November 2019 Current Events: Blade Runner happened this month

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Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

Handsome Ralph posted:

Beto just dropped out of the race.

He also quickly said that he is not going to run for Senate either.

Lol pwnd

# ¿ Nov 1, 2019 23:08

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 15:20

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

Fallom posted:

What was Pompeo like at the CIA? Was he a capable director that turned into a self-serving sack of poo poo later on or did he try to run the place like his own little Trumpian fiefdom?

Yo what could he have possibly done but sip coffee and pass word at the meeting b?

# ¿ Nov 5, 2019 03:18

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

aphid_licker posted:

Having a hard time imagining something that would be worse for the US than getting involved in Mexico. Forever police action with no clear goal beyond killing bad guys, brutalizing and corrupting the army, feeding the flames of antihispanic racism, further destabilizing a country of 100 Million people on the US border, the US would be in a really bad place in 10 years

So ghost recon wildlands dlc then?

# ¿ Nov 5, 2019 18:58

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Vas....u....dus?

# ¿ Nov 7, 2019 08:04

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

Chichevache posted:

Hes a 19 year old kid working towards gun control because he was at a loving school shooting two years ago. I'm not going to call him dumb when bad actors try to manipulate the truth when he is going out there doing everything he can to enact chance. I know we love tearing down leftists around here, but this is an actual child for fucks sake.

And besides, you can do that stupid meme poo poo to literally anyone. It takes five seconds on google to find a picture of Bernie palling around with white supremacists.

19 year old "kid" lol

# ¿ Nov 11, 2019 17:55

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

Chichevache posted:

That's absolutely a kid. A big one, but still a kid. gently caress, most adults are still children.

That's a young adult. That ain't no kid. They may not know poo poo about life but calling them a child, I feel is just dismissive. They're grown enough to be a dumbass all on their own and figure this poo poo out, just like everyone else did.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2019 19:34

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

Proud Christian Mom posted:

Some entirely bad faith arguments and pearl clutching about the "leftist dictator" from the US military support forum? Color me shocked.

Go back to leftbook w that inane bullshit lol.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2019 13:34

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

facialimpediment posted:

"Here's how money launderers crime... hey wait a minute that sounds like a good idea"

https://twitter.com/viaSimonRomero/status/1196531619886010368?s=19

Edit: posting without reading article because you'll see why

https://twitter.com/seattletimes/status/1196442890932756480?s=19

Lmfuckingao

# ¿ Nov 19, 2019 15:49

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

Suicide Watch posted:

The Chapo episode on Hunter was great. You can tell that Hunter is an earnest and well meaning good dude, just with way higher stature than he deserves. Beau was the good one. Hunter is literally enlisted.txt

Lol just lol that you listen to chapo

# ¿ Nov 21, 2019 16:17

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

Bored As gently caress posted:

Dr. Hill is such a goddamn fox. Nothing hotter than a brilliant woman. She's seeing through everything Nunes is trying to get at.

I get that you want some smart lady owning the republishits to sit on your face rn, but sir this is an Arby's drivethru. Please go to the next window to pick up your order.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2019 19:53

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

McNally posted:

So, uh...

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-admits-to-ukraine-military-aid-quid-pro-quo-tv-2019-11

Yeah.

Bigly Deals went on live television and said that he did the things he's being accused of doing.

Ahhahahahahahaha

# ¿ Nov 23, 2019 05:07

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

Pryor on Fire posted:

This discussion is interesting, but ultimately irrelevant when it comes to Mayor Pete. He worked for McKinsey for years doing (his words) "economic development in war zones", so he's an actual CIA agent running for president.

So the answer to question of "why Pete served" is

"my handler told me to as phase one of the plan"

Signing up for McKinsey today.

# ¿ Nov 24, 2019 01:08

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

Stravag posted:

He's probably having to get his erection treated every 3 hours to avoid injury

So Aletta Ocean must be racking up those frequent flyer miles.

# ¿ Nov 25, 2019 03:42

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

I read this and felt it was worth sharing a POC perspective on Mayor Pete. The article is the aptly titled "Pete Buttigieg is a lying motherfucker" and apparently it's because the silver spoon having motherfucker thinks he knows why POCs don't value education. He has no loving clue. My poo poo wasn't as bad as the authors, but my parents and my friends parents were putting each other's addresses down to ensure we all landed ok at decent public schools. poo poo wasnt that great but it beat out going to the shitbag school that had a rep as a rough school. Where I'd have probably ended up mixed up w gang poo poo or ended up in juvie, or would have had to fight motherfuckers every week instead of once a semester or once a year whenever a bully wanted to press me a little too hard.

The fact this article even had to be written, and that it had material to pull from AT ALL is an affront to anyone who has had to suffer to get through this poo poo called life. Let alone minorities like myself who have to deal w the repercussion of the techie white boy's stupid self serving bullshit. That's my take. That's how much reading this poo poo moved me. Not looking forward to this guy ever having power beyond dog catcher b.

gently caress Mayor Pete forever and ever (don't actually.)

https://www.theroot.com/pete-buttigieg-is-a-lying-mf-1840038708?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=theroot_facebook

Viva Miriya fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Nov 26, 2019

# ¿ Nov 26, 2019 03:12

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

And this for the ones I know never click poo poo, not even if encouraged by a "passionate" post. gently caress Mayor Pete, forever and ever.

Michael Harriot of The Root posted:

Pete Buttigieg Is a Lying MF

Seven thousand three hundred twenty-two dollars.
I hid it in a white Piggly Wiggly bag in the back of the dishwasher. Every single time I returned to that tiny apartment, I opened up that Navajo-white Kenmore dishwasher and made sure it was there. It was not a gift. It was not a reward. It wasn�t even�mine.

And it still wasn�t enough.

I am from what most people would call �the hood.� The bad section of town. You know�where black people live.�During the crack revolution of the late �80s, to get to school every day, I would give a friendly nod as I walked past the early-rising dope boys. I meandered through the projects and�if it had recently rained�I waited for someone to help me put a 10-foot long wooden plank across the ditch that separated the black part of town from the bucolic neighborhood where the only high school in town was located. If no one was there, or if a prankster had hidden the makeshift bridge, then I had to either leap across or walk the long way around, adding an extra 15 minutes to my morning walk. Our neighborhood had no bus, so either you walked that balance beam behind the projects, took the 30-minute stroll or you said: �gently caress it.�

I never said gently caress it.

But if I did, it wouldn�t have been because of a lack of role models. If I had chosen to keep my mama�s lights on instead of making that daily trek, my decision wouldn�t have been based on a tropological dearth of �motivation� or communal ambivalence. As I grow older, I realize that I was not gifted, talented or even diligent.

I�m just a lucky motherfucker.

Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is a lucky motherfucker, too.

He�attended�one of the�best private schools in the country�that was quite literally on the campus of one of the best colleges in the country, Notre Dame University, where his father worked as a professor for 29 years. His mother taught at an�even better, more elite�school.�And if you ask how he got into Harvard or became a Rhodes Scholar, Mayor Pete would probably insist that it had nothing to do with whiteness. He would likely tell you that he valued education and had great role models, both of which are probably true. There is no question that he is intelligent, hard-working and well-educated.

But he didn�t have to jump a ditch.
So, when a clip surfaced of Buttigieg explaining why negro kids fail at school so often, his answer made perfect sense.

https://twitter.com/RzstProgramming/status/1198623649990946817?s=20

�Kids need to see evidence that education is going to work for them,� Buttigieg explained whitely, when he was running for mayor in 2011. You�re motivated because you believe that at the end of your education, there is a reward; there�s a stable life; there�s a job. And there are a lot of kids�especially [in] the lower-income, minority neighborhoods, who literally just haven�t seen it work. There isn�t someone who they know personally who testifies to the value of education.�

I want to be clear: Pete Buttigieg is a lying motherfucker.

This is not a misunderstanding. This is not a misstatement. Pete Buttigieg went to the best educational institutions America has to offer and he�more than anyone on the goddamned planet�knows that everything he just said is a baldfaced lie.

Majority-minority schools receive $23 billion less in funding than majority-white schools, according to a recent study by�EdBuild. Black students in Indiana, the state where Buttigieg serves as mayor, and across the country, are�disciplined more harshly�than white students. But even though Buttigieg has never attended a school with more than 10 percent black students, he thinks he knows what�s stopping black kids from achieving their educational dreams.

Apparently, it�s not the fact that the unemployment rate for black college graduates is�twice as high as the unemployment rate�for white grads. Black college graduates are paid 80 cents for every dollar a white person with the same�education earns. White people leave college with�lower debt and higher earnings. White kids get more resources, more�advanced classes�and have access to more�technology. But Pete says it could all be solved with a vision-board.

Mayor Pete�s bullshittery is not just wrong, it is�proof.
It proves men like him are more willing to perpetuate the fantastic narrative of negro neighborhoods needing more role models and briefcase-carriers than make the people in power stare into the sun and see the blinding light of racism. Get-along moderates would rather�make poo poo up�out of whole cloth than wade into the waters of reality. Pete Buttigieg doesn�t want to change anything. He just wants to�be something.

This is not just a lie of omission, it is a dangerous precedent. This is why institutional inequality persists. Not because of white hoods and racial slurs. It is because this insidious double-talk erases the problem by camouflaging it. Because it is painted as a problem of black lethargy and not white apathy. Pete Buttigieg is standing over a dying man, holding the oxygen machine in his hand and telling everyone:
�Nah, he doesn�t need CPR. He�s just holding his breath.�

Negligent homicide is still homicide.

Occasionally someone would invariably fall in the ditch. It wasn�t because they didn�t see someone cross successfully, it was because the banks of that ditch was slippery and muddy when it rained. To this day, no one has ever built a bridge over that ditch. But over the years, so many people have walked that same path, that the banks eventually wore down and became crossable.

No one ever gave a gently caress.

But motherfuckers never stopped�jumping.

In the summer of 1992, for weeks, those same D-boys I walked past every day collected all of the ones (and a few five-dollar bills) from guys on the block and handed it to me when I left for college. It was seven thousand three hundred twenty-two dollars.

I didn�t have a driver�s license and my mother is legally blind, so they�hired someone�to drive me to college. None of my college friends ever knew that I had a hidden treasure in my dishwasher but a few of them noticed that it seemed like I always had a wad of cash. When I arrived to campus in a chauffeured, 1965 drop-top Cadillac (white, with hydraulics and gold specks), a couple even said:
�drat, you�re lucky.�

They were right.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2019 03:21

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

shame on an IGA posted:

Viva, thank you for making me feel even better about spending nine hours banging doors for Bernie today.

You're welcome. Glad you did the work. Now tell them to stop calling my rear end, I already said they'd get the vote. Goddamn they motivated.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2019 04:22

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

Dum Cumpster posted:

Another thanks for bringing attention to the contents. I'm sick and tired spaced out reading your first post.

Gotchu. Glad I did it then.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2019 04:23

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

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.

Not them but def blocking that number. Thanks fam.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2019 06:04

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

Pryor on Fire posted:

Here is the best rundown I've read on Pete and his reasons for doing what he does:

https://www.theroot.com/pete-buttigieg-is-a-lying-mf-1840038708

He's like a much more savvy, younger Hillary. His only goal in life seems to be to get more status and power and doesn't actually want to actually accomplish anything besides acquire more power.

I think we're going to see a lot more of these types now that Trump has made everyone realize you can get away with anything and the executive branch is effectively unchecked. I think Trump is inspiring a lot of much more competent psychopaths to follow in his footsteps, the first person to get elected who is actually educated and intelligent in the Trump mold will be scary as hell.

I appreciate your take on that piece too b.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2019 20:23

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

bird cooch posted:

I don't know how anybody gets all bent out of shape about buttigieg. He's pretty much blank man that's his entire sales pitch, his pros, and his cons combined.

Well gay troop blankman. If he was a superhero he would be "Captain middle-management bureaucrat"

I keep hearing rumors from friends of mine who work in campaigns that Biden is bleeding mid range staff.

Because what if he gets in? I don't want that fucker in the hot seat.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2019 00:18

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

bird cooch posted:

I mean I'll take four to eight years of 'meh' over what we got right now any day. I'll take any of them outside of obvious Russian candidate 2: electric boogaloo

Same but I don't need to actively want it neither.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2019 00:36

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

Vasudus posted:

hope is the first step on the road to disappointment

# ¿ Dec 1, 2019 06:39

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

I thought it was existing

Only for mr meeseeks

# ¿ Dec 1, 2019 06:39

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

Coldwar timewarp posted:

Better not hope, or try. Doomed to defeat anyway.

As inspiring a message as AstroTurf Pete has to give.

I�m sure incrementalism will work this time.

away at the guy quoting 40k, lol

# ¿ Dec 1, 2019 09:05

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 15:20

Viva Miriya: Jan 9, 2007

mlmp08 posted:

https://twitter.com/inthesedeserts/status/1200950521386983426?s=21

Lmfao

# ¿ Dec 1, 2019 09:06

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