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a foolish pianist posted:It was the "re-arranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg" thing that was my favorite Colbert burn from that year. The best part about that "no matter what happened on Tuesday" line was that 9/11 happened on a Tuesday.
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FourLeaf posted:Wait why does everyone have star wars avatars Someone just being goony about things.
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May 1, 2016 21:13
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Unzip and Attack posted:Just watched the Wilmore set and holy poo poo I was laughing almost the whole time. I usually don't find Wilmore to be that funny because he always seems nervous on his how but he was really relaxed and didn't give a single gently caress that he was getting groans and boos. Mad respect for him. Yeah, he scorched the gently caress out of the press, which was funny as poo poo. My favorite line of his was kind of a throwaway when he's like "Who you killing tonight?" to Obama.
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May 1, 2016 21:50
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Quorum posted:Like Manhattan, DC is a city where you go to get ahead in life, though for DC it's politics and government consulting rather than finance. This means it's necessarily stuffed with narcissistic assholes eternally obsessed with their own success relative to that of everyone around them, as measured by the eternal First Question at every meeting: "what do you do, where do you work?" Some answers are more prestigious than others. poo poo, I imagine House of Cards hasn't helped mitigate that in the least. I recall Boiler Room being one of those situations where a lot of shitters identified with the bad guys. Probably the same with HoC where everyone thinks they're some ~triangulating mastermind~ like Frank Underwood and just glosses over the trail of corpses.
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May 2, 2016 13:52
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Inferior Third Season posted:Apparently douchey assholes with slicked back hair in expensive custom-tailored suits wasn't really a thing in Manhattan until everyone saw Wall Street and decided that Gordon Gecko should be emulated rather than despised. If your're serious, this reads pretty close to sarcasm. Not that I'd be surprised either way because art imitates life and all, but when I went to college there was a huge growth in those types and I wasn't even going to a school known for its business majors (it was well-known for being a big engineering school due to the large companies in the state needing aero and structural engineers and NASA needing nerds for space poo poo) but the influx of bros made a mess out of the greek orgs, IIRC one (possibly more) ended up getting shut down over hilariously stupid hazing antics like playing chicken with a pickup full of hogtied pledges. In short, my anecdote 
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May 2, 2016 14:57
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Turn back, thread, the month is far too young to catch gunchat cancer! In foreign policy news, the first US-based cruise ship in what, 57 years, has docked in Cuba. It's cool to see things opening up so quickly. There's a certain romanticism about Cuba's whole "time capsule" existence with all the old cars and old architecture that makes me really want to visit and watch a baseball game in a language I can't understand (or even speak - I can't do the trilled R thing) even if it's a completely unfounded imaginary image of the place.
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May 2, 2016 17:13
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Wasn't it around this time a few years ago that bin Laden's body was getting pushed into the water?
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May 4, 2016 02:14
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May 4, 2016 05:54
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:it would've been pretty good to see what trump did with Walker's "I created my bald spot by hitting my head on a cabinet corner" also his loving ham and cheese lunches I like that he grew up thinking TBI was just a bald spot on the brain.
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May 4, 2016 06:55
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TheOneOutside posted:And yet as terrible as Walker is, none of those things are going to be easily recalled by the electorate in four years, because all they'll remember is the trump rampage through everyone else. I somehow doubt even the Immortans and whoever elses pumping trump have $10 worth of conviction behind their gimmicks.
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May 4, 2016 07:00
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Radish posted:poo poo like this is why a lot of Blue Dogs are dying off. You can't hold the position that labor is great, except until minorities get any of it as easily anymore. These people are going to go Republican because loving over non-whites and keeping their societies insular is much more important to them than helping themselves. I can add a little more insight as someone who lives in Nebraska and has seen the type of opposition to packing plants and manufacturing facilities they put up out in the sticks. Yeah, it's 100% racism. While a lot of the people around here have gotten over most of their problems with Hispanics (well, pre-trump they did, though little shitheaps here and there tried forcing landlords to police immigration status, which they don't want to loving do since it's very good money to rent to immigrants - they pay in cash due to being un/under banked and typically will pay rent before anything else because of a lack of local family) the Somali/generally North/East African diaspora as of late has really bolstered the ranks of the indoor jobs previously dominated by Hispanic workers. Now Hispanic immigrants are "the good ones" due to predominant Christian religiousness and the African immigrants are the dirty outsiders because Islam. Which sucks because there's been a huge boost in really good food joints, artists, and generally really cool and good people from that immigrant community and this racist/religious Inquisition poo poo is scaring the hell out of some really great folks.
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May 4, 2016 16:01
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I'm still thinking Ben Sasse is going to be on a third party establishment ticket. Probably not as the presidential candidate due to a lack of national name recognition, but a comedically-named VP entry. It's pronounced "Sass" so no matter what, a ticket with him as VP is going to be all about someone's rear end.
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May 4, 2016 17:53
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cheerfullydrab posted:Best part of 2008 was the smug liberals going, "Pontius Pilate was a governor, Jesus was a community organizer." You don't see anyone worshipping Pilate anywhere, do you
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May 5, 2016 13:02
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May 5, 2016 23:23
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Epic High Five posted:Just nickname him Swiper so his followers have to explain to their kids why mommy and daddy love the person you hate so much I think that audience has always been Trump supporters even if it wasn't the GOP primary they voted in.
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May 6, 2016 02:58
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Syjefroi posted:That tweet is just as effective as Trump posting a picture with him holding a bagel from Dunkin Donuts on Passover and saying "I love Jews!" No one he needs to convert s going to be swayed by this bullshit. But he's gonna pivot any day now. He's gonna pivot and get that electoral couch up the stairs and he's gonna win all the CPVs in addition to the girl votes.
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May 6, 2016 03:08
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Epic High Five posted:So like, what's to prevent huge swaths of the south deciding to innovate and turn public schooling into taxpayer funded Bible study? Vouchers haven't caught on despite decades of trying, they aren't going to magically succeed after some arbitrary timeframe.
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May 6, 2016 03:14
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Kro-Bar posted:The silent majority supports Drumpf. Before it started being used as codetalk for shy racists it was codetalk for the war dead. Fits either way but we'll have to see whether this silent majority can make it to the polls this time.
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May 6, 2016 06:11
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McDowell posted:After a couple gets a marriage license they can then seek a reproduction license. This seems to be a rational solution to issues like abortion, adoption, and IVF access. Access to fertility medicine should be based on a couple's merits, not income. In this case the toughest thing would be to make infertility the default for people, assuming there wasn't just whole swathes of the country thumbing the scale when it came to the demographic breakdown of successful applicants versus denied applicants.
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May 6, 2016 12:51
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Luigi Thirty posted:Trump says that the solution to the national debt is to default and cut a deal so we don't pay 100 cents on the dollar which he could do because he makes deals for a living. quelle loving surprise
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May 6, 2016 13:07
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DemeaninDemon posted:Hopefully Texas turns itself into a failed poo poo state with refineries reclaimed by nature. They're getting a running start on this but I guess the refineries will have to come later. Kansas is definitely gunning for the Tajikistan medal though.
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May 6, 2016 14:00
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Kalman posted:"you're out of your loving element, Donny" USPOL May: You're Out Of Your loving Elephant, Donny
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May 7, 2016 06:38
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Taerkar posted:That is the pivot. True, and we all know what Axis he's pivoting around.
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May 7, 2016 23:42
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Xanderkish posted:And honestly, if anyone looked likely to have a heart attack, it's that doughy man. But the comedy central sitcom doctor said his health is yooge
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May 9, 2016 04:45
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Zeroisanumber posted:Stuck in an iron coffin and dumped into the sea for the crabs was better than he deserved but still gets points for expediency. Eh, it was probably a good diplomatic move given the Islamic views on burial, which IIRC are more or less "you have until tomorrow at sundown" or something similarly curt. Taking something out of the quivers of the terror propagandists who might venerate bin Laden is a legit good thing even if dragging him behind a truck to be torn apart by stray animals is more befitting a man of his stature.
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May 9, 2016 07:27
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The Republican primary electorate is exactly the same as the American general electorate and will vote accordingly, this has never been disproven by the likes of Sarah Palin or Todd Akin
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zoux posted:What happened? Having a plan doesn't preclude one from completely ignoring it.
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May 10, 2016 14:53
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Why do people fold up that ratchet-rear end flat pizza to begin with if there isn't a problem with it being wafer thin
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May 11, 2016 01:15
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Epic High Five posted:WV is going to be Wyoming: Appalachia Edition within a generation That'd be okay with me, I bet certain parts of that state are real pretty hiking.
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May 11, 2016 02:16
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How dare coastal liberals vote for shitbag republicans in rural districts. Just showing up and voting for these vultures, if it wasn't for the city-slicker liberals stuffing the ballot box the woods would thrum with leftist uprisings.
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Man anyone who thinks Reid is a wuss because of his style of speaking should take a look at his exploits before becoming a Senator. Dude talks like that because he knows motherfuckers are gonna god drat listen. E: it should just go without further elaboration that he was head of the NV gaming commission in the late 70s/early 80s. Remember watching Casino with your lovely Italian in-laws as a kid? Yeah, that's the poo poo he had to put up with. FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 02:44 on May 12, 2016 |
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May 12, 2016 02:40
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His Purple Majesty posted:If Bill Clinton was the "first" black president does this make Obama the first gay one? By the same metric, sure, but it's weird to see people still framing "gay" as a pejorative.
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May 13, 2016 14:05
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If it was anyone other than Andrew Sullivan on the author line there I'd have argued for that cover not really being an example of the anachronistic usage of gay as a slur. It doesn't portray Obama as anything other than dude with a rainbow halo. Then again it's Andrew Sullivan writing it.
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May 13, 2016 16:49
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WampaLord posted:You also can't tell a kiosk to go clean up the dining area, or to take over on the grill because the grill guy's on a smoke break, or to start taking drive through orders cause there's a huge line. Right, but you don't need to worry about paying a kiosk to sit idle when it's slow. If a kiosk does 75% of the job for 5% of the cost, you can have the bagboy or fry watcher or whatever other employees manage that other 25%. In a perfect world, the savings in not paying as much for labor would then be distributed somewhat as raises to compensate for the increased workload. In the current "is actually quite poo poo" world, most franchise slavers are going to run a bunch of kiosks and still demand extra work from their employees for the same starvation wages they paid before having them work more.
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Squalid posted:I'm sorry if this comes as a shock but you can't trust the 17-year-old working the register at Starbucks to tell you the difference between the French roast and the mid roast and if you think retailers will pass up the savings from automated checkout just so there's someone around to tell you how nutty the daily blend is, well, you may be surprised  you think starbucks has a roast setting other than plasma torched
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SubponticatePoster posted:Inspired by fastfoodchat (and laziness) I grabbed some mcD's. The kid taking my order needed about 5 tries to get it right, and said "what the gently caress" over the drive thru speaker while he was trying to fix it. Because I'm not a horrible person without a sense of humor I busted up laughing, he got the order fixed and I was on my way. Someone who lives to poo poo on other people would have had a field day. What kind of lovecraftian incantation were you feeding to the guy as an order?
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MC Nietzche posted:A few CVS's in downstate NY are taking them out actually. According to my old manager it was because when CVS did the math on their particular machine they vastly, vastly underestimated the cost of spot and routine maintenance and that apparently was enough to kill the savings from replacing the cashiers pretty quickly. In places like staten island or long island I imagine It's easy to underestimate how often some shitlord is going to knock one of those machines over in a fit of roid rage after his hair goop clogs the bill acceptor.
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A Man With A Plan posted:To be fair even among the very very richest that would be a tall order. Maybe like the Saudi king, but there's not much point in having 100 mil cash around. Yeah $100 mil is an unreasonable amount to leave as cash not likely to be earning interest or returns or anything. $20 million would be on the upper end of emergency type stuff with people waiting in the bank with pre-written wire instructions and whatnot. Most people with significant wealth under management will keep $2-3 million or less in a money market account which is used to maintain a (typically 5 figures, usually $25k) daily balance in a household checking account. The whole thing behind it is that liquidity doesn't have much of an upside past day to day poo poo. You need to buy a property, you will have some time to pay for it. Nobody is going to just leave tens of millions laying around in an account with like <1% yield on the off chance they want to buy the block. Maybe Trump is the kind of rear end in a top hat who considers that type of capability intrinsic to his self esteem but he's probably had plenty of people with more money than he point out how loving stupid it is not to just have it under some form of management as a hedge against inflation at the very least.
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Cythereal posted:He hasn't pissed off Asian-Americans yet, has he? He had a cringeworthy imitation of Chinese businesspeople going into his office and saying "WE WANT DEAL" It was basically a set of coke bottle glasses and buck teeth away from some 1930s racist poo poo.
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Radish posted:My establishment democrat friends are already arzying in real life about how Trump is going to somehow maybe win due to a combination of Trump picking up the dissatisfied working class people in Pennsylvania and Bernie making all the leftists hate her in the primary. It's already driving me crazy that I as the Bernie supporter have to explain to them that their candidate (and almost assuredly mine once the primary ends) is in a pretty solid position and stop freaking out . Yeah it's worth pointing out (from your position, that is) that the vast majority of Bernie primary voters are going to be Hillary voters in the general. The noisy minority who say they will just vote Trump aren't really lost votes (in the sense that they were ever going to be potential Hillary -or Bernie- votes in the general) and most of those will probably just succumb to apathy by November anyway given their reasons for supporting Bernie in the primary. It isn't so much that Bernie's a non-factor (despite not having an honest shot at winning he did a good job of raising awareness for populist issues which are probably going to play a big part in the party's platform dialogue moving forward) but that the primary split isn't nearly as rancorous as internet comment sections would suggest.
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