Axetrain posted:Trump looked really good yesterday, He was briefly calm and subdued before again embracing the behavior of a mentally disabled pathological liar. He didn't even drop trou on stage and poo poo all over the place. If that's not presidential material what is huh? Kilroy posted:But to suggest atheism requires faith, as you have, or to say "agnosticism is the most intellectually honest position" is in fact intellectually dishonest as hell. I can think up any number of far-fetched schemes to get the universe into the state it is in today, including "the universe popped into existence in this state five seconds ago for no reason" and we could all try to measure how full of poo poo that is - but to insist that in the case of a divine creator we must withhold judgement because it could be true, guys, you just don't know, okay? is putting that particular belief above all the other evidence-free confabulations for no reason at all other than historical baggage, which is really unscientific. There's certainly more than one atheism out there.
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# ¿ Sep 1, 2016 08:59 |
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# ¿ May 15, 2024 21:17 |
Evil Fluffy posted:Deluded enough to think Trump was doing something other than scamming rubes.
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# ¿ Sep 2, 2016 00:09 |
readingatwork posted:Yes. They should take principled stands and stick by them. I don't see why this is unreasonable to expect. Are you replaced with a genetic clone of Bernie Sanders?
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# ¿ Sep 3, 2016 20:49 |
readingatwork posted:You make a speech stating that you're changing your position and then explain why as best you can. A lot of people have actually done just that on the LGBT issue and I respect the hell out of them for it. But seriously, though, how can you trust that they mean it? How do you know they're not just pandering - lying to you?
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# ¿ Sep 3, 2016 21:39 |
A big flaming stink posted:It's sort of awkward. Yes its pretty lovely that capital has gotten more and more entrenched as time goes by, but I think there is a tendency among leftist sorts to deny that the effects of capitalism can lead to any sort of benefit (I myself have fallen prey to this mindset)
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# ¿ Sep 3, 2016 22:48 |
Given that Citizens United was specifically created in response to plaintiffs who had made a movie personally insulting her, I do not think Hillary Clinton is fond of the decision. She is probably less violently angered by the principle of that decision than many leftists, but at a certain point I feel like judging someone by how incoherently furious they are about a law is not gonna get us a strong bench
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# ¿ Sep 3, 2016 23:01 |
Night10194 posted:It isn't just that each writer's voice influences the story, it's that each writer is also using the story of Jesus to try to reach out to a different audience, at a different time in history. St. Augustine posted:Often, a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances, … and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn.
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# ¿ Sep 3, 2016 23:04 |
Josef bugman posted:So, how the gently caress are people supposed to deal with the whole "end of work" thing? Like I have a BA and I know that isn't going to be good enough to get me a "fantastic" job anymore. I personally wouldn't mind having to work less and less, but with less money being around for workers, and more being focussed in capital doesn't this just end up with thousands not working "a job" but working different ones in order to keep themselves afloat? What will probably eventually happen is some kind of grudging expansion of a GMI program of some kind, which will probably prevent an actual rising.
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2016 21:36 |
I expect the first debate will go semi-sanely and in the second one Trump will lose his temper. Alternately, he will just constantly interrupt Hillary, which will piss off white women. GG.
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2016 06:43 |
Chuu posted:It's hard to tell from your post; but the current model is that you won't own an autonomous car. They'll be owned by companies like Uber and Google (and Ford? They want in) and you'll exclusively be using an app like Uber to interact with them.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2016 02:32 |
Petr posted:Pivot tomorrow, trump bump narrative starts a week from now, wikileaks bombshell in four weeks, Trump overtakes Clinton in the popular vote in five weeks, ekes out electoral college superiority 8.5 weeks from now, and wins the presidency two days before being convicted of rape and fraud.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2016 06:41 |
straight up brolic posted:There doesn't need to be an ultimate moral lesson to find the irony in the primary choice vs. reality a bit unsettling and frustrating.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2016 22:30 |
straight up brolic posted:I literally just posted that. That's +39 in her own party (which is not good). Obama was +45 with the entire electorate
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2016 23:05 |
Majorian posted:My feelings exactly. Clinton's probably going to win this thing, and as a former Sanders supporter myself, I think she probably is running a more competent general election campaign than Bernie would have. But dear God, has she inflicted some incredibly unnecessary wounds upon herself. It really feels like she's coasting into November, and that's something that she can't do. Even if she manages to eke out a victory that way, it's going to be a much narrower victory than it should be against Donald freaking Trump, and she's going to have a much smaller majority in the Senate to work with (if any at all). I honestly don't know how somebody as brilliant and qualified as she is could be making so many rookie mistakes.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2016 23:44 |
Paradoxish posted:It's diplomatic brownie points at best, which is what I was trying to get at on the last page. A first use of nuclear weapons has no practical strategic value, so if it comes down to a madman with his finger on the button then we're well past the point where policy matters anyway. This is also why it doesn't matter as a deterrent. There's no predictable situation where we'd want to do it, so how can any other state factor it into their decision making process? The only reasonable position is to assume that the US will never use nuclear weapons in an offensive capacity.
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2016 08:34 |
The Iron Rose posted:That was the argument I was making, though I'm pretty sure I lost that one You also have the issue where we seem to be both getting greedy and wasteful, which conceals a lot of the positive effects our military presence has on the global situation. For instance you mention how thanks, primarily, to the US Navy, there really is not piracy on a global level at the moment, which has not always historically been the case. People aren't aware of that, they're aware of the however-many aircraft carriers and the stupid-rear end plane which is getting trillions of dollars while the roads and bridges rot, the young people are unemployed and indebted, and there is very little indication that the people supporting the military have any interest in rectifying this. It seems more plausible that the military will be turned on the starving and unemployed when eventually they rise up, and that kind of trumps any abstract benefits about open shipping lanes for the people who are paying the bills on the system. There is also the question of: OK: so, the nuclear deterrent, the Navy, and a few other things accomplish positive goals for the world. Why are we spending our money on other things? Granted that we would want to maintain our edge; how does the F-35 maintain that edge? This is the rot of empire. Probably you're in no position to do much about it, and none of us are, but that's where this pressure on the left is coming from.
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2016 09:09 |
The grotesque thing to me isn't so much that they're grilling it's that it seems like Donald Trump just keeps on getting a pass for all this bullshit. It's like the reductio ad absurdium for "it's OK if you're a Republican." The Republicans could run a literal yellow dog and they'd get treated with deference and respect. But I guess that's what all that liberal media yelling was for, to accomplish this goal.
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# ¿ Sep 7, 2016 22:49 |
DemeaninDemon posted:Ahahahahahaha how low will his women polls go?
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2016 02:02 |
Dr.Zeppelin posted:Hillary ran ads of terrible Trump soundbytes basically unopposed during the Olympics and Trump cut her lead in half. Why should I be confident at all that people are going to respond positively to a different set of them? Trump has been completely normalized by the media and no one gives a poo poo about anything that he says anymore, and Hillary flooding the airwaves with it might just make annoyed people vote against her out of spite. e: Also man if they nearly walked out of THIS, does that mean Trump might storm off mid debate in another one? I mean I'm sure the NYT will suck his dick for being so brave as to do so. Nessus fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Sep 8, 2016 |
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2016 04:34 |
They might also be realizing that Trump is a slightly less X-rated version of Todd from Achewood.
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2016 04:41 |
Moatman posted:There's even less mention of Putin in the new version!
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2016 04:49 |
SpaceDrake posted:My one takeaway is that I still can't believe just how openly a Russian Fifth Columnist Trump is.
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2016 05:56 |
ImpAtom posted:It is really, really, really loving absurd that Trump makes campaign-destroying gaffs on a weekly basis and it isn't a thing. Romney's 47% comment was arguably one of the most damaging things to his campaign and Trump said three worse things than that in a single interview.
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2016 06:02 |
Tiny Brontosaurus posted:I had sudden flashbacks to a cooking class where some lady got mad at the instructions to "apply liberally" the marinade. She was like a human email forward. And now I'm again grateful that my elderly relatives' Re: Re: FWD: FWD: FWD: work is mostly in the "A conservative did a thing" field and I rarely have to hear about Hillary's coughing being because her human mask was chafing against her scaly lizard people skin.
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2016 06:10 |
SpaceDrake posted:The thing that gets me, though, is that he's cozying up to a Russian dictator.
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2016 06:28 |
The Shortest Path posted:It gives even more credence to the "Trump was a Hillary sockpuppet the whole time" theory, it's making all the idiot journalists look like total morons for doing this to the race.
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2016 10:32 |
FairGame posted:I don't see the issue with "having to see a few ads* when I read information," no.
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2016 21:26 |
Boxcar posted:No - that some of her supporters seem to love embracing a persecution myth on her behalf.
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2016 03:54 |
greatn posted:Well depends on the dead monkey. Harambe knows what he did Harambe is constitutionally ineligible anyway. However, a silverback over 35 could probably run. Whether or not this would be accepted by the courts depends entirely on if the gorilla was a Republican or not.
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2016 07:49 |
Jimbozig posted:That can't be true.
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2016 00:14 |
Brony Car posted:Reverend Ike, Secretary of the Treasury
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2016 01:14 |
Yinlock posted:I do love how this turns the Republicans' whole "PC Police!!" crusade against them, "political correctness" was actually their plausible deniability but whoops Trump smashed everything and now they don't really have a specific defense when Hillary calls them out on it.
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2016 07:58 |
Majorian posted:Attack your enemy's strengths, pin your shortcomings to them. That was the Rove playbook, and it's one of the few things that he actually got right. Yeah, except for #2 that sounds right
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2016 08:33 |
Trabisnikof posted:And this is why the "Bush is dumb" meme prevented the "Kerry is a pussy" meme from working! OneThousandMonkeys posted:I do get sick of the media narrative that Clinton has been biding her time and doing nothing in order to let Trump crucify himself. The "here is what the alt-right is" speech would be considered nuts in any other election.
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2016 08:43 |
The Republicans' problem here is that they can't alienate the racists too hard because while I think the actual hard-core for-real racists are maybe a quarter, or a third of their electorate, without them they are toast. The larger cloud of people with shithead opinions who are probably not actually ready to Hail Hydra and join the Trumpstaffel are probably already somewhat uncomfortable with how high the water temperature's gotten.
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2016 22:57 |
Epic High Five posted:Also, CNN went beyond idiotic and into Fox News territory the second that Trump started quarreling with Megyn Kelly and Fox News. They saw it was a gambit to go harder right in a less GOPe way to wedge off some of FNC's voter base and for awhile they were correct. Their ratings have been slipping tho so it looks like the novelty of a mistress has worn off for the FNC base
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2016 23:03 |
Radish posted:If Trump tweeted that the 911 victims were worthless losers that deserved to die the Republican platform would be digging up the bodies to pee on them by the afternoon. There's literally nothing he can do to alienate his base and the leadership will go along with it.
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2016 23:44 |
smg77 posted:I'm kind of worried this is going to be the case. As much as I've warmed up to T-Kaine he's just too nice to go after Pence in any meaningful way. Our only hope is that he ignores the debate questions and tells dad jokes and plays harmonica the whole time.
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# ¿ Sep 11, 2016 01:15 |
Yinlock posted:What happens when we become the ones who are like "I don't care what someone says on the astral mind-link, the hologrammaphone tells me everything I need to know"
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# ¿ Sep 11, 2016 01:55 |
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# ¿ May 15, 2024 21:17 |
Geoff Peterson posted:I'm curious as to what the press reaction will be once this does happen.
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# ¿ Sep 11, 2016 02:29 |