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I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but the "hot take" reaction from the media is that Wilmore flopped. Did he actually suck, or is this the media being oblivious again, like they were with Colbert?
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Fat southern boy shoots home intruder (after missing 11 times) while he was trying to leave with a hamper, and then publicly mocks him. I think we've hit peak America. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/05/01/alabama_boy_shoots_burglar_mocks_him_for_crying_like_a_little_baby.html
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Xanderkish posted:This sounds amazing and I want to hear more about it.
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May 2, 2016 13:41
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FAUXTON posted:poo poo, I imagine House of Cards hasn't helped mitigate that in the least. I recall Boiler Room being one of those situations where a lot of shitters identified with the bad guys. Probably the same with HoC where everyone thinks they're some ~triangulating mastermind~ like Frank Underwood and just glosses over the trail of corpses.
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May 2, 2016 13:59
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Epic High Five posted:It's this one btw, for food stamps at least
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May 5, 2016 11:39
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Epic High Five posted:Things like programs where they literally give you money for having a mortgage definitely is though quote:In cases of people with negative income tax percentages it manages to both simply be not having money taken from them AND getting a handout
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May 5, 2016 12:11
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Luigi Thirty posted:Trump says that the solution to the national debt is to default and cut a deal so we don't pay 100 cents on the dollar which he could do because he makes deals for a living.
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May 6, 2016 14:49
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Hillary: Still planning on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. The only thing wrong with it is it can just as easily be turned on her.
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May 7, 2016 18:19
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amuayse posted:Burma, Iran, China; they all still have significant problems regardless. I'm legitimately concerned by how ineffectual it all really is.
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May 8, 2016 12:16
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Prester Jane posted:And people thought I was being outlandish when I confidently presicted all the way back in August that Trump would dominate The GOP Primary. The chain of events that then transpired were by no means a certainty, but I was extremely annoyed with basically every journalist and web denizen dismissing him as a joke for months on end. His path to victory was clear, and it was built on the same vitriol and anger that has basically defined the past six years in D.C. Of course he had a chance, and there was no clear mechanism in place which would cause him to flame out like everyone kept saying he would.
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May 10, 2016 13:05
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Solkanar512 posted:Like Erlog said, what is your empirical evidence that Trump wasn't just a flavor of the month at that point in time? Alarms should have been going off for people earlier. Everyone expected him to just drop in the polls, despite no mechanism in place which would cause him to do so.
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May 10, 2016 16:31
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I'm a bit torn on this. If there is one group in the world that can make the Republican bathroom horror fantasies come true, it's American high school boys. The combination of teenage idiocy and incompetent school administrations could put together the conditions for boys to just start going into girls' bathrooms and harassing them. A few stories will get out about boomers' daughters being bothered by "transexuals" in their schools' bathrooms, and this could turn very ugly. On the other hand, I feel for the situation that transexual students are in, and this hopefully can make things better for them. But for things to work out, teenagers need to act in a mature and responsible way, and for school administrations to be reasonable, and I don't have much trust in either of these things.
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May 13, 2016 09:25
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Dubstep Jesus posted:There are already policies in place against harassing people in the bathroom. All the bathroom laws have managed to do is encourage creeps to "police" bathrooms to ensure gender conformity, which just makes the problem worse. Not to mention the psychological impact being singled out as monsters is already having on trans kids & adults, which is why I'm so glad the Obama administration is taking such a strong stand on this. But a high school has idiot teenagers as the critical mass of people, and the main line of enforcement of policies are school employees, who might very well interpret this new mandate as allowing everyone to use whatever bathroom they want at all times. It's not a recipe for good things to occur, unless measures are taken to ensure that this is done well. And a lot of school administrators would love for this to blow up in Obama's face, so I don't really see this being implemented sucessfully across the country without incident. I hope I'm wrong, and that the main effect of this is that transgender students feel more comfortable in their schools.
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May 13, 2016 12:33
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Party Plane Jones posted:Yeesh, Trump's butler keeps digging himself in a deeper and deeper hole. I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the probable white supremacist/nutjob tree for Trump? Basically, the butler is Palpatine, Trump is Anakin, and we are all the jedi about to be wiped out in horrific violence.
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May 13, 2016 15:06
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WampaLord posted:The bigoted ones who are the ones that are super pissed about men going into women's bathrooms, though?
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May 13, 2016 15:12
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fishmech posted:Whatever will we do when someone can walk into the other bathroom and see people's feet under the stall doors, or maybe watch people wash their hands or do makeup at the sink?
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May 13, 2016 16:48
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SedanChair posted:High school kids actually understand trans issues better than anyone else right now, so if they wanted to do this it would have already happened. I get what everyone is saying. I just think that it's entirely possible that the right wing spin on this will be "the president says boys can go into the girls room at schools and cause trouble", and some boys will take this as an invitation and do it, the school administration will react terribly, and people are going to flip out. I hope I'm wrong.
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May 13, 2016 17:57
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Tatum Girlparts posted:then you loving punish them like you always have
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May 13, 2016 18:15
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:Oh jesus loving christ. Media attention isn't going to suddenly cause a wave of boys going in the girls locker rooms/bathrooms AND EVEN IF IT DID WHICH IT WON'T it wouldn't be blamed on OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS. Like jesus titty loving christ here dude.
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May 13, 2016 18:19
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Spatula City posted:There was a pretty decent article on Slate...
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May 13, 2016 22:50
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Taerkar posted:Australia wasn't named, checks out.
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May 19, 2016 14:39
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Radish posted:I'm really curious what a Trump-Clinton debate is even going to be like. All the GOP primaries were a mess since they all supported Trump's viewpoints but were used to just dog whistling about how the Muslims needed to be deported or that miscarriages should be investigated as possible murder. They couldn't fight against it too strongly since they know that their base wants that and to say otherwise is RINO territory. Also the Right Wing bubble is a fact free zone. Clinton doesn't have that problem and we all saw what happened when the tiniest bit of truth got into the Obama-Romney debates.
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May 20, 2016 13:02
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FAUXTON posted:How will that be reconciled with him spending all week claiming to be a polymath and diplomatic superstar beforehand, and afterwards immediately calling in to CNN and claiming he mopped the floor with Clinton? At least with Palin they were able to hand her the sippy cup full of Coors light and manage the aftermath while she was preoccupied. His pompous, arrogant claims with no substance to back them up are why everyone thinks so lowly of him, and why any deviation from it is considered brilliant politic-ing. I'm not saying that anyone will change their minds based on Trump simply not being a raving xenophobic misogynist for two hours, but anyone expecting Hillary to wipe the floor with him and for the public to finally recognize him as the charlatan he is will be sadly disappointed when the media and polls show that Trump "won" the debate because everybody judged his performance based on the steepest curve possible.
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May 20, 2016 13:36
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FAUXTON posted:And I'm saying that you're expecting a raging narcissist not to try claiming victory beforehand and afterwards. Sure, almost anyone else would be letting their people talk about how Hillary is a tenured statesperson steeped in the traditions and inner workings of government so that "the steepest curve possible" became a thing. Trump? Nah. He'll be out there claiming he'll win it in a walk, tweet during commercials that he's winning it in a walk, and go to the news afterwards claiming he won it in a walk. They could show the tape of her clowning on him about how the 14th amendment makes his "just renegotiate for lower payments" plan flat out illegal and he'd still claim he has the secret to doing it legally.
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May 20, 2016 13:53
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Mr Hootington posted:gently caress they aren't. Do you not watch the same news as the majority of Americans? Everything he says sets the tone, conversation, and expectations. But the media only called him presidential when he called Ted Cruz "Senator Cruz" one time because he had a single time beaten their extremely low expectations of him based on his past behavior, not based on taking his arrogant proclamations at their word. His boasts actually serve to lower the expectations of him.
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I feel stupid for never realizing that arbitration services by the conductor were included in the price of a train ticket.
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