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zoux posted:There are important issues to discuss!
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zoux posted:There are important issues to discuss! The DeSantis campaign has already launched a counterattack: Trump is totally gay for Fauci quote:"It was sneaky to intermix what appears to be authentic photos with fake photos, but these three images are almost certainly AI generated," said Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and expert in digital forensics, misinformation and image analysis.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1666839607911100416 I mean I have made that argument many times . . . As mitigation in guilty pleas. "Your honor, my client is a giant moron" . . Hell I made that argument two separate times *today*. I just followed it with "and he has learned his lesson, is sorry, and won't do it again" afterwards.
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Shooting Blanks posted:One reasonably common complaint in this thread is about politicians dodging questions as asked and giving an answer that's only partially related, or not at all. It's kind of hard to fault Kerry for answering a question as asked. He could’ve challenged the notion and premise of the question, no? And again, present it as a learning moment. He could have. But he didn’t.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I mean I have made that argument many times . . . As mitigation in guilty pleas. "Your honor, my client is a giant moron" . . Hell I made that argument two separate times *today*. I just followed it with "and he has learned his lesson, is sorry, and won't do it again" afterwards. And were any of these clients former presidents of the United States of America https://twitter.com/CookPolitical/status/1666870977672642580 lol that's uh, quite a swing zoux fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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Tiny Ron is not in fact tiny
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theCalamity posted:He could’ve challenged the notion and premise of the question, no? And again, present it as a learning moment. He could have. But he didn’t. We don’t even know what the actual wording of the question he answered “it’s not sustainable” to was. This whole conversation is as absurd as it is inconsequential. DEMS BAD!
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Yeah this conversation is absurd. DEMS GOOD!
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Jen heir rick posted:Yeah this conversation is absurd. DEMS GOOD! It’s not about “Dems good” vs. “Dems bad,” it’s about “reading words in context and understanding their meaning” vs. “Dems bad.” It’s about confirmation bias. Thinking “Dems good” is not a prerequisite for noticing that things that aren’t racist aren’t racist. But reflexively thinking “Dems bad” is pretty much necessary to ascribe racial malice to someone via bad-faith readings of interview answers. Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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Jesus Christ the acrobatics here are incredible. It doesn't even matter if there's an explanation for those comments, only that someone could have asked him a leading question. (His answer would still suck, because there is a context to the question and answer and that is several centuries of colonialism. I give him enough credit to assume he knows that) Adenoid Dan fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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zoux posted:And were any of these clients former presidents of the United States of America Geez, I'm from bama and I never paid attention to the congressional districts. I don't know if the districts look like they did when I lived there, but I can clearly identify a district that cuts out the nearly all-black area in one of the major metro areas, and lumps it in with the vast countryside to the north of it that is also heavily black. Just from my surface level knowledge of the area it's pretty egregious. edit: lol, holy crap it's even worse than I thought. District 7 dips its toes into 3 loving metro areas: Mobile, Montgomery, and Birmingham, and these are concentrated black areas. Holy christ, it takes black folks from 3 cities and the countryside and puts it into one district. Zapf Dingbat fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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haveblue posted:The DeSantis campaign has already launched a counterattack: Trump is totally gay for Fauci I like to think about who the target of these kinds of ads is. Maybe somewhere there's an incredibly off his rocker right wing loon who saw this and went "I knew it! I knew he was gay for Fauci this whole time!" Adenoid Dan posted:Jesus Christ the acrobatics here are incredible. Because I disagreed with your inference? zoux posted:And were any of these clients former presidents of the United States of America Do you (or anyone) have the full article by any chance? I'm curious what the effects of this could be, but I'm not signing up and giving them money to find out.
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Adenoid Dan posted:Jesus Christ the acrobatics here are incredible. I agree that there are some amazing death-defying feats of aerial rhetorical gymnastics going on right now, although we seem to disagree on where they’re taking place. Anyway, we seem to be going in circles, and your last post very much misstates my position, and I’m not much of a fan of my last couple of posts on the subject so, I guess we’ll just have to mark it down as “disagree” and move on with our lives somehow.
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Zapf Dingbat posted:Geez, I'm from bama and I never paid attention to the congressional districts. I don't know if the districts look like they did when I lived there, but I can clearly identify a district that cuts out the nearly all-black city in one of the major metro areas, and lumps it in with the vast countryside to the north of it that is also heavily black. Just from my surface level knowledge of the area it's pretty egregious.
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DeadlyMuffin posted:I like to think about who the target of these kinds of ads is. Maybe somewhere there's an incredibly off his rocker right wing loon who saw this and went "I knew it! I knew he was gay for Fauci this whole time!" I think 2-5 seats is the consensus, at least from the people I read/follow. And it's the same five seats mentioned in that cook report tweet, though some think there might be another one in SC. e: more from Dave https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1666891516676063233 I take that to imply that they are being very conservative in their initial estimations. zoux fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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zoux posted:And were any of these clients former presidents of the United States of America I would vote for all of them over Trump I'll say that much.
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Since you can't give this upMellow Seas posted:Imagine that, thinking Democrats are less likely to be racist because they’re not in the party that embraces racism. Just silly team sports stuff! Less doesn't mean zero. quote:Ok? Thanks for the unnecessary condescension. I don’t doubt John Kerry has racial biases as it’s well documented that coming from a white supremacist society almost always creates such biases (even among blacks.) But that’s very different from being “a racist,” and the opinions being ascribed to Kerry in this conversation aren’t unconscious biases, they pretty much are Klan hood racism. No, that's not different from being "a racist".
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > USCE Spring - some amazing death-defying feats of aerial rhetorical gymnastics
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It's only racism if it comes from the racíst region in France. Otherwise it's just sparkling white supremacy.
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Ah dammit, that’s why you never say “I’m done,” somebody always gets ya. Jaxyon posted:Less doesn't mean zero. quote:No, that's not different from being "a racist". E: sorry - meant to post a link to an informative article. https://www.science.org/content/article/meet-psychologist-exploring-unconscious-bias-and-its-tragic-consequences-society Professor Beetus posted:It's only racism if it comes from the racíst region in France. Otherwise it's just sparkling white supremacy. Stop collapsing all bad things into being equal to each other. Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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Mellow Seas posted:If Kerry is a racist because of unconscious bias then almost everybody in this thread is “a racist,” Yeah p much which is why it's important for folks to embrace anti-racism and work on understanding and confronting their unconscious biases. Based on Kerry's reference to African birth rates, I'm going to take a wild guess that he's not doing a lot of reflection on that.
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Jaxyon posted:Since you can't give this up You are arguing against an argument that nobody is making. It might be better to quote what you are responding to more clearly.
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Professor Beetus posted:Yeah p much which is why it's important for folks to embrace anti-racism and work on understanding and confronting their unconscious biases. Based on Kerry's reference to African birth rates, I'm going to take a wild guess that he's not doing a lot of reflection on that. vvv No, I agree with you! You did it! You won me over! Great job! (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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Posters slowly comprehending the pervasive nature of white supremacy ITTMellow Seas posted:If Kerry is a racist because of unconscious bias then almost everybody in this thread is “a racist,” Yes, you're getting it! quote:at which point, you know, what word do you have left for the people actively working towards a white ethnostate? White nationalists, Klan, Neo-Nazis. Do you need more?
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DeadlyMuffin posted:Do you (or anyone) have the full article by any chance? I'm curious what the effects of this could be, but I'm not signing up and giving them money to find out. https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1666822494635036675?s=20 From what I understanding this decision more or less upholds the lower court's ruling, but since they had issued a stay on that ruling, they used these maps in the 2022 election and it could've easily given the house to Democrats So the effect of this has already been that the Supreme Court gave the house to Republicans in the last election
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Analysis from SCOTUS Blog https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/06/supreme-court-upholds-section-2-of-voting-rights-act/ quote:By a vote of 5-4 on Thursday, the justices issued a major voting rights decision, ruling that Alabama’s new congressional map likely violates the Voting Rights Act. But even more significantly, the court declined an invitation to adopt an interpretation of the act that would have made it much more difficult to challenge redistricting plans on the ground that they weaken the collective voting power of Black people. Bolded highlights mine
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Lemming posted:From what I understanding this decision more or less upholds the lower court's ruling, but since they had issued a stay on that ruling, they used these maps in the 2022 election and it could've easily given the house to Democrats Jaxyon posted:Posters slowly comprehending the pervasive nature of white supremacy ITT
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This will open the gates to eliminating gerrymanders in other states too right? That would all but guarantee the house flips blue.
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Mellow Seas posted:That’s not where the goalposts started at all but whatever. I guess I’ll just agree that the only possible reason in the entire world somebody would talk about the region with the highest birth rates when asked a question about overpopulation is because of racism. Yet another brilliant deduction by D&D’s greatest minds. My dude the appropriate answer to that sort of question would be to point out how malthusianism has been discredited for years and has nothing to do with the choices we make as societies that result in inequities in how resources are distributed. Not to repeat old busted and racist talking points.
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Professor Beetus posted:My dude the appropriate answer to that sort of question would be to point out how malthusianism has been discredited for years and has nothing to do with the choices we make as societies that result in inequities in how resources are distributed. Not to repeat old busted and racist talking points.
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Mellow Seas posted:This is so loving stupid, I demonstrated an existing clear understanding of every concept you Leftsplained to me in the thread today, consider that somebody might disagree with you without being ignorant. I was the one who brought up unconscious bias in the first place, ffs. No, i was the one who brought it up, you were making a semantic distinction, and have been for several posts. Stating you understand something isn't the same as showing you actually do.
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Yeah, well, explaining something to somebody who already understands it doesn’t mean you taught it to them, no matter how smug you are I’m not even going to try to unpack your reasoning of how the disagreement being semantic means I don’t understand things, and not that we were just having a stupid loving goon conversation neither of us was willing to drop.
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Mellow Seas posted:That’s probably the best answer but it’s absolutely positively not the only one that can come from a place other than racism. I mean sure, but in that case he should have thought of one of them. I mean, he is the climate czar right? He should be well aware of this information? v lmao v Professor Beetus fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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Why isn't USPol in comic sans anymore? And with way more posts and in D&D now? Oh (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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snorch posted:This will open the gates to eliminating gerrymanders in other states too right? That would all but guarantee the house flips blue. Cook moved AL-1 & 2 from "Solid R" to "Toss Up." as well as LA-5 & 6 to "Solid R" to "Toss Up." ,and NC-1 switched from “Toss Up” to “Lean D.”
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The supreme court case is just about racial gerrymandering, which is the same as partisan gerrymandering in the south but not in general. I think it's two extra seats plus outside chances at a few others. Wisconsin might also fix its congressional map by 2024, but that's unrelated.
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Gumball Gumption posted:Why isn't USPol in comic sans anymore? And with way more posts and in D&D now? Because you missed me drawkcab si eman ym posted:Cook moved AL-1 & 2 from "Solid R" to "Toss Up." as well as LA-5 & 6 to "Solid R" to "Toss Up." ,and NC-1 switched from “Toss Up” to “Lean D.” Are these the only ones? That's why I was looking for the Cook article. There are plenty of gerrymandered states elsewhere that I'd hope this would affect. Maybe Ohio could be revisited? Lemming posted:https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1666822494635036675?s=20 Frustrating to see the court clutch their pearls about separation of powers when questioned about Thomas's corruption, and then do this.
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So, what pending cases this session have the potential to do something a million times worse than what this case has fixed?
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1666839607911100416 But isn't the primary accusation not that Trump simply took the documents without understanding what he was doing, but covering it up and not giving them back when the FBI asked him politely to do so?
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small butter posted:But isn't the primary accusation not that Trump simply took the documents without understanding what he was doing, but covering it up and not giving them back when the FBI asked him politely to do so? Listen, Trump is just like a toddler who took something and doesn't want to give it back despite being asked to. Would you arrest a toddler for not giving back something?
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