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QuantumScript posted...

Why do you want them to be launching anything in the first place?

I don't necessarily want them doing test launches

But their test launches have shown that they aren't a threat.
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QuantumScript posted...

Are you really willing to see what they do with long range nuclear weapons?

Haven't they kinda shown us what they do with them? Namely, botch their launches?
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QuantumScript posted...

They are in no position to be trusted with nukes.

65 years, they haven't done shit.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-seeks-15-percent-corporate-tax-rate-even-if-it-swells-the-national-debt/2017/04/24/0c78a35c-2923-11e7-be51-b3fc6ff7faee_story.html
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Freeze peach
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pikachupwnage posted...

University's need to stop agreeing to pay so fucking much for this shit.

This isn't a university, it's a bond trading firm
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Isn't the belief that they already have nuclear weapons? They're like two feet from the capital of the country they've been technically at war with for 65 years.

Like, NK from all appearances seems to be tyrannical towards its own people, and the regime is bad.

But I'm unconvinced that they pose a threat that currently requires pre-emptive military action.
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QuantumScript posted...

Haha you really don't see a problem with NK having nukes?

Do you think they are likely to use one? If so, why do you believe that?
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http://thehill.com/homenews/news/330337-obama-to-net-400k-for-wall-street-speech-report

Former President Barack Obama has agreed to speak at a Wall Street conference for $400,000, according to a new report.

Obama will appear at Cantor Fitzgerald LP’s healthcare conference in September, Fox Business Network first reported Monday.

Fox Business said it confirmed Obama’s appearance with senior people at Cantor, a financial services firm.

Obama will serve as the keynote speaker for one day at the company's event, sources there told Fox Business.
The network's sources said Obama has signed a contract for the speech with the mid-size investment bank in New York.

Cantor is waiting to coordinate with Obama before making a formal announcement, it continued.

Obama can reportedly back out of the arrangement if scheduling conflicts or other concerns arise, it added.

The former president’s reported speaking fee is nearly twice the price commanded by Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee.

Obama reappeared on the public stage Monday, making his first public remarks since leaving the White House at the future site of his presidential library.

The former president did not mention President Trump or political commentary during his appearance at the University of Chicago.

“There’s a reason why I am always optimistic, even when things look like they are sometimes not going the way I want,” he said at a roundtable about youth participation in civic life. “And that’s because of young people like this.”

Obama’s remarks came just days before his successor reaches his 100th day in office.

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QuantumScript posted...

are you trying to deflect from North Korea having nukes by saying that "America has a ton of nukes therefore North Korea should have some too"?

What is the crime, exactly?
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How many nukes do we have?
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Society: You need money to live
Also society: no, don't just ask people for it, what the fuck is wrong with you?
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A bipolar amputee who was sexually assaulted as a child and now requires a wheelchair
https://twitter.com/helenprejean/status/856653690006110208
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Who would make you post on GameFAQS at gunpoint?
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Kim Jong Un is bad

Also, I've seen this movie enough times before to know that U.S. military intervention is not the right response.
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I know TC is joking, but there are people who think this way.
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You'll regret it more if you don't do it, I think
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I'm not a sixteen-year-old trying to justify my love of dadrock and my sneering superiority complex over the tastes of my peers.
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TheGreatNoodles posted...

Politics aside, radical means wanting change to happen fast and majorly. The actual roots of leftwing/rightwing has leftwing as the "radical" side of things. This isn't any commentary upon actual American pollies or parties, but that it's hard to imagine a rightwing terrorist.

Sure, the person who committed the act might have 'rightwing' political stances. But the belief that change can be done radically is leftwing.

This is not as true as you think. Conservatives are just fine with change, and even radical change, as long as it's in a direction they support.
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bumpin
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They are very distracting

*bane voice*

for you
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Toxic masculinity
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That is my opinion
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Read beyond the headline:

Since this story was first published, that message has been updated to read: "The data on this Web site will continue to be available on April 28, 2017". The EPA also tweeted to say that the website wasn't going anywhere and that it is "open, working and not going anywhere", though it seemed to be experiencing occasional outages.

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It'd be like describing a statue built today as "Bush-era."
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wah_wah_wah posted...

The article says the statues honor leading Confederate figures.

This statue, the one that was removed today, honors race rioters.
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glitteringfairy posted...

So the black people rioted?

No; white people rioted in an attempt to overthrow the elected government

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Liberty_Place

The Battle of Liberty Place, or Battle of Canal Street, was an attempted insurrection by the Crescent City White League against the Reconstruction Louisiana state government on September 14, 1874, in New Orleans, where the capital of Louisiana was at that time. Five thousand members of the White League, a paramilitary organization of the Democratic Party, made up largely of Confederate veterans, fought against the outnumbered Metropolitan Police and state militia. The insurgents held the statehouse, armory, and downtown for three days, retreating before arrival of Federal troops that restored the elected government. No insurgents were charged in the action. This was the last major event of violence stemming from the disputed 1872 gubernatorial election, after which Democrat John McEnery and Republican William Pitt Kellogg both claimed victory.
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In an earlier violent incident related to the disputed election, in April 1873 the Colfax massacre occurred at the courthouse in Grant Parish, when a white militia attacked freedmen defending appointed Republican officeholders. This action was also related to political tensions between Democratic whites and Republican blacks. In Colfax, three whites and a total of 150 blacks were killed, at least 50 of the latter after having been taken prisoner.

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To be clear, I'm not quite sure why they label this a "Confederate" monument. It honors a race riot nine years after the civil war ended because Democrats wanted to reinstate white supremacy.
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Marklar posted...

Ah yes, regressives.

This statue once had this inscription:

"[Democrats] McEnery and Penny having been elected governor and lieutenant-governor by the white people, were duly installed by this overthrow of carpetbag government, ousting the usurpers, Governor Kellogg (white) and Lieutenant-Governor Antoine (colored).
United States troops took over the state government and reinstated the usurpers but the national election of November 1876 recognized white supremacy in the South and gave us our state."

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https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2017-04-24/apnewsbreak-new-orleans-to-take-down-confederate-statues

Workers in New Orleans removed the first of four prominent Confederate monuments Monday morning, becoming the latest Southern institution to sever itself from symbols viewed by many as a representation racism and white supremacy.

The Liberty Place monument, which commemorates whites who tried to topple a biracial post-Civil War government in New Orleans, was taken away on a truck in pieces around 5:35 a.m. after a few hours of work.

The removal happened early in the morning in an attempt to avoid disruption from supporters who want the monuments to stay, some of whom city officials said have made death threats.

Workers who took the monument down Monday could be seen wearing bulletproof vests, military-style helmets and scarves that obscured their faces. Police were also on hand, including officers who watched the area from atop the parking garage of a nearby hotel.

Three other statues to Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard and Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis will be removed in later days now that legal challenges have been overcome.

"There's a better way to use the property these monuments are on and a way that better reflects who we are," New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in an interview Sunday with The Associated Press.

Nationally, the debate over Confederate symbols has become heated since nine parishioners were killed at a black church in South Carolina in June 2015. South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from its statehouse grounds in the weeks after, and several Southern cities have since considered removing monuments. The University of Mississippi took down its state flag because it includes the Confederate emblem.

New Orleans is a majority African-American city although the number of black residents has fallen since 2005's Hurricane Katrina drove many people from the city.

The majority black City Council in 2015 voted 6-1 to approve plans to take the statues down, but legal battles over their fate have prevented the removal until now, said Landrieu, who proposed the monuments' removal and rode to victory twice with overwhelming support from the city's black residents.

People who want the Confederate memorials removed say they are offensive artifacts honoring the region's slave-owning past. But others call the monuments part of the city's history and say they should be protected historic structures.

Robert Bonner, 63, who said he is a Civil War re-enactor, was there to protest the statue's removal.

"I think it's a terrible thing," he said. "When you start removing the history of the city, you start losing money. You start losing where you came from and where you've been."

Since officials announced the removals, contractors hired by the city have faced death threats and intimidation in this deep South city where passions about the Civil War still run deep.

Landrieu refused to say who the city would be using to remove the statues because of the intimidation attempts. And the removal will begin at night to ensure police can secure the sites to protect workers, and to ease the burden on traffic for people who live and work in the city, Landrieu said.

"All of what we will do in the next days will be designed to make sure that we protect everybody, that the workers are safe, the folks around the monuments are safe and that nobody gets hurt," Landrieu said.

Landrieu said the memorials don't represent his city as it approaches its 300th anniversary next year. The mayor said the city would remove the monuments, store them and preserve them until an "appropriate" place to display them is determined.

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No, you're thinking of wrestling
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Those with the power to impeach him have no desire to do so.
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Yeah, that's probably the worst possible solution
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/04/20/state-democrats-roiled-resolution-opposing-israeli-settlements/c6x4BfAyfDHjNHgU4TlQzN/story.html

State Democratic Party heavyweights are sounding a red alert against a provocative proposal for their state committee to declare opposition to Israeli settlements in the West Bank without specifically mentioning Palestinian violence, a step some top leaders fear would lead to an exodus of Democratic voters.

If approved, a resolution offered by Carol Coakley of Millis, an 18-year member of the Democratic State Committee, would put the state party on record “that Israel’s settlements in the occupied West Bank are obstacles to peace.”

It would call on the state’s 11-member congressional delegation — all Democrats — “to clearly express their opposition to Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, in pursuit of a negotiated peace.”

But former state treasurer Steve Grossman and other Democratic leaders are sounding the alarm, and hoping to derail it before the effort could go before the full Democratic State Committee next week.

Grossman, the former chairman of both the state and national Democratic parties, as well the one-time head of the pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee, said the resolution, if successful, could gravely damage Democrats politically.

He said it feeds a “one-sided blame game,” which is playing out across college campuses and in pockets of the “progressive wing of the Democratic Party,” and would send a disturbing message to many Democratic activists.

“A lot of people would read about it and would read the language and say: ‘Frankly, that’s the last straw. This is not a place I feel comfortable any longer,’ ” Grossman said.

“Many would see it as an attempt to drive a rhetorical stake through Israel’s heart and lay the blame — not part of the blame, but virtually the exclusive blame — for the failure of the peace process at Israel’s door, to the exclusion of any responsibility by Palestinians,” he said.

Coakley, in an interview with the Globe, said she was inspired to propose the resolution in part by the anti-Islamic sentiment stirred up by the 2016 presidential election.

Her resolution quotes from the State Department under former president Barack Obama, which at one point last year described settlement activity as “corrosive to the cause of peace.”

“There’s a much better chance to get to some negotiations if they stop building settlements,” Coakley said.

Israeli settlements in the West Bank have grown under every Israeli government over the past 50 years, despite international opposition, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently announced construction of 5,500 new houses.

In February President Trump told an Israeli newspaper that settlements “don’t help the process” and that he didn’t believe “going forward with these settlements is a good thing for peace.”

Coakley acknowledged there has been “a fair amount” of pushback from Democrats who think the resolution would alienate supporters.
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Cole Harrison, the executive director of Massachusetts Peace Action and a Democratic activist, testified Wednesday in favor of Coakley’s resolution, which he said has been repeatedly delayed by the party.

Grossman’s warnings, he said, are “just scare tactics.”

“This resolution targets a hypocrisy in the position of the national Democratic Party — let’s call it the Hillary-wing of the party — which says it supports a two-state solution, but gives huge aid and backing to Israel and very little to Palestinians,” Harrison said.

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Some suggestions:

Steep
Life is Strange (if you haven't already)
Dragon Age
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The AI is a little more aggressive than in 16, thank god. Still can be kinda frustrating trying to get the ball back, but I think it's less so than last year

Anyways, which of these two goals of mine do you like better
https://streamable.com/xese9
https://streamable.com/jkka5

That second one was so satisfying
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/dhs-secretary-john-kelly-on-homegrown-terror-i-dont-know-how-to-stop-that/

I actually think this is a sort of a refreshing answer? I think the idea that anyone has a foolproof solution for a matter as complex as this one is a bit silly. "I don't know" is a better answer here than "we're going to up surveillance and policing tactics," which is the usual governmental response to issues of terror.

On some issues, there's just nothing the government can do
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I think there was a time and place for a candidate like Hillary. She's by no means a good campaigner, but in a lot of years that wouldn't have mattered and she'd have won regardless. She'd probably have kicked McCain's ass had she won the primaries in 08.

But in 2016 I think her flaws were uniquely ill-suited to the moment at hand.
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Microwaved_Eggs posted...

what is it about

Guess.
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What do streamers provide that you enjoy?

I'm trying to ask those questions without sounding snarky; I'm genuinely curious here
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I'm much more inclined to post pictures on Instagram than FB. Not sure why that is.
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Yeah, Debs and co did pretty well in the Western plains states. IIRC Oklahoma is where he got his highest percentage of votes.
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The whole article is long, I only pasted what I could fit and what I thought was most illustrative of the point
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Keep moving forward would have been a perfectly fine line.
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https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/04/how-liberals-fell-in-love-with-the-west-wing

The West Wing aspires to more than simply visual verisimilitude. Breaking with the cynicism or amoralism characteristic of many dramas about politics, it offers a vision of political institutions which is ultimately affirmative and approving. What we see throughout its seven seasons are Democrats governing as Democrats imagine they govern, with the Bartlet Administration standing in for liberalism as liberalism understands itself.

More than simply a fictional account of an idealized liberal presidency, then, The West Wing is an elaborate fantasia founded upon the shibboleths that sustain Beltway liberalism and the milieu that produced them.
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But promoting or endorsing any specific policy orientation is not the show’s true raison d’être. At the conclusion of its seven seasons it remains unclear if the Bartlet administration has succeeded at all in fundamentally altering the contours of American life. In fact, after two terms in the White House, Bartlet’s gang of hyper-educated, hyper-competent politicos do not seem to have any transformational policy achievements whatsoever. Even in their most unconstrained and idealized political fantasies, liberals manage to accomplish nothing.
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Despite its relatively thin ideological commitments, there is a general tenor to the West Wing universe that cannot be called anything other than smug.

It’s a smugness born of the view that politics is less a terrain of clashing values and interests than a perpetual pitting of the clever against the ignorant and obtuse. The clever wield facts and reason, while the foolish cling to effortlessly-exposed fictions and the braying prejudices of provincial rubes. In emphasizing intelligence over ideology, what follows is a fetishization of “elevated discourse” regardless of its actual outcomes or conclusions. The greatest political victories involve semantically dismantling an opponent’s argument or exposing its hypocrisy, usually by way of some grand rhetorical gesture.
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Thus Bartlet Democrats do not see Republicans as the “enemy,” except to the extent that they are rude or insufficiently respectful of the rules of political decorum. In one Season 5 plot, the administration opts to install a Ruth Bader Ginsburg clone (Glenn Close) as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The price it pays—willingly, as it turns out—is giving the other vacancy to an ultra-conservative justice, for the sole reason that Bartlet’s staff find their amiable squabbling stimulating.
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But if anything gives that worldview pause, it should be the events of the past eight years. Liberals got a real life Josiah Bartlet in the figure of Barack Obama, a charismatic and stylish politician elected on a populist wave. But Obama’s soaring speeches, quintessentially presidential affect, and deference to procedure did little to fundamentally improve the country or prevent his Republican rivals from storming the Congressional barricades at their first opportunity. Confronted by a mercurial TV personality bent on transgressing every norm and truism of Beltway thinking, Democrats responded by exhaustively informing voters of his indecency and hypocrisy, attempting to destroy him countless times with his own logic, but ultimately leaving him completely intact. They smugly taxonomized as “smart” and “dumb” the very electorate they needed to win over, and retreated into an ideological fever dream in which political success doesn’t come from organizing and building power, but from having the most polished arguments and the most detailed policy statements. If you can just crush Trump in the debates, as Bartlet did to Richie, then you’ve won.

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TheFuzz3451 posted...

Dear god that's straight out of a sitcom, if it's true

Veep, not House of Cards or the West Wing, is the most accurate show about politics.
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Doom_Art posted...

Wonder what their sex is like?

They're French, so my natural assumption is that there's some deeply perverted stuff there.

But also Macron seems very boring.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1416262/Court-refuses-trial-by-combat.html

A court has rejected a 60-year-old man's attempt to invoke the ancient right to trial by combat, rather than pay a £25 fine for a minor motoring offence.

Leon Humphreys remained adamant yesterday that his right to fight a champion nominated by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) was still valid under European human rights legislation. He said it would have been a "reasonable" way to settle the matter.

Magistrates sitting at Bury St Edmunds on Friday had disagreed and instead of accepting his offer to take on a clerk from Swansea with "samurai swords, Ghurka knives or heavy hammers", fined him £200 with £100 costs.

Here we see the cowardice of the state on full display. Unwilling to accept the challenge of a 60-year-old man, smh.

This story is from 2002, but it is funny, and I have not come across it before.
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chill02 posted...

is there a tl;dr version of how french elections work in this topic?

If no candidate gets 50% in the first round (which is basically always the case given the number of candidates/parties) there is run-off two weeks later with just the top two candidates. Le Pen and Macron will be in the runoff

Also, like the US, the presidency and legislature are determined separately, so the influence of whoever wins will depend on who holds power in parliament. Neither Le Pen nor Macron represents a traditional party that holds a lot of legislative seats currently. Those elections aren't until June.
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