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Eej posted:Like what even is this joke That's impressively terrible.
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Bored As gently caress posted:Jim Webb would've been a good president. eeeeeehhhhhhhhhh
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Jan 4, 2019 05:59
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Oh word? Tucker Carlson is a strong contender for the biggest shithead in America in a very crowded field.
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Jan 4, 2019 06:22
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:i call him Fucker Carlson I call him an utter disgrace to this country and the values enshrined in our founding documents, who would happily have assisted the British, the Confederates, and the Nazis if it meant elevating his own profile. His character is that of a traitor too cowardly to pick up a gun, but who would happily cheer on those who would spread terror and slaughter Innocents. He is a monster in human skin, and a testament to the sickness and depravity that lurks in the hearts of those who would value the self above all else. bit more wordy than yours but it gets the point across
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Jan 4, 2019 07:08
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It's good legislation, not just in content but in giving the Democrats something solid to campaign on right off the bat. Each of those measures is extremely popular on their own, and forcing the Republicans to vote against it in the House and to ignore it in the Senate strengthens the messaging contrast between the Democrats as being ~for the people~ and the Republicans as being power-obsessed assholes who answer only to their donors.
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Jan 6, 2019 13:04
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Instead of watching the speech, I played Company of Heroes 2 and ground down waves of fascist troops and tanks under the treads of my IS-2s. definitely a more productive use of my time imo
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Jan 9, 2019 05:38
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Woodchip posted:The intro to Dr Strangelove for the arty types. The ending of Dr Strangelove for the GIP types.
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Jan 9, 2019 17:07
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LingcodKilla posted:Holy hell track down these animals and crush them to death under their own stupid loving vehicles. I am so loving angry
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Jan 10, 2019 22:29
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I want to type out how I feel but it would quickly devolve into incoherent screaming
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Jan 10, 2019 22:33
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mlmp08 posted:Federal system is way more full with weirdos happy to work for nearly nothing and to get transferred across state lines regularly. That works better for trust fund granola types. I'd disagree with that characterization in that nobody is happy to work for GS-4 or GS-5 money. People just put up with it because they find value in the work they do and being in the places they work. Acebuckeye13 fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Jan 11, 2019 |
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That Works posted:look at me, look at meeeee motherfucker have you tried to find rent in the DC area?
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Jan 15, 2019 23:33
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M_Gargantua posted:got moved to cspam and is just pages of people with probations and bans for the moment The probations mostly look like Rask and Literal Tankie R. Guyovich going mad with power, so that's cool.
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https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1086277324029358081quote:“After President Trump revoked the use of military aircraft to travel to Afghanistan, the delegation was prepared to fly commercially to proceed with this vital trip to meet with our commanders and troops on the front lines,” Hammill said. Can't beat your opponents in elections at home? Get the Taliban to kill them abroad!
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Doc Hawkins posted:Virgil Texas of Chapo Trap House just joined the stream. He's also a goon! And not one of the terrible ones IIRC
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Clear enough skies in Michigan but too goddamn cold out to watch it for any significant amount of time
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Icon Of Sin posted:Hey so maybe that NPS job I interviewed for in Dec will finally get back to me about when/if I can sta-hahaha pissbaby is going to reject this one too and drag us further down I should be rehired in April for my job and I'm increasingly concerned that somehow the shutdown's gonna gently caress everything up. Really hope this doesn't effect your position, the hiring process is so absurdly hosed as it is Acebuckeye13 fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Jan 22, 2019 |
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Johnny Five-Jaces posted:She’s right. I didn't even own one (I was an Xbox kid) but realistically I don't know how it's anything other than the PS2.
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Don't read that thread if you value your sanity. Alternatively, only read Chuck Boone's posts. Dude does a great job of collecting news and summarizing the horror show that the county has become. There's also great posts from thread regulars who grew up in Venezuela, though only Blue Nation is still there. It's honestly not a bad thread, so much as one that's fine for long stretches of time in between getting blown up by news that attracts D&D or CSPAM posters who seem to think that opposing Maduro automatically means you support some form of US-backed regime change that will make things even worse you guys (though they never quite explain how).
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Jan 24, 2019 13:21
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Crakkerjakk posted:I dunno, I think after our track record in the last couple decades the burden of proof is really on anyone who is pro-regime change by America to explain why this time it'll be different. Nobody in the thread is actually pro-regime change 
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Bolow posted:There's no good option, but the least poo poo one is probably not enabling some loving fascists so they can privatize the oil reserves after they seize power. The opposition aren't fascists and Maduro's already sold most of the oil reserves to China. The idea that the opposition is somehow just as bad is an utter fantasy and displays a deep ignorance about why the country is in the situation that it's in.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:*eyeballs current events* Takes one to know one 
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BigDave posted:Crash course? Important addendum: While fluctuation in international oil prices have hurt the country, the far bigger problem has been price controls and a lack of investment in the state-run oil company, PDVSA. The price controls effectively prevent business from doing... well, business for a wide amount of goods, as the prices are set so low that selling basic poo poo like milk legally is done at a massive loss. This is a major reason for both scarcity and hyperinflation, and has persisted under the PSUV's government as the party loyalists in charge of state-owned industries can effectively get away with making the bare minimum to sell legally while making a massive killing selling products on the black market. With the PDVSA, since Chavez took power the company has been dying a slow and painful death. Oil is an industry that requires a ton of capital investment and expertise, and they've lost both under the governments of Chavez and Maduro. Even during the 2000s, when oil was at an all-time high, Venezuela's oil output actually decreased because the company didn't have enough money to drill new wells, and billions of dollars have been siphoned from the company to line the pocketbooks of the PSUV's elite. Mr. Nice! posted:And to add to this, we are supporting an attempted coup and appear to be the backing/funding for a lot of the anti-maduro grassroots. ehhh, sort of. So the gist of the current situation is that back in 2018, Maduro called for a new election for a six year term. And to ensure he would win, the state election organization (The CNE) took steps to completely remove the opposition* as a threat—a bunch of candidates were either prevented from running or flat-out arrested, entire political parties were barred from participating in the election, and the apparatus of the state did everything in its power to promote Maduro over the opposition. As a result, the opposition openly refused to participate in the election, and Maduro 'won' the least attended election in Venezuelan history. A number of countries, including a wide arrangement of fellow South American states, refused to recognize the election as legitimate as a result. (Which, of course, is understandable—imagine the 2020 election, for instance, if the only people allowed to run against Trump were Jeb Bush and Joe Lieberman.) Flash forward to January, and Maduro takes office for his second six-year term as President. Not long afterwards, however, Juan Guaidó, head of the National Assembly (The state legislature that Maduro effectively invalidated after the opposition won big in 2015) declared that because Maduro's election had been fraudulent, the office of the President was technically vacant, and following the Constitution he was now effectively the interim President. It's a "It's legal if you squint" argument, but it was enough for a wide number of countries to recognize him as President, including most of the rest of the hemisphere. Now, news has come out over the past few days that Guaidó coordinated to a degree with other countries, including the US and many other South American countries. However, the 'coup; such as it is, is by no means armed, and seems to basically be hinging on international political and economic pressure forcing Maduro to call for new elections. Whether this will actually happen is debatable, as Maduro still has control of the military (for now) and is a stupid stubborn idiot. As Trump is also a stupid stubborn idiot, this will likely lead to disaster of some kind... but, speaking personally, I can understand why Guaidó and the opposition have decided to take this route, as there's virtually no other route anyone can see towards ending the crisis peacefully, as the PSUV has made themselves far too powerful and entrenched to be removed through normal democratic means. *It's very much worth noting that the opposition is actually a collective of basically every other political party in Venezuela. Their makeup includes parties with a fairly wide array of beliefs (Their second and third largest component parties, for instance, are both recognized by Socialist International), but their primary objective is to remove the PSUV from power and end the self-imposed crisis they have plunged the nation into. e: Also I describe myself as 'ostensibly Catholic' 
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not caring here posted:So who are the options so far? Got Gabbard the psycho, Harris the horrible prosecutor, probably fuckin' Hillary, Bernie and Uncle Joe so fuckin' old they fart cobwebs, and the the CEO of starbucks who I know absolutely nothing about? That the lineup so far? So far as official declarations go: Elizabeth Warren Kamala Harris Kirsten Gillibrand Julián Castro Tulsi Gabbard John Delaney (Former representative) Pete Buttigieg (Mayor of South Bend, Indiana) Andrew Yang (some guy) As for people who are almost certainly going to run, but haven't announced: Joe Biden Bernie Sanders Cory Booker Sherrod Brown Amy Klobuchar There's a Vox article that goes over the candidates that I pulled these names from. Of everyone, Warren still probably has the best combo of not being old as gently caress, having decent policies, and having people actually know her name, but her political instincts are... questionable. But she's not Clinton, so I don't think she'd have too much trouble beating Trump in 2020 considering how there is so much to run against and that she's got decent policies to run on.
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Reign Of Pain posted:Why did Kamala kick her poo poo off at Howard University if she needs the rural red to switch votes from 2016 in order to win? She doesn't? Part of why Trump won in 2016 was because of depressed turnout in urban areas and increased turnout in rural areas. In Michigan, for instance, Obama won by a comfortable 10 point margin with 2,564,569 votes, but Clinton underperformed Obama by about 200K votes and as a result lost to Trump by a mere 11K votes. A big part of that was lessened turnout from African-American majority cities like Detroit—so starting a campaign by appearing at a historically black college isn't a bad strategy to energize a key demographic.
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redneck nazgul posted:You're not going to energize the Democratic base by putting Trump-but-Blue up there. You need to give people a reason to vote for you beyond "I'm not the other guy" and you do that through policy that people want to vote for. I disagree! I think that most people don't actually give a rat's rear end about policy, and instead will vote for the candidate that is able to give the simplest, easiest soundbites that appeal to their base desires. Bernie went from an obscure Senator that only political nerds like myself had heard of into one of the most popular politicians in America because he had simple, memorable proposals and soundbites (Medicare for all, free college, "Millionaires and Billionaires") that appealed to people, and contrasted particularly well against Clinton, who ran as Obama's third term but without any of Obama's appeal or charisma. Aside from 'protect Obamacare', none of her policies had any kind of simple or memorable soundbite that could be used to get people excited about them (Can you name any of Clinton's policies, for instance? I doubt you can!), though obviously she was hampered by the media utterly refusing to let the email scandal die. Trump, of course, ran on policies that changed by the day, but that didn't matter because he was the epitome of the Fox News candidate: An arrogant, rich blowhard who never backed down and who promised to stick it to all the people you didn't like in vague and myriad ways. People saw what they wanted to see, and voted accordingly. Personal charisma matters, and matters a lot. Policy still matters, of course, but where I think it will matter most is in the primary—in a crowded field, candidates will be fighting for both donations and volunteers, and whoever has the policy that most appeals to the base and can vocalize it effectively is going to have a major advantage.
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not caring here posted:They... want to invade Columbia? Or use Columbia as a staging are to Venezuela? And they think Columbia is gonna be fine with either? They might be. They've taken on a huge amount of refugees from Venezuela, the Venezuelan side of the border is apparently a major hotspot for smuggling black market goods into and out of the country, and IIRC there's some FARC remnants out there as well. They're very much against Maduro, and are a part of the regional coalition against him. Maduro's got to go, but deploying troops anywhere is an exceptionally dumb and shortsighted move so of course that's what we're doing, though 5,000 troops by themselves probably aren't going to be doing much.
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MRC48B posted:I would hope if he does run 3rd party, he pulls some of the "More money = better than" vote away from trump. This is actually what Nate Silver thinks might happen: https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1090271422822330368?s=19 https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1090273520561475590?s=19
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