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DarkTransient posted...

Can the Democrats please just fucking run a reasonable, moderate candidate?

Hillary Clinton was the moderate candidate
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The worse a candidate you believe Hillary to have been, the worse you should feel about Trumps chances of re-election
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He's a toady
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Hadn't played a Skate game until playing 3 on Xbox One. Good stuff
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Was the President just making shit up? It's possible https://wapo.st/2CH1AkN
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Skye Reynolds posted...

Antifar posted...

Skye Reynolds posted...

If Nintendo wanted Legend of Zelda to be the Adventures of Happy Sunshine Kid,

To what extent do or did they want this?

I think it's weird to suggest Wind Waker is something they had in mind when developing OoT, which was released more than four years (and a whole console) earlier. Famously, the Gamecube was shown off in 2000 with a Zelda tech demo that was much darker in tone than what Wind Waker would be:

Hell, even WW was followed up by Twilight Princess
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Skye Reynolds posted...

If Nintendo wanted Legend of Zelda to be the Adventures of Happy Sunshine Kid,

To what extent do or did they want this?
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It's pretty dope
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Silver Bearings posted...

Free college tuition? If the "1%" paid for all college tuition they'd be broke in 2 years. How can a normal citizen afford that taxation? WHAT?

We increased the military budget this past year by more than it would cost to provide free public tuition.
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It's pretty dope
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The Go Off Kings
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That is not how that works
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Ah, so he's leaning in on just becoming a comedian for old guys now
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Poor people mostly do not vote. Blaming them for our current situation would seem to be a mistake
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See also: Steve King
https://bit.ly/2yOAaaF
https://www.timesofisrael.com/steve-king-shouts-down-question-linking-his-worldview-to-pittsburgh-shooters/
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tennisdude818 posted...

Hating Jews is a pretty core part of Nazism and Neo Nazisim.

The state of Israel is not all Jews everywhere. There are Nazis who support it as a "lesser of two evils" as compared to the Muslims of the Middle East, and those, like Richard Spencer, who view it as a model ethnostate.
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Drasilor posted...

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Doom_Art posted...

Like the dude's been pushing Republican shit for two years

he pushed democrat shit for like 60 years

Lol this. Imagine having so much trump deranged syndrome to not know he's been a fucking Democrat for a long time.

Muhhhh orange man bad

So has Hillary Clinton, and a significant portion of Democratic primary voters wanted nothing to do with her. The fact that he's been cynically pushing right wing policy (for a lot longer than he's been a politician) won't be forgotten overnight.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/us/alt-right-salutes-donald-trump.html

Is this really the hair you want to split?
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He would lose the 2020 primary
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https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israeli-nation-state-law-backed-by-white-nationalist-richard-spencer-1.6295314

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/richard-spencer-gives-israel-as-example-of-ethno-state-he-wants-in-u-s-1.5459154

Nazism or white nationalism are not incompatible with support for the state of Israel
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Making Congress a volunteer position would not be beneficial, imo
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Space_Man posted...

PB gonna defend him cus he's their butt buddy, same as how Antifa and shit will defend Ocasio-Cortez cus she's their butt buddy.

Do you view those two figures as equivalent?
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Listen: people migrating for a better life is not equivalent to exploiting people's vulnerable circumstances so you can pay your laborers less than minimum wage.

Some might view Trump's actions here as hypocritical coming from a president who has presided over a crackdown on undocumented people, but those actions only serve to make these groups more vulnerable, more exploitable for employers such as himself.
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Dang, not sure how Trump will withstand being called an immoral liar.
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Infighting seems like a healthy thing for a party on the scale of America's major ones.
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Space_Man posted...

lol why do people obsess over this? like, some people dedicate their entire lives to researching/stalking/doxxing someone in order to destroy their career...like, if he's such a bad guy let him destroy himself instead of grasping at straws.

I don't know why you're directing this paragraph at the reporter and not the people threatening his family
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LastTomorrow posted...

I tired of this. I'll believe it when something happens. Then he'll be impeached like Nixon and Clinton. Except he'll turn around and say his impeachment is the greatest of all time or he's the first president to be impeached

I don't think you should hold impeachment as the bar by which to measure whether Trump did illegal things.
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tennisdude818 posted...

I need to see it to believe it. Gavin loves Israel.

So does Richard Spencer
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I bought the fucking Gold edition of The Crew 2, and I probably put 30 hours or so into it. But man it is nowhere close to the other games I bought this year.
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Well, it beats asking if they had grenades and ending up on a list
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When you're right, you're right
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I keep getting a "bad request" error message. I downloaded Firefox to see if it worked on here, and it does.
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The NYT had a good piece recently about how the crack baby panic was based on faulty science and led to some harmful, punitive public policies: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/28/opinion/crack-babies-racism.html
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Game pass is a great deal, though.
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Not looking for 100%, just a game where you've gone through the campaign or story or whatever it has

By my count, 7, not including sports/racing games which are a bit fuzzier on when you're actually done with them.

What would you say your completion rate is?
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Good talk
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FIFA. I have never died in FIFA
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Also, language requirements I'm guessing are a rather recent development in American education; I don't think anyone over, say, 40 had to do it.
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Female: Kassandra (Assassin's Creed Origins)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/climate/mercury-coal-pollution-regulations.html

The Trump administration proposed on Friday major changes to the way the federal government calculates the benefits, in human health and safety, of restricting mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants.

In the proposal, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a finding declaring that federal rules imposed on mercury by the Obama administration are too costly to justify.

It drastically changed the formula the government uses in its required cost-benefit analysis of the regulation by taking into account only certain effects that can be measured in dollars, while ignoring or playing down other health benefits.

The result could set a precedent reaching far beyond mercury rules. It will make it much more difficult for the government to justify environmental regulations in many cases, said Robert N. Stavins, a professor of environmental economics at Harvard University.

While the proposal technically leaves the mercury restrictions in place, by revising the underlying justifications for them the administration has opened the door for coal mining companies, which have long opposed the rules, to challenge them in court. The rules, issued in 2011, were the first to restrict some of the most hazardous pollutants emitted by coal plants and are considered one of former President Barack Obamas signature environmental achievements.

In announcing the proposed rule, the E.P.A. said that the costs to industry in installing pollution controls ranged from $7.4 billion to $9.6 billion annually, while the health benefits of cutting mercury ranged from $4 million to $6 million annually. In other words, it said that the costs of the rule outweigh the benefits.

By contrast, the Obama administration in its calculations had cited an additional $80 billion in health benefits a year.

Among other things, the Obama administration calculations estimated that the rules would prevent 11,000 premature deaths not from curbing mercury itself, but from what is known as a co-benefit, the reduction in particulate matter linked to heart and lung disease that also occur when a plant reduces its mercury emissions. The Trump administrations revised procedures would essentially ignore co-benefits and count only the direct potential benefits of cutting mercury.

In a statement, the E.P.A. said the cost of cutting mercury from power plants dwarfs the monetary benefits and argued that the current limits can no longer be justified as appropriate and necessary under the law.

The proposal, which the acting E.P.A. administrator, Andrew Wheeler, signed on Thursday, is expected to appear in the federal register in the coming weeks. The public will have 60 days to comment on it before a final rule is issued.

During his first year in office, President Trump signed executive orders declaring his intention to dismantle environmental rules. As his second year comes to a close, agencies have set the wheels in motion to weaken or repeal nearly a dozen restrictions on air and water pollution or planet-warming emissions of carbon dioxide, including a plan to reduce the number of waterways that are protected from pollutants and another making it easier for utilities to build new coal plants.

Reworking the mercury rule, which the E.P.A. considers the priciest clean-air regulation ever put forth in terms of annual cost to industry, would represent a victory for the coal industry and in particular for Robert E. Murray, an important former client of Mr. Wheelers from his days as a lobbyist. Mr. Murray, the chief executive of Murray Energy Corporation, personally requested the rollback of the mercury rule soon after Mr. Trump took office.

The administration loves doing things that cause people to die. Can't get enough of that shit.
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RiderofHogs posted...

They at least can half ass broken spanish.

This is a massive overestimate
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/us/reid-hoffman-alabama-election-disinformation.html

Reid Hoffman, the tech billionaire whose money was spent on Russian-style social media deception in a Senate race last year, apologized on Wednesday, saying in a statement that he had not approved the operation and did not support such tactics in American politics.

Mr. Hoffman said he had no idea that political operatives whose work he had financed had used fakery on Facebook and Twitter in the special Senate election a year ago in Alabama. But he had an obligation to track how his money was spent, he said, and he promised to exercise more care in the future.

I categorically disavow the use of misinformation to sway an election, said Mr. Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn and a prominent figure at the intersection of Silicon Valley and Democratic politics. He said he had financed organizations trying to re-establish civic, truth-focused discourse and was embarrassed to learn his money had been spent on disinformation.

The New York Times and The Washington Post reported last week that $100,000 from Mr. Hoffman was spent on a deceptive social media campaign to aid Doug Jones, the Democratic candidate, who barely defeated the Republican, Roy Moore.

The money went to a small group of social media experts that included Jonathon Morgan, the chief executive of New Knowledge, a cybersecurity firm.

They created a Facebook page intended to look like the work of conservative Alabamians, and used it to try to split Republicans and promote a conservative write-in candidate to take votes from Mr. Moore.

They also used thousands of Twitter accounts to make it appear as if automated Russian bot accounts were following and supporting Mr. Moore, according to an internal report on the project. The apparent Russian support for Mr. Moore drew broad news media coverage.

Democratic political strategists say the small Alabama operation which accounts for a minuscule share of the $51 million spent in the contest was carried out as a debate about tactics intensified within the party.

Democrats had been shocked to learn of Russias stealth influence campaign to damage Hillary Clinton and promote Donald J. Trump in the 2016 presidential race. But at least a few Democrats thought their party could not shun such tactics entirely if others were going to continue to use them.

The Alabama operation is among the first examples to come to light of such underhanded methods on social media in American politics. But because such efforts are generally very easy to hide and very difficult to trace, it is possible that other instances have gone undetected.

In 2017, through a fund called Investing in Us, Mr. Hoffman gave money to a small company, American Engagement Technologies. The companys leader, Mikey Dickerson, is a former Google employee who founded the United States Digital Service during the Obama administration to try to upgrade the federal governments use of technology. An associate of Mr. Hoffmans said that his total grant to American Engagement was $750,000, which also went toward other political races and social media research. Mr. Dickerson has declined to comment.

American Engagement then passed $100,000 to Mr. Morgan and other researchers. Mr. Hoffmans statement says the money went to Mr. Morgans company, New Knowledge, but Mr. Morgan said the Alabama project was carried out separately from the company.

The revelations of and fallout from the operation are being closely watched. Some American political experts fear that the Russian influence campaign of 2016 could become a dangerous model for stateside politics, with dirty tricks on social media becoming common. Laws and regulations have not been updated to cope with such a threat.

Lot going on here.
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Well?
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I'm there right now
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*removes glasses dramatically*

My god
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I've seen it compared to Xcom, but with some real time and stealth elements
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