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Internet Wizard posted:The “petulant hissy fit” of... hating an incoherent centrist who won’t commit to improving anything I mean Biden wasn't my first, second or even third choice but the "He's not going to improve anything!" line of attack when he's running against Trump is just so stone loving stupid at this point. ANY of the Dem candidates would me a marked improvement over Trump. I mean, compare Biden's platform to Obama's in '08 or even Clinton's and it's remarkably more progressive than either of those platforms. If I'm thankful for anything, it's Sanders dragging the party leftwards even if people keep saying he didn't. He sure as gently caress did. It's still got a ways to go but I think with people like AOC in the wings, it'll continue in that direction. And yeah, if you're a white dude under 40 who's loudly proclaiming you're gonna sit out in November because the electorate didn't turn out for your guy, you are indeed throwing a hissy fit and you're a certified piece of poo poo to boot if you follow through with that. Also, great news https://twitter.com/THR/status/1237756107474571267 EDIT: Terrible snipe, have a picture of Olive to make up for the rapists picture. 
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By the way, speaking of posting something regretful: https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1237751016952598529?s=19 If you're a die-hard anti-biden person, now's your chance to be part of an article! (rip his mentions/DMs)
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:What are you even trying to say here? We just had a bunch of primaries where the under 40s could've come out in droves to vote for an honest goddamned progressive... and it mostly didn't happen. In fairness, some of this is accessibility. If you can't take time off work, you can't, and that's the end of it. Same, re: not being able to find a ride to your way-the-gently caress-far-away polling places, which was/is a huge obstacle atm.
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Mar 11, 2020 16:08
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Handsome Ralph posted:
His lawyer said he would die in prison if he got more than 5. I’m not suggesting this is a downside.
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Mar 11, 2020 16:08
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Stop having elections on a goddamn Tuesday.
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Mar 11, 2020 16:08
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Just give everyone mail-in ballots. poo poo works great in Colorado.
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Mar 11, 2020 16:10
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Woofer posted:Stop having elections on a goddamn Tuesday. Pretty much this. Woofer posted:His lawyer said he would die in prison if he got more than 5. And this. I hope he suffers.
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Mar 11, 2020 16:11
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Handsome Ralph posted:
Olive looks like a sweat pea Edit: these folks are having a meltdown in the office and in the slack, I'm not there but I'm getting emails. They aren't my direct reports so I'm trying to keep out of it bird cooch fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Mar 11, 2020 |
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Mar 11, 2020 16:13
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Old Boot posted:In fairness, some of this is accessibility. If you can't take time off work, you can't, and that's the end of it. Same, re: not being able to find a ride to your way-the-gently caress-far-away polling places, which was/is a huge obstacle atm. I completely agree with this take but it's not as if any of the states yesterday didn't have early or mail in voting as options. Can't completely pin the lower youth turnout on being unable to vote on a Tuesday. bird cooch posted:Olive looks like a sweat pea She most certainly is 
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Mar 11, 2020 16:13
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Old Boot posted:In fairness, some of this is accessibility. If you can't take time off work, you can't, and that's the end of it. Same, re: not being able to find a ride to your way-the-gently caress-far-away polling places, which was/is a huge obstacle atm. Plus the people who got absentee ballots after the deadline. Plus fatigue from suppression efforts on their entire generation. It adds up. They aren’t insurmountable obstacles objectively speaking but for many people they clearly were
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^^^^ this, also.Handsome Ralph posted:I completely agree with this take but it's not as if any of the states yesterday didn't have early or mail in voting as options. Can't completely pin the lower youth turnout on being unable to vote on a Tuesday. I think I have a touch more sympathy because I have missed two local elections in recent memory due to just being an ADHD poster child and forgetting what day it was. Mostly, I'm thinking of the 18-21 bracket that may not actually know that mail-ins are even an option. Otherwise, yeah, I agree that it can't be pinned entirely on 'it's Tuesday.'
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Mar 11, 2020 16:17
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bird cooch posted:
I dunno man, get em together and blow off some steam with some cathartic vandalism. But man, getthefuckouttahere with the whole grownups bullshit. Ain't no one a grown up.
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Mar 11, 2020 16:19
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A friend of mine that I went to school with is from China. He won’t home in January and hasn’t been able to come back. He’s sending me messages asking me to update him... ....on China. Not sure who has the worse government for this since China seems to be getting it under control (I think? Last I read) but aren’t telling their citizens anything, or our dipshit government who can’t seem to do ANYTHING right.
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Mar 11, 2020 16:22
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Woofer posted:A friend of mine that I went to school with is from China. He won’t home in January and hasn’t been able to come back. He’s sending me messages asking me to update him... We're going to aggressively reintroduce it to countries that have already busted rear end to contain it, and are already importing cases left and right because of our sheer incompetence, so I'm pretty sure I know what everyone else will think, but that's been true for a while now.
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Woofer posted:His lawyer said he would die in prison if he got more than 5.
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Handsome Ralph posted:I mean Biden wasn't my first, second or even third choice but the "He's not going to improve anything!" line of attack when he's running against Trump is just so stone loving stupid at this point. ANY of the Dem candidates would me a marked improvement over Trump. I mean, compare Biden's platform to Obama's in '08 or even Clinton's and it's remarkably more progressive than either of those platforms. If I'm thankful for anything, it's Sanders dragging the party leftwards even if people keep saying he didn't. He sure as gently caress did. It's still got a ways to go but I think with people like AOC in the wings, it'll continue in that direction. Pretty much... with a two party system, a non-vote for Biden is a vote for Stephen Miller. I'm pretty sure one of those is a little further right than the other.
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Old Boot posted:In fairness, some of this is accessibility. If you can't take time off work, you can't, and that's the end of it. Same, re: not being able to find a ride to your way-the-gently caress-far-away polling places, which was/is a huge obstacle atm. Oh, absolutely. I'm not saying anything against people who wanted to vote but couldn't for whatever reason because that happened to me once (my name was entered wrong in the voter registry and I didn't find out until afterwards). Woofer posted:Stop having elections on a goddamn Tuesday. CRUSTY MINGE posted:Just give everyone mail-in ballots. poo poo works great in Colorado. Yes to both of these.
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Woofer posted:A friend of mine that I went to school with is from China. He won’t home in January and hasn’t been able to come back. He’s sending me messages asking me to update him... https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1237761462979964928?s=19 China more or less shut up completely while they locked down Wuhan and mostly had the coronavirus burn out due to the quarantine lockdown. Now that the lockdown is over, it's back to business as usual, so the government propaganda machine is now back to operating capacity too. And like Old Boot said, now China is concerned about the coronavirus importing itself back in, so the propaganda of "all these other countries are poo poo at this, we did it right" is the country line.
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Mar 11, 2020 16:50
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Prudential Building in downtown Chicago had either a full or partial evacuation due to someone testing positive for Corona. I feel like we are mere days away before my company announces full wfh
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Mar 11, 2020 16:50
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Our policy generally follows OPM since we are essentially government contractors. OPM sucks at this.
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Mar 11, 2020 16:51
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ive been hearing people say their managers have a deadline of making sure everyone who can wfm is by 3/12 at my work (insurance industry). we have armies of actuaries so hearing a hard date set like that was somewhat forboding i've worked from home now for 8 years and havent seen my boss face to face since obama was president. im more and more glad for that now.
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Mar 11, 2020 16:55
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I'm expecting full WFH as soon as someone who isn't 85 years old dies of it in this province. We have a pretty relaxed WFH policy anyways but nothing has been said about it for coronavirus reasons other than "we have the capacity to handle it, stay tuned lol".
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Agency already conducted nation-wide VPN testing and other IT networking stuff to ensure they can support thousands of people working remotely. I heard that someone in the NYC office was tested as they’re family member popped for corona. No word on that.
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My company sent out a survey on Monday asking if people could WFH and how feasible it would be. Super ironic considering a year ago, a majority of us WFH 2-3 days a week and we had multiple FTE working from home without issue before some VP got the galaxy brain idea to end working from home except for one day a week. I'm not bitter about any of this, why do you ask? I figured we'd be told by the end of the week to just WFH till April, but now it sounds like HR is dragging their feet on it. They're now saying people can come to them on a case by case basis and ask to WFH if they are immunocomrpomised or have anxiety. 
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Our company culture has some very anti-WFM nuance. We're all set up for remote work, most people could accomplish most of their poo poo from home, and it would probably improve morale. But people will also act like you're scamming if you do it. My boss does it often enough, but I'm not allowed to. Hopefully he's not conceding just yet. Even if he can't win he should put some pressure on Joe going into the convention. Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Mar 11, 2020 |
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Mar 11, 2020 17:07
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Don't look at it as a vote for Biden or Trump. Look at it as voting to say you aren't ok with putting kids in cages. Although I'm not entirely sure how Joe feels about that whole border situation...
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bengy81 posted:Don't look at it as a vote for Biden or Trump. Look at it as voting to say you aren't ok with putting kids in cages. Two things about this: firstly, the general American populace has completely forgotten about it since it isn't on the TV anymore, and second if it does get brought up Donny will just say "yeah, and Sleepy Joe and Obama are the ones who built them".
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bengy81 posted:Don't look at it as a vote for Biden or Trump. Look at it as voting to say you aren't ok with putting kids in cages. Lol vote for the guy who started and still defends the practice or the guy who expanded it. What a great choice
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I'm not going to say that I will definitely vote for Biden in November. That would be foolish, because it would mean that he wouldn't have to budge an inch to get what he wants. He needs to earn my vote, and he can do that by showing that he's meaningfully different from Trump somehow. He's got 8 months to do it. This situation could be salvaged and Biden could turn out to be a decent candidate, but that sure as hell won't happen if everyone on the left agrees to vote for him no matter what. But there's a chance it might if the Democrats realize that they can't win in November without meeting the left halfway. That's politics baby. So maybe people could cool it with the "vote blue no matter who" and "you just want Trump to win" bullshit? Stop acting like he deserves all of our votes just because he's on "our" team.
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Mar 11, 2020 17:36
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Halfway could be supporting Medicare for All, or at least having it as an option to pay into at Sander’s proposed rates. Also meaningful action on climate change.
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Fister Roboto posted:I'm not going to say that I will definitely vote for Biden in November. That would be foolish, because it would mean that he wouldn't have to budge an inch to get what he wants. He needs to earn my vote, and he can do that by showing that he's meaningfully different from Trump somehow. He's got 8 months to do it. This situation could be salvaged and Biden could turn out to be a decent candidate, but that sure as hell won't happen if everyone on the left agrees to vote for him no matter what. But there's a chance it might if the Democrats realize that they can't win in November without meeting the left halfway. That's politics baby. I would vote for a wet paper bag before I’d cast a vote that has a net benefit for trump. I’m not voting for my team. I’m voting against the other team. Because the other team is so unequivocally bad that it’s irresponsible not to.
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Yeah, my hypothetical vote for Biden would be 100% a vote against Trump, nothing more.
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Mar 11, 2020 17:46
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Woofer posted:I would vote for a wet paper bag before I’d cast a vote that has a net benefit for trump. This is the type of post I'm furiously clinging to. We've come a long way from last year's state in here, and it's scaring the gently caress out of me.
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Look, I'm not saying that you shouldn't vote for Biden. I'm saying that you shouldn't say you will definitely vote for Biden (or against Trump) no matter what. Do you understand the difference? It's about bargaining for a better platform. You don't start bargaining by saying "I'll give you whatever you want no matter what".
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Handsome Ralph posted:
Since Harvey is 67, I'm glad he got what's effectively a life sentence.
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Flying_Crab posted:Yeah, my hypothetical vote for Biden would be 100% a vote against Trump, nothing more.
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Woofer posted:His lawyer said he would die in prison if he got more than 5. I want to believe that the judge heard that and thought "maybe, maybe not - what kind of sentence would let me be sure"
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