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Just saw Oliver here in Durham huge Ferguson protest happen to pass by at the same time his second show started with an army of cops fightin them it was crazy. He commtented about it saying he understood that we probably wanted to go with him but we had bought the tickets already. Also he did mention I/P and how he supports the 2 state solution.
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Lots of people talking about how it's a choice when it just happens to be a choice that can't happen to them physically.
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May 12, 2015 15:59
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Jonas Albrecht posted:And yet, when you wade into their goblin warrens, they're constantly talking about how they're winning the battle because some "SJW" got his conference bumped from E3 or something. It's amazing how much this consumes their lives, right down to their pillow art waifu Vivian James. I love the term SJW because as soon as someone uses it as some sort of insult or whatever I instantly know how worthless their opinion is really cuts out a lot of guesswork.
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Jun 24, 2015 03:22
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Toplowtech posted:There is literally no real crafting system in most previous fallout games (or at least nothing compared to what they want to add in Fallout 4), just some weapons mod systems and minor player made mods. And Fallout 3 is arguably the less well written of all the Fallout game compared to 1&2 and New Vegas. You know independent gaming is at an all time high right? There is tons of experimental poo poo going on right now even point and click and choose your adventure games are getting to be big sellers for larger companies. Farm Sim and Truck Sims also sell like crazy. Hell there is a Train game on Steam that makes tons of money selling digital model trains.
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Jun 24, 2015 21:21
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Someone was making a joke about a hymen once, my friend didn't get it we all looked at him and asked him if he knew what a hymen was he was late 20s at the time. He told us "I don't know what a hymen is because I don't watch anime!!" he was 100% serious, Sex-ed is really bad in the south.
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Aug 12, 2015 03:21
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And oops we closed the dmvs and reduced hours in the poor districts, pure coincidence.
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Feb 15, 2016 22:06
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As with most issues it boils down to a lack of worker protections, if you even tried to take that 5th Wednesday off to go to the DMV most minimum wage level jobs will fire you, even if they let you take the untime paid off that days work + the license is the difference between paying the rent or not for a large portion of the poor.
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Feb 16, 2016 15:51
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meristem posted:This is interesting. As an Euro, the requirements for my national ID are almost the same: birth certificate (for the first one)/previous ID (for the next), photo and a national ID number given at birth. Signature you deliver by, well, putting it into the form, and residency is mostly declared. For my first one (at 18), I think they cross-checked it with the last official residency of my legal guardian, although maybe even not that. It would and they are trying, the problem is the republicans control the house/senate in these states and are pushing these changes right before an election, if it was say a 10 year plan with plenty of time to get the ID/make it free people would have less objections to it.
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Feb 22, 2016 16:30
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Veskit posted:I have to say that this episode annoyed me because of the topic more than anything. I hate how everyone hates tax breaks and the "they took our jobs" loving attitude of sending jobs overseas and Puerto Rico does it then we're supposed to feel bad for them when they have our jobs, then we're supposed to feel even more bad when we take them back loving which oen do you want america. If all those poor people without jobs would just pay more taxes all of their problems would go away.
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Apr 27, 2016 22:08
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rujasu posted:Yeah, this is pretty much it. As much as it sucks, if everyone could just go to college for years on loans and then file for bankruptcy after graduation, who would be stupid enough to issue a student loan? If anyone could take a loan on ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD then file for bankruptcy who would be stupid enough to issue a loan for ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD.
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Jun 7, 2016 17:11
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Squall posted:My presidential vote doesn't matter, so it's going third party. Hillary, just like Trump, is a pathological liar that doesn't deserve my vote. I can understand voting for her in a state where you vote might actually matter at all to strategically vote against the "greater evil" in Trump, though. None of this is true, do you have any evidence or is 25 years of Hillary bashing from the right make you think she is a pathological liar "just like Trump" can you even name something she has actually lied about?
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Aug 2, 2016 13:19
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Vodos posted:Every interview she gave about her email server comes to mind. Which part did she lie about?
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Aug 2, 2016 14:04
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FetusSlapper posted:Maybe they should do the freemium thing where if you want to read their articles you can watch a 30 second ad for clash of clans or something. Adblock, no one wants to pay and no one wants to watch ads.
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Aug 10, 2016 00:05
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:I think there's also something odd about this idea that local journalism is the only/best way to deal with local corruption and that we should be funding local papers because they are the real heroes. One step at a time.
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Aug 11, 2016 22:00
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Now that Larry Wilmore is canceled and the Daily Show is just... Not very funny, it's beginning to look like John Oliver is the real Superman and the crisis is over. Oliver's show appears to have a much bigger presence on social media and frankly his commentary/depth is a lot better, along the lines of at least Stewart and probably a fair bit better than that. Samantha Bee's show is incredible as well.
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Aug 16, 2016 01:32
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Y-Hat posted:He used to have more jokes in his repertoire. Not only is this not funny, I'd hesitate to even call it a joke. One thing that struck me in his standup, his time at The Daily Show, and even the beginning of Last Week Tonight was that he was very funny, and I thought he earned his own show with his own hosting stint on TDS. I never listened to The Bugle, but I hear that he was very funny there too. Today, though, he's degraded himself to Family Guy humor as the only way to lighten things up. It's embarrassing. He can and should be much better. You've made this exact same post after every single episode for like years now, just stop watching.
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Sep 27, 2016 07:56
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Echo Chamber posted:I do think "Why don't third parties start at the local level" is a pretty bullshit anti-3rd party excuse, simply because there are already various local elections with third party races; and they people usually making those arguments don't particularly care about "local races" that don'e effect them. It's just a way of telling them to go away. And that's how change should be done through the primaries, voting for Bernie in the primary shows you want the party further left and it worked the platform adopted many of his positions. Voting for the Green Party in the general shows nothing of the sort because there isn't a "why" section on the voting ballet and it's not like the third parties have any policies that are capable of being adopted.
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Oct 17, 2016 22:51
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hemophilia posted:You and people like you keep trying to guilt people unto voting for a person and a party they don't loving like. Your indignation is unearned and you are convincing nobody. If hillary fails to trump of all people, its because shes a garbage candidate. If she gets blocked like gore in 2000 by third party votes, thats on every idiot democrat from the lowly voter that frankly had no real say in Clinton's coronation all the way to her top donors and senior dnc staff that did everything they could to install her. Leftists dont owe you or any other centrist their unwavering support for candidates with a storied history of undermining and working against true leftist ideals. Trump's a garbage fire. Clinton's a garbage fire, you do yourself no favors by demanding anybody play ball by feeding the fire. What makes Clinton a garbage fire? I'd love to see some evidence of this storied history of undermining and working against true leftest ideals from the person running under the leftmost democratic party platform yet.
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Oct 19, 2016 03:53
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CrashCat posted:Pretty much this. Yeah there will be a few people who think that because Trump got elected they can commit a crime for free but there are also people who thought that because Obama got elected they could commit a crime for free. There's never going to be a lack of dumb assholes who will use an excuse to be violent. Obama didn't encourage violence at his rallies. Also there wasn't a large violent subculture as well as the KKK supporting him, pretending they are somehow equal is just silly.
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Nov 9, 2016 17:09
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NutritiousSnack posted:Trump ran his campaign to win states unfavorable to him that he stood a chance of winning. For example, Calforina the state Hillary won, wasn't visited once by Trump because the impossibility of him winning. So a lot of GOP sat on their asses and didn't vote at all, something they would have done if the EC didn't exist. This line of thinking is stupidn and is used to deflect larger issues of blame (the fact Hillary and establishment democrats are dumb as dogshit.) Why is this true for solid blue states but not solid red?
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Nov 14, 2016 04:42
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Rated PG-34 posted:Frankly, Obama's not that great of a president. If he was a great president, we wouldn't be in the shitshow that we are in now. After the crash, he put in power the same people who helped orchestrate it, setting us up for another one, which is sure to occur in the next 6-18 months. Many Americans lost their jobs and their houses, and then were told they were irresponsible for borrowing money that they couldn't pay back. Here's a notion: the banks were irresponsible for lending money to people who couldn't afford to pay them back. If Obama really gave a poo poo about ordinary Americans and unemployment, he would've had the government hire unemployed folks like FDR did. Also, his touted obamacare policies were a step in the right direction, but American quality of care still lags other poorer countries, and monthly household expenditure is still very high (at on average $257/mo and scheduled to increase by 9% outpacing wage growth by quite a bit). Wasn't a dictator. FDR's stuff required congress/senate.
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Rated PG-34 posted:The dems had the house and senate then, but to be fair to Obama, FDR passed the New Deal because of the revolutionary pressure from below. The spectrum has shifted so much that there's no way the democrats of 2008 would've passed anything like the New Deal. They had the entire house and senate for a VERY short time thanks to the Giffords shootings and other problems a few months is not enough time to pass dozens of bills.
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Nov 15, 2016 23:44
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punk rebel ecks posted:The episode was pretty weak. A lot of the "Pro-Putin Trump clips" were taken out of context. Yes, he said it wouldn't be great if we got a long with Putin, but he said during a long list of "wouldn't it be great if we got along with *insert nation/group the US has poor relations with*?" I don't think they were, do you have a link to video? I've never seen him be kind to any country as Russia.
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Feb 25, 2017 21:05
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punk rebel ecks posted:I find it surprising that I have to link an example of this. Trump never stopped using the "wouldn't it be nice?" line. He always used it right before or after his "why we against Iran? just leave them alone and kill ISIS." He literally has been threatening towards Iran on multiple occasions to the point people are sure he wants a war with them.
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Feb 26, 2017 01:10
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tsob posted:I don't watch the show, just the main segments on Youtube, but I've seen a few of them and they always seem kind of stupid to be honest. One of them I recall seeing was complaining about the people hosting morning shows getting flirtatious. Yea, out of context newscaster getting sexually suggestive in their language with each other is weird, but it's just people at a job trying to enliven things and make it more tolerable and fun for themselves. Who cares? No one cares or is complaining it was a funny little segue to pad between segments maybe you are looking too hard into it. I think everyone here is expecting a bit much from a 30 minute a week comedy news show, they can't address every single issue in every state nor can they ignore the poo poo Trump is doing because other people happen to cover it as well.
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Apr 19, 2017 00:56
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Die Sexmonster! posted:Nancy Pelosi has said recently "we're capitalists" and "you can be a Democrat and pro-life" so uh, try again. You do realize the Democrats are a coalition and they need people to get elected in areas that aren't ready for "full communist now" if they give no leeway to people in red states then they are never going to get in power again.
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May 27, 2017 03:20
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raditts posted:So tell me, how has cozying up to Republican "values" worked out for Democrats in the past? What leads you to believe the result will be different in the future? It's worked well, there are several Democratic Congresspeople who only manage to skate by in red states by being more centrist, I'm not saying it's an ideal situation but if you ever want to control the house/senate again and have a small chance at some progress it's the only way.
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May 27, 2017 22:46
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basic hitler posted:you don't get to just downplay the fact the dems are no longer representing the majority of its constituent voter's beliefs and expectations. They're behaving just as evilly, you just give them a pass because you imagine they're doing something, or anything, useful, but they just tried to force a former goldwater girl on the labor-left and got torn the gently caress up for it. They're not doing anybody anything useful and most of the senior leadership need to be challenged and beaten by stronger leftists smart enough to borrow the democrat moniker Oh goody "both sides are just as evil" a productive well researched position that gets us all places.
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Jun 5, 2017 08:32
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Here's something I don't quite understand about the whole Equifax/credit report situation in general: Where do they get that information in the first place? It seems weird to me that a corporation can just have your very important identification information without you actually giving it to them (I assume that when you apply for a credit card with a bank there's probably some clause in the contract that mentions that the information you give the bank will also be given to the credit agencies, but that really seems like something you should be able to opt out of) Sure you can opt out of the credit system, as long as you don't ever need a car/house/utilities/credit card and sadly more often lately even a job as some of them have started credit checking.
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Oct 17, 2017 01:37
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Phenotype posted:When people ask me my political affiliations I tell them that I'd call myself a Libertarian if the Libertarians weren't such a mess. It means that I generally think the government's job is to protect its citizens and otherwise stay out of our lives. Except that means I'm in favor of guns being legal and a strong military to look out for our interests and also in favor of the EPA and stuff like that because protecting citizens means protecting our environment, and I think it should stop corporations from having too much power over us, and basically no one really fits into any category at all and it's just a fancy word that doesn't mean anything. What if protecting Citizens means taking guns away from the citizens so they stop shooting each other?
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Servaetes posted:Given the terrible OP got permabanned, yeah the mod should lock or close the thread, make a new one when the show resumes rather than me getting baited checking the thread for updates and imsteqd it's just a bunch of goobers arguing about DND/CSPAM crap outside of the containment zones they should discuss it This is a political show I don't understand how you want people to talk about it without talking about politics.
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