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It's nothing personal. It was just a very stupid question. Biden did go to law school after all.
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I wonder if we'll see a slight bump in the polls from Biden calling him a stupid son of a bitch.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 15:15 |
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Glenn Youngkin said they likely won't pursue an anti-CRT law in his first year because they have other priorities. Instead, they are setting up a website and phone line where parents can snitch on teachers for anything they want - including teaching "divisive" subjects, making kids wear masks, or appearing to take a side on "historical, political, or cultural" issues. https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1485981373844307972 quote:Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Monday invoked the biblical call to “love your neighbor” as school systems around the state struggled with strong reactions to his ban on local mask mandates, but the Republican also fanned the flames of partisan division in the face of court challenges and protests.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 15:29 |
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Huh, yeah, setting up government systems to systematize citizens snitching on each other for wrongthink. Gee I wonder where I've heard that before and what it was used for.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 15:38 |
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Congratulations to Glenn Youngkin for absolutely destroying the Virginia education system I guess It's not like teachers were already leaving in droves in most of the country; Youngkin just put in an express lane for teacher exits
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 15:49 |
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As soon as that line goes up it will be spammed into oblivion
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 15:53 |
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There Bias Two posted:I wonder if we'll see a slight bump in the polls from Biden calling him a stupid son of a bitch. And then yet another bump from his calling Doocy & apologizing! (I doubt that an inside-the-beltway remark for which Biden apologized almost immediately after making will outweigh voter sentiment about mad inflation & virus effects, but I admire your optimism!)
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 15:56 |
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Speaking of polling, it doesn't look like Biden's presser last week has moved the needle in his direction at all, although it could be too early to tell! And oh, the irony of Fox News' polling giving Biden his least-bad numbers.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 16:06 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:As soon as that line goes up it will be spammed into oblivion Yeah it's going to get trolled so hard they won't even be able to find the theoretically actionable complaints
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 16:11 |
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haveblue posted:Yeah it's going to get trolled so hard they won't even be able to find the theoretically actionable complaints The point of these actions are to demonstrate to the base that the party is doing “something” and to keep them energized. It will also allow for a few choice sound bytes to justify their legislation efforts. Dems could do something similar but then they’d have to provide the illusion that they are doing things and may be able to accomplish something and they would much rather demonstrate they won’t do poo poo.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 16:32 |
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I've been hearing a lot of Chicken hawking about a war with Russia, can I get a realistic estimate on whether that's actually going to happen? It seems like a dumb and terrible idea to me, but then so did the war in Afghanistan and that still happened.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 16:40 |
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Almost certainly not, but people are loving morons so it's never going to be 0%. Learn to live with the uncertainty.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 16:41 |
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:I've been hearing a lot of Chicken hawking about a war with Russia, can I get a realistic estimate on whether that's actually going to happen? It's not. The U.S. has already pre-emptively vowed not to use military force if Russia invades Ukraine (even more than they currently have). Russia doesn't want it, the U.S. doesn't want it, and NATO/Europe doesn't want it. Russia wants to show strength and take possession of the countries around it's border without provoking actual consequences. Everyone else wants to stop them without resorting to actual consequences.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 16:44 |
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:I've been hearing a lot of Chicken hawking about a war with Russia, can I get a realistic estimate on whether that's actually going to happen? Every opinion I've been hearing about this is that going to war with Russia is A Very Bad Idea TM. It's basically two dying nations yelling at each other to prove who isn't dying faster.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 16:44 |
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I don’t see a scenario where US forces get directly involved. However, that is different from the likelihood of an actual Russian invasion of Ukraine. It’s still not super likely to happen, but if Putin backs down after all of the demands, threats, and troop movements, he’s going to get laughed at
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 16:52 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It's not. Velocity Raptor posted:Every opinion I've been hearing about this is that going to war with Russia is A Very Bad Idea TM. It's basically two dying nations yelling at each other to prove who isn't dying faster. I figured as much, just wanted to check in with reality because I have been hearing some crazy takes. Mulva posted:Almost certainly not, but people are loving morons so it's never going to be 0%. Learn to live with the uncertainty. Not a fan of the uncertainty, honestly. It feel like a lot of people are very eager to press the big red "gently caress everything up" button, but that could just be the anxiety talking.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 16:53 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:I don’t see a scenario where US forces get directly involved. However, that is different from the likelihood of an actual Russian invasion of Ukraine. It’s still not super likely to happen, but if Putin backs down after all of the demands, threats, and troop movements, he’s going to get laughed at If he gets some kind of half-assed commitment that Ukraine doesn't become a NATO member, I think he could spin that into a win. I don't know why we want Ukraine as a NATO member, but I also understand why a lot of Ukrainians would like some barriers against being (more of?) a Russian puppet state too. Space Cadet Omoly posted:Not a fan of the uncertainty, honestly. It feel like a lot of people are very eager to press the big red "gently caress everything up" button, but that could just be the anxiety talking. I think anyone really trying to be a warhawk in this situation doesn't believe actual fighting between NATO and Russian troops will occur. Proxy fighting would be just as horrible, but I guess you at least have some reason not to escalate.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 16:55 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:I don’t see a scenario where US forces get directly involved. However, that is different from the likelihood of an actual Russian invasion of Ukraine. It’s still not super likely to happen, but if Putin backs down after all of the demands, threats, and troop movements, he’s going to get laughed at Agreed, but I feel like he's in for a bad time if he invades Ukraine. Europe isn't going to just shrug their shoulders, will they?
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 16:56 |
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Meatball posted:Agreed, but I feel like he's in for a bad time if he invades Ukraine. Europe isn't going to just shrug their shoulders, will they? I've been curious about this. Doesn't Russia have the EU over a barrel due to the EU's need for oil and natural gas?
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 16:57 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It's not. Well if there's anything the international community at large can trust, it's a no-crossies-no-backsies-cross-my-heart promise from the US government.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 16:57 |
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Eric Cantonese posted:If he gets some kind of half-assed commitment that Ukraine doesn't become a NATO member, I think he could spin that into a win. Not sure why NATO exists anymore except as a slush fund for arms dealers.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 16:58 |
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Eric Cantonese posted:I've been curious about this. Doesn't Russia have the EU over a barrel due to the EU's need for oil and natural gas? For the most part, yes. There are other sources, but Russia is largely the cheapest. That was the whole issue with Germany building out Nordstream 2 is it largely puts Germany and the EU in a hard spot if Russia decides to use it as leverage.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 17:00 |
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selec posted:Not sure why NATO exists anymore except as a slush fund for arms dealers. Encouraging stability through US/Western European military cooperation and interdependence and countering Russian attempts to expand their influence beyond their traditional areas... But I agree that arms dealing enrichment is probably the main real reason at this point.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 17:01 |
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In today's edition of "Entitled old white lawmakers afraid of confronting change because it might make them feel icky," the Florida GOP has advanced a bill banning schools from "encouraging" talk of sexual orientation or identity. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/24/politics/florida-bill-lgbtq-school-discussions/index.html quote:Washington (CNN)Florida state lawmakers advanced a bill last week that would prohibit some schools from "encouraging" conversations about sexual orientation and gender identity in classrooms with young students. The GOP are trying to spin it that they are only trying to protect elementary level children, since they wouldn't know anything about gender identity and sexual orientation. Same article posted:"We're talking specifically about young, elementary-age children that just don't need that stress in general," Harding added. "Allow things to come up organically, but don't force conversations on them." See? This is only to protect our sweet innocent children from learning about the possibility of being gay. This surely won't be used later to encroach upon older children or teenagers. They just want to help. Colloquially, this bill is being called the "Don't Say Gay" bill.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 17:01 |
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Velocity Raptor posted:In today's edition of "Entitled old white lawmakers afraid of confronting change because it might make them feel icky," the Florida GOP has advanced a bill banning schools from "encouraging" talk of sexual orientation or identity. I posted this yesterday, critical to note this is being proposed alongside a mandatory reporting bill requiring teachers to out LGBT kids to their parents.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 17:03 |
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CommieGIR posted:I posted this yesterday, critical to note this is being proposed alongside a mandatory reporting bill requiring teachers to out LGBT kids to their parents. This sounds dangerously close to bringing about thoughtcrime. Don't talk about being gay, don't think about being gay, don't appear to be gay, or there will be consequences. I'm surprised we aren't seeing riots over these new regressive bills that are getting passed in red states. This is getting double-plus ungood.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 17:06 |
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quote:Every fox news questions deserves a smug lovely response, and every fox news reporter's question should be hand-waved away. In fact they shouldn't be permitted in that room because they're not reporters. And the same goes for every right wing propaganda rag that somehow gets access to the President. Seems like the Biden administration disagrees, as White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki had given an interview to Fox News on 20 Jan 2022. quote:https://video.foxnews.com/v/6292737699001#sp=show-clips
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 17:07 |
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Velocity Raptor posted:This sounds dangerously close to bringing about thoughtcrime. Don't talk about being gay, don't think about being gay, don't appear to be gay, or there will be consequences. I mean this is Florida, the state that has at least a few city Police Departments doing 'interventions' against kids based on racist algorithms. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/17/1005396/predictive-policing-algorithms-racist-dismantled-machine-learning-bias-criminal-justice/
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 17:08 |
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I blame Hillary. Her Gillum endorsement really got the Florida chuds out against him in force
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 17:09 |
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Eric Cantonese posted:Encouraging stability through US/Western European military cooperation and interdependence and countering Russian attempts to expand their influence beyond their traditional areas... Pretty rich on that countering Russian attempts to expand their influence when this whole shebang is literally on the other side of the world from us. But great powers gonna great power I guess.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 17:10 |
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selec posted:Pretty rich on that countering Russian attempts to expand their influence when this whole shebang is literally on the other side of the world from us. But great powers gonna great power I guess. This is sort of like how the US lost its poo poo over missiles in Cuba and JFK didn't even know at first that the US had missiles in Turkey at the time.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 17:12 |
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Eric Cantonese posted:Encouraging stability through US/Western European military cooperation and interdependence and countering Russian attempts to expand their influence beyond their traditional areas... NATO spends a pretty small amount of money (it's around 2 billion split by 30 countries) and most of it just goes to paying people to work for NATO full-time, so that NATO has an independent command structure and real estate to fund bases and feed/house/clothe people. Basically every country underpays their dues as well. It's not a great racket for arms dealing. It is a very good racket for the brass who get sent to command and basically just do drills without a lot of required traveling. As long as you are okay with a decent paying, but boring assignment and lots of paperwork. Also, the countries that get reimbursed for providing the bases and provide small amounts of funding make out okay.
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Lib and let die posted:I blame Hillary. Her Gillum endorsement really got the Florida chuds out against him in force Also the sham SBI investigation into him getting tickets to Hamilton.
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CommieGIR posted:For the most part, yes. There are other sources, but Russia is largely the cheapest. That was the whole issue with Germany building out Nordstream 2 is it largely puts Germany and the EU in a hard spot if Russia decides to use it as leverage.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 17:18 |
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FizFashizzle posted:Also the sham SBI investigation into him getting tickets to Hamilton. Lmao I totally forgot the Shitlibs The Musical thing, lmao He's still the only dem I'll ever consider voting for again, just on the premise that a bisexual meth addict alcoholic is closer to the working class than any other suit the dems could present.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 17:18 |
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Eric Cantonese posted:This is sort of like how the US lost its poo poo over missiles in Cuba and JFK didn't even know at first that the US had missiles in Turkey at the time. This is a minor point but JFK thought the missiles had been removed, not that they existed.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 17:21 |
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Honestly, setting up a complaint line where people can call in and rant about whatever cultural issue made them mad that day, with the implication that someone will actually listen to it; whereas in reality, the messages don't even get recorded and it's just a Manager-complaining busybox is kind of a great idea.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 17:22 |
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Lib and let die posted:Lmao I totally forgot the Shitlibs The Musical thing, lmao Hey man, he's not a meth addict. He said he just does meth socially at parties and that he wasn't even doing meth that night; he just got too drunk and was watching other people do meth.
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# ? Jan 25, 2022 17:22 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Hey man, he's not a meth addict. He said he just does meth socially at parties and that he wasn't even doing meth that night; he just got too drunk and was watching other people do meth. Endorsement rescinded, then. forbidden dialectics posted:Honestly, setting up a complaint line where people can call in and rant about whatever cultural issue made them mad that day, with the implication that someone will actually listen to it; whereas in reality, the messages don't even get recorded and it's just a Manager-complaining busybox is kind of a great idea. I spent 10 years supporting enterprise voice infrastructure/equipment - this is exceedingly common. Some of the more frequent "issues" we'd resolve with messaging systems was some sort of storage issue due to a/many full inbox(es) and the customer would say "oh yeah that's just a dumping ground"
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Hey man, he's not a meth addict. He said he just does meth socially at parties and that he wasn't even doing meth that night; he just got too drunk and was watching other people do meth. Powerful Hunter “accidentally smoked a cocaine laced cigarette” biden energy.
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