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Maybe health insurance should be ripped out of the hands of employers entirely and they all get told to go gently caress themselves without lube? Would solve that 50 employee bullshit and subcontractors of subcontractors of contractors not offering actual jobs, just gussied up wage slavery as relates to coverage. Anyone saying, "But I love my employer insurance don't take it away abloo-bloo" is a short-sited sucker waiting to find out how well that coverage works out the second they get downsized, outsourced, and off-shored with a pink slip or do expensive stuff like actually start to use their coverage. The law doesn't mean poo poo, employers will find an excuse to "let someone go" if their usage of the benefits ups the rates and means a single red cent comes out of management pockets.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/nov/02/super-rich-leave-uk-labour-election-win-jeremy-corbyn-wealth-taxes Like they were really citizens of the country to begin with? At the level of billionaire which country you live in depends on your mood and which mansion you want to spend the season in. "leaving" the country is a paperwork protest that nobody else is going to notice because 99.99999% of your assets are already outside the country in tax havens anyway.
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Nov 2, 2019 17:33
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Nov 2, 2019 18:02
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What was the thought process behind that? Why would he go out in public again like that?
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Nov 3, 2019 03:35
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I have been reliably informed via tweet by the man who would at one point become president that you are not supposed to give credit to the president when the military kills a terrorist target. The timing of such a prescient statement is a little weird, but the sentiment is very obvious.
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Nov 3, 2019 14:53
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:How the gently caress did I get a better education on your history than you One of the two major parties in America is ideologically committed to the idea that slashing funding for anything that isn't a billionaire paying for their re-election is a universally positive goal in all situations, at all times, with no end ever. That this coincidentally creates a largely uneducated public is a feature, not a bug. Educated people start asking questions and believing things other than propaganda, and that is inconvenient
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Nov 3, 2019 22:00
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M_Gargantua posted:If Bezos and Musk tried that again could anyone realistically stop them?
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Nov 4, 2019 00:02
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Riot Carol Danvers posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1191409674656059392?s=19 Things that only get enforced on the political opposition so that enforcement can be used to attack them.
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Nov 5, 2019 03:17
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orange juche posted:I am quite well aware as I was born and raised there, and the governor's election was close as gently caress, Georgia is a state that could conceivably go blue as long as people keep on the press. It's gotta start somewhere, that's why get out the vote campaigns exist, and other grassroots efforts to get people who feel disenfranchised out to the polls. As far as compensation for voting, I really unfortunately don't know what to say there, because there unfortunately exists no legislation that requires employers to compensate for voting time other than allowing time off. Voter suppression in places like GA does not rely solely on convincing people to not vote. That is absolutely one strategy, and one they use to the hilt, but straight out being unable to vote is not an unheard of fantastic made up situation in these Republican poo poo holes, and that's just the "legal" stuff they do.
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Nov 5, 2019 22:25
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Donnie Dumbfuck put his all behind that race with his last minute I'm doubtful of that though. Instead we'll get to hear another verse of the narcissist's prayer.
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Nov 6, 2019 02:56
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McNally posted:I was in the Mississippi Guard. This is a safe space. Show me on the doll where the Guard touched you.
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Nov 6, 2019 03:24
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If we're doing massive upheaval reforms for education in this country could we maybe pull the funding out of every poo poo headed group of local pearl clutchers worried about their property values and being too close to "those" people? At the very god drat least make it state level.
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Nov 6, 2019 18:15
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not caring here posted:world's foremost experts in his field and has be lauded by everyone in government no matter the political lean. Oh that's gonna change real quick. Strong Daddy Trump is gonna say person bad, so person bad.
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Nov 7, 2019 04:44
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Notahippie posted:I buy this argument but my reaction has been to stick with Warren because Sander's theory of change requires sustained grassroots effort and if he can't turn that out to actually win the primary then he'll probably fail to execute it as a candidate or president. So I figure that either he turns out people and wins despite me, or I vote for Warren whose insider approach will deliver incremental but not transformational change. Incremental change is just suicide that takes longer for two reasons. One, we ain't got time for that poo poo with climate change. We go big or billions die. Two, any incremental changes will be thoroughly and absolutely rat-hosed raw dog style by Republicans, their propaganda machine, the judiciary they've captured for the next 30-40 years and the wealthy elite behind most of it. To be completely fair, any large scale changes will have the same treatment and I don't put forward big changes in an optimistic light in opposition to the above. Even if we go pants-on-head loony bin optimist and say day one of President Bernie's term the country gets Medicare for All signed in to law and some insurance company CEOs get introduced to lamp posts via rope, the same scenario outlined above will take place. All those same forces will do their level best to make sure people suffer and die as much as possible to continue the narrative that government is the problem. The hideous goat rope turnstile that was ACA going back to the courts over every loving comma and letter would be cranked up to 11. The difference is that inevitable fighting wouldn't be over a half-step in sorta, kinda the right direction with a sloppy blowjob to the monied interests fighting against it anyway. It would be those same forces fighting against a big leap in the right direction that is telling them to get hosed.
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Nov 7, 2019 18:40
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Buttcoin purse posted:In February Bill Gates said he should have paid more tax: My favorite part is how he's spent years on auto-fellatio because he's "giving away his billions" and he has more money now than when he started doing it. Almost like capital accrues more capital and distorts society or some crazy poo poo like that.
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Nov 8, 2019 03:32
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A lot of stuff like this makes sense when filtered through the lens of a TV camera. Everything about his physical appearance is designed to produce a better look from directly ahead, straight and level. This posture, his hair, his ties, his tailoring, all of it is for the purpose of not making him look like the dumpy, bald, fat gently caress he is when the camera is rolling. Start taking pictures from the side and you see the weirdness.
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Nov 8, 2019 23:01
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sharknado slashfic posted:Great, every time I see this song mentioned anywhere it gets stuck in my head the rest of the day I'll see your NSFW and gets-stuck-in-your-head video and raise you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdabIfmcqSQ bird food bathtub fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Nov 9, 2019 |
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Christ, capitalism really will be the death of us. Warren's plans have them that loving scared? History's gonna rhyme and they'll side with fascists again I suppose.
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Nov 9, 2019 15:26
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Ask them to define the words they're using. Press for an actual definition not an example of a person/group they like to hate, that will be their first response. Dollars to a doughnut the definition in their head is "those bad people that want to take our *FREEDOM*" and they can't give you anything deeper than that. Watching them flail around with definitions and concepts deeper than vomiting a Fox talking point is fun. Useless, because they won't give a gently caress to try listening to and learning about what you're actually saying, but entertaining.
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Nov 9, 2019 19:23
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:There have been about 5 full page editorials about it in our news media, no joke NPR's 1A did an entire show about it earlier in the week. There are some seriously butt-hurt people about it. Some of the guest commentary was mind blowingly un-self aware about where this sentiment is coming from.
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Nov 10, 2019 01:00
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colachute posted:Some funny news to start your day Uh oh, we've entered an arms race of MAGA hat evolution. Dominance will now be shown by the largest hat. This will go poorly.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:And I maintain that while Hogg is very much a young person who should be allowed some flexibility and understanding in his personal conduct, he is also very much a public figure who is taking a very profound advocacy stance on a major issue, and as such, he’s being held to a higher standard, fairly or otherwise. At the very least, he should have asked himself whether meeting with members of a violent fascist street gang was a good idea or not. it never is Did big-brain Donnie forget his Adderal this morning or something?
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Nov 11, 2019 21:04
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Acebuckeye13 posted:So two years ago, Jon Oliver did a piece on the coal industry in the US, and had some choice words for notoriously litigant and giant piece of poo poo Bob Murray: This is also one of the most recent coal company bankruptcies to be filed. Of course it means pensioners and employees will get fist hosed raw and lose everything while capitalist vultures pick the bones clean first, but that's basically what bankruptcy laws are for anymore so welp.
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Fister Roboto posted:Gotta say this testimony is pretty great without a dozen idiot congresspeople grandstanding and bickering over the dumbest most irrelevant poo poo imaginable. I am so, so very happy they went with letting legal counsel do the questioning and told Republicans to go gently caress themselves with circus side-show antics. Not ping-ponging back and forth between 5 minute sound-bite fishing expeditions and Infowars talking point vomit gives me some hope in this process.
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FAUXTON posted:man it must loving suck to hang your rear end out for a year on trying to convince people it's actually the bidens committing your crimes At this point it's basically a truism, if Republicans are accusing someone of something it's projection top to bottom.
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Nov 15, 2019 03:03
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Internet Wizard posted:They’re official record so he’s prohibited by court order from deleting them Yeah he'll get right on that "giving a gently caress about the law" thing any day now. He's still routinely ripping up physical documents from his desk because "gently caress you make me"
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GoGoGadget posted:And let's see how quickly he gets pardoned and nothing mattering continues I want to say that president Smoothbrain giving a pardon to him would, finally, be going too far and there would be consequences. I really, really want to but I feel reality would just be all "loving  on you", dick-slap my optimism, then moon walk out of the room.
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Casimir Radon posted:Remember how these idiots wouldn't shut up about "King Obama" a few short years ago? Their only problem is giving unitary executive power to those kinds of people. If you put that kind of power in the hands of an upstanding citizen and a loyal American then it's really for the best. They'll know how to treat everyone the way they deserve and to really fix the problems with society. If you'll excuse me I hear there's a snazzy new uniform for the military and some fancy new saluting to learn. But you should get your dog looked at he won't stop barking.
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joat mon posted:There's a bit of bait and switch going on. A unitary executive within the executive is a good thing and is well established and not controversial. Stated another way, there should not be externally enforced checks and balances within the executive branch. But it can't happen here! Narrator: It happened here.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Meanwhile, 1994 called, they want their candidate AND their drug policy back. This is what the face of "electability" looks like? I'm supposed to avoid becoming a "radical leftist" by supporting this on the basis that it can win a general election in 2019? gently caress me running. Can this please be the final landmine he steps on that convinces people we need to actually change poo poo, not try to chase the mythical "moderate Republican" vote with these assholes?
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Nov 18, 2019 18:30
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Riot Carol Danvers posted:Literally sitting next to people talking poo poo about Vindman while watching testimony is making my head hurt. Nunes telling him "you're under subpoena" as if Republicans have complied with literally any of the subpoenas they've gotten. Those are invalid, deep state, liberal antifa subpoenas. True patriots get to ignore those.
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I listened to this on the ride home. Volker is covering his rear end like a loving champ, he can see that they're on the hunt for a scapegoat and that he'd get thrown to the wolves without a blink.
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-pompeo-planning-resign-because-093230187.html Who is that? Never heard of him. Did he get our bigly president man coffee or something?
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Nov 20, 2019 13:06
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In related news, Blue Bird Corporation stock is rated as a growth potential after an unexpected order for an entire fleet of busses just came in. Have a rage induced stroke already you morbidly obese orange skinned poo poo smear. Do one good thing for the country by leaving yourself a broken, pitiable shell of a former man that causes your entire cult of personality to collapse into mockery of your failures.
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Best comment on Gym Jordan I read is that he doesn't make legal arguments you understand, he makes propaganda diatribes you feel.
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Nov 21, 2019 20:09
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facialimpediment posted:Yeah this makes a shitload of sense that I didn't think about before! Narcissism's a helluva drug. If he had operational brain cells capable of interacting with objective reality he'd be screaming all day long, "Improper but not impeachable." That line basically sells itself. "I'm not a Washington insider, of course I'm going to shake things up and piss people off." And people in the right wing propaganda sphere are so, so desperately trying that narrative even now. He won't play along though because of the basic assumption that it starts with, that he did something wrong. Anyone that gets too loud with that obvious defense ends up on his narcissistic poo poo-list for not sufficiently slobbing his knob in public.
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That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. How are they so god drat stupid?
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Nov 23, 2019 01:09
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facialimpediment posted:Rudy said that he had insurance for Trump throwing him under the bus, then Rudy's lawyer said he was joking and meant health insurance. Hmm, yes, telling a narcissist they can't control you because you'll hurt them back so they should treat you as an equal. What could possibly go wrong with that?
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Does replacing RBG give the ghouls behind the GOP any more power to gently caress with the nation than they already have? They've got it 5-4 right now, only benefit I can think of is it meaning they have more of a buffer for the rest of their majority, but they already have the majority they need to be an unelected 20-30 year veto. Watching the loving turtle spin his shell 180 degrees at light speed to say "Oh well it only counts if it's the last year of a Democrat in office, we need to replace RBG right now while Trump is still in office" might at least have the silver lining of increasing support for packing the courts and breaking the majority entirely.
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facialimpediment posted:The Navy secretary just lost a power struggle with Fox & Friends weekend host Pete Hegseth. Well that's a pretty drat fitting epitaph on our national tombstone. Can we just use that and be done with it?
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