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Shouldn't that be Arboriculture Height Enthusiast, not Horticulture? Horticulture is stuff like flowers and herbs.
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Chadderbox posted:I just read Nixonland (and wasn't old enough to watch the events described firsthand) last summer so watching all of this happen is simultaneously fascinating, horrifying, and disappointing. It's morbidly amusing (not being stuck in America might help here) that the Ferguson unrest has nothing on the 1960s but the conservative reaction to it is and will be just as hysteric as it was back then. Additionally you are going to be completely lacking any members of the political class even trying their hand at a rational approach into the matter. Reading Nixonland the greatest surprise was probably reading all these liberal politicians actually having sober opinions on the unrest and trying to pivot it into a discussion on racism and poverty.
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Nov 26, 2014 09:19
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computer parts posted:It's fairly similar in intensity to 1940s race riots, however. Ah, yeah, stuff like the Zoot Suit Riots is oft forgotten. I only learned about them reading The Good War and that was a few months ago!
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Nov 26, 2014 23:27
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That sounds like a good way to approach the general, but he needs to survive the primary first, and you ain't gonna get there with some fancy liberal hydrogen fuel cells instead of God's own gasoline.
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Fulchrum posted:They know they're losing the demographics war, and their base has made it clear being less hateful is not an option, so they need a new crop of single issue morons like the gun crowd, who can be counted on to always pull the lever and ignore facts. Anti-vaxxers fit that to a tee. I suspect the HPV vaccine might have something to do with this too. Opposing HPV vaccines is a standard Republican position at this point and if you believe parents should be able to prevent their daughter from having an HPV vaccination, then it follows that they should be able to prevent other vaccinations as well. It's a whole knot of issues, of course.
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Feb 3, 2015 22:49
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Joementum posted:She will need to file Form 2 with the FEC in the next 15 days or someone will be able to file a complaint with the FEC. This is a goldmine: http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/160/15031401160/15031401160.pdf http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/954/15031401954/15031401954.pdf http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/365/12030751365/12030751365.pdf Sulphagnist fucked around with this message at 13:14 on Apr 4, 2015 |
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I at least am not chuckling at the legal implications here (I doubt there are any), but the nativist primary thunderdome implications.
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Apr 6, 2015 13:10
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Venom Snake posted:Tbf most people learn to speak english so they can better enjoy English/American media. Really it's the other way around, English-speaking media is so ubiquitous that if you are under 30 and haven't picked up English, something's weird with you or your upbringing. Or you only ever watched dubbed movies as a kid and always played video games with localization on.
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Apr 26, 2015 21:05
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vintagepurple posted:Or aren't from the developed world. It was in the context of consuming English-speaking media, but you're not wrong of course.
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GalacticAcid posted:https://twitter.com/subverzo/status/604368035017838593 Unfortunately this seems far more plausible.
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May 29, 2015 20:46
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Gravel Gravy posted:If Presidents' spouses wanted protection they ought to be able to bootstrap themselves into Presidential office to receive it. Did she ever even receive protection independently as a spouse? Does the SS detail extend to immediate family as well? Because now that she's running she's eligible for protection in her own right anyway.
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Jun 9, 2015 16:41
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Concerned Citizen posted:I'm not really convinced that online voting can't be done securely and safely. As far as secrecy goes, sure - but mail ballots already have that issue, and the trade off has been more than worth it. As far as security, you could for example require people to have a unique code mailed to them at every election combined with other personal information. It would then be very difficult to take one vote, much less multiple votes. Because you record vote totals, who voted, and how many votes each candidate received separately, it would be virtually impossible to modify the totals without it being immediately detectable. Online voting may not be conceptually problematic but imagine a company like Diebold running the online election. It's a pipe dream to get it implemented in a way that is as tamper-proof, reliable and cost-effective as paper ballots. Yes, voting machines are basically the worst of both worlds. It's not even a matter of whether you genuinely think an election will be stolen or not - elections rely on their perceived legitimacy as well.
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Jun 14, 2015 18:13
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thrawn527 posted:Don't you go ruin my fun day by making him winning some sort of outside possibility. Not today... Ronald Reagan had done a few other things besides act with a chimpanzee by 1980. We're still far far away from Donaldtopia. And beaten like Ronnie in the 1976 convention
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Jun 16, 2015 20:56
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SniHjen posted:Hold on, they are comparing him to Olof loving Palme, One of swedens 'national heroes' for a lack of better term? The issue as I see it is that Bernie isn't really a socialist unless he actually campaigns on nationalizing the means of production or whatnot. Him taking up the badge of "socialist" as one of honor is something I applaud but he's obviously a social democrat in the Scandinavian vein, not a socialist. Since social democracy is a foreign term in American political language, socialist works just as well because he's going to be accused of being one anyway. But if you're a hardcore socialist, this will tick you off. It's just your standard internecine claptrap.
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Jun 18, 2015 16:03
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Yeah. It's pretty much the "liberal" thing all over again.
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Jun 18, 2015 16:11
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I was going to say Bush Elder but I think he just coined it for electoral races.
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Jun 26, 2015 18:20
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Three Olives posted:He will pull out before he has to file an actual financial disclosure with the FEC but that is apparently after at least the first debate. And he'll be back on doing The Apprentice soon after that, too. Maybe after a mealy-mouthed statement that's an apology if you squint at it. His previous actions have made me completely cynical as to his motives and I refuse to believe he'll actually ride this train.
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Jun 29, 2015 20:36
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Joementum posted:And Kasich on July 21, but that's it. That's the field. I just figured out why Bob Ehrlich sounds like a political operator working for the Committee to Re-Elect the President.
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Jun 30, 2015 13:43
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No one who considers voting for Trump will give a crap about him not releasing his tax returns. It's another obstacle between him and the nomination but only one of very, very many.
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Jun 30, 2015 17:13
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EugeneJ posted:It would be interesting if the Bernie supporters collectively started a "Bernie or no one" campaign - threatening to not vote Dem if Bernie loses the primary. I wonder if the Democratic brass would abandon Hillary in that case. No, because they know that they would fall in line come November when faced with Scott Walker or *snicker* Donald Trump.
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Jul 9, 2015 22:06
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:no you cocksuckers dont do this to me While losing him from the debate will be a huge bummer, it will only shore up his anti-establishment credentials. It'll also delegitimize the debate for the red meat crowd, having a guy leading the polls excluded for what to them amounts to an arcane procedural detail. We might get a Trump-organized shadow debate with candidates pressured to join in!
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Jul 10, 2015 08:22
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Hollismason posted:I actually think Trump is a great because he's such a polarizing figure that regardless of the outcome maybe he'll encourage more people to come to vote. I don't know if having such a terrible candidate that people turn out in droves to make sure he's not elected is a viable long-term method to increase voter participation.
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Jul 10, 2015 16:36
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Joementum posted:Harry Reid was also there, as a Capitol Police officer. How the hell do you know this stuff. Or, alternatively, how do you remember it.
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Jul 11, 2015 13:56
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Joementum posted:Speaking of divination, IJReview hired a psychic to tell us what's going to happen. I'm struggling to decide which is more ridiculous, that Huckabee's the nominee, that Bernie'd be Hillary's VP or that Michigan will be a swing state.
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Jul 11, 2015 21:45
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Full Battle Rattle posted:"I thought a black guy did it." And someone in the audience laughed, loudly.
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Jul 11, 2015 23:38
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The style here kind of reminds me of someone who has been around telling this same story a lot of times. Like, he's founded some kind of "kick the Mexicans out" organization after his kid was killed and has been doing speeches in his town. Illegal immigration is the only way to rationalize what happened.
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Jul 11, 2015 23:41
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Is Bernie a legitimate candidate now that Trump is sniping at him too?
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Jul 11, 2015 23:45
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Serious question: who is actually the worst Secretary of State in US history? Kissinger?
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Jul 11, 2015 23:47
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I tuned out of the word salad for a moment and now he's talking about hostages in Iran. Is he having a stroke and mixed up Obama and Carter? Also, Benghazi.
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Jul 11, 2015 23:53
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:so what're we using for the quote of the day QOTD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMQYzKhsnGM
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Jul 11, 2015 23:57
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Iran and Iraq are going to merge? Tell me more, Donald, do tell me more.
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Jul 12, 2015 00:01
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I hope there will be a transcript somewhere so I can print it and save it for posterity
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Jul 12, 2015 00:02
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Brannock posted:I remember it jumping between Bachmann to Perry to Cain but I don't remember any of them ever working the crowd as hard as Trump did just now He really is the used car salesman turned politician. He knows what people want to hear and he's just giving it to them undiluted.
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Jul 12, 2015 00:28
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Dalael posted:That was great stand-up comedy. I have bad news.
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Jul 12, 2015 00:32
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McDowell posted:I think both Bernie and Trump represent a growing movement that has recognized the dysfunctional operation of our nation and the need for a constitutional convention. Lots of people are reluctant about such major reforms to the 'establishment' for many reasons - personal benefits, complacency, cynicism, discomfort, and so on. Except the 'movement' behind Trump thinks the problem is having the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Jul 12, 2015 13:05
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McDowell posted:The Convention would be a big public civics lesson - all the media coverage would actually have to explain how government works before the changes can be understood and voted on. There is a government operating right now, and this information is not reaching the public or the public is not willing to consume it. Why would a convention magically change cable news into PBS? Edit: If anything you'd need this sea change in the media to happen for a convention happen in the first place. Sulphagnist fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Jul 12, 2015 |
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Jul 12, 2015 15:37
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And this is why even if Trump got 40% of the delegates in crazy universe, the remaining 60% of the delegates would, after the first ballot, unite behind an establishment candidate like Jeb!.
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:
New thread title please.
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Jul 13, 2015 16:26
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DaveWoo posted:Honestly, a jump that dramatic makes me wonder about the reliability of the pollster more than anything else.  To be fair it does have a whiff of a pollster massaging data to not appear to be dramatically out of line with the latest hotness. But this would be the third poll putting Trump in double digits.
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Trabisnikof posted:I disagree and still think its better to entrust that decision to our elected civilian leaders rather than to the military. I don't think the military should be able to veto actions by the civilian commander and chief. That's how you end a democracy. They are, after all, only following orders.
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