really happen
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