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I assume that there being more than two parties changes the character of the rural v urban debate

I imagine many rural areas are also fueling the rise of the far right?

idk though, their support seems to be concentrated near the danish border? I dont know enough about sweden to understand
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ILT clearly hasn't had a gyro yet this week imho
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which, lets be serious, is that surprising to anyone ?
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Solar_Crimson posted...

Romulox28 posted...

what do racists do when they see a black chick that is hot as fuck

Apparently, Mr. Alt-Right himself Richard Spencer had a very long relationship with a Black woman.

Of course, I bet he would flip his shit if he saw a hot blond White woman with a Black guy.

I thought he had multiple relationships with asian women
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I was homeless between the ages of 4 and 13
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that is why there has never been a realignment between the whigs and the federalists

or whoever the fuck they were
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it is a stupid use of food stamps but oh well
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Dustin1280 posted...

I have never in my entire life heard someone say "there's a white genocide."

welcome to Arkansas, friend

http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article9326940.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/PAY-Racially-motivated-billboards-in-Harrison-Arkansas.jpg
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

TheVipaGTS posted...

.if Netflix wants to give it to her then who cares?

Netflix stock holders, I grant that she earned the money through negotiations but that doesn't mean she is actually worth that much. She still has bring her worth to a Netflix subscription and I see no reason to assume she has.

you could say this about all of the netflix stand up specials, though, I'm sure

as an aside, it seems p. difficult to determine how much these kind of things are "worth"
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also nonprofits, to be specific. I've never worked for a small for-profit business, except as an independent contractor

i do sometimes wonder what it would be like to work some where where not everyone knows your name, though.

what was your favorite job environment ce?
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Darkman124 posted...

book v had some good parts

great parts, even

but only from like 3 POVs -- at least in my opinion
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I really like the first book a lot, too. Although there was a lot of silly stuff -- remember Tyrion being some kind of weird gymnast at Winterfell? lol
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I Like Toast posted...

Then enjoy the books. The dark tower movie sucked, I didn't need to bitch about for weeks, I just kept rereading the books. Winds of winter will eventually be written and won't have the constraints of a budget to work around.

If the show isn't enjoyable, don't watch it. If it's enjoyable, than why bitch and cry for weeks like DuranOfTroll. If not explicitly stating how much time has passed is more important to you than the actual plot, you need professional help.

the books have sucked recently, too

recently at this point meaning the last 12 years or two books
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I wish the timing of the ravens and dragons were the biggest complaint I had
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nice
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i'm tired of you coastal elites trying to tell us people in flyover country how to live
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Full Throttle posted...

I've never heard of Howard before and i didn't know there was such things as historically black colleges"

Allie said they don't have them where she lives and said "So this was a little bit of culture shock, and i'm taking a a lot of good and positivity from this lesson. But i honestly had no idea it was a historically black college and these people harassing me for not knowing i did, but i swear to God, me an dmy friend were innocently were wearing Trup stuff."

pretty sure she's from pennsylvania which definitely has at least 1 hbcu
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Sephiroth1288 posted...

You can't change someone's skin color; that option is quite firmly off the table, but you CAN change their financial success.

yeah, but the point is that if your skin color causes you to vote D and your poverty causes you not to vote at all then the good strategy for a D is to make you more affluent so you go and vote D in higher numbers

Sephiroth1288 posted...

But it is a predictor. And the DNC simply has no reason to risk losing votes as long as public perception is such that they are the "good guys".

I honestly don't understand what you're even trying to say here.


Sephiroth1288 posted...

Wealthy voters have always leaned republican. Aberrations in individual elections aren't relevant in the long-term.

it is true that the wealth disparity was greater in past elections, but the numbers I used were based on 2012 which still showed that income was only marginally relevant

I'd actually say mitt romney was unusually tailored to a high-income voter base, too, but idk if that's true. I just know that poor people didn't like him. Could be a religion thing, too.
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Anteaterking posted...

Do you happen to know why that is? Just curious.

My assumption is that it is mostly because republicans didn't exist in most of the state until the tea party wave in 2010. The GOP was the (very small) minority party between reconstruction and 2014 in the state legislature. So a combination of it probably not worth felony charges when you're gonna lose anyway, and not being in a position of power to do it in the first place

but give them time
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so she is running in 2020
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hollow_shrine posted...

The table does say it's looking at all gun related deaths in the title.

yeah, I know. notice how equivocation turned it into gun crimes, which isn't even the same thing as illegal gun deaths

the point being, this is exactly how democrats are w/r/t logic. it's not like you even need to equivocate here, you can make the point while being factual
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I mean, that barely worked in the books, there is no way you're going to do that in the show. The reason everyone hated the book is that it focused on plotlines no one gave a shit about
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Broseph_Stalin posted...

I don't think hunters are the cause of most gun crime in the US but whatever you have to tell yourself.

your numbers specifically include legal killings, lmao
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Kineth posted...

It's a relativity thing. Compared to how one side handles discourse, it's basically the role you have to fill. Though I do get what you mean when it comes to stuff like the environment and health and gun control. But when the rebuttal is full of condescension, mistrust, and venom, it still looks a more organized thought process.

... At least imo.

nah, I get siding with dems over the GOP literally every time. I'm more confused about why they think it's an effective style for campaigning. It's like they saw that Obama was articulate and smart and thought they could apply that to every race or something.
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also, city politics is much more complicated than you're presenting it -- for one thing, most of those blue shit holes are in red states for a reason. Most state legislatures include historically big struggles between urban political machines and rural lawmakers, and mostly rural lawmakers won. When you understand how much influence states have over municipalities, you understand how stupid you sound.

Which isn't to say democrats are good. If you look at a lot of these blue cities you'll see obviously anti-poor and anti-white rules, like stacking the city council with at-large representatives. Most (not all) Republican areas are less politicized because they're generally smaller and have a different style of government (usually with a city manager rather than a mayor)
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Sephiroth1288 posted...

Poor people are still a big voting block, regardless if they vote as much as others. Also, even if minorities are likely to vote Democrat, rich minorities are still less likely to vote Democrat than poor minorities.

This is true, but the size of the impact is much smaller than the size of the impact that race has.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/01/20/how-race-and-religion-have-polarized-american-voters/?utm_term=.edfae199a781

According to data from the American National Election Study, the correlation between family income and party identification among all voters in 2012 was a very modest 0.13. As family income goes up, voters are a bit more likely to back the Republicans, but not strongly so. The correlation among white voters was meager and statistically insignificant 0.03.

race much more strongly predicts partisan affiliation


Sephiroth1288 posted...

So no, as long as Democrats claim to be on the poor's side and want those in the middle and upper classes to pay their "fair" share, they will only lose votes as poor people rise through the tax bracket. Sure, some will vote Democrat for ideological reasons, but not all of them. That's why it's no mystery why the historically blue cities are such shitholes.

I disagree. Income is not a very good predictor of how you will vote between a D and an R.
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Republicans are much better at it, Democrats very much like to pretend they are rational technocrats for some reason
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masterpug53 posted...

I do get tired of people who dump the blame exclusively at D&D's feet, though. I'm sure they are directly responsible for plenty of the show's missteps, but they've always gotten plenty of sympathy from me over the unenviable task of adapting and unfilmable and unfinished book series.

Well, they are the showrunners. I guess you can also blame GRRM for writing slowly, lol. But the buck pretty much stops with them.
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ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

Sephiroth1288 posted...

Antifar posted...

Sephiroth1288 posted...

You're ignoring the example they gave of a guy running a vote-buying scheme.

The feds convicted 27 people in vote-buying schemes in eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia. One Democratic county manager paid poor, handicapped and illiterate people to vote for him. He was still in office in 2004 when he was sentenced to just over two years in prison.

Other criminals included a sheriff, city police chief and a Circuit Court clerk in West Virginia. Prosecutors said the clerk, a Democrat, and his associates got precinct captains to pay people $20 to vote for a slate of preferred candidates in a May 2004 primary, with the goal of controlling county government. ?This seems to be something that is just in the blood of people in southern West Virginia,? former West Virginia Secretary of State Ken Hechler told the Associated Press in 2005. ?They?re always looking for ways to get away with this.?

That doesn't sound like 27 vote-buying schemes, just 27 people involved.

All of which should never have been allowed to happen.

And, again, there is every reason to believe that there's more voter fraud going on than they're able to catch thanks to lax voting security. Keep in mind that many local elections can be swayed by just 100 votes, which is a huge problem when Al Franken may have gotten his seat thanks in part to fraud.

You have a large audience

also has anyone addressed the fact that voter id laws do nothing to stop people from buying votes? lol. it is actually true where I live that democrats are more likely to commit election fraud than republicans (though Republicans are more likely to misappropriate state funds, which is why the FBI is investigating them, but anyway) but the way they do it is always by buying votes.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/22/arkansas-operatives-plead-guilty-in-vodka-for-votes-scam.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/02/us/morrilton-journal-old-time-politician-tells-the-truth-maybe.html

this kind of voter fraud is real but not impacted by voter id rules
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Sephiroth1288 posted...

Poor people are more likely to vote Democrat, so Democrats would only lose votes by helping people out of poverty. Why then would they be motivated to help any group, much less minorities?

this doesn't make sense on it's face because 1) poor people are much less likely to vote and 2) minorities are more likely to vote democrat even if they aren't poor and 3) minorities are disproportionately poor

helping minorities achieve some semblance of middleclass-ness would almost certainly help democrats win elections
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its normal to be a bit stressed and depressed your last year of college
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the prices you pay as an uninsured person are likely to be higher, as well
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I've always thought the books were unilaterally better than the show, even though I thought the show was pretty good until this season

I mean, it's still good, just in a pulpier kind of way imho
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Questionmarktarius posted...

It's a genre that feeds on nostalgia, and slow one-letter-at-a-time text is a carryover from when it was a neat hardware trick, and/or accompanied by screechy "speech" sound effects for each letter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3oWNm563H4&t=688s

the good ol days
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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

If the Night King can toss a spear a mile, why didn't he just pick off the Fellowship while they were sitting ducks on that rock?

isn't this kind of like asking, if you can just assassinate someone with a shadow, why not assassinate everyone with a shadow? the books have done a pretty good job showing that even these fantastical beings and magicks have pretty serious limitations so I didn't have a problem with that, though arguably the show is not as good about making that point

the only problem I had was with the wights being smart enough to stop running into the water but stupid enough not to realize it had frozen over. I guess it makes sense if you assume that the night king was waiting for the dragons (although, even if so, why? you can let the guy get the dragons to come and then ambush them with an ice spear if that's your motive, it's not like she knows they're going to be alive when she comes through)

anyway though yeah the show kinda sucks imho
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Antifar posted...

Balrog0 posted...

without proudclad here to call church folks virtue signallers these topics aren't as fun

On the contrary I think his take here would be pointing out how this is a misuse of tax money so we should end government entirely

I wasn't being hypothetical, I've posted about this topic a few times over the past few months and he has always talked about how being for these "feedings" is a form of virtue signalling and how politicians love to virtue signal about the homeless without offering up real solutions to the problem
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DuranOfForcena posted...

so Preston Jacobs presented the math on how fast the raven they sent to Dany would have to have been going. the distance from the Wall to Dragonstone is apparently about 2000 miles, and Gendry appeared to arrive at East-watch at about dusk whereas Dany was heading out with her dragons after getting the raven at what appeared to be midmorning, so given about 12 hours with no time for resting or eating, the raven would have to be flying at about 170 miles an hour. more than 3 times what a raven is actually capable of.

i haven't gotten to what he says about Dany's travel time yet. should be a doozy.

who is that preston jacobs guy? he has so many videos and Ive listened to way more than I probably should have
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CircleOfManias posted...

It was long enough for the entire lake to re-freeze, so it was much longer than a day or two.

I dunno, the north is supposed to be really cold

I dunno, I didn't have a problem with it, I didn't think it necessarily meant he anticipated dragons, either. if I had some wombo combo spear I would bring it with me wherever I went
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man i wish i had one
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i used to watch bad girls club
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3rd_Best_Master posted...

How's quality of life like for black people living in the solid red south?

well it's pretty bad, but the quality of life for white people is pretty bad too

the disparities are much worse in nyc
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well, desegregation and segregation both were capable of destroying black wall street in tulsa, it's just that the latter took the form of violent expulsion whereas the former happened because black people were allowed to shop outside of black areas
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Zembaphobia posted...

Balrog0 posted...

Drivers are much worse than cyclists and pedestrians

As a pedestrian who crosses twice on an 5 way intersection twice a day to get to school and back home, I've been nearly run over countless times by cyclist who won't stop at the intersection. This has never been the case with cars. I might add that most cyclists if not all will completely ignore intersections unless there's traffic lights. There may be some drivers that ignore intersections or don't wait for pedestrians, but they're in the vast minority. I didn't make the topic as a jab at cyclists, I legitimately wondered because of how common it is to have a cyclist bike past you while you're crossing

I mean, I walk about 2 miles both ways to work and most of my problems are with having to stop and play amateur crossing guard for cars that don't expect to see walkers

The bikes are much less of a problem. I've almost been hit twice by cars in the last 2 weeks, never by a cyclist, lol.

And when I'm driving, I only have a problem with cyclists in a few areas. Bad motorists are everywhere.
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Drivers are much worse than cyclists and pedestrians
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how does it know your muscle composition?
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why would i go out and not drink an adult beverage?
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Im pretty sure you can have corn tortillas or flour tortillas for either kind of taco guys
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pinky0926 posted...

Soft, but fired so that they're crispy. LIke this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fETZCWvzkWM&t=3m25s

word

although I pretty much like any kind of taco tbqh, soft, crunchy, this way... all good
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lilORANG posted...

I stopped eating at McDs when they took the McDouble off the dollar menu.

Dammit I remember when double cheeseburgers were on the dollar menu. Two slices of cheese for a buck!

literally not reason to pay more than 5 dollars at McDs when they are always surrounded by other tastier options for comparable prices. McDs used to be the dirt cheap place to go. Now they don't even have that going for them.

I agree but I just have cravings due mcds sometimes

Their burgers crappiness makes it unique in some kind of way
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Soviet_Poland posted...

creativeme posted...

even if you try to eat cheap you're left hungry after. like the $5 box from taco bell is a decent deal but usually it's not much food. same with most other places when you try to get something cheap. mcdonalds i can spend like $6 but that's if i just want to get mcchicken or mcdoubles and a drink.

it's real easy to spend around $8-10 at any fast food place if you get a meal. you can go to coney island and get better tasting food for the same price as fast food. so i usually just get coney island now when i want a burger and don't wanna cook after work. just call and it's ready by time i get there.

That box is 1,200 calories. That's more than half of a typical person's caloric intake for a day.

I know it doesn't seem like a lot of food, but it's calorically dense. If you drank a full glass of water after finishing and waited 10 minutes, you'd feel full/no longer hungry.

You don't know me
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