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Yes | 151 | 82.51% | |
No | 32 | 17.49% | |
Total: | 183 votes |
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Wonder Free posted:Stupid hurricane season. You've been up in the air for a couple hours by this point but good luck.
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 22:23 |
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 03:37 |
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Hahahah there goes the RNC! https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1286413536827191303?s=19 It's just NOW dawning on him how completely hosed he is.
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 22:33 |
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facialimpediment posted:Hahahah there goes the RNC! hahahahaha
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 22:38 |
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facialimpediment posted:Hahahah there goes the RNC! lmao
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 22:43 |
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You guys just got lucky in the election cycle and got the right party in power admit it
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 22:47 |
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rotfl
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 22:48 |
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https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1286370389715759107
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 22:48 |
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Why has it taken until 2020 to do this?
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 22:52 |
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By the way, the RNC is going to be called a "telerally". Why? https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1286287032919240705?s=19 And the kicker about how stupid it all is: https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1286308277190569989?s=19
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 22:56 |
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ded posted:Why has it taken until 2020 to do this?
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 22:56 |
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ded posted:Why has it taken until 2020 to do this? Mississippi's ratification of the 13th Amendment only became official in 2013.
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 23:03 |
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ded posted:Why has it taken until 2020 to do this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 23:15 |
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ded posted:Why has it taken until 2020 to do this? Army heavily recruits among Southern hillbillies.
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 23:21 |
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:What in the fuuuuuuuuck that's almost the most insane thing I've seen in all of 2020. What the loving gently caress. So this is a really lovely headline. The gist of it is that the girl has ADHD and has become violent towards her mother multiple times (3 police calls in a year?) and also stole someone's phone from their locker. The terms of her probation included staying at home, checking in with her casworker and completing her homework. When she didn't complete her homework the judge deemed her to be violating probation and she got sent to juvi. The hosed up part is that in juvi she's in a treatment program and she's getting better but the judge deemed that she's not ready to go until she's done the program. It's clear that the home situation wasn't good and she needed help. It's terrible that people like her have to go to jail before the government can give her the mental health treatment she needs. It's awful optics that they're sending black kids to jail even if it's to take her out of a bad(?) situation and help her get better.
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 23:34 |
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As twitter has very clearly weighed in https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1286435958292992002 STICK TO SCIENCE https://twitter.com/KT_So_It_Goes/status/1286438361041899521 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Jul 24, 2020 |
# ? Jul 24, 2020 00:02 |
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Public schools suck hardcore for kids with special needs. Add in the fact that it’s a child of color and you can pretty much assume they are getting suspended or having the resource officer called on them. My daughter’s best friend dad is a social worker for the schools, the stories he tells me are absolutely heartbreaking. Kids with autism getting pinned down because they were stemming in class. A little boy with adhd was wrapped up in a blanket because he kept leaving his chair. The teacher was at least fired for that one.
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 00:12 |
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ded posted:Why has it taken until 2020 to do this? Naval Academy Admissions is located at 52 King George St.
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 00:26 |
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The media's well-known liberal bias strikes again https://twitter.com/politifact/status/1286394320413761536?s=21
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 00:47 |
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Well poo poo, I can promise to not do an infinite number of things if that's how it works.
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 00:50 |
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Best Friends posted:The media's well-known liberal bias strikes again The repliers seem to not realise that drawing attention to the absurdity of the statement is the entire reason it was posted. They explicitly explain the nuance in the very twitter post. This audience seems to require a TLDR of a twitter post. piL fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Jul 24, 2020 |
# ? Jul 24, 2020 01:02 |
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piL posted:Naval Academy Admissions is located at 52 King George St. poo poo, the Catholic church I went to growing up was at 420 High St. It took much longer into my teen years than expected for me to see the humor in that.
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 01:15 |
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lolAtrocious Joe posted:https://twitter.com/mmaluff/status/1284960440754331661?s=20
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 01:26 |
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:Public schools suck hardcore for kids with special needs. This is overly broad. Public schools are highly variable due to how very localized and balkanized they are. A lot of charters pull shenanigans to outright deny entry or services to special needs kids.
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 01:31 |
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piL posted:The repliers seem to not realise that drawing attention to the absurdity of the statement is the entire reason it was posted. They explicitly explain the nuance in the very twitter post. I still don't buy it. A system where you're simplifying campaign promises into a very basic "kept/broken" metric is not one you use if you're trying to discuss nuanced distinctions, especially when it feeds into larger aggregations to claim "Trump has kept 25% of his campaign promises". And "beep boop that's the way the algorithm works nothing we can do about it" reeks of disingenuous techbro bullshit. If this is how their system evaluates things that's a sign that it's a worthless system.
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 01:39 |
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I still don't buy it. A system where you're simplifying campaign promises into a very basic "kept/broken" metric is not one you use if you're trying to discuss nuanced distinctions, especially when it feeds into larger aggregations to claim "Trump has kept 25% of his campaign promises". And "beep boop that's the way the algorithm works nothing we can do about it" reeks of disingenuous techbro bullshit. If this is how their system evaluates things that's a sign that it's a worthless system. It was established to solve quite a different problem and a result of that is this. The system as designed and described on their website is based solely on outcome. There are thousands of claims by local and national politicians and pundits that they would achieve some unachievable aim, feeling safe that they could claim it because nobody would be watching. So a system was designed to be principally independent of intent so that somebody submitting an obviously unpassable law didn't count as 'doing work' to cloud their reputation system. An outcome of this this particular example--changing the system because an outcome goes against your political beliefs challenges its authority as a neutral observer. Parading a bunch of "it's technically true, but only technically" excerpts like 'Trump told the truth about preserving social security--because he failed', and 'Trump did increase the number of jets--by accepting a bunch of broken unoperational ones' the day after a bunch of posts about how he's failed his goals and is lying about coronavirus seems at worst neutral and potentially trying to write something between the lines. Edit: don't get me wrong, maybe there's all kinds of evidence on a super deep dive that there's some sort of incipient bias the other way--I don't know these guys, but I just think there's a quick to leap to 'gently caress-that-person, lets get them!" on Twitter. piL fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Jul 24, 2020 |
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lightpole posted:You guys just got lucky in the election cycle and got the right party in power admit it I freely admit this. If Jacinda hadn't pulled a three way coalition to get a one-seat majority, we'd be hosed right now.
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 02:00 |
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piL posted:It was established to solve quite a different problem and a result of that is this. The system as designed and described on their website is based solely on outcome. There are thousands of claims by local and national politicians and pundits that they would achieve some unachievable aim, feeling safe that they could claim it because nobody would be watching. So a system was designed to be principally independent of intent so that somebody submitting an obviously unpassable law didn't count as 'doing work' to cloud their reputation system. An outcome of this this particular example--changing the system because an outcome goes against your political beliefs challenges its authority as a neutral observer. Lol do you work for them
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 02:07 |
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A synopsis of a politifact article I just read posted:"It is estimated that something awful is a 90% dead comedy forum*." ~ Defenes I had an effort post thought out, but I thought this would be a better way to get my point across without derailing the thread entirely. Their fact checking seems mostly arbitrary in the most head scratching ways. edit: ""Food Stamp participation hits 10 year low."- Donald Trump, Rated True. "Due to a government shutdown, February 2019 had the lowest participation percentage — only 2.22% of people received SNAP benefits." So, one of those gets a mostly true, because some dudes may quibble over the efficacy over a study, but the other one gets an unequivocated true, because.... reasons? Defenestrategy fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Jul 24, 2020 |
# ? Jul 24, 2020 02:31 |
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mama mia
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 02:42 |
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I freely admit this. If Jacinda hadn't pulled a three way coalition to get a one-seat majority, we'd be hosed right now. Ugh, I can't believe countries are on a knife edge between wearing masks to prevent the spread of COVID and Nelson Mandela is a terrorist.
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 03:03 |
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piL posted:It was established to solve quite a different problem and a result of that is this. The system as designed and described on their website is based solely on outcome. There are thousands of claims by local and national politicians and pundits that they would achieve some unachievable aim, feeling safe that they could claim it because nobody would be watching. So a system was designed to be principally independent of intent so that somebody submitting an obviously unpassable law didn't count as 'doing work' to cloud their reputation system. An outcome of this this particular example--changing the system because an outcome goes against your political beliefs challenges its authority as a neutral observer. I guess it comes down to a question of what Politifact's purpose is. If the purpose is to provide a purely utilitarian evaluation of "does politician X achieve their stated goals" then that's probably valid, though a really dumb way of assessing things. But if the purpose is to help people evaluate whether a politician stays true to their campaign promises then this is an utter failure. If Politifact really wants to hew that strictly to the wording, then any claim a presidential candidate makes about cutting or allocating funds should be considered invalid, since it's congress that actually makes those budgets. The best a presidential candidate could claim is "I will not propose a budget that cuts X". This is generally how presidential proposals are interpreted, even if they're not exactly phrased that way, and if he had said it that way it would have been false. Or, if congress had passed a budget that cut medicare, well, the president only signed it, he wasn't actually the one who made the cuts. It's especially egregious when it comes to negative proposals. If Trump promised that he would not raise an army of undead confederate soldiers to invade Washington, Politifact would have to rate that as a kept promise. Hence my original comment, I could be the most truthful person in existence by promising not to do a bunch of impossible stuff.
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 03:07 |
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mlmp08 posted:This is overly broad. Public schools are highly variable due to how very localized and balkanized they are. A lot of charters pull shenanigans to outright deny entry or services to special needs kids. I meant it in the compared to typical gen ed students. Special education/exceptional classroom students are suspended at a substantially higher rate than their peers in a traditional classroom. I think the national average is 4 times as much. It’s a hard process because I absolute feel for teachers having to deal with it, but when it’s bad it’s really bad, especially for children of color. Private schools are all over the place and charters probably are worse. Charter schools are technically public schools so their governed by IDEA (until Betsy DeVos guts it) so if the student goes there then they have to receive services or the state had to pay for them to go to a specialized school.
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 03:24 |
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orange juche posted:You've been up in the air for a couple hours by this point but good luck. Wasn’t too bad. Nothing cool to show from that one. It’s TS Hanna now. I’ll fly it again tomorrow night and then it’ll make landfall in Texas on Saturday afternoon. Good reminder for people in the southern plague states to stock up on emergency supplies...
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 05:34 |
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After a year in third grade with my high functioning autistic son constantly getting in trouble due to "disruption" the last two years of home schooling has been mentally less draining. Kids are awful and will figure out a way to taunt and bully those who will give them the biggest most entertaining reactions.
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 06:18 |
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facialimpediment posted:Hahahah there goes the RNC! I’m sorry, but what about this is unbelievable to Maggie Enablerman?
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 07:55 |
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For the Swift veterans for truth Taylor Swift released a surprise album today with 16 hours notice. Has a track with Bon Iver on it and sounds quite Indie pop
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 10:32 |
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Proud Christian Mom posted:Lol do you work for them No, I work for Facebook, don't you remember?
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 11:27 |
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https://globalnews.ca/news/7204384/coronavirus-glory-holes-sex/amp/ So the British Columbia CDC is recommending glory holes (among other things) to prevent the spread of COVID during sexual activities.
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 13:10 |
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quote:Bexar County [San Antonio] GOP chair refuses to certify runoff election totals after losing in landslide I love this quote from the judge at 0:40 from a news report from back in May. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjkZjcOm2sc
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 13:53 |
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quote:
oh. sounds like a lovely person.
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# ? Jul 24, 2020 13:55 |