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It's amusing that with Stupid Watergate II, John didn't mention that what Trump was "investigating" was that Biden essentially did something very similar in Ukraine as well
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Sep 30, 2019 18:05
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punk rebel ecks posted:It's amusing that with Stupid Watergate II, John didn't mention that what Trump was "investigating" was that Biden essentially did something very similar in Ukraine as well Not really. They both threatened to withhold funds but with Biden it was part of a general international push to get a more competent investigator in place whilst Trump did it to dig up/manufacture dirt on a potential political opponent.
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Sep 30, 2019 18:08
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Hunt11 posted:Not really. They both threatened to withhold funds but with Biden it was part of a general international push to get a more competent investigator in place whilst Trump did it to dig up/manufacture dirt on a potential political opponent. Biden's son had nothing to do with it?
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Sep 30, 2019 18:15
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punk rebel ecks posted:Biden's son had nothing to do with it? I think he was given the position to encourage a closer relationship with the US and that the actual diplomatic push had nothing to do with him.
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Sep 30, 2019 18:17
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:He's 66? It seemed like he could barely move his mouth.
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Sep 30, 2019 18:59
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Alhazred posted:It seemed like he could barely move his mouth. Probably Botox.
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Sep 30, 2019 19:18
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Hunt11 posted:I think he was given the position to encourage a closer relationship with the US and that the actual diplomatic push had nothing to do with him. Also, the diplomatic push was one of the truly bipartisan efforts in the last decade.
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Sep 30, 2019 19:29
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swickles posted:Also, the diplomatic push was one of the truly bipartisan efforts in the last decade. And backed by the EU, it was something multiple countries wanted and the US was available to get it done. We and other countries have withheld aid in the past if a country is doing something we don't want them to do, this time it was just centered on the one guy.
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Sep 30, 2019 20:13
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Seems haven't talked about last night's show, but, I was at the taping. It only took me like 3 years of tries for me to get tickets.
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Oct 7, 2019 12:49
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Diva cups are actually a real thing
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Oct 7, 2019 18:33
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Alhazred posted:Diva cups are actually a real thing
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Oct 7, 2019 18:57
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I knew which one was fake because while I'd never heard of a "diva cup," the fake one had a patently absurd name.
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Oct 7, 2019 20:47
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Who woulda thought that a strict and dehumanizing policy with no thought to wellbeing or consequences would lead to mass suffering?
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Oct 7, 2019 21:34
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I'm surprised that there are "only' 32 million more males than female. That's like a 2% difference.
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Oct 7, 2019 21:59
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so are we going to start seeing a huge rash of Chinese incel violence in a few years? like, in this country there are actually more women than men and we still have a bunch of disaffected lonely young men who believe they're never going to have a sexual relationship because of genetics, imagine if there actually were millions more men than women here. generally when a bunch of men fail at pick-up artisting that is the next step.
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Oct 7, 2019 23:35
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DC Murderverse posted:so are we going to start seeing a huge rash of Chinese incel violence in a few years? like, in this country there are actually more women than men and we still have a bunch of disaffected lonely young men who believe they're never going to have a sexual relationship because of genetics, imagine if there actually were millions more men than women here. generally when a bunch of men fail at pick-up artisting that is the next step. you get a gold star for weirdest takeaway, congrats
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Oct 7, 2019 23:47
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SlothfulCobra posted:Who woulda thought that a strict and dehumanizing policy with no thought to wellbeing or consequences would lead to mass suffering? excuse me this is a pro-capitalist show
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Oct 8, 2019 00:43
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sexpig by night posted:you get a gold star for weirdest takeaway, congrats Young, hopeless men with few or even no prospects seems a pretty big loving deal to me? I doubt they'll go the incel route because it's totally stupid to anyone not braindead though
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Oct 8, 2019 01:04
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Milo and POTUS posted:Young, hopeless men with few or even no prospects seems a pretty big loving deal to me? I doubt they'll go the incel route because it's totally stupid to anyone not braindead though The silver lining for China is that they don't have like 12 guns or whatever per person just floating around there, within easy reach of every braindead psychopath. 
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Oct 8, 2019 01:45
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Atomizer posted:The silver lining for China is that they don't have like 12 guns or whatever per person just floating around there, within easy reach of every braindead psychopath. japan has a similar population of disaffected young men but they just hole up and get body pillows, which is really the best case scenario
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Oct 8, 2019 01:51
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DC Murderverse posted:japan has a similar population of disaffected young men but they just hole up and get body pillows, which is really the best case scenario This is basically what they did in the US too until white supremacists decided that it would make for a good recruitment pool.
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Oct 8, 2019 01:54
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What was the ostensible reason for attempting to dramatically reduce their population anyways? Did they just buy into malthusian apocalypse hypotheses and decide that they couldn't support themselves?Phi230 posted:excuse me this is a pro-capitalist show I did think that you could draw a couple parallels with American immigration policy. Especially the creation of a class of legal unpersons. But it's so much more pervasive and anti-family. Also a clear distinction is that in America we're free to talk openly about how horrible the national policy is and even have the prospect of changing regimes within the year. Milo and POTUS posted:Young, hopeless men with few or even no prospects seems a pretty big loving deal to me? I doubt they'll go the incel route because it's totally stupid to anyone not braindead though Young hopeless men are famously the most braindead demographic. Whatever manifests will probably be stupid in its own way, but it's not hard to imagine some kind of collapse or downturn at some point when China's chickens come home to roost.
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Oct 8, 2019 01:55
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Milo and POTUS posted:Young, hopeless men with few or even no prospects seems a pretty big loving deal to me? I doubt they'll go the incel route because it's totally stupid to anyone not braindead though Me as well. I don’t think they’ll wind up like American incels either, but yeah...it’s already driving sex trafficking, so toxic poo poo is already happening. Taking LWT at face value, a generation of men who were commonly treated as princelings throughout their youth who then need to compete brutally for women seems...dangerous in a lot of ways. I can’t imagine the experience of women trafficked into China for marriage to that person.
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Oct 8, 2019 03:33
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I can't help but picture every party I've ever been to where the ratio was like 6:1 women to men. Angry, sexless, loveless men are the single biggest threat on Earth.
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Oct 8, 2019 05:54
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You pretty much have the same thing with the lost boys in the West who were promised success on a silver platter just like Boomers and got nothing.
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Oct 8, 2019 07:23
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sexpig by night posted:you get a gold star for weirdest takeaway, congrats It must be real nice to live a life of total historical amnesia
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Oct 8, 2019 14:11
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Ghost Leviathan posted:You pretty much have the same thing with the lost boys in the West who were promised success on a silver platter just like Boomers and got nothing.
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Oct 8, 2019 18:32
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SlothfulCobra posted:What was the ostensible reason for attempting to dramatically reduce their population anyways? Did they just buy into malthusian apocalypse hypotheses and decide that they couldn't support themselves? Yeah. There were other concerns that the population would get too big too, and China doesn't have that much good farmland so a massive population plus an ideological dedication to autarky weren't compatible. Some of my students in China had stories about the policy. As the show mentioned, having a girl didn't always count (it was administered locally and my stories are from a city in Sichuan). If you had a girl you could apply for an exemption to try again for a boy without getting in trouble. One girl in my class was the first born, and her parents wanted to try again when she was in late elementary school. They bribed a doctor to write a report that she was mentally disabled and shouldn't be counted as a person, and when they met with the family planning people my student had to pretend to basically be inert, barely able to move and not able to speak or understand language. The officials bought the act and they got permission to have another kid, who turned out to be a boy so the family was happy that now they had a real child. A lot of my students were from rich families that would just eat the fine/pay bribes and keep having kids until they got a boy. Korea also really hates daughters but the imbalance there is less acute since it wasn't government policy.
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Oct 9, 2019 06:49
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I really don't have much to say about the latest episode beyond the obvious, like it sure does suck having a malevolent madman in the highest office of the country, but I bring news related to the show. Bob's eating poo poo.
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Oct 29, 2019 22:23
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SlothfulCobra posted:I really don't have much to say about the latest episode beyond the obvious, like it sure does suck having a malevolent madman in the highest office of the country, but I bring news related to the show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDX7yVmQam8
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Oct 29, 2019 22:36
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No thoughts on the voting machines segment?
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Nov 4, 2019 22:03
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Oliver recommending voting machines with a paper trail was very cringe. The solution is to get rid of voting machines. Vote with pencil and paper (no dumb punchcard poo poo). That poo poo works and, combined with proper bipartisan ballot count monitoring, cannot be hacked. Ofcourse, it also cannot be grifted for sweet government contracts, which is the main reason voting machines are a thing.
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Nov 4, 2019 23:31
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Then again there was that dude who just stole all the ballots and trashed them. But yeah. poo poo's super rare.
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Nov 5, 2019 00:55
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Five seconds after the very first secret ballot election in human history was announced, a corrupt politician figured out a way to manipulate the results, .
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Nov 5, 2019 01:52
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Pretty much every election I have ever been really aware of, there have been truckloads of articles and allegations that voting machines are very easy to compromise and almost certainly have been. Nobody ever does something about it. I guess at least this election cycle there's the excuse that the current administration is in cahoots with the biggest threat to free elections and actively sabotaged the measures that congress attempted to implement. The whole "politicians will never try to change the system that out them in" is painfully true, and it is why everything will steadily slide downhill as old systems show their old problems and just get worse and worse as bodies created by flawed systems refuse to bite the hand that fed them, and the bodies that follow them can be even more flawed.
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Nov 5, 2019 01:58
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You’ll never stop election fraud you just try to minimize it enough for it to statistically not matter. In general I think voter fraud is pretty minimal anyways, ya know, since it’s away easier to suppress turnout.
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Nov 5, 2019 02:05
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Orange Devil posted:Oliver recommending voting machines with a paper trail was very cringe. An optical scanner is still a voting machine, and the bill Oliver is talking about covers those as well. Unless you’re actually suggesting hand counting ballots, which is a massive undertaking.
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Nov 5, 2019 02:13
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Voter fraud and electoral fraud are two different things and one is a much bigger problem than the other
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Invalid Validation posted:You’ll never stop election fraud you just try to minimize it enough for it to statistically not matter. In general I think voter fraud is pretty minimal anyways, ya know, since it’s away easier to suppress turnout. Yeah, the cases of voter fraud are statistically insignificant (although, admittedly, how much impact there was on 2016 is up in the air) and I think prior to 2016 there had been like seven or eight confirmed cases of voter fraud across the last three elections and almost all of them were to benefit Republicans. The tool that actually works is voter suppression, and that's only going to get more brazen over the next year.
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