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bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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Wingnut Ninja posted:

I'm sure people could debate "best" til the end of time, but it's definitely the most accurate and realistic.

Anything that shows hours of officers suffering poetic justice for trying to be nobles is tops in my book.

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bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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Vasudus posted:

anything that puts your total payments or value into the hands of the free market is a scam

This cannot possibly be. Many Very Serious People have spent decades telling me that we need to privatize Social Security or it's going to go broke and there won't be anything left.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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Proud Christian Mom posted:

It's heartening to see people finally realizing that it's just one big loving gamble and the people actually playing the game have no skin in it

Some are, but a really large portion of the country is plugging their ears and yelling, "IT'S ALL THE BROWN PEOPLE'S FAULT STRONG DADDY TRUMP WILL HURT THEM FOR ME AND MAKE IT ALL BETTER."

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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psydude posted:

Somewhere out there on a SharePoint server lies a PowerPoint briefing about how much time is spent on PowerPoint briefings.

Do you want Inception? Because that's how you get Inception.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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colachute posted:

A friend of mine brought up the point that we should be making public K-12 education funding more of a national issue since it's generally a local/state one, and I kind of agree with him.

It absolutely should be. It won't, but it should be. There is so much institutional racism that lives on the back of locally funded education it's loving ludicrous.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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Fister Roboto posted:

My favorite is the people who are on the bargaining stage of grief, ie it's not going to be THAT bad. My dad's a big fan of saying that people can just move north to Canada and Siberia, which will of course be perfectly hospitable and ready to support billions of people with zero effort.

The temperature of those areas might become livable in our post-climate change hellscape while India ends up abandoned, but the current days of easy food production in the quantities required for the current population to not drop by low to mid double digit percents will be completely, irrevocably rear end-hosed sans lube. Rough estimate is about a century per inch of topsoil, assuming an otherwise balanced and lively ecosystem in perfect conditions (like nutrient rich rains rinsing off mountains and accumulating in valleys) and less ideal places, you can double or triple that time.

Siberian wastelands are....not that.

Edit, that's also just talking soil. Latest I read was something 30-40% caloric drop in production of staple crops like wheat and rice, purely from the excess atmospheric CO2, which is another point you're likely to hear, "Plants love CO2, they grow better with more of it, it'll be fine!" because they're loving stupid and swallowing any excuse they can find on Facebook to ignore how truly, thoroughly, hosed we are.

bird food bathtub fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Aug 3, 2019

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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colachute posted:

if a mexican shoots up a public place i wonder how fast we would be allowed to talk about the wall without it being too soon

Don't follow the presidential Twitter feed much do you? We're already talking about that with MS13 super soldiers that we've locked up in child concentration camps for national safety.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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colachute posted:

i'm 100% serious when i say if you want gun control, run on the platform of arming all minorities.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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Fallom posted:

That’s maybe the only thing Fox News could say that might actually get young right wingers to lash back.

The average age of a Fox viewer is like 60-something. Young right wingers are on 8-chan and StormFront and stuff.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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Usually it's hip fractures that do in old people but hey I'm ok with the turtle breaking his shell and dying.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Wonder how long before people catch on that all you have to do is say you're fighting the deep state antifa super soldier concrete milkshake wielding foreign invaders infesting the country and half the country will scream for your release. Maybe wear a brown shirt while doing it, might as well get things moving in that direction.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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Wife said the sky opened up did a ten minute apocalypse then just, stopped.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
A lot of the recent mass shooter "manifestos" are also super dense with sarcastic extremely-online bullshit sourced from the infected cloaca of 8chan and the like specifically for the purposes of trolling. Right wing propaganda pulls out two words from a bigoted screed about securing the future for our children and screams about the violent antifa super soldiers looking to murder your dog and make your children stop talking to you at thanksgiving.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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Acebuckeye13 posted:

"You're in direct violation of being a jackass"

This is my vote. loving sick to death of giving that kind of bullshit the veneer of seriousness that even comes from stuff like "fact checking" and "reasonable debate". No, gently caress that, the assumption of good faith has been well and truly abused and destroyed. "You're a jackass, let the adults talk now" is perfect.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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orange juche posted:

Considering they wanted to bring in a for-profit corrections company lol yeah they're big on the FREE MARKET

Still loving despicable that we even have a for-profit prison industry in the first place.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Does the world get another kickass nature preserve out of this? We might be on to something with this whole exclusion zone thing where nature gets to recover. Maybe we should make a few thousand more of them around the world. I hear there's a guy to call about this. 1-800-FOR-SS18

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
NPR was going over the Rod Blagoya-whatever thing on the way home. Turns out his wife was on Fox multiple times saying, word for word, how unfairly he was treated and how he's the real victim for just doing some light treason corruption.

The leader of the country is an oatmeal brained dotard and a propaganda channel dictates his actions to him because he's outsourced his loss of mental faculties to the television.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:

The whole "commute Rod's sentence" thing is loving disgusting and I think the only reason he's doing it is because rod went to jail for the same poo poo ol' Donny's done.

You're over thinking it. He saw someone on Fox. That's it. There's no strategy, no secondary effects he's going for, no future planning. He saw a thing on Fox. Done. He has become completely swiss-cheese brained and his hours of watching Fox every day dictate his actions to him.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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LingcodKilla posted:

Help the clueless.

Epstein got a memo that someone called wanting to "teach him "russian" " and that they were 2 x 8 years old, not blonde.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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hobbesmaster posted:

Not saying Trump didn't rape anyone, just saying it didn't happen to the woman being deposed.

She probably doesn't look enough like Ivanka to get it up for him.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Godholio posted:

Honest question: If the House impeaches him, what do you think the consequence is?

"If anything I did was so wrong, why didn't Democrats impeach me?"

"If anything I did was so wrong, why did Republican vote not to convict me with impeachment?

I kinda like the answer to the second one more than the first.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Feds should probably be crawling up some people's assholes with a microscope on that one. Everyone and their cousin's neighbor's dog was joking about the guy being a "suicide" risk. I can't see any possible reason for not having him on maximum strength suicide observation protocols.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Which is why people on actual suicide watch get poo poo like basically-paper hospital gowns and the like. There's absolutely no loving way a guy that high profile that already had "attempted" suicide once wasn't going to be on absolute top tier protections if the goal was to stop anything from happening.

This stuff stinks worse than old dog farts.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Eh, fits right in with Supply-Side Jesus talk. For-profit imprisonment isn't lucrative enough, let's throw a veneer of Good Christian Stuff on it and force them to work for free. Much more profitable when then government supplies your slaves and pays for their food and shelter. You don't even need to buy them from across the ocean and take care of them anymore! No private investment needed, just socialize all the costs and take the profits.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Same poo poo as the polar vortex this year or last or whatever, "IF COLD THEN WHY CLIMATE CHANGE?!?!"

"Umm, because this is all the cold air that is supposed to be over the north pole which is like 50 degrees hotter than usual right now you ignorant hog-fucker."

Not that it matters, it's fascist propaganda. The card says, "moops"

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Tweets are easy and this guy's sleezy. Let me know when he starts humping the limelight with this new message half as hard as he did during his 11 days of attacking everyone screaming the truth in his face, then I'll maybe start caring. Converting only when you finally get cut off isn't exactly impressive. Want redemption instead of scorn? Put in the work.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
There's also a loving brick wall of motivated ignorance in this country. A whole big god drat lot of people want to hear about how 'the racism' is over and they're not the bad people that did it, and at the same time they want to hear about how everything is the fault of anyone that fails the paper bag test. Anything that goes counter to the simple pablum they get spoon fed to them by their preferred media sources is something they're emotionally motivated against understanding.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
So those ICE raids where kids went to their first day of school then came home to locked doors and found out they're likely going to be orphans now?

My first thought was, "Man it's hosed up that the employees keep getting busted for this poo poo because racism but the people hiring them get away with it time and time again."

Well gently caress me sideways with a cactus, I wasn't cynical enough. The racist cruelty isn't just the point, it's also really profitable to call in an ICE raid on your own employees if they dare to do something that might even hint at being organized labor.

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bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
The fascist playbook has already been written, we know what the Republican response to deep dicking the economy will be. The only two questions left are which out-group will be the highest profile when they need a target to redirect their base's anger away from themselves and how far they'll push to cripple democracy to stay in power during the upheaval.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

When you guys finish can you just update a SHARP brief and pass it along to the rest of the forums? Please and thanks

Would dearly have loved to hear the Q&A portion of those around 2016-17. "So, I can say grab them by the pussy right, that's not sexual harassment now? I'm just using some locker room talk."

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Our current poo poo-ministration has already hosed things up so bad and so deeply that it's inevitable things are going to go to poo poo, and hard. All I really want is for the crash to happen on Strong Daddy's watch so the mouth breathing idiots that only ever politically respond to themselves getting directly hosed over don't have anyone else to blame.

30%-ish of the country are just lost causes and will gleefully blame it on someone darker than a paper bag, but Republican propaganda is gonna land really flat with people outside of the CHUD-o-sphere if he's actually in charge when everything he's done blows up. If they successfully kick the can down the road long enough that it ends up on someone else's watch there's a lot of really dumb people that will buy the bullshit smokescreen that he didn't actually do the damage he's done.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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Vincent Van Goatse posted:

It's probably a bad sign for my mental health that I immediately assumed this is somehow actually bad news because the vaccine is actually made from endorphins harvested from dying Ugandan LGBT children or the manufacturing process is powered by a forsaken child.

My cynicism went for the late stage capitalism route. Pharmacy groups are such pure, uncut evil I figured they'd find a way to corrupt it.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Mike Tyson says he burns through $40,000 of weed at his ranch every month.

Gonna go, go big I guess.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

bengy81 posted:

Trump broke NPR, I still listen to some local coverage, and shows like 1A and Reveal are good. Morning Edition and ATC are hot garbage now.

Nice Polite Republicans. Once their funding got slashed and they started sucking Koch to pay the bills it's become the escort service of propaganda to Fox's street corner whoring.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
"Gun insurance" is a really great way to let America's racism turbo-gently caress minorities again. It's an insidiously genius idea; solves nothing, protects no one, fucks minorities.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

Right? OH THANK GOD THE GUN THAT MURDERED MY FAMILY MEMBER WAS INSURED AND I CAN GET $300,000 FOR MY LOSS

I didn't even think of the payouts, I was looking at it from the other side of the exchange. It's always presented as some kind of invisible hand solution that just magics away all the problems because free market while not "infringing" anyone's "rights" and all I can ever think of is everyone darker than a paper bag trying to have the same rights in this magical free market wonder land and hearing, "Well based on your neighborhood, level of education, prior history and all these other completely neutral totally not-racist factors it's going to cost you twenty times as much as Whitey McDrivenSnow over here to have the same access to your rights."

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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Torrannor posted:

Warren seems so much better than Biden, do US Democrats really want another centrist Dem who hardly does anything against GOP craziness?
The actual people? Eeeeeh. Capital and the 1% are nervously tugging their collar about the ideas of things like breaking up monopolies, taxing the wealthy, not rear end raping an entire country with medical bills.

I include in that designation of 'capital' the bought-and-paid for consultancy and punditry classes that exist to represent the desires of the ruling class. Those people/institutions would absolutely love another four years of centrist do-nothing bullshit from Biden because the universe does not exist past next quarter's numbers to them.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Gotta say that is some really, really (funny) lovely luck. Your big fancy secret navy widget falls off your boat...on to another boat.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

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hobbesmaster posted:

Maybe we can cut off Israel because they apparently don't want congress to visit.

How does that accomplish the administration's goal of harming people with dark skin?

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bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
*Travels back to the '90s*

Ok so look, Donald Trump is going to be president- stop laughing I'm serious. He's going to usher in the golden era of American Nazis because the black president- god dammit I mean it stop laughing. He will spend his days, umm, let's call it AOL chatting with the entire world at the same time on their cell phones and his the protesters will wear banana outfits playing music.

Wait, wait, let go of me I'm telling the truth no you have to listen we need to stop the future don't lock me up nooooooooooo!

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