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the difference is that bush's pea sized texan brain put up enough of a smokescreen that you had to look closely to find his crimes whereas trump is just tweeting about it nonstop
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Jan 14, 2020 01:47
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V. Illych L. posted:i think this is a big part of the horror of trump: the idea that bush is the new normal for how republicans win elections, that politics have become so horribly corrupt that no matter how outrageously blatant the president is about his crimes it's what we all expect of the president and at least this guy respects us enough not to pretend that he's not a crook - that this is perceived as a good thing is *terrifying*, but it's terrifying because of what it says about modern politics rather than something about trump in particular no i think its the very overt nazism that is horrifying
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Jan 14, 2020 01:47
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Raskolnikov38 posted:the difference is that bush's pea sized texan brain put up enough of a smokescreen that you had to look closely to find his crimes whereas trump is just tweeting about it nonstop Iraq is a pretty big country and his crimes were in plain view almost everywhere you went.
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Jan 14, 2020 01:48
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Raskolnikov38 posted:the way impeachment is laid out the only situation it would or will ever work is when the majority party, while controlling congress and the presidency, suddenly decides that their president has gotta go and even then andrew johnson skated yes which is why it's important to enact it even if it's a loss which was the left position pre impeachment
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Jan 14, 2020 01:49
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Furnaceface posted:Iraq is a pretty big country and his crimes were in plain view almost everywhere you went. i was thinking more of the minor crimes rather than the open pit of corpses
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Jan 14, 2020 01:55
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https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1216887697085796360
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Jan 14, 2020 02:15
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V. Illych L. posted:i think this is a big part of the horror of trump: the idea that bush is the new normal for how republicans win elections, that politics have become so horribly corrupt that no matter how outrageously blatant the president is about his crimes it's what we all expect of the president and at least this guy respects us enough not to pretend that he's not a crook - that this is perceived as a good thing is *terrifying*, but it's terrifying because of what it says about modern politics rather than something about trump in particular it's the same thing democrats said about bill clinton back in the 90s he's a snake but he's our snake
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Jan 14, 2020 02:15
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Raskolnikov38 posted:the way impeachment is laid out the only situation it would or will ever work is when the majority party, while controlling congress and the presidency, suddenly decides that their president has gotta go and even then andrew johnson skated basically. though the founders never really conceptualized that someone like, say, johnson or trump would ever become president in the first place because they assumed that the elite powerbrokers would keep them out of power. having a powerful executive that isn't accountable directly to the people in the way a legislative leader is, turns out to be a bad idea, who knew.
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Jan 14, 2020 02:16
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lol
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Jan 14, 2020 03:37
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Jan 14, 2020 04:07
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lmao
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Jan 14, 2020 04:13
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too soon
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Jan 14, 2020 04:14
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just noticed that the gfc causes a dip too, as it does on literally every other graph lol
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Jan 14, 2020 04:37
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Jan 14, 2020 04:53
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they've turned on lightning knight, a mere 2 days after he agreed to mod c-spam and unnecessarily got rid of his buttons in d&d 
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Jan 14, 2020 05:03
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:having a powerful executive that isn't accountable directly to the people in the way a legislative leader is, turns out to be a bad idea, who knew. It's about as accountable as members of parliament in the UK, in that they can not elect them next time maybe. The whole of representative democracy is generally not too big on accountability. Nor is just about any other government system, really. I mean say the soviets were far worse, as is your average dictator.
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Jan 14, 2020 05:05
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1) reinstate fyad 2) make lightning knight mod of new fyad
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Jan 14, 2020 05:09
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or just perma the conspiracy nuts since they're all going to leave for the succzone offsite if it ever gets off the ground
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Jan 14, 2020 05:11
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exmarx posted:they've turned on lightning knight, a mere 2 days after he agreed to mod c-spam and unnecessarily got rid of his buttons in d&d rename cspam graveyard of moderators imo
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Jan 14, 2020 05:14
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boreodino
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Jan 14, 2020 05:18
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how hard is it to avoid getting drawn into relitigation of mod decisions* in the discord offshoot of the c-spam suck zone thread * 
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Jan 14, 2020 05:19
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i've heard they're planning on charging $10 for their forums so that's going to be hilarious clusterfuck
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Jan 14, 2020 05:22
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cspam was always a mistake
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Jan 14, 2020 05:23
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hearty lol at LK texting posters
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Jan 14, 2020 05:33
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imagine thinking you're going to get dickeye to settle down by posting more at her
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Jan 14, 2020 05:34
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because of c-spam i learned that the samsung voice assistant is called "bixby"
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Jan 14, 2020 05:35
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im just lollin at the inability to firewall online and offline. how do people not do this by default. it is so goddamn easy
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Jan 14, 2020 05:38
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i don't understand it
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Jan 14, 2020 05:41
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exmarx posted:imagine thinking you're going to get dickeye to settle down by posting more at her still trying to wrap my mind around needing dickeye to settle down is some top level concern outside of a handful of dadchatters
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Jan 14, 2020 05:49
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maybe they'll create a posting paradise and we'll be gnashing our teeth and rending our garments outside it's impenetrable walls as we are damned for all time
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Jan 14, 2020 05:49
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actual lol
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Jan 14, 2020 06:26
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even though i usually can't stand being around frequently-angry people and recognise how she could have been a disruptive influence in certain threads, for some reason i find dickeye's inexhaustible rage endearing and inspirational
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Jan 14, 2020 06:29
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Homeless Friend posted:im just lollin at the inability to firewall online and offline. how do people not do this by default. it is so goddamn easy few people really have everything together in their lives. i only manage it because my damage is that my soul is cold and dead, shriveled and withered by utter self-contempt
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Jan 14, 2020 06:39
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d&d and lf both spawned their own offsites, it is now cspam's turn to leave the nest
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Jan 14, 2020 06:43
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luxury handset posted:d&d and lf both spawned their own offsites yeah ive heard of twitter
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Jan 14, 2020 06:50
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Raskolnikov38 posted:or just perma the conspiracy nuts since they're all going to leave for the succzone offsite if it ever gets off the ground lmao i've come to enjoy cspam but I don't think I've ever really read the trump/succ threads and so all this outward hostility makes no sense to me Homeless Friend posted:im just lollin at the inability to firewall online and offline. how do people not do this by default. it is so goddamn easy i think it's just a function of being on social media all the time. thank god I jettisoned all that years ago now. Being on Twitter for 3 months was one of the dumbest things I've done. Dreylad fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Jan 14, 2020 |
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Jan 14, 2020 07:15
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twitter definitely makes you stupider not sure if the human brain is actually equipped for that much input nonstop
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Jan 14, 2020 07:41
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Dreylad posted:i've come to enjoy cspam but I don't think I've ever really read the trump/succ threads and so all this outward hostility makes no sense to me they only post in one thread but think they speak for the noble forum of c-spam! it's wild lol Berke Negri posted:not sure if the human brain is actually equipped for that much input nonstop this is why i think forums > chats
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Jan 14, 2020 07:54
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exmarx posted:this is why i think forums > chats yeah ive definitely come around to that something to be said about firing away a message, letting it stick, no immediate reaction, someone later catching up seeing it and it clicks as opposed to constantly moving up post emoji reaction emoji reaction gone next thing always long suspected good posting went down the shitter since twitter embeds became a thing because making clever posts wasn't needed you could just embed some strangers im guilty of this fwiw
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Jan 14, 2020 08:00
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the inbuilt destruction of chronology, history, etc. is real bad too
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Jan 14, 2020 08:02
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