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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


rudatron posted:

glad we get to live through page 69, 420, all the other good numbers again

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Apr 7, 2003


Business Gorillas posted:

I mean they're right insofar as you can't actively antagonize the largest voting demographic and actually need to appeal to them via economic justice

This is definitely what they didn't mean though, they're just gonna go harder on reaganism

White voters want a preferential place, inclusion and "reaching out to white voters" aren't compatible

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Apr 7, 2003


Pittsburgh

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Apr 7, 2003


I'm tryna dig up an atlantic article a few months back where they talked to pro-Brexit voters in Sunderland and Trump voters in Indiana and detailed the parallels and how "economic anxiety" and "immigration" are just a smokescreen for "we're mad we don't get a guaranteed first place at the table anymore" and "I'm scared we'll become a minority". Whites in both countries seem to feel that civil rights is a zero sum game and for others to gain, they must lose.

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Apr 7, 2003


Tight Booty Shorts posted:

What no it wouldn't be enough lol

You need someone who's authentic and wants to move away from "every dollar made goes to the top"

Otherwise we're gonna get another Trump every 8 years

Nah, it's about identity politics, most trump voters live comfortable enough lives.

Go find a Trump voter and offer him a receptive ear.

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Apr 7, 2003


euphronius posted:

Don't do this irl

It might be enlightening for some people here who keep insisting this is all about economic anxiety

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Apr 7, 2003


Serf posted:

i live around these people, and while every person is broken in their own way, i gotta say that the absolute biggest factor was "anyone but hillary". folks hate her with a passion. my grandpa hates donald trump but he absolutely loathes hillary clinton

Ah yeah, because she's "murdered hundreds of people since the nineties"

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Apr 7, 2003


Tight Booty Shorts posted:

Because she's not authentic and will never be seen as anything but trying to amass wealth and power for herself.

Massive thinking face emoji feat. Wiz Khalifa.ogg

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Apr 7, 2003


zegermans posted:

Coal miners should be out of work, their jobs poisons the entire country.

I grew up near this


Giant waste piles of coal and contaminated streams as far as the eye can see.

Find another fuckin job, any job, just not coal

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Coolguye posted:

it's pretty dumb to say that one election proves huge underlying cultural problems.


Laffo the gently caress do you mean one election, this is a direct repeat of 1980 in pretty much every way (but more worser)

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Apr 7, 2003


Coolguye posted:

this is a pretty hilarious misstatement of the situation if for no other reason than reagan won like 57% of the popular vote and almost 500 EVs - the centrists were with reagan. but even assuming it's everything you say it is you're still looking at two bad data points (one for his re-election as well), and no fewer than 8 otherwise reasonable data points afterward

In 1980, white Americans who were tired of the civil rights movements and identity politics of the 60s and 70s voted for a guy they saw act tough on television, because he promised that he would make everything better for them and that they wouldn't have to make any personal changes.

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Apr 7, 2003


Coolguye posted:

you're not even talking about what i'm talking about anymore, you're getting into the liberal revolution -> conservative counter-revolution cycle that's happened like a half-dozen times in american history and way more in modern european history. the centrists, overall, were with reagan and they gave him his mandate and the latitude he needed to do what it is he was after. whether you agree that mandate with that or not 35 years later is a completely separate matter and definitely not one i'm going to get conned into arguing or defending.

centrists are not with donny t. it takes only a glance at his record-low job approval ratings and turmoil in the government to tell you that. that's what an anomalous data point looks like.

D&D is over there

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Apr 7, 2003


BeOSPOS posted:

lol for real?

Yeah and it was GE lol

https://www.google.com/amp/s/commer.../?client=safari

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Apr 7, 2003


in my country we have problem

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Apr 7, 2003


ArmZ posted:

:lol:

Since taking office four weeks ago, Trump has made six trips to the golf course. Sensitive to charges of hypocrisy on this issue, the White House has maneuvered to minimize coverage of these outings and to downplay how much time the president spends on the links.

A White House spokeswoman told multiple reporters on Sunday that Trump had played just “a couple of holes.” Then his partner, Rory McIlroy, told a golfing publication that they’d done a full round of 18. And there were pictures. The spokeswoman then acknowledged that she had misinformed the press corps. Trump, she said, had “intended” to golf just a couple of holes.

Trump mistook 18 holes for 18 yo hole

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Apr 7, 2003


Inkel posted:

I'm pretty sure Ivanka is 35

Sad!

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Apr 7, 2003


Coolguye posted:

(i say this as someone who owns his own business)

*scott stapp voice* "I CREATED MY OWN BUSINESS!"

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Apr 7, 2003


prefect posted:

Dipping fries into your chili is even better.

Put your dick in the chili.

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Apr 7, 2003


Off to the Golden Arches now. I'm lovin' it.

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Apr 7, 2003


Squizzle posted:

the fineat cuisine pittsburgh can muster

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=gClOBDYC_oE

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Apr 7, 2003


mister magpie posted:

I live in a grand Mac test market ama

Did you know? The Big Mac was invented in a Pittsburgh suburb. You can go to the Big Mac Museum there!

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Apr 7, 2003


Gringostar posted:

one of my cats has a ton of problem solving skills

he can open doors that have handles, he figured out how to work the water dispenser on the fridge, and opens the sliding shower door

I got my cat a timed feeder and he tore the loving thing apart and ate everything inside it within three hours.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


There are 424 people in c-spam waiting for the sex page


Niceeee

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Apr 7, 2003


The sex number cometh

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Apr 7, 2003


Behold, the sex number.

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Apr 7, 2003


eonwe posted:

how the gently caress would that even work

"Placed in detention." You know. In detention camps. Possibly concentrated.

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Apr 7, 2003


Schnorkles posted:

I missed the sex number page!!! :mad:

Owned

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Apr 7, 2003



John Kasich is from Pittsburgh.

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Apr 7, 2003


Schnorkles posted:

There are parts of WV that have worse life expectancy than North Korea. I can't blame them for thinking that something has to change and that they've been left behind by a party touting economic recovery.

also they're now going to have it worse because they'll be poor AND there will be ~more~ lead in their water.

Feral urbans need to "show some personal responsibility," but I should be allowed to sit in my dead-rear end mill town with no prospects and have the government subsidize my lifestyle.

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Apr 7, 2003


Squizzle posted:

danf you got a consostwnt poating brand

Pittsburgh is real good. We have the tallest educational building in the US.

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Apr 7, 2003


robot roll call posted:

voted in a local primary for state superintendent

I was voter number 69

Dang! Nice

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Apr 7, 2003


FizFashizzle posted:

west virginina is incredibly depressing to drive through and I have no idea what you'd even do to help it.

Like it's the small poo poo you don't think of that really makes it different. the main thing that sticks out is the edges of all the roads were crumbling

there were no neat drains, or crisp edges outside town, or even smooth transitions to sidewalks in the populated areas.

just a cheap layer of uneven concrete that was slowly getting eaten away by the surrounding vegetation

Literally the only new construction in WV is casinos and strip clubs.

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Apr 7, 2003



Lol NC literally is run by boss Hogg

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Apr 7, 2003


Shugojin posted:

not actually how averages work, it's technically possible for one person to be so ridiculously smart (or dumb) that more than half ends up on the other side of the average

intelligence seems to be distributed evenly enough, at least according to our lovely measurements, that the mean and median are pretty much the same tho

Due to how intelligence actually works, we lose a lot of smart people to Kansas City or Patterson when they look around themselves and just decide to OD at 24

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Apr 7, 2003


Lastgirl posted:

Trump is their guiding light, it's time to take back the dick and make women beg for it instead, it's time for some vindication. We just haven't gotten to the Incel Saga arc on DBZ yet, we're still on Namek.

Make Namek great again

Ed Blue Balls

Lol

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Apr 7, 2003


and i must meme posted:

imo you could probably convince DJT to be a socialist if you talked to him for long enough

DJT's entire worldview is based around whatever makes the last person he talked to like him, so it wouldn't even take long.

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Apr 7, 2003


Fidel Castronaut posted:

I never teach before noon because I hate mornings. But for some reason I just woke up at five am. What the hell do people do at five am?

I'm teaching a guy in India how to do my job, so I have to wake up at 5:00 AM this week.

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Apr 7, 2003



"People who aren't exactly like me shouldn't have rights." - a reasonable, normal person.

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Apr 7, 2003


ArmZ posted:

good luck with your future job interviews

They fired a guy who made a lot of money, gave me his work, and want me to teach this guy in India my old work. He can have it.

If they decide to lay me off too, they can do that if they'd like. *fart*

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Apr 7, 2003


Lastgirl posted:

right but at the same time, democrats wanted to reach across the aisle for people like these?

Yep, the same people who threw a tantrum and didn't do their jobs for an entire year when it came time to nominate a new Supreme Court justice

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