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PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Eej posted:

Louis CK's bulletproof plan to success is to rebrand as a punch down comedian and tour red states forever to soak up them chud dollars. His jokes are as mean and witless as any other conservative comedian now

I'm pretty sure he is doing exactly this

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PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

any sort of internal power struggle for the next 50 years is going to result in the other side being labeled terrorists

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

military recruitment is gonna stay hosed until weed is legalized because why in the world would someone from a state where its legal join the military

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Fallom posted:

We allow plenty of people to serve while taking cancer meds, painkillers and muscle relaxers, and antidepressants. I wonder why ADHD gets singled out.

yeah its really bizarre especially since the medication is something the government used to give out like loving candy to SF types in vietnam

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Ok I just popped some vyvanse so buckle up

Warren is pretty decent policy wise. She isn't full socialism now but is willing to use taxes on capitalism to meet some of the goals of socialism. She is old but she'll be under 80 at the end of her possibly 8 years if elected in 2020. She is also a democrat which means the moneybags in the democratic party can't pull the "well bernie isnt' REALLY a democrat" because while that thinking is lovely bernie WAS an outsider because while he always worked with democrats and was never really involved with the internal workings of the party.

I'm afraid she'll be easy to dunk on though. No matter how good you can debate, trump is gonna go "nuh huh you're wrong pocahantas!!" and if you have someone that is just gonna respond meekly or whatever it was hillary did.

What is more important in my opinion is that the democratic party has someone vocally calling out succ dems and pushing hard for minimum wages, healthcare, weed etc and that person doesn't have to necessarily be the president. If AOC and Pelosi start pushing agenda hard then you really just need a democrat that is going to simply not veto it.

So to conclude you need 1) a democrat to vocally push for universal healthcare etc and 2) a dem presidential nominee that won't veto it 3) a dem presidential nominee that can be a rude boy to trump when needed 4) a dem presidential nominee that won't get brain worms during their (hopefully) 8 years in office

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

for what DoD?

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

psydude posted:

I'm not blaming them. They managed to add quite a few of their policies to the party platform, so they were highly successful. They also managed to get a number of their candidates elected in the 2018 election.

My point is that the closest we can really get to third parties is within the parties themselves.

the fact that the green party is a bunch of wackos instead of a group of dems operating inside the democratic party is loving criminal

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

hey is any part of the internet run by the government still like central hubs or something?

if it is, is there any way this could get real funny with the US being cut off from the outside world internet wise

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

maxpowers isn't a gimmick he had a melt down in the eve goon guild and got kicked

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Richard Bong posted:

I haven’t had any eve drama since I quit in like 2015. Fill me in please. That’s not powersSA is it?

no its not powers SA. some holesquad idiot got kicked which prompted max powers to go on a full on meltdown in alliance chat until he too was kicked

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

holesquad actually died as a result of this lol

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

MaxPowers posted:



Spamming alliance with " join wholesquad " for 36 hours hardly counts as a meltdown. Why the hell are we talking about eve in the current events thread? I guess I didnt get the point " hey you guys are bandwagoning on really boring lovely posts " through.

the point is your melt down over trump being in the current events thread isn't a gimmick but is rather in character of you since you've done this before

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

fact check: trump is a daughter fucker not a mother fucker

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

just bguild a big bertha train gun and call it "THE WALL"

i dodge arty in pubg it ain't that hard

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

GoGoGadget posted:

Just imagine how Stormy Daniels feels

im no tgetting paid

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

The Iron Rose posted:

She wasn't even a cop! She was a district attorney. Are we calling prosecutors class traitors now? Good grief.

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It depends entirely on the types of cases they want to pursue and her record on this isn't good.

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

As Nero Danced posted:

On the same line, who are the front runners that aren't disappointing?

warren is about the most progressive front runner we have

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

orange juche posted:

Sanders is not a front runner, he is a fossil, and if bernouts vote for harambe or some stupid bullshit in protest and give us 4 more years of Hair Furor, they should be lined up against a wall and shot.

that didn't really happen but yeah dude is god drat old.

If there are literally no politicians anywhere close to being as progressive as bernie while being at least 20 years younger then good lord we're hosed

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Vasudus posted:

Trump attacking Warren and Warren continually being defenseless has proven that the decorum wing of the party has learned absolutely nothing since 2016.

thats not the decorum part of the party thats just warren. She's a really nice college professor but isn't a political knife fighter.

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Godholio posted:

I'm convinced the wall is 100% about him not backing down, more than it is anything else. That's how he views success...getting the last word.

its this combined with republicans hate the idea of government in general so

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

I'm perfectly fine with #Woke Corporate Twitter if it causes more rightwingers to throw public tantrums a toddler would be ashamed of.

When companies do stuff like that I think of it as a weather vane of public opinion. The company itself has no morals but supporting the left makes financial sense due to people with purchasing power.

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

the israelis use a silenced 22 as a crowd control weapon lol

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

people like R. Guyovich are the reason it took me so long to care about politics

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Flikken posted:

Yep it's totally cool to watch a loved one lose their ability to reason or even hold a simple conversation just because their political beliefs are opposed to yours. All the while wondering if it's genetic and might be yours or others in your family's future.


gently caress off.

hmmm yes wanting children to be locked away in camps is distilled down to 'having different political opinions'

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

I think pelosi is enough of a politician that if the winds are blowing to the left she'll follow suit.

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

lol the dude does not drink stella

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

stella tastes OK but its marketed as like this elitist bourgeoisie drink

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Burt posted:

It's almost universally known as "wife beater" in the UK. They actually cranked the ABV down because of it's reputation as the beer of choice for the connoisseur nutters.

its priced for a dollar or two more than similar beers so I literally never buy it. My grocery store sells 4 pack of 16 oz pilsner urquell for 5 bucks which is an amazing deal

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Kawasaki Nun posted:

Prosecutors loving stink!

again there i s nothing intrinsically wrong with prosecuters but who they decide to go after matters

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

there are two big problems with law enforcement in this country.

1) cops and prosecuters like to go after really binary cases. The war on drugs is great for this, you simply arrest a dude or get a warrant to search his house and there is either illegal poo poo and you arrest him or he's clean and you let him go. Anything beyond that though such as 99% of white collar crime is beyond the ability of if not the individual detectives then the organizational hierarchy they operate within. Unless you have a whistleblower, gently caress over a rich person, or are super obvious on your taxes no one is every going to look into your business. The IRS doing occasional audits is the only thing close to the white collar crime equivilant of a beat cop constantly checking in on things

2) the other big problem is every sheriff's office is its own kingdom with little to none state or federal level oversight

Kamala Harris is part of the problem with number 1 because of who she chose to go after

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Professor Bling posted:

The problem with law enforcement in the united states is this: everything to do with the American idea and heritage of law enforcement and the fact that it was borne of strikebreakers and slave patrols


All cops are bastards and so are prosecutors, not because they -individually- are bad (though the vast majority are) but because the system as it stands is bad and they choose to be a part of it

prosecuters are one of the positions that can unironically change the system from within, such as choosing to prosecute non violent marijuana cases.

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Casimir Radon posted:

My thoughts on Schultz. He isn't racist enough for anyone still dumb enough to think an egotistical businessman is a good fit for the highest office in the land.

also he'll just get owned from the right for being the CEO of starbucks

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PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

facialimpediment posted:

Fuckin amazing how incestuous the circles of rich, powerful white men are.

https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1091066927211003904?s=19

You would *think* that with the zillions of people in the world, the same characters would stop loving popping up everywhere.

the richest people in the world don't associate with others because they have nothing in common. Its just about impossible to become a billionaire and have any empathy for others.

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