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RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Oh good, I was hoping for this. Not a chance of following a dnd/cspam thread right now, I don't want to be that tuned in.

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RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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MazelTovCocktail posted:

That or he’s still going to rule for them and wanted to appear to not be a totally transparent piece of poo poo.

This is my wager. That "uphill battle" is going to be up a 5° incline

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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not caring here posted:

That 5 degrees might be a bridge to far. What can you come up with as an "evil reason"? Democracy? Not wanting people to die?

It's like that joke about the dude praying to god to let him win the lottery repeatedly, with god eventually coming down and saying to meet him half way by actually buying a ticket.

Yeah. I think the judge would probably accept ANYTHING that remotely smelled plausible, but its a matter of coming up with even that small bit.

E: I'm sure everyone involved is looking at what retaliation is going to look like, and thats scary in Texas where people looked at me weird for NOT having a gun in the console of my car

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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MazelTovCocktail posted:

Holy poo poo that’s cool. Actually I randomly game across Norm Koger on Facebook in a war games group...and I fanboyed it. lol

This is cute af lol

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Fallom posted:

I think/hope that Trump not having a clear enough lead on election night has derailed any plan to meaningfully contest the results. It’d be a different story if we saw a Trump blowout yesterday that got eroded by mail-in counts.

This small Biden lead is what I kept seeing people predict as the worst case, because it allows Trump to scream that the election was stolen and that his second amendment followers need to do something about it. A blowout would have been best, and a Trump win would be bad long term, but short term a narrow Biden victory might be the worst

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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not caring here posted:

I think this may be offset somewhat by the Dejoy bullshit.

It's hard to claim the election was stolen when it's coming out that your side cheated and still hosed it all up.

You assume his followers know and care. He has already spun then on him cheating being a good thing(see the whole but during 2016 about him smugly saying he doesn't pay taxes because of loopholes, and it just means hess smart)

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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not caring here posted:

True, but I get the feeling the hardcore nut jobs overt actions and fed or starved by those around them. And when no one is really getting excited, they lose momentum.

And really I think a lot of people that voted for him are probably at least a little thankful that the rollercoaster is nearly over.

You aren't entirely wrong, but there is a big base of radicalized chuds who get fed and reinforced on the internet. Last time I looked, 55 mil had voted for him(I haven't looked at numbers since last night). If only a tenth of a percent end up being crazy driven by his tweets and 4chan, thats still over a half a million people. That's as big as the entire union army was during the civil war.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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MazelTovCocktail posted:

:gritin:

I want to replace so many of those statues with African American heroes (civil and military), but I also want a few, beyond educational and artistic purpose, to also just remind the South who runs poo poo...forever.

Atlanta needs a 200 ft statue of Sherman standing at sea, reminding uppity white folk of their place like a smirking Statue of Liberty

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Spoggerific posted:

Fair enough. I forgot that this thread's demographic is a lot closer to my age than the "teens to early 20s" of some of the discord servers I use.

Not the thread, the site. The average age of a forums poster is in the mid to late 30s.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Acebuckeye13 posted:

Florida also passed felon reenfranchisement in 2018 while rejecting a moderate sitting senator and a progressive gubernatorial candidate

the extremely sad truth is that people while people like Democratic or even socialist policies, they seem to utterly loathe electing people who actually want to carry those policies out.

Maybe it's the people then?

Time for a new party!🎉

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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CBJSprague24 posted:

I can't comprehend why voting for the lesser of two evils is a bad thing.

Because its still endorsing evil.

Its a practical necessity tho

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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speaking of tags, where is the thread for requesting the Sherman tag? Or am I too slow?

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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As Nero Danced posted:

This is why I don't have any social media accounts

I say stupid poo poo all the time and just own it. I hosed up and said something dumb? Well poo poo, now I know its dumb, thanks!

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Defenestrategy posted:

:shrug: You don't have to tell me that, we just lived through a "Better things just aren't possible", The Election, but people should be pissed about having to do it in the first place not happy just because the Orange Man is no longer gonna be around to make things worse, especially since it'll be a miracle and a half for the rest of my fellow Atlantan's to save the countries rear end a second time.

Unless I've mistaken it for some sort of black humor "World is hosed and it aint gettin' better so may as well be happy for somethin'."

Its possible to be happy about a short term relief of pressure (and this is a relief of pressure, I am not exceeding worried about more anti-trans EOs under Biden) while still knowing the fight is far from over.

This is a tiny victory, but it is still a victory that has slightly diverted the landslide of poo poo.

Victory dance can't last forever tho

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Best Friends posted:

I'm confident he can turn being absolutely worshipped by 70mil + people into a profitable endeavor if he hasn't already

Didn't he just sell his personal chopper, despite constant and increasingly desperate please to his base for more money?

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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RFC2324 posted:

Didn't he just sell his personal chopper, despite constant and increasingly desperate please to his base for more money?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/douggollan/2020/11/08/president-trumps-helicopter-is-for-sale-make-an-offer/

Selling one of three, so not quite as big as it sounds, but still a signifier

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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CommieGIR posted:

Fully expect the other two to go up for sale soon.

If there's one thing Trump's good at, its making money evaporate.

Also the 757. He is probably going to try to keep at least one far too long out of vanity

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Mr. Nice! posted:

Correct, and that plague would have been sorted out with some basic antibiotics. Instead, the black plague rawdogged Europe until about the only people left had a genetic resistance/immunity to the bacteria.

Fun fact, the bubonic plague is endemic in New Mexico and Colorado by way of the prairie dogs everywhere. One of my exes learned the hard way not to joke about having the plague when she accidentally triggered a minor panic in the ER

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Neat, a DuckDuckGo tracking link. So much for them not tracking you like google does

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Qtotonibudinibudet posted:

this sure is one hell of a time to consider switching jobs to work for the (far reaches of) US government. goddamn dream job opportunity, but whyyyyyyyyyy

Yeah, I just started work for a federally funded climate change research company and it's like.... Please vote Biden so I can keep my job(and everything else)

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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I'm trans, so it's not like a Trump win isn't a disaster for me in every way

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Platystemon posted:

The president should have read the room.

He can't, he has brain problems.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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bulletsponge13 posted:

No one had a problem when Nancy was running the country and blowing the SecDef while Ronnie poo poo himself in the tub and laughed at the bubbles

https://youtu.be/nxlFMSPdcR4?si=JbaMbQJ8mEpVCssU

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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bulletsponge13 posted:

I am so glad I didn't watch this video on Ambien.

The 80s were a wild time to be a child

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Apathetic Medic posted:

Using Trump to measure worthiness lowers the bar so significantly it nullifies all criticism of a candidate. This is the guy who had to drop out of his 1988 presidential bid because of plagiarism, let Clarence Thomas slide on a workplace sexual harassment incident off of race baiting, and got put on the presidential ticket in 2020 when they used gamesmanship to put him before other viable candidates. How hard is it to understand that people are asking for a candidate that can accomplish something and also doesn't make constant gaffes. By this kind of logic most other people could stand in his place, but won't be able to because his ego is bigger than the country's future.

This dude already used up 'it's better than the alternative' in 2020. That well is dry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbKHDPPrrc

sure do wish my sense of ideological purity was bigger than the countries future, but they gonna try to literally kill me if they take power so I lack that kind of privilege.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Remember one of his original claims to fame is "YOUR FIRED!"

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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ZombieApostate posted:

Note how I said "being in public office" and not "running for public office". Campaigning on an unpopular stance indeed sounds like a stupid idea, which is why I never suggested that. Changing public perception is going to take longer than campaign season.

And ideally it would be done by the leadership who has a more national reach.

People who will do that don't make it to leadership positions. Or do you think Nancy Pelosi is playing the long game and any day now is going to reveal herself?

Some things are political poison, and you are demanding people sacrifice themselves over it

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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He just isn't used to the new weed we been growing

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Arrath posted:

Why are they holding their hands out like that? Is that a new "ai didn't deepfake this" Thing?

Thats gonna backfire hilariously because the hands issue is actually largely fixed, especially if its not a real time thing.

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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MonkeyFit posted:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/abc-news-releases-rules-sept-10-debate-harris/story?id=113019909

Debate rules got released. Same as the Biden/Trump debate. No hot mics. Trump will be last to speak, Harris chose the podium that will be on the right side of the screen.

In regards to position, is there any studied advantage to picking one podium over the other?

Seems to me that whoever is there seems to get the better swooping camera type videos, but thats entirely me trying to find a reason

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Tiny Timbs posted:

Woah she’s not debating Elon here

Or Donnie Jr

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Its just gonna keep ramping up, isn't it?

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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MonkeyFit posted:

I just pay for YouTube Premium. Way less effort and I watch enough YouTube to easily make it worth it.

Sadly, this has ended up being my solution too.

Fuxking alphabet

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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facialimpediment posted:

. Like I doubt she's even seeing the wave of transpanic ads that Donnie's airing everywhere.

This shouldn't shock me, but I know I haven't seen any.

Being in a specific demographic can rule in terms of not having tonsee poo poo lol

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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Shame media has such a problem pointing out trump's mental incompetence

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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TheKingslayer posted:

Touch grass.

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RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

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boop the snoot posted:

Maybe this is just human evolution and if we ran the simulation we would do this to ourselves 100 times out of 100.

What law is there that your species has to continuously get smarter?

None, and if the biological cost of maintaining the brain is higher than the benefits, we WILL get dumber. Its happened before to homo offshoots

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