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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Yeah, he was at that level earlier. And if they are down to 1/3 of the vote left, then Krasner has won unless he starts losing 85-15 in all remaining districts. Speaking as an admitted non-Philadelphian: phew. Good to see that cop union bullshit can fail, and fail badly. Looks like another 8% of districts just came in, and Krasner is still at 64%. Seems like it's very over.
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May 19, 2021 04:04
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eXXon posted:The Senate seems poised to approve new funding for science & technology not just to, like, expand our understanding of the universe and improve lives for humanity, but to spite the commies in China. Finally, China’s being good for something other than bullying Duterte!
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May 19, 2021 04:07
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Paracaidas posted:Not going to pretend I'm an expert on local PA politics but I'm shocked to see the "moderate" in the race endorsed by DSA reps Lee and Innamorato. Can you elaborate on your description of Gainey? It's not a battle of the ideologies or anything. I posted a few examples in the thread. Their main disagreements were over police and zoning rules. I think the guy who wants to do less reform to the police, keep the amount of new construction low to inflate home values, and had some bad religious votes (to be fair, they were back in 2013) is more moderate. They are 95% the same and the bigger issue was representation.
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ram dass in hell posted:There's no leftist infighting ITT. I was told people were 'raging' ITT though, about just a joke.
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May 19, 2021 04:09
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Race isn't officially called yet, but Krasner is declaring victory.
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May 19, 2021 04:10
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Rea posted:Speaking as an admitted non-Philadelphian: phew. Good to see that cop union bullshit can fail, and fail badly. The upside of modern cop attitudes is that they're absolutely terrible at appealing to anyone outside bootlickers because they don't know how to do anything but threaten violence to get their way.
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May 19, 2021 04:10
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May 19, 2021 04:11
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TulliusCicero posted:I thought Kiwifarms was a spin off of 4chan tbh, since the average user there reminds me of like what passed for "edgy" posting in like 2007. Kiwifarms spun-off from the CWCiki, which was a goon project. There's plenty of ex-goons there, and yeah they're the ones that never moved on from Helldump or forums raids.
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May 19, 2021 04:13
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It's not a battle of the ideologies or anything. I posted a few examples in the thread. I'm really struggling to grasp how you got to "young black moderate" as a descriptor for Gainey. For what it's worth, not even Peduto was framing it that way, preferring "progressive vs socialist" https://mobile.twitter.com/SummerForPA/status/1394692764328202241
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Neo_Crimson posted:Kiwifarms spun-off from the CWCiki, which was a goon project. i swore it was channer poo poo mixed with other types. Vorik posted:Some more good news nice. https://twitter.com/reidepstein/status/1394615714682712071 gotta love the chuds that just loving say this poo poo oppenly.
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May 19, 2021 04:15
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Paracaidas posted:I'm really struggling to grasp how you got to "young black moderate" as a descriptor for Gainey. For what it's worth, not even Peduto was framing it that way: I should have said "more moderate" rather than just moderate. I think the big issues that a mayor can tackle are police reform and zoning rules and he is much more incremental on those two issues. Plus, some support for socially conservative policies (that to be fair, are from almost a decade ago).
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Dapper_Swindler posted:i swore it was channer poo poo mixed with other types. Oh poo poo I used to live in Wausau. It’s basically a bunch of dairies, a paper mill, and some nice trees. Not surprised the locals are awful people.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:i swore it was channer poo poo mixed with other types. "Coloreds"  What is Wausau County? A bunch of white retirees?
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skull mask mcgee posted:There’s one in Georgia. Thanks! This is appalling: quote:In 2016, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed into law a bill requiring any person or company entering with the state of Georgia into a contract worth $1,000 or more to sign a pledge not to engage in political boycott of the Israeli government. The mention of CAIR reminded me that they were boycotting the White House celebration of Eid last Sunday. I wonder how that went.
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May 19, 2021 04:25
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lmao oh gently caress this is gonna be Krasner's GOP opponent in the general https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/1390854187970400257 had no idea The Bathtub Guy was trying to beat Krasner
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Rea posted:I'm not sure what Taniel's talking about here. The previous holder of the seat won with 61% of the vote in 2018, though SD22 does, according to Ballotpedia, partly reside in a Obama -> Trump district. That district got bluer in 2020. I think he is referencing it because it was a district that Democrats usually won with 55% - 60% of the vote and in 2016 it was one of the areas in PA, WI, and MI that swung from Obama to Trump.
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The Sean posted:Biden was on some car show, I think Seinfeld's a few years ago. The SS built a special track for him somewhere and it was the only place he could drive his It’s actually just the training road on the Secret Services training compound in Maryland. It’s a pretty big campus but they use the roadways that go around it to train for convoy stuff and what not.
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May 19, 2021 04:29
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Rea posted:lmao oh gently caress this is gonna be Krasner's GOP opponent in the general The rare time when the "dead girl or live boy" political phrase applies literally.
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May 19, 2021 04:30
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eXXon posted:The Senate seems poised to approve new funding for science & technology not just to, like, expand our understanding of the universe and improve lives for humanity, but to spite the commies in China. I mean if putting the word China in it gets 36 Republican votes for funding basic research...
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Data Graham posted:More like Nah, those two were actually useful at something.
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Rea posted:lmao oh gently caress this is gonna be Krasner's GOP opponent in the general Kind of feel that when the section on why your girlfriend was found dead in your bath tub is longer than any of the sections on issues, maybe it’s time to take a step back.
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May 19, 2021 04:42
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Rea posted:lmao oh gently caress this is gonna be Krasner's GOP opponent in the general I imagined this in the voice of The Thing from The Fantastic Four. 
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May 19, 2021 04:46
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Rea posted:lmao oh gently caress this is gonna be Krasner's GOP opponent in the general lmao https://twitter.com/eggczar/status/1390855609180905472 i love it when republicans aren't viable in an area but still have to put up somebody. you usually get the biggest lunatics* imaginable. every now and then you get that one holocaust denier that ran againt dan lipinski in illinois, so that's not so good *well, bigger lunatics. you know what i mean
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Pittsburgh News: Trying to find the article again, Facebook did that thing where it thinks you want it to refresh the page when you're in the middle of reading and now it doesn't want to load anything, but the local news channel is saying Peduto conceded via tweet earlier. Edit: https://cbsloc.al/33TnZZd There's a link to an article about him confirming that he did concede. the_steve fucked around with this message at 04:59 on May 19, 2021 |
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the_steve posted:Pittsburgh News: Hopefully Gainey will be better than Peduto who lost this campaign because of how much of a dipshit he was last year during the BLM protests; Gainey's campaign wasn't that well run achillesforever6 fucked around with this message at 04:59 on May 19, 2021 |
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May 19, 2021 04:57
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TulliusCicero posted:"Coloreds"  )Historically the area was super white and very conservative outside the college towns. Wausau is not a college town. Those tended to be a little more liberal thanks to old white hippy types, but my impression was that even the nominal left was kind of racist in practice. Since the Vietnam War the Hmong population in the region has grown substantially and the white folks haven't adapted very well. I remember a lot of racially motivated fights in parking lots and behind bowling alleys when I was in high school in the 1990s. It seems a little better now, I'm impressed that motion even got brought up in Wausau, but overall it's still extremely white up there.
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TulliusCicero posted:What is Wausau County? A bunch of white retirees? A miserable pile of
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James Garfield posted:I don't actually remember Trump doing anything like that (not saying he didn't) but if he did it still wouldn't really matter to me? Trump did a lot of more substantial things w.r.t press freedom. I'm not asking you if you would care. I'm asking you if you would actively defend it, against all the people who would be rightfully outraged by it, like you're doing right now. Would you tell everyone to relax, it's obviously just a joke, if Trump said this exact same thing, only a few months into his presidency? I genuinely would like you to think about that. You don't have to respond immediately. Ponder it for a few days. I know that it's a joke. I don't actually think that Biden is going to have journalists murdered (probably). But I still don't think that it's something that should ever be joked about by any government official. Especially when that government official is funding and supporting an apartheid regime that IS targeting journalists.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:i swore it was channer poo poo mixed with other types. Way back in the day my father in law did a lot for the Hmong community back when they were first coming to WI. He’s got a couple of pieces of Hmong folk art he was given for the things he did. He was a extension agent, ran a public radio show in farming for a while, even wrote some farm policy during the Reagan administration. Think like WI farm royalty . Moved away from WI in the late eighties to FL These days he does things like take a stand in his church community and in his family for gay and trans rights. It’s really stunning the cultural change in WI. It makes me sad every time I think about it.
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Fister Roboto posted:I'm not asking you if you would care. I'm asking you if you would actively defend it, against all the people who would be rightfully outraged by it, like you're doing right now. Would you tell everyone to relax, it's obviously just a joke, if Trump said this exact same thing, only a few months into his presidency? I genuinely would like you to think about that. You don't have to respond immediately. Ponder it for a few days. Probably not, Trump was a bad president. It would be weird if someone were anti Trump solely because he made a joke once, but I don't think there is anyone like that so I'm not bothered.
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even if the joke were in fact a window into Joe Biden's deepest soul and revealed his deepest, curdling desire to dance in the blood of journalists, it feels like a weird thing to focus on when we can see the crimes happening in Palestine and we can see the arms deal passing with Joe's approval, both just out in the open. We don't need fixate on every off-hand line Joe says in a public appearance to discern that these things are monstrous or need to be opposed, just like we didn't need to watch out for press statements with 14 lines or 88 words to know that there were nazis in the Trump admin
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So was there a later opportunity for the pool to ask questions? People attacking Biden not on the joke, but on refusal to answer about Israel, no? Ed: checked schedule, Psaki took questions earlier, Biden is staying way off radar on this. Looks like this is being handled as just another round of the usual letting Israel hit Gaza until Hamas stops the rockets, moral equivalency all around. Biden probably correctly assuming he has nothing to gain talking about it. The fact there’s any pushback at all in Congress is new but it seems to be mostly grumbling? The letter asking for delaying the arms shipment to Israel seems to be not happening. Rust Martialis fucked around with this message at 07:13 on May 19, 2021 |
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Herstory Begins Now posted:That doctor who was sterilizing detainees without their consent just got 59 years in prison Holy poo poo is that justice? In this economy?
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