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Welcome to USPOL the thread for all Not Trump US politics discussion, I'm your host a big idiot statist. Current Hot Topic Hurricane season has begun! They are a waste, as posts of other things that are a waste go here General stuff: The Government is currently run by the Grand Old Party majority, which would like to remind you it is the party of Lincoln. Recently the Democrats seem to have taken up a defensive position outside an Applebees asking people to please tip your server even if they put children in internment camps. For some reason the stock market is pretty high right now, having nothing to do with Real Americans. We might be in a money fight for some reason. I dont know, Canada's handsome Ivanka bait is making the President of the United States jealous or something. Congress is full of clowns! What a bunch of clowns! Their disapproval is currently sitting somewhere around 79% Books of a useful nature to improve your horizons and political context (thanks Rappaport): Punishment and Inequality in America by Bruce Western The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America by Naomi Murakawa The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Matt Taibbi's The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap and Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow Rick Perlstein's trilogy on the history of the modern conservative movement: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party by Geoffrey Kabaservice Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney López Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph Stiglitz Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Blyth Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005 by Thomas Ricks Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism—From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond by E.J. Dionne Jr. America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System by Steven Brill Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol Please suggest additions to the OP of a useful nature, much like your posting.  Please remember that self care is important in trying times: 
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I hope you're proud of yourself for resuscitating this terrible, terrible thread.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:23
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Office Pig posted:I hope you're proud of yourself for resuscitating this terrible, terrible thread. I'm proud of them.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:23
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Hell, same.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:24
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Office Pig posted:I hope you're proud of yourself for resuscitating this terrible, terrible thread. Eh, it won't last long. Always too much poo poo happening in the US that hits on too many different topics to adequately moderate.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:24
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Hail Satan!
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Sep 11, 2017 03:25
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oh no
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Sep 11, 2017 03:25
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Just to pre-empt every argument we're going to have: - BLM are the true racists - Antifa are the true fascists - Feminists are the true sexists - Abolitionists are the true slavers - LGBTQ people are the true oppressors - Conservatives are the true punk counter-culture - Something about freeze peach There, saved you all the trouble. e: forgot a few Pembroke Fuse fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Sep 11, 2017 |
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Sep 11, 2017 03:27
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Webb would've won
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Sep 11, 2017 03:27
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Pembroke Fuse posted:Just to pre-empt every argument we're going to have: you forgot something about lgbtq people
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Sep 11, 2017 03:27
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stone cold posted:you forgot something about lgbq people Fixed.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:28
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thank you. we have the trump thread for president of hte united states donald j. trump, the democrats are bad thread for about how the democrats are bad, the russia thread for people who think putin has radio transmitters in their frosted flakes, and this thread for everything else. please try to keep it civil and to keep chat-type stuff to the chat thread.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:34
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Motto posted:Weebs would've won e; lol here's me pissing all over the mod's requests SO who's gonna join the NFL boycott?
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Sep 11, 2017 03:35
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shitpost tag fits perfectly
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Sep 11, 2017 03:35
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hail satan, especially if he will stay the firm hand of irma from destroying your property
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Sep 11, 2017 03:35
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Motto posted:Webb would've won Lessig 4 prez
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Sep 11, 2017 03:35
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R. Guyovich posted:the russia thread for people who think putin has radio transmitters in their frosted flakes Don't let your biases leak out this early.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:36
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Hey, did you know there is an election this year? If you live in New Jersey, you get to toss Chris Christie on his big fat duff. That's pretty cool. You also get to vote for which Democrat you like best, probably. But I don't know a lot about that. I come from Virginia. And Virginia is a crazy microcosm of American politics, so everyone is looking at it. We're voting for our governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and House of Delegates. The HoD is gonna be a mess, since you have NoVA, where all the defense contractors and well to do folk live and vote en masse, vs the rest of the state, which is a combination of ideologues in the exurbs and the Third World America that is the southwest panhandle. Republicans will outnumber Democrats, probably, and they'll breed such amazing things as transvaginal ultrasounds and writing right-to-work into the Gospel of Matthew. Because of the population and voting advantage of the north, however, the executive branch is very much in play. After 2013, where famous Hawaiian shirt wearing and whiskey swilling on national television snake oil salesman Terry McAulliffe turned out to be a surprisingly effective governor, the GOP doesn't have terribly much hope of taking back the mansion. They barely got Ed Gillespie, a really rather boring man, past Corey Stewart, actual Neo Nazi. Gillespie faces current lieutenant governor Dr. Ralph Northam, who's also a boring man. If you live in the general vicinity of Northern Virginia, hit me up on PM's. I'm gonna need help getting people interested in a drama-less but vital race. The left needs to know we can win fights in the age of Trump, and I'm gonna spend the next eight weeks pounding on doors to say Yes Virginia, There Is An Election, Now Vote You loving Prick. This poo poo is what matters. Gotta fight for your own Street.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:40
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Mister Adequate posted:e; lol here's me pissing all over the mod's requests I'm always in on not watching the NFL until late December or so.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:41
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https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/907042389054943232 lmbo
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Sep 11, 2017 03:44
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So we're doing this again. God help us all.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:45
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Unless it has a markedly different ecosystem and climate at the top, and presents a barrier to human transportation, animal and plant migration, and weather systems, a hill is not a mountain.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:48
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Like all it takes is two weeks of natural disasters overshadowing him, and we managed to forget about Trump. For a week. Or two. Watch out for October.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:49
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glowing-fish posted:Unless it has a markedly different ecosystem and climate at the top, and presents a barrier to human transportation, animal and plant migration, and weather systems, a hill is not a mountain. Well, I knew we'd get an anti-science post quickly. Not surprised to see someone denying an earth science, but I expected climate science not geology.
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glowing-fish posted:Unless it has a markedly different ecosystem and climate at the top, and presents a barrier to human transportation, animal and plant migration, and weather systems, a hill is not a mountain. do not do this.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:49
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Mister Adequate posted:e; lol here's me pissing all over the mod's requests Being a reformed Washington fan turned Buffalo fan turned NFL ex-pat, watching everyone else come around must be what every other activated person feels like when white folk get hyped to their cause.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:51
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lol I thought the poo poo post tag was an intentional choice.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:51
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Your Boy Fancy posted:Being a reformed Washington fan turned Buffalo fan turned NFL ex-pat, watching everyone else come around must be what every other activated person feels like when white folk get hyped to their cause. Has there been any significant noise about it since it's NFL Sunday? I know people were talking about Kaepernick got signed with someone. Trabisnikof posted:lol I thought the poo poo post tag was an intentional choice. It almost was, but then I forgot completely about it later when I had decided that it wasn't a good look, even if likely accurate.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:54
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Ground floor on USPol. Anyway, godspeed to the city that gets Amazon HQ2.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:54
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Mister Adequate posted:e; lol here's me pissing all over the mod's requests Given what we know about concussions and how it destroys the mind and body of players maybe we just skip the foreplay and go back to gladiatorial blood sport? Also watching mostly minority men destroy themselves for the entertainment of the masses and the enrichment of the already rich is pretty much America.txt.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:54
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seiferguy posted:Ground floor on USPol. my money is on toronto
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Sep 11, 2017 03:55
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boner confessor posted:my money is on toronto Gonna be Indy. The state will then becomes Amazon Prime State and no one here will notice or care.
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Sep 11, 2017 03:59
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R. Guyovich posted:do not do this. To a communist, the existence of mountains is an affront. Although they claim to be "dialectical materialists", communists are afraid fo the material world, because their entire world is based on hoping desperately that the social and economic system of Germany in the 1840s, as viewed by two guys in their 20s who had just gone to college, is the ultimate form of reality. Communists reify (outdated) social systems as the only form of reality. The existence of an outside world with its own rules, its own being that is not part of their carefully tailored social theories, rightfully discomfits them.
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Sep 11, 2017 04:00
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How about I remove the mountaintop from your loving face
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Sep 11, 2017 04:03
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Nick Soapdish posted:Gonna be Indy. The state will then becomes Amazon Prime State and no one here will notice or care. who is governor now that pence is gone? the big thing about state governments and attracting business now is that it's a question of if they can afford to shovel subsidies at the private firm, and are they willing to toe the liberal line on minority rights? when the trans bills and bathroom laws were going across the south there was a large amount of pressure in georgia to pass a similar law but it got shut down at the state level because major corporate players like delta, coca-cola, and the growing film industry in and around atlanta told governor deal to knock it off. because of that indiana, north carolina etc. may not be credible players to attract a big fish like amazon for a while
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Sep 11, 2017 04:04
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Office Pig posted:How about I remove the mountaintop from your loving face Hey, MTR is bad enough I wouldn't wish that on my worst foe. 
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Sep 11, 2017 04:06
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Before we really get going, I'd like to say a prayer of thanks to 8BS for projectile vomiting in the trump thread so hard that it splashed on guyovich's shoes, and he used a tissue to wipe them off and discarded the tissue and that became the new USPOL thread. Amen.
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Sep 11, 2017 04:08
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:Before we really get going, I'd like to say a prayer of thanks to 8BS for projectile vomiting in the trump thread so hard that it splashed on guyovich's shoes, and he used a tissue to wipe them off and discarded the tissue and that became the new USPOL thread. God works in truly mysterious ways.
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Oh poo poo uspol. 8-bit savant is so bad he re-created uspol with his ignorance.
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