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NYT story on how urban America is sending insane numbers of people to prison for insane amounts of time. Apparently Dearborn, Indiana has an incarceration rate of ~10%.
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Chokes McGee posted:This may be a dumb question, but is Jill Stein even left? Literally the only thing I've seen her advocate are anti-vax and being a moron in politics. The green party actually has a ton of leftist stuff in their platform. The problem is that there is also a bunch of  stuff in there, just like every other fringe party. That, and Jill Stein being a pretty awful candidate (though better Cynthia McKinney!).Mr Jaunts posted:I was recently approached by a guy trying to collect signatures to get Stein on the ballot in November. He described her as, and I quote, "between the Democrats and the Libertarians." This is totally bonkers though. The Greens are pretty far from the libertarians by any reasonable metric.
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withak posted:Probably you have to make a 4D or 5D graph of political parties to draw this conclusion. Just a knight's move away on the 11D chessboard!
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puck puck goose posted:There's something I've been curious about : how does the right view Gary Johnson? Is he in the same sort of position that Jill Stein is with the left? Like, some of them agree with some of his views but brush him off as being too out there? My girlfriend's cousin is an ardent Trump supporter, and recently shared a video about Gary Johnson and wrote that quote:Gary Johnson supports mandatory government immunization, supports Black Lives Matter, supports TPP, wants to "Take our share of Syrian refugees", came into office of NM with $1.8 billion debt and left with $4.6 billion, and lastly gets angry when the interviewer doesn't say "undocumented worker" instead of what it really is "illegal alien" (yet calls Trump racist all the time). Doesn't sound Libertarian to me. So more like they brush Johnson off as not being out there enough.
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Scenario: Clinton has to drop out due to health, Kaine wins presidency, both Toxx threads get banned. What happens to D&D?
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Sep 12, 2016 01:28
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A lot of smaller or special interest subreddits can be pretty good (though there are lots of terrible small subreddits too). For politics, /r/politicaldiscussion tends to be pretty decent. For example, right now the top responses to the thread on the reddit email guy arequote:Why do people think the FBI didn't know about these posts? It's more or less common sense to google the aliases being used by someone. If these internet detectives could figure out his online handle, I'm pretty confident the FBI would have been able to figure it out as well. From there finding the reddit posts doesn't exactly take an ace investigator. and quote:I think I'm missing something here. Is the controversy that they wanted to replace the VIP's email address with something generic so people wouldn't know the specific address? If so, why is that a problem? It kinda seems like common sense. If not, then what's the controversy? Maybe it's not exactly top-tier analysis, but it is certainly much more level-headed than the rest of reddit. edit: beaten; jesus christ this thread moves fast
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Wait if this guy's handle is stonetear, does that mean Clinton is hiring Wheel of Time fans?
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Sep 21, 2016 07:37
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But what about the Front Page Discussion?
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Sep 21, 2016 08:58
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Re: Do The Right Thing chat, I've had a question about that movie for a while. I had a Black Studies professor in college mention the movie, and I talked to him about it after class, and as part of the discussion he asked me why I thought Radio Raheem died. I (an admittedly clueless white dude) said something about the fight at Sal's and the systemic racism of the police, and he told me that I needed to go watch the movie again. I did and I still don't get what he was after. What was I missing?
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Sep 23, 2016 08:11
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Do you think Kim Kardashian's Trump endorsement will be used to attack Kanye West when he runs for president in 2020?
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Sep 23, 2016 20:43
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Speaking of drinking, what is the official D&D drinking game for tonight?
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Sep 27, 2016 02:23
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Donald Trump posted:We have so many things that we have to do better, Lester, and certainly cyber is one of them. 
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Sep 28, 2016 01:20
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Re: Clinton calling Cuban a "real billionaire": Does anyone have pictures of Trump's car doors?
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Trilas posted:Reel Big Fish 2020 Finally a candidate who understands working in fast food all their life! But do you think America is ready to take on them?
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I never hear people talk about range voting (where you rate each candidate on a scale from 1-10), but I thought it got around all the Arrow's theorem issues nicely in a way that Single Transferable Vote doesn't. Is there some reason why range voting is actually bad? And are there any countries that have tried it?
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GalacticAcid posted:I was trying to think how to best encapsulate the disgusting mood and feel of public life then, and I came up with Toby Keith's album "Shock'n Y'all" While it's from his previous album, I'm just gonna go ahead and post the lyrics to Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue as evidence for how awful this sort of thing was: Toby Keith posted:[Verse 1] That was the #1 Billboard country song when it came out. A dark time indeed.
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Sep 30, 2016 06:28
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Can't decide if my favorite Bush administration scandal is John Ashcroft covering up The Spirit of Justice's boob or the sheer Orwellianism of Total Information Awareness.
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Covok posted:Out of curiosity, where does the term "aryzing" come from? Couldn't find it on urban dictionary. Then you should have checked SAclopedia!
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Sep 30, 2016 07:15
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Bip Roberts posted:To be fair twice. 1870 also. I think 1870 is the once because France was on the winning side in WWII. They just did their part through a badass insurgency.
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Hey so in 20 minutes when there's a new thread, can we get the corncob tweet and the definition of "Arzy" in the OP? Questions on those two things seem to come up every few pages.
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nine-gear crow posted:I was gonna say that "and even worse, knowing that both Captains Picard and Kirk would be on that list too if weren't legally prohibited from signing it", but I don't think anyone who would be getting pissed at that letter understands international electoral laws anyway. Wait, what legally prohibits them from signing it? Is Trek Against Trump considered a PAC or something?
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