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ssj3vegeta_ posted...

Link or screencap of dese private facebook pages? Lmao

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muchdran posted...

He was clearly incompetent with Hillary. Should have been fired a long time ago.

Exactly. It's just obvious that he was okay with him then, just not now when he's under investigation.
Luckily the FBI as a whole loved Comey and will just fuck Trump over because the judicial branch has proven it has balls unlike all of the Republicans in congress.
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Mal_Fet posted...

Reminder: Obamacare passed thanks to Al Franken getting elected by a margin way less than the amount of proven to be fraudelent votes.

:)

I also blame Democrats for being dicks taking single-payer out of Obamacare, if it helps.
It's just that I'd rather be fighting Democrats to go further left than fighting Republicans to accept reality.
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BLAKUboy posted...

It seems like it might be leading to taking down corrupt politicians across the board though. So there's that at least.

Funny if the DNC hack is forgotten because of the GOP accepting Russian money is even worse
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Trump just announced a commission to examine voter fraud. The only problem with that is there is virtually no voter fraud in this country. -- https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/862731623095259139
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/us/politics/trump-comey-firing.html

r. Trump again said to Mr. Comey that he needed his loyalty.

Mr. Comey replied that he would give him “honesty” and did not pledge his loyalty.

Seems pretty fucking obvious what's happening. If Trump did less fascist dictator stuff, then we'd stop calling him one.
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https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-takes-legal-action-over-trump-election-commission-executive-order

Kris Kobach, vice chair of the commission, has been sued by the ACLU for voter suppression 4 times, and the ACLU has won every time.
It seems pretty obvious at this point that the Republicans are moving to consolidate power without regard to democratic purpose.
Good thing the ACLU is already taking action, but this is just more of the Justice System attacking him

Fuck voter suppression

It's obvious that and gerrymandering are the only reason we still have Republican control
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FBI confirms activity in Annapolis: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/anne-arundel/ph-ac-cn-fbi-raid-0512-20170511-story.html

And is searching there for GOP money laundering: http://www.wbaltv.com/article/fbi-searching-annapolis-fundraiserconsulting-firm/9639787
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2017/05/11/fbi-investigation-annapolis/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/fbi-searches-republican-political-consulting-firm-in-annapolis/2017/05/11/43949a9e-367a-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.be3bbdd108d6
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/332991-fbi-raids-office-of-gop-consulting-firm-in-maryland

FBI agents change their Facebook profile photos to James Comey – a gesture normally reserved for slain colleagues: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fbi-agents-james-comey-change-profile-photos-a7730496.html

FBI to continue Trump-Russia probe but will not update White House, Acting FBI Director announces: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-russia-probe-continue-no-white-house-updates-fbi-director-hearing-a7730856.html

Donald Trump fired James Comey because 'he refused to end Russia investigation', say multiple FBI insiders: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/donald-trump-james-comey-firing-russia-investigation-refuse-end-fbi-insiders-director-hillary-a7729691.html
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Southernfatman posted...

I've noticed more people are getting on this hipster like "the OT sucked/sucked too" bandwagon. Not saying that there aren't people who legitimately didn't like it anyway, but it seems like there's some sort of fad (for lack of a better term) or something going on.

I'm pretty sure it's just pushback from the younger crowd who grew up with the PT against the older crowd who venerate the OT
It's Star War. The only "good" one is Empire. Everything else is a campy, Gary/Mary Stu with Deus Ex Machina out of the ass. The writing is mediocre, the acting has a few bright spots (both Obi-Wans are great) but mostly meh, and it really coasts off of Williams' great soundtrack.

They're popcorn flicks and they should be treated as such. It's just a little ridiculous to see those RLM videos longer than the movies complain about the PT, when every single fault he talks about could be applied to the OT as well.
Fans should get over it and enjoy Star Wars for the fast food of cinema that it is. It's not that the OT sucked, it's that it's not that much better than the PT.
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StealthRock posted...

not really. Because it's a stretch to say that all kids who have been spanked suffer long term damage. You can't even prove such a thing logically unless you do a controlled experiment. Lung cancer is caused by carcinogens, that are present in cigarettes. Bad analogy. Unless you're saying that any and all physical injury leads to mental damage, how can you make a claim that spanking always leads to mental damage?

Again, amazingly comprehensive study (50 years, 160000 subjects) finds strong correlation between spanking and increased defiance, mental health issues
Here is a summary article: http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1113413810/spanking-defiance-health-discipline-042616/
And here is the primer and full study as published in Journal of Family Psychology, a medical journal publication of the American Psychological Association: http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1113413810/spanking-defiance-health-discipline-042616/

You don't get to say "you can't logically prove this" when it has been done over half a century and thousands of studies
At this point you are literally saying "my own limited experiences mean more than anything else" which is dangerous and stupid
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Male circumcision and spanking children basically have the same issues when discussing it
One side quotes study after study that shows there's no reason to do it, and the other side pushes for it because "that's what happened to me and I'm going to do it to my kids because my parents aren't terrible"
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prince_leo posted...

where does everyone get acid?

__Cam__ posted...

This might sound like an ignorant question, but why is acid so readily available in these countries?

That's a helluva STP
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https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-10/california-leads-u-s-economy-away-from-trump

tl;dr: "California is the chief reason America is the only developed economy to achieve record GDP growth since the financial crisis. Much of the U.S. growth can be traced to California laws promoting clean energy, government accountability and protections for undocumented people"

I love living in the best state
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HypnoCoosh posted...

Please enlighten me. I'm listening.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/6a9pnj/cnn_exclusive_grand_jury_subpoenas_issued_in_fbis/dhdcoss/
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Let me understand this: The recommendation came from Sessions - the person who recused himself from the Russia investigation recommended firing the person in charge of the Russia investigation. Comey is also getting fired, according to Trump and Sessions, for misleading/misspeaking/lying about the Clinton email case, yet AG Sessions perjured himself to congress and gets to give the recommendations to fire Come?
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Attempt at an analogy --

Everyone pretty much accepts that libraries are independent/completely non-political. All kinds of books are there.
But what if libraries were able to make deals with certain publishers/authors that would give those publishers advantages?

Now, obviously most public libraries are free, but setting that aside, can you imagine if libraries took a small annual fee for every page you read and you could not go over say 2,000 pages in a month?
BUT - for whatever reason - books by Stephen King did not count against that 2,000 page limit.

It sounds pretty fucking absurd, right? It's mainly because of greed we're in this situation.
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ChromaticAngel posted...

Please stop with this nonsense solutions that require cooperation from the Palestinians. They will not accept any solution in which Israel is allowed to continue existing. They will not cooperate with it. I get that you like hippy loving kiss and make up politics but it won't fucking work in the real world.

That would be because they are fed a lot of propaganda. If we can fix that issue, then we can fix the larger issue.

As mentioned, they have also changed their stated goals.
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Sephiroth1288 posted...

And since the only two realistic options as far as the land goes are to either let Israel keep it or give it to a brutal Islamic regime, the choice SHOULD be obvious.

The 2 State solution will never work.

What we need is a 4 State solution.


- East Palestine = The West Bank

- West Palestine = Gaza Strip

- Israel will have to respect the Green Line

- Jeruselum will have to become a independent City State like Vatican City / Singapore

- Help with a large Real Estate sale of Egypt selling off the Sinai Peninsula to Israel

- Help with a large Real Estate sale of Syria selling off the Golan Heights to Israel

- Make sales conditional upon Israel never occupying territory within West / East Palestine, other nations, or anything out of their territory ever

- Then for West Palestine (Gaza Strip) to get proper relief, the citizenry over there must vote out Hamas from power and put in a political force that isn't a terrorist organization, including not allowing ANY former Hamas member into power.
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Darklit_Minuet posted...

If Hillary won, the status quo would live on. The status quo sucks.

Except that Trump is the status quo, he is quite literally exactly like a regular republican except that he's more incompetent.



Darklit_Minuet posted...

Letting Trump win is like setting the house on fire - once the flames die out, we can build something new

Must be nice to believe this. For those of us who work in science research, are gay, and are hispanic it is terrifying. I'm all three and there's a lot more people out there who are worse off than me.
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

I am for abortion but that is not the reason. In fact I think that is a terrible reason because it's also the baby's (well, embryo's) body, and two people made the baby so two people need their consent given. If the guy has to pay child support if the baby is carried to term then the guy should have half the say over the abortion (not that the latter problem should ever arise, but just out of principle).

I feel like you're misunderstanding the argument.
The womb is the mothers, neither the father nor the fetus have a right to it. Since consent is an ongoing process, she can change her mind at any time.
I mean, let's age them up a bit. Say the child is now 10 years old and needs an emergency blood donation. The mother is a perfect match and is available right now. There is no law that says that she has to give up some blood, which is something that is less strenuous than a pregnancy, and the child will die. You can call her all kinds of names, but the point is the law still says that the blood can't be taken without consent.

It's like Unfair said, if the mother drove recklessly and crashed the car, killing herself and badly injuring her child, if the mother isn't an organ donor the child will still die without them.
We take bodily autonomy very seriously except when it comes to abortion, many times because people think the father should have a right since he contributed half to it, or because the fetus has bodily rights as well. The problem with that train of thought is that it's irrelevant to the issue of the woman and her womb.
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Nomadic View posted...

"my body my choice!" That's an oversimplified and overly broad mantra for an issue that is much more narrow. No one is saying a woman can't get her ears pierced, have her gall bladder removed, or even cut her own foot off. It's her body, it's her choice. This chant makes sense for those issues. Where it falls short is when that choice affects the life of someone else.

I hope you're okay with mandatory blood donation, organ donation, bone marrow donation, etc. since they're also about affecting someone else's life at the risk of taking away their bodily autonomy.
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1:15ET we'll find out I guess ~2 hours or so from now

"Rape, postpartum depression, Cesarean sections, and surviving domestic violence are all considered preexisting conditions" under AHCA

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Zero_Destroyer posted...

I'm not sure why The Bell Curve is being cited as scientific fact when its authors were so lacking in confidence towards its legitimacy that they never submitted it for peer review or when The Bell Curve is essentially one example done by two researchers when most accepted scientific facts take a very long time and a large number of studies to fully take shape.

Be careful, Admiral thinks pointing this out means we're losing our shit
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True or False?

1. Restrictions on housing development make housing less affordable. True
2. Mandatory licensing of professional services increases the prices of those services. True
3. Overall, the standard of living is higher today than it was 30 years ago. True
4. Rent control leads to housing shortages. True
5. A company with the largest market share is a monopoly. False
6. Third-world workers working for American companies overseas are being exploited. False
7. Free trade leads to unemployment. False
8. Minimum wage laws raise unemployment. True
9. A dollar means more to a poor person than it does to a rich person. True
10. Making abortion illegal would increase the number of black-market abortions. True
11. Legalizing drugs would give more wealth and power to street gangs and organized crime. False
12. Drug prohibition reduce people’s access to drugs. True
13. Gun-control laws reduce people’s access to guns. True
14. By participating in the marketplace in the United States, immigrants reduce the economic well-being of American citizens. False
15. When a country goes to war its citizens experience an improvement in economic well-being.False
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I am the lead psychometrician at a personality test publisher.
To begin, it is important to note that no test is "scientifically valid". Validity is not an element of a test, but specifically has to do with test score interpretation. (see the Standards for Educational and Psychological testing 1999, or Messick, 1989). That being said, the Myers Briggs is not a scientifically valid personality assessment. However, personality assessments can be validated for specific purposes.

Moving onto the bigger issue with the Myers-Briggs: Decision consistency. The Myers-Briggs proclaims a reliability (calculated using coefficient alpha) of between .75-.85 on all of its scales (see Myers-Briggs testing manual). These are general, industry standard reliability coefficients(indicating that if you were to retest, you would get a similar score, but not exact). However, the Myers-Briggs makes additional claims about bucketing individuals into 1 of 16 possible personality types. That you can shift up or down a few points if you were to retake the test on any of the four distinct scales means that you may be higher on one scale than another simply through retaking the test due to measurement error. In fact, literature shows that your personality type will change for 50% of individuals simply through retesting. (Cautionary Comments Regarding the Myers-Brigg Type inventory, Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and research, summer, 2005). This result indicates very low decision consistency. The low decision consistency is also a mathematical inevitability given 16 personality profiles using 4 scales and scale reliability around .8.

Given the low decision consistency, and given that claims the Myers-Briggs makes about about your personality(validity information) depends on the decisions made by the test to be consistent and not subject to change simply based on retesting, it is highly unlikely that there can be a solid validity argument supporting the Myers-Briggs as a personality indicator. Maybe there are studies showing that it can be used in a very specific context, but sweeping generalizations about the tests use are not going carry much weight.

Now, as a working professional in the field, the Myers-Briggs does NOT have a good reputation as being a decent assessment. It has marketed well to school systems and has good name recognizability, but it is not a well developed exam. There are much better personality assessments available, such as SHL's OPQ32 or The Hogan personality inventory. Now, I don't want to say any of these are good. The best correlations between job performance and personality assessments is about .3 (indicating about 9% of the variance in a persons job performance can be accounted for by a personality assessment). That is the BEST personality assessments can do in terms of job performance... and a correlation of .3 is not worth very much (considering that tests like ACT or the SAT can correlate upwards of .7 with first year college GPA under ideal circumstances).

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You know why
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The Admiral posted...

Best current example of this is with Prof. Charles Murray and his data that show there are intelligence differences between races. This topic can't even be discussed without liberals losing their shit.

Ah yes, the studies that were done on behalf of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank that was aggressively against Affirmative Action in the 90s, which is when the studies were published.
And then you can look at much older work by Charles Murray, it seems he was always sort of obsessed with Eugenics and had a history of pushing poorly constructed studies in the past.

His book studied two cities for over a decade. A good neighborhood called Belmont and a bad one called Fishtown in Philadelphia. The point he wanted to make is that Belmont will only improve and Fishtown will only get worse because the nature of each group will never change.
While he never mentions it in the book, Fishtown became one of the fanciest and most gentrified neighborhoods in Philadelphia and the natives have since become much wealthier when their homes exploded in value. It's obvious this ruined his whole thesis. However, he covers this up by claiming that "Belmont" and "Fishtown" were just his short-hand terms for a composite of neighborhoods across the country with certain demographics that he chose when he began the study.
These are the clowns that wrote "The Bell Curve". A Eugenics nutcase and an embarrassing excuse for a researcher.

Let's also not forget that IQ tests have always been biased towards upper-class white males, where each step away from that ideal the lower your score. It's a terrible way to judge intelligence.

But yeah, this counts as "liberals lose their shit"
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-counter-violent-domestic-extremism-white-supremacism-cve-funding-freeze-10-million-a7715101.html

Donald Trump freezes funding to groups fighting right-wing terror and white supremacism
Grants had been approved by former President Barack Obama to target far-right hate groups

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Tropicalwood posted...

1. It's ill gotten money
2. You do realize Terry was shot
3. While I do agree that making drugs legal would hurt Chapo's business, he also experiments in human trafficking, murder, and paying off government officials.

1. I don't care. Civil forfeiture is inherently a bad thing. We shouldn't fight crime with crime.
2. I know. Again, illegal immigration will not be hurt by the Wall being built.
3. While all of those things are true and bad, a lot of that would diminish to nothing if drugs were legal.
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Gojak_v3 posted...

Awful opinions for $500 Alex.

$500 is not a real amount for a subject in Jeopardy: $200, $400, $600, $800 and $1000 is the first round and the second round has $400, $800, $1200, $1600, and$2000.
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Gojak_v3 posted...

Somehow liberals will still find fault with this.

1. Civil forfeiture should not a thing
2. The wall is a bad idea to begin with since it won't actually stop illegal immigration or drugs from entering the country
3. Drugs should be legal anyway
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Oh to be in the privileged position to deny your community and communities around you access to clean, renewable energy sold to them at wholesale price.
Bangladesh can only dream to one day (when they are not sinking in rising sea levels) make that kind of freedom-loving decision.
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Disarmament of nuclear weapons
Eradication of religion
Removal of nations and political boundaries
FTL technology
Post-scarcity

tl;dr -- never gonna happen because the Right hate all of those things.
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Balrog0 posted...

but someone said kids as young as two understand empathy. that's generally not true, and it's definitely not true when you try to apply it to a situation the kid him/herself has never been in.

That's an outdated viewpoint that does not mesh well with our current understanding of human and child development
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10493645
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12848435
http://www.psy.miami.edu/faculty/dmessinger/c_c/rsrcs/rdgs/emot/McDonald-Messinger_Empathy%20Development.pdf
http://www.parents.com/toddlers-preschoolers/development/behavioral/toddler-empathy/
etc.

Children as young as two can be reasoned with and don't require any physical discipline. It's lazy and anti-intellectual for parents to continue spanking after knowing this.
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I can't find the post but in response to the general idea of "what can you do if you don't spank?"

How do you get adults to do what you want? You tell them. Or ask.
That's how it works.
2-5 year old kids are much the same as 25 year olds on the job the first day. They WANT to please you, they want your attention to be positive, but they don't know what to do. If you tell them what not to do, they won't process or implement it the way you meant. If you tell them what you want them to do, they'll do it.
The point is that children do what you tell them to do, especially if it gets attention, regardless of modifying words. "Don't stand on the table" is the same as saying "stand on the table if you want my attention". This is especially true if you run over to them, yell at them, or handle them, every time they do! Instead, tell them "You need to get on the floor" or "Walk slowly" instead of run.

It basically comes down to two major things: don't give them attention and set them up for success.
If they are screaming to get your attention, just leave the room or walk away.
Here's a link: http://www.ahaparenting.com/blog/10_Ways_To_Guide_Children_Without_Discipline

Setting a child up for success instead of failure is hugely overlooked in parenting.
Do you really need to run errands during your child's normal naptime, or can they wait?
Do you really need to take your child to church on an empty stomach, or without their morning bath?
Asking yourself questions along those lines will make you a better, more effective parent.

In addition to not setting the kid up for failure, you can also organize your home so that the child experiences small successes on a regular basis and gets to feel competent and responsible.
For example: Have labeled bins for all the toys, so clean up is easy. Put coat hooks by the door at child-height, so they can hang their own jacket. Put a step stool by the kitchen counter, so the child can help cut up veg or stir. Set up the sink so that they can easily wash their own hands. Purchase clothes that can be put on by themselves. Have velcro or slip on shoes.
Basically, if there's some way the child can do it for themselves, then they should do it for themselves.
Children who feel capable and useful are far more confident and less likely to misbehave out of frustration or rebellion.

You need to figure out why the kid is acting out.
Did they not sleep, are they hungry, are they bored, did they see a playground on the way in.
In most cases the kid is bored and wants to be a kid. The fact that you're bringing a kid into a place where they can't be a kid is your problem, not the kid's. You put the kid in the basket, bribe them, carry them, or wait until you can leave the kid home. But saying that a 2 year old is acting horribly in an adult space and how do you punish them is the wrong way to look at it. The 2 year old wants to be a 2 year old and there's nothing wrong with that.

Parents need to plan all of their shopping/church/other boring stuff around times when the kid would be well rested and well fed, clean diaper, etc, and also making sure there's a plan for appropriate distractions and an exit strategy if necessary.
Also, involving the kid in their own success by being clear and up front about the purpose/timeline of the outing and how they can help contribute. A toddler is more likely to be well-behaved if they have a clear sense of what's going on ("We're going to the grocery store to get food to eat for the week, and we need to buy everything on this list."), and if you get them actively involved in the process ("Can you help me find some nice red strawberries?").

If you bring a kid somewhere with behavior expectations, don't communicate those expectations, and don't make sure their basic needs are met so they're receptive to understanding, their poor behavior is on you.
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While their reasoning skills may not be on our level, a child as young as 2 can be taught empathy "you wouldn't like it you were pushed down the stairs, would you? how about we don't do that then."
Creating an antagonistic, high stakes escalation of events turns the kid's reasoning powers off and engages the fight or flight response. This is counterproductive to the extreme because it creates a cycle of violence in which the parent who spanks the child fails to be able to use any other form of discipline because the child is already afraid of them.

To an adult there is a difference between hitting out of anger and spanking out of discipline, but to a child they don't understand being told not to hit someone and then getting hit by the parent.


It boggles the mind that there is so much research that shows spanking is one of the worst forms of punishment and yet people continue to ignore it. This is what we make fun of, anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers, creationists, flat-earthers, etc. yet spanking becomes off-limits to otherwise intelligent people.
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ShinyMuffin posted...

Maddow... lol
Not too worried. If true, shouldn't have happened, but sorted out.

That is so fucking pathetic. Not only is the administration incompetent, they lied about everything.

What would it take for you to actually realize you fucked up?
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http://shareblue.com/pence-lied-led-the-flynn-vetting-process-knew-about-foreign-ties/
http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/mike-pence-lying-or-incompetent-on-flynn-933241923865
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/3/10/1642228/-Unaware-Trump-and-Pence-were-aware-of-Flynn-s-foreign-lobbying-They-simply-lied-about-it
http://www.palmerreport.com/news/mike-pence-learned-in-november-that-michael-flynn-was-a-foreign-agent-lied-about-knowing/1863/

The administration's first priority when this all came out was to shield Pence from any knowledge or culpability. They immediately stated that Flynn was fired for "lying to Pence," not for his alleged collusion with foreign enemies. The Republicans know they very well may not have Trump for four years, but they want corporate crony and religious zealot Mike Pence to take the reins when Trump resigns/is impeached.

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Cornmuffins posted...

I mean you're completely ignoring DECADES of research for anecdotal evidence and that's pretty ignorant.

I think for most of the people who were spanked / do spanking / planning on spanking is because of the implications.
Like, if spanking is so clearly wrong as those articles and studies show, then it means they and their parents made some bad decisions. If you make bad decisions then you're a bad person.
And no one wants to think of their parents as bad people or that they themselves are bad people.

So in the end you get a group of people who would prefer to put their hands over their ears when confronted with this information instead of coming to the realization that spanking really doesn't work and that maybe their parents / them didn't do as good of a job as they thought they did.
Because that would suck to admit that someone somewhere along the line wasn't as good of a parent as they thought they were.
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k debonair posted...

ever try to reason with a toddler? it doesn't work very well.

They can be reasoned with much more than people give credit for

But the main thing is to set them up for success. Like, don't take them shopping when they're tired. Of course they'll have a tantrum and no matter how much you go "well they have to meet the real world eventually" doesn't excuse it.
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You know something is bad when the best defense for it is "I was spanked and turned out fine."
Even ignoring the cycle repeating.
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DD season 1 is still the best consistent show for netflix
DD season 2 (first half) is the best netflix stuff though
JJ is really good too
LC (first half) is pretty good too
It's just that the second half of DD season 2 and LC are really meh
And then there's IF which was just boring
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PoopMcgee420 posted...

Carrying a gun and locking your door is the same thing.

They're really not. Just like people who compare carrying a gun to wearing a seatbelt.
The fact is that carrying a gun causes the situation to escalate. Locking a door and wearing a seatbelt do nothing of the sort.

The vast majority of people who have a gun fall into one of two categories:
1. They want to be a hero
2. They are paranoid about the amount of violence we have

There is no reason to have a gun in most parts of the US. I'm fine with the 2nd Amendment and don't think we should get rid of it, but just be honest with yourselves.
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DifferentialEquation posted...

No. It's just being prepared incase something bad happens. Carrying a gun all the time is no different than being careful to always lock your house when you leave.

Locking your door does not escalate the situation.
Locking your door does not make you a larger threat.
Locking your door does not require you to go through special training.

It's okay man, you do you. I'm a supporter of the 2nd Amendment and think anyone who wants a gun (barring certain things like history of violent crimes / mental illness) should be able to get one (or 100).
It's just that if shit hits the fan and someone is trying to mug you, losing a little cash is worth way more than a potential to lose your life.
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From the responses in here and the people I know in real life who have guns, it seems to be a fantasy kind of thing.
They like to think that if something bad happens that they'll get to use it and be a hero.
It's like the kids who daydream in class about someone attacking the school and that they get to be the one who saves the day.

Since it's just a harmless fantasy for the rest of us, I just say live and let live. Let them feel like they're big kids and die over their wallets while the rest of us lose a little cash.
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I did play the original back in the day, but I have forgotten pretty much everything. Does the gameplay still hold up?
Anything I should try to do / not miss?
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darkphoenix181 posted...

I keep seeing the word capitalism. Seems more like a mixture of the two than one being really dominant.

You're not wrong. I think when most people who want the USA to be more socialist, they mean like a social democracy (as mentioned by literally the first line in the wiki article you quoted).
All I'm saying is that both sides are nitpicking over the word socialism and not actually discussing the points. You get people who want quick easy points and say "look at Venezuela!" and then turn around and go "well the Nordic countries aren't exactly socialism."
Neither are "pure socialism," but it's pretty obvious which one proponents are arguing for.

I mean, we can argue over whether or not they're actually socialist or even more socialist than the USA, but that's just side-stepping the issue that most people who want "socialism" are arguing for a social democracy that resembles that of the Nordic countries.


darkphoenix181 posted...

And this has got me thinking, is there really any pure capitalist country? Yet we do have pure socialist countries.

I wouldn't agree. I don't think we've had any countries purely one or the other.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-100days-idUSKBN17U0CA


Choice quotes:

"I loved my previous life. I had so many things going," Trump told Reuters in an interview. "This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier."

"Here, you can take that, that's the final map of the numbers," the Republican president said from his desk in the Oval Office, handing out maps of the United States with areas he won marked in red. "It’s pretty good, right? The red is obviously us."

He frequently turns to outside friends and former business colleagues for advice and positive reinforcement.

C'mon now, "The red is obviously us."
Dot dot dot
Fucking dead
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darkphoenix181 posted...

what about giving many examples and every example is met with
"but that not the right socialism!"

when will it end?

Because one side says socialism and means something similar to the Scandinavian countries and the other side means Venezuela
Neither type of socialism is going to checkmark every box next to the definition, that's just how government works

All I am pointing out is that it's dishonest to blame socialism for Venezuela and it really hurts to see people use it merely for political points
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