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Just make sure you're picturing this when you read the letters:
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# ¿ Aug 6, 2014 15:02 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 20:50 |
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Badera posted:Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi BENGHAZI! I can't tell if that's a parody of right wingers or not.
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# ¿ Aug 7, 2014 04:21 |
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Joementum posted:Senator Cory Booker was transported back in time to the early 1980s today. He will be missed. I just went to the White House streaming website and the placeholder image says "just concluded". ???
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# ¿ Aug 8, 2014 02:41 |
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Alkydere posted:I'd write to my Rep Randy "I'm a shithead who tried to demonize park workers for closing the parks when I helped shut down the government" Neugebauer too but I thought only the Senate really mattered for impeachment? No, the House matters because they House would bring the charges and then the Senate would not convict, making the House Republicans look like a bunch of petty partisan loonies in a very public way. Sir Tonk posted:I've got an advance transcript from next Sunday's Meet The Press: Please, you know that it's going to be nothing but how it's too little too late and the term "feckless" will appear no fewer than 12 times.
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# ¿ Aug 8, 2014 12:25 |
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FlamingLiberal posted:So countdown until McCain criticizes Obama for not bombing enough? No later than Sunday's Meet the Press.
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# ¿ Aug 8, 2014 15:17 |
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Chantilly Say posted:Remind me why we started naming ships after people who aren't even dead yet? Well to be fair, HW Bush was a Naval aviator, just like Jimmy Carter was a nuclear sub officer and got a nuclear sub named after him while still alive.
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# ¿ Aug 8, 2014 23:43 |
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RevKrule posted:Here's a great article to throw at riot shamers. No, that article is actually poo poo and takes a bunch of generic left-wing talking points and inserts "Fergson" into them. quote:2. “DESTROYING ‘YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD’ WON’T HELP.” gently caress you. You've never heard of Ferguson before this week and you presume to tell us what it's like. Ferguson isn't 1965 Watts. It isn't East St. Louis. It isn't even Normandy or Kinloch, two of the adjacent communities. Ferguson is not the loving ghetto, it's a blue collar town (median income $37k) with a diverse (1/3 white 2/3 black) population that generally keeps neat clean streets and houses. There was plenty of "riot shaming" from the people who actually live in this community and do have ownership of their neighborhoods and who don't want legitimate anger at police brutality to be expressed by destroying the community so gently caress off. There were black kids trapped inside that burning gas station. They escaped, luckily but there is no justification for terrorizing hardworking neighborhood kids who just wanted a decent job.
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# ¿ Aug 12, 2014 15:02 |
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Neo Duckberg posted:I like how people will immediately draw conclusions off of what the internet says despite not living in St. Louis and not actually being in Ferguson at the time of the riots. Well there are a lot of black people and they're angry so that's all I, a [left wing resistance blogger/conservative racist] need to know to draw a complete picture.
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# ¿ Aug 12, 2014 15:27 |
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Py-O-My posted:His Facebook account is gone too, but it looks like the guy is such a genius that he posted this insane racist poo poo under his real name AT THIS EXTREMELY RACIST HATE SITE DO NOT CLICK THE LINK racist AND stupid! Our law enforcement, ladies and gentlemen.
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# ¿ Aug 12, 2014 21:59 |
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My Imaginary GF posted:Yeah, I'm gonna guess there'll be one hell of a riot if public action isn't taken immediately by a non-local agency. I'm going to agree that he most likely is not a cop after seeing his profiles.
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# ¿ Aug 12, 2014 22:28 |
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queertea posted:Uhh, I thought it was pretty obvious that's not actually the dude's YouTube profile Check the twitter and meetme profiles.
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# ¿ Aug 12, 2014 22:34 |
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zoux posted:And his jeans. They were pretty dorky jeans.
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2014 22:18 |
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Magres posted:Ten miles away is right next to each other everywhere I've ever been. There's a half dozen towns in between them and an entire world of culture.
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2014 23:44 |
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Is Clayton on the super-rich white side of the county while Ferguson is in the mostly black, blue-collar side or something? Yes, Neo Duckberg posted:Correct. Also from a cultural geography perspective if you make a straight line you go from Ferguson (2/3 black, blue collar) through places like Cool Valley (4/5 black, blue collar), Pagedale (9/10 black, poverty) and Wellston (9/10 black, dodge bullets). So you know, you're welcome to take that stroll or whatever.
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2014 23:57 |
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Joementum posted:Maybe St. Louis should try a massive, modernist, urban housing project? I got it.
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# ¿ Aug 14, 2014 02:13 |
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Evil Fluffy posted:What're the open carry laws like in that place? You can open carry if you have a CCW permit.
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# ¿ Aug 14, 2014 04:26 |
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AmiYumi posted:The fetishization of "non-violent protest" and "passive resistance" is a blatant enshrinement of "know your place, prole" that I don't even know what to say when people bring it up. I, too, think it's a great idea for other people to risk their lives while I post on the internet.
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# ¿ Aug 14, 2014 04:55 |
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CharlestheHammer posted:You can't seriously hold this kind of position without realizing the apparent hypocrisy can you? I've been involved in nonviolent protests; I do not encourage others to protest violently. How is that hypocrisy?
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# ¿ Aug 14, 2014 13:21 |
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Joementum posted:Hank Johnson (D-GA) has introduced the Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act, which would prevent the transfer of some automatic weapons, armored vehicles, armored drones, silencers and flash-bang or stun grenades to local law enforcement. Cruz'd that for you
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2014 01:53 |
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I'd like to note that the cop there is chief of St. Louis Police who intentionally kept his force out of this because quote:The possibility of having St. Louis Police Department personnel present with the Ferguson Police in what appears to be a racially-charged and possibly discriminating environment could make it appear that the St. Louis Police Department supports racial discrimination and disenfranchisement. He showed up after the change of command authority for the scene.
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2014 14:27 |
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Prester John posted:So am I reading too much into this or did all the other PD's in the area already know that the County was a bunch of shitheels and would gently caress things up? I mean it seems like none of the other police were too surprised by any of this, and they are almost showboating a bit just to make it sting that much more. County Chief Jon Belmar got promoted in January so he's relatively new at this and his previous job was as the head of their SWAT division. That did not bode well for a measured response.
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2014 14:57 |
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Pornographic Memory posted:So I realize we have a Ferguson thread but it seems to be moving pretty fast, so what the hell happened in the last few days? Last I remember there was a street party as the "nice cops" finally took over and then the police came out and said "Michael Brown was a shoplifter look at this security camera footage" and then I guess everything went back to poo poo again...? Basically, thing calmed down after change of command authority. Then the old command authority intentionally undermined the "good" cop with the robbery video and things got bad. Friday night the Ferguson residents did a pretty good job repelling looters and hooligans but at this point looters, gangs, anarchists, revolutionary communists, black supremacists, and other protesters are flooding the area from all over America. It's past what locals can deal with and the cops (and now Guard) aren't going to be very discriminating between angry but nonviolent protesters and the myriad troublemakers taking advantage of the chaos. It's bad.
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# ¿ Aug 18, 2014 13:58 |
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rkajdi posted:The more I see, the more obvious it is to me that the GOP just wants to destroy the government. I have to think that it's related to the demographic shift. Since people who don't look, pray, or gently caress like them are going to possibly get control of the state, why should those people get a functioning superpower when the shift happens? I think it's simpler than that. The only legitimate government is one that they control 100%. Anything else is illegitimate and must be destroyed.
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# ¿ Aug 20, 2014 15:08 |
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zoux posted:In fact, they say that they know it's parody, but put it up anyways. I hate the goddamn Tea Party. Back when Colbert coined "truthiness" I didn't think it would be such a useful word.
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# ¿ Aug 21, 2014 04:08 |
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SirKibbles posted:Wait. They figured how to get those useless pieces of junk in the air without crashing?
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# ¿ Aug 23, 2014 05:22 |
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Shifty Pony posted:
Taken over by the commies, of course.
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# ¿ Aug 25, 2014 15:26 |
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Y-Hat posted:The New York Times declined to endorse anybody in the Democratic race for New York governor. I'm disappointed that they didn't out-and-out endorse Zephyr Teachout, but I'm not really surprised. Either way, it's a slap to the face for Cuomo. Maybe he'll have to listen to Senate Democrats this time! He is, however, very good at accomplishing his goals.
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# ¿ Aug 26, 2014 23:37 |
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hobbesmaster posted:Well you can't write "whorehouse" into a law, children might read the laws! I seem to recall some state legislature failing to outlaw bestiality because none of the lawmakers were mature enough to write it or debate it.
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# ¿ Aug 27, 2014 04:03 |
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Unzip and Attack posted:I know it's been said a thousand times but even if all other domestic and foreign policy issues end up being a wash, President Hillary is infinitely preferable to Mitt Romney or [insert shitbag here] because of SCOTUS nominations. If the Court moves any further Right we are well and truly hosed for generations. When Ginsburg retires, the Court will move further right. A Republican would move it extremely to the right, but Obama nor Hilary will nominate someone as or more liberal than Ginsburg.
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# ¿ Aug 27, 2014 16:58 |
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StandardVC10 posted:Another case of irresponsible gun ownership. Of course, any legislation that attempts to make gun owners more responsible, will be fought tooth and nail as the long-foretold end of freedom. quote:"[The instructor] never should have been off to one side or the other. It's called the 180-degree rule," said Roberts, a weapons instructor from Franklin Township, Gloucester County.
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# ¿ Aug 27, 2014 20:14 |
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fade5 posted:I can understand introducing kids to guns to teach them how they work, safety rules and all that (I think it's a good idea actually, as long you follow all the safety precautions and the kid is okay with it) but why would you ever give a kid a fully automatic weapon? Let's be honest: unless you are in the military, fully automatic weapons are toys.
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# ¿ Aug 28, 2014 02:23 |
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Amergin posted:Not necessarily. There's a middle ground between "race isn't a real issue" and "race is THE MAIN real issue". Sharpton drags every topic he wades into towards the latter while most white folks don't deny race is an issue or a contributing factor, it just doesn't have to be the only contributing factor for everything involving people of different races. Comments sections don't support this.
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# ¿ Aug 28, 2014 17:41 |
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BrandorKP posted:Any one posted this yet? NYTs today had a chart showing CBO medicare cost projections since 06 and how much they have fallen in the last eight years. Look at Obamacare, slashing and burning Medicare.
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# ¿ Aug 29, 2014 02:26 |
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StandardVC10 posted:This is what they're going to say, isn't it. They already are. It's been a line for a couple years now.
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# ¿ Aug 29, 2014 02:50 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 20:50 |
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Joementum posted:Yeah, they're talented enough to get hired elsewhere. Weigel and Moody both had fellowships at Reason, Yglesias had one at the American Prospect, Barro at the Manhattan Institute, Friedersdorf interned for Andrew Sullivan. Andrew Sullivan has interns?
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# ¿ Aug 29, 2014 14:00 |