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« Reply #31440 on: February 12, 2019, 05:16:26 PM »
There's already been a crisis and a lot of people died, but the public's attention moved on pretty quickly because, well, yanno.

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« Reply #31441 on: February 12, 2019, 05:20:39 PM »
There's already been a crisis and a lot of people died, but the public's attention moved on pretty quickly because, well, yanno.
Natural disasters sorta hit at a different wave length than say if a nuclear plant under Rick Perry explodes or a plane is hijacked because the government is shutdown.

Anyhow Ted's found a way to fund the wall
https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1095409091403546624
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« Reply #31442 on: February 12, 2019, 05:43:07 PM »
Sounds like Lyndon LaRouche died. Wonder what this means for the LaRouche guys with a table set up at BWI.

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« Reply #31443 on: February 12, 2019, 07:11:05 PM »
FUCK YOU, CURLY.

You introduced me to Michael Parenti and now I'm a genocide denier.



Where is Optimus? Is he permabanned? I just looked up the OPCW report from last July and they didn't find any evidence of nerve agents used in Douma, and all the plasma samples they took were clean.
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« Reply #31444 on: February 12, 2019, 07:12:20 PM »
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« Reply #31445 on: February 12, 2019, 07:14:00 PM »
Sounds like Lyndon LaRouche died. Wonder what this means for the LaRouche guys with a table set up at BWI.

Me and my brother used to have so much fun running into LaRouche folks on campus back in the day. So much fuckery.

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« Reply #31446 on: February 12, 2019, 07:19:12 PM »
i'm crossing the streams

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« Reply #31447 on: February 12, 2019, 07:22:23 PM »
I remember seeing a Ron Paul table on a campus way back when and thinking "those guys have nothing on the LaRouche geeks."

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« Reply #31448 on: February 12, 2019, 07:22:56 PM »
https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1095424852654080000

yes, that guy. if this is american politics now, there is no hope for the future. 100% chance that at next year's RNC someone says "trust the plan".
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« Reply #31449 on: February 12, 2019, 08:19:28 PM »
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Evidence on the deterioration of natural systems is presented with a series of grim global statistics: since 1950, the number of floods has increased by a factor of 15, extreme temperature events by a factor of 20, and wildfires sevenfold; topsoil is now being lost 10 to 40 times faster than it is being replenished by natural processes; the 20 warmest years since records began in 1850 have been in the past 22 years; vertebrate populations have fallen by an average of 60% since the 1970s, and insect numbers – vital for pollination – have declined even faster in some countries.

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« Reply #31450 on: February 12, 2019, 10:00:53 PM »
https://climate.nasa.gov/


Toxic Adam be like "what's the problem guys, it's just a little warmer"


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« Reply #31451 on: February 12, 2019, 10:23:10 PM »
AFAIK climate change denial didn't get a mainstream foothold in most of the other rich countries the way it did in the US (Australia being an exception). Anyone here ever read anything good looking at why?

First guess would be some combination of domestic fossil fuel industry, car dependence, and dedicated right wing media infrastructure, but that's me just throwing shit out there.

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« Reply #31452 on: February 12, 2019, 10:32:49 PM »
AFAIK climate change denial didn't get a mainstream foothold in most of the other rich countries the way it did in the US (Australia being an exception). Anyone here ever read anything good looking at why?

First guess would be some combination of domestic fossil fuel industry, car dependence, and dedicated right wing media infrastructure, but that's me just throwing shit out there.

Less stupid people
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« Reply #31453 on: February 12, 2019, 10:39:49 PM »

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« Reply #31454 on: February 12, 2019, 11:06:38 PM »
AFAIK climate change denial didn't get a mainstream foothold in most of the other rich countries the way it did in the US (Australia being an exception). .

I'd throw us Canucks in as a partial exception too.  Most provincial governments are currently held by conservative parties, and they are bucking hard against the Federal Liberals' attempts to implement a national carbon tax.  The leaders themselves don't use the language of climate change denial, but I'd say the conservative base has a large enough chunk of climate deniers to be a force in swinging their leadership to their current obstructionist positions.
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« Reply #31457 on: February 13, 2019, 03:58:36 AM »
still haven't heard back from the VA about my education benefits  :doge
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« Reply #31458 on: February 13, 2019, 04:18:54 AM »
https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1095529657380859904

He sounds as dumb as trump. Aspiring cult leader who promises all the solutions but none of the details.

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« Reply #31460 on: February 13, 2019, 09:08:39 AM »
https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1095170666612035587

"1100 people MURDERED"
"Decapitated heads rolling down the streets"

*silence /care*

[*cross talk*]

"They're all for Trump... Trump"

"WOOOOHOOOO YEEEAHHHHH"  :rofl
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« Reply #31461 on: February 13, 2019, 09:10:21 AM »
He should stick to sports talk.
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« Reply #31462 on: February 13, 2019, 09:52:02 AM »
https://twitter.com/awzurcher/status/1095694842653483008

Oh the Stephen Colbert take on race. Yup that's getting you allies.   :lol
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« Reply #31463 on: February 13, 2019, 10:04:33 AM »
still haven't heard back from the VA about my education benefits  :doge
The last year of my chapter 35 benefits they literally just ignored me and then finally sent a letter after my benefits expired saying "oh whoops. you're no longer eligible"

They're also moronic because my benefits have expired but they won't allow my school to remove me off the VA hold list so every time I make a change I still have to submit the stupid VA forms just for them to be denied in order to add/drop a class or whatever.

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« Reply #31464 on: February 13, 2019, 10:09:34 AM »
>Obama’s transportation secretary, Ray LaHood, said, “I’m not a historian, but I know this: One of the legacies for this administration, for the president and the vice president, will be high-speed rail. That will be their transportation legacy.”

77 Billion spent in California and nothing to show for it. Yikes.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article226151030.html

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« Reply #31465 on: February 13, 2019, 11:32:12 AM »
ToxicAdam, we know you're an idiot, but do you have to keep making it so obvious?

1) Spending to date has been $5.5 billion
2) Nothing has changed on the project. The Governor simply repeated the last business plan. Use the existing money to finish the valley segment and get fed funding for the rest
3) nOtHinG tO sHoW fOr iT


Aerials-0291a by California High-Speed Rail, on Flickr

Aerials-0029 by California High-Speed Rail, on Flickr

DSC_0097 by California High-Speed Rail, on Flickr

Fucktard
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« Reply #31467 on: February 13, 2019, 12:21:01 PM »
Eh, Obama built a basketball court. One of them built a bowling alley, and then some other feckless fucktard paid to remove the bowling alley.

IMO, if they want recreation, they should go to the fucking park


Also, this explains why the shutdown went on for song long - he didnt need to go to Florida for golf, he was playing at home
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« Reply #31468 on: February 13, 2019, 12:22:45 PM »
I guess we'll just have to wait for the hyperloop B)
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« Reply #31469 on: February 13, 2019, 12:26:09 PM »
I read that the golf thing sits "Unused"  and Trump paid for it himself


The President has a #backlog  :rejoice
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« Reply #31470 on: February 13, 2019, 12:27:30 PM »
Golf room sounds fun, don’t hate

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« Reply #31471 on: February 13, 2019, 12:39:55 PM »
Staff: "Phew, the man is playing his golf game now. I think we found a way to keep him occupied for the next 2 years so he doesn't start any wars or destroy democracy."

TV sound: ".... President Trump is out there golfing and ordinary citizens are suffering!"
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TV sound: ".... Instead of telling the Democrats to go screw themselves and demanding the full $20 billion for the border wall or invading Venezuela, President Trump is WASTING his time golfing"

Staff: "NO!!! SHUT UP!!!"
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« Reply #31472 on: February 13, 2019, 01:58:19 PM »


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« Reply #31473 on: February 13, 2019, 01:59:54 PM »
The final lynchpin in Mueller’s investigation. Checkmate libetards.
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« Reply #31475 on: February 13, 2019, 03:09:20 PM »
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« Reply #31476 on: February 13, 2019, 03:15:38 PM »


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« Reply #31477 on: February 13, 2019, 03:57:17 PM »
Can all these McAfee posts just be relegated to the shit thread
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« Reply #31478 on: February 13, 2019, 04:13:20 PM »
This
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« Reply #31481 on: February 13, 2019, 04:39:44 PM »
SLAY QUEEN SLAY

But also maybe take some public speaking courses
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« Reply #31482 on: February 13, 2019, 04:55:06 PM »
Yeah of the new generation socialist congresswomen Ocasio-Cortez is far and away the best speaker and most media savvy. I don't think Omar's AIPAC comments were anti-Semitic but they were definitely clumsily expressed. I have to give her props for being willing to put herself out there on foreign policy though. Bernie and AOC have both been conspicuously silent on foreign policy issues (insert Marxist-Leninist line about social fascists here).

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« Reply #31483 on: February 13, 2019, 06:07:08 PM »
Yeah, she wasn't being antisemitic but was kind of glib and sloppy. It's worth taking the time to get familiar with antisemitic tropes and steering well clear of them if only to avoid getting a fan base of racist creeps, like what's happened with Tulsi Gabbard.

But it has to be galling for her to deal with this level of shitstorm for that tweet, considering what you can get away with saying about Muslims in the US with basically no consequences.

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« Reply #31484 on: February 13, 2019, 06:35:42 PM »
Perhaps now is the time to announce that I have reregistered as a Democrat and I am now supporting Tulsi Gabbard for president.  :american
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« Reply #31485 on: February 13, 2019, 06:52:19 PM »
The transformation from Hillary-supporting fascist resetera mod to...whatever this is....has been fascinating

Reminds me of Cindi's transition
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« Reply #31486 on: February 13, 2019, 06:53:42 PM »
Omar is playing a dangerous game going after the people they bring in when diplomacy has failed.
Plus she's already feeding the Qatari AJ+ and RT newsfeeds.

I don't suppose she ever wonders: "Why is this horrible mass murderer sitting in front of me protected by basically everyone"
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« Reply #31487 on: February 13, 2019, 06:55:54 PM »
it's elliott abrams not john wick

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« Reply #31488 on: February 13, 2019, 06:58:00 PM »
it's elliott abrams not john wick

calm down

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« Reply #31489 on: February 13, 2019, 07:25:11 PM »
“Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes,” Ms. Omar said

It's all a fickle bed of ice that will eventually implode on in itself.

Hey whats the thoughts on banning air travel for the USA?

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« Reply #31490 on: February 13, 2019, 07:27:58 PM »
are flights grounded all over the US?
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« Reply #31491 on: February 13, 2019, 07:28:28 PM »
just banning it in general.

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« Reply #31492 on: February 13, 2019, 07:29:00 PM »
is this some kind of anti green new deal propaganda you've been reading
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« Reply #31493 on: February 13, 2019, 07:29:45 PM »
hungry, while you're here, I have a question for you.

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« Reply #31494 on: February 13, 2019, 07:30:58 PM »
is this some kind of anti green new deal propaganda you've been reading

No this is pro teleportation propoganda ive been reading.

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« Reply #31495 on: February 13, 2019, 07:31:37 PM »
hungry, while you're here, I have a question for you.

maybe

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« Reply #31496 on: February 13, 2019, 07:31:54 PM »
ok please just say whatever it is you want to say
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« Reply #31497 on: February 13, 2019, 07:32:05 PM »
hungry, what are your thoughts on big tiddy anime?

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« Reply #31498 on: February 13, 2019, 07:34:25 PM »
Yeah, she wasn't being antisemitic but was kind of glib and sloppy. It's worth taking the time to get familiar with antisemitic tropes and steering well clear of them if only to avoid getting a fan base of racist creeps, like what's happened with Tulsi Gabbard.

But it has to be galling for her to deal with this level of shitstorm for that tweet, considering what you can get away with saying about Muslims in the US with basically no consequences.

Tulsi Gabbard feels like such a throwback to the mid aughts when the American left didn't have even the shred of mainstream presence that it does today so if you were a self-styled progressive or extreme liberal or whatever who couldn't make peace with the Democratic party you had to latch on to whatever you could get. Any politician that was good on one or two issues and sufficiently outside the mainstream could inspire interest at the least from the anti-establishment left (the quintessential example of this was talking up Ron Paul's anti-interventionism and drug policies and ignoring, you know, the rest).

Greenwald is another figure that seems like a relic of that era. All his takes are rooted in opposition to a wrong being done by some big hegemonic bad--Tulsi is being unfairly treated by the media, the national security consensus is disastrous and immoral, Michael Tracey is the most demonized person on Twitter. He's not always wrong (I'd say he's usually right) but when your politics is based entirely around supporting the plucky outsider against the wrongdoings of the powers that be you end up contorting yourself into some really weird positions like defending Tennys Sandgren or being a regular guest on Tucker Carlson.

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