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highme posted:I don't know. A derail on the proper use of apostrophes could be handy for some posters. Which one's?
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Xae posted:He can only understand things in terms of competition. Hillary lost, which means Fred Trump will punish her.
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as i've said before, part of the thrill of choosing to go to north korea over any other nation on earth is because of the low key thrill that the korean secret police may nab you and throw you in a gulag. it's not a nice place - you are constantly supervised, the food is terrible, the atmosphere is terrible, everything is terrible. it's like getting in a time machine so you can tour 1960's east germany. there is no compelling reason to go there unless you want to gawk at and indulge in the atmosphere of a repressive brutal totalitarian society. so if you do something dumb and the secret police actually do electrify your nipples, you kind of lose your ability to claim victimhood in a surprise to nobody, danger tourism is... dangerous? can that be true?
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Xae posted:A few years back there was a scare about people being able to get encryption keys from memory after it was removed from a computer. The abstract of the article got published before the details, but once the details came out it turns out that the process involved included cooling the chip to near absolute zero and then scanning it, while still near absolute zero, with an electron microscope. I bet Russia wants a place like that.
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Jealous Cow posted:They must pay an electoral price for this. Just burn it all down. This is so cartoonishly evil that the whole process needs to be started over. Everybody, back to the ships, we're taking it from the top, and for god's sake let's get the whole gun thing right this time.
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Jealous Cow posted:https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/875452710316912640 I mean at this point, the Democrats taking turns pulling the fire alarm to physically prevent the vote is justified.
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boner confessor posted:as i've said before, part of the thrill of choosing to go to north korea over any other nation on earth is because of the low key thrill that the korean secret police may nab you and throw you in a gulag. it's not a nice place - you are constantly supervised, the food is terrible, the atmosphere is terrible, everything is terrible. it's like getting in a time machine so you can tour 1960's east germany. there is no compelling reason to go there unless you want to gawk at and indulge in the atmosphere of a repressive brutal totalitarian society. so if you do something dumb and the secret police actually do electrify your nipples, you kind of lose your ability to claim victimhood Sounds like touring Afghanistan would be more fun. Same danger, better food and culture.
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boner confessor posted:he's not really a victim though? as far as we know he committed a criminal act in north korea. i've said the punishment was wildly unjust but as north korea is a sovereign state with an independent criminal justice system the wise thing to do would be to not break the law in north korea. the reason people think he's a victim is because this is what you're going with? that a person can't be a victim of an unjust law? lol quote:since you're climbing up on a little rickety wooden high horse here for the most moronic of reasons would you care to share your opinions re: the relative benefits of stomping kittens to death? so long as we're getting it all out on the record about whether unjust punishments are a bad or good thing im just pointing how dumb your white privilege argument is. why are you going through so much effort to make sure everyone knows that it's this guy's fault for apparently getting murdered by the state over a poster?
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How does this turtle gently caress live with himself? Possiblythe worst person in Congress.
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BarbarianElephant posted:Sounds like touring Afghanistan would be more fun. Same danger, better food and culture. NK has better weed, though.
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HappyHippo posted:this is what you're going with? that a person can't be a victim of an unjust law? lol not if you've done everything you can to put yourself in that situation HappyHippo posted:im just pointing how dumb your white privilege argument is. why are you going through so much effort to make sure everyone knows that it's this guy's fault for apparently getting murdered by the state over a poster? the us state department basically advises us citizens not to go to north korea because of the risk that you'll end up in some horrible prison over stupid poo poo "help, stuck my hand in a gator's mouth and it was bit off. there was a fence around the enclosure but i jumped it, also ignored signs warning of danger. do i have grounds to sue?" e: also lol at "why are you discussing things in the discussion forum? why are you having a conversation with me right now, are you a tryhard  " just stop quoting me then moron if you dont like me posting at you, jeez
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Ague Proof posted:How does this turtle gently caress live with himself? Possiblythe worst person in Congress. He's actually very happy. He's the kind of smug little poo poo that gets off on getting away with stuff/using little rules to hurt people, I guarantee you that. No-one normal makes 'I want to be Senate Majority Leader, nothing higher, nothing lower' their big life-long ambition.
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HappyHippo posted:this is what you're going with? that a person can't be a victim of an unjust law? lol It's more interesting to me watching the outrage when those foreigners ruin a dude over petty theft and complete acceptance and boredom at the thought of our state doing it to our fellow citizens.
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mcmagic posted:They stole a SCOTUS seat and benefited from it electorally. On the bright side Scalia is still dead.
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NOTHING TO SEE HERE https://twitter.com/AshleyRParker/status/875458477472317441
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Ague Proof posted:How does this turtle gently caress live with himself? Possiblythe worst person in Congress. Let's not get crazy here. Although I guess Ted Cruz isn't technically a person.
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Sorus posted:On the bright side Scalia is still dead. Gorsuch is worse.
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HappyHippo posted:im just pointing how dumb your white privilege argument is. why are you going through so much effort to make sure everyone knows that it's this guy's fault for apparently getting murdered by the state over a poster? Is it some big secret that NK is a totalitarian state with insanely disproportional punishments? No, so don't go there. Jesus, if you were at a zoo and came across a pen of rabid wolverines and decided to climb in, that's on you.
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boner confessor posted:not if you've done everything you can to put yourself in that situation this is an incredibly dumb argument to be making. interracial marriage pre-loving v virginia was a surefire way to get yourself into a heap of trouble, and everyone knew that. yet i'm sure you wouldn't say richard and mildred loving "did everything they could to put themselves in that situation" and therefore weren't victims. unjust laws create victims because they are unjust. whether or not people knowingly violated an unjust law or did so accidentally doesn't change the fact that they are victimized by an unjust law.
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Kaboobi posted:NOTHING TO SEE HERE That's interesting. Why hire a lawyer unless you're sure you're going to be questioned? Might just be precautionary on Pence's part...
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botany posted:this is an incredibly dumb argument to be making. interracial marriage pre-loving v virginia was a surefire way to get yourself into a heap of trouble, and everyone knew that. yet i'm sure you wouldn't say richard and mildred loving "did everything they could to put themselves in that situation" and therefore weren't victims. unjust laws create victims because they are unjust. whether or not people knowingly violated an unjust law or did so accidentally doesn't change the fact that they are victimized by an unjust law. well when people are moving to north korea to get married let me know but stripping out the context of this discussion to talk about the abstract justness of punishments is pretty stupid given that people have the choice to not cross international borders into Gulagsville. people are going to fall in love, nobody's going to be biologically compelled to travel to a stalinist state and litter like the analogy here for otto warmbeir vs. interracial marriage is if a white man turned black through sheer force of will then married a white woman in the jim crow south boner confessor fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Jun 15, 2017 |
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Alter Ego posted:That's interesting. Why hire a lawyer unless you're sure you're going to be questioned? Might just be precautionary on Pence's part... On the one hand, it would be 100% the smart move even if you're sure that you were innocent. On the other hand, I wonder if he cleared it with Trump first...
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ADudeWhoAbides posted:Is it some big secret that NK is a totalitarian state with insanely disproportional punishments? No, so don't go there. Jesus, if you were at a zoo and came across a pen of rabid wolverines and decided to climb in, that's on you. If a zoo exhibited a pen of rabid wolverines, they would be sued for inadequate medical care of an at risk species. 
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HappyHippo posted:i too like to blame the victim
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botany posted:this is an incredibly dumb argument to be making. interracial marriage pre-loving v virginia was a surefire way to get yourself into a heap of trouble, and everyone knew that. yet i'm sure you wouldn't say richard and mildred loving "did everything they could to put themselves in that situation" and therefore weren't victims. unjust laws create victims because they are unjust. whether or not people knowingly violated an unjust law or did so accidentally doesn't change the fact that they are victimized by an unjust law. Are you seriously comparing interracial marriage on the same level as an idiot tourist going to a dangerous country? Hint: one of those things is a right worth fighting/being imprisoned/maybe dying for, and the other is being an idiot tourist.
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Oxxidation posted:Gorsuch is worse. In that he's younger. But you'd have to go back to the Jim Crow era to get a justice as bad as Scalia.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:In that he's younger. But you'd have to go back to the Jim Crow era to get a justice as bad as Scalia. I contend that Thomas and Alito are worse than Scalia and Neil "Scalia 2.0" Gorsuch
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I'm as big a fan of robust discussion as anyone but re: North Korea - can't we agree that pragmatically anyone going there is at heightened risk of getting hosed up for bad reasons and ideally we want that to not be the case but have like 0 effect on that change happening?
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ADudeWhoAbides posted:Hint: one of those things is a right worth fighting/being imprisoned/maybe dying for, and the other is being an idiot tourist. we must appeal to the united nations for our most essential human right - the right to travel to other nations and trespass and vandalize official property without consequence
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Why do people continue to treat things Trump does or says as being informed by any thought at all, instead of a random string of insane rambling
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B B posted:That's fair, and like I said I know almost nothing about Senate procedure. I'm mostly posting it because Senate Dems may need some prodding from constituents to actually do it, so make calls if you can. I just called my senators today
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the third level of maslow's heirarchy is basically love, acceptance, social bonding, and the ability to do petty crimes. i saw it in a book once
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Koyaanisgoatse posted:I contend that Thomas and Alito are worse than Scalia and Neil "Scalia 2.0" Gorsuch
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Trump, a lying fuckhead? Who knew? Kaboobi posted:NOTHING TO SEE HERE  I hope this is a portent of good things to come.
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:On the one hand, it would be 100% the smart move even if you're sure that you were innocent. and risk Donnie giving him the business card of one of his terrible lawyers and the two losing moves that it entails?
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Alter Ego posted:That's interesting. Why hire a lawyer unless you're sure you're going to be questioned? Might just be precautionary on Pence's part... I think he knows it's all over and is trying to save himself or keep himself in the vp slot.
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Alter Ego posted:That's interesting. Why hire a lawyer unless you're sure you're going to be questioned? Might just be precautionary on Pence's part... Anyone with a brain in this administration should be lawyering up asap, innocent or not
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