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Let's try this again. This is the place to talk about politics and general news happening in the US. It is not for talking about the primaries. Maybe if Cosmo is nice, I can copy some stuff from their op later.
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Can I talk about who is legally allowed to be president?
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I'm reserving judgment until we can demonstrate that primary slap fights can actually stay out of this thread. I'm not yet convinced. That said, Police are pissed about Beyonce's Super Bowl show. There's another security breach of government employee personal information And as mentioned just before the thread was moved: The Chicago cop who shot the mentally ill teenager and unrelated grandma is suing the teen's estate for emotional damages.
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reposting in the hopes it can get more discussion, the US water system is in deep, poo poo with multiple cities having Flint-level badness in their pipes. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/us/regulatory-gaps-leave-unsafe-lead-levels-in-water-nationwide.html
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On the Chicago cop suing, is it possible for a judge to throw it out?
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Obama's new budget drops tomorrow, and he's got a neat idea for helping with unemployment. It's obvs DOA, but: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/16/fact-sheet-improving-economic-security-strengthening-and-modernizing
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quote:The group's president, Laramie County, Wyo., Sheriff Danny Glick, was happy that his fave team, the Denver Broncos and Peyton "The Sheriff" Manning won, but the group called on the NFL to choose less controversial half time entertainment in the future.
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Jesus Christ, what a bunch of whiny babies.
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EDIT: what the gently caress, I posted once and it disappeared, and now there's two of them
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:Jesus Christ, what a bunch of whiny babies. Turns out that people who have chosen a profession specifically because of the authority and respect it demands have a massive inferiority complex and small genitalia (probably).
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The real question remains: does an exceptionally thick batter qualify a food as a form of dumpling?
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Business Gorillas posted:Turns out that people who have chosen a profession specifically because of the authority and respect it demands have a massive inferiority complex and small genitalia (probably). Now now. I am sure their dick sizes aren't related.
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:The real question remains: does an exceptionally thick batter qualify a food as a form of dumpling?
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Cops are such babies.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:
gently caress this gay earth.
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i'm pretty sure there is a negative correlation between constantly offended by everything and the size of your dilz furthermore, in my psych 101 class,
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Business Gorillas posted:i'm pretty sure there is a negative correlation between constantly offended by everything and the size of your dilz I feel like there is almost certainly a master's thesis out there that talks about this.
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It may be a coincidence that the vast majority of people who take Viagra are Republicans, but it still makes me happy to think about it.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:url=http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35519757]The Chicago cop who shot the mentally ill teenager and unrelated grandma is suing the teen's estate for emotional damages.[/url] Please someone tell me there's no actual precedence for suits like this succeeding. Lie to me if you have to.
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Radbot posted:It may be a coincidence that the vast majority of people who take Viagra are Republicans, but it still makes me happy to think about it. Well, they are old white men,
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Zombie Samurai posted:Please someone tell me there's no actual precedence for suits like this succeeding.
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Zombie Samurai posted:Please someone tell me there's no actual precedence for suits like this succeeding. Don't look up what happened to the cop who pepper sprayed all those students because they were doing a sit in.
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Zombie Samurai posted:Please someone tell me there's no actual precedence for suits like this succeeding. The judge will toss it, he's just trying to bully the family and get his story out.
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axeil posted:reposting in the hopes it can get more discussion, the US water system is in deep, poo poo with multiple cities having Flint-level badness in their pipes. Obviously we need to privatize the entire water infrastructure of the nation. Duh. In fact just privatize every single infrastructure in the nation. For reals though my dad works for a water company and yeah, we're turbo-hosed as a nation. Infrastructure spending has been 'cutting the fat' in the name of fiscal austerity for so long we're long, long past muscle or bone to continue the metaphor. His explanation was that budgets are so tight that it's basically devolving into the same trap that quarterly capitalism falls into. Sure we can rip up and replace the lead pipes for this entire neighborhood, and let's say as an example it will cost 10 dollars for a system that would last ten years as the replacement, or 1 dollar per year. We don't though because if we ignore it as long as possible the cost is 0. Costing 0 is great, let's do that! When poo poo totally breaks and we're absolutely forced to do something with no other choice let's use this other, lovely patching technique that lasts two years and costs 3 dollars. Look at how much money we saved this year! After all 3 is less than 10! Then a decade from now when we've done that poo poo patch job five times we've ended up paying 15 dollars. Now do that at every step of the process, in every way for every piece of infrastructure. You're left with loving ancient pipes that are in complete poo poo condition with one-off patch jobs across the entire network and welp, we need to cut the budget again. How can we save money this year?
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Zombie Samurai posted:Please someone tell me there's no actual precedence for suits like this succeeding. Pepper spray cop. I read an article about the issue and it seems like a pretty standard countersuit to a civil claim, but also gently caress that cop
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I think what really depresses me is that it makes me think of that scene in Brazil where the government mistakenly kidnaps and tortures a man to death, and then quietly issues a refund to the widow for the charges incurred. Turns out the real world might not even be nice enough to do that.
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SumYungGui posted:Obviously we need to privatize the entire water infrastructure of the nation. Duh. In fact just privatize every single infrastructure in the nation. Incidentally, last week Chris Christie signed a law that eliminates the need for NJ towns to put the sale of water systems to a public vote, making it easier to do just that.
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Obama's new budget drops tomorrow, and he's got a neat idea for helping with unemployment. It's obvs DOA, but: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/16/fact-sheet-improving-economic-security-strengthening-and-modernizing Americaworks?
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Zombie Samurai posted:I think what really depresses me is that it makes me think of that scene in Brazil where the government mistakenly kidnaps and tortures a man to death, and then quietly issues a refund to the widow for the charges incurred. I found over the years that real life if often more comically evil/incompetent. Speaking of Brazil , the Zika virus. Obama is asking Congress for some money to fight it and stuff. I wonder what kind of excuses/sound bites the Congress will give Obama and his reasonable request because their playbook is always "anti Obama"
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SumYungGui posted:Obviously we need to privatize the entire water infrastructure of the nation. Duh. In fact just privatize every single infrastructure in the nation. America is still great and has every opportunity to remain great if we act now. But if we rebuff our legacy of the silent generation and fail to refresh our infrastructure the lesson the world will take from us for the rest of human history will be hubris in capitalism is the surest way to crumble an empire. If we wait until its causing us economic damage, systemically, it will be too late.
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This is incredibly stupid and hosed up.    "Hey, we're not racist! We're gonna protest this by turning our backs on this literally and metaphorically! You can't expect us to serve the community and criticize us at the same time!"Okay, so tell me what kind of reforms you're making to make sure your fellow officers aren't as discriminatory towards the black community to lessen persecution. Oh? You're not? You're just upset at being told you don't have carte blanche to poo poo on black people whenever you feel like it? Well then. e: Just to reiterate, police are  'ing over black people having the NERVE to tell them to stop killing black people indiscriminately.Yeah, gently caress the po-lice. Teriyaki Koinku fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Feb 8, 2016 |
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Apparently Rudy Giuliani stuck his head up for a second to whine about the same thing, and will be promptly ignored
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cops are authoritarian thugs and cop unions should be broken like a loving twig. all the cops involved in that story should be fired on the spot. gently caress em
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RuanGacho posted:America is still great and has every opportunity to remain great if we act now.
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icantfindaname posted:cops are authoritarian thugs and cop unions should be broken like a loving twig. all the cops involved in that story should be fired on the spot. gently caress em This but unironically
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I don't even understand the objection to the song unless they just don't want black women to better their condition in life. Oh.
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hobbesmaster posted:I don't even understand the objection to the song unless they just don't want black women to better their condition in life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOiE0LCu6J0
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FlamingLiberal posted:Apparently Rudy Giuliani stuck his head up for a second to whine about the same thing, and will be promptly ignored He saw his shadow, six more weeks of 9/11!
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