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Solid Sonic posted...

I've seen several stories of fresh graduates who are new to the job market who were grateful for the ACA providing them a health care option after college.

Yeah; the ACA's provision allowing those under 26 to stay on their parents' insurance is why I have health insurance.
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2012: Stein
2016: Stein

lol NY
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SSJ-JohnLennon posted...

Lightsasori posted...

I threw away my vote by voting third party because Hilary and Trump are both terrible picks.

How was Trump a terrible pick?

He can't speak in complete sentences, and, given his ignorance on every issue of policy, has given the real power to cretins like Paul Ryan and the neocons in DC. If you voted for Trump thinking he'd change Washington, you're nothing but a cuck who now has to watch Mitch McConnel fuck your wife.
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eston posted...

I'm pretty sure that's illegal

Correct!
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https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/889917229579608064
https://twitter.com/desiderioDC/status/889917508609814532

There's no reason why they should do this
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TC, Trump deupd u
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The Mandela Effect strikes again
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bump
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TroutPaste posted...

Trials is BMX, I think

It's like, a motorcycle platforming game. There's a level editor, but I found it very complicated and hard to use. It was one of the two games I got with my Xbox One, and I haven't played it any probably since the first month.
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baba yetu owns

Also didn't Civ IV have "The People Are the Heroes now"?
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Santorin posted...

Confirmed with no source?

https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/889813756225753092
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Phantom_Nook posted...

I'm surprised Breitbart is posting something like this.

Say what you will about Breitbart, but I think they're fairly ideologically consistent, and here Sessions comes closer to their beliefs than Trump.
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Can't you guys just link to the last topic instead of arguing in a new one?
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https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/889835061511573505
https://twitter.com/codykeenan/status/889656526453055489

Just baffling misunderstandings of who John McCain actually is
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His career as a legislator is one of being wrong basically every god damn time. And yet people persist with the idea that he's some noble statesman with principles that aren't just "whatever the GOP is saying today."
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I think he's talking about the war on terror.
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Swiftkey
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/04/obama.schools/
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You shouldn't trust most things with nipples.
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Complete_idi0t
Vegy
Pinky? idk, board used to be more entertaining than it is now
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Slave labor
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The criminalization of marijuana
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Anteaterking posted...

Every person that replied has like...seven tweets in a row.

Trump's replies bring out a weird subset of liberal Twitter, who view themselves as part stand-up comic and part "that guy who gave the 'have you no decency, sir?' speech to Joe McCarthy"
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This topic has far too many posts given that it started with a two-frame comic.
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The phrase "politics makes strange bedfellows" comes to mind. Political parties anywhere are coalitions between people who don't agree on every last issue. This is especially true in the U.S., where the two party system has created a pair of "big tent" parties. You can't achieve power in the U.S. without a sizable chunk of the population (usually a majority, but...), and this means getting people who perhaps disagree strongly on one issue onto the same side.

Those on the right are very keen to point out the seeming incongruity of the Democratic Party as a home for both LGBT people and Muslims, who elsewhere are notably against homosexuality.

Likewise, Donald Trump has the support of both conservatives like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnel, who avowedly support Israel, and Richard Spencer and David Duke, who say things like this:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/david-duke-trump-makes-hitler-great-again
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/us/alt-right-salutes-donald-trump.html

It's weird that these ideologies coexist! And it should be noted that the former group of ideological conservatives has significantly more power and numbers within the GOP than these nationalist provocateurs, who have gotten more media attention than they rightly deserve.
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Transcendentia posted...

lmao well then you made this topic for nothing

I guess so. No different from all the rest, in that department.
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Transcendentia posted...

see? @Antifar

Where is he wrong, though? Republicans have spent the past six months going along with a guy who can't speak sentences, and their agenda would push millions off of health insurance. I disagree with him in the idea that that is Trump's agenda; it's just republican orthodoxy.
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Transcendentia posted...

then you folks on the left should stop calling conservatives members of the alt right just because they're conservatives

I can agree with that, yes, but I think that a lot of time people being given that label deserve it and claim it for themselves.
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@Transcendentia Saw that your topic got closed, and I'm bored so I figured I'd answer your questions.

(for those dropping in: https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/400-current-events/75596757?page=5)

How come you were dishonest with your quote, by the way? When you posted their platform. You quoted just a little sentence without sharing the entire block. If anything, the anti-Israel position they have is more leftist than it is right.

I don't think I was being dishonest with what I cited, which was this: https://www.tradworker.org/platform/

The organized Jewish community’s record of deceit, duplicity, and double-standards in lobbying against American interests within the American political system is unmatched.

Not all opposition to Israel is anti-semitic; I singled out this sentence because it clearly is, in my view. The idea that Jews are outsiders within their countries, working to undermine them, is a longstanding anti-Semitic trope. It goes back to before Nazi Germany, I'm sure, but it would not have been out of place there. In a discussion about whether these folks are Nazis, this was, I felt, the most compelling evidence.

Opposition to Israel is very common on the left generally owing to solidarity with the Palestinean people. There are, yes, anti-Semites on the left, but to the extent that the Left is a coherent entity, it is anti-Zionist because it views Israel as a state of settlers, who have occupied Palestinean land and forced them to live as second-class citizens under a state that regularly violates their human rights. The TWP's platform makes no mention of Palestine; its opposition to Israel is rooted in American nationalism, not leftism.

I also considered citing this bit:

The State of Israel has a large and powerful Jewish population in America, many of whom are more loyal to Israel than they are to America.

Again, the idea of Jews as unloyal traitors is here, and I cannot agree with that, even if, for other reasons, I would tend to support US policies that are less favorable to Israel.

The entire block is certainly not a conservative position by any means.

That's because they aren't conservatives! They're nationalists. Alt-righters. There are areas of overlap between the ideologies, but they have different names in part because they are different things. This is one area of disagreement. (It's not even something nationalists all agree on! Some are quite happy with the idea of Jews having a state to call their own, much as they want whites to, or they support Israel as a common ally against Muslims and the Arab world, though they have issues with Jews too.) Conservatives in the US, for the most part (and many Liberals), are staunch supporters of Israel.
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DezCaughtIt posted...

14 going on 87

The reverse of Steve Buscemi saying "how do you do, fellow kids?"
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buddyboigiru posted...

The thumbnail of that video makes me want to die.
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How did a topic about private companies offering less for the same price turn into a discussion of political parties?
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They just don't know what.
https://twitter.com/sangerkatz/status/889600644138639360
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https://twitter.com/steventdennis/status/889586587440472065
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eston posted...

If I were McCain I'd say screw all you guys and resign immediately

No need to spend his last days dealing with this shit

This is what makes McCain happiest in life, though.
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Muffinz0rz posted...

So the people bitching about privatized prison labor don't have much of a leg to stand on, yes?

Prison labor is not unconstitutional. Those complaining about it usually argue that it is morally abhorrent.
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https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/889582280833892353
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Sgt. Pepper has 13 songs

some of them are good, I guess
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Consider me unimpressed:
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MetaSeraphim posted...

Are you talking about their online store? Because their online store price matches with Amazon so if Amazon has it discounted so will Walmart.

yeah, the online store. But Amazon lists it at full price (I know they have deals if you have Prime, but)
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@chill02
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I ask because you can get Forza 7 for just $43 on their site right now. Ultimate edition is just $78 (as opposed to $100).
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https://twitter.com/jennifershutt/status/889538408388939777

Can't imagine why
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Combined.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2017/07/24/does-the-opening-predict-a-wave/

Congressional candidates filed their six-month financial reports with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on July 15. But the one number that leapt off the page had little to do with finance. It immediately made me think about wave elections.

The candidates were raising money, of course—especially the incumbents. (Detailed six-month tables for 2003-2017 are available at this link.) Yet, we should not to make too much of the receipts at this stage. The typical winner in House elections spends about $1.5 million, so there is still a lot of fundraising left, and plenty of time to do it.

The numbers that stood out were for the challengers. Molly Reynolds wrote an earlier piece about the importance of candidate recruitment. The FEC filings confirm those early accounts, and then some.

As of the end of June, 209 Democratic challengers had registered with the FEC and raised at least $5,000. That more than doubled the previous high mark since 2003. In 2009, the Republicans had 78 challengers with at least $5,000. The early GOP challengers in 2009 foreshadowed the party’s regaining majority control. The question is whether the same will hold true for the Democrats in 2018.

https://i0.wp.com/www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/gs_20170721_6m-house-challengers_2003-20172.png?w=768&crop=0%2C0px%2C100%2C9999px&ssl=1

Make of this info what you will.
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_Near_ posted...

The big beer companies make up a substantial amount of the market, so when millennials refuse to buy those, the overall market is going to go down. What the article misses is that it's not millennials disliking beer - it's millennials disliking shitty big beer products and going for craft and microbrews.

The article notes lowered expectations for Sam Adams.
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https://www.themarshallproject.org/2017/07/21/how-fake-cops-got-1-2-million-in-real-weapons#.4GkxByp9y

When you think of a federal sting operation involving weaponry and military gear, the Government Accountability Office doesn’t immediately jump to mind. The office is tasked with auditing other federal agencies to root out fraud and abuse, usually by asking questions and poring over paperwork.

This year, the agency went a little more cowboy. The GAO created a fictitious law enforcement agency — complete with a fake website and a bogus address that traced back to an empty lot — and applied for military-grade equipment from the Department of Defense. And in less than a week, they got it.

A GAO report issued this week says the agency’s faux cops were able to obtain $1.2 million worth of military gear, including night-vision goggles, simulated M-16A2 rifles and pipe bomb equipment from the Defense Department’s 1033 program, which supplies state and local law enforcement with excess materiel. The rifles and bomb equipment could have been made functional with widely available parts, the report said.

“They never did any verification, like visit our ‘location,’ and most of it was by email,” said Zina Merritt, director of the GAO’s defense capabilities and management team, which ran the operation. “It was like getting stuff off of eBay.”

In its response to the sting, the Defense Department promised to tighten its verification procedures, including trying to visit the location of law enforcement agencies that apply and making sure agents picking up supplies have valid identification, the GAO report said. The department also promised to do an internal fraud assessment by April 2018. A Defense Department spokesman declined to comment further.

The sting operation has its roots in the 2014 fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. At the time, many were surprised to see law enforcement respond to protests with armored trucks, sniper rifles, tear-gas bombs and other weapons of war.

Reporting by The Marshall Project and others found that much of the equipment came from the obscure 1033 program, which dates back to the Clinton era. Any equipment the U.S. military was not using — including Humvees, grenades, scuba-diving gear and even marching-band instruments — was available to local cops who could demonstrate a need. The program has transferred more than $6 billion worth of supplies to more than 8,600 law enforcement agencies since 1991.

After Ferguson, then-President Barack Obama issued an executive order prohibiting the military from giving away some equipment and deeming other equipment “controlled,” establishing strict oversight and training requirements for law enforcement agencies that wanted it. The order also required a Defense Department and Justice Department working group to ensure oversight.

But since President Donald Trump took office, the group has not met, according to the Constitution Project, a bipartisan thinktank that had been participating in the meetings. Trump has said that he will revoke Obama’s executive order, although he has not yet.

Congress ordered the GAO to look into the program last year. A survey of local law enforcement did not turn up any instances of outright abuse at the state level but did find one illegitimate agency that had applied as a federal entity and was approved for equipment, Merritt said.

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k darkfire posted...

Why should I do that when I can just fire them and replace them the next day?

You can fire and replace your bosses?
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k darkfire posted...

I'm a Manager working for a beer job. I understand I cam replaceable and my job is dependent upon the company. I don't cry or complain my hours get cut or I'm underpaid or overworked.

If you did, you'd get better results. Organizing works.
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The beer industry, apparently

http://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-are-killing-beer-2017-7
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k darkfire posted...

I don't see western shit in Japan or the ME.

The modern middle east is deeply influenced and impacted by the West
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