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M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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Does reading the 2nd on repeat count as reading at this point? Or do you think they just parse all the words and bumper stickers as one contiguous symbol for white power?

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M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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BigDave posted:

Jeez, I guess I got a better education in high school then I realized.

My 10th grade history book was A People's History of the United States.

We also learned how the Kennedy assassination was a conspiracy, a guy named Smeadly Butler stopped the DuPoint and Rockefeller families from starting a military junta, and Reagan gutted the working class by going to war with the unions.

If Bezos and Musk tried that again could anyone realistically stop them?

I can also imagine the tech billionaires deciding that they were now the sole oligarchy of most of South America and the rest of the world just shrugging their shoulders.

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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At surface take is have sided with the guy who bit the ear off of his local councilman but then apparently that guy said something as stupid as “Hong Kong belongs to China?”

Why would you go so far to fight people and bite ears if you’re in support of the coming fascist oppression?

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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KirbyKhan posted:

Current Event: I got my wedding video back y'all! Bombing the forums with this link like Turkey bombing the Kurds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSCJuWI_y8Q

Too wholesome for 2019

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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Nick Soapdish posted:

US invaded Mexico in late 2020 in the Ghost in the Shell universe

GitS if anything under predicted the level of tech dystopia were heading too. If it were accurate peoples cyberbrains would be forced into eternal undying wage slavery and if you commit suicide they just restore a backup and punish the backup for it.

But it had a good pitch for a world of cyber terror and we’ve almost got to the literal brainwashing in reality.

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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joat mon posted:

I expect it's the difference between local and national races. Local stuff, signs are more important to getting your name out there than ads or mailers. For national stuff, I expect the word is gotten out by ads and news, and signs are more for voters to show their support.

Local races, you want as many people as possible people to have signs to get your name out, so it's an expense (and a good one) National races, your name's already out there and I guess the idea is that people will pay to show their support to support other parts of the campaign. Sort of like free baseball tickets to get people into the park, but fans will pay for shirts and ballcaps.
Still, the idea of charging for signs is weird.

Theres an important psychological component you're missing. Yes technically Bernie may be a household name, but seeing bernie signs on every 10th house vs every 100th house you drive past is motivating. You get more motivated, and maybe are a little more enthusiastic when you're selling bernie to your neighbor. Now multiply that by the population in every swing district.

Terrifying Effigies posted:

According to some of the replies the yard signs are closer to $15 for at cost, but just shows that 1) Bernie's got a huge small donor war chest and 2) he's investing it back into stuff that helps keep the grassroots motivated and get out the word at the community level rather than spending it all on pointless TV ad buys and consultant leeches.

Lol no. The people in those twitter replys are idiots. Maybe they're looking at what a sign would cost if you try to buy a 100 from kinko's or something. When you start buying in the 10k's quantity yard signs are about $0.25 each, maybe less depending on how bulk you buy. Shipping them to the base is the most expensive part of the process. But if you can pack them in box's and hand them out to people at the office that saves you another few dollars per count.

Make sure you hire engineers and procurement specialists for your campaign people, and not lanyard suit's with their useless statistics.

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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A Bad Poster posted:

it sounds like something from a bad trip that would make you want to slit your wrists

You stumbled upon a metaphor for 2019 while boomering over a song from 2019 and wonder why its popular.

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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shame on an IGA posted:

So I've finally been using youtube music the last couple weeks and once it's trained up it is pretty drat amazing at finding stuff I like that I'd never heard of. In particular, Caravan Palace fuckin slaps.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbsBEb1ZxWA

Wonderland is probably my most played song of 2019

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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Imagine how it will look to all the older democratic voters to have a nobody like Bloomberg or Holder join the race after the debates. Now imagine the disdain they’ll get from all the young voters.

On the other hand if Clinton decides to run it’s going to be a merciless mocking, and if she becomes the National nominee, it won’t be from vote count. There will be riots.

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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Beyond 21 age is a social construct. Before 21 you are deemed too inexperienced to be allowed to make most choices.

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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:drat:

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:

That is a news source I've never, ever seen before (with a .news url, which automatically trips my bullshit alarm), which has no description of itself of any kind (and which has a suspended Twitter account), in a story written by a reporter I can't find any information on, citing audio posted by a Costa Rican newspaper(?) who I also can't find any information on, outside their own website.

Just because you agree with the source's conclusions doesn't mean the source isn't bullshit.

E: a brief search for news sources in Costa Rica doesn't even bring up "El periodico." I can only find it by googling "elperiodicocr."

Note also that the story, while cited to "El Periodico", doesn't include a link to it on "El Periodico's" website. Or even says that it came from there outside "Elvis Martinez / EP". The reader is presumably supposed to infer that from the initials and the name of the SoundCloud account.

Nor is it tagged under the listed author therein:

https://elperiodicocr.com/tag/elvis-martinez/

Checking "En24.news":

Registry Expiration: 2020-05-21 00:05:31 UTC
Updated: 2019-11-06 03:00:40 UTC
Created: 2019-05-21 00:05:31 UTC

Yes, clearly a completely unknown news site created 6 months ago that only reports things from other sources, completely uncited, must be trustworthy.

Oh but don't worry, it's been picked up by telesur, the Venezuelan state owned outlet, so it must be true.

Check your freaking sources, that's all I ask. And when in doubt, don't trust Twitter randos. Especially don't trust partisan Twitter randos.

One of the now suspended twitter accounts had a post the day before the coup saying that tomorrow there is going to be a coup, and hey, here is audio tapes of them planning a coup. Same account had like two weeks of posts saying that people were planning a coup

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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excellent choice

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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McNally posted:

I've been told that I'm not doing enough to make people aware, so in the spirit of GIP I'm going to wildly overreact and post this same message in all the active threads.

Another run of Useless Dirt shirts is being put together. Deadline to order is 11:59 PM Eastern time tomorrow.

Info is here

:justpost:

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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hobbesmaster posted:

It doesn’t. The university is already sieged, there’s no way in or out and everyone that attempts to cross that line either direction is arrested.

This is horrifying, lots of good people are going to get maimed or killed. On the bright side if school has recently taught me anything its that universitys are stocked with enough material and brain power to be extremely dangerous targets to seize. Food and water will be the big decider on how long they can last.

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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Anyone know how Zeris is doing these days? Or are they one of the name changes I somehow missed?

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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joat mon posted:

That cloud you're shouting at is 4 1/2 years old.

I think he's more specifically referring to this from a week ago:

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

I just have an insatiable lust for Slavic and Terrorist blood and a true desire to see nukes at least go back into testing so we can see 4K HDR nuclear explosions. If they’re over Moscow or Riyadh, all the better.

Which is kinda hosed up

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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(Not a Photoshop)

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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Chichevache posted:

Sounds like millenials are lazy as gently caress and waiting for handouts.

Millennials are waiting for the Zoomers to start eating the rich, we want to watch it on Facebook live

Chichevache posted:

Gallagher doesn't need to be punished. He needs to be rehabilitated.

How about we just let him die? Egotistical psychopaths are a historically difficult group to rehabilitate.

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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shame on an IGA posted:

If it's (802) 391-3114 go ahead and block the number, they're fake bernie scammers that have been blowing me up too.

I'm curious how that is legal

And if its legal how have I not been using it on Trump supporters?

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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I mean more of the political scamming rather than the robocalling.

There is a grift here and we can all take advantage of it to do good.

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M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

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It’s more that Butt has a growing track record of having no real political will or drive behind the facade of “be president”. No substance under the suit.

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