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TopicI have my pronouns in my signature.
Orchestrion
01/25/21 5:32:06 PM
#19
Conflict posted...
Lol this topic isn't gonna get modded because mods can't read the obvious trolling between the lines

They think its funny

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TopicI have my pronouns in my signature.
Orchestrion
01/25/21 5:22:03 PM
#4
I totally believe the user who gets modded for posting bigoted shit is doing this in good faith.

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TopicMark_DeRosa is SUSPENDED
Orchestrion
01/25/21 5:00:16 PM
#10
Just fucking ban both his accounts already

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TopicTacoma police officer drives through crowd
Orchestrion
01/25/21 4:50:20 PM
#7
How are we supposed to reform an institution that can do something like this?

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TopicLast month, Lucky Strike filtered cigarettes were reintroduced to the United
Orchestrion
01/25/21 3:32:01 PM
#13
EricDraven59 posted...
Cigarrettes are horrible, imagine the government getting away with letting a product be sold thats killed millions of people and made millions more sick. Can't think of any other product thats allowed on shelves besides alcohol that has done the same. You are literally paying for something to harm yourself or to die by. Cancer is no joke and i wish all tobacco companies would disappear. And i am using that term to not be modded.

Mass produced cigarettes are horrible, Ill agree with you on that. But tobacco is a sacred, grounding herb to many indigenous cultures. Capitalist greed has created an industry that has harmed countless people. Tobacco itself is not the issue.

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TopicSenator Rob Portman (R-OH) to retire, cites "partisan gridlock"
Orchestrion
01/25/21 2:23:34 PM
#11
Alpha218 posted...
Too bad Lebron ditched the Cavs to go with the Lakers, or I couldve seen him getting tapped (hes been very outspoken politically and he couldve had a shot at the seat)

Please tell me this is a joke.

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TopicCalifornia to lift stay at home orders tomorrow
Orchestrion
01/25/21 1:54:02 PM
#56
Pitbuller_26 posted...
A loud minority that tends to have law enforcement supporting them.

Hence why we see a lot of sheriff departments not enforcing mask mandates and not even wearing masks themselves.

Yet covid was the #1 killer of cops last year.

But it gives them a chance to spread Covid to service workers and people of color, so they have to stay true to their ideals even if it kills them.

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TopicBiden is apparently not being pushed left on healthcare???
Orchestrion
01/25/21 10:41:45 AM
#85
Antifar posted...
Note: 0 Republicans voted for it. Democrats compromised with themselves.

Im bad at making jokes online.

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TopicBiden is apparently not being pushed left on healthcare???
Orchestrion
01/25/21 10:36:09 AM
#82
SuperShake666 posted...
I agree but again, it hasn't even been a week. Let's get some COVID relief going so families can get food and then we can start beating them up over healthcare.

Good point. Im with you on that.

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TopicBiden is apparently not being pushed left on healthcare???
Orchestrion
01/25/21 10:33:06 AM
#77
Balrog0 posted...
I don't think we'll see any health care legislation at all. I don't think they have the votes for it. But I wouldn't expect to see it in a covid relief bill either way. I think it would take a while to get everything ready administratively, not to mention the political negotiations

What makes you think they dont have the votes for it?

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TopicBiden is apparently not being pushed left on healthcare???
Orchestrion
01/25/21 10:28:40 AM
#72
SuperShake666 posted...
Bunch of fucking Chicken Littles. It hasn't even been a week, nobody can solve all the problems in this time. Goddamn.

How about we give it some time to prevent people from fucking dying.

Medicare for all would literally prevent millions of people from dying. How are you able to exist with this much cognitive dissonance?

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TopicSo... Trump is Shadow president
Orchestrion
01/25/21 10:09:24 AM
#8
TopicBiden is apparently not being pushed left on healthcare???
Orchestrion
01/25/21 9:54:04 AM
#58
CableZL posted...
1. Why do people keep speaking as if the House, the Senate, and the White House are the 3 branches of government?
2. Obama did get things done during his first 2 years. I'm pretty sure that's when the ACA passed, for one.

ACA was a massive compromise with Republicans.

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TopicBiden is apparently not being pushed left on healthcare???
Orchestrion
01/25/21 8:38:00 AM
#27
Dems have complete control and people are already making excuses for their inaction. This is going to be an incredibly frustrating two years. Would love to get proven wrong by the obnoxious centrists on this site but I dont think thats gonna happen.

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TopicBidens director of health
Orchestrion
01/20/21 10:03:49 PM
#93
FlameTurtle posted...
I like how conflict's post was modded, and nothing else ITT was touched



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TopicBidens director of health
Orchestrion
01/20/21 6:52:17 PM
#82
I know the mods tend to ignore transphobic shitposting, but seeing a mod make a shitty photoshop as a joke in an obviously transphobic topic was a real surprise.

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TopicI have some cigars
Orchestrion
01/20/21 3:54:04 PM
#8
The23rdMagus posted...
Hell, the wind's died down today. I may head out to the front porch with a maduro myself.

I mostly keep a humidor because cigars smell nice, but I'll have a smoke once a month or so. Can't make it through anything larger than a robusto in one sitting.

I pretty much stick with petit corona or smaller. I generally only smoke when Im raking leaves/doing yard work or using the snow blower and I just dont have the patience for a robusto or larger. I smoke mostly Cubans at this point which thankfully have a ton of smaller vitola options.

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TopicI have some cigars
Orchestrion
01/20/21 3:38:37 PM
#3
Whatcha got? I smoked one this morning while cutting some fallen trees out of my woods.

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TopicSeriously, those who are Democrats. Why are you involved in the party?
Orchestrion
01/20/21 10:06:31 AM
#53
monkmith posted...
its gonna take a solid chunk of his presidency to reverse a lot of the crap trump did. hopefully with the loss of control in the senate the republicans wont be able to go back to obstruction mode again...


Biden has already expressed his interest in working with McConnell to share power. Its not that Bidens administration is unable to make material changes, its that they simply dont want to.

I would love nothing more than to be proven wrong and be exposed as a cynical dipshit, but the dude hasnt even been sworn in and people are already making excuses for him and his administrations lack of action.

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TopicPence to attend Inaguration, skip Trumps farewell ceremony
Orchestrion
01/20/21 9:57:49 AM
#6
Trying to save his raggedy ass.

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TopicDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s thoughts on Capitalism:
Orchestrion
01/20/21 9:32:29 AM
#136
Corporate entities controlling the government is good, actually

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TopicI really don't like this slope we're slipping down
Orchestrion
01/20/21 8:57:55 AM
#82
Sad_Face posted...
True. But Apple and Google could have removed the apps from their app stores.

I honestly rather would not discuss this further with you because I have a history of getting suspended when arguing politics and I need my account to last till the end of the week. I'm at my wit's end here. Sorry.

Is something big supposed to happen at the end of the week?


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TopicI really don't like this slope we're slipping down
Orchestrion
01/20/21 8:27:34 AM
#74
CableZL posted...
1. Google, Amazon, and Apple each have their own terms of service and acceptable use policies.
2. Google, Amazon, and Apple each have their own moderation systems. They're far from perfect, but they explicitly forbit inciting violence as a part of their terms, so people who do that can't reasonably complain about getting banned.
3. Parler, being hosted on Amazon AWS, was bound to Amazon AWS' terms of service.
4. Parler repeatedly and deliberately ignored notices from Amazon about the violations on their platform.

Google, Amazon, and Apple weren't colluding. They were just pushed to take action because people were inciting violence that actually turned into 5 people dying as a result of their actions at the capitol.

Sad_Face is a legit Qanon/Pizzagate truther. Engaging with them is a fools errand.


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TopicBlack Panther is a top tier movie...
Orchestrion
01/20/21 8:15:38 AM
#49
ghostblob posted...
Literally CIA propaganda with terrible cinematography and cgi

So is every Marvel movie but youve only shared this sizzling hot take when Black Panther gets praised.

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TopicBiden's 17 day one executive orders
Orchestrion
01/20/21 7:56:27 AM
#7
100 Days Masking Challenge bruh this is a global pandemic not TikTok

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TopicI really don't like this slope we're slipping down
Orchestrion
01/19/21 10:37:01 PM
#2
Of course this is an alt whining about being called a Nazi

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TopicDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s thoughts on Capitalism:
Orchestrion
01/19/21 10:35:06 PM
#126
Once you study the objective science of Economics, you will never see the world to same way again. The world is not, in fact, a globe, but actually a series of numbers.
I find it particularly pleasurable when the GDP number goes up. Just last week, a small Latin American country privatised a previously informal sector of it's economy, allowing the humans of this industry the privilege to perform labour for a multinational and thus contribute to a larger GDP figure.

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TopicDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s thoughts on Capitalism:
Orchestrion
01/19/21 7:09:08 PM
#88
What made you think I wanted to have a discussion with you

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TopicSo who taught Anakin how to become a force ghost?
Orchestrion
01/19/21 7:04:51 PM
#36
shockthemonkey posted...
I knew he supposedly learned to live forever but I guess I never paid attention to how he did it.

Like I always figured that meant physically staying alive was the unnatural part, not taking over someone else.

Is all this shit in the movies?
Am I supposed to be paying attention?!

Its not a story the Jedi would tell you. Its a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.


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TopicDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s thoughts on Capitalism:
Orchestrion
01/19/21 7:01:44 PM
#83
MajesticFerret posted...
Yeah, 80B is chump change when you divide it by every American.

Or are you implying it should just go to you? What makes you more worthy of having it than him?

Sounds like your just salty Capitalism is a losing game for you. The mega rich in America are not so rich they can fix America's problems. I'lf you took all the wealth of the mega rich and equally divided by every American, it would change nothing. The poor wouldn't get enough of a bump to lift them from poverty and the middle class would enjoy the free money, but wouldn't need it.

Nah son, the meritocracy in US is a-ok. There being .000001% of Americans that are billionaires isn't the reason you are broke. Stop your bitching and get better at saving and this wouldn't be an issue.

Are you aware that there are people in this world that have a severe medical condition which causes them to be that way? My mother for instance is one of those people. She is a truck driver that has bad knees and a bad back from driving the truck but you probably do not care about that case either. Oh well I am not one of those people I am 6'4" 245lbs and I exercise every day. I would love to see you say something like to my mother in front of me. Probably never happen though you are probably just an internet tough guy. I doubt very seriously you would say that to someones face. Just my thought.What do you think. Oh I am sorry you probably do not have a brain. I on the other hand will be happy to buy you a plane ticket to come here and see if you have the nerve to say that to someone I know.


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TopicSo who taught Anakin how to become a force ghost?
Orchestrion
01/19/21 6:59:39 PM
#24
shockthemonkey posted...
Was that how his eternal life worked? He took over other peoples bodies?

I dont keep up on Star Wars lore, clearly

The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be...unnatural.

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TopicSo who taught Anakin how to become a force ghost?
Orchestrion
01/19/21 6:58:37 PM
#22
Wow, Anakin, you really are The Return of the Jedi.

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TopicDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s thoughts on Capitalism:
Orchestrion
01/19/21 6:51:07 PM
#78
MajesticFerret posted...
I can't take these topics seriously because they become nothing more than huge cringy whine fest where everyone just whines they don't have it good enough when most of the lower class in America have substantially higher living standards, spending power, and CONSUME and SPEND much more than the poor and often even middle class of most countries and just bitch and whine it's never enough.

Prior to the pandemic we had record high growth and unemployment with an economy so damn good you had to pretty much try not to get a job to not have one. Mean, median, and mode income levels were on the rise.

Most of the hyper rich are rich off of fake money anyways. You think if Elon flooded the market with his 180B in stocks he could sell them all? No, they would plummet in price due to supply and demand. Stocks have a theoretical value based on the assumption that if the current market remains as is they are worth what they are. Any billionaire tries to "cash out" their stock plummets due to market oversaturation. Most of these guys net worth is an arbitrary number that people that don't understand stocks at all look at with envy when they don't understand what the hell it actually means. These guys don't have hundreds of billions in liquid spending power. Most have less than a few hundred mill in the bank at any given time. They are not sitting on billions of dollars, they are sitting an an imaginary share of a company that is valued on the contingency that someone else is willing to buy all of these shares at the exact price they are sold at.

If you held Musk at gun point and made him cash in all of his stocks, his stocks would plummet in value due to no one being able to buy 180B worth in stock and his 180B evaluation based on stocks would massively depreciate into probably less than 80B, which divided by all the people in the US gives a whopping barely $200 pay out to each American...

And finally, all of the entire net worth of every mega wealthy in the US only makes up a fraction of what the US gov spends every single yr, and that's not even taking into account the ramifications of just punishing every successful person just for being successful and what effect that would have on the market.

Most of these posts are just salty people complaining about the rich when funnily enough, most wage complaints are not coming from people who work for billionaires, it's coming from everyone who works for non-hyper wealthy corporations because these corporations can't employ everyone in the nation and then people complain when their non-rich employers aren't paying them unrealistically high salaries they can't afford. "If you can't afford to pay someone a LivInG WaGe (which seems to change every 10 seconds), you shouldn't be in business!" Cool, so let's let literally put every non mega corp out of business and everyone unemployed because no one can seem to agree what is adequate pay when almost every American gets paid well over global market value for their work...

So you agree that money isnt real and labor provides value and most employers rely on exploiting labor to make a profit


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TopicI just don't like Fallout 4. I've tried several times to get into it.
Orchestrion
01/19/21 6:11:10 PM
#4
I bought the GOTY edition a few months ago for like $5-6 and have played maybe 10 hours of it but its so goddamn boring and unwieldy. Im still only level 4-5 but I dont really have any desire to play more.

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TopicFor one week, you have to go for a 15-minute walk through the streets of Detroit
Orchestrion
01/19/21 5:59:51 PM
#22
You say you cant pace back and forth but you say it has to cover 2 blocks as if thats a long distance to walk in 15 minutes

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TopicIs it an edgy opinion to think it's irresponsible to get pregnant during
Orchestrion
01/19/21 5:56:21 PM
#2
Who the fuck cares. Not my business.

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TopicHuge lines at the malarkey store today
Orchestrion
01/19/21 4:50:27 PM
#2
Thankfully theyre doing curbside pickup at my malarkey store. No need to deal with the crowds.

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TopicLast game you played and beverage you drank?
Orchestrion
01/19/21 4:46:51 PM
#15
Shadow of War
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale

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TopicHow did George W. Bush gets two terms but not Trump?
Orchestrion
01/19/21 2:55:06 PM
#36
Duncanwii posted...
The terrorists that killed 2000 people started the war.

Why do you even bother making posts about global politics

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TopicOn December 14, 2012 the Sandy Hook massacre happened
Orchestrion
01/19/21 11:25:55 AM
#29
SergeantGander posted...
Calling for payback towards Republicans, rather than seeking unity going forward.

Antifa causing lots of damage the last year.

You can disagree with the antifa statements, but there has been lots of hateful rhetoric over the past 4 years.

Which doesn't really help us move away from the polarization we currently find ourselves in.

Comparing people marching/rioting in response to racist violence to people marching/rioting in support of a literal murderous conspiracy theory and white nationalism. Real big brain stuff going on here.

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Topic"In 1935, the minimum hourly wage in the U.S. was set at 25¢.
Orchestrion
01/19/21 11:17:20 AM
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Topicso i never knew the central park 5 story
Orchestrion
01/19/21 9:36:42 AM
#6
Just found out about racism, damn that shit sucks man

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TopicFired Florida data scientist turned herself in and catches COVID-19 in jail.
Orchestrion
01/19/21 8:46:10 AM
#5
Florida has been lying about their numbers since the beginning. This woman simply shared the real data and DeSantis sent the police after her. The party of small government. Fuck anyone who supports DeSantis or the Republican Party.

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TopicWhen do you think we'll get the $1400?
Orchestrion
01/19/21 8:42:38 AM
#7
Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...
How exactly? Dems can pass whatever they want

They dont want to pass anything

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TopicLauren Boebert in Deep Manure Now
Orchestrion
01/18/21 12:29:11 PM
#33
She and Madison Cawthorn need to go.

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