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Platystemon posted:I did not have this on my BINGO card. I figured the Black Hammer types were an op of some sort. I just wasn't expecting it to be Russia holding the strings.
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M_Gargantua posted:I have a personal and professional need to start my own fab. How do I tap into this governmental largesse? https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-congress-passage-subsidies-prompts-chip-makers-move-projects-2022-07-28/ Partner with a megacorp, a university, and submit your claim through the Commerce Department. 3.5ez
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I figured the Black Hammer types were an op of some sort. I just wasn't expecting it to be Russia holding the strings. I would've said they were an op but it would've been a bit tongue in cheek. Lol the 20's are a wild rear end decade
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US Berder Patrol posted:I would've said they were an op but it would've been a bit tongue in cheek. Lol the 20's are a wild rear end decade My guess would've been "random American billionaire funding dead end leftist idiots to discredit the sane ones".
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https://apnews.com/article/gun-violence-politics-shootings-congress-fd91c092aef91a992ee959399ba6f222 This is the bill that passed the house: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1808/text quote:Section 1 - You can call this bill the “Assault Weapons Ban of 2022” for short It's pretty obvious why the Democrats passed the bill in the house. Polls suggest democratic voters really support gun control. The polling says democratic voters generally said the gun control bill that was signed by Biden last month did not go far enough. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/07/11/broad-public-approval-of-new-gun-law-but-few-say-it-will-do-a-lot-to-stem-gun-violence/ https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/20/politics/cnn-poll-gun-policy/index.html
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I don’t have any guns, well I do but I don’t posses them, they’re in a different state far away. I say that to try to indicate I’m not a big gun guy, NRA member type. How does this bill truly help fix the mass shooting problem? I just didn’t read anything that popped out at me as “Ah hah! That’ll keep 7 year olds from being slaughtered.” I’m fully prepared to be wrong, would like to be wrong, and hope I am wrong. So with that said can someone explain to me how this is good and will stop mass shootings? Or is this just more incrementalism likely to be shutdown by the Chudges?
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:I don’t have any guns, well I do but I don’t posses them, they’re in a different state far away. I say that to try to indicate I’m not a big gun guy, NRA member type. It doesn't, and it's not supposed to. It's like how the Liberal Party up here in canuckistan bans whatever Americans use in mass shootings to "fight gun crime" when almost every example of gun violence in Canada involves an unlicensed handgun smuggled in from the US.
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Any gun bill that doesn’t start with “ban all handguns” wouldn’t do much if anything to gun crime. As a gun owner if they carved out a clause for historical pistols not just “50 year old” I’d be for it. In trade protect the right to rifles and shotguns of a certain lengths for the “right to bear arms”. None of this will ever happen.
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https://twitter.com/Spa_Eng/status/1551627809973485573?s=20&t=Oyj3dXizO-fO6Os6xRF-YQ I didn't know they were doing a sequel, but the trailer looks promising.
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Hannibal Rex posted:https://twitter.com/Spa_Eng/status/1551627809973485573?s=20&t=Oyj3dXizO-fO6Os6xRF-YQ Their video media game is p strong, I'll give em that
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Hannibal Rex posted:https://twitter.com/Spa_Eng/status/1551627809973485573?s=20&t=Oyj3dXizO-fO6Os6xRF-YQ Well this looks better than Megacity 1.
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Crab Dad posted:Any gun bill that doesn’t start with “ban all handguns” wouldn’t do much if anything to gun crime. If real gun control happens in this country it'll be something that exceeds what Great Britain has, except law enforcement will still have machine guns and tanks. Bored As gently caress posted:Well this looks better than Megacity 1. Not really, instead of living in a prison you get to live in a prison wall. I've read nightmarish science fiction stories set in almost exactly this scenario. A.o.D. fucked around with this message at 11:38 on Jul 30, 2022 |
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Older but still good write-up on the craziness behind Neom: https://malekafzali.substack.com/p/neom-the-line-to-oblivion Guess every dictator eventually ends up with their own Germania project.
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Even more insane than the conditions humans inside will be subjected to are the environmental ones an impermeable barrier that large will cause. Can't wait for even just simple erosion to bury one side entirely in dead desert sand
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Platystemon posted:I did not have this on my BINGO card. Looks like it's not an isolated incident. quote:ST. LOUIS — As chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party, Omali Yeshitela wears a black beret with a red star on it. He calls people “comrade.” He said he’s traveled to the likes of Nicaragua and Russia for years to speak about the ongoing implications of colonialism on Black people.
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https://twitter.com/EBHarrington/status/1553533320469905409?s=20&t=Z43zJwOrqecTI-k68RczGQ Lol of loving course Edit: Apparently that tweet got deleted so here's one that didn't Nick Soapdish fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Jul 31, 2022 |
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Soul Dentist posted:Even more insane than the conditions humans inside will be subjected to are the environmental ones an impermeable barrier that large will cause. Can't wait for even just simple erosion to bury one side entirely in dead desert sand Everything would be an issue. Just look at one: water and sewage. How do they get fresh potablewater? Where are the wastewater treatment centers/plants? How do they recycle gray water while dealing with black water? How many chemical plants are necessary to provide enough chemicals to treat gray and black water? Where are the nuclear power plants vital to anything like this? Where are the desalination plants to provide enough water to residents? Because there will absolutely not be enough water without huge desalination plants.
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Mark Kelly has to deal with the same electorate as her, yet doesn't feel the need to do any of this bullshit. Every one of these stunts hurts her in the next primary. Kelley is up like 7 points in his next race.
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BREAKING: clean plate status once again in question He’s going to be fine, he’s not even symptomatic and he has all the medical care money can buy if symptoms do return.
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Current event: I just learned about Yamibuy, a website just to buy east Asian grocery items and snacks and immediately dropped like eighty bucks: Highlights include hawthorne fruit leather, hickory flavored sunflower seeds, Korean fried chicken flavored pea crisps, and honey butter Lay's chips that taste like a Texas Roadhouse dinner roll. Also this cartoon on the back of a bag of barbecue corn snacks:  Which reminded me of this thread
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Sacrist65 posted:Mark Kelly has to deal with the same electorate as her, yet doesn't feel the need to do any of this bullshit. Every one of these stunts hurts her in the next primary. Kelley is up like 7 points in his next race. Sinema has huffed her own farts for so long that all she does is talk to lobbyists and people that tell her she's going to be the next President or the next coming of John McCain. Also unclear if she's that concerned about getting primaried in 2024, as she apparently has some delusions of running as an Independent or some weird poo poo. She hasn't been attending caucus meetings for Reasons and she's just generally Weird. Sacrifice the carried interest tax loophole (~$12B) to make her lobbyists happy and pass the fucker. Or even knock down the corporate minimum tax rate if it'll make her happy, there's far too much good poo poo in the bill to allow her to kill it.
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facialimpediment posted:Sinema has huffed her own farts for so long that all she does is talk to lobbyists and people that tell her she's going to be the next President or the next coming of John McCain. Also unclear if she's that concerned about getting primaried in 2024, as she apparently has some delusions of running as an Independent or some weird poo poo. She hasn't been attending caucus meetings for Reasons and she's just generally Weird. would she realistically get primaried? ousted by a republican in the general seems far more likely i do not know what bizarro world has the democratic party not quash any attempt to primary a sitting senator in a battleground state, but we're sure as hell not in it. she's getting successfully primaried about as Manchin has since 2010 i mean, i guess they did sorta tacitly approve de Leon's challenge to Feinstein, but they probably had decent confidence in the eventual outcome and it's not like California is going to have a Republican senator anytime soon
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VSOKUL girl posted:would she realistically get primaried? ousted by a republican in the general seems far more likely Yes, highly likely she'd get primaried by Representative Ruben Gallego. Her approval ratings for Democrats in Arizona are lower than her Republican approval ratings and Gallego is making a lot of noise like he wants to do it because life in the House sucks: https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1552731380664209408 Sinema isn't on a day-to-day talking basis with Schumer per Politico, so she doesn't have a whole lot of friends in the Senate. The DNC/DSCC probably wouldn't take a position in a Gallego vs Sinema primary. And Arizona is lightly shaded Red and running complete Republican loonies at the state level, so there's a halfway-decent chance that a non-shitfuck Democrat (like a Kelly) would win and remain reliable. Arizona isn't even close to West Virginia where any statewide Democrat is loving dead meat if it isn't Manchin. Technically, Sinema hasn't torpedoed anywhere near as much as Manchin has, but it's clear Democrats could upgrade by primarying Sinema and it's a reasonable gamble in a presidential-year election.
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VSOKUL girl posted:would she realistically get primaried? ousted by a republican in the general seems far more likely Arizona Democrats absolutely despise Sinema. They'd vote for a literal cartoon supervillain over her in the primary. She's poisoned her own well that badly. 
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It's also been reported that Sinema pretty much dumped everyone who helped her get to the Senate the moment she didn't need them anymore. She's got her corporate donors, but who's going to phone bank or knock on doors for her? facialimpediment posted:Sinema isn't on a day-to-day talking basis with Schumer per Politico, so she doesn't have a whole lot of friends in the Senate. The DNC/DSCC probably wouldn't take a position in a Gallego vs Sinema primary. And Arizona is lightly shaded Red and running complete Republican loonies at the state level, so there's a halfway-decent chance that a non-shitfuck Democrat (like a Kelly) would win and remain reliable. Arizona isn't even close to West Virginia where any statewide Democrat is loving dead meat if it isn't Manchin. Technically, Sinema hasn't torpedoed anywhere near as much as Manchin has, but it's clear Democrats could upgrade by primarying Sinema and it's a reasonable gamble in a presidential-year election. The thing about Manchin versus Sinema is that while both of them are shits, Manchin is at least (somewhat) more predictable. You know what he wants, you know what his base wants, he's usually willing to negotiate, you can work with that—and while he gets off on defying the administration/mainstream democrats, he's usually willing to give them a win so long as it looks like he's sticking them in the eye or moderating their proposals. Sinema, meanwhile, plays her cards so close to her chest it's difficult or even impossible to know what she's willing to vote for. She refuses to be nailed down on specific policies, won't speak to reporters, and during the negotiations last year would only talk directly to the White House. Even if she's willing to go farther than Manchin on certain issues (Except taxes, as has repeatedly become clear), the sheer fact that she's so difficult to nail down and negotiate with was one of the major factors that derailed BBB last year. So, yeah, even if Manchin is a worse dem on paper, I think the Dem Senate caucus would be much happier to kick out Sinema. Preferably into the sun.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:So, yeah, even if Manchin is a worse dem on paper, I think the Dem Senate caucus would be much happier to kick out Sinema. Preferably into the sun. Here's the quote I was looking for, and I was wrong, WSJ not politico: https://twitter.com/aduehren/status/1553075271523340298 I have no idea how the gently caress you deal with a fellow Senator that you can't just simply *talk to* and have to go through intermediaries THAT ARE LOBBYISTS. Of course they're all getting pumped up by lobbyists, but Senators truly believe that "world's greatest deliberative body" horseshit. Mr. Nice! posted:Manchin also has the highest approval rating of any democratic senator in their home state, iirc. April poll had him at 57% approval. That's hilariously high for a Democrat in an R+23 state and I didn't even know it was that high.
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facialimpediment posted:April poll had him at 57% approval. That's hilariously high for a Democrat in an R+23 state and I didn't even know it was that high. Say what you will about him, you can't deny that Manchin knows his electorate.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Say what you will about him, you can't deny that Manchin knows his electorate. They want to own the libs, and Manchin delivers.
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I left my window open for like two hours while I dealt with one of my doggos not feeling good (horray for having a veterinarian wife and administering IV fluids on a Saturday night), so pretty much everything bellow is just echoing what Facial Impediment and Acebuckeye have said but TLDR: Sinema is high on her own supply, and it does have the potential to backfire for her.Sacrist65 posted:Mark Kelly has to deal with the same electorate as her, yet doesn't feel the need to do any of this bullshit. Every one of these stunts hurts her in the next primary. Kelley is up like 7 points in his next race. Also despite the "lol, she's doing this for a lobbyist gig, she doesn't care!" ideas that float around, this isn't going to help her in that department. Most congresscritters that become lobbyists, or at least high paid ones, have solid working relationships from their time in congress that they can call back on to lobby for poo poo. This is why Liberman, detestable as he is to roughly 99% of humanity, is able to make good money lobbying on occasion whenever he comes out of whatever rock he usually sleeps under. rear end in a top hat had several terms in the senate along with the working relationships to go with it. She doesn't have that. EDIT: As Facial Impediment pointed out, she's not really bothering to attend caucus meetings or one on ones with Schumer. Sinema ain't Liberman. And she sure as gently caress isn't McCain. If she leaves congress after her single term (either due to her not running again or her losing a primary), Dems won't want to hear a loving word from her if the rumor mill about her current working relationships are true, and the GOP isn't going to care for her anymore because she's no longer of any use to them. And corporations? What good is continuing to pay someone who can no longer deliver for you? They're telling her what she wants to hear right now but as soon as they don't need her anymore, lol. Don't even get me started on her ground game/AZ support. She'll still end up living a life of comfort far better than she deserves because I'm sure somewhere, someone will continue to pay her a stupid speaking fee regardless of what happens. But her influence in the senate won't matter for poo poo beyond 2024. If we're really lucky, it won't matter six months from now.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:She's going to be handsomely rewarded by the interests she has so spectacularly protected. If she isn't, the entire system of graft breaks down I call hogwash. I’d say bullshit, but I don’t want to seem uncivil. That graft system can survive just about anything. If the nukes go off, I assure you the only survivors who won’t be praying for death are the graft class. I don’t think dropping Sinema like she’s Clapton’s clumsy kiddo near a window will even register as a blip in the scheme of things for the graft machine.
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