facialimpediment posted:Mayo Pete had an answer queued up. Speaks 7 languages but not English
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A Bad Poster posted:I'd love to see what the right wing hate machine would have to say about a disabled veteran WOC being the VP candidate. Hooooo boy it would be vicious. "I like people that don't get shot down"
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 09:06 |
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-05/china-sacrifices-a-province-to-save-the-world-from-coronavirus China's quarantine is working–according to Bloomberg News, 97% of the deaths from Coronavirus have been in Hubei and Wuhan. It'll be interesting to see if China's social fabric will waver after this, as the capitalist sentiment from recent decades may drive people to become more selfish and not stand for forced lockdown/quarantine. No "mah rights" people there yet I suppose
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 10:01 |
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Suicide Watch posted:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-05/china-sacrifices-a-province-to-save-the-world-from-coronavirus In other hellplague news, that Japanese cruise ship that was quarantined for Coronavirus has over 60 cases reported now, up from 10. There's going to be a hell of a lot of sick people on that ship.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 10:35 |
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Suicide Watch posted:I had a Popeye's Spicy Chicken Sandwich™ today and it was delicious. Can't beat it for $3.99! I was kinda wowed by how good it was, doubly so for fast food
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 11:59 |
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I don't know why you're surprised, Popeye's chicken is the shizznit. Goddamnit Sandler.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 13:04 |
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orange juche posted:In other hellplague news, that Japanese cruise ship that was quarantined for Coronavirus has over 60 cases reported now, up from 10. I used to work on that ship. I can’t loving imagine being stuck in the lovely inside cabins for days as a passenger. Let alone as crew.. The berthing belowdecks is going to be.. fragrant.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 13:08 |
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I'd imagine working on any cruise ship is some level of hell I've managed to not personally discover yet.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 13:40 |
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orange juche posted:In other hellplague news, that Japanese cruise ship that was quarantined for Coronavirus has over 60 cases reported now, up from 10. How do you properly quarantine a cruise ship? I think leaving people in there will keep the contagion there but spike the number of patients. I guess you'd need a quarantine place off ship to put everybody to minimize damage, but who plans for that?
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 14:45 |
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Nobody. That's why there's reports of cruise ships floating right now loaded to the gills and being denied port all over SE Asia.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 14:49 |
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I think the only respite they’d get is maybe someone dropping supplies to them via helicopter. Maybe
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 15:45 |
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You can take on supplies from a boat. The magic of cruise ships is that they don’t belong to anybody who gives a gently caress about them. This is a fiscal feature, but when it comes to humanitarian concerns, lol gently caress you, unless you’re close to the US and have lots of US Citizens on-board. Then you might be allowed to dock and disembark the citizens. Then gently caress off.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 15:58 |
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Posting this just for the sick burnquote:The classic view is that the pool of American voters is basically fixed: About 55 percent of eligible voters are likely to go to the polls, and the winner is determined by the 15 percent or so of “swing voters” who flit between the parties. So a general election campaign amounts to a long effort to pull those voters in to your side.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 16:41 |
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AOC won and unseated a massively powerful democrat, and Beto almost won a senate seat in Texas by doing the radical idea of turning non-voters into voters by engaging with them. The audacity of it all.
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Erghh posted:Posting this just for the sick burn This is a good article, in addition to the great burn
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 16:50 |
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Erghh posted:Posting this just for the sick burn Oh poo poo, I read a bunch of her stuff early last year. She's good. Like, she's able to do a good job of reading polling without dipping her toes where she shouldn't *cough* Nate Silver *cough*. Here's something she wrote last July on the election. https://cnu.edu/wasoncenter/2019/07/01-2020-election-forecast/
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 16:57 |
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To the surprise of absolutely noone, Trump has been lying about how much his company charges the Secret Service. https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...5a4e_story.html quote:Secret Service has paid rates as high as $650 a night for rooms at Trump’s properties
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 17:25 |
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Any other president... Did racism really bring this all on? Did Obama really brake this many brains that even the Secret Service is complicit?
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 17:36 |
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McNally posted:To the surprise of absolutely noone, Trump has been lying about how much his company charges the Secret Service. At this point they could leak his One Night In Ivanka (With Special Guest Star Harvey Weinstein) sex tape and nobody would notice, or care
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 17:42 |
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It feels like we’re really starting to see a shift in the number of people who recognize how hosed we are politically, environmentally, and economically.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 17:49 |
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The thing with this particular administration is that there's a considerable number of people that are radically unqualified filling critical positions, or in many cases those critical positions are unfilled entirely. So all you've got are empty seats and sycophants. I've mentioned it before, but there's going to be considerable damage to the long-term GOP apparatus regarding political appointees in future GOP administrations. A lot of your mid-level GWB appointees patiently waiting out Obama couldn't get jobs in this administration, and if it flips to Bernie that's potentially another 8 years to go. So you're looking at potentially a 20 year gap in political resumes which will make things pretty hard to get back into the saddle. One of my bosses worked in the White House for both of GWB's terms and their circle of GOP pols are all saying they're done with politics, gently caress it.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 17:49 |
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LingcodKilla posted:Any other president... the Secret Service IME is has a huge component of admittedly well-trained and dedicated broke-brain CHUDs.
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Vasudus posted:One of my bosses worked in the White House for both of GWB's terms and their circle of GOP pols are all saying they're done with politics, gently caress it.
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Ragtime All The Time posted:It feels like we’re really starting to see a shift in the number of people who recognize how hosed we are politically, environmentally, and economically. The polarization of political discourse is affecting your echo chamber.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 18:17 |
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They would 100% work in the Trump admin if they could, but they're all blackballed because of social media. Now they're all salty because they'll be pushing late 50s before they can get back in.
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Vasudus posted:The thing with this particular administration is that there's a considerable number of people that are radically unqualified filling critical positions, or in many cases those critical positions are unfilled entirely. So all you've got are empty seats and sycophants. All of this is a good thing in the GOP's world view. The more hosed up and dysfunctional the government, the more the monied interests behind them can burn the country down to loot the ashes and the more the political office seekers can campaign on GUBMINT BAD (and, lately, transition to "everything is bad and it's [insert minority]'s fault, let me punish them for you") They WANT to break everything this way.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 18:28 |
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Handsome Ralph posted:Oh poo poo, I read a bunch of her stuff early last year. Thanks for that link. Legit interested in this stuff but it's hard to find a starting point since it does tends to crawl off in all sorts of dirctions *cough* Nate Silver *cough*. Also just seeing attempts at accounting for the "political schizophrenia" of some of the voting populace. (IIRC there was a tweet from some rally with a dude who was torn between Sanders and Bloomberg for some reason).
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 18:45 |
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Erghh posted:Also just seeing attempts at accounting for the "political schizophrenia" of some of the voting populace. (IIRC there was a tweet from some rally with a dude who was torn between Sanders and Bloomberg for some reason). The simple accounting is that average American voters just don't give a poo poo about civics and politics. A typical voter isn't your Online, twitter-using, article reading kind of high-information voter. So, that leads to a lot of Cult of Personality voting, with people voting for candidates that literally visually look right to them, or the candidate that they "trust" the most, or the candidate that got a spotlight during the local news broadcast they just so happened to watch at some time. In a lot of cases, it has very little to do with policy preferences, because they don't have a policy preference! It's an interesting theory that the electoral cake is already baked now, at this minute, because of the saturation of Donnie Brainstem everywhere. But, prediction punditry is inherently bad, so be skeptical of all explanations of everything. Edit: https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1225838433765072896?s=19 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Feb 7, 2020 |
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LingcodKilla posted:Any other president... The conservative zeitgeist is obsessed with winning, or the perception of, at all cost. A black man winning was a huge L for fragile white minds.
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Erghh posted:Posting this just for the sick burn That Works posted:This is a good article, in addition to the great burn Negative partisanship explains a lot.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:The conservative zeitgeist is obsessed with winning, or the perception of, at all cost. A black man winning was a huge L for fragile white minds. And Trump personifies this mentality to a T. It's a big reason why the GOP went ride-or-die with the Kavanaugh nomination. Under "normal" rules Kavanaugh would have been dropped like a bad habit as soon as Dr. Ford came forward, but because Trump can never admit to being wrong and needs to win at everything always, he insisted that the GOP back Kavanaugh, with the overt threat being that he will primary them otherwise. So because nobody in Congress can even fathom losing their jobs and parking spaces and free appetizers at the Old Ebbett Grill (Fridays before 5PM), the GOP will support him until he has a mini-stroke and accidentally nukes Baltimore.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 20:00 |
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"Accidentally" nukes Baltimore.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 20:21 |
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bird food bathtub posted:All of this is a good thing in the GOP's world view. The more hosed up and dysfunctional the government, the more the monied interests behind them can burn the country down to loot the ashes and the more the political office seekers can campaign on GUBMINT BAD (and, lately, transition to "everything is bad and it's [insert minority]'s fault, let me punish them for you") Is there a particular name for this strategy
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Milo and POTUS posted:Is there a particular name for this strategy
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Nm
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Milo and POTUS posted:Is there a particular name for this strategy Arguably it's accelerationism, but these days there's a bunch of debates about what exactly counts as accelerationism because there is nothing that people won't argue over.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 20:34 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:Is there a particular name for this strategy "Starve the beast" I remember the Arizona Republicans taking it to it's logical conclusion and wanting to disband the legislature. It's weaponized Ayn Rand.
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# ? Feb 7, 2020 20:38 |
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Like many things it's also a concept that is at direct odds with other parts of the party. For every Republican that wants to get rid of government there's two more that only want it to persist just enough to issue out contracts.
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https://www.gsa.gov/travel/plan-boo...city=New%20york Edit content: government rate at Mar a Lago should be 118 to 203, but obviously the secret service have to setup wherever the president is, even if he's not using the government rate. piL fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Feb 7, 2020 |
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Vasudus posted:Like many things it's also a concept that is at direct odds with other parts of the party. For every Republican that wants to get rid of government there's two more that only want it to persist just enough to issue out contracts. The Texas GOP is fighting a three way battle between the racist as gently caress electorate, the culture warriors who want to regulate bathrooms, and The business community that wants to pay no taxes but also get government contracts forever and wants cheap immigrant labor, legal or otherwise
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