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« Reply #31500 on: February 13, 2019, 08:05:22 PM »
The thing about the ratio phenomenon is that Twitter is the one place you can yell at a fairly prominent person and they'll hear you.

There was a bit of handwringing about angry bloggers in the 00's, but there's way more concern about "online lynch mobs" now, and that's because wealthy media types read their Twitter mentions in a way they never did with the Eschaton comment section or whatever. Also the mobs have a really remarkable track record of being right.

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« Reply #31501 on: February 13, 2019, 08:06:46 PM »
Curly... pretty good description of Greenwald. He’s just an ultra contrarian about everything ever.

I’ve seen some really terrible takes on the Omar thing though. Even among people whose opinions I usually respect.

What she said could maybe be considered antisemitic if she wasn’t right. But anyone with half a brain can look at AIPAC and the general “Israel lobby” and the people associated with it and see unequivocally that they wield a vast amount of money into the electoral system to buy votes on Israel related matters. Yes, they are not always successful, but they do try and will get wins always on low stakes shit like this.

I’m old enough to remember when Haim Saban tried to buy a chair for Jane Harman in exchange for her trying to influence the DOJ to drop charges on two AIPAC members. I’m smart enough to know that though Sheldon Adelson technically broke with aipac in 2007 that he partners with aipac linked groups like the American Education Fund.

Those are two of the biggest donors to both parties over the last 20 years and there is absolutely no way to know conretely how much money AIPAC raises indirectly for candidates from bundling by its members and coordinations donations to superpacs. But I can look at two of the biggest donors to both parties and see that they both say their #1 issue is Israel.

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« Reply #31502 on: February 13, 2019, 08:32:48 PM »
Can all these McAfee posts just be relegated to the shit thread
There, in theory, is a John McAfee thread, but shosta much like his failed favorite candidate didn't even indicate this in the thread title to where it's almost as if I would make an actual proper McAfee 2020 thread (my past success includes making the Donald Trump 2016 thread on January 20, 2015 on NeoGAF.com leading to his election) if you would stop your bigoted attacks against whale consent awareness.

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« Reply #31503 on: February 13, 2019, 08:37:43 PM »
Tulsi Gabbard's pretty hot

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« Reply #31504 on: February 13, 2019, 08:39:32 PM »
hungry, what are your thoughts on big tiddy anime?

His silence is deafening.

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« Reply #31505 on: February 13, 2019, 08:40:25 PM »
Can all these McAfee posts just be relegated to the shit thread
There, in theory, is a John McAfee thread, but shosta much like his failed favorite candidate didn't even indicate this in the thread title to where it's almost as if I would make an actual proper McAfee 2020 thread (my past success includes making the Donald Trump 2016 thread on January 20, 2015 on NeoGAF.com leading to his election) if you would stop your bigoted attacks against whale consent awareness.

As the man that first shared the whale consent tweet here, I would appreciate if you would stop stepping on my toes.

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« Reply #31506 on: February 13, 2019, 08:41:04 PM »
Sheldon Adelson also needed to swap some of his funds over to preventing internet gambling, expanded gaming licenses, etc. He probably realized the Israel thing was pretty well taken care of.

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« Reply #31507 on: February 13, 2019, 08:42:36 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.
Truman built the bowling alley, it's never been removed.

Although, it was part of ANOTHER FAILED OBAMA PROMISE:
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As a presidential candidate in 2008, Barack Obama vowed to tear out the White House bowling alley and install a basketball court if elected. Now, nearly four years later, the basement bowling alley is still there, and getting plenty of use.

More than 4,100 have been granted access to the White House to visit the presidential lanes in the Executive Office Building since Obama took office, according to visitor logs released by the administration and analyzed by ABC News.

In May 2011 alone, the most recent month for which records have been released, 230 bowlers were cleared by the Secret Service to try their hands at strikes and spares. The two-lane alley appears to have been used every day of the month except five.

By comparison, only 60 visitors to the White House since 2009 came to use the presidential basketball court, records show.

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« Reply #31508 on: February 13, 2019, 08:43:58 PM »
AIPAC's main issue is getting the US to subsidize weaponry for a bunch of English-speaking white people so they can be aimed at scary bearded Muslims.

I'm sure the money helps but it's not exactly an uphill battle.

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« Reply #31509 on: February 13, 2019, 08:56:49 PM »
To cross the streams, my Qanon descending into madness uncle thinks Sandy's wrong because we don't have 12 years before the planet ends, only five.

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« Reply #31510 on: February 13, 2019, 08:59:40 PM »
To cross the streams, my Qanon descending into madness uncle thinks Sandy's wrong because we don't have 12 years before the planet ends, only five.
can your uncle beat up riotous sr.? if not, then he can shut the hell up
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« Reply #31511 on: February 13, 2019, 09:31:11 PM »
what if he is riotous sr. :ohhh

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« Reply #31512 on: February 13, 2019, 09:32:07 PM »
your uncle is hungrynoob

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« Reply #31513 on: February 13, 2019, 09:41:29 PM »
If there was like a high speed rail system in place nationwide or something, I could see the sense in getting rid of domestic commercial air flight — oh great I’m on another list, aren’t I?

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« Reply #31514 on: February 13, 2019, 09:48:52 PM »
can't wait for individualized hyperloop elevator for every house in america

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« Reply #31515 on: February 13, 2019, 09:50:55 PM »


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« Reply #31516 on: February 13, 2019, 09:55:02 PM »
MSM really hates Tulsi  :-[
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« Reply #31517 on: February 13, 2019, 10:00:18 PM »

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« Reply #31518 on: February 13, 2019, 10:06:31 PM »
Bill Weld pulled a shosta and switched his registration to Republican, he's going to announce on Friday that he'll challenge Trump even though nobody knows who he is and even fewer Republicans support his libertarian-lean positions on immigration, drug war, the homos, etc.

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« Reply #31519 on: February 13, 2019, 10:21:25 PM »
There, in theory, is a John McAfee thread, but shosta much like his failed favorite candidate didn't even indicate this in the thread title to where it's almost as if I would make an actual proper McAfee 2020 thread (my past success includes making the Donald Trump 2016 thread on January 20, 2015 on NeoGAF.com leading to his election) if you would stop your bigoted attacks against whale consent awareness.
that wasn't a mcafee thread, that was just a "weird shit on the internet" thread which I got the idea for when The Artist Formerly Known as Grimes changed her name. It only turned into a mcafee thread once he claimed that he had survived an assassination attempt from eating poisoned food. And then he kept posting stuff like that. But I still stand by the original intention, it's just that I don't see much stuff on the internet weirder than McAfee these days.
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« Reply #31520 on: February 13, 2019, 10:23:47 PM »
Resolution on ending involvement in the war in Yemen passed in the House. I assume it's not going to get a vote in the Senate.
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« Reply #31521 on: February 13, 2019, 10:28:04 PM »
McAffee deserves better than Shosta's half assed thread. McOvfefe-daddy deserves his own thread. For America

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« Reply #31522 on: February 13, 2019, 10:28:47 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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« Reply #31523 on: February 13, 2019, 10:31:08 PM »
woah sup lil pimpin

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« Reply #31524 on: February 13, 2019, 10:33:17 PM »
saw a Kucinich 2004 bumper sticker on a car on campus in like 2011 :american

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« Reply #31525 on: February 13, 2019, 10:34:26 PM »
I now want to see a Kucinich/Shapiro battle to the death

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« Reply #31526 on: February 13, 2019, 10:44:43 PM »
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« Reply #31527 on: February 13, 2019, 10:52:41 PM »
my favorite part about the Kucinichs' height difference is that she's almost six foot tall and still wears heels so he looks even smaller :delicious

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« Reply #31528 on: February 13, 2019, 10:54:16 PM »
Dennis in the streets, Menace in the sheets*

*bedsheets, not Ralph Northam type sheets

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« Reply #31529 on: February 13, 2019, 10:58:15 PM »
okay i'm going to tie this all together

the conservative media obsession with the Green New Deal being THE REAL DEMOCRATIC AGENDA reminds me of how there was like a week back in the day where they all wrote articles/blog posts/etc. about Kucinich's Department of Peace idea being the MAINSTREAM OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, I think NRO had like fifteen blog posts about it and how it was support for Saddam and his 9/11 allies

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« Reply #31530 on: February 13, 2019, 11:11:10 PM »
Similar to the fear that Obama would reinstate the Fairness Doctrine.

Also the United Nations Millenium Development Goals meant the US was going to fork over hundreds of billions of dollars in new foreign aid.

And a ton of Republican operatives apparently thought impeaching Trump was going to be the first item on the agenda Democrats took the House.

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« Reply #31532 on: February 14, 2019, 02:31:34 AM »
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« Reply #31533 on: February 14, 2019, 02:41:34 AM »
going after the crucial Great Rumbler vote

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« Reply #31535 on: February 14, 2019, 04:57:54 AM »
They should install a President Simulator so he can learn not to act like a massive shithead. Or just give him Tropico 6 instead.

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« Reply #31537 on: February 14, 2019, 06:11:54 AM »
So I guess he's not going to announce his presidential run anytime soon? :(

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« Reply #31538 on: February 14, 2019, 06:46:53 AM »
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Attention hogger turns out to be kind of a pompous douche bag ?
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« Reply #31539 on: February 14, 2019, 09:37:32 AM »
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Man, I can't believe that Dems were actually worried about this guy
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« Reply #31540 on: February 14, 2019, 09:39:21 AM »
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fox-news-rejects-national-ad-oscar-nominated-anti-nazi-documentary-1186379

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« Reply #31541 on: February 14, 2019, 10:58:08 AM »
So I guess he's not going to announce his presidential run anytime soon? :(

I dunno, seems like the perfect time to me.
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« Reply #31543 on: February 14, 2019, 02:11:26 PM »
https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1096021932477157378

FBI tries to overthrow the President.

Perfectly normal.  :doge
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« Reply #31545 on: February 14, 2019, 02:32:28 PM »
Amazon picking up their ball and going home because some politicians pushed back at the idea of them getting $3 billion just to continue conducting their normal business operations. :neogaf
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« Reply #31546 on: February 14, 2019, 02:37:28 PM »
time to put hq2 in sacramento :rejoice
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« Reply #31547 on: February 14, 2019, 02:37:41 PM »
Amazone'd: The Rise and Fall of Jeff Bezos

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« Reply #31549 on: February 14, 2019, 03:21:46 PM »
WaPo op-ed section has two never-Trump conservatives (Max Boot, George Will) explaining how the Green New Deal is the left equivalent of Trump-style politics. Will, IIRC, was one of those "global warming stopped in 1998" guys.

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« Reply #31551 on: February 14, 2019, 03:36:19 PM »
WaPo op-ed section has two never-Trump conservatives (Max Boot, George Will) explaining how the Green New Deal is the left equivalent of Trump-style politics. Will, IIRC, was one of those "global warming stopped in 1998" guys.

Everytime George Will came up in those Ken Burns Roosevelt documentaries I rolled my eyes.
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« Reply #31552 on: February 14, 2019, 03:42:47 PM »
lmao Trump is gonna try to push the national emergency.

Chill bro, I've seen the way contractors work. Your wall is decades out.

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« Reply #31553 on: February 14, 2019, 03:44:35 PM »
I guess there's been an emergency happening on the Rio Grande for 400 years and I just never knew about it
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« Reply #31554 on: February 14, 2019, 03:45:03 PM »
National emergency. Get fucked Trump. Mexican's ain't coming to kill Tejanos. How does this help Americans?
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« Reply #31555 on: February 14, 2019, 03:46:31 PM »
Cindi, I need some on the ground facts. Has the Karavan burned Houston down yet? How many survivors? Is this more or less tragic than the Alamo?
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« Reply #31556 on: February 14, 2019, 03:47:37 PM »
been to any pool halls lately, cindi?  :-[
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« Reply #31557 on: February 14, 2019, 03:49:37 PM »
National emergency. Get fucked Trump. Mexican's ain't coming to kill Tejanos. How does this help Americans?

I mean, it doesn't. The whole thing is based around white people getting shook because the demographics in America are changing and migration across the southern border is a big part of that. Of course, it's already too late for Texas, where non-Hispanic whites will soon be [or have already been] passed up by Latinos/Hispanics.
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« Reply #31558 on: February 14, 2019, 03:53:30 PM »
Cindi, I need some on the ground facts. Has the Karavan burned Houston down yet? How many survivors? Is this more or less tragic than the Alamo?

Yeah man, I'm typing this while my entrails hang out from a Mexican stabbing me in the gut.

He came up to me and I said,"now you look here, Mexican. We don't do that here in blue bonnet land" and he unflinchingly thrust his piece into me.

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« Reply #31559 on: February 14, 2019, 03:58:31 PM »


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