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Skypie posted:I saw someone post a character speech plastered on a background the other day on Facebook and it was about respecting your opponents' views and the friend was musing that we need a return to that concept in politics The thing about this statement is that no matter how much decorum people deliver, like "I am taking the high road or not airing any attack ads" is already a common phrase, or maybe they want "let us respectfully agree to disagree, sir", they will still be saying we need a return to decorum in politics because it's just a platitude used to self-aggrandize.
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Squizzle posted:this is the most dystopian bullshit yeah, if these people are working and watching TV at the same time, they're probably distracted and working more slowly, stealing productivity that rightfully belongs to their bosses (I am kidding) galenanorth fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Jul 15, 2018 |
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The fourth panel in the image is probably going to lead to some conversation like "Dad! Hey dad! Did you see me make the shot?" "Could you hold on for just a second, I'm on the phone trying to close a deal ... Okay, I'm off the phone. Phew, moments like those you only get one shot at. Okay, so what were we talking about?" Edit: First panel: With Microsoft Peethink teleconferencing technology, it's never been easier been easier to stream while you stream galenanorth fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Jul 15, 2018 |
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Office Pig posted:special brainage on display This worked out with Ted Kennedy, considering he ended up being replaced by Scott Brown and resigning due to health reasons might've gotten him more months in office, but there's no excuse for that in any other circumstance
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Where are the best places to read about accusations that Israel is an apartheid state? What do you think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_the_apartheid_analogy Edit: When I read quote:In 2009, a study was commissioned and coordinated by the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa on Israel’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law.[65] then quote:In 2014, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned that if Israel did not make peace soon, under a two-state solution, it could become an apartheid state.[177] In response to Kerry's statement, former South African state president F. W. de Klerk said: "You have Palestinians living in Israel with full political rights. You don’t have discriminatory laws against them, I mean not letting them swim on certain beaches or anything like that. I think it's unfair to call Israel an apartheid state. If Kerry did so, I think he made a mistake."[178] it seems at first like the first set of claims is mostly referring to the state of on-and-off-again conflict between Israel and Palestine, but then I notice that the entire article seems to mostly just argue from authority by saying "X said this, Y said that" while sweeping the key information all into the sentence "However, others believe that certain laws do explicitly or implicitly discriminate on the basis or creed or race, in effect privileging Jewish citizens and disadvantaging non-Jewish, and particularly Arab, citizens of the state. These include the Law of Return, laws making military conscription mandatory for certain religions only, the Ban on Family Unification, and many laws regarding security, land and planning, citizenship, political representation in the Knesset, education and culture. .[23][24][25][26]" I'll read through those four citations when I'm in the waiting room while taking a sick relative to the doctor's office on Monday galenanorth fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Jul 15, 2018 |
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https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1018476147997335554 You gotta be elected to like eight terms before you can chair a subcommittee. Incumbents need those positions so they can argue that they shouldn't be kicked out of office, not on the merits of their political positions, but because people in their district will lose their ability to use their representative's political position for personal gain.
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Jul 15, 2018 15:06
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Grondoth posted:Just kick him out of the loving party already They can cut off all DCCC funding for these incumbents as long as they are already picking and choosing sides against non-incumbents
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Jul 15, 2018 15:39
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I skimmed through Sen. Elizabeth Warren's S.2544 - Ending Too Big to Jail Act bill and came acrossEnding Too Big to Jail Act posted:[stuff about Special Inspector General for Financial Institution Crime reporting requirements] It creates a law enforcement agency for investigating financial crimes under the office of the Special Inspector General for Financial Institution Crime. The reporting requirements part seems more like it belongs in the galenanorth fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Jul 15, 2018 |
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Jul 15, 2018 17:19
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spacetoaster posted:Is taking money from the dnc/dccc the same as taking corporate money? Yes DNC rolls back Obama ban on contributions from federal lobbyists - The Washington Post (Feb. 12, 2016) DNC votes unanimously to no longer accept money from fossil fuel companies – ThinkProgress (Jun. 12, 2018) They took five steps back when no one was looking and one step forward when they suspected people were catching on
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-map-of-israeli-settlements-that-shocked-barack-obama This is occupation. It's systematic settlement to transform the de facto borders of Palestine into a landlocked version of an archipelago and make a two-state solution involving the West Bank as part of Palestine less possible. galenanorth fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Jul 16, 2018 |
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Jul 16, 2018 18:21
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maybe all the Democrats should switch parties if they win midterms just so they can wear an R to a "come to Jesus" meeting with Trump that the Republicans and Trump don't show up to
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Condiv posted:i think she's trying to point them out to her idiot followers to dogpile on She jumped straight to accusing people of betraying the country with some "Excuse me, sir?" tweet and then said it was because she was so tired from traveling she couldn't think straight well, at least if she's tired it means she doesn't have to take an Ambien
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PathAsc posted:"look, only one thing can ever be done at a time" and then they have to cut that short to take an August recess, but only when they control Congress
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Jul 16, 2018 23:10
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I remember 2007 when "a path to citizenship" turned out to mean returning back "home" and applying there for "moderate" Republicans like John McCain. If I ever meet someone like this, I'll ask "What do you want that path to be?" and probably break their brains at the thought of having to express the policy that they'd want to see implemented instead of waiting for the compromise thought up in a backroom where everyone is responsible so no one is responsible and it's just the way things are.
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Jul 18, 2018 21:34
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comedyblissoption posted:actually well you see according to this website here based on voting records hillary is 99% as left as bernie the thing about using only voting records is that you can't miss the shots you don't take, and the Senate is pretty good at making sure good bills from the House don't even get a floor vote so as to tarnish their records
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Jul 18, 2018 21:50
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Every time a politician or especially ambassador shows up in Star Trek they're a villain and/or a complete idiot rear end in a top hat that needs to be constantly bailed out by Starfleet and the godlike alien of the week I am going to be honest, I watched through the 2-parter where the Changelings invaded Earth and a coup was attempted by a Starfleet admiral by faking the appearance of a cloaked fleet of enemy ships coming through the wormhole by setting it up to open and close automatically and they had me all "marital law? well I dunno" 'til the second half where they did the "surprise! if you fell for this you might want to re-evalulate yourself" reveal
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Theris posted:Bryce is getting infected with succ to the point that he's sending out DCCC-style "WE'RE GOING TO LOSE "You should donate to my campaign because THEM  "instead of asking for donations to support the advancement of enumerated policies
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The thing about the common "oh, they paid it back and we made a $15.3 billion profit on $426.4 billion invested after six years" defense of the bailout is that it doesn't account for inflation, normally when banks give loans to us, they get compounding interest on it and a lot more profit than 3.5% for all that risk, or 0.5% per year, especially considering the mortgages were worthless. The profit is also never reported as having taken into account inflation. Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Alan Blinder and Moody's Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi claim the financial crisis would have been much worse without it, but I figure that doesn't mean they couldn't have addressed the financial crisis another way.
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Jul 20, 2018 19:50
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lotta important stuff to do during this 51-49 Republican-controlled Congress under a Republican presidency, and it's not like he's built a backlog of bills ready to go when Democrats end the gridlock except for Medicare-for-All and College for All and the Raise the Wage Act and ...
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Jul 20, 2018 20:52
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https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1020477432527245312 socialist red the difference with Republican red is that it's less like "realtor jacket red" and more like the scarlet red which flows through proletarian's heart and circulatory system
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https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1020283568759738373 Joe Lieberman is the only modern VP candidate on one party's ticket who another party's presidential candidate regrets not putting on his ticket. Joe Lieberman was also the only senator for whom the Democrats campaigned over their own nominee, and then he killed the public option. The backing of Joe Lieberman by those who wanted a a "big tent" continues to reverberate with new effects throughout the worst timeline's history. galenanorth fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Jul 21, 2018 |
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Jul 21, 2018 17:26
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"politically untenable" http://www.businessinsider.com/poll-medicare-for-all-public-option-bernie-sanders-plan-support-2018-3
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Did she say how to fix the "highly negative" political climate? Did she give her opinion on how this highly negative political climate came about or who was responsible? If not, I am guessing she used the passive voice so she wouldn't have to talk about it and accuse anyone beyond Donald Trump, and the message boils down to restating "kick Trump out of office" in as many ways as possible.
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Rastor posted:gently caress this poo poo, red is our color. It was stolen by ABC News in 1980 and now I say we take it back while looking through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states I noticed the quote "We don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states." and then it occurred to me that he tried to do absolutely nothing about that
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Squizzle posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/E_A_Swearengen/status/1020341494824165376 She stood for things like a 3 year moratorium on student loans for entrepreneurs, when most people aren't looking to take out new loans to start a business after having student loans. Here are the requirements for starting up a fast food franchise as an example of a business qualifying for SBA loans: $20,000 to $35,000 on average, although the most major chains require applicants to have $750,000 in liquid assets. The problem is that when a policy is both ineffective and boring enough, it is like it turns off people's object permanency because it is not worth remembering for more than a few minutes. https://web.archive.org/web/20160316080245/https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/plan-raise-american-incomes/ "access to capital" galenanorth fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Jul 22, 2018 |
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etalian posted:lol what thin skins hillfolk have it's civil for the establishment to attack non-incumbent candidates through the DCCC asking them to resign, plotting, and calling certain candidates un-American, but not civil for non-incumbents to attack the establishment
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MaxxBot posted:https://twitter.com/adamcbest/status/1020004670717218816 it's really really important that people keep listening to people who want to privatize Social Security like they'll suddenly have something new and insightful to say you haven't heard before
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"McClatchy posted:Poll data from 2016 would suggest Third Way’s approach has some merit: A Gallup poll from October 2016 found that voters thought Trump was actually less less [sic] conservative than prior GOP nominees. Clinton, meanwhile, was seen as as liberal as former President Barack Obama. Here is the poll they are referring toward: https://news.gallup.com/poll/196064/trump-seen-less-conservative-prior-gop-candidates.aspx Of course, the same poll shows that Obama was seen as much more liberal than his predecessors at the time of the 2008 election, but that wasn't worth mentioning to them.
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New Yorker posted:“The Chickenshit Club” is about a specific vocational temperament. When James Comey took over as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, in 2002, Eisinger tells us, he summoned his young prosecutors for a pep talk. For graduates of top law schools, a job as a federal prosecutor is a brass ring, and the Southern District of New York, which has jurisdiction over Wall Street, is the most selective office of them all. Addressing this ferociously competitive cohort, Comey asked, “Who here has never had an acquittal or a hung jury?” Several go-getters, proud of their unblemished records, raised their hands. This section of the article provides context on one of the reasons why white collar crime prosecutions reached a 20 year low, but they bring it up like it''s an anecdote in favor of Comey, instead of bringing up questions about why he hired them if he thought their records were due to being in the Chickenshit Club. The reader is supposed to give him the benefit of the doubt that he had corroborating information in favor of their abilities at his disposal, or else he wouldn't be in that position.
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so I was looking for concrete evidence of the effect on small business loans on inequality and found http://www.nber.org/papers/w20543 https://smallbiztrends.com/2016/11/entrepreneurship-increases-income-inequality.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...s/#758ce1b055c4 http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/the-entrepreneur-gap-facing-women-and-minorities/ Small business loans decrease average wages, so it's not good for workers overall, but entrepreneurship increases income inequality. Latinos and African-Americans have 11 to 16 times less wealth than whites, and African-Americans have unequal access to small businesses startup capital compared to whites, $35,205 to $106,720. Democrats only want to address equality of opportunity for the professional class in the top 20% which already have the capital for a business to thrive, i.e. their donor base, to move into the top 1%, and they play this buzzword game to hide how they're conning everybody else. galenanorth fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Jul 23, 2018 |
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https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1021374479933452288 How's about applying this to the primaries by mentioning how both Trump and center-of-right Dems purport to be STRONG on national security and foreign policy on their campaign sites, because everything has to be about metaphorical strength with them
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Condiv posted:sooooo... he wants to elect a republican as a democrat? or does he want a republican to have a dem vp? i mean i get the irony of him being "fatigued of tired white men" and picking as his choice for president, but is this centrist's brain so wormy he's forgotten that the dem and republican parties are technically two distinct parties? sounds like someone sad that America missed the McCain-Lieberman vs Lieberman-McCain boat in 2008
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Chelsea Handler posted:Yeah, I’m an elitist. I tried very hard to become one.
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"I have faith that he's seen information we haven't" is like the liberal version of the "nth-dimensional chess" meme galenanorth fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Jul 24, 2018 |
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phasmid posted:We need more anti hill tags on twitter. Something unambiguous. #handsoffbitch or something like that. We've known she's gonna run again but drat that ozyfest nonsense lacks self-awareness down to its loving name. They're going to hand the election to Trump. All he's gotta do is wait for her to announce and then start a war. maybe #shesnotwithus or #hillarysnotwithus if they tried to turn it against someone like Ocasio-Cortez or Rep. Barbara Lee
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https://twitter.com/acesanderson/status/1021530709083807745 You can really track the chain of development of ignorance here, as the retired guy who spends all day fishing assumes that because someone told her off about needing to go back to school, that she hadn't finished school at all. https://twitter.com/MsRJensen/status/1021535956296499200 "Civics and manners" because she violates decorum, "Social Studies, Geography, World History, and Geo-Politics" because she said something the tweeter disagrees with, and English because she's brown.
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CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:Lisbon has some of the most aggressive rent control policies in the western world and it never fails to make the highly rational and intellectual liberals at the NYT melt down. Reading this made me realize that maybe we could bring back FDR's WWII price controls at a federal level, except for rent control with vacancy decontrol. The Supreme Court has ruled that this is constitutional during wartime, writing “a nation which can demand the lives of its men and women in the waging of . . . war is under no constitutional necessity of providing a system of price control . . . which will assure each landlord a ‘fair return’ on his property”. Its justification would exploit Hamdi v. Rumsfeld's interpretation that courts are prohibited by the Constitution from interfering with the president's warmaking powers in a matter of national security.
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Israel-Palestine diplomacy might be easier if they used a fictional currency where start with 1,000,000 points each. That way, they can list demands and available concessions using them, and it will be easier to assign a premium on the risk of taking the first step. With a point incentive and the premium, both sides will be more willing to risk conceding something first and the other side not following through. More concretely, once there's an Israeli administration willing to make any concessions at all on the Israeli settlement issue, for example, in turn there could be Israeli observers of Palestinian law enforcement to make sure they are doing everything they can to prevent attacks by civilians on Israeli crop fields via air balloon while providing them the resources for that if they are not available, and that'd be a step-up from Israel's current response of retaliation with bombardment.
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