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Hekk posted:Yeah Twitter is great for linking content in a form that doesn’t have a character limit. Why people feel the need to write volumes of discourse over dozens of tweets, I don’t know. I seem to recall reporters doing it because its a way for them to publish stuff their papers won't without violating their contract.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:“Today it is my honor to pardon Ms. Susan B. Anthony, who- a lot of people don’t know this, but now they’re saying ‘Sir, what happened to Ms. Anthony, it’s very unfair, the Fake News media and the Deep State, they’re treating her- Ms. Casey B. Anthony- very badly.’ And now, she can be a free woman and go vote- in person, because she wasn’t arrested for wanting to vote by mail, which is a Democrat fraud. Can we get her up here? What do you mean she’s dead?” I plagiarizing this straight to social media. Fister Roboto posted:Remember that a pardon carries the implicit assumption of guilt. So he's basically posthumously forcing the admittance that what she did was wrong. Somehow I doubt that she would accept the pardon if she was alive. And I'm gonna finagle this in there somehow as well.
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Aug 18, 2020 17:52
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Multiple lawsuits inbound! https://twitter.com/mateagold/status/1295766199578624005?s=19 Basically every Democratic AG is filing a lawsuit, mostly at the Postal Service for cutting their services and loving with things before announcing the changes and/or bypassing the Postal commission.
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Aug 18, 2020 18:03
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That feels like victim blaming
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Aug 18, 2020 18:12
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RFC2324 posted:That feels like victim blaming I don’t think they can sue the Postmaster General or administration directly so getting an order against USPS is probably the most straightforward way to get it addressed, though they probably can’t get more funding to help.
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Aug 18, 2020 18:14
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Midjack posted:I don’t think they can sue the Postmaster General or administration directly so getting an order against USPS is probably the most straightforward way to get it addressed, though they probably can’t get more funding to help. I know. I wrote up a whole thing about it playing into GOP hands, and when I went to look for alternatives, I could find none
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Aug 18, 2020 18:20
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RFC2324 posted:I know. I wrote up a whole thing about it playing into GOP hands, and when I went to look for alternatives, I could find none There really isn't poo poo that can be done to save the USPS with Republicans in Congress willing to stall funding. And the Postal Service's setup doesn't allow for much recourse for a poo poo postmaster general and a poo poo board of governors. poo poo like medicine through the mail is very truly hosed until you can convince ghouls to relent. Which is basically impossible, because you're dealing with people like this: https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1295774256295563264?s=19
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Aug 18, 2020 18:38
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Although maybe, MAYBE it finally loving worked. https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/1295776474751012867?s=19 I don't believe him. Fucker hosed with the mail and medicine delivery. Edit: and it also says nothing about the changes he already made. Edit2 (for the below): Senate hearing Friday, House Hearing Monday. The Senate poo poo is designed to be on friendly ground, but both Harris and Peters (Dem Sen up for reelect) are on the panel. Peters has been running an investigation and has been very noisy about it. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Aug 18, 2020 |
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Aug 18, 2020 18:40
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That's nice, but I still look forward to him getting his rear end grilled by congress.
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Aug 18, 2020 18:47
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Handsome Ralph posted:That's nice, but I still look forward to him getting his rear end grilled by congress. It's going to be nothing but sound bytes and gotchas that are 100% meaningless.
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Aug 18, 2020 19:03
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Aug 18, 2020 19:03
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CainFortea posted:It's going to be nothing but sound bytes and gotchas that are 100% meaningless. Considering that they just promised that they would stop with the bullshit changes for now after the only action taken up to this point was people calling their reps and yelling about it as well as Dem politicians giving soundbytes calling DeJoy out for being tremendously loving stupid, I'd wager that it might be a bit more substantive than "meaningless".
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Aug 18, 2020 19:29
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They're stopping the changes because they've already made enough changes they don't need to make any more
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Aug 18, 2020 19:33
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Fister Roboto posted:Remember that a pardon carries the implicit assumption of guilt. So he's basically posthumously forcing the admittance that what she did was wrong. Somehow I doubt that she would accept the pardon if she was alive. Just because something shouldn't be against the law doesn't mean you aren't violating that law, and it doesn't mean that the action is necessarily wrong - just illegal. Which is not a bad thing - violating unjust laws is a moral duty and should be a point of pride. Accepting the pardon admits lawbreaking, not wrongdoing. And she never denied that she broke the law - that was the whole point.
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Aug 18, 2020 19:37
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Okay, so what's your point? ~*Nothing Matters*~? People are aware of the changes and even if the changes aren't effectively rolled back, enough people know about it now that people are clearly aware of who's pulling this poo poo and that they might need backup plans in order to vote. That's not meaningless. Sometimes loudly calling attention to a problem even if you can't effectively do anything about it for whatever reason (in this case Trump refusing to sign any legislation that grants additional funding for the USPS or McConnell letting bills sit idle after the house passes them) is better than saying "ah well nevertheless"
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The point is that assumption of guilt does not also mean guilty of wrongdoing.
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Aug 18, 2020 19:44
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Yes Rudy, there is a chapter on neurocognitive disorders with a section and diagnostic criteria for those in decline due to Alzheimer’s Disease
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Aug 18, 2020 20:03
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South Korea just had another outbreak due to a church going hog wild and its pastor leading pro right rallies during Korean Liberation day. Now the government is done loving around, 100$ to 3,000$ fines for no mask: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10164021868675223&id=425064710222 quote:1. This applies to all indoor area and any outdoor area with multiple personnel. The only exception is when at home or when eating. That third one, Holy poo poo if someone actually gets hit with it.
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Aug 18, 2020 21:09
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So I got curious about "low intensity sectarian conflict" and scaled the casualty numbers from The Troubles onto the united states. 930,000 dead, 13 million wounded.
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Aug 18, 2020 21:51
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https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1295828996718985217?s=19 19% positivity rate. Meanwhile, Alabama announced that they're going to have 20k fans in their 100k stadium for the football season. Insane.
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Aug 18, 2020 22:37
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When you say positivity, do you mean tests/cases, or do you mean percentage of the total student body
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Aug 18, 2020 22:45
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Percentage of test conducted showing up positive; they’re testing the entire student bodies and the tests have a pretty high false negative rate in asymptomatic patients.
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Aug 18, 2020 22:46
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https://www.businessinsider.com/militia-pulls-out-of-event-with-new-mexico-republicans-2020-8 So the New Mexico Civil Guard, a group run by a Neo-Confederate shithead, and a Proud Boy shithead are cancelling their appearance at a Republican rally because they feel one of the speakers is too racist.
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Aug 18, 2020 22:58
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CainFortea posted:They're stopping the changes because they've already made enough changes they don't need to make any more They're not even really stopping. They're forbidding postal workers from signing as witnesses on absentee ballots in states that require a witness signature. https://www.adn.com/politics/2020/08/18/in-rule-change-postal-service-forbids-employees-from-signing-absentee-ballots-as-witnesses/
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facialimpediment posted:https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1295828996718985217?s=19 I do so enjoy how they blame off campus parties (drat irresponsible kids!) Instead of themselves for gathering all these kids in one place under the threat of forfeiting their money when *everyone* said this was exactly what would happen.
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facialimpediment posted:
My school (K-State) is also planning on doing the 20% capacity for football games. We just started this week. If this wasn't going to be my last semester I would have dropped it in a heartbeat. I'm still not 100% sure that I did the right thing. The news just today is blaming a fraternity for a new cluster of Coronavirus, 13 new cases. This is such a clown show.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/17/politics/patricia-mark-mccloskey-rnc-st-louis-couple-guns-protesters/index.html Gun Couple to give speech at RNC, because why not go whole hog on the white insecurities?
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If you change "Army" to "Navy" and subtract 30 years, these answers sound extremely familiar.
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bird food bathtub posted:https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/17/politics/patricia-mark-mccloskey-rnc-st-louis-couple-guns-protesters/index.html And that smarmy little poo poo who got into a smirking standoff with an indigenous vet at the Mall last year. In an ideal world, his presence would be a fundraiser with tickets sold to win a chance to slap that smirk off his face.
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Madurai posted:If you change "Army" to "Navy" and subtract 30 years, these answers sound extremely familiar. I think that this has been a theme among enlisted for a long rear end time.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:And that smarmy little poo poo who got into a smirking standoff with an indigenous vet at the Mall last year. In an ideal world, his presence would be a fundraiser with tickets sold to win a chance to slap that smirk off his face. Yeah, that kid is in a triple way tie with Ben Shapiro and Ben Crowder for Most Punchable Face.
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shame on an IGA posted:So I got curious about "low intensity sectarian conflict" and scaled the casualty numbers from The Troubles onto the united states. The Irish weren't nearly as well or ubiquitously armed as the US is. Sure, they had ~specialty~ items like plastique and RPGs, but nowhere near the guns and numbers. Pretty sure you could ratchet your numbers up by at least an order of magnitude.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Sure, they had ~specialty~ items like plastique and RPGs, but nowhere near the guns and numbers. Oh I'm sure there are plenty of folks in the US who have these as well. Military equipment that has quietly gone missing from national guard stockpiles over the years most likely.
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orange juche posted:Oh I'm sure there are plenty of folks in the US who have these as well. We call it tannerite, but same difference.
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orange juche posted:Oh I'm sure there are plenty of folks in the US who have these as well. I recall a news story about a dude near an army base digging up his backyard for a garden, and being surprised by finding several pounds of C4. Sometimes things just get lost in your luggage.
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Bored As gently caress posted:Yeah, that kid is in a triple way tie with Ben Shapiro and Ben Crowder for Most Punchable Face. The Zodiac Killer will not forget those who forget him 
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BigDave posted:We call it tannerite, but same difference. Semtex/C4 is a loooooot more boom (about 60% more boom) than Tannerite(Aluminum flake/Ammonium Nitrate).
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The Irish weren't nearly as well or ubiquitously armed as the US is. Sure, they had ~specialty~ items like plastique and RPGs, but nowhere near the guns and numbers. Pretty sure you could ratchet your numbers up by at least an order of magnitude. The US is also much more vulnerable to easy to carry out infrastructure damage that would lead to a huge number of indirect deaths.
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