Everything posted by Pidesco
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Politics: The Undiscovered Country
Your (wrong 😄 ) views I'm already familiar with, but thanks. Where are you getting that 200k number from, though? As far as I know Warren's wealth tax proposal is to tax people's wealth above 50 million at 2%. Anyway if you stand to be affected by this tax, congrats.
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Politics: The Undiscovered Country
What policy proposals of hers are you uncomfortable with? Basically, what does "she is a bit left o' where we feel comfortable voting" mean exactly? I mean by European standards you strike me as moderate right all the way, but in the current American politics spectrum you might as well be the pinkoest of all the pinkos, by my personal estimation.
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Politics: The Undiscovered Country
Hey Guard Dog, I don't recall seeing anything by you on the subject, so I'll ask here. How do you see the internal skitstorm that is affecting the NRA of late? They seem to be steadfastly digging their own graves.
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A Funny Stuff Thread
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
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Politics: The Final Frontier
https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2019-07-2019. Immigrant Child Separations- Staff Report.pdf http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/the-inhumane-conditions-at-migrant-detention-camps.html https://www.vox.com/2018/6/11/17443198/children-immigrant-families-separated-parents http://srcd.org/sites/default/files/documents/the_science_is_clear.pdf https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/children-immigration-court/567490/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/what-separation-from-parents-does-to-children-the-effect-is-catastrophic/2018/06/18/c00c30ec-732c-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html
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Politics: The Final Frontier
Are you serious or trolling.
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Politics: The Final Frontier
"Slight discomfort"? Holy hell.
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Politics: The Final Frontier
It will finally fall after an astounding victory by Maxwell the Insane in the Vaulted Metal Structure of Lightning, during the great dust bowl wars of 2061.
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Politics: The Final Frontier
I believe "current state of US politics" refers to the limited period between 1776 and 2061.
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Lets Get Political
Shouldn't people be in a panic over that? That sort of behaviour seems really, really dangerous for democracy.
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Lets Get Political
Are you talking about Shapiro, dog whistler extraordinaire?
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Lets Get Political
The controversy seems to be that that lady from google said she doesn't think google's platforms should be used to spread racist content? Or to finance creators of said content.
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213374U (Welcome to the Squad!)
Numbersman!
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Lets Get Political
The GOP has been doubling down on its uneducated, religious, rural base for 40 years, it isn't going to stop now. The reasons that strategy hasn't destroyed them already are gerrymandering, and that the Senate and the Presidency both favor votes from low population density areas. As far as the popular vote is concerned I don't see how Trump isn't defeated in an unprecedented fashion. Of course, the electoral college will make everything a lot tighter in practice. Still, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if the 2020 election didn't deliver Mondale level results for the GOP.
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The Next Funny Stuff Thread
That's the joke. There aren't that many people entering the US illegally. Most illegal immigrants are people that overstayed on their guest visas, and the number of people crossing the border illegally has been decreasing for years and years.
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The Next Funny Stuff Thread
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This is pretty much perfect. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/thin-ice- TV & streaming thread
First the Beatles now this!- Lets Get Political
Software may change but bureaucracy is forever!- Politics and Statesmenship: A Forum Special Report
The point is thst they didn't beat the old tech, they got trounced.- Politics and Statesmenship: A Forum Special Report
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 This is relevant to the possibility of war between the US and Iran.- Politics and Statesmenship: A Forum Special Report
The notion that a guy with that voice made a career out of just speaking seriously, still kind of amazes me. It's like if Gilbert Gottfried made a career out of presenting solemn occasions. Not that Shapiro is in any way alone in this regard. The number of youtubers my kid follows with incredibly grating voices is not small though. Apparently, a grating voice is now the new normal. Perhaps soon all voice over narrators will have annoying voices as a new standard. "And now a documentary on PTSD victims of war, narrated by Gilbert Gottfried. Right after, enjoy Fran Drescher reading 1984."- Politics and Statesmenship: A Forum Special Report
I see this both on the left and the right side (and whatever side) of the debate on youtube, but every time I see a video with the words "destroy", or "wrecks" or "shames", written in CAPS, I just tune out.- The Blockbuster Oscar Bait Movie Thread
It will come out eventually, and it will suck, so say the Duke Nukem Mystical Scrolls of truth. - The Next Funny Stuff Thread