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one Democrat nearly beat a man to death with a cane on the floor of the Senate, which is pretty rad now, he was beating an abolitionist who made him mad by criticizing slaveholders with improper decorum, but alas
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Flavius Aetass posted:they're bad threads wait wait I know the trick here we go guys: TLRUP did i do it right? good thread now?
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please stop everyone, this is a positive place, a place of celebration Democrats are good at keeping prices low and fires under control by cleverly utilizing the labor of incarcerated peoples
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Feb 9, 2021 04:28
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the new succ zone, whenever we are graced with its presence, should have more lmao and less gently caress off this time around like this! Happiness posted:person who inexplicably got made mod by posting links to streams of blm protests every single day for several months lmao
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Homeless Friend posted:I'm wishing death to my enemies with all my friends on discord. They're all there, with me! 
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Hey, I see you liked my Humphrey, wanna chat?
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loquacius posted:even as much as I hate Neera it's still a legitimate LOL that the Biden administration is trying to appoint her to the admin as a favor to the left and then they pretended to be shocked when the left blew up over it lol, they knew, they just wanted to twist that dagger, gg wp
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:this wouldn't have happened if he had a gun right? it's very sad. we'll never see a spontaneous bare-knuckled boxing match between MTG and Katie Porter and we are all the worse off for it
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Feb 9, 2021 18:54
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loquacius posted:https://twitter.com/Numbers28/status/1359985305948979200 my god, the police would have killed so many people
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Feb 18, 2021 00:39
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paranoid randroid posted:its weird how all these deep blue cities in deep blue states keep routinely brutalizing people and demanding that if we dont like it we should VOTE harder and joining ranks with all the right-wingers It's beyond frustrating to see the liberals make all the same loving mistakes as in post-WWI Europe, and this time we don't even have communists and anarchists as opposition. our only upside is that our fascists are mostly LARPers with a minimal number of thoroughly broken veterans of war
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Feb 19, 2021 14:53
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spacemang_spliff posted:I didn't think DC statehood was ever on the table Nothus posted:That's not what they told us during the campaign. Biden said DC should be a state, but it's one of those things that absolutely requires the abolition of the filibuster, and oh shucks would you look at that
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Feb 22, 2021 14:36
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Grapplejack posted:PR will very likely be a republican state I'd say possibly rather than likely - to add to this it is hard to overstate how fundamentally baked in "the US federal government hosed us over and will always gently caress us over" is to PR politics. They don't really fall into a clean division so it's hard to predict who they end up bringing to the Senate
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Feb 22, 2021 15:42
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THS posted:its pretty funny that as obviously setup and goofy 1/6 was tons of ppl on the left absolutely ate that poo poo up and went into hysterics over it tbf regardless of all the bullshit surrounding it, it is still a little concerning that many people can be convinced to fly to DC and breach police lines to enter the capitol
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Feb 24, 2021 15:35
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THS posted:not so much when one of the main plotters was literally an fbi informant. makes everyone involved look like rubes I'm not worried about them being leaders or intelligent or even capable of rudimentary decision-making, I'm worried about future gaggles of armed useful idiots
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Feb 24, 2021 15:39
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stellers bae posted:the protestors weren't armed and loving up the capitol is cool and good. don't resort to right wing talking points about protesters attacking are institutions and being armed useful idiots it's not about the capitol, it's about the general fashiness of right-wing dipshits, and despite my opinions of liberal democracy I would really prefer not to have to spend time literally fighting brownshirts
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Feb 24, 2021 16:57
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Who knew Neera Tanden would be able to find yet another way to embarrass Democrats my phone keeps wanting to correct her name to Beers Tandem which probably says a lot about my habits
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zzzzone, give me your thoughts on Bosnia
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Feb 25, 2021 06:01
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the main reason I think Evans is just conveniently aligned through affiliation with Bellingcat and just has a dumb anti-authoritarian to the point of being pro-intervention take is that I can't fathom how an actual op could get away with stanning Öcalan but maybe the CIA is more crafty than I give them credit for
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Feb 25, 2021 06:06
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Shipon posted:liberal interventionism can suck my loving dick. there is never any situation where military intervention will improve things they have been stopped, multiple times it's just that the number of genocides that continue unabated combined with the death toll from US intervention over our history absolutely dwarf the savings
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Feb 25, 2021 06:16
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oh gosh golly gee whiz, that dastardly parlimentarian has thwarted us again!!!
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Feb 25, 2021 19:17
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actionjackson posted:spending a lot of money on a super nice coat is less materialistic then constantly buying cheap coats that you have to replace every few years except there are lots of $150-$200 jackets that are durable and as warm or warmer than that one. you're just paying for style and brand at that point
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I wish search worked properly because I had someone here get really really mad at me last month when I mentioned that Bellingcat is a CIA and State info dump [edit: oh, it was in USPOL, no wonder] BRAKE FOR MOOSE has issued a correction as of 21:00 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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mcmagic posted:No one is stupid enough to accept this an excuse for why they can't do anything. I refuse to believe it. "Why can't you increase the minimum wage or give advances on tax credits when you have control of all parts of government?" "It's against the rules" "Oh"
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IT'S. AGAINST. THE. RULES. You're a big boy, you know what rules are.
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Feb 25, 2021 21:30
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loquacius posted:also the reason the republicans are able to accomplish their agenda is that they break the rules Two wrongs don't make a right, loquacius.
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Feb 25, 2021 21:32
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It's just like PUTIN'S LEFT to be so dismissive of the basic rules and procedures underlying our Democracy 
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Feb 25, 2021 22:04
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can we please stop posting about the podcast man
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Feb 26, 2021 16:45
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hobbesmaster posted:I just started glancing through it, the first thing it does after the definition of terms is eliminate the federal death penalty for “deprivation of rights under color of law” resulting in a death. Grapplejack posted:The death penalty is horseshit and should be banned imo, so they've done one good thing got no problem with killing cops, but I don't want the government to be the ones doing it
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Mar 2, 2021 02:48
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shyduck posted:Has Yang been to Bubba Gump yet Times Square Olive Garden is obviously the correct next step
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Mar 2, 2021 02:54
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today, my friends, we are all interim president of venezuela
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Mar 3, 2021 03:39
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"It wasn't enough but it is good" is completely accurate but everyone in the media that is saying that is underselling the "it wasn't enough" part and it's just tacking that on to look like A Good Progressive
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actually, US CPI does include food and other staples - it's "core CPI" that does not, and afaik, that's only really used as an inflation measurement. I don't know that anyone ties wages to core CPI
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hasn't 2016 lover doxxed himself like 500 times here? why are all these QCS nutters accusing him of being every permabanned poster at once
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spacemang_spliff posted:lmao just read the QCS thread I don't pay enough attention to forums drama so I'm just extremely confused - most of that nonsense isn't even from USPOL regulars, it's some other cult of who the gently caress knows
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Dixon Chisholm posted:I will kill you. "And looking back, we can pinpoint this post as the one that started the QCS thread that finally closed C-SPAM"
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what blows my mind about the chronic libs is that they can't conceive of operating from first principles like "everyone should have health care" or "we should not have concentration camps" and working back to figure out how to get there by whatever means, even if it's costly or difficult. they instead can only look at the situation as it exists and consider, within a narrow framework and moving at a horrifyingly slow rate and with ample consideration of how to operate with respect for political viewpoints that include "nobody should have health care" and "all immigrants should die in concentration camps", how we can make a small step forward towards increasing the number of people with health care and reducing the population in concentration camps meanwhile, the number of people with health care actually goes down and the number of people in concentration camps actually goes up and the chronic lib says "what do you want us to do, just toss 'em all out into the desert?!?"
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Ytlaya posted:Eh, it's more that they just start from the assumption that "the Democrats are good and doing their best" and then interpret political events through that assumption. So with the concentration camps, their mindset is "is there a way to interpret this that doesn't involve the Democratic Party being bad?" A ton of the concentration camp apologists have also complained about the moderate wing of the party so this is an oversimplification and it's not just mindless partisanship, they're bought into the politics of incrementalism as an inherent necessity and don't recognize that it is an excuse
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I bring up the difference between Democratic partisanship and careful non-disruptive planned incrementalism as an ethos because I spend almost all of my time surrounded by PMC left liberals who are legitimately disappointed by a lack of progress and annoyed that they had to settle for Biden, but are also fully bought into bureaucratic PLANS!!! nonsense and ask a lot of questions about how a minimum wage increase will impact small businesses a fascinating creature, it is
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