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Centrists and the DCCC won much more than they lost last night. The only other notable lefty win was Jealous in MD, but gubernatorial races are much less meaningful for national politics
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Antifar posted...

ICE didn't exist 16 years ago. There are people still in congress who voted against its creation. Abolishing it should be a mainstream Democratic view. That Sanders dodged the question the other day was cowardly

Though, from what I've read about this bill, it basically just recreates ICE through different agencies, which is no good.

I mean. I like @Antifar but this attitude kinda confuses me. Before ice we had ins and custom services. We're not gonna not have agencies that deal with the stuff that ice deals with. We can scale back this whole shitty raiding homes and churches and businesses stuff, but we can deal with that with or without ice and we can not deal with it with or without ice, too
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Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/patkiernan/status/1011787851422453760

I'm hard
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ElatedVenusaur posted...

And it's pretty much the only good news from today.
It's a solid-blue district too, so Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is very likely to win in the general.
She would also be the youngest woman ever elected to Congress(she's 28) if she wins.

Eh

Maloney won, most centrists in Colorado won

I believe your right
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A literal democratic socialist of America breast Joe Crowley, widely believed to be the successor for pelosi until this very eve
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spudger posted...

action bronsons cooking show on vice is hilarious

Accurate

8/10

Would be. higher but big body bes is awful
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I like other Netflix cooking and food shows. I like weed. I even didn't hate disjointed, another Netflix weed themed show

But I legit could not finish an episode of this thing. Cooking on High? Or some shit. The hosts have negative charisma, they make you hate them and the poor 'chefs' that they have making fuckin grilled cheese and a crab cake

2/10

This has been a post by me
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dib153 posted...

Yo, is luigis still open? Right of the interstate outside of Benton

Yeah bro, idk how long you been away but there's a bunch of new stuff down that way on 30 too thanks to the new-ish Bass Pro Shop

Godnorgosh posted...

Balrog0 posted...

I actually went there for the first time about a month ago. Considering the fact it's Applebee's, it was alright (the service really was good lol)

Did you ever finish up Soul Blazer? I havent gotten back around to it yet :(

I did. The game was really fun. Destroying monster lairs, finding out what you unlocked back in town, and exploring the town you just revived has this addictive quality to it. I also played through Illusion of Gaia, and now I'm on Terranigma and Lufia II and just kind of alternating between those.

Seems like a lot in such a short time, but I'm planning to move out soon and trying to blaze through some classic games I've never bothered to play before I'm too adult and independent to have time.

I hear that, even when I do have time these days it's often only like 45 minutes after work or an hour while the gfs at yoga. It's just not as satisfying tbqh
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Some birds are just more vocal than others

All worse than a small dog, though. Tiny dogs are the real pet choice for thinking men.
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Wrong
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These awesome tamales we bought from our neighbor when we lived in Santa Clara like... 18 years ago
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Was Roseanne particularly successful ? In dinosaur TV times there were like 4 channels. and that includes UPN
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I hated it, too. But most old sitcoms are awful, to be fair. From that era, only Frasier is even remotely tolerable today
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35% of the US lives in the south

so even if it were only 5% of the overall population, 1/7 of the population of the south is nothing to sneeze at (I actually assume that this 35% number is overstating how many people were in the south relative to the rest of the country back then, but hey)
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Godnorgosh posted...

I did my part and had Applebee's today

Balrog why the fuck we have the same urges to do the same things at the same times

I actually went there for the first time about a month ago. Considering the fact it's Applebee's, it was alright (the service really was good lol)

Did you ever finish up Soul Blazer? I havent gotten back around to it yet :(

Alkaloid posted...

The Applebee's my friends and I used as a watering hole in college closed a year after we graduated :(

The next closest one is like a half hour away

So no more $1 high life. Truly the end of an era

it was cheap and I got p tipsy, close enough to my girlfriend's to walk over too

not a bad way to spend $30 and an hour or so
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I liked the fights. Very obviously wuxia inspiration. The drunken master scene was the best, though.
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SSJ2GrimReaper posted...

I want to smash Misty Knight vigorously

hottest chick in the marvelverse, easily
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Polycosm posted...

The first SNES game doesn't get enough credit, imo. Really its only crippling flaw is the lack of a save battery. The genre mash-up is awesome-- a huge, interconnected overworld and Doom-like dungeons. The sound design and night-vision sections are truly terrifying.

is that the one that's kind of in the top-down, smash tv style?
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there was jsut something about it

like you could tell they were grateful for your business
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EndOfDiscOne posted...

If businesses can no longer pay for certain fringe benefits and deduct them as an expense, it makes sense that not-for-profits wouldn't be able to either. You can't target only certain types of exempt organizations with this.

I mean, you definitely could, though whether or not it is wise or fair is a different story
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eston posted...

Now when you say it's the only one in north Little Rock, does that mean there are some in other parts of Little Rock?

North Little Rock is a different city than Little Rock, kind of like Hollywood and West Hollywood

There is still one in Little Rock though, yeah. It's in West Little Rock, which unlike North Little Rock, is not its own city, just part of Little Rock
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I just don't know what to do any more
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tenchi muyo on cartoon network like 20 years ago
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no
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/26/republican-tax-law-churches-employees-670362

Republicans have quietly imposed a new tax on churches, synagogues and other nonprofits, a little-noticed and surprising change that could cost some groups tens of thousands of dollars.

Their recent tax-code rewrite requires churches, hospitals, colleges, orchestras and other historically tax-exempt organizations to begin paying a 21 percent tax on some types of fringe benefits they provide their employees.

That could force thousands of groups that have long had little contact with the IRS to suddenly begin filing returns and paying taxes for the first time.

Many organizations are stunned to learn of the tax part of a broader Republican effort to strip the code of tax breaks for employee benefits like parking and meals and say it will be a significant financial and administrative burden.
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HylianFox posted...

Balrog0 posted...

think of it like this; would you have considered the SNES retro in 2006?

there's a much bigger difference between games released in 1996 and 2006, than there was in games from 2006 and 2016

really, other than slightly faster hardware and better resolution, games haven't improved all that much in the past 10 or so years

it really just kind of depends what you want to consider. 1996 is already really post-SNES, PS1 and Saturn were already out for a few years and it's the year we got Mario 64, Tomb Raider, Mario Kart 64, Crash Bandicoot. so I guess I'd argue that a lot of the foundation for modern gaming (though Goldeneye isn't released until 97, which is really the beginning of the rise in console FPS games so we're not QUITE there in 96 yet)

there is admittedly a bigger jump between SNES and Xbox 360 than there is between Xbox 360 and now, but idk
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An_Actual_Chad posted...

LOL @ Halo 3, Gears, and CoD4 being ancient. Thats not even a retro generation.

yeah it is

think of it like this; would you have considered the SNES retro in 2006?
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and you dont get paid for most people
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southcoast09 posted...

Nope. Men dont request maternity leave, which is nine months.

maternity leave isn't standardized, but most places give 12 weeks
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no
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man I am gonna get a switch just for octopath traveler
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I just mean to say that acting like no change happens incrementally is really odd, and at worst is really bad for progress since it makes it sound like you just need to pass a big bill and then, since society is reorganized, you're done

but in reality these laws that pass are almost always incredibly flawed and take years and years and maybe decades of work before they fulfill the desires which caused the passage of the legislation in the first place
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I mean rural workers and home service workers were excluded from social security until the 1950s specifically to win over support from southern democrats that did not want to help black people
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yes

nevershine posted...

I thought it was p good, but not as good as season 1. I mean the episode where Iron fist shows up And Im like, why him? Why not Daredevil

iron fist and luke cage are a duo in the comics

also, the defenders happened to answer your question
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is that there is no need for legislative term limits
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anyway this is just a stream of consciousness I had, sorry that I forgot to tag it as politics
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the whole thing just seems confused really

for one thing, it is conflating a lot of different stuff or at least it seems that way to me.

like, the people who politely asked Sanders to leave the Red Hen, how is that lacking in civility? Being civil is about your tone, so the heckling and such is one thing, but the business refusing service has nothing to do with those incidents it seems to me

but even those people who are heckling, it is weird the way people are talking about it as some kind of response to Trump's tone and rhetoric. But a symmetrical response to Trump's tone and rhetoric would be for people to be making dick jokes about Miller and giving them dumb nicknames like Nutty Nielsen or something. I don't think that is the same thing, either

like you can think heckling people in public when they're off the clock is bad, but I don't understand the portrayal of these things as being the same or whatever. is it not clear that the motivator for this spat of public harassment is the fact that a lot of people are really upset about this thing at the border. it isn't about tone at all?
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

By the way, Breitbart could take the exact same data and publish an article saying "GOP tax cuts are becoming more popular in polling" without omitting the first data point. And then you'd likely be in that topic making the same type of argument about what we say and how we interpret data and whatnot. And I'd agree with you.

But that's literally what you have been saying is the only correct, objective interpretation for most of this topic
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I had to take a later bus cuz I was arguing itt
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It really isn't as infinitely open to interpretation as you want it to be
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

Balrog0 posted...

FLUFFYGERM posted...

Balrog0 posted...

I'm just not letting you dictate. that we need to just look at the beginning and ending numbers

"god fucking dammit you better look at the date range that shows I'm right OR ELSE"

Again, I am not doing that. You are actually the one trying to limit our analysis to two points, I'm the one saying we should look at everything, funnily enough

Everything except the entire date range for a data set that is already extremely limited given that it covers less than a year of sentiment.

Everything except for that and also the decline in people who disapprove and the surge in people who don't know anymore.

I keep saying it got more popular, how could I say that if I were ignoring before it got popular?

Approval ratings are typically discussed in terms of the approve/disapprove disparity. and don't count don't knows directly. But I agree that an increase in don't knows explains a lot, one reason I'm okay with your hypothetical breitbart article is that it underscores the reality that the gulf between approve/disprove hides an important point regarding the strength of the disapproval. and approval ratings
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

How come you aren't mentioning the surge in unpopularity that is also on the decline? lmao or the surge in people who no longer have an opinion because they don't know?

Because that isn't what happened for the former. The disapproval fell sharply before coming back up, but more modestly than the drop in approval. There's then also a very modest decrease in disapproval that could be explained by an increase in not sures and don't knows!
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

Balrog0 posted...

I'm just not letting you dictate. that we need to just look at the beginning and ending numbers

"god fucking dammit you better look at the date range that shows I'm right OR ELSE"

Again, I am not doing that. You are actually the one trying to limit our analysis to two points, I'm the one saying we should look at everything, funnily enough
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

Balrog0 posted...

FLUFFYGERM posted...

Balrog0 posted...

its already plotted

Ah, didn't load the graph the first time. Anyway, what is your point exactly? These numbers are along the same lines as what I said and not in favor of what Antifar said unless you're also going to cherrypick the date ranges that prove your point rather than look at the entire date range.

I just don't understand what the cherrypicking supposedly is here. What you're saying isn't incompatible with the fact that it is getting less popular. It had what we can clearly see is one time increase in popularity that is fading.

More people approve of it and less people disapprove of it now than in December, broseph.

You could even cherrypick January to now and see that the number of people who said they don't know almost doubled, which could simply be the result of CNN's non-stop bullshit coverage of the tax cuts. Like I said, this can be cherrypicked in so many ways depending on which narrative you want to peddle. So ultimately we need to abandon the data or take all of it into consideration.

I guarantee you that if this data was showing a consistent decline in approval from December 2017 to June 2018 you'd all be worshiping the entire date range.

I am looking at all the data. It shows a. surge in popularity followed by a decline. I'm not discounting anything, I'm just not letting you dictate. that we need to just look at the beginning and ending numbers
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

Balrog0 posted...

its already plotted

Ah, didn't load the graph the first time. Anyway, what is your point exactly? These numbers are along the same lines as what I said and not in favor of what Antifar said unless you're also going to cherrypick the date ranges that prove your point rather than look at the entire date range.

I just don't understand what the cherrypicking supposedly is here. What you're saying isn't incompatible with the fact that it is getting less popular. It had what we can clearly see is one time increase in popularity that is fading.
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

Breitbart's claim would be superficially correct, but no honest and well-to-do person would take such a claim seriously. I'm being 100% objective with the numbers. My only claim about the numbers is:

From December of 2017 to June of 2018, six months later, more people approve of the tax cuts and fewer people disapprove of the tax cuts.

Literally does not get more objective than that.

its also not incompatible with the fact that its getting less, rather than more, popular

I literally dont get your point, I'm not even trying to be obtuse. If a helicopter dropped $100 trillion dollars into the us treasury we would still be losing money tomorrow because we keep spending it. You're saying that would not true because the latest data point would show that we just made $100 trillion. I don't get the thinking except for in a very narrow sense
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and even if you just look at monmouth's numbers it goes from -24 to +2 to -2 to -7

kind of demonstrating my loaded narrative
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