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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:RIP UK Nigel Farage will fluff his pain away.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:D&D had a good thread about the rural problem and the options aren't very promising. You're talking about a workforce that is very unfit, very uneducated or both. Thus why the military, and even more specifically the infantry is full of guys from small towns in the middle of loving nowhere. This is subjective, but the vast majority of people I knew in the infantry were from the south in small towns, California, Texas, and then a smattering of New York, Florida, and one-offs from most of the western states.
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Thwomp posted:This is something that touches on the decay of small/rural America that hasn't yet received the real national conversation that it needs. What do local/regional areas do when the economy has shifted away from regional manufacturing/source of employment? There was a decent thread about that very subject in D&D a while back. Then it unsurprisingly turned into garbage when the "heh gently caress those hicks, I hope they die/why won't they just move lol idiots  "-.crew showed up. But yeah, that issue is becoming more and more relevant not in just the US, but pretty much everywhere in the developed world. We're trying out basic income via a limited trial program to see if and how it works in a real world environment. I can't really see any other way to solve the issue of dying rural areas if democracies don't want them to turn into hotbeds of rightwing populism.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:D&D had a good thread about the rural problem and the options aren't very promising. You're talking about a workforce that is very unfit, very uneducated or both. And for the most part, any industrial jobs that do come back are going to require either at least 5-10 years experience or higher than a HS diploma.
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Mike-o posted:Thus why the military, and even more specifically the infantry is full of guys from small towns in the middle of loving nowhere. Yeah the military's real value is as a rural/poor jobs program.
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Oh look he's talking about himself right off the loving bat.
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Mike-o posted:Oh look he's talking about himself right off the loving bat. Thank you for having me. Isn't it awesome how I won the election by large margins?
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beautiful new planes, gonna load it up
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WE'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT OF EQUIPMENT, BELIEVE ME!
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"We're gonna be loading up MacDill with a lot of beautiful planes. And a lot of beautiful equipment. A lllllot of *emphasizes* beautiful equipment. Believe me." 
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Guys, I think Donnie is dumb as gently caress. Edit: Kellyanne Conway repeated the Bowling Green bullshit to TMZ too. Three places. https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/828677321636868097
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IDK what that supreme court thing has to do with anything
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facialimpediment posted:Guys, I think Donnie is dumb as gently caress. What did the Supreme Court have to do with anything?
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JFC WWI numbers
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oh my god donnie the US navy is already the largest navy on earth by a HUGE margin. Come on.
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Guys WWI was a long time ago
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:IDK what that supreme court thing has to do with anything Or the election It doesn't matter if it's relevant, he'll point out any time he did anything he perceives as excellent (which is everything)
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LongDarkNight posted:What did the Supreme Court have to do with anything? THE DEFENSE OF THIS NATION, loving duh! Wild guess, I'm thinking he means that the Supreme Court will back him up on his bullshit muslim ban.
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Missionary Positron posted:There was a decent thread about that very subject in D&D a while back. Then it unsurprisingly turned into garbage when the "heh gently caress those hicks, I hope they die/why won't they just move lol idiots Ryand-Smith posted:basic universal income is the only path, literallyt as this article shows it already exists we just call it social security disability. not even being a full I've heard UBI as a solution before but, I believe, the basic problem to that is it is antithetical to the current American attitude towards work. Work provides meaning to many people, outside of just the income it also provides. And it shows up starkly in surveys where people who were unemployed but age into retirement age and then become "Retired" report instant improvements in their outlook. When Americans receive cash without working, I think many feel guilt and shame. Now outside of changing the entire American ethic towards work, is there a way to still help people in economically distressed regions without making them feel also guilty? Is there a way to provide it as a choice that involves minimal self-guilt? And this still doesn't address region-wide problems. If everyone unemployed in western Kentucky suddenly received a UBI, would that be enough to lift the region out of economic death-spirals? Or would that replace said spirals with chain-store stripmall hells?
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or everything, we are literally hitting the point where automation and poor health took their jobs.
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Very very large, just like my hands, believe me.
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not president related http://theslot.jezebel.com/someone-...he_Slot_twitter
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Oh my loving god, his eloquence is somehow...diminishing even beyond 8th grade levels. "They don't stand a chance against our special forces. Don't stand a chance. Not a chance. *Waves finger* No one stands a chance against our special forces. And they'll have the finest equipment known to man."
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I was half expecting "peace through strength" to turn into "peace through superior firepower, the most superior, really the greatest firepower."
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mlmp08 posted:I wish I could see a view of the audience. It's a bunch of office jockeys who never deployed I'd bet. And they all have trump stickers and SUPPORT ARE TROOPS stickers on their lifted F-150. Oh god he's loving clapping himself.
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:RIP UK For an added bonus he tried to make Princess Diana his third wife but she wanted nothing to do with him and then discovered that the best way to escape him was death.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:Yeah the military's real value is as a rural/poor jobs program. there's a reason hitler launched a massive civil works program
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:I wonder how long they had to rehearse the clapping MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD Subject: Clapping From this point forward all press conferences will be audibly announced via clapping. This clapping does not equate to endorsement or political speech. Failure to clap is punishable under Article 92 of UCMJ. Please clap. GEN SOMEONE GENERAL, USA Commanding
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MA-Horus posted:oh my god donnie the US navy is already the largest navy on earth by a HUGE margin. Come on. Surprised he's not trying to push for new Battleships.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:The newest Call of Duty is going to be nothing but SF mowing down protestors and it will be the greatest selling game ever Remember....no Russian https://youtu.be/8NMnnMRWJ-0
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mlmp08 posted:I wish I could see a view of the audience. Close enough here: https://twitter.com/nancyayoussef/status/828680361429311494
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Thwomp posted:I've heard UBI as a solution before but, I believe, the basic problem to that is it is antithetical to the current American attitude towards work. Work provides meaning to many people, outside of just the income it also provides. And it shows up starkly in surveys where people who were unemployed but age into retirement age and then become "Retired" report instant improvements in their outlook. When Americans receive cash without working, I think many feel guilt and shame. Could we, yes. Realistically? No, we're not going to create a fake-economy of thousands of Americans pretending to be Wal-Mart greeters at an empty store. We're going to struggle enough just to get anything resembling universal income, nevermind the headache of pretending that its not a handout and yes you actually did do something by moving this pile of rocks from point a to point b. This is the part where we start drowning in irony and anger. If they don't like it, they can refuse the money. There are millions in this country who do need help and they've spent decades being lambasted as 'welfare queens' by the same people that now want government to somehow make it better but also protect their feelings. gently caress 'em. Its welfare and you're eligible for it. Its like the same people who keep telling themselves they're middle class and just one big break away from being rich when really they're a missed paycheck away from having all their poo poo repoed and getting foreclosed on. You're not almost-rich, you're not middle class, you're loving poor. We're going to struggle enough just to help people, we ain't got loving time for their feelings.
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Thwomp posted:I've heard UBI as a solution before but, I believe, the basic problem to that is it is antithetical to the current American attitude towards work. Work provides meaning to many people, outside of just the income it also provides. And it shows up starkly in surveys where people who were unemployed but age into retirement age and then become "Retired" report instant improvements in their outlook. When Americans receive cash without working, I think many feel guilt and shame. If we're not doing UBI, then the best option is something like Roosevelt's alphabet soup of economic recovery agencies. Start paying people a wage to move from a marginal place like rural Kentucky to areas that have better economic prospects, pay for their job training, and help them get set-up to be self-sufficient. The problem is getting them to accept that sort of help. The article points out that most of them are hanging by a thread and 58% are getting SSD or other assistance already, but they consistently vote for people like Trump and Gov. Matt Bevin who promise to come in and rip up the thin safety nets that already exist. Mixing Individualism with Capitalism must be a hell of a drug.
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