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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Eyyyyy it's uspol, I needed another place to shitpost about politics that I barely understand and have only a fleeting connection to in my daily life.

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
this belongs here more than it belongs in trump thread


official ted cruz twitter liked a porno video on twitter

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Scent of Worf posted:

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/907390573941846016

MFA went from "pie in the sky" to a litmus test for Dems in just a few months thanks to leftists. Next up needs to be $15 Min Wage.

$18 imo let's just go for not being broke

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
gently caress stopping at the minimum wage, we need a maximum income limit too.

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

John Henry Miller posted:

gently caress a maximum income limit. Communists want a maximum wage so everyone can be equally poor.

Except for Party members, of course. Some people are more equal than others.

you're not even a funny gimmick, or clever, and you're super obvious

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Don't victim blame.

Do people who refuse to lock their doors deserve it? What was Equifax wearing at the time?

This doesn't work because a rape victim is not responsible for the personal data of 150+ million people, usually you're a lot better at this gimmick. Step it up man.

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Instead of teaching corporations how to protect themselves from hackers, we need to teach hackers not to hack.

Instead of teaching people not to respond to obvious trolls, we have to ban leon trotsky 2012

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

jimmy carter was a terrible president

Yeah, gently caress every good thing he ever did since then, gently caress him, I hope he rots in hell because he wasn't an extreme leftist when he was in office, gently caress him aaaaaaaaah what a loving piece of poo poo am I right my dude?

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Grognan posted:

you need more whippets

Um, this is always true.

I named myself this because my posts are kind of like a box of spent whippets. If you're looking through an old bunch of them, don't get your hopes up, it's never a good one.

I promise other people who do whippets will understand this joke.

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

No Butt Stuff posted:

Jason Stockley, the cop who said "we're gonna kill this motherfucker," had his partner ram and disable the man's car, then ran up and shot him 5 times and probably planted a gun in the car, was just declared not guilty in St Louis.


The National Guard is already there, but it would appear more are heading in soon. I still have friends that are in and there's some movement on the back end, because Greitens has a boner for activating the National Guard.

Good time to mention that ACAB, and also blue lives don't matter.

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

No Butt Stuff posted:

Protesters moving towards the highway.

they should move towards the police station, and burn it down, with all the cops in it

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Koalas March posted:

Was it unhelpful or are you just being defensive?

Here let me clearer because The Internet Makes You Stupid™.. A terrorist attack on one of our closest allies is worth at least a passing loving mention.

Another cop got away with impunity and I'm in no mood to coddle any of you fuckers today.



Is it cool to openly call for the death of cops as a result of this verdict or should I just dogwhistle it?

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Dead Reckoning posted:

I would be extremely surprised, but we are living in the second darkest time line.

Judge's reasoning from pg. 5, footnote 6:
"The statement was not intelligible when the recording was played during trial. However, Stockley did not deny making the statement. He testified he could not recall making the statement and he could not recall the context. The context is not clear from the recording; it cannot be determined what was said immediately before and after the statement."

I hope someone murders this judge too, that'd be cool

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

axeil posted:

Yep. This should be a DoJ crisis. When people would be happy about a mob killing a defendant and/or judge because of how badly these cases are handled you've got a serious loving problem.

If people don't trust the justice system and/or the police (which I would argue at this point you absolutely should not) you've got a big loving problem.

Looks like they've got a serious loving problem then.

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Caros posted:

The context is that the officer was jacked on adrenaline and engaged in a nearly 90 mph vehicle pursuit. People say dumb poo poo when their blood is flowing. I've heard security guards say things like that almost word for word who haven't shot someone to death afterwards, and the fact that he exited the vehicle and kept his weapon bolstered doesn't suggest that he left the vehicle with the intent to kill.

source your quotes, or alternately, take your place against the wall when the revolution comes.

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

tentative8e8op posted:



I'm looking frame by frame and it looks to me like the gun is pointing down and to the left as he pulls it out of the bag

how could anyone suspect this innocent lamb of doing anything wrong?

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Dead Reckoning posted:

Can you provide a specific example of this?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=officer+turns+off+body+cam Here ya go you lazy piece of poo poo

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

I'm the white guy nervously peeking out from behind a door clutching my vape

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Koalas March posted:

This is great! I'm really proud of you!

I quit drinking in June, and I'm glad I did. I was becoming a straight alcoholic. Election night I drank myself to sleep and then I woke up and drank another pint and then did the same thing the next day. I seriously went on a three day depression bender.

lol, just lol if your election day bender ended already.

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
There's not enough resources for us to help everyone who needs help, that's why we have to let 1% of the population have 40% of what little wealth there is.

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Your Boy Fancy posted:

Your Sunday morning Virginia politics update:

The walks are ratcheting up. The number one question is no longer "oh, there's an election?" We are now at "Which one is the Democrat?" 42 people came out to walk for the governor's race, and we're starting to work for Elizabeth Guzman in the House of Delegates race.

People are starting to wonder what the candidates stand for as well, and that's where it's fun to watch released staff learn. It's not enough to repeat 1-3 talking points that the home office in Richmond provides. You have to know what your guy is for. You read this thread, so you know that and I know that - you can't just say "the other guy is a shmuck, vote for me!" Teaching people how to use their own story to explain why their guy is their guy is everything. My job next week is to train / retrain everyone in the office to speak like a human and knock on doors like they're people, not just marching band teens with a script.

Side note: actually ran into marching band teens in Fairfax County yesterday. They were rehearsing their speech while walking to the next door. We had a laugh about it. Door knocking is hilarious and awesome. Democracy is awesome. Getting people to get down for a cause is awesome.

Last round of polling has Northam +6, and the Kochs responded with a $2 million ad buy. Northam apparently had a response to said ad buy ready to go, as VA Dems often do; they've even tactically positioned the response to run immediately after the Koch attack ads. It's kind of amazing.

The north is feeling upbeat. 51 days to go.

I did some door knocking for kathryn rehner here in MS for this last special election, but she got creamed by like 700 votes (1500 to 800) and there'll be a runoff. She's almost certain to lose but it was cool to get out there and meet so many people that at least said they were gonna vote for her.

A significant number of the doors I knocked on wound up being black people who supported rehner but couldn't vote because of past convictions. :sigh: not one white person said this to me. Thanks, totally-not-racist state of mississippi!

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Your Boy Fancy posted:

Last year was a bit of a bellwether for that up here. McAuliffe tried to restore rights to every felon who'd served their time and completed parole, and the state Supreme Court sided with the GOP saying he couldn't do that...but he could absolutely do it on a case by case basis. So the motherfucker sat down for a little while every day restoring people by hand, one by one. Two good friends got to vote because of that.

May you find a candidate dedicated to the cause enough to do some poo poo like that. MS is a crazy place (had a job down in Greenville for half a year), but there's a ton of good people that I still love to bits. And who knows? World's gone mad. Maybe you'll even win. Good luck at any rate.

I'm hoping that Jim Hood (MS state AG, pretty darn progressive dem actually) runs for and wins the mississippi governorship in 2018. It would be such a big deal, because when he came to speak in my town he said his priorities would be things like immediately expanding medicaid, raising the minimum wage, etc on top of common sense things that are essentially apolitical but the GOP refuses to do because they're horrible shitheads. I don't know if he has a real chance but I liked him a lot and I will be happy to canvass for him when the time comes.

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Maybe I was just oblivious the whole time, but I never saw it as pejorative, but more a weeaboo thing.

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Hoo boy, this is a bad, bad bad take. goddamn.

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Tarantula posted:

Crossposting from the D&D pics thread, man I wonder why American police have a bad reputation.
:nws: https://twitter.com/CharlieMBrownX/status/911334221519695872 :nws: cop shoots unarmed guy 7 times.

I hope these cops get shot to death in the street next time they go outside.

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Zanzibar Ham posted:

"gj being scum of the earth"

- posters here about Republicans making similar jokes 2 years ago

Thank you for standing up for what is right, for those who can't do it themselves.

If the shoe was on the other foot, I'd do the same.

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Literally "this bill is horrible on every possible level but I really want it to pass anyway." It's almost as if they don't have the best interests of their constituency in mind.

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
I don't even see what's wrong with virtue signaling. gently caress yeah I want to indicate to other leftists and sane people that I am a leftist and a sane person. gently caress yeah I want to demonstrate to rightwing dipshits that their opinion isn't the only one out there, and that I disagree with it and think they're morons. Even if that IS done to make you more popular with a particular group, who gives a gently caress? Why is that even a bad thing? It's just 'a' thing. It's not that the concept was just invented, but that it's been made into a pejorative by people who don't actually understand it, or understand social interaction or debate at all for that matter.

I'm intentionally virtue signaling right now to whoever might read this and agree, to make them like me more. Come at me mufuckas

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

If there were any justice in the world this motherfucker would be the first one up against the wall when the revolution comes.

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

SKULL.GIF posted:

The whole NFL is playing tomorrow. You might want to watch the Miami Dolphins game, as the owner is very supportive of his players and the Dolphins may have the largest protest. The Seahawks are also very outspoken, and Michael Bennett, who was mentioned earlier as being a victim of racial profiling and nearly killed for it, is on the team and absolutely will kneel. His brother, Martellus on the Packers, is also politically outspoken (Seriously, click it, he has a great response to Trump's racist poo poo) and several other Packers may kneel/demonstrate alongside Marty B too.

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/911778824555302912

Kickoff for games are at noon CST, 3:15 CST, and 7:30 CST, so you'll want to tune in about 15 minutes prior to these games to see the anthem stuff going on.

Kinda confused about what I'm supposed to do w/r/t these games, because I already swore I wasn't going to watch a single NFL game this season, but like, this protest stuff, so....

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Really gonna be a great day for leftist social media trolling :trumppop:

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Steampunk Hitler posted:

Sadly, if you listen to

https://twitter.com/NFLonCBS/status/911972264744124416

It sounds more like Tomlin is saying that they're just trying to avoid the situation entirely rather than it being a bulk protest by the entire steelers. A lot of talk about they're just here to play football and it's not about politics.

I don't think anybody anywhere is going to take it as 'avoiding the situation'.

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

seiferguy posted:

Let's be honest here, has there been anyone who's actually said "oh wait, they weren't protesting the troops by kneeling? Well that changes my opinion!"

I've argued with a few personally who said they have no idea why they're protesting and don't care and don't want to hear it, they're just hoppin' mad that those n---those n....those NFL players are kneeling during the anthem that ARE TROOPS DIED FOR GAW DAMMIT.

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Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

QuoProQuid posted:

puerto rico, which is still almost entirely without power, water, or good, will not get a jones act waiver

https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/912805320623235072

What the gently caress. Why.

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