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I'm sure it's nothing, who doesn't experience a little communications blackout along a border with an antagonistic neighbor with a longstanding history of aggressive espionage.
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That's fair, at least we're only violating international asylum laws by blocking free movement to established ports of entry.
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There's also the fact that the reason they're getting numbers in the first place is because we're blocking a lawful point of entry in direct violation of ~international norms~ and actual laws. You don't block that poo poo, that's the entire point of claiming asylum. It's like showing up to an emergency room with profound bleeding but you're refused timely service because there's too much blood on the floor now.
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Then there's the people that say getting citizenship is too easy or that we're just handing out money and benefits to illegals. Like goddamn people, we don't hand out benefits to our own natural born citizens half the time. It took my ex-fiance 13 years to get citizenship. She came here as a bona fide refugee fleeing an internationally recognized civil war. If anybody in her family had a criminal record while waiting then that person would probably not have gotten citizenship. Nowadays the Trump administration would have probably just said 'nah' and just denied it anyway.
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yeah if you're from India right now the waitlist is 75 years
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Dec 1, 2018 21:22
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If anything it's showing just how dangerous it is to have the bulk of our so-called ethics as "regulations" or "bylaws" instead of actual, honest-to-god loving laws. Because they're all made by the rich and powerful to protect the rich and powerful, with ethics stuff mostly there to prevent something incredibly egregious that will rile up the common masses. But I don't really see a lot of that changing, even if the senate were flipped. Because Democrats abuse the system too.
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That's the problem at the heart of it though. Not only are the senior admin people not common citizens, they don't give a poo poo about anything short of actual laws (for anybody that isn't Trump) and even actual laws can't stop Trump. We literally have no mechanism in place that can reign in a president (or cabinet member, sometimes) that just doesn't give a poo poo. Because it's never been a *real* problem before - you get the news to talk about it, a few soundbites from congress, and then they fall on their sword and gently caress off to K street. Not this time though.
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 the 10% tariffs are still on, get hosed
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I don't have any particularly strong opinions on NDT one way or the other. Science educators are important these days (it says a lot that we need celebrity evangelists to convince the basic population that science is good) and I don't really follow him beyond watching like an interview or documentary here or there that happens to have him. I'm sure as poo poo not surprised that a guy that became famous abused that position of status though. I don't think he'll be able to wiggle his way out of this, because there's never just one. Or two. There's more.
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I think on the low end there was an estimate that was around 1.3t, high end around 3.2t over 10 years. Depends on who is conducting the study and what changes come along with it - IIRC the high end estimate was just 'boom, everyone has Medicare' with no corresponding reforms. Any realistic M4A package is going to have pharma reform baked in to offset costs along with a significant amount of tax hikes for the ultra wealthy. Make no mistake, it's gonna be expensive, but nothing outrageous compared to other poo poo we've spent money on.
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psydude posted:Medicare doesn't cover dental. Not sure where she's getting that from. She's saying it should.
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I *almost* had to make that choice in 2012 when I had a tooth split in half. I had 600 dollars to my name, period, and the grand total was like 580 bucks. I had them figure out how much each lidocaine injection costs before they did it. The only reason I got both antibiotics and painkillers was because the antibiotics were on the essential list and the pharmacist knew I was flat broke, so they were free. I still ended up getting about a third of the painkillers necessary.
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The fact that AOC simply existing gets the entire right into a frothing rage is good enough for me. Because it's 2018, and my expectations for hope are that low I'll take what I can get.
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It's also the name of Ridley Scott's production company.
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i'm not making GBS threads my pants in public these are victory dooks
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Yeah we got notice of government closure earlier today. It's not an actual holiday though, so everyone is expected to telework.
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reminder that yahoo bought tumblr for more money than instagram costs and has never been able to monetize it
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well they do now
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That's just absolutely hilarious because if they had done any due diligence before buying it they would have seen what the overwhelming bulk of their traffic was about. I mean not the CP stuff that's hella gross and wrong obviously, but I mean like the regular (and ten million not-so-regular) porn pages should have been obvious.
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I mean I had to look really hard to see if I had a can opener a few months ago but canned Tuna is still gross even if it jumped out of the loving can onto my plate.
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it's really 'we fooled two generations of people into using our garbage product and refused to innovate' tbh
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They always have their own methods of opening without requiring a can opener. I made chili awhile back and the can of tomatoes I used didn't have an opener tab and I was baffled.
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All the cans of things I've bought for years have had pull tabs on them.
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I go to Lotte Mart for spices and poo poo, they're a Korean/Indian/Latin store. I also always tempt fate by buying some of the produce they don't even bother to translate into English, and at least one or two different noodle cups that is most likely going to cause a matter-antimatter explosion in my stomach.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:lotte mart? arent they 100% owned by lotte corp, prolly the most obscure genuinely mega korean megacorp to americans (they make the korean pocky clone, insurance, amusement parks, a mcdonalds clone, duty free shops, hotels, insurance, credit cards, fuji film in korea, petrochemicals, two engineering firms, a rental car, two baseball teams and movies) Sure? I mean it's got everything I could ever want and there's one close enough to me. And it's dirt loving cheap, the last time I went there I got a whole pineapple for under a dollar. It's broken up about 70/15/15 between Korean/Indian/Latin food.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:i did not actually know there were lotte marts in america, huh There's one in Centreville, VA that I go to and another in Annandale, VA. Both areas have high concentrations of Koreans. They're "Lotte Plaza Market" now, but until like last year they still were just Lotte Mart.
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The thing that always makes me laugh about spices is that most regular American stores sell cumin in a tiny little container and it costs like, six dollars. At any ethnic market you can get it by the tub practically and it costs less, somehow.
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Hope you weren't expecting China/US relations to calm down! https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-has-arrested-huaweis-global-chief-financial-officer-in/ Canada just arrested Huawei's CFO for extradition to the US for attempting to violate Iran sanctions. My (limited) understanding of China's party politics makes this the equivalent of arresting a Saudi prince.
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i'm gonna laugh if what he did was considered too extreme even for china and they took him out behind the chemical shack
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After serving in the Army and being deployed I absolutely positively do not trust anybody to point a gun at me, ever.
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It's extremely drilled into your head in training in addition to being common sense. In many cases flagging someone is a full on excuse to beat the poo poo out of them on the spot.
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my dudes that captain has what looks like one of those 1-point detachable slings it has a quick release out of frame that turns it into a 2-point sling i mean it's dumb as poo poo to use on a goddamn musket since it's so heavy, but they're not resting their rifle on their ammo pouches
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There's a lot of poo poo about to drop today (Cohen details, Manafort details, one more thing I'm forgetting) so chances are he was alerted last night about it and he's been stewing mad about it all night. The inevitable biopic about this whole administration is going to be some A-list actor fishing for an Oscar but will be footage of them on the can just angrily yelling for two hours.
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I don't think any of that will matter.
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It's also funny because a huge amount of large companies already pulled out of the UK in anticipation of Brexit. Sure, some of them will come back but I don't think they all will. permanently damaging the national economy to almost own the poles Vasudus fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Dec 10, 2018 |
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Nancy is good now because the wind is blowing hard enough that she's grown a spine. If she doesn't seriously stand up to Trump and do it in public she probably won't survive the next leadership challenge. I would have preferred her to not have to wait until the public opinion polls drifted this way but hey, whatever. Chuck remains the worst.
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chaos timeline challenge: name five major events that occurred this year without using the internet to cheat lightning round challenge: name five major events that occurred last year without using the internet to cheat final challenge: name one mass shooting from this year and last year
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not gonna lie my dudes, half of these things listed caused me to go 'oh...yeah' because i forgot they happened entirely
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