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Dick Trauma posted:The right-wing outrage cycle is running on fumes, but at least it's entertaining. I wonder why Republican voters never seem to get tired of it. It seems exhausting! I'm sorry does the guy who divorced his dying wife in the hospital have opinions on people being mean?
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Twincityhacker posted:Not actually US news, but saw the news about the school shooting in Izhevsk and it took a minute or two to sink in that "Oh, that's in Russia!" and not in the US. 17? LOL, it's way more than that https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting
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First they came for the Instagram credit card benefit hackers.....
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One time I had a cucumber that was spoiled and I didn't notice and whatever mold that was on it destroyed my taste buds for about 2 hrs. But also I like sweet pickles. In conclusion, cucumbers are a land of contrasts. Jaxyon fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Sep 29, 2022 |
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Sep 29, 2022 01:14
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I got vacant lots on major streets in my neighborhood that some rich person bought a million years ago, waiting for the neighborhood to gentrify enough to develop the space. And that's in Los Angeles.
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Sep 29, 2022 07:33
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What an incredible own goal. Along with gas prices going back up, just amazing.
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Sep 29, 2022 21:42
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Kalit posted:Why are y’all focused on optics over actual outcomes that will best help those who need it? because with the attempts to change election officials and the current state of democracy in the US, the fall election is hugely important and may end up in a generational fascist takeover the dems already are facing huge headwaters due to fundamentals like the economy and inflation and small things are likely to be decisive.
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Sep 29, 2022 22:04
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Solkanar512 posted:You also blamed dems for rising gas prices. Where did I do that?
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Sep 29, 2022 22:10
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Solkanar512 posted:It's right there. Because I was listing things that would be bad for Dems electoral chances in November? I've talked about inflation too, and they didn't cause that either. Kalit posted:So if you want to focus on that and don't care about the actual outcome, what's better for optics: 1) a good chance that the $10k public student loan relief is stayed by the courts by November or 2) most everyone is still going to get the $10k public student loan relief with a small percentage that remains up in the air? Both are very bad and would be very bad for democrats and a pretty serious own-goal as far as optics and messaging.
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Sep 29, 2022 22:36
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Kalit posted:So..... I'm confused about what you think a good (or not bad) route would have been. Stated from the start that FFEL/Perkins loans weren't eligible, preventing those who had consolidated before today from qualifying? Not trying to fulfill the $10k student loan forgiveness campaign promise at all? Or a more risky forgiveness plan that would have probably gotten stayed by the courts before midterms? Or something else? Probably not heavily advertise a risky benefit that had a good chance of failing, right before the election, in multiple ways?
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Sep 29, 2022 22:45
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Kalit posted:Where did Biden heavily advertise that privately-held loans would be covered by this $10k forgiveness plan? Even articles published a few days ago specified that they are not eligible for forgiveness, such as https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/which-loans-qualify-student-loan-forgiveness-2022-9 I mean the overall debt forgiveness. This is all playing out very similarly to the "vote for us and get $2k....wait why did you expect $2k" situation. It's a messaging failure to talk heavily on loan forgiveness and then say much later "oh btw a bunch that we thought might be forgiveable were not sorry" (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Sep 29, 2022 22:55
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Kalit posted:Take your optics with not caring about actual outcomes and gently caress off with them. Hey so is "Jaxyon doesn't care about actual outcomes" a thing I wrote, or is that a thing that you came up with in your head in order to get the dopamine going and feel some righteous anger at a simpler argument than what was written? ~~~~~~~ edit: To start a new subject: https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1575561167476498432 Jaxyon fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Sep 29, 2022 |
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Crain posted:Butlerian Jihad. Never underestimate the influence of the Webring
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Hey so in case you were worried there wasn't systemic sexual misconduct and toxic leadership in every women's sport, I have terrible news for you https://www.kslaw.com/attachments/000/009/931/original/King___Spalding_-_Full_Report_to_USSF.pdf?1664809048 quote:On October 2, 2021, the U.S. Soccer Federation (“USSF” or “the Federation”), the official governing body of the sport of soccer in the United States, retained Sally Q. Yates and King & Spalding LLP to conduct an independent investigation into allegations of abusive behavior and sexual misconduct in women’s professional soccer.
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Oct 4, 2022 00:05
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Clarste posted:I'm gonna say that algorithms are by and large a net negative on society and I'd be pleased if the Supreme Court banned them (well, made their use create liability, which is effectively the same thing for these companies). But I have no idea if that's the direction they're going to take. It's a supreme court that is currently a 6-3 fascist majority. It's technically possible that they might accidentally do something that benefits society but i don't know if it's likely.
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Oct 4, 2022 10:59
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Yeah the last 14 times I've almost hit a pedestrian it has been my fault for not looking well enough turning right on a red.
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Oct 5, 2022 21:58
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holy poo poo the crime bill guy is pardoining weed possession that's really good in a vacuum but boy is it weird coming from him editing in the actual comic to spite the posters below me 
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Oct 6, 2022 20:08
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:He's taking an admin job as head of the University, so neither. Don't know Nebraska politics was he facing a serious challenge or getting out ahead of a scandal? It's odd to give up a gravy train like that, though I guess being dean of a major school is an easier gravy train.
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Oct 6, 2022 21:56
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yeah that's why i'm asking because, because i thought that was a lifetime seat too you can make more as a senator indirectly than you'll make as a univisity president directly, i'd imagine
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Oct 6, 2022 22:25
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Epic High Five posted:lol state government here has been refusing to legalize it in any form or fashion citing that they're just waiting for Federal to do it, wonder what excuse they'll switch to now It's still not federally legal that would take congress.
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Failed Imagineer posted:https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1578174670854975491?t=IjuOPcWSlVOd5SfIZUmANQ&s=19 It's just virtue signaling in favor of racism. Kanye wore a white lives matter shirt Elon is going to let the racist post on twitter again Trump is going to make the non-racists pay
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Oct 7, 2022 19:49
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Ravenfood posted:Evangelical Christians have little cultural impact? What? They're always always the victims and they want to be oppressed so bad
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Oct 7, 2022 21:43
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Paracaidas posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1578490204964687872 like it's great that he's claiming that but he's not the executive so he can't actually do that, right?
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Oct 7, 2022 22:32
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Twincityhacker posted:Welp. Hopefully if a strike happens it will be seen as "greedy excutives" vs. "the agreived workers." =/ Right now is in general a good time to make a strong labor stand but also this is going to get blasted as unions driving up inflation or shortages.
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Oct 10, 2022 21:25
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I mean we have a bunch of examples that show that Russia has tried to gain assets or use people in US politics including the Mueller investigation, and we've had some reps who were super duper big on promoting Russia issues for some reason. (Rohrbachre) But people try to minimize it as liberal nonsense. Now, was russia actually influential in US politics, or is it kind of sideshow and we're doing fine with fascism all on our own? That's where the real discussion is. I'd say that it's mostly we're doing it on our own but not for lack of trying on Putin's part.
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Oct 11, 2022 23:29
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TheDisreputableDog posted:Yeah! Not just elites either. Despite four years of defund the police and me too, leftists voted for a rapist/cop ticket en masse. Although I’ll posit that the term “wokeism” is inherently cringe, the fact is that most regular people have sublimated the hollow utility of the movement already. You think the people who support defunding police were big supporters of biden? Mainstream democrats are at best center, some are rightwing. Its just that "the right" in this country is mostly waaaaaaay right
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Oct 11, 2022 23:42
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pencilhands posted:What exactly is their motivation for harming their own community like that? Control. If you can't function outside the community you can be used in all sorts of ways for the people in power. Low wages, social shunning to keep you in line, block voting to keep things running the way they want it to run, etc.
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Oct 12, 2022 19:58
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Bloody Pom posted:You jest, but hipster restaurants that do poo poo like this are depressingly common. LOL no that's a play on minimalist haute cuisine Hipster food is some sort of taco bell take on poutine served to you in a mini cast iron skillet
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Taken into custody without being killed via bomb robot? At least we know he's white.
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^^ yupBIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:nobody gets killed with "bomb robot" unless you mean a unmanned aerial vehicle aka drone 2020: Not modern times? Okay
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Mustard Iceman posted:does SNL have two people that can make this sketch or does Kenan Thompson have to run back and forth on-stage? They got a black guy to replace Chris Redd
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Oct 15, 2022 04:42
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haveblue posted:What entity would you consider authorized to express the desires of Haiti as a whole? I know that in the US, the country is united as one, behind the president. It's probably the same elsewhere. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Oct 17, 2022 21:43
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MixMasterMalaria posted:So what's the approach the international community should take? By all accounts the situation has deteriorated precipitously. 'Sorry but we can't help you with the problems we helped cause, because we'd just be self serving about it' is the same conclusion as the idiot I was arguing with on YouTube comments who was complaining about how 'we're always giving handouts and bailing Haiti out.' Yes I'm aware of the awful history, but what now? If you're aware of the awful history, what is your informed opinion on how to move forward there? I'm not as informed, so I'd love your educated take.
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MixMasterMalaria posted:This is a very fair question and i wish i had a ready answer or strategy i could confidently advocate. Unfortunately, i would not consider myself particularly well informed. I had the pleasure and distress of reading some of Paul Farmer's work on Haiti a while back, his book 'the Uses of Haiti' was a great starting place at understanding the historic currents and dynamics that have underpinned the horrific and cynical treatment of the Haitian people, but it was published in 1994 and so much has happened since then. I've tried to stay somewhat engaged with the topic but my knowledge of the situation as it is now consists of pretty broad strokes and zero expertice. Would you guess you are more, or less, informed than the folks disagreeing with you?
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A great way for folks to indicate whether they care about Haiti beyond scoring a point in whatever political stance they champion would be for them to give a detailed nuanced view of what is going on there and what they think should be done. (not referring to Staluigi)
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selec posted:I said it before, if it is that important to intervene, let Cuba run it. Do you have any suggestions that a have a snowballs chance in hell of happening or are we just having a fun theorycrafting time? I agree that this would be a good idea but also it's definitely not going to happen.
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Oct 18, 2022 19:22
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selec posted:Get lateral, think outside the box! We are experiencing a real When The Only Tool You Have Is Complete Economic and Military Domination, Every Problem Starts To Look Like Grenada thing going on in here. So, cool, going back to something that's actually doable, what do you think would work? I think we all are pretty wary about US intervention, but also probably somebody needs to intervene. What does that look like? I think it's a very complex problem and I don't have any easy solutions. I realize Deus ex Cuba is enticing but there's more or less zero chance of happening here.
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selec posted:Ok but what’s stopping us from doing the Cuba thing? It’s us! We are the problem. Yeah I'm just wondering if anyone has any workable solutions, because I don't. I don't know that anyone else here does either.
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Koos Group posted:I'm beginning to believe it would be prudent to have a thread for in-depth discussion the ongoing crisis in Haiti, so if anyone would like to create one with an informative OP, I encourage them to. It's probably gonna be a slow thread because I don't know that many people have an in-depth understanding of Haiti's issues or solutions to it.
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Clarste posted:I will not pretend to know much about Haiti, but I think the point is that it is exceptionally bad right now, and to pretend otherwise for the sake of making some kind of historical jab at post-colonialism is incredibly offensive to the people suffering right now. IE: Regardless of what the US has done to them in the past, there have been times where Haiti was better off than it is now, and they would like to return to those times if possible. I was gonna post but this was nicer than what I was typing.
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