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Rhesus Pieces posted:Scott DesJarlais, the pro-life congressman who pressured his wife and mistress into having multiple abortions, has officially endorsed Trump. David Duke, too
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Harik posted:To put it bluntly, you're the idiot here. If he gets sick and has healthcare, he may go bankrupt but at least he will get the care he needs first. A bank isn't going to give you a 6 figure loan to pay off hospital fees and if he can't pay the hospital will kick him out unless there's an urgent life-threatening condition. Also he'll get out of debt much sooner if he only owes 30% or so of that six-figure bill.
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computer parts posted:Again, it's really strange that people focus on the insurance companies. I guess because that's who they deal with directly. It's not that strange when you consider sometimes insurance companies act like they're in the healthcare-prevention business
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The Crotch posted:... how did that come to be the case? If it takes a census to change things, and things are hosed and Bad, did things get hosed with the last census? If so, can you actually rely on the next census to unfuck things? If not, then by what mechanism cometh the loving? If the next census has any chance to unfuck our gerrymandered states, rest assured Republicans will do what they can to cripple the census process. This also goes for some Dems who could get ruined by redistricting.
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Fojar38 posted:So at this point Hillary Clinton is virtually guaranteed the Presidency so long as she doesn't literally die before the election Two scenarios for you: 1) El Cid 2) Weekend At Bernie's
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Taerkar posted:drat, I didn't think he was that evil! He's also extremely hawkish edit: redundant post, a billion people already pointed this out on the last page Filthy Hans fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Mar 24, 2016 |
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Mar 24, 2016 20:09
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:It's hard to know without being there but I'm not sure I buy that this was race-based discrimination. Feel the same way about the squarespace post. It relies on the argument that others weren't drinking and weren't being forced out of the bar, which is hard to substantiate simply because those others didn't have drinks in their hands at the exact time the lawyers were kicked out, I'm inclined to believe them however when they were the only blacks and were specifically targeted
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Mar 24, 2016 20:16
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McDowell posted:In a completely individualist / Thatcherite world everyone is a minority in themselves - they want to be self-defined and completely autonomous. In truth are all bound to this earth and each other - this time and place - the ultimate 'thing' that is creation, the cosmos. We seem to create hell for ourselves - why? It is the folly of man. In his essay The Myth of Sisyphus Camus tells us that we must learn to love our personal hells to liberate ourselves. Embrace the Trump and achieve self-actualization.
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Mar 25, 2016 03:26
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:I'm not sure that I follow your logic, in that regular crashes in the real estate market coupled with stagnating wages is solved by reducing property taxes on someone that, again, owns an asset valued in the hundreds of thousands. The problem isn't that the house value goes up and the owner can't afford the taxes, but rather when the bubble bursts and the house value plummets. The owner will still be paying higher taxes and won't be able to sell his house at a worthwhile price because the market is depressed at that time (other middle-class homeowners are in the same boat). Combine higher property taxes, lower wages and no buyers for the house and you get people being ruined by their property taxes. Also, "taking pity on poor owners of land in a major city" is not bullshit like you think it is because when homeowners get no relief their houses go for pennies on the dollar to the wealthy, and then those former homeowners will become permanent renters which is terrible for the middle class, the economy and everyone other than the slumlords writ large who own the land.
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Mar 25, 2016 08:31
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Mrit posted:Except property taxes get reassessed every year. True, but that process can be difficult for a couple of reasons, one of which is that if no houses sell in your neighborhood its hard to prove how much value your home has lost, another is if your local gov't is more concerned about maintaining tax revenue than being fair to homeowners. Even 6 months of paying overly high taxes on a freshly reduced income can devastate people.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:Except that in the real world you can typically apply for a hardship deferral or other temporary relief in a situation like that, depending on your local laws (assuming that you aren't just assessed annually). Or, since you're a responsible homeowner, you can walk over to the nearest bank and leverage the equity in your home to cover you during this dire situation of not being able to afford that property tax that might cost as much as a week's groceries for your household each month. In some places (like NJ where I used to live) you can end up paying well over a grand per month in taxes on a starter home. Apart from that I must admit you know more about this stuff than I do so I'll shut up now.
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Mar 25, 2016 08:52
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Trevor Hale posted:Didn't all the SuperPACs start donating to the also-rans? Weren't they propping up lovely candidates just to keep them around? I remember reading in D&D that Republican candidates donated to Fiorina to keep her in the race in order to attack Clinton; Fiorina had almost no fundraising on her own. When she started to poll too well for comfort the other candidates stopped funding her. I have no idea if this is actually true, but the unexplained half mil donation fits that narrative.
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Mar 25, 2016 21:46
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Aerox posted:If it came out that the Carly payout was in fact related to an affair, that would also be a flagrant violation of the whole "candidates can't coordinate with Super PACs" law, right? No, it's only a violation if you communicate with a SuperPAC supporting you http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/11/02/how_candidates_and_their_super_pacs_coordinate_through_the_media.html
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Mar 25, 2016 21:48
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DeathSandwich posted:That's the point we're getting at. The thing people are working toward after the NE story dropped is that the Ted Cruz' Keep The Promise SuperPac paid $500,000 to Fiorina's campaign at Cruz's behest. It would be insanely hard to get a "non-coordinating" SuperPAC to pay out your dirty hush money if it came through public "non-cooperation" channels that the candidates regularly use. Oh I see what you mean now, the violation was between Cruz and Keep The Promise
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Popular Thug Drink posted:gondolas only really make sense where you have a lot of significant elevation changes, because the downside of a gondola is that it's really low throughput (only so many people can fit in those cars) and imagine being stuck in one of those when the system breaks. now imagine you're stuck in there with a drunk bum On the plus side, low gondolas are less susceptible to hot-dogging fighter jock impacts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_(1998)
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