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 Chester Alan Arthur was president from 1881 to 1885, he was not a popular president. Also, Last Week Tonight is back for season six where John Oliver will most likely use HBO's money to buy more stupid poo poo. Hopefully the dog supreme court will make a comeback. There will probably be a lot of stupid mascots (the We Got Him Tiger is probably too depressed to return though). This will also be the year where he finally exposes the Olsen Twins Conspiracy (it's really only one girl).
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mcmagic posted:I feel like we don’t need this show to learn that psychics are full of poo poo. But it's still fun to watch them being dunked on. banned from Starbucks posted:It's like they were about to go after religion bit got cold feet and instead picked an even easier target. They had an episode about televangelists though.
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Feb 25, 2019 19:24
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Luckily my job can't be automated  gently caress
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Mar 5, 2019 17:42
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cant cook creole bream posted:You're assuming that Alhazred does anything different from that.
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Mar 6, 2019 17:24
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Tarquinn posted:The hand was still funny, though. Surely John Oliver won't insult any powerful people this week says increasingly more nervous HBO lawyer.
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Mar 13, 2019 11:31
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SlothfulCobra posted:An okay episode. There's kind of an elephant in the room of a particular elephant that isn't in the room for once, a certain somebody that remarkably wasn't mentioned throughout the whole episode. Public outcry is sometimes the only outlet the people have against certain bad people in power, which is why they refine these outrage responses, before they get bored and turn it on some rando. But he brought that up. He said that public shaming isn't always bad because of those reasons you mentioned.
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Mar 21, 2019 18:58
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Dumb Lowtax posted:This show might be helping the left, but it is also part of the problem by spreading the centrist lies that nothing is worth fighting for, that nothing can be different systemwide, and that any attempts to change it are not only a waste of time, but in fact cause disharmony that is the only true problem in society must stamp out. That the true onus lies on voters, not rulers, to learn better and to fix things or else get out of the way.
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Apr 8, 2019 18:05
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Alan_Shore posted:When has he has said that? A quick google didn't bring up anything https://www.facebook.com/notes/outr...-/251212869181/
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Apr 22, 2019 16:45
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Eh that was in 2010, and more recent comments show hes learned and gotten better Good for him. But he has a tendency to say stupid poo poo about gender.
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Apr 23, 2019 10:37
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DC Murderverse posted:i'm glad they're doing an episode on the death penalty, honestly they could probably do a whole other thing about *who* gets executed.
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May 6, 2019 18:58
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TheCenturion posted:I'm a firm believer that, in some cases, the death penalty is called for. However, and more importantly, no justice system on Earth is currently capable of correctly determining when to apply it, and therefore, for all practical purposes, the death penalty shouldn't exist. Counterpoint: The state should not be allowed to decide that someone deserves to die.
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May 8, 2019 21:08
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Phenotype posted:That doesn't seem like a counterpoint at all. His post said that he was a firm believer in the death penalty.
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May 9, 2019 07:07
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It felt like John was back to his usual energy levels this episode (and holy poo poo that was some scary stuff) but I'm real disappointed they didn't actually book Momz In Da Hood to close the show. HBO lost their cultural relevance a couple of weeks ago.
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Jun 3, 2019 18:16
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Propaganda Machine posted:Also, they don't have to fund the cgi dragons anymore. But they still have to fund Oliver's shopping habit.
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Jun 4, 2019 11:32
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It is true though, Norway has a lot of dirt on foreign politicians.
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Jun 17, 2019 17:37
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mcbexx posted:Yeah ... that horse is dead now. It's definitely not alive and well. Then how could it be doing donuts besides a fiery crater?
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Aug 12, 2019 16:56
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Skippy McPants posted:Excellent episode tonight. You'd really hope that the medical field would be the one place in the world where racial and gender biases don't permeate but nope! The joke at the end about bringing a white guy is something I've literally seen happening in real-time where a woman's pain wasn't being taken seriously until her husband restated it verbatim to the practitioner. It's just loving horrifying that medicine in some areas hasn't evolved since antiquity.
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Aug 19, 2019 20:22
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So why is this thread suddenly about a politician who hasn't been covered in the last few episodes?
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Aug 20, 2019 12:39
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What the gently caress is wrong with Michael Bolton's face?
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Sep 30, 2019 17:16
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:He's 66? It seemed like he could barely move his mouth.
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Sep 30, 2019 18:59
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Diva cups are actually a real thing
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Oct 7, 2019 18:33
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Does the US not have laws for branding people vexatious litigants if they repeatedly file SLAPP suits? From the segment it sounds like even the states that do have anti-SLAPP laws only make people pay their opponents attorney's fees if they lose, without restricting their ability to file suit again in the future. I know that in my country you have to pay your own court expenses plus the court expenses of the guy you're suing if you lose the lawsuit. Which I guess is a good deterrent against frivolous lawsuits.
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Nov 12, 2019 17:58
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Dollars to Pesos we actually get a white paper on Why Bernie is Bad For AmericaTM. Your post aged...poorly. 
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Feb 17, 2020 18:21
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It's kinda hosed up how countries will just randomly censor tv-shows. India cuts away segments as to not offend their Disney overlords, Britain for some reason can't show footage from the parliament. Hasan Minhaj also got his program censored by the UAE, because while they're totally progressive and cool it would be nice if people just stopped making jokes about them.
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Mar 9, 2020 21:01
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:The media bubble, including Oliver, is still so brain-broken that they hope a ~TRUMP PIVOT~ is still possible because, surely underneath all of that narcissism and hubris is a human heart, right? I think it was more to make it clear that he isn't after scoring some political points on the pandemic. That he isn't attacking Trump because he's Trump but because he doing a genuinely lovely job at trying to stop people from dying.
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Apr 1, 2020 18:24
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Apr 7, 2020 08:17
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I honestly didn't even considered that the postal service can't also offer banking services.
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May 11, 2020 16:57
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Josh Lyman posted:Couldn’t a lot of it be fear of being sued for slander and/or losing access? I'm pretty sure that it's been demonstrated that the very best scenario when you sue Last Week Tonight is that you waste your money.
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May 13, 2020 17:12
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Speaking of Stewart, it's really depressing to see him talking about the same thing in 2014 and realizing that nothing has changed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KqDIPdCOg
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Jun 15, 2020 18:06
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Stare-Out posted:That "And now, this.." sure was something. Good news Butch, you'll get to die for the flag real soon.
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Jun 29, 2020 17:01
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SlothfulCobra posted:
It's a crisis in every country, even mine. Rich people are buying up apartments and renting it out to insane prices because they know people are desperate. In my opinion a regulated market is the only solution.
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Jun 30, 2020 09:48
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Djarum posted:Easiest way to combat this is by introducing a compounding real estate tax. If you own a single property you have the standard tax rate. Your second property raises this. Every property after compounds that tax rate to a point where it is uneconomical to own that much property. We've had this for three years in my country and it hasn't actually made that much of a difference.
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Jul 1, 2020 09:37
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Xealot posted:
Right now places is desirable because people need a place to live. Most people can't afford to consider the unique characteristics of the community, that's reserved for the wealthy.
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Jul 2, 2020 09:44
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Azhais posted:So your theory is you'd be happy to spend $200k building a house you didn't ultimately own at the end? I mean, that's basically what renting is and people are willing to do that.
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Jul 6, 2020 11:45
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Have a functional welfare state and a regulated housing market, that's at least two silver bullets.
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Jul 6, 2020 16:34
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SlothfulCobra posted:Worth also mentioning that mortgages as a whole are their own massive problem. All the value represented by all the money tied up in mortgages is one of the pillars that supports the economy, and the last time something went wrong with that, the whole economy went down, and there's no meaningful measures to prevent another collapse. The pandemic's not great for mortgage payments either. Norwegian banks actually lowered their interests on mortgages because they realized that it's better that they make a little less money over the economy collapsing.
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Jul 6, 2020 20:47
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Orange Devil posted:Here's the return and the incentive: "you get to live in society and have all your other needs taking care of". In exchange you perform useful labour to take care of the needs of others. That sounds a bit..authoritarian. Like, who's gonna define what is useful labor and what is not?
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Jul 6, 2020 22:49
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Djarum posted:Randomly caught this headline this morning. Someone mad. "Let me talk at length abut how little I care about John Oliver"
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Orange Devil posted:On the bright side we got rat erotica. https://www.cracked.com/article_21223_8-horrifying-movie-props-you-wont-believe-you-could-buy.html
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