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MLSM posted:This is the moment when Obama irrevocably became persona non grata to any remotely thinking human being. theres like a 0% chance of taking any damage from chugging a single glass of even the lead-iest water, esp if your mr president and can get all your blood hotswapped by the end of the day should have committed to the bit and chugged a pitcher and then had some aides unload a gatorade cooler of the water over him for good measure
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Relentlessboredomm posted:has there been any good modeling around how voters have shifted around since 2020? there's places like CO where every single small town is now overwhelmed with coastal libs who've moved there or FL where the population in general has just loving skyrocketed. At this point I'd say the modeling and predictions are even more worthless than usual. Modeling is about matching patterns. The past few elections and years in this country have been shaped by world events that don't map to the electoral trends, so all anyone is doing is guessing and then trying to justify why the tea leaves they read were scientific. hekaton posted:theres like a 0% chance of taking any damage from chugging a single glass of even the lead-iest water, esp if your mr president and can get all your blood hotswapped by the end of the day Didn't he even fake it? I thought that was part of the controversy, he wouldn't even really drink the Flint water. But yeah, the issue isn't an adult being exposed to lead once, it's the long term effects of bioaccumulation, especially in developing bodies.
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yeah im sure all the liberals who "go high" are totally ready and prepared to fight a brutal, violent war that will level towns and cities and everything do these people think war consists of showing up with their stupid loving fight song playing and waving their signs around that the other guys are just gonna go home dont answer I already know the answer please shut up
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Good soup! posted:yeah im sure all the liberals who "go high" are totally ready and prepared to fight a brutal, violent war that will level towns and cities and everything Nah, that's what the military is for
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it doesn't take much to level a town, just need an MLRS. i saw one going down the highway the other day on a flatbed. probably going to ukraine
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Good soup! posted:yeah im sure all the liberals who "go high" are totally ready and prepared to fight a brutal, violent war that will level towns and cities and everything i mean the other side of the civil war thinks war consists of the same thing except they get to say the n-word on facebook and force their estranged children to read it
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Business Gorillas posted:i mean the other side of the civil war thinks war consists of the same thing except they get to say the n-word on facebook and force their estranged children to read it The difference is the police actively help that side commit violence -as long as it doesn't go too far in interrupting the system. They infiltrate rightwing groups to steer them and make them better at terrorism and provide plausible deniability.
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LastInLine posted:To say nothing of Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia that got nothing worth mentioning and has had poisoned water for the entirety of its existence and is currently still a (man-made) disaster area. don't forget Hawaii where the navy is still leaking jet fuel into the aquifer and doesn't plan to do anything about it for at least two years
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Peak Democrat was Eric Adams doing a media bit drinking the 'supposedly poisonous' tap water but there was the most obvious jerky cut between him filling the glass from the tap and drinking the glass of water.
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hekaton posted:theres like a 0% chance of taking any damage from chugging a single glass of even the lead-iest water, esp if your mr president and can get all your blood hotswapped by the end of the day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jiiqp9gnly8
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Griz posted:don't forget Hawaii where the navy is still leaking jet fuel into the aquifer and doesn't plan to do anything about it for at least two years I literally did forget I guess I'm the moron for expecting the government to provide water for its citizens
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https://twitter.com/flkdayton/status/1566439107974385667?s=21&t=qycMRV1vRQPyoj2sNgvW_g Dems sure are getting destroyed all right alooollll
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Coolness Averted posted:Didn't he even fake it? I thought that was part of the controversy, he wouldn't even really drink the Flint water. But yeah, the issue isn't an adult being exposed to lead once, it's the long term effects of bioaccumulation, especially in developing bodies. It was the governor, Rick "I'm a smart nerd" Synder who faked it by pledging to drink the water for a month then taking a two week trip to China
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Right, looking up the video Obama just lightly sipped some of the flint water in such a brave and noble move
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you can’t blame him for not wanting to be like the guy in Punjab https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/india-drink-river-pollution-water-b2129263.html quote:The chief minister of a northern state in India has been hospitalised after he was filmed drinking water from a “holy” river to prove the water was clean. you also can’t blame me for wanting to have seen him do it anyway
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MLSM posted:https://twitter.com/ChrisLynnHedges/status/1566480848530153474?s=20&t=qWBAvC61Cg-Y2B7AiA0ejw  oh chris always so fun to read quote:In my book America: The Farewell Tour, I examined the social indicators of a nation in serious trouble. Life expectancy in the U.S. fell in 2021, for the second year in a row. There have been over 300 mass shootings this year. Close to a million people have died from drug overdoses since 1999. There are an average of 132 suicides every day. Nearly 42 percent of the country is classified as obese, with one in 11 adults considered severely obese. A Bakers Cousin has issued a correction as of 23:14 on Sep 4, 2022 |
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why cant chris understand how great everything is? vote joe
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MLSM posted:https://twitter.com/ChrisLynnHedges/status/1566480848530153474?s=20&t=qWBAvC61Cg-Y2B7AiA0ejw The nazis are coming and there's nothing we can do about it
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Coolness Averted posted:Right, looking up the video Obama just lightly sipped some of the flint water in such a brave and noble move Sipping is such a failing democrat move. Fake it or don’t. Either way, down the whole glass.
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Platystemon posted:Sipping is such a failing democrat move. did you ever read that piece from like 2017 where they interview a buncha obama admin functionaries and they reveal poo poo like they tried holding multiple "bipartisan move nights" where they basically invited congress to hang out and the republicans just kept laughing at them and not showing up
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:republicans just kept laughing at them and not showing up Lol republicans spent the first 3 yes crying if ONLY obungler had invited them for golf they would probably be passing his bills, bipartisanly
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MLSM posted:https://twitter.com/ChrisLynnHedges/status/1566480848530153474?s=20&t=qWBAvC61Cg-Y2B7AiA0ejw this seems like an unhinged nonsense rant that is mad at biden's speech because...uh it is hard to summarize it because it makes no sense. what parts of it did you think were of interest
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MLSM posted:lol *democrats also contain fascism
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MLSM posted:lol sounds like ill be taking robs advice and voting cpusa
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MLSM posted:https://twitter.com/ChrisLynnHedges/status/1566480848530153474?s=20&t=qWBAvC61Cg-Y2B7AiA0ejw The premise of this article is kind of dumb, because it implies that America was a functioning democracy in the past.
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I would argue yhat America still does not have universal suffrage because it still disenfranchises felons and makes it as hard as possible to vote in most states. I do not consider those exceptions
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The relevant point is literally the first linequote:A functioning democracy could easily dispatch Donald Trump and his doppelgängers. A failed democracy and bankrupt liberalism assures their ascendancy
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evilpicard posted:The relevant point is literally the first line quote:Decades in the making, this disconnect has extinguished American democracy. The steady stripping away of economic and political power was ignored by a hyperventilating press that thundered against the barbarians at the gate — Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, the Taliban, ISIS, Vladimir Putin — while ignoring the barbarians in our midst. The slow-motion coup is over. Corporations and the billionaire class have won. There are no institutions, including the press, an electoral system that is little more than legalized bribery, the imperial presidency, the courts or the penal system, that can be defined as democratic. Only the fiction of democracy remains. implies that the US was once a democracy by these standards
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evilpicard posted:The relevant point is literally the first line Normally like Chris Hedges but I think the idea that Donald Trump is somehow uniquely horrible is just an absolute dogshit opinion. Just thinking about my life there have been 5 presidents. Bush senior I was a baby but he was CIA lmao, Bill Clinton hosed kids on Epstein's plane (I guess Hillary defended that child rapist to prep for helping Bill should the time ever come), Bush literally murdered a million Iraqis and Afghans for oil money, Obama did all the same poo poo but he was a really good public speaker (although I don't think he is a child rapist like Bill, just a child killer, although to be fair is 16 really a child? ah but what about all the others?), and then Trump who supposedly did all this horrible poo poo like...? Oh yeah, he staged a coup in Ukraine and then put Jared Kusher on the board of directors of their national gas company at a 50k/month salary and Jared spent the whole time smoking crack and loving hookers while being late for the payments on his Porsche and shorting his secretary her salar OH WAIT that wasn't Jared that was Joe Biden's son and the coup happened under the Obama/Biden/Clinton administration. God drat America. gently caress dude. Sometimes I think about moving home and then I imagine my daughter having to say the pledge of allegiance in school and just lol gently caress that, can't go back, ever.
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IAMKOREA posted:Normally like Chris Hedges but I think the idea that Donald Trump is somehow uniquely horrible is just an absolute dogshit opinion. Did you read the same article I did? What I got from it is that Hedges is acknowledging that the government is completely subservient to Capital, and Trump or Biden or Obama are just different faces of the same beast.
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Chamale posted:Did you read the same article I did? What I got from it is that Hedges is acknowledging that the government is completely subservient to Capital, and Trump or Biden or Obama are just different faces of the same beast. Nah I didn't read poo poo I just read the line quoted above quote:A functioning democracy could easily dispatch Donald Trump and his doppelgängers. A failed democracy and bankrupt liberalism assures their ascendancy And like, I'm sure it's a good essay, it is Chris Hedges after all he is really smart and I like him, but I just take issue with the idea that Donald Trump needs to be dispatched and not like, every single loving politician who has been in charge for my entire life. E: I mean Donald Trump isn't even president, the current corrupt piece of poo poo president was in the administration that staged a coup in Ukraine and put his loving idiot drug addict hooker loving son on the board of Burisma, why aren't we talking about how a functioning democracy should be able to easily dispatch Biden? IAMKOREA has issued a correction as of 21:01 on Sep 5, 2022 |
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ex post facho posted:I would argue yhat America still does not have universal suffrage because it still disenfranchises felons and makes it as hard as possible to vote in most states. I do not consider those exceptions
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IAMKOREA posted:I just take issue with the idea that Donald Trump needs to be dispatched and not like, every single loving politician who has been in charge for my entire life. His entire career has been spent documenting and condemning the failures of liberalism though, his point isn't we need to defeat trump and put in a neoliberal goon because they're so awesome, it's that the failure of liberalism is actually the proximate cause of trumpism and future Speaker Magic The Gathering.
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evilpicard posted:His entire career has been spent documenting and condemning the failures of liberalism though, his point isn't we need to defeat trump and put in a neoliberal goon because they're so awesome, it's that the failure of liberalism is actually the proximate cause of trumpism and future Speaker Magic The Gathering. I think we're speaking past each other, I agree but at the same time I don't think "trumpism" is a novel thing. I mean it is novel in the sense that its loving hilarious, but its not novel in the sense of making the world worse.
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