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Pick posted:Obama ran on "hope" and "change" expecting to deliver neither, and delivering neither. He had no idea how anything worked. He was the pinnacle of the tech-bro era mindset, where it's about manipulating optics and not realizing that only works for so long. If he'd instituted or even pushed for a $20 minimum wage, Hillary would be president. Lol there's no loving way $20 minimum wage was going to happen. $15 is barely happening in TYOOL 2017 for fucks sake.
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Unless you live in the PNW where inflation got there first.
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Apr 18, 2017 20:56
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Or did you literally mean it would inflate extinct prehistoric elephants? Because yes please
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Apr 18, 2017 21:04
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...and the pitch! posted:Incorrect Probably true if you had it take effect immediately, but no one does that.
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Apr 18, 2017 21:22
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SickZip posted:so many things were possibly in 2008. it was the opportunity to rebuild things in ways that actually worked, to be radical and fix issues that could not be dealt with in normal times. if there was just a little bit of vision or will The ghosts of Joe Lieberman and his Blue Dog Bandits were still haunting Congress at that time so probably not.
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Apr 18, 2017 22:06
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Pick posted:What's the third most populous city in Syria How much of the almanac do I need to have memorized before I can be bothered that we routinely murder innocent people in needless wars and call it collateral damage?
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Apr 20, 2017 04:49
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spacetoaster posted:lol, this study says you're full of poo poo. "Later abortion recipients experienced logistical delays (e.g., difficulty finding a provider and raising funds for the procedure and travel costs), which compounded other delays in receiving care." IOW, these weren't necessarily late-term abortions by choice. E: the other factors mentioned (raising multiple children alone, depression, domestic abuse, or. It finding out about the pregnancy until later) are all part of larger societal issues that we should be dealing with anyway. It sounds like dealing with these underlying issues and maybe that would have an effect. christmas boots fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Apr 20, 2017 |
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Apr 20, 2017 15:55
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lorn Wayne posted:what a mook! She was a bubble boy!
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Apr 20, 2017 16:11
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IronClaymore posted:You guys all seem like you're voting for people on the basis of their personality, rather than policy. You choose people based on whether you "like" them. You had to conquer half the world to discover a seasoning other than salt. Your most popular show is about an ancient pedophile who cruises around time and space in a phone booth yelling at things until your FX budget runs out. And for the record, every adaptation of Sherlock Holmes is better when we do it and I'm counting Psych. You got your rear end kicked by a bunch of drunk rednecks who dressed up like Indians and if you spent half as much time thinking about your elections as you did getting conquered by medieval France, then maybe you wouldn't have exiled yourself from Europe and driven Scotland to considering yet another referendum to leave your rear end.
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Apr 20, 2017 21:20
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Whee, look at us; Every time Eastenders is over our electricity spikes so much for tea that we have a loving backup grid in France just in case.
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Apr 20, 2017 21:24
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IronClaymore posted:But you defeated them in that. Well that's one thing we never learned from you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Spanish_War_(1585%E2%80%931604) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Spanish_War_(1625%E2%80%931630) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Spanish_War_(1727%E2%80%931729) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Spanish_War_(1796%E2%80%931808) Is status quo ante bellum the national motto, or something?
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Apr 20, 2017 22:16
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JB50 posted:Remember like 6 months before the primaries everyone was sooooo loving certain it was going to be a Bush v Clinton election? I'll admit to this. I mean, I knew the Bush brand was trash but he seemed like the reasonable choice out of all the contenders. His campaign was the saddest thing I think I've ever seen in my life
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Apr 21, 2017 06:56
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I was laughing just typing this.
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I suppose you could just not comment on the sexuality of pregnant women? That seems to work out for me.
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Apr 21, 2017 18:57
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NomChompsky posted:Wowee that's an awfully poo poo understanding of history and things. You're right. The Basil Rathbone Holmes movies were pretty dope.
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Apr 21, 2017 19:26
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Why would you offer that, Bill?
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Apr 21, 2017 19:51
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Testikles posted:People will see those paragraphs and think, boy, he must really be smart about this. They'll skim to the end, think I'm right, and the rest of it was actually just me mashing my keyboard. Hey now, I got all the way to #4
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Apr 22, 2017 03:27
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Even Romney had some weirdly relatable moments, such as the time he ironed his shirt while wearing it as his wife looked on in horror.
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Apr 22, 2017 18:42
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Pick posted:*stands up on podium* you should work more!! This is one of the reasons I didn't vote for him, yeah
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Apr 22, 2017 18:46
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Has she actually done anything wrong that I should hate her for? Or should I just hate her because of her parents?
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Apr 24, 2017 04:32
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I also remember him clowning on Paul Ryan during their 2012 debate which definitely endeared me to him.
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Apr 25, 2017 18:42
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Chomp8645 posted:gently caress the Lesser Evil theory of voting and gently caress anyone who expects me to vote based on it. Realistically though we're never going to get away from it without getting rid of First Past the Post first. Which I'd love to do, quite honestly.
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Apr 26, 2017 19:14
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Yug posted:Why isn't there a shred of evidence that the raid happened at all? Also that flag should not be flowing like that if they're really in the vacuum of space.
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Apr 27, 2017 19:24
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Yug posted:"We totally got osama, threw him into the ocean though, no evidence but we promise" Did you quote me twice for effect or something?
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Apr 27, 2017 19:33
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Look, we all know that you're just going to move the goalposts anyway. Why even go through the song and dance?
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Apr 27, 2017 21:02
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Yug posted:How convenient then that most of those seals involved in the raid were reported as dead shortly after. Really gets that noggin thumpin. Careful. You blow that whistle too loud they might come after you next.
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Apr 27, 2017 21:09
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Kiryen posted:The problems with Trump's campaign were laid bare repeatedly while the election was going on. TIME published entire issues on the subject. Just getting him to stop tweeting bullshit for a few weeks was a colossal effort by his staff. The irony of the superdelegates is that they exist in order to prevent the selection of a candidate who is going to lose in a humiliating fashion, a la McGovern and 1980!Carter.
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Apr 29, 2017 16:57
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Who's ready for another game of Who Had It Worse? In this corner we have the Blacks. Enslaved by the white man and routinely killed by cops, they nevertheless have managed to carve out a place in society and are responsible for pretty much everything good about music in the last few h needs years. The opponent? The Polish-Italians! An ethnic double-whammy, both the polish and Italians faced discrimination early on in their American experience, though not literally bought and sold as a possession. Ultimately, they were both able to become white-losing their culture into the generic mishmash of white culture in America-the only vestiges of their former glory as a chef on a can of low level pasta, an Italian plumber of Japanese origin, the mystery of gabbagool, and season 2 of the Wire.
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bonerjam posted:they are incapable of acting rationally and i don't like the idea of a woman telling me what to do. You're definitely a woman by this definition
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Apr 29, 2017 19:53
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Groovelord Neato posted:in the strictest sense she's right that without comey and wikileaks she wins but that's like the pats losing to the jaguars and blaming it on the refs loving up a late call. it shouldn't have been close enough to matter. This. Trump's margin of victory wasn't really that much all things considered. If those things hadn't happened or if her campaign had made a single correct decision at any point in the process it's very possible that we'd be looking at a different outcome. It would still be pretty narrow, which is also insane but there you go.
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FPTP basically forces a "Lesser of Two Evils" approach though. To kill that approach we'd probably need to go to some kind of Instant runoff voting where you can rank your choices and your vote transfers accordingly, which I'll go on record as thinking is a good idea.
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May 2, 2017 22:50
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Blue Train posted:It was because of Joe Biden Didn't even know he was gay
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May 2, 2017 22:55
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I think Jill Stein is probably the Nader of this election.
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May 3, 2017 03:09
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I would say that he's very smart within his given context and skill set. Unfortunately he lacks an understanding of what he doesn't know, so he can't tell when he's stepped out of his element.
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basic hitler posted:I nearly forgot this story but you reminded me and i feel compelled yo share. My 15 year old self briefly set my steam handle to a jewish surname for steam/counter strike, to mess with some skinheads that kept popping in on my home server. The clan that ran it wouldnt ban them because they toed the line enough to not be outright racist in comms. I hated this so on top of the name change I would set my family bible on the computer desk and recite from the Torah. The bait worked and i got them banned by puppet mastering a very racist meltdown from someone. That weekend featured his aryan posse joining the server specifically to scream incoherent nazi bullshit in legit hate and anger towards me, and i changed it and dropped the act when someone with a security background actually doxxed me and began to harass me under the pretext of me being for real Jewish, even though the word got out it was just a troll. I got mailed a box of poo poo with the turds organized into a swastika. My parents filed a police report lol imagine pooping in a box, delicately arranging your turds into the form of a swastika in such a way that they will retain this configuration during transit, then paying postage on top of that, all because a fake jew read a book at you online lmao
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basic hitler posted:You can not work to fix a problem meaningfully if you are functioning as a part of the problem If we let the rich have all the money then we won't be corrupted by it.
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May 4, 2017 18:45
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Maya Fey posted:congratulations to the republicans on their impending 1,000-year reign Maybe. The Senate Republicans are already saying that they're just going to go write their own bill and ignore the House one, which means the house will probably have to vote again, and since the Senate is more Tuesday Group than Freedom Caucus the house will likely end up rejecting the new bill and congratulations we're back where we started. This whole shitshow pretty much guarantees a mass slaughter of Republicans at the midterms, so I'm excited to see how the Dems gently caress it up.
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May 5, 2017 00:29
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Prorat posted:A link to politico and snopes on the same page. Retardation at its finest. turn on your monitor
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May 5, 2017 08:53
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Yug posted:That would be excellent, I hope they consider something like that. Don't worry, Yug; when we finally get universal healthcare in this country, brain damage won't be considered a pre-existing condition.
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May 5, 2017 23:16
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I don't know how I feel about the Electoral College, but instant runoff voting would sure be swell.
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It's not like there aren't warring factions within the GOP either; they're just usually better about uniting when it counts. Of course that breaks down when they're the ones in power as we see.
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