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Combed Thunderclap posted:Another recommendation I recently read: $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing In America, by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer. Check out Ehrenreich's Economic Hardship Reporting Project. They've brought some really good pieces to fruition. It's directed by Alissa Quart, who reported this feature on 24 hour daycare for Pacific Standard a couple years ago.
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Times obituary for Dan Berrigan, a stalwart of the Jesuit left. RIP.
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I masturbate to Death Wish 3 and I vote.
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Mr. Fowl posted:And he answered with a smile that says, "Wouldn't you like to know, Larry?" Personally I don't think it would be appropriate for a sitting Supreme Court Justice to host such an event.
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The Obama Foundation will be based in Chicago so I'm thinking he'll spend a lot of time there.
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Boon posted:I think you mean 3 Presidents One's a tough dog to keep on the porch.
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Yeah it took me a while to give the Working Families Party a second look since I figured, based on the name, that their intentions were some kind of Holy Roller anti-gay thing.
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Ron Jeremy posted:It really bothers me that the yoda gangbang doesn't sync up. At least not on my awful app. Also, I kinda liked my AV. I've had it forever.. Hope this is a temporary gimmick and not a tax on shot posting It's an optical illusion. If you stare long enough you'll see that they're forever in sync.
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Yeah, see also the Tulsa Race Riot - notable for military fetishists as one of the first aerial assaults on US soil, when white people bombed the middle class black district from the air.
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May 4, 2016 01:42
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Smoothrich and Boosted, the sages of D&D.
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May 4, 2016 01:57
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Reading the first page of the primary thread is the funniest poo poo ever now. Someone suggested Fred Thompson as a potential candidate, 
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Taerkar posted:My main disappointment is that the lack of a brokered convention means that there's a chance the GOP Convention won't be a complete disaster. Let an orange reality television star yell incoherently.
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Oh man I missed this. In a tremendous victory for the GOP, an interesting protestor showed up at a Clinton event this week: Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship.
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blackguy32 posted:So one of my previous annoying as poo poo colleagues posted about how working class whites are flocking to Bernie and Trump because both parties have largely abandoned them. And while I do know the very strong history of how many white working class people don't mind making GBS threads on minorities if it makes their lives the least bit better, I am sure that it goes deeper than that. What exactly would you like to learn about working class whites, that fascinating sub-genus that I have read about in The Economist?
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Has anyone done the legwork to see how many governor's mansions are up for grabs this cycle? I could maybe put a thread together this weekend if not, don't have time during the week.
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Thanks, appreciate it. Probably not enough action to warrant a separate thread.
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May 4, 2016 19:49
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Snowman Crossing posted:Mass transit is so gross Sprawl resident spotted.
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May 4, 2016 20:14
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The Guardian has a big, sad article on America's Trailer Parks and the moneypeople who profit handsomely from them. TLDR; people living in mobile homes have very little protection from landowners.
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Torpor posted:But Trump is a Republican left-wing socially liberal populist vulgarian. Hillary has never faced such a creature! She has not faced a candidate resembling Trump, that is true.
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May 5, 2016 03:57
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He is by far the worst major party candidate in history. The Democratic equivalent would be, like, nominating Sean Penn.
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May 5, 2016 06:30
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I'm against legitimate vape, but some of the charges are absurd.
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Liberal_L33t posted:For real though, you've got to admit that most social progress in the United States was a result of being pressured into it or forced into it by a strata of society that could be referred to as "the rich". Hilarious username - post combination. And no, no one has to admit something that's palpably incorrect.
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Mike the TV posted:The best part about presidential elections is watching the 18-22 year olds cry like babies about how the whole process is unfair. Babby's first election, etc. I'm just smirking irl about the thought of these little twerps sitting in fetal positions about how they were this close to changing America to the way they think it should be. Shot: sagging flesh, divorce, receding hairline. Chaser: sad kids who aren't as coyly cynical as me.
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I'm very envious of France's national model of education. States Rights are bad for education, as for everything else.
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May 5, 2016 23:05
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:pretty sure even if you discounted them, union deaths alone would still be more than enough to qualify In raw number more American soldiers died in combat in WWII than Union soldiers killed in the Civil War. But still, it's not even close something like 2% of the US population died as a direct result of the Civil War lol.
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Talmonis posted:Eeeeh. A drawdown of size and the return of overseas bases to their native countries would be good, but Russia and China are far too big of assholes to be left unchecked. We're assholes who piss around in the middle east. They annex neighbors when their poll numbers slump. We're also assholes who mess around with permanent bases in Asia (Okinawa, ROK) and who mess around in Eastern Europe by pushing NATO expansion closer and closer to Russia's borders. I'm no fan of Putin or the CCP but pretending that they aren't acting according to rational geopolitics just obscures reality.
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The Larch posted:Clearly the rational response to bordering nations considering joining NATO is to invade the ones that haven't. Yes, that is true.
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The Larch posted:Only if your goal is to convince them to join NATO. Maybe. Keith Gessen's reporting has shaped my thinking on Ukraine and Russia, here's three articles I found enlightening. Don't have time to summarize as I'm at work, but: What if Putin Were Nice? at Politico. Western Journalists in Ukraine in N+1 (issue 24 had an excellent series of articles from all sides of the Ukrainian conflict). Why Not Kill Them All? in the London Review of Books. Putin should not have invaded Ukraine obviously but it fit well within the dominant schema of Russian geopolitical thinking that has animated their foreign relations at least since Stolypin.
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Domino Theory 2: Putin Buggaloo
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They're inspired by the crushing success of the LYIN' TED epithet. "Dangerous Donald" has Mark Penn all over it.
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May 6, 2016 21:39
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Mark Penn isn't part of the campaign team. I'm aware. It still sounds like something his dumb loving rear end would say and it's not like he's no longer in the Clinton orbit.
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DemeaninDemon posted:
It's the same strategy LBJ used in 1964 which worked out pretty well. MAKE SOCIETY GREAT AGAIN.
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May 6, 2016 22:48
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Hillary's trying to get votes instead of saying exactly what I want her to say.
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It says Bush 1, and he registered in 2011, so no.
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Oakland Martini posted:A little off topic but I had to post this one: Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight. This happened to an acquaintance of mine yesterday. Amazing he was so calm about it, I would be royally pissed off. To be fair Ivy League economists have done more damage to the United States than any terrorist organization.
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I missed this a couple weeks ago, but In These Times published an article about the terrible working conditions at recycling yards. Strong combination of data and illustrative anecdotes. It's a depressing read. 
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If an immigrant or refugee successfully committed a terror attack it would help Trump but not enough to change anything.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:Alabama Inmates on Strike, Say They Will "No Longer Contribute to Our Own Oppression" Jesus. See also, "The Great American Chain Gang,", an in-depth report on American penal labor from The American Prospect. It's about two years old but, since nothing ever improves or matters, still equally relevant.
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