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The US Election 2016, Part IX
Isn't Gromnir a lawyer?
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
Yeah, you might abolish slavery or get people on the Moon. God forbid, that! Both of which were done with President's of one party and at least one house of Congress controlled by a different party. The things that everyone agrees on still get done. But when there is no power behind the political opposition you get bad things like the Patriot Act and the ACA. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Presidents_and_control_of_Congress The graph here isn't the most parseable thing, but it sure seems to me that in both 1863 and 1961 only one party controlled both houses and the presidency.
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
Yeah, you might abolish slavery or get people on the Moon. God forbid, that!
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Signed Deluxe Edition
Contact Ship Naked, here. They should get back to you in a couple of days.
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
What? He asked Johnson sensible questions, and Johnson didn't have answers. This is the sort of thing that should happen at the big debates and usually doesn't. Often the candidates aren't challenged when they respond with no substance to policy questions. Johnson was pressed and he couldn't handle it.
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
As Zoraptor explained, if you have unlimited income the hospitals and doctors are great. You might notice that the vast majority of people don't have unlimited income.
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
The system is broke and healthcare providers are villains because private citizens pay more money out of pocket for healthcare than about any other western country, and in addition to that the government spends more per capita on healthcare than about any other country in the world with free healthcare. At the same time Americans also have the worst health outcomes of the western world by a significant margin.
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
He has filed the application, but it got stuck somewhere in the corridors at the ministry of Truth & Broadcasting. Rumors are abound that he probably breached the independent thought protocol and now the big club is petty over their supposed Golem not being one at all. Source: http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/WikiLeaks-Clinton-Promote-Carson/2016/10/11/id/752705/ Is anyone supposed to be surprised or outraged by that?
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
Would you say someone who uses his money, fame and connections to get away with repeatedly breaking the law, getting gigantic tax rebates, and sexually assaulting women is someone who has "transcended privilege-checking"?
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B They are the ones who have trancended privilege-checking. Like, say, for example Trump.
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
"I hate the elites who've been screwing me over for over the past 40 years so I'm going to vote for one of them"
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doEk7ajI9sY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_BTODUEhPk
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
Trust-fund-baby-turned-billionaire-married-to-supermodel feels system unfairly rigged against him
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
I can't speak for the guy, but the filtering of empirical fact through the prism of ideology certainly applies to political partisanship in the US. Global warming and evolution are the obvious examples
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
I came across a variant of this when I was studying translation in university. Roughly speaking, there was a current of translation studies which posited that all translations were done from a male perspective, and that translation should be studied from a feminist studies perspective. It quickly became apparent to me that all this translation theory was a blatant shoehorning of the two subjects into each other, and it helped with nothing other than with the regurgitation of ideology. It wasn't "let's look at translation from a feminist/female perspective", but rather translation is done in a "male" fashion therefore it is wrong and we must fight that by shoehorning feminist ideology into it.
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Nerdgasm: Movies and Shows for Geeks and Nerds
Yeah, that was ghastly. Despite the many years experiencing your Volyness, I honestly can't tell if your being sarcastic. The argument certainly can be made that those nerdy big studio movies are rubbish. DC comics movies are the opposite of a good counter example, though. You might as well give the following trailer as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujfDtlEwFBk
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The US Election 2016, Part IX
Not a Stalinist but a populist towards anything that the cooky side of the left might like. She won't support stupid stuff directly but she usually seems careful to words things in a way that doesn't commit her to a definite position. Homeopathy is no longer part of her platform, at least. Replying to what's her position on homeopathy, she can't seem to give a straight answer:
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