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Horniest Manticore
Nov 23, 2013

Hello, you!
Lipstick Apathy
i didn't watch that poo poo

what the gently caress are you doing watching it?

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Nefarious
Sep 26, 2000

by XyloJW

Horniest Manticore posted:

who are you again

wow you really phased me there. embarrasing joke of a poster and human didn't recognize me

log out, set all your belongings on fire, and cut off your hands

Horniest Manticore
Nov 23, 2013

Hello, you!
Lipstick Apathy

Nefarious posted:

wow you really phased me there. embarrasing joke of a poster and human didn't recognize me

log out, set all your belongings on fire, and cut off your hands

lol ur cute

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost
I wait patiently to see where this stupid slap fight is going

Horniest Manticore
Nov 23, 2013

Hello, you!
Lipstick Apathy

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

I wait patiently to see where this stupid slap fight is going

me too

people are SERIOUS

SERIOUS about POSTING

Frostwerks
Sep 24, 2007

by Lowtax
cannot but hope for the gently caress me you jew bastard bumper stickers from disgruntled republicans

Frostwerks
Sep 24, 2007

by Lowtax
THE LAST THING WE WANT IS RICHARD LEWIS IN THE WHITEHOUSE, EVEN AS A VISITOR

Jeremiah Flintwick
Jan 14, 2010

King of Kings Ozysandwich am I. If any want to know how great I am and where I lie, let him outdo me in my work.



mdm posted:

*Americans freak out at $15 proposal because it reminds them that their current $15 wage ("which is actually pretty nice considering the economy and such!") is so horrendously poor, but at least those people on minimum wage are twice as horrendously poor as me!*

I love ppl who make less than $15 but more than minimum who oppose $15 minimum, because then they aren't better than someone. lmao :capitalism:

Bareback Werewolf
Oct 5, 2013
~*blessed by the algorithm*~
I make $16 an hour as an apprentice electrician and a journeyman can easily make twice as much as I do or more. You add in overtime and they're pulling in $3k+ per week. With overtime I can live comfortably, but $16 an hour 40 hrs straight time is chump change, and I'm single with no kids. I don't understand how someone working a minimum wage job can support a family. How is it possible?

Frostwerks
Sep 24, 2007

by Lowtax
its not

Sir Mat of Dickie
Jul 19, 2012

"There is no solitude greater than that of the samurai unless it be that of a tiger in the jungle... perhaps..."

SweetKarma posted:

I make $16 an hour as an apprentice electrician and a journeyman can easily make twice as much as I do or more. You add in overtime and they're pulling in $3k+ per week. With overtime I can live comfortably, but $16 an hour 40 hrs straight time is chump change, and I'm single with no kids. I don't understand how someone working a minimum wage job can support a family. How is it possible?

have multiple jobs, borrow at exorbitant interest rates when something unpredictable happens

Bareback Werewolf
Oct 5, 2013
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Sir Mat of Dickie posted:

have multiple jobs, borrow at exorbitant interest rates when something unpredictable happens

It makes me sick when I hear somebody say that minimum wage jobs were never meant to be a career. Not everyone has the privilege to choose their career, nor do they necessarily have the opportunity to advance their career. We weren't all born in a bubble. Why can't a person making minimum wage support their family? That should be the very definition of minimum wage.

Otacon
Aug 13, 2002


Mumpy Puffinz posted:

CAN YOU SMELL WHAT BARACK IS COOKING?

Rolo
Nov 16, 2005

Hmm, what have we here?

SweetKarma posted:

I make $16 an hour as an apprentice electrician and a journeyman can easily make twice as much as I do or more. You add in overtime and they're pulling in $3k+ per week. With overtime I can live comfortably, but $16 an hour 40 hrs straight time is chump change, and I'm single with no kids. I don't understand how someone working a minimum wage job can support a family. How is it possible?

My last job was an internship that paid 15/hr and only used me about 35hrs/week. I couldn't get a second job because this one needed me available at all hours.

Even without considering student loan payments, it was a huge struggle to get by. I kept getting told "you're still young, you'll be fine" and "at least you're getting paid that much!"

I'm 28 and I look like Bernie now. At least I'm still young.

a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
You're right OP, nobodies believe Bernie sanders has a shot of being the President.

Something Awful is full of nobodies.

Ether Drunk
Jan 31, 2007

Want to see Bernie kramering all around the oval office

huskarl_marx
Oct 13, 2013

by zen death robot

Universe Master posted:

"im a socialist"*

*is only a socialist in the most american way possible

its funny that total ideological purity is needed before we'll take any steps to change our situation

Al Borland
Oct 29, 2006

by XyloJW

Horniest Manticore posted:

i'd never actually heard him speak before the debate and LOLJUSTLOL that people think this guy has an actual shot at being president

He's the Ron Paul for liberals.

Xenophon
Jun 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Grimey Drawer

Nefarious posted:

oh okay you just realized that bernie sanders sounds like larry david 30 minutes after larry david played bernie sanders on snl by coincidence


just ban yourself you dumb bitch


Nefarious posted:

holy poo poo the op is a gigantic worthless oval office

lol

Al Borland
Oct 29, 2006

by XyloJW
People are really sensitive over Bernie. He got robbed of winning that CNN debate ya know. :kiddo:

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

This is the best Bernie and Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGRAonpLeQg

tetsuo
May 12, 2001

I am a shaman, magician
also former boca juniors manager carlos bianchi looks like larry david, enjoy :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHuXEbsngGk

ashgromnies
Jun 19, 2004
does anyone else feel like the debates focus on things that don't even make sense in our political system?

Bernie is going on and on about how we need to increase taxes on the top 1% bla bla bla, but the executive branch alone doesn't hold the power to do that and congress is controlled by obstructionist far-right insanity.

how the gently caress is he going to overcome that? why does he expect any of us to believe he can overcome it? it's a charade.

at these debates, nobody ever stops and says, "yeah, but how do you think you'll actually accomplish that?" because it would admit that the premise of the debates are stupid

people complain about a power grab by the executive recently, but back in the day of FDR the executive exercised WAY more power than today

glowstick party tonight
Oct 4, 2003

by zen death robot

ashgromnies posted:

people complain about a power grab by the executive recently, but back in the day of FDR the executive exercised WAY more power than today

true, and just because obamas executive is slightly more power grab than recent past he gets compared to fdr which is stretching a bit

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

ashgromnies posted:

does anyone else feel like the debates focus on things that don't even make sense in our political system?

Bernie is going on and on about how we need to increase taxes on the top 1% bla bla bla, but the executive branch alone doesn't hold the power to do that and congress is controlled by obstructionist far-right insanity.

how the gently caress is he going to overcome that? why does he expect any of us to believe he can overcome it? it's a charade.

at these debates, nobody ever stops and says, "yeah, but how do you think you'll actually accomplish that?" because it would admit that the premise of the debates are stupid

people complain about a power grab by the executive recently, but back in the day of FDR the executive exercised WAY more power than today

There's no point in electing center right people like Hillary who have no passion or interest in changing the status quo, since it might hurt their banker friends.

Bernie is the best bet.

ashgromnies
Jun 19, 2004

etalian posted:

There's no point in electing center right people like Hillary who have no passion or interest in changing the status quo, since it might hurt their banker friends.

Bernie is the best bet.

i never argued for hillary, i am saying the entire thing is a diversion to distract the population and enforce the status quo, and anericans are idiots who focus most of their energy on presidential elections as if they believe the presidency is a dictatorship, then give no fucks about congress and are surprised when nothing presidential candidates campaign on ever happens as described

of course im voting for bernie, im not an idiot. but nothing he campaigns on is actually in presidential powers granted by the constitution to accomplish.

Al Borland
Oct 29, 2006

by XyloJW

ashgromnies posted:

does anyone else feel like the debates focus on things that don't even make sense in our political system?

Bernie is going on and on about how we need to increase taxes on the top 1% bla bla bla, but the executive branch alone doesn't hold the power to do that and congress is controlled by obstructionist far-right insanity.

how the gently caress is he going to overcome that? why does he expect any of us to believe he can overcome it? it's a charade.

He can't That's what makes him a great candidate to vote for. Everything super socialist crazy he wants to do will never pass. But what he can do is stop the NSA, stop the wars, stop the fuelling of more al qaedas or whatever the gently caress we do in the middle east. ETC ETC

Also he has integrity to actually do the things he can actually do which is what makes him the best option. He is a man of his word and will get done what he can actually do. Maybe he'll unfuck the internet in the US too. That'd be great.

ashgromnies
Jun 19, 2004
the NSA is cool as gently caress and does awesome and impressive work, that's not really a selling point

getting out of the wars sounds good, but he doesn't want that, he would back a war to support israel, and he wants us to maintain a presence in afghanistan

ashgromnies
Jun 19, 2004
seriously things like that NSA godsurge implant or their supposed cracking of 1024-bit diffie-hellman primes is cool as gently caress, and they're just doing their job as a spy agency, the NSA is cool and people whine too much about them in relation to the actual impact they have on our daily lives

how about we fix things like growing income inequality, mass incarceration, congressional deadlock, and our schizophrenic federal budgeting rather than wasting the political stage with worrying about meaningless NSA spying

Al Borland
Oct 29, 2006

by XyloJW

ashgromnies posted:

seriously things like that NSA godsurge implant or their supposed cracking of 1024-bit diffie-hellman primes is cool as gently caress, and they're just doing their job as a spy agency, the NSA is cool and people whine too much about them in relation to the actual impact they have on our daily lives

how about we fix things like growing income inequality, mass incarceration, congressional deadlock, and our schizophrenic federal budgeting rather than wasting the political stage with worrying about meaningless NSA spying

We have a spy agency though, its called the CIA. It "doesn't spy" on its own people though :saddowns:

BrawndoTQ
Oct 18, 2001

Nefarious posted:

wow you really phased me there. embarrasing joke of a poster and human didn't recognize me

log out, set all your belongings on fire, and cut off your hands

Nefarious I think you need a friend. Would you like to be friends?

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ashgromnies
Jun 19, 2004

Al Borland posted:

We have a spy agency though, its called the CIA. It "doesn't spy" on its own people though :saddowns:

yeah the CIA is actually much scarier and more active than the NSA, in terms of exerting influence and control over governments and people to actualize perceived american goals. the NSA just tries to find ways to correlate and access communications so they can search for signals indicating possible dangers. they're not trading guns for hostages, materially supporting armed right-wing rebels, or selling cocaine.

ashgromnies
Jun 19, 2004
though i totally support people's rights to try to evade NSA oversight. it's a fun cat and mouse game, and the outcome is that we all learn to secure our information systems better. the NSA are just really good hackers, in the end. if a company or individual can defend against the NSA, they have a good shot against anyone else who would try to get in their poo poo. the NSA's job is supposed to be difficult, and people should make it difficult for them, but that doesn't mean the NSA should stop trying.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

ashgromnies posted:

i never argued for hillary, i am saying the entire thing is a diversion to distract the population and enforce the status quo, and anericans are idiots who focus most of their energy on presidential elections as if they believe the presidency is a dictatorship, then give no fucks about congress and are surprised when nothing presidential candidates campaign on ever happens as described

of course im voting for bernie, im not an idiot. but nothing he campaigns on is actually in presidential powers granted by the constitution to accomplish.

If he changes the country the same way he changed Burlington then he will be a great president. In Burlington he got blocked in the first term since most of the conservative city council members wanted him to fail.

However over time through a mixture of things such as compromise or the bully puppet he eventually started to improve the city.

Despite his rep as crazy socialist you can see from his time as mayor he's a pragmatic get real world results type of leader. He also created more political involvement which means even when he was out of his office
the following administrations kept his improvements and also progressive attitude of the city intact.

Not to mention the president has lots extra powers
-The power to nominate people to positions such as the supreme court and also to all the different federal agencies
-Power of veto, being president means you have a good amount of control over bills since people want to avoid a veto threat
-Power of executive orders

Al Borland
Oct 29, 2006

by XyloJW
****

I can't loving wait for hillary to win the nomination so you guys will realize all along Bernie was Ron Paul.

glowstick party tonight
Oct 4, 2003

by zen death robot

Al Borland posted:

****

I can't loving wait for hillary to win the nomination so you guys will realize all along Bernie was Ron Paul.

I wish this post were about Raul pr0n

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Al Borland posted:

****

I can't loving wait for hillary to win the nomination so you guys will realize all along Bernie was Ron Paul.

If Bernie is Ron Paul joke candidate explain how he was able to get 2 million short of Hillary's 28 million campaign contributions?

Bernie also raised 26 million while doing only 7 traditional style fundraisers, while Hillary did 51 fundraisers over the same period.

Al Borland
Oct 29, 2006

by XyloJW

etalian posted:

If Bernie is Ron Paul joke candidate explain how he was able to get 2 million short of Hillary's 28 million campaign contributions?

Bernie also raised 26 million while doing only 7 traditional style fundraisers, while Hillary did 51 fundraisers over the same period.

Lol.

You sound just like the Ron Paul supporters in 2012.
I'm so sorry man but Hillary wins.

a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

Al Borland posted:

He can't That's what makes him a great candidate to vote for. Everything super socialist crazy he wants to do will never pass. But what he can do is stop the NSA, stop the wars, stop the fuelling of more al qaedas or whatever the gently caress we do in the middle east. ETC ETC

Also he has integrity to actually do the things he can actually do which is what makes him the best option. He is a man of his word and will get done what he can actually do. Maybe he'll unfuck the internet in the US too. That'd be great.

lmfao this poo poo would never happen even if bernie was elected.

It's like people have completely forgotten Obama's campaign promises.

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glowstick party tonight
Oct 4, 2003

by zen death robot

etalian posted:

If Bernie is Ron Paul joke candidate explain how he was able to get 2 million short of Hillary's 28 million campaign contributions?

Bernie also raised 26 million while doing only 7 traditional style fundraisers, while Hillary did 51 fundraisers over the same period.

that's numberwang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOZtWZ56lc

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