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| Topic | Just sent in my primary absentee ballot |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/29/20 8:58:32 PM #5 | I'm looking forward to voting for Bernie on....August 11th. |
| Topic | Krystal Ball absolutely destroys republicans and democrats |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/29/20 7:49:05 PM #38 | YugiNoob posted... Jeezum crow thats her real name. That seriously sounds like a stripper pseudonymI mean, she was once on the same MSNBC show as S.E. Cupp, Toure, and whatever a Steve Kornacki is. The things you watch when you're unemployed... |
| Topic | Senate Democrats pump brakes on new stimulus checks |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/29/20 7:47:13 PM #7 | Leave it to a fossil like Cardin to try and out deficit scold Republicans. McConnell has already said they won't do further relief, so this is their last shot to avert disaster(or, at least, ameliorate it) before the election. |
| Topic | Friday Night...whatchu drinking on? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/29/20 7:42:20 PM #14 | TheGoldenEel posted... Central Waters is one of the best for barrel aged stouts so I have high expectationsThat looks good: where are they based, out of curiosity? As for me, I have a four-pack of Dogfish Head Palo Santo Maron, a can of Blue Point Rastafarye, and a bottle of East Rock Meyer Lemon Gose. Drinking Rastarye now: it's pretty good. |
| Topic | Why Does this Forum Lean So Heavily Right? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/29/20 7:39:08 PM #38 | EverDownward posted... What? CE is heavily leftist.I wouldn't say leftist, but certainly left-of-center, at least in American terms. |
| Topic | Krystal Ball absolutely destroys republicans and democrats |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/29/20 7:33:19 PM #25 | Secretly posted... Biden would just be Obama 2.0. Americans would be alright under status quoMore like Obama 0.8. That said, his statement on this matter was surprisingly decent, so I hope he doesn't screw it up by, say, picking Klobucop as his VP. Kopmala at least didn't decline to charge a cop who went on to murder some one! |
| Topic | Is 2020 the worst year of your lifetime so far? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/29/20 4:29:35 PM #54 | Personally? No, personally it's been pretty good so far. Except for that, it's total garbage though. |
| Topic | Is your state ready to reopen from Covid? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/28/20 7:11:13 PM #12 | CT has begun opening: most stores are open now, but capacity is heavily restricted. Restaurants may only seat patrons outside, and all tables must be at least 6 ft. apart. On June 1st, they're slated to allow salons and barbers to re-open under restrictions. The state is now offering testing for free in many different places and encouraging citizens to get tested if they feel ill or believe they may have been exposed, which feels like a prelude to full-on contact tracing. Fairfield, New Haven, and Hartford counties were the counties that were most affected(they contain basically all the notable cities and many people living in the former two commute to NYC for work) have all shown a steady decline in active cases for a while now. |
| Topic | thinking about how the french revolution was done with non-violence |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/28/20 4:36:47 PM #12 | Remember how Russians were all like, "We don't want to be brutally oppressed by you anymore" and then the Tsar was all like, "Oh, wow, hey, my bad guys, I'll just abdicate peacefully then", and everything was great until the Bolsheviks got all violent randomly for no reason? |
| Topic | I don't understand why George Floyd's killer hasn't been arrested yet. |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/28/20 2:38:59 PM #8 | If a black man had done that to a white man, he would probably already be full of bullets. A white cop gets to chill at home under police protection, still not even charged. |
| Topic | Are women more prone to be homo/bisexuality tendencies than men? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/28/20 2:36:26 PM #5 | MrNintendo1213 posted... Yes, in that it is more socially acceptable for them to do so. Boys have to hide their need for thicc trap booty because of the gay.I think this is it. Though it is more because of omission than condoning lesbians and women being attracted to women: lesbians were/are barely represented in popular media, whereas there is a long history of gay men being portrayed as weak, effeminate, and worthy of scorn and ridicule. As a millenial, growing up, "gay" was absolutely commonly used in my group as a pejorative. |
| Topic | Pennsylvania Republican legislators hid Covid-19 infection from Dems |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/28/20 2:22:39 PM #2 | Maybe the Democrats will finally realize the Republicans aren't their friends? |
| Topic | Once COVID is over, which jobs are definitely not coming back? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/28/20 2:21:00 PM #42 | A lot of them won't come back. Companies will decide they can do more with less(it's very appealing to them from a fiscal standpoint) and lots of small businesses are just going to straight-up go under. The restaurant business has notoriously tight margins and is going to suffer particularly badly, probably you'll even see some chains go under. In other industries, well, I got loaded up with a bunch of new duties at Whole Foods(mostly cleaning related, but also some inventory related) and I'm probably never going to get out of doing them, even though my "hazard pay" is getting nixed in three days. More work for the same compensation, gotta love it... |
| Topic | What is your personal take on the MN situation? (Cop, riots) |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/28/20 11:35:53 AM #77 | yemmy posted... Haha you're delusional.Call it a little much-needed economic stimulus. Riots are the wages of societal sins. There has been broad awareness of this problem for decades, there have been thousands of protests, most of them peaceful, attempting to draw support and reform of this very problem, and they were ignored. Worse, they were told by many there wasn't a problem at all. Throw in a pandemic and the beginnings of an economic depression, and people have simply borne more than anyone could bear. The cops would never allow these people to attack the real target of their enmity(they would, quite literally, slaughter them first), so they vent their anger elsewhere. https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/donate I would urge anyone the least bit sympathetic to the good people of Minneapolis to donate to this. The cops are going to brutalize anyone they get their hands on. And yet, George Floyd's murderer is still sitting at home.... |
| Topic | America would solve its political problems if people voted for policy |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/28/20 11:10:17 AM #101 | Crazyman93 posted... The Green Party literally put up someone who thinks wifi gives kids brain tumors last election, and took 0% of the vote. It's actually a generous statement.I mean, Jill Stein did try to lift some of Bernie's platform, but it was (rightly) drowned out by her pandering to anti-vaxxers and other assorted idiots. If the Greens can shut out the crazies, this election is probably their best chance since 2000 to reach the magic 5% threshold. I have every confidence they'll screw it up. |
| Topic | Protests erupt in Minneapolis after George Floyd murder |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/28/20 11:02:56 AM #436 | I think America must see that riots do not develop out of thin air. Certain conditions continue to exist in our society which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots. But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity. And so in a real sense our nations summers of riots are caused by our nations winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again. Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention.-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In this time of pain, suffering, and fear, the public murder of George Floyd was what made the situation too much to bear. |
| Topic | Steven Universe Complete, more than a week later. *SERIES SPOILERS* |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/28/20 1:58:03 AM #5 | I think Yellow Diamond was always uncomfortable with shattering gems, and thats why she seems to have made multiple attempts to fix them by jamming gem shards together. She was also obsessed with earning White Diamonds approval Ironically, the Cluster was successful, but only because Steven was able to connect with it and convince it that it didnt need to form or be anything: its countless shards could simply interact with one another, enabling the Cluster to actually become the powerful, reliable weapon Yellow Diamond had dreamed of, except for the part where it wrecked her ship in an arm wrestling contest. In the end, when confronted by Blue and Steven, she breaks down and cries, something she apparently has never done on her own. Just imagine being so out of tune with yourself that you thought your little sister had been murdered for thousands of years and you wont admit to having shed a single autonomous tear for her for fear of your mom thinking youre weak or your sister finally snapping. In the end, Yellow finally does get to fix shatttered gems, but for real! Now that shes learned to use her power over gem forms for healing, she can carefully piece shattered gems together and heal fractures, enabling her to resurrect gems. She even seems to have a system going: she makes them small, to prevent them from harming her or themselves (after all, the last thing they remember is being shattered at the behest of a diamond!) and has a companion gem on hand to help calm them. She is so happy doing this she even talks of working on the Cluster( though, by that point, the Cluster is probably happy as it is), which would be a monumental task ever for an immortal space goddess. |
| Topic | Protests erupt in Minneapolis after George Floyd murder |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/28/20 1:23:02 AM #331 | THERE were two Reigns of Terror, if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the horrors of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terrorthat unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.That's Mark Twain. Some of ya'll treating property damage like it's the Reign of Terror(and the mainstream media certainly will, as capital is its master), so I think it's appropriate. Since the very beginning, this country has brutalized black people. Even in this day and age, when you can load up a video of a cop kneeling on a restrained black man's throat until he asphyxiates(a process that took many minutes), some people still have the nerve to try and gaslight the victims by downplaying it, by telling them to wait for justice that rarely comes from a legal system designed(intentionally and not) to absolve cops to the greatest possible extent. We hold the oppressed to infinitely higher standards than their oppressors. |
| Topic | America would solve its political problems if people voted for policy |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/28/20 12:08:13 AM #98 | FL81 posted... but what if I don't like Biden's policyhttps://twitter.com/JamarrBrown/status/1265827600594845696 You mean, this doesn't appeal to you? |
| Topic | F*** i got coleslaw instead of salad. |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/27/20 9:28:29 PM #15 | My one terrible shopping mistake was accidentally grabbing lactose-free milk. It tasted so weird! |
| Topic | So armed terrorists storm a government building and the cops do nothing |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/27/20 1:37:05 PM #20 | How can the cops arrest themselves, TC? Check&MATE! |
| Topic | America would solve its political problems if people voted for policy |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/27/20 10:44:36 AM #83 | Balrog0 posted... It's also, um, an interesting point being made by someone who wants us to care about the DSA and like AOC and has told me recently there's a reason to not want Kennedy to beat Markey, etcIt's broadly true though? Obviously there's variance between individual candidates, but Democrats and Republicans are typically very distinct ideologically. Also, unrelated, but it's deeply disheartening how far you can go on just your family name in this country. |
| Topic | It's popping OFF in Minnesota right now (George Floyd protests) |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/27/20 10:41:13 AM #44 | If you sow the wind, don't be surprised when you reap the whirlwind. |
| Topic | Regarding mail in ballots...why is going to vote such a hurdle for Democrats? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/27/20 10:09:13 AM #12 | The younger and poorer you are, the less likely you are to have a lot of time to vote. |
| Topic | Oh good, Rahm Emanuel is involved. |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/26/20 3:29:45 PM #4 | mOsT pRoGrEsSiVe NoMinEE eVEr. |
| Topic | Extra $600 boost to unemployment benefits wont survive the next round of talks |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/26/20 2:09:39 PM #3 | SapphireClassic posted... It's unsustainableWhat's unsustainable is a system where millions of people can't make enough money to live on and a system that would rather risk human lives than corporate bottom lines. |
| Topic | America would solve its political problems if people voted for policy |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/26/20 2:00:04 PM #31 | I sincerely doubt Joe Biden cares about his platform. For a recent example: https://www.ontheissues.org/economic/barack_obama_social_security.htm https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/reality-check-obama-cuts-social-security-and-medicare-by-much-more-than-the-gop/274919/ The only reason Obama's attempt at a "grand bargain"(i.e. cutting Social Security and Medicare) failed is because Tea Party Republicans revolted over giving tax increases in exchange. And Barack Obama ran well to Biden's left and didn't have a decades-long record of pushing for such cuts. Remind me again, but what was Biden doing at the time? But, no, I'm sure Biden really means it when he says he won't cut those programs, and I have every confidence that Larry Summers and Rahm Emmanuel will give him great advice on the subject. |
| Topic | Imagine putting mustard on a burger. |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/26/20 1:51:57 PM #28 | Common ketchup doesn't add much. You have to get creative with it to elevate it. Conversely, good mustard is easy to find. Mayonnaise has its place, but unflavored? It's basically just goopy blandness. |
| Topic | So Hillary Clinton has just lost her mind completely, huh? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/26/20 11:25:51 AM #17 | VitalGetPrank posted... She didn't steal the nomination, more people wanted her over Sanders, it's called Democracy and voting for Trump because you're butthurt your guy lost is about the most idiotic thing you can possibly do. You realize his SC justices are going to do whatever they can to make sure progresive policies never happen? Good job kneecapping the progressive movement for most of the rest of your life.LOL Hillary Clinton was never going to do much, and Biden will do even less. Progressive policies don't happen because the people running the Democratic party don't want them to happen, and the media feels the same way. But go ahead, blame the victims, whatever helps you sleep at night. |
| Topic | Have you ever eaten rabbit? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/25/20 9:01:05 PM #9 | Rabbits are quite tasty, would recommend. Not as good as venison though. |
| Topic | Our human capital stock is ready to go back to work |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/25/20 5:48:10 PM #11 | EnragedSlith posted... Theres a great essay from that vp who left Amazon where he talked about the trend of 21st century capitalism treating workers like fungible units. This is a prime example.Trend of 21st-century capitalism? Pretty sure that's just capitalism, friend. |
| Topic | What have you been reading lately? What types of books do you read? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/25/20 11:31:01 AM #11 | I'm currently reading the Egyptian Book of the Dead, or, as they called it: "The Book of Going Forth by Day". Mine has the complete Papyrus of Ani (including scale photos of the scroll itself) and then all the chapters that don't appear in it in the back. |
| Topic | How would you describe the US pandemic response? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/25/20 11:01:17 AM #11 | Disastrously inadequate. Trump is in charge of the federal response and spends most of his time attempting to downplay it or pitching snake oil cures. There have been lots of terrible responses on the state-level as well, including by media darling Andrew Cuomo, who dragged his feet on shutting down, has aggressively opposed relief for renters, cut Medicaid while everyone was distracted by COVID, and is now in a rush to open back up as the bodies continue to pile up in New York City. DeBlasio wasn't any better, of course. |
| Topic | What are you listening to right now? v2 |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/25/20 12:28:46 AM #158 | Hey, how about something a little different? Sarah Stiles - Drift Away (Live Performance of Steven Universe song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ_qDjwY7XQ God, that's such a downer. Let's lift things up a bit... Estelle - True Kinda Love (Live Performance of Steven Universe song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYvy8x6NGJ0 Phew. Removed from context, they constitute only light spoilers. |
| Topic | LOVE: Which romantic attachment style do you exhibit? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/24/20 9:46:08 PM #15 | Closest to anxious. Trying to find love with an anxiety disorder sucks. Its hard to keep it under wraps and women (understandably) interpret some of those behaviors as indicative of danger to themselves. |
| Topic | Do you truly believe Joe Biden is a racist? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/24/20 12:56:34 PM #39 | Jeff_Garcia7 posted... Imagine hand waving the legislation Biden has written and company he kept as simply being out of touch. Oof.Yeah, it requires some mental gymnastics to conclude that Joe Biden repeatedly, over a course of 30+ years, just completely accidentally gave consistent support to legislation which caused disproportionate harm to African Americans and people of color. Oh, here's a doozy: "Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point. We have got to make some move on this." -Joe Biden, 1977, on school integration https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-said-desegregation-would-create-a-racial-jungle-2019-7 This article talks a lot more about his opposition to busing, which also exposes how limited his thinking is Over and beyond that, this guy loved openly-racist segregationists like James Eastland, Jesse Helms, and Strom Thurmond, though of course he wasn't alone in that. |
| Topic | Do you truly believe Joe Biden is a racist? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/24/20 11:29:49 AM #3 | https://twitter.com/aturtlenamedbo1/status/1264570189506646017 "Our culture....it's not imported from some African nation, or some Asian nation. It's our English jurisprudential culture; our European culture..." Sounds like he could be making a vid for PragerU there. |
| Topic | Occupy Wallstreet was pretty fun |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/24/20 12:23:46 AM #8 | KILBOTz posted... Fun but uselessIt was useful enough to be subject to a federally-coordinated law enforcement response. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy It also spawned legacy orgs like Occupy Sandy that have done good work locally. |
| Topic | Hopes for rumored ME trilogy remaster? |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/23/20 7:37:17 PM #5 | Alucard188 posted... If you're going to remaster Mass Effect, make it in ME2's engine. |
| Topic | depressing, sad, melancholy music topic |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/23/20 12:11:40 PM #78 | Dynasty Warriors 8 XL - Karma Against Hard Invasion (Lu Bu Historical - Showdown at Xia Pi 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeBkZZfZjFk Can Lu Bu overcome the odds and defeat the combined might of Cao Cao and Liu Bei? |
| Topic | This anti-Biden Trump ad yeesh |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/22/20 11:13:49 PM #26 | darkphoenix181 posted... First comment:Trump actually did run a reasonably competent campaign the first time around: his team quickly identified a path to 270 and invested basically all of its resources in it, while Hillary basically took Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania for granted while making investments in states like Arizona and Georgia that she was never going to win barring a huge blowout. She literally bought ad time in Salt Lake City. It's possible his campaign will be much dumber this time around(Trump has basically fired everyone that was anything approaching competent in his administration, presumably because they kept telling him not to do whatever he wanted), but I would recommend against betting on it. His team will certainly have no shortage of money for ads(and there'll be plenty of shady ass Super PACs running blatantly pro-Trump ads too, for what it's worth). |
| Topic | Watching Steven Universe for the first time. *gradual spoilers* |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/22/20 10:47:26 PM #499 | Jeff AKA Snoopy posted... I desperately wanted to see Lapis and Peridot fuse, but the trauma of being with Jasper definitely leads to the idea that Lapis would never fuse again.They also decided Peridot with aromantic and asexual, but it doesn't quite square because fusion is not (necessarily) either of those things. I'm disappointed the B-Team never got to fuse(I mean, aside from Malachite). Here we are in the Future, and it's bright! |
| Topic | This anti-Biden Trump ad yeesh |
| ElatedVenusaur 05/22/20 10:44:57 PM #8 | It bears mentioning: although Trump isn't going to win more than ~6% of the black vote(what he won in 2016), he can certainly convince black voters Joe Biden isn't worth their time. Hillary won 91% of black voters, and several polls have shown Biden polling worse than that. If nothing else, it could effectively sap Biden's margin of victory. |
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