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Alpha Mayo posted:How the hell did Obama win by such a big margin in 2012? Was it just plain competency at getting out the vote? I feel like he should have faced the same struggles Hillary did, considering the economic reality at the time and disillusionment with him from the far left, but he didn't have any trouble at all. The first election after a massive economic crash caused by Wall Street, the Republicans ran a robotic Private Equity financier.  It was a tremendous self-own, much like running Hillary
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skasion posted:No, but in the 90s a highly respected political scientist and economist wrote a book about how the collapse of the USSR meant the eternal triumph of liberal-democratic capitalism and the end of history and major geopolitical change. Amazingly he is still a highly respected political scientist and economist. Your predictions can be utterly, disastrously wrong and you will never get in trouble as an economist. But say something bad about the banks, and suddenly you stop getting calls
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Apr 23, 2017 01:53
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Pick posted:economics is a poo poo tier fake propaganda "science" for most Pretty much any economist who wants a career needs to do a stint at the Federal Reserve or a similar org associated with them. What a surprise, after a decade or two suddenly there's a near consensus among leading American economists.
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Alienwarehouse posted:But enough about Paul Krugman. Krugman's descent into sycophantic madness during the election was just plain sad to watch during the election
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Apr 23, 2017 04:21
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Collective ownership via the stock market
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Apr 23, 2017 04:26
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Orkin Mang posted:the only form of comunism i care about is the one where im left to tear my cuticles off in peace Please don't, you are increasing your risk of fungal infections
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Mordor She Wrote posted:Because you're a white small penis haver and I'm making fun of you specifically? Actually average penis sizes are the same across races
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Apr 24, 2017 20:26
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Mordor She Wrote posted:Most gun nuts I've talked to talk about how they need their guns to shoot the globalists Obama squad coming to take their freedoms. That's why it's really satisfying when one of their kids accidentally blows off their own face/someone else's face. Hm yes I also feel satisfaction when an innocent child is killed. You seem like a pleasant and happy person
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Apr 24, 2017 20:47
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phasmid posted:http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/17/news/companies/expedia-chelsea-clinton-board-of-directors/ lol 90-100k a year just to show up to board meetings Noice
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Apr 24, 2017 21:30
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Toadvine posted:Recall last year, before the New Hampshire primaries, when Hillary sent Chelsea to NH to tell low and middle income voters that Bernie, the man who campaigned heavily on healthcare as a universal right, was gonna help republican governors take away Medicaid. To hell with the Clintons. Most boards are insanely bad at actual corporate governance, too.
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Apr 25, 2017 03:20
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Amarcarts posted:So what's the deal with Benghazi? People make a big fuss but has anyone actually articulated what Hillary personally did wrong? As far I can tell she didn't increase security after a request for more security, but that seems like more of an oversight rather than "treason", since the state department probably deals with thousands of different communications/requests on a daily basis. Probably the part where they built a secret CIA base there and used it to run arms deals to Libyan rebels. Oh and also the State Department intentionally ignored their own standards for diplomatic security in order to try and keep a lower profile.
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About 9:40 p.m. local time, large numbers of armed men shouting "Allāhu Akbar" (God is great) approached the compound from multiple directions.[72][77] They then threw grenades over the wall and entered the compound with automatic weapons fire, RPGs, and heavier weapons.[78][76] A Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agent viewed on the consulate's security cameras "a large number of men, armed men, flowing into the compound".[75] He hit the alarm and started shouting, "Attack! Attack!" over the loudspeaker.[79] Phone calls were made to the embassy in Tripoli, the Diplomatic Security Command Center in Washington, the February 17th Martyrs Brigade and a U.S. quick reaction force located at the annex compound a little more than a mile (1.6 km) away.[80][81] Ambassador Stevens telephoned Deputy Chief of Mission Gregory Hicks in Tripoli to tell him the consulate was under attack. Hicks did not recognize the phone number so he did not answer it, twice. On the third call Hicks answered the call.[82]
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SickZip posted:It's an insane bit of Washington kabuki theater revolving around the fact that 1) there was a cover up of legitimately damning events and 2) everyone investigating knows what was being covered up but doesn't want to uncover it since they approve of what was being covered up and are just using events for political gain Correct
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Apr 25, 2017 13:00
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Toadvine posted:I think my favorite thing about Hillary is her decades-spanning quest for power, amassing wealth and influence in all the networks that matter, hobbling every rival, having the media behemoth on her side and a hand-picked slimeball in the opposite corner, and she whiffs. Hard. Same. It's shaken the simplistic idea that media is just a way to turn money into power. It is, but it's still unreliable
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phasmid posted:gently caress the idiots who are too pussified to laugh at everything
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Apr 26, 2017 03:51
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Colonel Cancer posted:IDGI. Like half the countries worth mentioning had women leaders by now, why's US so special. Freaking India had a female PM in the early 80s... And she was a violent warmonger who massacred her own people In fact most female PMs have been warmongers or else just complete lunatics
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white_noise posted:-misrepresented his net worth while leveraging heavily You forgot "will be murdered by corrupt pedophilic elites"
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Apr 26, 2017 03:59
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white_noise posted:But does that speak more to the traits of women or more to what it takes for an outsider to gain authority in the western system? In what way was Hillary an outsider
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Colonel Cancer posted:In fact most political leaders have done lovely things, especially in conflict-torn countries. Conflict-torn hellholes such as the UK
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Colonel Cancer posted:I remember how Margaret Thatcher was a violent warmonger who massacred her own people and not a generic pro-corporate conservative that springs up whenever businesses get too involved in politics. Do you really not remember the Falklands or the miners strike
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Colonel Cancer posted:Having a minor war with a few hundreds of casualties or an unpleasant strike is the same as being a violent warmonger who massacres their own people? I can't believe I'm defending Margaret Thatcher on this but if you think she's somehow the devil incarnate and not just a symptom of a greater problem, just lol. If you want to see any real violent warmongers who massacres their own people, look just about anywhere in Eastern Europe, China or Africa. The massacre thing was about Indira Gandhi Also lol at this guy defending Margaret Thatcher "oh it was just a minor war"
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Apr 26, 2017 04:46
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Toadvine posted:Amusing ploy but wrong. She and Bill are entitled to secret service protection for life. They changed the law in 1994 to only provide protection for ten years post-presidency but Obama changed it back so all presidents get a lifetime detail. He already knew that none but Satan could claim him
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Apr 27, 2017 00:28
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Hemingway To Go! posted:Rlm has nothing to do with gamergate, Yug just came in and took a gamergate on the floor of the thread and then smeared gamergate on the wallls Ehat is rlm? Red lives matter?
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Mermaid Autopsy posted:Republicans started saying DemocRAT party just to be extra shady for no particular reason, much like "Obamacare" etc. etc. I thought it was demon-rat or else democrap
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May 1, 2017 13:45
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CharlestonJew posted:lol. yet months ago if you talked about how the primaries were rigged D&D superstars would come flooding out of the woodwork to call you a crazy crackpot conspiracy theorist Hell, the mods would do it, then lay down some lame burns after making sure you can't even reply
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Accretionist posted:They're so busy trying to play 11-th dimensional chess that they keep getting Fool's Mated. Playing 11 dimensional chess on a 2d board
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VikingSkull posted:is there a term above "lmfao"? I take absolute personal responsibility but Russia Comey Wikileaks
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Groovelord Neato posted:that's the nuttiest thing about us. you'll have conservatives crying about the commie dems when the democrats now are just 60s republicans (maybe even further right honestly). Yeah, more like 80s Republicans
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May 2, 2017 22:39
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nigga crab pollock posted:If anyone is a Nader now it's Hillary loving Clinton I hope Sanders runs against her and smokes her in the primaries, forcing the superdelegates to intervene, kicking off riots
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May 3, 2017 01:44
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Alienwarehouse posted:Jesus gently caress, this rivals Fox New in terms of deceit and repulsiveness. Clinton News Network indeed. Ironically Fox news is now the least lovely of te msm, which is pathetic and hilarious
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nigga crab pollock posted:CNN literally pulled Bernie loving Sanders himself off the air because he made a joke about Fake News Loll
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May 3, 2017 01:49
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nigga crab pollock posted:if only I had more time for the propaganda to work and held the election before everyone had figured out the breaking news was propaganda, I would have won If only my opponent had died of a massive coronary the day before the election, i would have won
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May 3, 2017 01:59
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VikingSkull posted:I wish a sasquatch ate her Hillary had the sasquatch captured and shot so she could try to appeal to the blue collar hunting set, before realizing that she had killed an endangered species. So they buried it in a shallow grave out ba k
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May 3, 2017 02:58
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Hillary Clinton is the Ted Cruz of the Democrats. What's that make tim kaine
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Blue Train posted:She should have told this story, every country boy can relate to accidentally hitting something when you're out poaching It was no accident. She lured the sasquatch in using their old friendship, then had her goons ziptie him so she could put one in the back of his head, execution style. The plan was for a big triumphal photo op
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May 3, 2017 03:08
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I think Hillary was probably the nadir of this election
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May 3, 2017 03:10
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MeatwadIsGod posted:"Obama boys" lmao Seriously, that exchange was the most horrible thing i have ever heard. If you had described it to me i would assume you were lying (and i don't even like Hillary)
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May 3, 2017 03:11
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VikingSkull posted:everyone forgets how Gary Johnson didn't know what Aleppo was and then had a number of run ins where he got legit unhinged at members of the press Trump is smart, savvy, and extremely calculating. He plays the fool well, but underestimate him at your own risk
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He's also surprisingly witty and vicious. He absolutely shredded the Republican candidates. Just clowned on them. And even in that press dinner, he held his own even when surrounded by enemies
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