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Mooseontheloose posted:Has anyone been seeing anything on the Tea Partiers trying to make the Syrian refugees an issue in the next election? I met a few who are freaking out about it. First you'd have to have Syrian refugees get to the US.
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Mitt Romney posted:The GOP's influence and power over America as a whole has only grown over time since 1994 until now (and likely until 2020 at minimum). 06-10 is the only blip in that timeline. There was a significant recession of power from 1998 until 2002.
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Nov 2, 2015 13:42
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Petr posted:There's no way the Democrats are a nationally-relevant party in 20 years. The nation of Kentucky.
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Nov 4, 2015 03:01
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Joementum posted:
I remember when they did this for the Puerto Rico vote.
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Nov 4, 2015 04:28
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Well let's see whether San Francisco votes in a sheriff that will send illegals back to ICE (probably) I guess first he'd have to find some residing in his county.
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MaxxBot posted:I'm not the one who is extremely passionate about a candidate who I think has no chance, that's you. Fishmech has passion?
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Nov 6, 2015 01:18
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JT Jag posted:Idle thought: I wonder how much, if any, damage was done to the culture of the Internet as a direct result of the Republican administration that existed for several of its formative years. No more than what already existed due to it being primarily white men.
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Nov 7, 2015 13:59
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foobardog posted:This won't hurt Carson at all. I woke up to my mom posting "Well Ben Carson made the media look like fools," on Facebook. I'm glad your mom is the entire GOP electorate.
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Nov 7, 2015 23:39
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Rollofthedice posted:When was the longest time a presidential candidate for either party led in the polls despite not being nominated? Hillary stuck around for quite a while in 08.
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Epic High Five posted:http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/14078494/missouri-tigers-football-players-strike-embattled-tim-wolfe-resigns So is Missouri the Deep South now because every rural area in the nation is now the South?
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evilweasel posted:if you rebelled against the united states so you could keep slavery, you are part of the south So, not Missouri then.
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Nov 8, 2015 16:47
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El Disco posted:One of the 13 stars on the confederate battle flag represents Missouri, so yes. The Confederates had a habit of claiming more territory than they actually controlled.
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Nov 8, 2015 16:56
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El Disco posted:I guess Kentucky isn't in the South either. Correct, under the previous definition.
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Nov 8, 2015 17:18
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Most of Missouri voted down secession, those in favor set up a rump government and 'seceded' but Union troops controlled the state from the get go. There was a kinda similar process surrounding the formation of West Virginia. Officially you can't create a state from pieces of another state without that other state's consent, so the "totally legit" recognized government of Virginia formed and gave their blessing for West Virginia to become its own state.
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Nov 8, 2015 17:30
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Boon posted:Ok but chastising someone for doing something dumb has rarely had the effect you want it too Same with thinking you know someone's "best interests" better than they do.
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Nov 10, 2015 02:51
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Paradoxish posted:It'd be in my best interests to kill my neighbor and take his poo poo (if I could get away with it), but that's obviously wrong and also not something I would want to do even if I could. Just because we want people to vote for their own self interests doesn't mean that we expect them to do so in a way that's hateful and harmful. So then the problem isn't "those idiots are voting against their self interests" but "they're voting for their self interests in a way I don't like".
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Paradoxish posted:I never said otherwise, so... yes? I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. There's a recurring meme here of people being tricked into voting against their own interests. I'm glad you recognize that this is false.
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OAquinas posted:Wouldn't campus be closed tomorrow anyway as its veterans' day? In general, when there are holidays they try to append them to the weekend (so either the nearest monday or friday). It's also quite likely that they don't take veterans' day off. My university doesn't and we are historically a military academy.
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Nov 11, 2015 05:58
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Evil Fluffy posted:Yikyak is anonymous for you and me, but not for law enforcement using Stingrays (or whatever other technology that we don't know about it detail yet). Stingrays have to be set up first.
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Boon posted:I'm getting the feeling that there is a general discontent settling in with the GOPs lack of sensical policy positions and I think the sharp contrast with the Democratic fields cohesion and substance is helping to drive that. The grapevine I've heard is more or less "yeah [candidate] is pretty bad but no matter who wins we have to support them or else we'll another 8 years of the status quo". So basically another "vote against the other guy" campaign, not any sort of momentum towards a particular candidate. Combed Thunderclap posted:He kind of has a Lex Luthor look without the hair. All I can see is Eisenhower.
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Nov 12, 2015 01:07
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pathetic little tramp posted:Lol look at this melvin still using Facebook. Tsu/Twitter/Instagram (though insta is getting played out) is where it's at now, gramps. Only old people and sports personalities use Twitter.
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I don't think I ever knew the name "James Earl Ray" in my history education. Just as well really, because "MLK was killed by white people" is a much more poignant image than "this specific dude is Hitler for killing the blacks' only good leader".
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Nov 13, 2015 15:25
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Shageletic posted:The biggest obstacle to single payer at the state level is the massive amounts of revenue immediately needed to implement it, regardless of how the economy is doing This is more of an issue for small states, with larger states you begin to kick in economies of scale.
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Nov 13, 2015 16:33
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Shageletic posted:We'll see! I don't see how there won't be a need for immediate extra revenue though, regardless of how big a state is. There will be a need, but it won't be as large of an impact (i.e., literally doubling the amount of taxes they need as in Vermont).
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Nov 13, 2015 16:45
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Cheesus posted:The Kentucky elections are barely a week behind us we still think that there's no way, zero-chance, never-in-a-million-years that the American people won't vote for Trump, Carson, or a half-empty box of cereal over Clinton/Sanders? Correct, because Kentucky is not representative of America at large.
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Nov 13, 2015 18:55
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A Winner is Jew posted:I love living in CA. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio have more EVs than California. And they're not all of the Midwest either.
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Nov 13, 2015 18:59
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mdemone posted:As far as I'm concerned Colorado should be in charge of the whole country. Legal weed already, and universal health care soon, I'd be planning my relocation right now if my career options weren't completely randomized (yay tenure-track academia). It's pretty good for white people.
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theblackw0lf posted:
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Magres posted:Given GOP control of the house and senate and (heavily) dominant control of state governments, why is it wrong? As the bolded shows, the only thing you've bought into is Republican propaganda.
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Magres posted:So are you willing to actually discuss why you think that article is entirely off the mark? I asked because I'm actually interested, and I don't really get why you're being a dick about it. Because it's an oft repeated mantra (especially here) that starts at a conclusion and works backwards from there.
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Bacon is good in split pea soup.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Interestingly enough, fish is also not considered meat as far as Kosher laws are concerned, hence why you can eat a lox and cream cheese bagel with impunity. It also doesn't fall under the normal Halal rules, or so my friend who only eats Halal certified stuff tells me.
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LorneReams posted:I wonder if 60 years later people will be wondering what the gently caress we were thinking, just like normal people do today about refusing the Jewish refugees escaping Hitler and the Japanese internment. We are so goddamn retarded as a nation. Uh, the actions of the Reagan administration during the Central American refugee crisis were much more shameful than this (and apparently forgotten, since you declined to mention it).
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Nov 17, 2015 01:06
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hobbesmaster posted:Maybe it's the 6% loving with polls demographic. Margin of error looks to be ~4.5% so that actually might be possible.
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The Unholy Ghost posted:Could someone tell me why it's stupid to be wary of refugees when one of the Paris bombers was disguised as a refugee? One of the Paris bombers registered as a refugee using false documentation, and then went back to France using his real passport.
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Nov 17, 2015 15:47
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fishmech posted:Massachusetts isn't against the refugees, just the Republican governor is. It's the same deal in Illinois. Honestly it's probably the same in Idaho. Boise has been quietly accepting refugees for decades now, most of them from about as wartorn areas at the time as Syria is now.
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Nov 17, 2015 16:59
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Dead Cosmonaut posted:Didn't he try to do that earlier this year and the Republicans said no? Closer to two years ago. Whenever we said we'd start funding rebels, that was only after a new AUMF was shot down by Congress.
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Luigi Thirty posted:Isn't the age of the average cable news viewer in the 60s? Yes, Fox is in the mid 70s.
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zoux posted:I think you may be overstating this a bit. USPOL Nov: A bunch of headless chickens ITT
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Pook Good Mook posted:I'm pro-accepting more refugees but outside of putting your city forward as a haven a state doesn't have much control over where the Federal government sends groups. Obviously they're not doing something since Boise, Idaho, a city that's not only less than a quarter the size of Portland but is also in a more lily-white state, accepted more Syrian Refugees than Portland, via http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/21/us/where-syrian-refugees-are-in-the-united-states.html
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