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Gunshow Poophole posted:yeah lol the guy literally uses the phrase "viewpoint diversity" lmao cmon glem "one story after another about instances of supposed racism, transphobia, signs of the climate apocalypse, Israel doing something bad, and the dire threat of Republican policies" lol I dunno how this guy came to the conclusion they have zero republicans when he obviously is one.
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comedyblissoption posted:npr went all in on russiagate conspiracy theories as noted in those excerpts There's no dichotomy here with npr sucking and that guy also being a piece of poo poo.
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Apr 10, 2024 02:09
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Clip-On Fedora posted:lol I will say I didn’t stare at it for than a minute once it reached the total eclipse because that window is only like two minutes at most. realistically even though there's memes of google searches "why eyes do hurt" after an eclipse I kind of doubt it's that serious of a concern. Eclipses/partial eclipses happen p regularly on a world scale and there's no way you can get a broad population that couldn't manage masking to not look at a cool thing for a few seconds so if it were an actual problem you'd have a wake of blindness every year and a half or so.
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Apr 10, 2024 03:50
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Where's the npr reporting on this faux concern over eclipse eye damage are you telling me that glancing at the sun when your eyes sweep across the sky is gonna blind me permanently get out of here. The US president looked directly at it wake up sheeple.
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Apr 10, 2024 03:53
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Nichael posted:people eat food The dril post but with bigmacs.
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Apr 10, 2024 04:07
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VitalSigns posted:It would have been interesting to see the liberal reaction to the vaccine if Trump had won. To be fair releasing inadequate protection and telling people the problem is solved so they can go back to work and die is exactly what the government did so it wasn't really an unfounded concern that it'd happen under trump, it just happened under biden instead.
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Apr 10, 2024 13:49
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VitalSigns posted:Yeah true, for sure a situation where the CDC just ignored the data so you've got to look at that. Yeah the cdc completely trashed their reputation over the politics of covid and trying not to let the economy get disrupted by it. People who thought it was a trump thing are dumb for sure but the idea that public health is in shambles because it would hurt number is spot on.
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Apr 10, 2024 14:39
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SixteenShells posted:basically, unless you went to a predatory diploma mill or you were owed forgiveness anyway because of PSLF, you're not getting that loan forgiven by this administration. the best they can offer you is that if you were only making minimum payments and the interest went out of control, they'll waive the interest so you still only owe the principal.
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Apr 10, 2024 17:56
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Thoguh posted:Since we are having a big language derail, am I the only one annoyed by all the zoomers that think ‘whilst’ is a just a fancy way to say ‘while’ and use it constantly?
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Apr 12, 2024 16:46
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Even if this were true I don't see how it's winning messaging. The only people who'd accept it are already diehard libs who are gonna vote biden anyways, anyone else is gonna look at the trump years and compare em to now and go "well it was better during those 4 sooooo". Tbh I dunno even what winning messaging would look like, I guess maybe put the abortion football up again for your charlie brown voters. If they had some wins they could point to during their term they could blast those out but they don't really.
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Apr 14, 2024 02:25
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Strangelet Wave posted:we do this insane thing where we administer the welfare state through the tax system. my wife and I hosed up our withholdings (?) (maybe?) (i feel like we had this problem last year and fixed it!) and owed thousands of dollars at tax time. we got the child tax credit but it didn’t feel like we did because it got dwarfed by the big check we wrote to the government. feels like we might as well have got nothing at all. did they do something weird with w-4’s in the past couple of years? I swear I’ve heard more and more stories about surprise tax bills these last few seasons and I don’t really get how it happens because that’s all stuff that happens on the backend that you don’t really have to worry about if you get the bulk of income through payroll. My boss has zero dependents, doesn’t really get any money from investments or such, allegedly claimed nothing on his w-4 and in fact tells me he has it set up so they withhold an extra chunk per paycheck and still he ends up owing a couple grand. Considering our payroll is the same, I actually owed a bit on 1099’s this year and I still ended up slightly positive on my return it just doesn’t make sense to me.
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Apr 16, 2024 14:05
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You know I never really considered that taking steps to improve the life of your SO was debt that needed to be paid back.
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Apr 16, 2024 15:46
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sullat posted:Your boss makes far more money than you do and now has to pay taxes on it. He's flexing on you when he complains like this. Nah he’s a nice guy humble bragging ain’t really his style, besides it’s gov contractor work so I ballpark know his pay grade anyways. Not that it matters, cause it’s already taxed by payroll which is why it’s weird it keeps coming out that he owes. Whether you make 50 or 500 grand from a w-2 they should just be taxing it accordingly and it’s a wash. A few years ago a bunch of coworkers at my previous job ran into that too, and the theory was always that it was how much overtime pay we got but afaik that should generally just get you a larger return as most payroll taxes look at your paycheck per period, calculate what that would translate to in an annual basis, then tax you accordingly. Also it again didn’t happen to me but my tax situation has always been p simple. I dunno it just seems like there’s been an uptick of people complaining about owing a ton these last few seasons both IRL and on these forums so I was wondering if something happened between the Trump and Biden admins that hosed up people’s witholdings and they simply never updated their W-4 or what.
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Elephant Ambush posted:I'm a filthy casual around here maybe we can talk about it later
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quote:No the desired effect of Joe Biden winning is radicalizing dissapointed democrats further left. More left voters means that the parties will be pulled further left aswell.
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Apr 17, 2024 00:53
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Uncle Wemus posted:Liberal politicians and economists don’t seem to recognize the everyday harms of rising costs, Michael Powell writes. https://theatln.tc/rVM8NogK look people are still dipping into their excess savings from the relief they got 4 years ago. They’ll be fine.
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Apr 17, 2024 17:43
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WampaLord posted:I feel like it's pretty damning of our system that the "good" party has only had 60 days of actually being able to Do Something in the last 16 years
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Apr 19, 2024 01:25
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The Oldest Man posted:How long did it take Biden to get the first Globemaster full of 2000 lb bombs to Israel right, it's like that would be an almost valid criticism of people pointing out D flaws if there weren't so many counter examples of things happening quickly (often against the will of the public). 60 days does honestly sound like a fairly short amount of time if you're an adult that's worked any number of jobs when you're talking about broad policy changes where things generally seem to take quarters or years even for the simplest of shifts but there's really zero justification that good things take years to accomplish when bad things happen overnight so often and easily when it comes to politics. If dems regularly used notable majorities to immediately ram through every populist policy possible and challenged every roadblock (like eliminating the fillibuster lol) then they'd just be forever enshrined as the victors and we'd have a permablue EC every cycle but they don't cause they don't want to. There's not even failures you can point to, stuff like force the vote got turned down as unserious impositions even though making it clear where every elected official stands on popular policy would be 101 for an actual democracy. They don't want good things is legitimately the only conclusion from people paying attention.
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Apr 19, 2024 02:46
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TBH isn't this just most of us? We only get news from mainstream media to aggregate it here (usually for the purpose of making fun of it), and we neither love Trump like his supporters or buy into the end of democracy narrative of the democrats.
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Apr 20, 2024 14:57
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loquacius posted:Do you think it's more likely that juror 4 doesn't get news from anywhere at all and doesn't give a poo poo about any of this, or that he was just annoyed at being asked all these questions and refused to give real answers I think it depends on how you answer the question "get news from". Like if you're talking about "have you gotten any news at all from these sources" then I mean basically everyone should be checking almost all the boxes because most people have probably at least seen something shared from basically every source imaginable, otoh if the question is intended to be "do you actively seek out this source when trying to learn news on a current event" then I'm kind of surprised there's not more people who basically have nothing checked outside of maybe social media or whatever aggregator page pops up when you open a browser if you haven't switched it's default yet.
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Apr 20, 2024 15:15
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When it started off I thought it was gonna be about guns, then I was like "oh it's about cancer" and then welp the ending. Truly a rollercoaster.
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Apr 22, 2024 01:52
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Al! posted:it's even better in context I wonder what all the media literacy people would say about this flagrant propaganda. She's literally winning over an order of magnitude harder.
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Apr 24, 2024 02:15
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Pulling the app before the election if this goes through would be a p funny thing to do though. They have no actual incentive to sell right? It feels like it’d make more sense to make the ban politically damaging and to support a candidate that would reverse it.
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Apr 24, 2024 14:05
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SixteenShells posted:"can never articulate their end goals" stop giving Israel money and materiel isn't articulate enough? or is that discounted as a policy proposal because it's not "serious" enough? Literally every major movement I've seen in my lifetime has everyone coalesce around the idea of "they have no core message" even though there's very obvious ones pull from it. Stuff like OWS and BLM had very clear core messages it shouldn't take a journalist to uncover, and yet these journalists couldn't identify simple stuff like "get money out of politics" or "stop giving police money to suppress people", I'm sure despite the world's simplest call to action "stop supporting genocide" they'll go back to the same well with "hmm we can't figure out what they want I guess they just want to look rebellious for social media".
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Apr 29, 2024 03:57
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spacemang_spliff posted:if housing affordability is a key issue then what are the democrat party doing about it lol Your mortgage would be more than twice lol. I ran the numbers for my place, similar timeline, and due to the rates being substantially higher my mortgage would be about 3-3.5x lol.
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Apr 30, 2024 02:29
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Trabisnikof posted:It. Doesn’t. Matter. Nothing matters if this election doesn’t go right. Nothing matters if this Supreme Court continues to run America into the ground. These kids protesting the wrong thing are so blind. You were literally spoon fed this poo poo to distract you and keep you from protesting American issues. This is the most pathetic and stupidest generation of all time. Worse than boomers. At least boomers know they’re loving us and just don’t care. Gen Z and all the college kids etc protesting the thousand year old war over seas like it’s a new thing while their country falls apart in front of them and they may not even vote to save it because of global politics is easily, the most short sighted and idiotic thing I’ve ever seen. What I will continue to not get about arguments like these is why they don't flip it on the head and go "hey if this election is so important why doesn't the admin just do what the people want and win in a landslide for free". How is the majority of people giving up their desires for what the minority wants an ideal form of "democracy" we're trying to preserve here? Like this isn't even a matter where there's the plausible deniability of rotating villain thing where they can claim they're trying to but "don't have the votes", they're actively voting for the stuff their base is presently revolting over.
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Apr 30, 2024 04:16
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Rectal Death Alert posted:I'm not exactly sure what every person that has driven themselves literally insane over Donald Trump will do when he is elected but I can't say all of them will do nothing They might start complaining about the things they should have been complaining about for the past 4 years. Maybe I'm wrong but I feel a bit mentally stuck in 2020 where my political analysis was that libs will immediately stop criticizing everything they were mad at trump about when biden becomes president but I feel like the reverse will be true too. I doubt covid opinions will change at this point but I feel somewhat confident the I/P situation has a bunch of people who really would like to switch sides without admitting they were wrong or having any introspection.
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May 3, 2024 02:31
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Haven't there been literal studies that show voters and their preferences have little to no impact on policy development. How does someone like this square that circle? Even if Biden wasn't a total piece of poo poo and I was merely indifferent to him rather than actively disdainful what's really my motivation to vote for him, it doesn't do anything.
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May 10, 2024 15:44
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Honestly I don’t beleive you but it’s not worth arguing over because either way the anecdote he told is a apparently a complete lie fwiw I've certainly heard older people say that with names that could be first or last, it's common enough that was literally my thought when I saw the tweet.
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May 11, 2024 23:00
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Trabisnikof posted:If Biden wanted to win he would criminalized spam text and phone calls. It’s that simple. That absolutely no politician campaigns on or even tries to do very straight forward consumer/public protection stuff is just so telling about priorities.
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Best Friends posted:the flint water crisis feels like a turning point. Every level of government going “we just don’t think providing clean water is in our remit anymore. deal with it.”
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