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| Topic | Meet the Democrat running against Mitch McConnell |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/10/19 8:02:55 PM #27 | HiddenRoar posted... To imagine all the money progressives donated to her just to now hear stuff from her like "I'd have confirmed Kavanaugh" and "I support Trump's agenda" Yeah, this is why I always hold up. At this rate, shes going to equivocate on who she voted for in 2016. I mean, I realize Kentucky is a red state, but the Republicans have a perfectly evil snapping turtle to vote for. She needs to inspire the states beleaguered Democrats to have a shot, and, well, this aint it. |
| Topic | Chuck Schumer received thousands in donations from Epstein. |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/10/19 6:15:09 PM #7 | You post this like I already didnt hate Schumer. I would be happy to see anyone involved with that scum Epstein torn down. What about you, TC? |
| Topic | Boris Johnson wants to suspend Parliament to get Brexit done. |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/10/19 2:31:31 PM #4 | Sounds totally legit. Why bother with elected legislatures at all? Just have one dude making all the decisions holding all the power, never backfires. |
| Topic | accidentally got my gf gregnant |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/09/19 10:45:05 PM #15 | Is your girlfriend a thicc alien, perhaps with a body of hard light projected from a gemstone? |
| Topic | When's Trump going to make peace with Iran? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/09/19 7:46:21 PM #13 | brestugo posted... FL81 posted...Why are we even still on such bad terms with Iran in the first place? The Iran hostage crisis was a whole 40 years ago. Also we encouraged and materially supported Saddam Husseins invasion of Iran, which was really horrible. He then invaded Kuwait after losing, so that went about as well as our meddling normally does. |
| Topic | Do you believe all the sources you use are fair and unbiased? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/09/19 7:05:37 PM #5 | All sources are biased. There is bias in how news is presented, and in what news is and is not presented. Bias is also different from say, making something up whole-clothe. Bias is present even if we attempt to minimize it. |
| Topic | I feel the male suicide epidemic is only going to get worse. |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/09/19 2:21:36 PM #35 | I mean, we're creating a society of despair over here. You can work 80 hours a week and not make ends meet, and even if you're doing well, odds are you're doing worse than your parent's generation. Real wages haven't grown, real income for most is declining, healthcare and a college education are more expensive now than ever, and are proportionally much more expensive now than they were even a decade or two ago. The housing market is the playground of speculators and gentrifiers, and decreased incomes and increased debt loads of the average person means good housing is out of reach for many, if not most. It's easy to feel like things won't get better, either, because they've demonstrably been getting worse for a long while, and not much has been done or is being done to fix it. Good luck saving for retirement, because nobody is any rush to patch up Social Security*. It's little wonder so many people turn to opioids to ease the pain. *Except for Boomers. And don't you even dare suggest we raise the cap on the payroll tax, that's unrealistic. What's realistic is that everyone will work to 75+ or starve. I mean, you cannot ever discount the societal factors. There's ample reason to be anxious and depressed in our country today, and trying to sugar-coat what's happening is akin to putting lipstick on a pig. |
| Topic | First person to drop out of Dem president race |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/08/19 3:15:36 PM #18 | He's passing the torch, I guess. |
| Topic | Can anyone provide specific reasons why Hillary Clinton was a bad candidate? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/08/19 3:13:15 PM #27 | Some general ones... 1) Her campaign was based in Brooklyn and ran entirely based on analyzing current polls and demographics to understand the status of the race. Apparently, warnings from politicians and campaign staff "on the ground" in pivotal states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania were discounted as being baseless, when in fact they were early-warning signs that the race was changing and the campaign needed to invest more in those areas. This meant Clinton's campaign was sluggish and slow to respond to changing conditions. 2) She basically campaigned on boiler-plate notions, like "Stronger Together" and countered "Make America Great Again" with "America is already great!" which to many felt like it erased their very real struggles and problems(as well as their imagined ones). 3) Basically none of her policy proposals were ambitious, but just tinkering, here and there. That made her seem unconcerned and doesn't fire anyone up(something like 100 million voters stayed home). 4) Being tied to Bill didn't help her much: combined with the above two factors and her association with Obama, it painted her as representing a status quo not many liked. 5) Scandals. Most were made up of course, but it made it easy for the media to lazily smear her and Trump with the same brush. 6)Her campaign was also allegedly bad about coordinating with local Democratic campaigns, leading to a lot of inefficiencies which helped to negate some of her money advantage. |
| Topic | Millionaire pedophile friend of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton arrested |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/08/19 3:01:45 PM #26 | Crono99 posted... Imagine if the girl who licked ice cream will get a harsher sentence than him... Well, she's black and probably middle class at best, so... |
| Topic | What are some historical inaccuracies that make you MAD |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/08/19 2:54:49 PM #23 | Oh, here's a good one: that the Austrian-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires were on the verge of collapse. They were, in fact, quite stable. The former had made a number of reforms prior to the First World War which gave virtually all subjects representation in Parliament and many areas had local autonomy. The Ottoman Empire, for its part, also had an elective government(though the sultan and some unelected ministers still possessed broad power), and the argument that its subjects could either enjoy its rule, or be ruled by imperialistic Christians was actually pretty effective. The "Arab Revolt" was actually just the Emir of Hejaz calculating that the British would be better patrons than the Turks(and also he thought the Turks were going to depose him soon), and the famous Arab army led by Prince Feisal and T.E. Lawrence was primarily composed of Arabic soldiers who had been serving in the Ottoman army before being captured by the British and given the option to serve in Feisal's army or remain prisoners. They were actually useful in Allenby's campaigns, but were never the center-piece. Also, while we're on the subject, the British also had another Arabian client: Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, in Nejd. He and Emir Hussein of Hejaz were bitter rivals, yet the British continued funding both even after the war, at least until Ibn Saud conquered the Hejaz and proclaimed Saudi Arabia. So they were basically paying them to fight each other. The British continued to antagonize Ibn Saud by crowing Feisal and his brother Abdullah. The former first in Syria(the French formally controlled the area and evicted him, as he wasn't pliable enough for their liking) and then Iraq. The latter was crowned king of Transjordan(now just Jordan), which the British had originally intended to be part of their "Jewish National Home". Did I mention no one in Iraq wanted to be ruled by some Bedouin guy from the Hejaz they had barely ever heard of? |
| Topic | What are some historical inaccuracies that make you MAD |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/08/19 2:13:52 PM #17 | Yeah, IIRC, of the battles Alexander fought against the Persians were pretty close for a while, it's just that he was very capable of turning a break into a full-rout(and undoubtedly the figures given to us by Greek historians in regards to disparities in army sizes and casualties are a bit exaggerated). And Macedonian phalanx were an entirely different animal than Greek hoplites. Hoplites usually wielded a spear that was about 7-8 feet in length. A Macedonian sarisa was 13-20 ft. long. It was incredibly difficult for most things to get into attacking range from the front. So yeah, completely different animal, and for a while they made fools of basically every other kind of infantry. Plus, Alexander inherited a lot of experienced commanders and was both uncommonly bold and a master tactician. He was incredibly adept at appearing in the most unlikely places in even short time-frames. |
| Topic | Do you think tom brady is the best football qb in history? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/06/19 9:28:29 PM #17 | voldothegr8 posted... He has never been the best in pure skills. He's still great but he's lucky he got the GOAT coach who knows the importance of keeping a QB protected. Not even that: Belichick has been on the cutting-edge schematically basically his entire time with the Patriots. He was always a defensive mastermind, but he became equally competent in offense and special teams as well. No other coach has set the schematic tone for the league like he has, and none for anywhere near as long, either. On the other hand, you have goobers like Mike McCarthy, who had one good idea once fifteen years ago and got hired on that basis, and dinosaurs like Tony Dungy who think "innovation" is an dirty word. |
| Topic | Biden loses half of his black support overnight. |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/06/19 9:24:30 PM #27 | Rusty_Shacklefo posted... Is Biden the Jeb! of this cycle? I don't think Biden has any "hard" support, by which I mean most of his support is by virtue of name recognition and familiarity. Like, Harris is basically Biden ideologically but young and "woke". Buttigieg has managed to attract a lot of donor support, but seems dead in the water with anyone who isn't white. I now think it's more likely than not the top three are going to be Sanders, Harris, and Warren. I don't think Biden is smart or self-effacing enough to change course, so he'll just keep torpedoing himself. |
| Topic | Would assassinating Hitler during WW2 have stopped the Nazis? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/06/19 9:10:46 PM #17 | Nah, the Nazis were pretty hell-bent on the war, and the general staff was too until they started losing. I would say that removing Hitler may have prolonged the war, but they could have easily ended up with Himmler or Goering in charge, and they would probably have been even more blood-thirsty and dumb. But really, the general staff wasn't much better than those ghouls anyway. Their biggest beef weren't any of the atrocities, but that they were losing and Hitler was a micro-managing idiot. |
| Topic | I saw an Extended Edition box set of The Hobbit trilogy while at Walmart today. |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/06/19 8:59:09 PM #9 | PrideOfLion posted... I mean to be fair, the book is really short and glosses over things. There's entire discussions and battles summed up with one or two sentences, so two movies isn't really crazy. Yeah, I feel like The Hobbit could easily be two movies, with more attention paid to some of the battles so you have spectacular set-pieces, but they made it, like, 3 movies averaging over 2 and a half hours each. They basically wanted it to be Lord of the Rings, which is missing the entire point of the book. |
| Topic | Do you think tom brady is the best football qb in history? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/06/19 8:53:11 PM #6 | No, he wouldn't have been this successful without Belichick. The man in the hoody is your GOAT. Brady is a great QB, don't get me wrong, but it's easy to imagine his career playing out like Peyton Manning's or Drew Brees' or even Aaron Rodgers' or Dan Marino's. |
| Topic | Tales of Vesperia is really grinding my gears rn *spoilers* |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/06/19 8:43:37 PM #40 | LostForest posted... Delirious_Beard posted...Garioshi posted...The technobabble here is even worse than Tales of the Abysd holy shit Yeah, Tales games tend to be pretty bad about that, but Vesperia is one of the worst offenders. It's still the best one(at least of the ones I've played) IMO. Abyss is even worse though. |
| Topic | What are you listening to right now? V5 |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/06/19 8:41:02 PM #313 |  Decided just to listen to everything Bowie's did, and that's the point where I'm at. It's definitely a high point. Also, the Venture Bros. episode Ghosts of the Sargasso references this song and Space Oddity(right down to having an astronaut named Major Tom!), because that show is a damned treasure, though perhaps not on the same level as Bowie himself. |
| Topic | Cory Booker breaks the law while on the campaign trail. #coyotebooker |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/06/19 5:38:30 PM #6 | So, he helped asylum-seekers come and apply for asylum? That's decidedly legal. |
| Topic | Ordered Super Mario Sunshine, Galaxy, and Galaxy 2 off of Ebay |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/06/19 5:33:53 PM #12 | Play them sequentially. You're in for a treat(especially with the Galaxy games, IMO). |
| Topic | Biden vows to bring back individual mandate penalty |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/06/19 4:28:52 PM #18 | TiamatNM posted... The mandate was still on my tax return this year. Is that question going to be gone next year? Oh, it still exists in a statutory sense, its just that the penalty is $0.00. |
| Topic | Biden vows to bring back individual mandate penalty |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/06/19 4:15:28 PM #12 | Damn_Underscore posted... Obamacare is watered-down trash, this just shows how backwards Biden is. Its an excellent argument against liberal incrementalism. Its better than nothing(mostly due to pre-existing conditions protections, allowing people to stay on their parents insurance until 26, and the Medicaid expansion), but its not all that popular and is relatively easy to undermine. Most of the problems with our healthcare system still exist. Having access to healthcare isnt helpful if you cant afford it. |
| Topic | 'Progressive boomers are making it impossible for cities to fix housing crisis' |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/06/19 11:50:47 AM #11 | meestermj posted... As someone who works in retail: |
| Topic | Which country will turn into a fascist state in the coming decades? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/05/19 11:50:22 PM #7 | I voted too hastily: Hungary basically already is Fascist(and Russia 100% is, but I assume that's a given). Poland is well along the path as well. Both the U.S. and Brazil have fascistic presidents, though I don't think either will entirely succumb yet(even if Trump or Bolsonaro get re-elected). Neither is as far from the event horizon as I would like though. Italy has an ineffectual centrist outsider party in coalition with a fascist party, and the rest of the political spectrum appears just as devoid of answers. Fascism could win by default(appropriately, Mussolini's granddaughter is involved). Germany is unique, in that the ruling center-right party is unpopular and their one-time rivals, the supposed Socialist Democratic Party, seem hell-bent on going down with their coalition partner's ship. Even so, Germany doesn't appear to be near the event horizon yet. The UK, well, I actually have hope for the UK, because Corbyn is running on a platform that could douse the flames and Labour is now leading in most GE polls, but the British media and many in his own party seem intent on sabotaging him. If they're successful, the Fash will win. I worry about France though: Macron sucks and only won election because he wasn't Marine Le Pen. If the presidential election was today, Le Pen might well win on the virtue of not being Emmanuel Macron. Really, this is a specter that threatens virtually all European and American states. |
| Topic | Who are your favorite villains ever? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/05/19 2:18:41 PM #21 | -Bat(Digital Devil Saga) -Metromind(Primordia) -Lucifer(SMT: Nocturne) |
| Topic | Moral Dilemma: How would you handle Mass Effect's Aeia dilemma? (Spoilers) |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/05/19 2:09:16 PM #6 | ROBANN_88 posted... was this the one with Jacobs dad? Yes. The only moral thing is to prioritize the people repairing the distress beacon for safe food, but not to cut anyone loose and keep everyone apprised of the situation. Do everything you can to minimize people's exposure to the toxin and have your med officer look into ways of mitigating and managing the effects(if only to give the crew some hope). If that blows up in your face, well, you still did better than Jacob's dad, and probably there are more survivors for Shepherd to rescue in the end. |
| Topic | "Seinfeld" 30th anniversay is today |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/05/19 1:46:19 PM #7 | Ah, that would be why TBS is marathoning it. I watched for a bit: it was and still is a genuinely funny show. |
| Topic | Was the Betsy Ross flag racist to you before this week? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/04/19 11:49:09 PM #6 | Literally flag-hugging weirdos angry they can't tread on the flag with every step. |
| Topic | Ariel should have maintained her iconic look. |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/04/19 11:46:50 PM #45 | They have humans play aliens all the time, even though Bjork is right there. I literally can't see the problem here. Ariel is a fictional character in a fictional universe, and it is not as though Disney is planning to scour the animated classic from the face of the Earth. They cast a black woman to be a mermaid. Deal with it, cupcakes. |
| Topic | Who is your default character in Mario games? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/04/19 11:27:54 AM #8 | Bowser. Gotta be large and in charge. |
| Topic | Can you put Narwhal DNA into a horse embryo and get a unicorn? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/04/19 11:27:10 AM #5 | You want rhinoceros DNA: the narwhal's "horn" is actually a tooth. Kalavinka posted... You want a horse that constantly drags a tooth along the ground? As already pointed out. |
| Topic | New 2020 Primary Poll: Biden, Bernie down, Harris, Warren up. |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/01/19 7:47:37 PM #19 | Again, it's important to remember there is no such thing as a national primary: the first month of primaries is Iowa(caucus), New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada(caucus). Candidates who win and/or perform well in multiple contests are likely to see their national standing improve. It's not until March 3rd that you have a lot of contests all at once(including California, Texas, Massachusetts, and Virginia). Hell, no one votes at all until February 3rd! So, if your beloved candidate isn't where you want them to be, there's plenty of time for that to change. And you can be a part of that! |
| Topic | Inside the Secret Border Patrol FB Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/01/19 7:34:36 PM #50 | tullock posted... Vyrulisse posted...Doctors and Nurses often joke about patients. When you work in a field that deals with death you're going to have gallows humor as stated before. This is not a secret and it's known. Gallows Humor is a coping mechanism. We should provide them with jail cells to help them "cope" with "it". |
| Topic | New 2020 Primary Poll: Biden, Bernie down, Harris, Warren up. |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/01/19 7:32:31 PM #14 | M_Live posted... Bernie needs to step it up :( Bernie's doing fine. These polls are too far out from actual polling to tell us anything about anything save macro trends. This is the time to be quiet and build out your campaign infrastructure. |
| Topic | how 2 play crusader Kings 2 |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/01/19 5:18:37 PM #11 | Opening your heart to Satan always works and never has debilitating side-effects. |
| Topic | Friendly reminder: Julian Castro does not fluently speak Spanish |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/01/19 5:14:09 PM #22 | Smashingpmkns posted... What did she do good at the debate other than calling Biden out and lying? Also most other polls do not have Harris that high. Probably her "mom" moment. I, for one, would have loved to see a food fight. And I don't fault Gillibrand for being desperate for any and all air-time, given her standing in the polls. The truth of the matter is that most people know next-to-nothing about any of these candidates. They know Biden primarily as Obama's VP, Bernie as that old dude who primaried Hillary, etc. etc. They probably know less about Harris, but now they feel like she's smart and articulate and "in control" or whatever. I mean, most polls I've seen about the debate suggest people like freaking Amy Klobuchar better now. |
| Topic | Friendly reminder: Julian Castro does not fluently speak Spanish |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/01/19 2:32:31 PM #16 | The Trent posted... most important: does anyone other than the hippie moonlove authorlady speak fluently to our souls? No, Marianne Williamson is our only hope to win the fight for the Astral Plane. |
| Topic | Dr. Wiley or Dr. Robotnik |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/01/19 1:43:35 PM #3 | There was some cross-over comic where they became total bros or something. |
| Topic | Friendly reminder: Julian Castro does not fluently speak Spanish |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/01/19 1:36:40 PM #6 | Yeah, apparently his grandparents spoke it, but it was looked down upon, so his parents never learned to speak it and neither has he. https://twitter.com/KasieDC/status/1145512254030454784 |
| Topic | "Frankenstein is the Doctor, not the monster!" |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/01/19 12:09:41 PM #24 | King_Hellebuyck posted... Squall28 posted...Skye Reynolds posted...berlyman101 posted...The thing is, Dr. Frankenstein is the real monster oooOOOOoooohh Also, it's beautifully written. There's this slow, creeping inevitability to it, and the very pertinent question of how reliable the narrator is. And it's depressing as all hell, but then so was Mary Shelley's life, so she was just writing what she knew, really. |
| Topic | Should Democrats take the advice of Never Trump Republicans in 2020? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/01/19 12:04:26 PM #6 | Caution998 posted... BLAKUboy posted..."Never Trump Republicans" do not actually exist. So no I don't think we should listen to admitted liars. Deeply concerned. But rarely troubled enough not to support Trump or do anything concrete to prevent his election/oppose his agenda. |
| Topic | Should Democrats take the advice of Never Trump Republicans in 2020? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/01/19 12:01:08 PM #4 | Their success in preventing the nomination and election of Donald Trump is indicative of how seriously their advice should be taken. |
| Topic | What Sonic games have the best soundtracks? |
| ElatedVenusaur 07/01/19 1:39:33 AM #21 | Scotty_Rogers posted... Bringing up Generations and Mania is cheating, since they're full of remixes. The remixes are never worse than the originals, and some are better(Oil Ocean and Metallic Madness come to mind). Then you have the original tracks for Studiopolis, Press Garden, Mirage Saloon(though the Knuckles variants are remixes), and Titanic Monarch(two of the best tracks on the OST, IMO), as well as the rad boss themes. Just the original music alone is enough to put it into contention. |
| Topic | Real life Bruce Wayne plans to donate his fortune to help re-elect Trump. |
| ElatedVenusaur 06/30/19 10:51:12 PM #6 | Apparently, he really believes in concentration camps for Central American refugees. |
| Topic | Would hate fuck Kamala Harris |
| ElatedVenusaur 06/30/19 1:36:21 AM #7 | I give Kamala props for gutting Biden like a fish, but she was pretty much a bog-standard prosecutor: that is, she was a bad one. And she doesnt think so. I think she would beat Trump handily enough, but squander her presidency(much as Obama did). |
| Topic | Mexico to stop hosting NFL due to being broke. This year could be the last game. |
| ElatedVenusaur 06/29/19 4:17:09 PM #21 | NOM posted... s0nicfan posted...dmorrissey posted...Mexico doesnt want to profit because they need money? Mexico is also historically rife with corruption, and the NFL isn't exactly scrupulous either. Without knowing the details of Mexico's deal with the NFL, it's impossible to say anything for sure. I do very much doubt that much of the profit would make its way to Mexico City or the Mexican government though. |
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