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Wolfsheim posted:I usually just pound High Life when I'm reading this thread or when I'm not reading this thread, is this acceptable y/n Also, who gets to impeach Alito and Thomas for making paid appearance to Koch events and then not recusing themselves from pertinent cases?
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Sword of Chomsky posted:what rare earth metal does he think we should base our currency on? Labor?
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May 9, 2014 00:12
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Sword of Chomsky posted:I had to tell my dad to gently caress off about Benghazi the other day as he was tooting his outrage horn at me. I asked him if he knew the names of the people that died, and what they believed in. he obviously said no, and that it didn't matter. The conversation didn't go well after that. gently caress anyone trying to use those names for their own agenda. You have to treat old Republicans as a protected class, as they almost universally have lead poisoning causing near-senility at an early age. Combine that with the fact the only thing they've accomplished over their lifetimes was to wreck the most advantaged country in the world, well, you can expect a lot of arguments to go nowhere as they hang their self worth on something they're pretty sure the TV said about Benghazi.
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Hakarne posted:I'm a left-leaning individual and I find these threads to be a valuable resource for political news, as well as for presenting fact-based arguments that convincingly advocate for progressive solutions. I would recommend these threads to anyone looking for an objective view on the state of politics in the U.S. Considering violent revolutions have been going on since the beginning of civilization, I don't think continuing the discussion started by Bill Clinton about what the people want vis a vis graphically murdering bankers makes us somehow outside of the norm. If you no longer recommend the US Politics for Month thread in D&D to others as a valuable political resource I understand and will respect your decision.
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May 9, 2014 14:26
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theshim posted:Emphasis on everything indeed Maybe President Sanders will coax him out of retirement.
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May 9, 2014 16:02
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AstheWorldWorlds posted:So you advocate entry into an already rigged game? That is supposed to encourage people? Most liberals I know at least have the social intelligence to cover over the fact it is rigged. At least you are honest, I guess. You see how your points are being sidestepped as you get drawn further and further into a narrative where you're wrong? You're not going to convince any true life Republicans (or "Independents", these days) to back down from lovely indefensible positions if every time they bring one up you dance, dance, dance for them.
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May 9, 2014 18:37
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AstheWorldWorlds posted:Is he actually a right winger? He seems weirdly ambiguous in this regard. See this? It betrays that you assume you're debating a subject with someone in good faith. You're still like three steps too close to the tv screen.
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May 9, 2014 19:25
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Dystram posted:Bought stock. I fired a guy on his first not-training day.
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May 10, 2014 02:56
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computer parts posted:Here's the property values of the past 25 years or so:  Not amazingly similar, but worth noting. You'd think that location would be less important when 90% of your profit generating companies are based around siphoning money out of teenagers via webapps.
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May 11, 2014 16:58
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That mayday crowd-sourcing thing did alright so far, 20 days left to go and 80% funded: http://mayone.us/
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May 11, 2014 19:57
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Swagger Dagger posted:I get through the day by remembering that Alzheimer's and dementia run through both sides of my family and hoping I'll be too far gone to care about the famine riots when they come in 50 years. Our kids will be telling us that Something Awful is fully owned by Koch Conglomerate and 99% of the posts we see are chatbots convincing us to vote against our interests.
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May 12, 2014 05:28
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I see the game plan of depressing and disenfranchising the public is going swimmingly.
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May 12, 2014 14:12
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Mr Interweb posted:I support Obama and the Dems 110% and all, but poo poo like this really needs to stop: I get letters in the mail every month or two that say I'm still temporarily covered, and to show that piece of paper to the ER if I happen to end up there. That, and promises they'll have a ruling on my RomBamaCare status shortly.
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May 13, 2014 12:27
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happyhippy posted:Love this one. Its like asking why hasn't Flight MH370 been found when the survivors of the Titanic were found within hours. I hope he's not referring to the Boston Bombing photos that Reddit crawled over, identifying an innocent 20 something as the bomber for looking not-quite-white whose body was later found in a river.
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May 14, 2014 13:16
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Dystram posted:We don't want our budding economists to read anything that might make them think to challenge the status quo; we only want economists who will justify decisions made by our owners. See: the oft-disproven Austrian School of Economics
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May 15, 2014 20:32
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tbp posted:I don't think the argument should be on the basis of which is better though. The speed of it all doesn't matter much, I think, if the person understands the concept behind it. I don't think we emphasize conceptualization very well. Didn't you just make fun of people who have to stop and think when calculating a percent based tip? Like literally two posts ago.
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May 15, 2014 21:03
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Miltank posted:Water boarding is less analogous to crucifixion because it is less public. Also no one takes waterboarding seriously. It's not like we're flaying our enemies, we're just freaking them out a little bit. Turns out 'little bit' is on par with mock executions and violates the Genova Convention, but who cares, it's a bucket of water those people should sack up.
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May 19, 2014 19:19
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Raskolnikov38 posted:It means please pay attention to me so that I may derail the thread as I, tbp, oft do. Got to admit though, that's a hell of an ambiguous statement. I might steal that and use it in a group of idiots someday.
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May 19, 2014 20:07
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What does easily have anything to do with it? Computers do all the work of gerrymandering anyway.
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May 20, 2014 19:28
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Amergin posted:We won even though we lost because we affected the system! Hey man, that hits a little too close to home.
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May 21, 2014 23:43
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Warchicken posted:My brother in law is a climate science denier and I have to dodge his retarded rear end questions about it until I leave next week. He just brings up stupid point after stupid point like "but the arctic temperatures haven't changed in decades!" And "but their predictive models were wrong! They changed them now that they have new data, how can you trust them?" And "the Antarctic ice sheet falling apart at this time when it's been frozen for millions of years is from underwater volcanic activity, it's a coincidence that mankind industrialized at the same time". It seriously is the worst thing. He also believes peer review is a joke and that you can easily plagiarize a phd dissertation to get a doctorate in the sciences, and that dissertations are only worth reading on the topic if they're "influential". Don't get upset by it, it just reinforces their resolve. This is dealing with assholes 101- if someone's tailgating you, you slow down. They're the gently caress who wants to get somewhere, so you hamstring them over it.
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May 22, 2014 05:59
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On Terra Firma posted:Christ. I just read all this. Honestly. To avoid emptyquote, I want to say absolem has the best title I've ever seen.
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May 23, 2014 16:32
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US Politics: 130 posts per day and it's only June
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May 30, 2014 21:02
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What ever happened to Clive Bundy?
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May 31, 2014 02:16
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Fried Chicken posted:From personal experience, yes, people can absolutely gently caress up that equipment with dangerous results, both for people and national security. The system is over engineered to hell and back to prevent breakdown or damage, but taking the wrong actions can cause disasters. Not to nitpick, but two people dying on the job over the course of a decade isn't a lot considering the populations of our floating cities and fleets of nuclear powered boats.
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Jun 3, 2014 02:54
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Kalman posted:Then your data completely contradicts the data I've seen, unless the vast majority of pension funds go to the top 20% (possible, I suppose.) Don't quote, or worse, allude; just link the studies.
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Jun 3, 2014 18:56
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Mo_Steel posted:There's a reason "Rich man's war, poor man's fight" became a saying back in the Civil War, and it poses an interesting question:
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edit: beaten by someone more eloquent.
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