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@Balrog0 This is sort of tangential, but did you see the thing where Joe Lieberman is urging people to vote Crowley in November? Christ
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KhanJohnny posted...

socialist reactionaries

Reactionary is a word that has a meaning. Its meaning is basically the opposite of socialist.
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https://twitter.com/shujaxhaider/status/1019949881476239360
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Aye posted...

but Democrats need to be united right now.

Tell that to the moron centrists who vote for Trump nominees.
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That's a false dichotomy
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She's going to beat the Republican by like 70 points, dude.
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Darkman124 posted...

the vast majority of wealth in the US was concentrated in the industrialized north, which was not built upon either slave labor or indentured servitude,

The major industries were heavily reliant on cheap southern cotton, though.
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BLAKUboy posted...

Should be noted less people are identifying as Republicans since Trump won. Not nearly enough to make this number acceptable, but it puts it in perspective a little.

Yeah; among the sort of Republicans who would be outraged by this, some have left the party
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There are some good deals on there, but unfortunately most of the stuff I'd want to get in on is stuff I already

I can recommend:
Forza Horizon 3
Xcom 2
Steep
Assassin's Creed Origins
F1 2016/7
Watch Dogs 2
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https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article215094875.html

A Friday political rally featuring former Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders and rising progressive star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been moved to the Century II Convention and Performing Arts Center after rapidly outgrowing its original venue at the Orpheum.

Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez are coming to Wichita to stump for Democratic congressional candidate James Thompson.

The campaign had planned on rallying at the Orpheum Theatre downtown, which can accommodate a crowd of 1,400.

But the number of sign-ups for tickets exceeded capacity within 10 hours of the announcement, said campaign spokeswoman Stephanie Yeager.

At the Century II, we can go all the way up to 5,000 if we need to, Yeager said. Theres been overwhelming interest . . . and we want to try to accommodate everybody who wants to come.

With the larger venue, the campaign is no longer requiring tickets be obtained in advance and is inviting anyone who wants to, to come, she said.

Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez are expected to speak at 1 p.m. at Century II, 225 W. Douglas. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. and Yeager suggested people show up early to get the best seats.

Sanders, an independent U.S. senator from Vermont and self-described democratic socialist, energized hordes of progressive Democrats and filled stadiums across America for his rallies as he sought the Democratic nomination for president in 2016.

Although he lost to eventual nominee Hillary Clinton, Sanders emerged as a hugely popular figure and symbol of resistance for progressive and Democratic voters upset with Donald Trumps administration.

Joining Sanders will be Ocasio-Cortez, a congressional candidate from New York who recently vaulted into the national spotlight with an uncompromisingly progressive primary campaign that unseated incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley, the House Democratic Caucus chairman.

Thompson lost last year to Republican Rep. Ron Estes in a special election to replace former District 4 Rep. Mike Pompeo. Pompeo resigned to join the Trump administration as CIA director and was later promoted to secretary of state.

Thompson is running against Laura Lombard of Wichita in the Aug. 7 Democratic primary.

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pikachupwnage posted...

But yeah its true that male victim sexual assault is often not treated as it should be by society and that is is a larger problem than your average person likely thinks it is.

Oh definitely. See the way Bill Maher treats prison rape as a punchline, for example.
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Zeeak4444 posted...

Without politics where would the power needed derive from?

I think in those quotes "politics" is being used as shorthand for democracy. Globalization and the need to be "competitive" is treated as a natural truth, beyond human control, and off the ballot. The power to shape the market increasingly lies with unelected financiers and central bankers, whose authority is a sort of technocratic thing.
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Unsourced screencaps from Tumblr are almost never what they appear. That's especially true when they block out the poster's name; why would someone intent on mocking them have that courtesy?
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Bump. I found this informative
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Undocumented people are not citizens. But not every non-citizen is undocumented
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Caution999 posted...

The sponsors are the ones catering to the extreme left because they're afraid of how these people will stop using their platform. The left controls these sponsors. Your side is rigging the natural capitalist growth.

Jesus Christ, I wish.
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You called Anderson Cooper a leftist thirty minutes ago.
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This is perfectly fine
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Caution999 posted...

One bad video and they over-react and censor every Youtube video that is now conservative. Google is where freedom of speech goes to die; literally every single Youtuber I know has complained about their new monetization feature. Even gaming channels and channels that have nothing to do with politics are being heavily censored. Utter a key-word that they have in their database, and your video is automatically demonetized. They're screwing over the "You" in Youtube. And to top it off: They just spent $25M to mainstream news sources for unique streaming services and videos. It's now "mainstreamTube" because they no longer care about regular people that literally made the site what it is today.

Bending over backwards to appease sponsors while squeezing labor isn't leftist, it's capitalist.

Caution999 posted...

They just took a steaming pile of SHIT on the people who made that site what it is today. Anderson Cooper has his own streaming show - either on Youtube or Facebook...I forget which, but it's now the direction these companies are going towards. Like that creep doesn't get paid enough. But he's gay. He's got the "get out of jail free card" for the left. You can't criticize Anderson Cooper! You would utterly hate that man if he were straight because of how rich he is.

Anderson cooper is not a Leftist, he's a liberal. During the 2016 debates, his questions to Sanders frequently adopted the GOP framing of "socialism is scary."

Meanwhile, Google was perfectly fine taking on contracts for drone strikes until employee pressure caused them to stop:
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/google-project-maven-military-tech-workers

They were perfectly fine to help an anti-refugee campaign target swing-state voters
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-18/facebook-and-google-helped-anti-refugee-campaign-in-swing-states
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SomeLikeItHoth posted...

How about don't break the law then you'll never have to worry about this, k?

You're smarter than this
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Kazi1212 posted...

America has a history of putting a premium on the value of freedom over just punishment, that why theres the saying better to let a guilty man walk free than an innocent man in prison.

But the cost of legal defense has undoubtedly caused innocent men to land in prison
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When you're right, you're right
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This is a lengthy book review, but it touches on ideas that I haven't seen so succinctly and well put elsewhere. Only copy/pasting some small excerpts here:
http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/j-w-mason-market-police

In the early twentieth century, there were many people who saw popular sovereignty as a problem to be solved. In a world where dynastic rule had been swept offstage, formal democracy might be unavoidable; and elections served an important role in channeling the demands that might otherwise be expressed through the right to the street. But the idea that the people, acting through their political representatives, were the highest authority and entitled to rewrite law, property rights, and contracts in the public interestthis was unacceptable. One way or another, government by the people had to be reined in.

Mises writings from a century ago often sound as if they belong in speeches by modern European conservatives such as German Bundestag President Wolfgang Schuble. The welfare state is unaffordable, Mises says; workers excessive wage demands have rendered them unemployable, governments uncontrolled spending will be punished by financial markets, and English and German workers may have to descend to the lowly standard of life of the Hindus and the [I think this word is a slur?] to compete with them.
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One of Slobodians main arguments is that neoliberals were not market ideologues in the sense of believing that private property and free trade were natural human relations, and that the role of the state was simply to get out of the way. This may have been the view of earlier liberals, but what distinguished ... the project of neoliberalism was that defending the world economy had to be ... a proactive project.

A strong state was needed to beat back the attacks of the re-distributors. An interesting question not addressed in the book is to what extent this need was really new. Historians of the earlier development of capitalism, such as Sven Beckert in his magnificent Empire of Cotton (2014), have emphasized the immense machinery of state violence and coercion that had to be employed to establish the rule of contract and property in the first place.
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One of Slobodians great insights is that the neoliberal program was not simply a move in the distributional fight, but rather about establishing a social order in which distribution was not a political question at all. For money and markets to be the central organizing principle of society, they have to appear naturalbeyond the reach of politics.
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Property and its privileges are only safe in a world where the rule of money is accepted as objective, inevitable, and outside the scope of collective decision-making. The problem is that the concrete demands of statecraft often require governments to control economic outcomes, depriving them their aura of objective fact. When enemy forces are massed on the border or unemployed workers are rioting in the streets, no government that wants to remain in power can accept economic outcomes as facts beyond their control, like the weather.
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The goal wasnt so much any particular economic outcome so much as a world in which ordinary people and policymakers experienced economic outcomes, whatever they were, as beyond human control.
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Globalism in this story is not only, or even primarily, an extension of contacts between people, trade, production. Rather, it is the creation of a set of property rights that, precisely because they span multiple sovereignties, cannot be touched by one government without inviting conflict with another.
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State power is needed to enforce market relations and property rights, but when it rests on democratic politics, it can easily turn into a vehicle for a broader program of economic planning. So the site of power must be anonymized, hidden from politicsas in the opaque jurisdictional mazes of Europe.

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To be fair, they're all war criminals
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You're not even good enough to be my fake
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darkjedilink posted...

Unknown860 posted...

Antifar posted...

Bio1590 posted...

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Capn Circus posted...

So true.

Dems want open borders and sanctuary cities that harbor illegal alien criminals.

And many of them want ICE abolished

And Republicans want an all-white ethostate.

See, I can shitpost too!

Name three Republicans that actually openly speak for an all-white ethnostate.

Russell Walker
Arthur Jones
Corey Stewart
Paul Nehlen
John Fitzgerald

Steve King

@darkjedilink

I've never heard of literally anyone in that list.

This is the epitome of 'who?'

Steve King is a member of Congress. Corey Stewart was the republican nominee for governor in Virginia last year, and senator this year. The others are (I believe) candidates who haven't received the party's endorsement.
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Useful reminder that race is an invention
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Hexenherz posted...

They can't be this stupid.

[citation needed]
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Shuto-uke posted...

alt-righters: Does your white supremacy boner really make risking the nation like this worth it?

This is the basic idea of white nationalism: that A white dude in Kansas has more in common with Vlad in Moscow than a Clinton-voting black guy
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I applaud your willingness to take bold stances, vegy
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Imagine thinking Google is leftist
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Nah, sharpshooters are too fun.

I'm curious, because there are a few ways I can see to go about it: is there a "best" route for research and filling out the avenger's slots?
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This is to say that I finished my third time through Xcom 2 (first through WotC)
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DAE
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American exceptionalism and focusing mostly on US history are two different things.
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KhanJohnny posted...

I don't see the problem with this approach.

I think he's naive to view Holocaust denial as just a sort of honest mistake. Making it about intent (which is nebulous and impossible to prove) is giving a lot of leeway to people who have shown a willingness, an eagerness, to exploit such approaches.
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"I would because he's in charge of the country just like I consider myself to be responsible for things that happen in this country," Trump said.

Lol
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Bio1590 posted...

darkjedilink posted...

sktgamer_13dude posted...

Capn Circus posted...

So true.

Dems want open borders and sanctuary cities that harbor illegal alien criminals.

And many of them want ICE abolished

And Republicans want an all-white ethostate.

See, I can shitpost too!

Name three Republicans that actually openly speak for an all-white ethnostate.

Russell Walker
Arthur Jones
Corey Stewart
Paul Nehlen
John Fitzgerald

Steve King
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Aye posted...

Who actually wants open borders?

I do, but I'm not a Democrat
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Phantom_Nook posted...

is MS-13 really such a big problem?
(take note I'm not denying that the gang isn't bad, in case anyone wants to strawman me)

It's not. Trump has taken pains to overstate and inflate their actual size and influence in the US, and it's working in that his supporters now have those misconceptions

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/most-trump-voters-say-ms-13-is-a-threat-to-the-entire-us/ar-AAA9SM7

A majority of people who voted for President Donald Trump consider criminal gang MS-13 a threat to the United States, a new poll finds, indicating the Trump administration may be succeeding in inflating the perception of the gangs national risk.

Eighty-five percent of Trump voters say the gang, which is frequently invoked by the Trump administration as a reason to increase border security, is a very serious or somewhat serious threat to the United States as a whole, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov survey.

A fair share of Trump voters say they are worried about being personally affected by MS-13. About half indicated they are worried a great deal or somewhat that they or a family member will fall victim to MS-13 violence.

Among Hillary Clinton voters, only 32 percent consider MS-13 a very serious or somewhat serious threat to the country, and 13 percent are worried about the gangs violence affecting themselves or a family member.

MS-13, or La Mara Salvatrucha, was started in Los Angeles in the 1980s. Members are primarily immigrants and descendants from El Salvador, and the group now has pockets around the country, including in the New York and Washington, D.C., areas.

The gang is less a sophisticated international organization than a collection of cliques engaging in violence, small-scale drug-dealing and other crimes. It has about 10,000 members nationwide, according to the Justice Department roughly the same as a decade ago.

The U.S. originally contributed to the problem by deporting gang members back to Central America, where gang activity flourished. Now, unaccompanied minors are coming to the United States fleeing that violence.

MS-13 doesnt appear to have deep financial resources for a much-publicized international criminal organization. In El Salvador, for example, anti-extortion raids of MS-13 and other gang members netted only $34,665 from 2012 to 2015, according to The New York Times.

The Trump administrations campaign against MS-13 is disproportionate with the actual threat, some law enforcement officials told the Times, and can overshadow other pressing issues, like the opioid epidemic.

In the U.S., MS-13 members commit violence that has garnered attention for its brutality. A federal grand jury recently indicted eight gang members in Dallas on charges that included machete attacks. But, as ProPublica noted, the gang tends to target a certain community, not the entire U.S. population. Its victims are largely immigrants, who themselves may be undocumented.

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Borodin's Second


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That is an odd collection of musicians.
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Gheb posted...

Like Antifar is clearly very liberal,

I'm a socialist, thanks
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https://twitter.com/RustyBertrand/status/1019230918408581121

I can't wait to die
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Here's what's going to actually happen:
1. Climate bands drift poleward.
2. Current shitholes become shitholier.
3. Life goes on elsewhere.

This is not actually what's going to happen. While the poorest parts of the planet are undoubtedly most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, those impacts are by no means limited to "current shitholes" unless that's a category so broad as to be meaningless.

https://www.axios.com/global-warming-might-knock-out-internet-rising-seas-884eef30-8230-4076-bc76-245fbe2b9fab.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/08/04/flooding-in-miami-is-no-longer-news-but-its-certainly-newsworthy/?noredirect=on

http://www.businessinsider.com/miami-floods-sea-level-rise-solutions-2018-4

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-06/new-york-boston-set-coastal-flood-records-as-storms-fuel-tides
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Balrog0 posted...

Antifar posted...

What are non-cities doing to appeal to millennials?

what does that have to do with flyover states? we have cities, too

And millennials are going to those cities! They love fucking Austin and Nashville and Denver and

To the extent that millennials are flocking to coastal states in particular, that's mostly just NY, SF, and LA, areas where professional industries of media, finance, tech are all highly concentrated.
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https://twitter.com/TrueFactsStated/status/984030872595783682
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If we're going to slow them down, we'll need to move fast.
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