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Lemon. Today, we live in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world but that reality means very little for most of us because almost all of that wealth is owned and controlled by a tiny handful of individuals. In America we now have more income and wealth inequality than any other major country on earth, and the gap between the very rich and everyone is wider than at any time since the 1920s. The issue of wealth and income inequality is the great moral issue of our time, it is the great economic issue of our time and it is the great political issue of our time. And we will address it. Wet. Let me be very clear. There is something profoundly wrong when the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent, and when 99 percent of all new income goes to the top 1 percent. There is something profoundly wrong when, in recent years, we have seen a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires at the same time as millions of Americans work longer hours for lower wages and we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on earth. There is something profoundly wrong when one family owns more wealth than the bottom 130 million Americans. This grotesque level of inequality is immoral. It is bad economics. It is unsustainable. This type of rigged economy is not what America is supposed to be about. This has got to change and, as your president, together we will change it. Good. But it is not just income and wealth inequality. It is the tragic reality that for the last 40 years the great middle class of our country – once the envy of the world – has been disappearing. Despite exploding technology and increased worker productivity, median family income is almost $5,000 less than it was in 1999. In Vermont and throughout this country it is not uncommon for people to be working two or three jobs just to cobble together enough income to survive on and some health care benefits. 
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Is Paul's entire campaign trying to appeal to trendy hipster/internet types? He comes off as a dad desperate to be hip.
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Faustian Bargain posted:Is Paul's entire campaign trying to appeal to trendy hipster/internet types? He comes off as a dad desperate to be hip. His campaign is trying to appeal to conspiracy theorist fans of his dad, while actually being Ted Cruz in disguise
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Vienna Circlejerk posted:He did not actually say that. I don't know if you're deliberately misconstruing it or if you're being tripped up by the ambiguity between generalized indefinite article noun phrases and specific or hypothetical indefinite article noun phrases ("a dog has four legs" = all dogs, "a dog is in my yard" = some particular dog). He is asking the reader to think of a hypothetical man and woman having these thoughts, and while that's unclear at first, it gets pretty obvious as you keep reading. Did you miss the entire second column? He's clearly talking about many - if not all, it's not clear - men and women and how they respond to our patriarchal culture. It's not about two hypothetical people; the man and woman he mentions are a hypothetical illustrative example, but the article's about men and women who live in this culture and how they, as groups, respond.
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Mo_Steel posted:I will forever prefer: this set of posts needs to go on Tumblr. Just.... perfect (disappointing that vBulletin doesn't allow 2-level comment nesting)
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Faustian Bargain posted:Is Paul's entire campaign trying to appeal to trendy hipster/internet types? He comes off as a dad desperate to be hip.
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A3th3r posted:this set of posts needs to go on Tumblr. It allows it but you have to do it manually with copy+paste. We used to have it enabled here by default but then the larger threads would be full of posts that were literally dozens of quotes nested and the whole thing was unreadable.
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Mo_Steel posted:I will forever prefer: Nu uh, best version was Colbert. 
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Sharkie posted:Did you miss the entire second column? He's clearly talking about many - if not all, it's not clear - men and women and how they respond to our patriarchal culture. It's not about two hypothetical people; the man and woman he mentions are a hypothetical illustrative example, but the article's about men and women who live in this culture and how they, as groups, respond. That's not the same as all or every, or stating a characteristic in general, as in "A dog is a mammal." That's the sense some people were taking it (or claiming to take it), and that's clearly not what's happening in the actual syntax and semantics of those sentences. Yes, in the larger scope he is talking about many, as a cultural phenomenon, and using exemplars to do so, but in terms of the compositional semantics of the sentences themselves, he's making use of the specific form ("A dog is in my yard."), not the general, categorical form. To be clear, I'm talking about a specific and deliberate misinterpretation that people like TDD are making, of specific sentences. Vienna Circlejerk fucked around with this message at 04:09 on May 30, 2015 |
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Faustian Bargain posted:Is Paul's entire campaign trying to appeal to trendy hipster/internet types? He comes off as a dad desperate to be hip. Young males and libertarian types are definitely his target niche for the primary.
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TheDisreputableDog posted:(quoting self & being pointlessly inflammatory) gently caress off. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Kobayashi posted:I'll never forget smoking guy. By now he's probably become a vapist.
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Joementum posted:Lemon. Today, we live in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world but that reality means very little for most of us because almost all of that wealth is owned and controlled by a tiny handful of individuals. In America we now have more income and wealth inequality than any other major country on earth, and the gap between the very rich and everyone is wider than at any time since the 1920s. The issue of wealth and income inequality is the great moral issue of our time, it is the great economic issue of our time and it is the great political issue of our time. And we will address it. I can't let this slip past while unloved.
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Hollismason posted:What's the story behind this image I can't ever remember. He was ecstatic about Benghazi happening during the election and felt it just won him the presidency. Any time some idiot claims Mitt Romney isn't a sociopath just show them this photo. Mo_Steel posted:I will forever prefer: Mike Tyson's not aging very gracefully, is he?
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Kobayashi posted:I'll never forget smoking guy.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Mike Tyson's not aging very gracefully, is he? HIs job was to be punched in the head by giants for several years. I did that as an amateur for awhile and believe it, it shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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FlamingLiberal posted:Who was Cain's actual campaign manager, and came up with that ad I'm pretty sure you're looking at him.
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Evil Fluffy posted:He was ecstatic about Benghazi happening during the election and felt it just won him the presidency. Any time some idiot claims Mitt Romney isn't a sociopath just show them this photo. He's 48 years old. He got punched in the head daily for the majority of his life. He had drug and alcohol issues. He's a complicated guy that I love and hate for a variety of reasons, but gently caress no, he looks great.
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Evil Fluffy posted:
Are you kidding me? Look at a recent youtube vid of him, he looks fantastic. The bastard.
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Evil Fluffy posted:He was ecstatic about Benghazi happening during the election and felt it just won him the presidency. Any time some idiot claims Mitt Romney isn't a sociopath just show them this photo. I won't argue that Mitts not a sociopath, but I think people misinterpret that smile as one of self satisfaction. If you remember, that press conference was a clusterfuck because a bunch of reporters starting calling him out for political opportunism, at which point he turned around and started walking off stage, which is when that picture was taking. To me, that smile always looked like that type corporate execs paste on their faces when they are hearing things they don't want to hear, or things don't go their way, but they still want to project a veneer of confidence.
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Joementum posted:Starting to see some clues come in as to what O'Malley will announce at 10am today. Joementum posted:This could be another clue: Boy will you have egg on your face when it's for President of his Book Club. 
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Joementum posted:This could be another clue: is he running for President of A Stylized Map of Connecticut?
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Joementum posted:This could be another clue: Carcetti 2016: Sure, Why Not
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Carcetti 2016: Sure, Why Not ______ 2016: If Everyone Else Jumped Off A Bridge, Wouldn't You?
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Carcetti 2016: Sure, Why Not I'm eagerly awaiting to see Aiden Gillen in his Littlefinger costume in an attack ad.
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Skeevy Mcgee posted:I won't argue that Mitts not a sociopath, but I think people misinterpret that smile as one of self satisfaction. If you remember, that press conference was a clusterfuck because a bunch of reporters starting calling him out for political opportunism, at which point he turned around and started walking off stage, which is when that picture was taking. To me, that smile always looked like that type corporate execs paste on their faces when they are hearing things they don't want to hear, or things don't go their way, but they still want to project a veneer of confidence. Still tasteless as gently caress. Although I agree withyou.
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Rand Paul, hes a good lad who just wants a pint and a laff.
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I don't know, man, Rand seems like the kind of guy I could sit and have a Pabst Blue Ribbon with.
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The O'nnouncement video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFpPh9QB2qg
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Joementum posted:The O'nnouncement video. "This is America. We don't chlorinate..."
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