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Taerkar posted:The only thing that surprises mr about that story is that we didn't see one sooner. I'm not going to be surprised if there was a racial element too. In which case I really hope they bring hate crime charges.
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Jarmak posted:Have you ever traveled outside of America when you say things like this? I very distinctly remember the heavy-handed security measures against theft being a little bit of a culture shock when I lived in Italy. Germany was the same way every place I visited. As a German, I disagree. Maybe those pesky shopping guards are just hiding to well, but I rarely saw anyone like that in my life. There was a guard at my local REWE but only in the evening and I think that's mostly to have someone there in case some drunks start harassing customers.
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Doctor Butts posted:Had there been a real upswell of Bernie support, the news would have absolutely tried to capitalize on it. Maybe not to the point of crowning him the front runner, but things such as making it a sport where Bernie is the big 'underdog' and it's some kind of fight for the 'real soul' of the Democratic party. What an absurd thing to say. Does winning the first three primaries not count as an upswell of support? He consistently had much better polling than any of the other candidates not-named Biden, but I don't remember Chris Matthews accusing Mayor Pete of wanting to murder him. I just don't understand the parade of posters responding to complaints about the establishment with "well obviously they were going to prefer Bernie." Nobody is disputing that the establishment sucks; that's why we wanted Bernie to win, and that's why many of us won't unconditionally support the Democratic party! [quote="Acebuckeye13" post="504593382"] I think the actual primary schedule itself was unintentionally the biggest challenge to any candidate who wasn't Biden. It's been known for a long time that African-u time for the bounce to subside, or for other candidates to react and knock him down a peg. And while I don't think that was deliberate, I expect to see the 2024 schedule set up to similarly favor the establishment candidate.
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May 4, 2020 14:56
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cant cook creole bream posted:As a German, I disagree. Maybe those pesky shopping guards are just hiding to well, but I rarely saw anyone like that in my life. There was a guard at my local REWE but only in the evening and I think that's mostly to have someone there in case some drunks start harassing customers. I didn't spend a ton of time in Germany so my experiences may not be typical but there was literally a security guard and access control turnstiles on the mall bathroom when I visited Munich.
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May 4, 2020 14:59
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Fritz the Horse posted:I'm not going to be surprised if there was a racial element too. In which case I really hope they bring hate crime charges. Are they harsher than murder charges?
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May 4, 2020 15:00
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sassassin posted:Are they harsher than murder charges? They tack on and make crimes more severe, although this is 1st degree murder so I can’t imagine how much more hosed over they can get.
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May 4, 2020 15:02
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canepazzo posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1257258214615367680 USPOL Spring: dumped them nicely,
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May 4, 2020 15:02
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Another sign of the apocalypse... https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1257311089127088130
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I have to admit it took me a minute to realize “Concast” was a pun and not a typo.
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zenguitarman posted:Well I guess between the global pandemic, the next great depression, and the invasive murder hornets, we got that going for us Has anyone seen Ted Cruz lately? Maybe his skin suit tore apart.
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PerniciousKnid posted:What an absurd thing to say. Does winning the first three primaries not count as an upswell of support? Iowa was basically a tie, and created such a debacle that people wrote off all future caucuses - which is why nobody cared about Nevada, and then the NH win was incredibly underwhelming. Sure the field was crowded, but winning with 25.6% of the vote, with Pete second at 24.3%, and Amy at 19.7% - is not really convincing anyone of your level of support. Even if you assume all the Warren voters go Bernie, that’s a whopping 35% of the vote.
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Dick Trauma posted:Another sign of the apocalypse... Very cool that Clarence Thomas's wife is a conspiracy theory spouting Republican operative dedicated to facilitating his vindictive political agenda against his "enemies" and we just can't do anything about it at all except wait for either of them to die.
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1257283775375040512 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1257304527843110914 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1257315077243334656
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May 4, 2020 15:28
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Jesus Christ with the reviews. Is he reading some loving metacritic but for politicians? Actually that would kinda rule.
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May 4, 2020 15:31
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Mat Cauthon posted:Very cool that Clarence Thomas's wife is a conspiracy theory spouting Republican operative dedicated to facilitating his vindictive political agenda against his "enemies" and we just can't do anything about it at all except wait for either of them to die. COVID’s going to tear the judiciary apart. Except for Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch.
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May 4, 2020 15:32
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May 4, 2020 15:33
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May 4, 2020 15:35
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It's very easily disproven and people point it out every time. He doesn't care and just keeps saying it.
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May 4, 2020 15:37
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superjew posted:How is that claim about more testing than the rest of the world combined not easily disproven? It's simple: For his base, what he says, is. Anything disproving him is fake news or a hoax. For the media, it's "Trump says thing. Experts disagree. Who can safely say who's right? The world may never know." For everyone else: anything he says is bullshit. There's no need to disprove it.
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Willo567 posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1257283775375040512 It's interesting how you can tell the current focal point of Trump's narcissistic anxiety is by whatever he's currently tweeting about getting great reviews on.
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Jarmak posted:I didn't spend a ton of time in Germany so my experiences may not be typical but there was literally a security guard and access control turnstiles on the mall bathroom when I visited Munich. was that because it cost a buck to use it, I've only seen that in Europe when they charge you to piss, but I haven't spent much time there either
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May 4, 2020 15:39
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Many people are refusing to talk about how I've taken many more drug tests at my workplace than anyone else, no one else comes close to how often my bosses, crooked bosses, I call them, say, "That guy must be pissing hot" and give me a cup to go pee in in the breakroom. WRONG! This is just how I am.
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May 4, 2020 15:41
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canepazzo posted:Jesus Christ with the reviews. Is he reading some loving metacritic but for politicians? You know RateMyProfessor.com? Maybe there’s that but for politicians.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:You know RateMyProfessor.com? Maybe there’s that but for politicians. This would literally be the most toxic place on the internet.
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May 4, 2020 15:44
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superjew posted:How is that claim about more testing than the rest of the world combined not easily disproven? It's literally a propaganda technique. "Joseph Goebbels posted:If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
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May 4, 2020 15:45
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Solaris 2.0 posted:Why do we think this? The 2018 coalition was made up overwhelmingly of moderates and centrists. The AOCs/Taliba/ect that get all the media attention are actually the minority of Dems who were elected. Most were moderate...by this forums standards. But actually still quite progressive by Democratic standards and their voting records support it. Jennifer Wexton is a prime example. Its the media man. The media gave this to biden. This is going to keep happening too because someone like Bernie fundamentally challenges the power of both the party and the media in the fact he wants to give some of it back to the voters. They don't like that and will do anything to prevent that from happening. I think the only way someone that actually wants to help people can get elected is by lying and saying they are a neoliberal and that they wont change anything.
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May 4, 2020 15:59
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Holy poo poo, a company exec with balls. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bjpj/amazon-vp-tim-bray-resigns-calls-company-chickenshit-for-firing-protesting-workers
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Wonder if this will move any needles at all https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1257264160213217285
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KillHour posted:Holy poo poo, a company exec with balls. Is Amazon a company that has like a dozen VPs? I want to know how big a deal this guy is.
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ManBoyChef posted:Its the media man. The media gave this to biden. This is going to keep happening too because someone like Bernie fundamentally challenges the power of both the party and the media in the fact he wants to give some of it back to the voters. They don't like that and will do anything to prevent that from happening. I think the only way someone that actually wants to help people can get elected is by lying and saying they are a neoliberal and that they wont change anything. I think we need to stop blaming the media for the way people vote. The media’s only objective is to drive clicks and direct eyeballs to their content so they can make more money. People like to point out idiots like Chris Matthews - but how many people actually watched him every day? A few hundred thousand at most, and it was likely made of people who already agreed with his views. On Friday morning, before the Clyburn endorsement came down, cable news media was dunking on Biden and talking about whether he will drop out on Tuesday night or in the days after. Remember how the media was in the tank for Hillary, even while spending the bulk of their time covering her emails, and contributing to her loss? We need to recognize that this is a fairly right wing country. The reason the Democrats are a center right party, is that it’s a fairly accurate reflection of our population as a whole. In 2016, every conservative news outlet told their voters not to vote for Trump because he isn’t a conservative and will doom the party, and the voters did it anyway, and forced all of their media outlets to fall in line.
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VH4Ever posted:Wonder if this will move any needles at all The sad part is that the Lincoln Project wants to put someone even worse in there just not so brash and unsophisticated.
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Mr Interweb posted:does anyone know if there are still any judicial vacancies that still need to be filled up, or has turtleface already taken care of every opening? There are a lot and it's going to stall any progressive movements for decades
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VH4Ever posted:Wonder if this will move any needles at all This is what I tell my friends that are on the fence - imagine Trump having another 4 years of cutting funding to important government programs that will help mitigate or prevent future issues like this. Other countries have been able to contain and advance against COVID but in the U.S. it's still going up because of the terrible response and ignorance. Not to mention any sort of other disaster response in the future is now going to be complicated due to COVID and how badly it's been handled. This is an anecdote, but I had a buddy that was crowing about how he gets more money via less taxes because of Trump, but is now struggling with trying to get unemployment since he got dumped by his job. I haven't said anything just yet about it to him but I know eventually he'll connect the dots since each new presidency he sides with who ever is in the office. Yes, he's one of those continually-brain dead "undecideds".
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TyrantWD posted:I think we need to stop blaming the media for the way people vote. The media’s only objective is to drive clicks and direct eyeballs to their content so they can make more money. People like to point out idiots like Chris Matthews - but how many people actually watched him every day? A few hundred thousand at most, and it was likely made of people who already agreed with his views. the media controls so loving much and you cannot deny that. Its all media not just cable news. Even down to the way they framed questions for Bernie at the debate or the fact that almost all pundits made claims about toxic Bernie bros even though they were indistinguishable from people from other campaigns. The media controls a lot. Accept it. They shape the narrative we deal with. Its the same with Biden being electable. We all know full well that rapist isnt electable its why he failed to become president so many times before but thats what people think about him because the media convinces the people that watch that he is electable and then those people influence their family and friends. Its just how it works. Democrats are different than republicans. They get led around by the nose by media.
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Mr Interweb posted:does anyone know if there are still any judicial vacancies that still need to be filled up, or has turtleface already taken care of every opening? Most of the vacancies that still exist (and there are a lot) is because Mushbrain hasn't submitted anyone for them, and in a handful of cases the person that was submitted was too terrible even for the regressives in the Senate.
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