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VitalSigns posted:Now that that's over, how do we go about ceding Florida back to Spain, can we just unilaterally renege on the annexation treaty? Civil War 2: Nah, go ahead, we won't stop you this time
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The antics of the clowns performing in the circus need to be genuine. If they aren't, I can't choke down the moldy bread. This is very important.
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Synthbuttrange posted:Hey white people, when POC adopt white names, its because we're tired of you butchering our real names or yelling at us for having hard to pronounce names in front of the entire class. 'Alexandria' is not particularly exotic anyways.
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Jan 7, 2019 06:46
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No politician has gotten people super hyped before and then disappointed. Right? Right?? (I'm not making any predictions here, just cautioning people not to do the whole cult of personality thing)
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Jan 7, 2019 08:11
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Jack2142 posted:Gen X is just the silent generation v2.0 Speaking as one myself, being largely politically irrelevant is what we're used to and if that ever changed I think it would freak us the hell out.
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KillHour posted:I read this entire article just to find out what she said when they inevitably asked her "Who is he supposed to be hurting?" and they NEVER ASKED HER THAT. How do you not ask that? "...Ms. Minton, a 38-year-old secretary..." She was born in 1981. Keep this in mind when you guys imagine the glorious future when the boomers are gone and millennials usher in the new progressive utopia.
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Mantis42 posted:I mean, I do. I hope you don't actually? What I want is for immigration law to be reformed and streamlined so that no one needs to risk their life crossing a desert. It should be so simple to apply for a guest worker visa, to convert that to a permanent residency visa, and eventually get full citizenship that illegal immigration drops to zero. Basically, reconcile the law with the ground truth. Surely that's what you want right?
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Jan 9, 2019 05:10
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sexpig by night posted:basically why do the people coming here need visas at all, what purpose does that give other than a way for the government to separate them from 'real' citizens and abuse them Employers dodge payroll taxes by hiring undocumented workers. Legal, simple to obtain visas would prevent that. (And no, I don't think predicating immigration reform on a world communist revolution is pragmatic.)
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sexpig by night posted:I mean, this literally would never happen unless there was a major political revolution in America anyway so why can't I answer that with 'there also needs to be massive labor reforms that allow protection of all workers regardless of citizenship' Really? I actually think meaningful immigration reform in the next few years is pretty likely... e: like, it will probably be the top agenda item the next time Dems control both the White House and Congress... which is probably 2021, hopefully Family Values fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Jan 9, 2019 |
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Noise Complaint posted:Loving the response. This is some fine work. Like, separately from the intended message (which I also approve of), someone spent a lot of time and effort making this.
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I'm really looking forward to the foreign press coverage of literal paper-wrapped fast food being served in the White House dining room. Embarrassing.
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Jan 15, 2019 07:26
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Brexit is the Putin (i.e. chaos) option and should be opposed for that reason alone.
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Jan 15, 2019 21:25
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Battling the fossil fuel lobby just isn't challenging enough. We should also add overcoming the anti-nuke lobby to the list before we do anything about climate change.
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Jan 15, 2019 21:42
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luxury handset posted:nah, hoteps are pro-black misogynist lunatics. this guy seems like your average insane evangelical racist conservative white guy, but in a black man's body Huh, 'hotep' is a new one to me. Did we really need a special name for misogynists who happen to be black, or is there more to it than that? (I'm really slow on things like this since I don't do social media. I'm still trying to figure out if 'chud' is a DJT supporter, a member of the alt-right, or just any conservative)
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Lightning Knight posted:I dunno but everyone over 35 is old as hell imo.  The joke is that millenials are following the same trajectory as their boomer parents.
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A lot of generational stuff is marketing bullshit, but there's a bit of truth to it, both the shared experiences thing and also the sheer arithmetic – that there was a dip in the birth rate in the late 60s and early 70s, which was both preceded and followed by peaks in the birth rate – is objective fact, and those numbers affect things. The boomers have had outsized influence simply by outvoting everyone else until recently.
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My concern with further weakening the filibuster is that there's a looming demographic crisis for the Senate where pretty soon something like 30% of the population is going to control 70% of the Senate because of the hollowing out of the flyover states. But that crisis is going to happen anyway, so maybe it doesn't matter I guess.
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Jan 23, 2019 08:14
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Ralepozozaxe posted:How much would it cost to have mimes pantomiming walls all along the border at all times? Why do you want to drown hundreds of mimes in the middle of the Rio Grande River?
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Jan 23, 2019 18:20
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Charlz Guybon posted:I wonder what the numbers are on Generation Z. It's just too loving perfect that gen-x can't reach 50% for either agree or disagree.
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PT6A posted:I dunno, probably a societal shift from sex being considered shameful or intensely private, to people being more open about it, to women finally having enough power to say "hey it's cool that we can be open about sex now, but stop it with the loving harassment you jackasses." Boomers probably couldn't or didn't consider getting away with the poo poo that old Xers got away with, so they aren't feeling the loss as hard. Older Xer here, we definitely didn’t get away with more sex stuff than the boomers. We were squarely in the ‘SEX=DEATH’ AIDS panic. I don’t have an alternative explanation though.
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sincx posted:She's not great on policy but boy oh boy is she great on tactical stuff. I get the impression that this fact is coming as a surprise to a lot of people, and I can only assume they weren't paying attention in 2006. She's always been good at this.
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Jan 25, 2019 22:01
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VideoGameVet posted:Have you seen any polls on the subject? MFA is wildly popular for one. A socialist healthcare system would be something like the UK's NHS, and we'd have to nationalize all the hospitals and clinics and have the government directly operate them. I don't think anyone in the US is seriously proposing this. E: I have nothing against the NHS, just saying it's not on the table here.
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Jan 25, 2019 22:32
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bird cooch posted:Nancy Pelosi is the leader of her caucus. if the caucus is more progressive that's the way she leads, if it's more conservative that's the way she leads. She is the person who knows best what will actually pass. Well, it's a bit of both really. Leaders definitely whip votes and broker deals and so forth. An ineffective leader can absolutely sink something that a better leader could've passed.
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Jan 25, 2019 22:47
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Kerning Chameleon posted:We don't have the luxury of time anymore to afford "occasionally" getting it wrong anymore. Hm yes, sometimes democracy makes a mistake and you end up with an idiot like Trump as president for 4 years. So let's scrap that and go with an authoritarian regime where an idiot like Trump could end up as dictator for life. Or an idiot like Maduro. Or Ferdinand Marcos. Surely an improvement.
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Jan 25, 2019 23:15
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Kerning Chameleon posted:That's why you make sure it's an extremist leftist regime that wins the final coup, genius. Ah right, I forgot the cunning plan of 'make sure to win'.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Are you that dense to still think that bringing charges against a single homeless mother isn't loving sick? Becasse what I am saying actually happened, and what you are saying is just "Nu uh it is actually a good thing" I don't think it did? (Charges filed I mean). Scary looking letters, yes, but not actual charges.
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I wouldn't have expected my side to be agreeing with conservatives on the 'parents should have the right to opt their kids out of public school' issue.
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Jan 29, 2019 02:29
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I don't know why you needed to wait for the video, her campaign website actually makes a big issue of it. My guess is that it's actually a net plus with voters, despite this thread. I mean, she clearly believes so.
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Stacey Abrams is planning to run for the Senate or something like that, right? I've lost track since the election.
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Jan 29, 2019 21:24
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Right wing freak out It should've never been there in the first place: quote:The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
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Yes a more energetic atmosphere leading to more extreme weather events is evidence for, not against global warming.
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My possibly unfounded assumption is that if we had a UBI there would basically be no sex workers left because they’re only in it out of desperation, which I just realized might actually be an angle for convincing some social conservatives that we should have a UBI.
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He said something like 'sea to shining sea' (possibly with some typos and misspellings) at one point. That should be opposed. That's a stupid idea.
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Harik posted:Ok, since we're doing this, at what point do you not vote blue no matter who? The line is clearly drawn way past Manchin (R-Coal), so exactly what is an acceptable reason to say "you know what, gently caress the party that thought nominating this shithead was a good idea."? How many times must it be said? The time to vote your conscience is in the primary.
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SKULL.GIF posted:You guys, "VBNMW" is a symptom. The cause is bad candidates getting nominated. Stop nominating shitheads and we won't have this problem again. It's not 1968 and this thread is not a smoke-filled back room. We don't get to just pick who the nominees are. Donate money/time to the non-shitheads and vote for them in the primaries.
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'Both sides are exactly equally bad' is a novel and interesting thing for this thread to discuss for the thousandth time.
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Dad Jokes posted:Ftfy Twitter: the cancer that we all hate, but we spend all day every day linking to it. Even when it's just a tweet that contains nothing but a link to an actual article.
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Failed Imagineer posted:For me, that's just cause it's a handy way to display a link preview on SA @jack thanks you.
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VH4Ever posted:It also begs the question: WHY THE gently caress DO A COVER STORY ABOUT SOME GIRL HITTING CHUD FROM BUMFUCK, WISCONSIN? WHY? WHO IS CLAMORING FOR THIS? Well, it seems to have an enthusiastic audience with this thread, at least.
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Voyager I posted:Speaking as a Jewish person, I'll go ahead and say that Omar was right as hell to be critical of the actions of the Israeli government and I didn't take offense to her language. Even though she's correct, language matters. You may not take offense, but the media is as usual letting the right frame the issue: anti-AIPAC = anti-Israel = anti-Semite. Similar to pro-life vs. pro-choice, the left must always use our own framing of the issue. She stepped into a trap that could've easily been avoided by just saying I'm not anti-Israel I'm anti-apartheid, anti-settler, anti-occupation. I mean, this is all bullshit really, but that's politics. e: by 'bullshit' I mean the need to constantly set the framing of an issue and playing gotcha with the media instead of speaking plainly Family Values fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Feb 13, 2019 |
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