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Fuparulez posted...

The CPUSA endorsing Obama kind of throws a wrench in that works, though.

The CPUSA is an entity that consists mainly of FBI informants at this point; it's not reflective of American communists in general. Their continued insistence on endorsing Democrats in presidential elections does not suggest communism on the part of the guy who didn't prosecute any wall street bankers or executives for their role in the financial crisis.
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Bullet_Wing posted...

davyheinz posted...

Never Trumpers are the only real conservatives left.

There are like fifty of them in the country, and they all work in DC or for liberal opinion sections seeking "ideological diversity"

The conservative movement in the United States is a Trump-supporting movement.
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The Admiral posted...

Hes a pundit. He has no obligation or pretense about being unbiased.

Pundits should absolutely disclose when they have a relationship to the subject of their coverage. If he were a reporter, the appropriate move would be to recuse him from the story altogether. No one's criticizing Hannity's bias, which is obvious (and perfectly acceptable), but rather his credibility and transparency.

It's the same as you would expect an op-ed writer (a pundit, not a reporter) to disclose their ties to an advocacy group or relevant party to the topic of their piece, which is standard practice at basically every media outlet worth its salt.
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The Obama=Communism=Cool bit is just fantastic

People who believe Obama is a communist do not think that's cool
People who believe communism is cool don't think Obama is one
People who believe Obama is cool don't believe he's a communist
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Given that the two publicly-known clients of Cohen had him
- pay off a pornstar to keep quiet about sex
- Pay off a pornstar to keep quiet about an abortion

I can't imagine what Michael Cohen was doing for Fox News commentator Sean Hannity
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*chef kissing fingers* Magnificent
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The data behind Texas' shocking maternal death rate actually turned out to be screwy:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/ct-texas-maternal-mortality-rate-20180411-story.html
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Ah man that shit sucks
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Michael Cohen is also representing Sean Hannity
https://twitter.com/eorden/status/985953454668570630
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Zeeak4444 posted...

What is this s***, productivity is suddenly a bad thing?

Who does that productivity benefit? We've seen huge increases in productivity over the last few decades that are unaccompanied by increases in wages for the workers behind it. His friend is absolutely right to hate working Sundays.
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FreshSushi posted...

how are there still people alive in baltimore

shouldn't they be all dead by now, probably by shooting

It's a city of I wanna say like 500,000 people that has 300 homicides a year.
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@chill02
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1337toothbrush posted...

More and more it seems apparent that conservatism is a mental disorder. Seriously, what's with the frothing at the mouth and wanting to privatize everything even when it's been seen again and again that doing so most likely raises prices and reduces service. How stupid does one have to be to not heed the repeated failures?

First you have to recognize them as failures. It's not so much that they're unaware privatization hurts the public to benefit companies and the rich, it's that benefiting companies and the rich is the point.
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https://streamable.com/qhaxr
https://twitter.com/VanGamerenF1/status/985812019713540096
https://twitter.com/AliFormula1/status/985563866255036416
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HiddenLurker posted...

antfair posted...

I am merely trying to push back on this ludicrous idea that somehow liberals are more responsible for Trump's election than the people who willingly voted for Trump.

Who the fuck is saying this?
Aside from the worm in your head who?

In this topic we have a guy saying "the other side's hand was forced" regarding Trump
SageHarpuia posted...

You don't get to pick garbage candidates and then cry when the other side's hand is forced.

To say nothing of all the "this is why Trump won" takes that blame SJWs or college students and not his voters.
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Guys, guys: all presidents suck shit, morally. Basically the only guy who didn't something reprehensible with his power is the one who got sick and died immediately, and I'm not certain about him.
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HiddenLurker posted...

antfair posted...
Conservatives have agency and responsibility for their actions. Nobody put a gun to their heads forcing them to vote for the xenophobic game show host and serial groper.

So are you admiting that Democrats are mindless sheep then? After all to have "agency and responsability" for their actions is a Conservative thing according to you.

Just like "black lives matter" doesn't imply "white lives don't," "conservatives have agency" does not imply "Democrats don't."

I am merely trying to push back on this ludicrous idea that somehow liberals are more responsible for Trump's election than the people who willingly voted for Trump.
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There is reason to suspect that at least one of the Tsarnaev brothers was an FBI informant
https://twitter.com/onekade/status/985578718482624512

It is public knowledge that the FBI was at least aware of Tamerlan Tsarnaev prior to the bombing
https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2013/06/fbi-knew-earlier-of-boston-bombing-suspect-166313

Deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev came to the attention of the FBI on at least two occasions prior to a Russian government warning in March 2011 that said he appeared to be radicalizing, FBI Director Robert Mueller said in Congressional testimony this week.

Unless this topic is about the timeline of Comey becoming FBI director, in which case, uh, disregard >_>
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solosnake posted...

"I think impeaching and removing Donald Trump from office would let the American people off the hook," he told Mr Stephanopoulos.

I must say I do not follow this logic
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Hexenherz posted...

One sad thing is that the USPS leadership has been utterly ruined already. There are 11 spots on the Board of Governors, 9 of those are vacant :\

Yeah, this gets mentioned in the article
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http://prospect.org/article/trump-moves-gut-post-office

Some may be inclined to think that Donald Trumps executive order Thursday night establishing a task force to recommend reforms for the U.S. Postal Service reflects another salvo in the presidents war against Amazon. Trumps attack on Amazon, a clear byproduct of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezoss ownership of The Washington Post, included the suggestion that the online retailer was ripping off the post office by securing a special deal for the USPS to ship packages the last mile. By reviewing the finances of the post office, Trumps task force could demand increases to that shipping contract, possibly costing Amazon billions of dollars.

Whether Amazon actually is getting a special deal on shipping is open to intense debate. The company also happens to enjoy a discount on stamps, which they then mark up to their own marketplace sellers, a pure arbitrage deal to earn profits from a publicly issued product.

But these issues have almost nothing to do with the Trump executive order. The Amazon spat is a cover for the formal unveiling of a long-wished right-wing project to destroy the post office and have private industry take over its infrastructure, which taxpayers funded long ago. All the executive order really does is create a report; it would take a willing Congress to deliver the final hammer blow. But that report, with a government imprimatur, will become part of that right-wing wish list, living on for decades in think tanks and private shipping company boardrooms as a fervent dream.

Lets look at the executive order, which is a bit deceptive in its intentions. The policy section manages to mention that the Postal Service routinely earns the highest public approval rating of any agency in the federal government. But then it layers on the bad news: the decline in first-class mail volume$65 billion in losses since 2009, an unsustainable fiscal path.

Amazingly, the policy section alludes to the inability of the USPS to fund retiree health and pension benefit obligations, without stating that it has the impossibly high statutory burden of pre-funding those obligations 75 years out, effectively having to pay today for future workers who have not yet been born. No public agency or private company has any similar burden. It was placed on the Postal Service in the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act to deliberately cripple the agency at the behest of UPS and FedEx, its two major competitors on package delivery. There should be no confusion: Without this completely anomalous pre-funding mandate, the USPS would be a money-making operation, regardless of the rise of email.

But while alluding to inflexible costs, the executive order says that the USPS must be restructured to prevent a taxpayer-funded bailout. Yet, a true restructuring would require only one line of legislative text: The 75-year pre-funding mandate is hereby repealed. The fake crisis would be over. But thats not what Donald Trumps minders want.
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Here are some things the executive order wants the task force to look into:

The USPS role in competitive markets, specifically package delivery, where it competes with private shippers;
Issues relating to government monopolies operating in the commercial marketplace;
The USPS monopoly over letter delivery and mailboxes; and
The definition of the universal service obligation in light of changes in technology, e-commerce, marketing practices, and customer needs.

I think the goal is clear. The task force is being prodded to open up the mailbox to any company, and degrade the centuries-old tradition that the post office deliver anywhere in the nation, through snow or rain or heat or gloom of night. After eliminating these public benefits, the task force might seek to bar the post office from competing in markets where the private sector operates, or to privatize the agency altogether.

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American Movie Classics (TV channel)
American Multi-Cinema (Movie theater chain)
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The Galaxy will probably be in the playoffs around then
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04/under-siege-michael-cohen/amp?__twitter_impression=true

The most vexing week of Michael Cohens career ended as bizarrely as it began. On Monday, a team of federal agents had obtained search warrants for Cohens home and office, following a referral from Special Counsel Robert Muellers office, as part of the U.S. attorneys offices months-long criminal conduct investigation. A dozen F.B.I. agents subsequently raided Cohens hotel room at The Regencyhis apartment is undergoing constructionwhere they literally snatched his cell phone from his hand. Simultaneously, approximately two dozen other agents took business records, documents, computers, and electronic devices from his law office and apartment, seizing two cellphones, a tablet, a laptop and safe deposit box. They walked away with documents dating back years, potentially including those related to payoffs made to women alleging that they had affairs with Cohens longtime client, Donald Trump, during his presidential campaign. Investigators reportedly sought files related to the adult film star Stephanie Clifford, whom Cohen paid $130,000 to suppress an alleged sexual encounter with the president. (The president has denied the relationship.).

Cohens lawyer has called the raid completely inappropriate and unnecessaryan overreach beyond the law. Cohen, however, seemed notably demure. On Tuesday evening, a throng of photographers waited for him outside La Goulue, the newly re-opened old-timey French staple on East 63rd Street. The photographers trailed him as he strolled the three-or-so blocks back to the Regency, tripping over one another and spilling into the street. I dont want anyone to fall and hurt yourself, Cohen said. Im not running anywhere. If you want me to stop so you guys can get in position and get your shot, Ill stop. So he did. He counted to three1 2 3 ... so that they could take their photos before he resumed walking.
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Cohen, according to these people, has vacillated between this new level of exasperation and his typical Trumpian chest beating manner. He has suggested to people close to him that perhaps he should act as his own attorney, because he may be the most apt person to defend himself. He has expressed anger at the lack of outrage over the fact that his legal office and private residences were searched when he says he was willing to cooperate with any subpoenas. Where is the A.C.L.U? he has said; at times, he has jokingly asked whether there is going to be a Million Michael Marcha reference to the renowned 1995 African-American display of unityto retrieve his documents. Cohen, according to these people, has also been dismayed by the silence from Trumps inner-circle in Washington, many of whom he expected would have his back. One person familiar with his thinking said that hes gotten messages from thousands of people since last Monday, but its been a ghost town from D.C., other than from the president.

Whatever relative calm Cohen was hanging onto at Freds or outside the Regency will be harder to muster come Monday afternoon. Cohen is due to present the court with a client list in order for Judge Wood to determine whether she will grant him the temporary restraining order. He will also face what seems like a deliberate test of his will in the form of Stormy Daniels, who is expected to be in attendance. On Sunday, her attorney, Michael Avenatti said on CNN that he got comfortable with the security plan last night for my client and that she plans to attend the hearing. I think Monday afternoon could prove to be very interesting, he said. (On Friday, the three rows of press erupted into whispers when Avenatti walked into court. What is he doing here? one reporter asked. How many times is he going to be on T.V. after this one? another joked.

God bless these morons
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SageHarpuia posted...

You don't get to pick garbage candidates and then cry when the other side's hand is forced.

Conservatives have agency and responsibility for their actions. Nobody put a gun to their heads forcing them to vote for the xenophobic game show host and serial groper.
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We have a lot of problems, but solving them would be a drastic measure
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https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-says-its-factory-is-safer-but-it-left-injuries-off-the-books/

The melding of cutting-edge technology and world-saving vision is Tesla Inc.s big draw. Many, including Justine White, the safety lead, went to work there inspired by Elon Musk, a CEO with star power and now a groundbreaking rocket in space.

What she and some of her colleagues found, they said, was a chaotic factory floor where style and speed trumped safety. Musks name often was invoked to justify shortcuts and shoot down concerns, they said.

Under fire for mounting injuries, Tesla recently touted a sharp drop in its injury rate for 2017, which it says came down to meet the auto industry average of about 6.2 injuries per 100 workers.

But things are not always as they seem at Tesla. An investigation by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting found that Tesla has failed to report some of its serious injuries on legally mandated reports, making the companys injury numbers look better than they actually are.

Last April, Tarik Logan suffered debilitating headaches from the fumes of a toxic glue he had to use at the plant. He texted his mom: Im n hella pain foreal something aint right.

The searing pain became so unbearable he couldnt work, and it plagued him for weeks.

But Logans inhalation injury, as it was diagnosed, never made it onto the official injury logs that state and federal law requires companies to keep. Neither did reports from other factory workers of sprains, strains and repetitive stress injuries from piecing together Teslas sleek cars.

Instead, company officials labeled the injuries personal medical issues or minor incidents requiring only first aid, according to internal company records obtained by Reveal.

Undercounting injuries is one symptom of a more fundamental problem at Tesla: The company has put its manufacturing of electric cars above safety concerns, according to five former members of its environment, health and safety team who left the company last year. That, they said, has put workers unnecessarily in harms way.

At one point, White said she warned superiors about a potential explosion hazard but was told they would defer to production managers because fixing the problem would require stopping the production line.

From September 2016 to January 2017, White oversaw safety for thousands of workers on Teslas general assembly line, in charge of responding to injuries, reviewing injury records, teaching safety classes and assessing the factory for hazards.

Everything took a back seat to production, White said. Its just a matter of time before somebody gets killed.

Tesla, worth about $50 billion, employs more than 10,000 workers at its Fremont factory. Alongside the companys remarkable rise, workers have been sliced by machinery, crushed by forklifts, burned in electrical explosions and sprayed with molten metal. Tesla recorded 722 injuries last year, about two a day. The rate of serious injuries, requiring time off or a work restriction, was 30 percent worse than the previous years industry average.
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Musk was said to dislike too many signs in the factory and the warning beeps forklifts make when backing up, former team members said. His preferences, they said, were well known and led to cutting back on those standard safety signals.

If someone said, Elon doesnt like something, you were concerned because you could lose your job, said Susan Rigmaiden, former environmental compliance manager.

A few months into her job, White became so alarmed that she wrote to a human resources manager that the risk of injury is too high. People are getting hurt every day and near-hit incidents where people are getting almost crushed or hit by cars is unacceptable.

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Why does he?
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Nomadic View posted...

I had no f***ing clue who Richard Spencer was until he was punched.

But that's because you weren't paying attention. He didn't get punched until inauguration day 2017; all these articles were written in 2016

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/us/alt-right-salutes-donald-trump.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/richard-spencer-speech-npi/508379/
https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/21/politics/alt-right-gathering-donald-trump/index.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-38057104/hail-trump-white-nationalists-mark-trump-win-with-nazi-salute
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/meet-the-alt-right-spokesman-thrilled-by-trumps-rise-w443902
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/richard-spencer-trump-alt-right-white-nationalist/
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The Admiral posted...

Not really buying this hit piece that makes Amazon sound like a sweatshop. The reviews from employees on Glassdoor are overwhelmingly positive.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Amazon-Reviews-E6036.htm

Why do you trust those workers more than these?

A separate survey found almost three-quarters of fulfillment-center staff members were afraid of using the toilet because of time concerns. A report released Monday with the survey's findings said 241 Amazon warehouse employees in England were interviewed.

The survey anonymously quoted one of those workers as saying targets had "increased dramatically" and that "I do not drink water because I do not have time to go to the toilet."

Another said: "The target grows every year. I do not have two more legs yet to make the 100% to pick, where you actually need to run and go to the toilet just during the break. Packing 120 products per hour is terribly heavy.

"You have to pack two products per minute. You do not have time to drink water because you go to the toilet after every evening sends messages to the scanner with the target and tells you to hurry."

The survey, compiled by the worker campaign platform Organise, also found that workers felt considerably more anxious after joining Amazon.

Also Amazon has a history of being a sweatshop

https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/inside-amazons-very-hot-warehouse/

In a lengthy and heavily reported article, The Call said a warehouse employee contacted the Occupational Safety and Health Administration on June 2 to report that the heat index in the warehouse had reached 102 degrees, and that 15 workers had collapsed. The employee also said workers who were sent home because of the heat received disciplinary points.

Eight days later, the paper said, an emergency room doctor at a local hospital saw enough Amazon employees suffering from heat-related injuries to call OSHA and report an unsafe environment.

So many ambulances responded to medical assistance calls at the warehouse during a heat wave in May, the paper said, that the retailer paid Cetronia Ambulance Corps to have paramedics and ambulances stationed outside the warehouse during several days of excess heat over the summer. About 15 people were taken to hospitals, while 20 or 30 more were treated right there, the ambulance chief told The Call.

OSHA, which investigated conditions at the warehouse, told Amazon that the way the warehouse was run had the potential to adversely impact employee safety and health.

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Related: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/poultry-workers-denied-bathroom-breaks-wear-diapers-oxfam-report-n572806
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Bezos' wealth is built on this treatment of his workers
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A_Good_Boy posted...

Yup. For as much as Spencer and the alt-right say that getting punched stifled their speech, it was the best thing to ever happen for their speech.

Spencer disagrees

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/17/richard-spencer-college-tour-antifa-alt-right/

RICHARD SPENCER ISNT having fun anymore. In a lengthy YouTube video posted on Sunday, the white nationalist announced that he would be suspending upcoming public speaking engagements and halting his controversial college tour. He said of his rallies, When they become violent clashes and pitched battles, they arent fun.

I really hate to say this, and I definitely hesitate to say this, said the poster boy of the so-called alt-right. Antifa is winning to the extent that theyre willing to go further than anyone else, in the sense that they will do things in terms of just violence, intimidating, and general nastiness. He stated that the willingness of far-left activists to use any means necessary in attempts to shut down his speeches has left the far right up the creek without a paddle.

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pinky0926 posted...

Reminder that he always tried to make a spectacle of himself in the past, but nobody took him seriously enough to warrant any kind of mainstream exposure...until he got punched

The guy got written up in every major outlet two months before he got punched
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The 1890s
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I found it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Rectangular_Stadium
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Is it weird that I'm trying to figure out what stadium that is?
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This shit sucks.
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No, I'm an internationalist.
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Nah it's fine.
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Anteaterking posted...

Occasional reminder that Comey is very very tall.

Also, Stephanopolous is super short
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Why would you comment on Youtube
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Comey's a turd
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I knew a girl in high school who was like that but with oral
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That gif is giving me a headache
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Not putting our full attention on climate change and working to reduce it will be looked on by future generations as a crime
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https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/magazine/donald-trump-rallies-campaigning-president.html
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Clean air
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The first season of the reboot owned, but it declined from there
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