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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:the left-wing angle you can take to get genuinely furious about the Hunter Biden story is to remember: this is the son of Joe Biden, the guy who wrote the law back in 1986 that says five grams of crack gets you five years in prison, and that only because those goddamned bleeding hearts wouldn't let him make it ten. to preserve our cities from the rapacious advances of the drug-using hordes, we MUST jail all these congenitally criminal wretches. there is no other way. Lol I didn't know that, def agreed on him having problems
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lobster shirt posted:the purpose of a system is what it does (allows hunter biden to film himself smoking crack and drinking beer in a sensory deprivation chamber) But it is incorrect and does not necessarily follow to presume that the system was created/designed, or was created to do what it does. Bar Ran Dun fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Nov 20, 2022 |
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Is there any news about Hunter or methodology of avoiding testing positive for cocaine or is this just the thread getting bored and stir-crazy on a chilly Sunday? If it isn't current nor are there any events surrounding it make a Hunter Biden's Laptop thread to be very sad about the current state of how nobody takes corruption seriously anymore except I guess Rudy and MTG. Literally the only interesting thing in the whole thing to me is the social media link killing part and come on down to the Social Media thread to dump on it for that.
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Tbh the only thing I know about it is Hunter Biden does enough cocaine to floor an elephant and has a gigantic hog. Thank u Republicans for this informtion.
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Staluigi posted:cocaine metabolites can typically be detected two days out, in a piss test for four days, and depending on the regularity of use (among other factors like how much benzoylecgonine your fat stores) you can test hot 2 weeks out. Don't know where this "coke's gone in 12 hours" comes from It’s not unreasonable to expect someone being commissioned as a Navy officer to be able to think and act on the timescale of “two weeks from now I gotta take a drug test.”
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Charlz Guybon posted:Anything we can do about this? well this makes me worried for the county next to mine which just elected a "2000 Mules" election-denying slate as County Auditor and Clerk (the former by a margin of less than 300 votes).
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Actually it's just hosed up that a terrorist mass shooting is barely mention and instead we are arging about Hunter Binden who *at worst* has done very low level corruption and is a drug addict. Should there be better laws about drugs and sex work? Yes, but "yelling about Hunter Biden" does jack poo poo to accomplish them. I just... IDK. This shooting has hosed me up a lot, probabalt the most since Uvalde and the one at the Buffalo grocery store.
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Twincityhacker posted:Actually it's just hosed up that a terrorist mass shooting is barely mention and instead we are arging about Hunter Binden who *at worst* has done very low level corruption and is a drug addict. The thing about both your examples of american soft-target murder sprees being from literally this year is that it establishes that things that make you feel a lot of hosed up are fairly common, which would establish why they aren't talked about as much as something novel.
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Gerund posted:The thing about both your examples of american soft-target murder sprees being from literally this year is that it establishes that things that make you feel a lot of hosed up are fairly common, which would establish why they aren't talked about as much as something novel. Hunter Biden is "novel"?
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Twincityhacker posted:Actually it's just hosed up that a terrorist mass shooting is barely mention and instead we are arging about Hunter Binden who *at worst* has done very low level corruption and is a drug addict. The far right clearly considers itself to be at war with basically anyone not straight white and christian and holy gently caress we need basically the entirety of the federal security apparatus to be going after them night and day
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selec posted:It’s not unreasonable to expect someone being commissioned as a Navy officer to be able to think and act on the timescale of “two weeks from now I gotta take a drug test.” Is someone claiming otherwise
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The shooting reminded me of an article from earlier this year. Colorado Springs PD couldn't do anything about the shooter because they probably had their hands full infiltrating every homeless support group and vaguely leftist organization in town: https://www.csindy.com/news/cspd-s-investigation-of-colorado-springs-leftist-community/article_c32e3e94-8e87-11ec-b79c-af375a716657.html quote:Jon Christiansen says he has reason to feel paranoid. In 2020 and 2021, while law enforcement and other officials painted a picture of rising crime rates and an ongoing struggle to recruit enough police officers, Christiansen and other activists in left-leaning organizations were the subject of what they say was a politically motivated and wasteful undercover investigation.
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In case I wasn't clear, the laptop/Hunter Biden chatter should stop or move elsewhere until there's something that's a current event comes up regarding it. This thread isn't for finding an audience for whatever is annoying you today.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:The far right clearly considers itself to be at war with basically anyone not straight white and christian and holy gently caress we need basically the entirety of the federal security apparatus to be going after them night and day Yeah, I definitely love being the subject of an entire moral panic effectively designed to produce stochastic terrorist attacks on people like me, that's such a healthy aspect of this very healthy country. 
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The problem with these shooters is there isn't any red flags with them since the hatred and threats they spout off are just mainstream conservative ideas in America.
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Push El Burrito posted:The problem with these shooters is there isn't any red flags with them since the hatred and threats they spout off are just mainstream conservative ideas in America. This is not the case at all. Domestic violence is an indicator of future mass violence. We could easily be doing much more to disarm people convicted of domestic violence, but then we would also have to disband a good chunk of the police force and disarm them.
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Push El Burrito posted:The problem with these shooters is there isn't any red flags with them since the hatred and threats they spout off are just mainstream conservative ideas in America.
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:
Is Daddy being paid off? Didn't Biden famously have to borrow money from Obama for his son's cancer treatment?
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Charlz Guybon posted:Is Daddy being paid off? Didn't Biden famously have to borrow money from Obama for his son's cancer treatment? YMB desperately wants to equate the two. The rhetorical goal being to attach the feelings folks have about Trump and all that to Biden. The analogy doesn’t have to valid. Just constantly pair the two over and over again and human brains will be human brains.
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Charlz Guybon posted:Is Daddy being paid off? Didn't Biden famously have to borrow money from Obama for his son's cancer treatment? As far as I can tell, Obama simply offered money to Joe because Joe was considering selling his house to help Beaux’s family. He never accepted any money, and it was only considered at all because Beaux was thinking of quitting his job.
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Fister Roboto posted:The shooting reminded me of an article from earlier this year. Colorado Springs PD couldn't do anything about the shooter because they probably had their hands full infiltrating every homeless support group and vaguely leftist organization in town: wouldnt be shocked. it also sounds like the shooter was a grandson of some local chud celebrity in California and got his record sealed after he did a couple bomb threats. its gonna turn out that he whined to grand dad and grandad told the pigs to gently caress off. https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1594467765351776256 https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1594478553034158080 meanwhile the chuds on twitter are doing coy dickhead troll poo poo. https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1594478599113003008
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Dapper_Swindler posted:
Unsurprising. Dead gays is what the conservative movement wants; they're just mad the government isn't publicly doing the executions themselves and they have to rely on people like this turd from Colorado.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:wouldnt be shocked. it also sounds like the shooter was a grandson of some local chud celebrity in California and got his record sealed after he did a couple bomb threats. its gonna turn out that he whined to grand dad and grandad told the pigs to gently caress off. This is like some Patrick Bateman/American Psycho poo poo how some random woman basically goes from being an unassuming real estate agent in New York to the literal loving CEO of Domestic Terrorism basically overnight. Like she went to an ATM one night to withdraw $200, and the screen flashed FEED ME A STRAY CAT and she turned into a monster. Then again, given my experience with real estate agents over the years, it's not THAT shocking; a lot of them are that exact type of vile sociopaths who get off on others suffering.
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Bird in a Blender posted:As far as I can tell, Obama simply offered money to Joe because Joe was considering selling his house to help Beaux’s family. He never accepted any money, and it was only considered at all because Beaux was thinking of quitting his job. Ok, but that still presents Joe as being rather poor for a politician.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:The far right clearly considers itself to be at war with basically anyone not straight white and christian and holy gently caress we need basically the entirety of the federal security apparatus to be going after them night and day Why on earth would they want to go after their friends and colleagues?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Why on earth would they want to go after their friends and colleagues? the FBI have an awful lot of flaws but part of their remit is to dunk on the worst of the worst police departments, which they do sometimes, and domestic terrorists regardless of flavor, which they do sometimes I mean, it's how we have the ongoing scoop up of various Jan 2021 coup morons I mention the FBI specifically because of the police department thing, but more broadly federal lawn order isn't, well, pro-this are they going to come down hard enough? almost certainly not, we're seeing the resources committed against a literal attempted coup and that effort is merely fine, pulverizing the entire stochastic terrorism structure of the far right would be another animal entirely
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Who has convincing arguments on corporate profits & inflation? Was watching The Midterms, Inflation, and Crime With Rep. Katie Porter | The Problem With Jon Stewart Podcast & have thoughts. I’ve been thinking inflation ended up leading to high corporate profits because demand for many basic goods is inelastic. Like how inelastic demand for oil combined with a supply crunch led to record oil company profits in 2005. People need gas to drive, and so will pay outrageous prices, and prices must skyrocket a lot to get a small reduction in demand. Until Covid wrecked the supply chain, we didn’t have a disaster profound enough to cause systemic disruptions that would trigger an economy-wide inelasticity effect. Which is why previous problems, like a chip factory destroyed or bad food harvest would lead to price spikes for that good which were manageable because even if there wasn’t a direct competitor, there were secondary or tertiary options in most cases that could fill a similar role. But the Covid supply crisis upended that by increasing the costs of almost everything at once, and so consumer demand had nowhere else to go but to push prices up. So Katie Porter and Jon Stewart look to have placed cause and effect essentially backwards. What primarily seems to have happened is inflation (indirectly) led to high corporate profits, not the other way around. I’m a bit sympathetic to Larry Summers’ arguments, who I sometimes disagree with, that the situation calls for massive demand destruction. It’s more defensible than it would ordinarily be, but I’m very reticent to support it because of the unequalizing impact it would have on an already unequal USA. I’m open to the possibility there’s significant price gauging in the economy. I agree with Porter and Stewart there are too many monopolies in the US. I don’t have huge expectations prices will rapidly drop as supply chains normalize, I think they will lag behind and consumer behaviors will have to change to force them down. I do support a windfall tax on oil and gas. It seems to me like maybe a US-wide corporate windfall tax for supply chain disasters could be a doable policy, broadening out the concept from oil and gas since the situations seem similar. But what would be the triggering point for such a tax? Difficult to work out. But, there was enough competition in gas after the 2005 crisis that prices fell rapidly as supply returned. I don’t think the return to normal will as good for the broader economy this time because some fixed costs like energy and transportation will remain higher. This is all just how it looks to me right now, my thinking isn’t set in stone. I’m open to ideas.
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Staluigi posted:cocaine metabolites can typically be detected two days out, in a piss test for four days, and depending on the regularity of use (among other factors like how much benzoylecgonine your fat stores) you can test hot 2 weeks out. Don't know where this "coke's gone in 12 hours" comes from IIRC LSD is metabolized and out of your blood before the effects of the drug even finish. (Ya I looked it up & 3.6 hour half-life ) MDMA also zips out of you very fast. They might've been mixing their substance half-lifes up?
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Extremely short version: if the inflation* problem is global, which it really REALLY is, there's only so much that monetary policy and, ugh, demand destruction can do. We should right now today be subsidizing the less well off to balance out any cooling efforts that, again, may be of limited value due to the global nature of the crunch. The Fed should have the ability to push button and send out stimulus checks. They SOMEWHAT do already, it's just laundered through banks and other wealthy entities. Literally trickle down. * - calling the current situation 'inflation' is literally accurate in the CPI sense, but most people imagine inflation as a money supply problem, which this really really is not
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Charlz Guybon posted:Ok, but that still presents Joe as being rather poor for a politician. Biden was consistently ranked as one of the least well off members of the senate. Not poor, per se, but he was definitely not raking in cash and fortuitous stock trades. Say what you will about him he wasn't in it for personal enrichment. Edit: for maximum irony, a big chunk of his wealth came from sales and engagement for the book about his son's death https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-net-worth-lifestyle-real-estate-family-wealth-assets-2020-1 Apparently he was still worth ~1.5 million before but a lot of it was just his house. GreyjoyBastard posted:Extremely short version: if the inflation* problem is global, which it really REALLY is, there's only so much that monetary policy and, ugh, demand destruction can do. We should right now today be subsidizing the less well off to balance out any cooling efforts that, again, may be of limited value due to the global nature of the crunch. Basically. There's not much to do but wait it out until global shipping and energy prices stabilize. Morrow fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Nov 21, 2022 |
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Extremely short version: if the inflation* problem is global, which it really REALLY is, there's only so much that monetary policy and, ugh, demand destruction can do. Demand destruction caused by raising rates in the US, because we are the reserve currency, is also overseas demand destruction as other central banks respond to our actions or suffer capital flight. It’s probably more of an effect overseas and there are some papers on it about the last time it happened that I can’t remember where I saw and I’m not searching through 40-50 pages of posts to find when I referenced them last in CSPAM. They were mistaken about the supply chain effects because the model for a supply shock the math for that originated in vessel stability and it’s a ship getting hit by a big wave. The more accurate math to use as a model would have been a reduction in initial stability. Team transitory was reaching the wrong conclusions because they were using the wrong model, which to be fair was the “right” model. Everybody in the world is going to hurt as rates continue to rise. We relatively will hurt less. It is a very bad outcome.
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Years ago during the Obama admin there was a NIE called Global Futures or something similar. One of the scenarios was stalled engines. That’s the one that is happening. It’s the bad scenario. Everybody is worse off. But the rest of the world will be more wise off.
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cr0y posted:Any investigations that get done with Hunter I hope are handled by the Democrats in the exact same way the Republicans handled all of their poo poo. I mean it clearly works, we still have members of Congress who organized and participated in the Jan 6 insurrection in office, and Trump's still walking around free and running his campaign grift again. Heck Yes! Loam! posted:This is not the case at all. Domestic violence is an indicator of future mass violence. We could easily be doing much more to disarm people convicted of domestic violence, but then we would also have to disband a good chunk of the police force and disarm them. In this case it's looking like 'domestic violence on the scale that resulted in hostage negotiations and a standoff with SWAT' last year, because that fucker was threatening to kill his mom, too. But yeah, this guy shoots up what has been mentioned to be a drag event at a gay bar the day after Boston Childrens' Hospital gets a third bomb threat over treating trans kids, and absolutely no one is willing to hold the right wing 'influencers' like Matt Walsh and Chaya Raichik who are openly calling on their following to engage in this sort of violence accountable. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Nov 21, 2022 |
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Oxyclean posted:I mean, those are the red flags, it's just america has decided not to see them as such. It's just politics and they're nice to me! It is in fact condescension like that which has made them a raging homophobe!
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Liquid Communism posted:But yeah, this guy shoots up what has been mentioned to be a drag event at a gay bar the day after Boston Childrens' Hospital gets a third bomb threat over treating trans kids, and absolutely no one is willing to hold the right wing 'influencers' like Matt Walsh and Chaya Raichik who are openly calling on their following to engage in this sort of violence accountable. Libs of tiktok has named herself a stochastic terrorist on Twitter. Yet everyone - media, democrats, everyone - refuses to call it out. They're coordinating bomb threats and violence, and apparently nobody is able to do anything about it. Biden is blaming guns for the CS shooting, but he's got it wrong in this case. It's the LGBT hate that is broadcast 24/7. If they got rid of the guns, the terrorists will just use bombs.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:the FBI have an awful lot of flaws but part of their remit is to dunk on the worst of the worst police departments, which they do sometimes, and domestic terrorists regardless of flavor, which they do sometimes You're asking the FBI to undo so much of their own work here
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Meatball posted:Libs of tiktok has named herself a stochastic terrorist on Twitter. Yet everyone - media, democrats, everyone - refuses to call it out. They're coordinating bomb threats and violence, and apparently nobody is able to do anything about it. What if, and hear me out I know this is crazy, we got rid of guns AND domestic terrorism?
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Meatball posted:Libs of tiktok has named herself a stochastic terrorist on Twitter. Yet everyone - media, democrats, everyone - refuses to call it out. They're coordinating bomb threats and violence, and apparently nobody is able to do anything about it. Yep, and Walsh's bio has long called himself a Theocratic Fascist. The issue isn't weapons, it's letting terrorists operate freely because you don't want to find out your cops agree with them more than they do you.
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