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The President has done so many crimes
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Damn_Underscore posted...

I mean supporting the sovereignty of nations isn't a strict and specific definition.

Defining nationalism as some sort of respect for all nations individually is to define it entirely differently from the majority of people who consider themselves nationalists.
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D-Lo_BrownTown posted...

What does Hitler being a nationalist matter?

Well in this case, the claim that he wasn't (which is wild) is used as a rebuttal to the argument that nationalism is responsible for the World Wars and all the bloodshed that entailed. Which is a pretty big mark against nationalism, imo.
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I could get a job as a pundit, seeing as a lot of folks would suddenly have questions about GameFAQs
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Damn_Underscore posted...

It said he wasn't a nationalist, he was an imperialist.

The two go hand in hand!
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I skimmed through the video, and "Adolf Hitler was no nationalist" (4:12) is one hell of a fucking take.
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Caution999 posted...

Won't be long til Google starts removing these completely innocent videos due to "spreading violence".

Google-owned YouTube puts these videos like one click away from watching a Fortnite streamer
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Questionmarktarius posted...

What's she gonna do, refuse to buy a Israeli-made plastic tackle-box? Not use ICQ?

That is what a boycott entails
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Solidarity
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Guide posted...

They're not signing any kind of pro-israel oath, they just don't want teachers talking shit about israel and upsetting the children

This prevents people from opposing Israel outside of the workplace
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Spam_n_eggs posted...

Think of people who were really into the bush and bush jr ideology: they are conservatives!

And a woman would be well in their rights to not want to sleep with someone who thinks they shouldn't be allowed an abortion.
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spudger posted...

Is he running in Ireland now? Wtf

Like he said, the right practices identity politics now too
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Also Paul Ryan: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/speaker-paul-ryan-pushing-through-thousands-of-irish-visas-before-leaving-office_us_5c154703e4b009b8aea7c0fa
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https://wapo.st/2EBTtIP

Political decisions by elected officials are largely responsible for a collapse in pay for the bottom 90 percent of the labor market since 1979, according to a new analysis of wage stagnation by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.

While many economists pin much of the blame for wage stagnation on impersonal market forces, such as free trade and technological change, EPIs Josh Bivens and Heidi Shierholz contend that specific policy decisions including efforts to weaken unions, the decay of the minimum wage and monetary policy that prioritizes low inflation over full employment are responsible for tilting the balance of power away from workers and toward their employers.

By their calculations, that shift in power cost the bottom 90 percent of wage earners $1.53 trillion in income in 2015 alone, or $10,800 for every American household.

As Bivens and Shierholz tell it, a relatively recent thread of economic research into monopsony power which they define as the leverage enjoyed by employers to set their workers pay has helped economists explain some of the wage stagnation observed in the United States over the past 40 years. You can think of monopsony power as the flip side of monopoly power: If monopoly power lets companies charge higher prices to consumers, monopsony power lets them pay lower wages to workers. Either way, it spells trouble for people who buy things and work for a living.

Research into monopsony power finds that many job markets are dominated by a relatively small number of employers. If you are, say, a coal miner, there may be just one or two coal mines within 100 miles of your home. If the mine youre working at is treating you unfairly, you dont have many options for finding a new job particularly if you already left the other mine for similar reasons. In the absence of any serious competition for the most talented workers, employers have a huge amount of leeway in setting workers' salaries, and they often set them at levels below what traditional economic theories would expect.

If rising monopsony power that is, the increasing dominance of a small number of large firms were fully to blame for recent wage stagnation, Bivens and Shierholz argue, youd expect to see wages stagnating across the board. If a coal mine has the leeway to skimp on pay for its low-skill workers, in other words, its probably skimping on pay for high-skill workers, as well.

But thats not what appears to be happening, Bivens and Shierholz say. Instead, much of the wage stagnation observed since the 1970s has occurred at the low end of the wage spectrum. Think of all the charts youve seen showing how income has exploded at the top of the wage distribution while staying flat everywhere else. Superstar managers and highly skilled employees have made out very well over the past few decades, while wages for rank-and-file, low-skill workers have hardly budged.

Bivens and Shierholz say that poor wage growth is less a function of increasing employer power and more a product of deliberate efforts to undermine worker power. Policymakers, for instance, have been reluctant to raise minimum wages, which would directly benefit workers at the bottom of the income distribution. Theyve taken steps to make it harder for workers to secure bargaining power, eroding union membership in the process. And Bivens and Shierholz maintain that the Federal Reserve has contributed to the problem by prioritizing low inflation over high employment.

Many of these policies were put in place with good intentions to boost productivity and the health of the economy as a whole. But the data show that productivity has actually slowed since the 1970s.

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Listening to a bad song that isn't even about Christmas to own the libs
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DarkRoast posted...

Democrats will vote for literally anything if 51% of Americans support it.

You'd think they'd be more in favor of universal healthcare and legalizing pot, then.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-lawmakers-might-not-restore-voting-rights-to-felons-2018-12?

Florida lawmakers might not be ready to put Amendment 4 a measure approved by 64.5% of Florida voters that would give voting rights back to most felons who have completed their sentences into action.

According to WFTV 9, a local news station in Florida, the state has put enforcement of the amendment on pause until the new governor, Republican Ron DeSantis, is sworn in. WFTV reported that lawmakers are waiting to see if the Florida Legislature might need to weigh in on the measure. The amendment, which would restore voting rights to more than 1.5 million felons, does not call for any involvement of this kind.

In Florida, 23% of African-American adults cannot vote due to a previous felony conviction. Amendment 4, the measure that would change that, received wide support among residents in a state with strict clemency laws. It was scheduled to take effect on January 8.

Now, Orange County Supervisor of Elections Bill Cowles told WFTV that "it could be that the new governor and secretary of state have a new direction" regarding the establishment of the measure.

"So, it's just going to be a wait and see," Cowles said, adding that state lawmakers have put a pause on checking any packets of information about the measure since December 1.

Last week, Florida's Secretary of State Ken Detzner, a Republican, told reporters that it would be "inappropriate" for the state to "to charge off without direction from" the legislature. The ballot language, he argued, is unclear. Democratic state Sen. Darryl Rouson, a former prosecuting attorney, told the Florida Phoenix that he "would dislike the Legislature from taking any steps that might be perceived as thwarting or slowing down the voter's intent."

For his part, DeSantis, who opposed the measure, told the Palm Beach Post that the amendment should not be put into effect until after the he and the state legislature approve "implementing language." The 60-day legislative session in the state begins March 5.

"There's no way you can go through this session without implementing it," he said.

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Zerocide posted...

Antifar posted...

Shapiro easily. The Columbus day cartoon his site put up last year was a great example of this

Is it still up?

They took it down after the backlash, but do a search for Ben Shapiro Columbus Day and you can probably find it
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Shapiro easily. The Columbus day cartoon his site put up last year was a great example of this
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That seems like a perfectly reasonable avenue for research.
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to Israel
https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/israel-texas-anti-bds-law/

A CHILDRENS SPEECH PATHOLOGIST who has worked for the last nine years with developmentally disabled, autistic, and speech-impaired elementary school students in Austin, Texas, has been told she can no longer work with the public school district after she refused to sign an oath vowing that she does not and will not engage in a boycott of Israel or otherwise tak[e] any action that is intended to inflict economic harm on that foreign nation. A lawsuit on her behalf was filed early Monday morning in a federal court in the Western District of Texas alleging a violation of her First Amendment right of free speech.

The child language specialist, Bahia Amawi, is a U.S. citizen who received a masters degree in speech pathology in 1999 and, since then, has specialized in evaluations for young children with language difficulties (see video below). Amawi was born in Austria and has lived in the U.S. for the last 30 years, fluently speaks three languages (English, German, and Arabic), and has four U.S.-born American children of her own.

Amawi began working in 2009 on a contract basis with the Pflugerville Independent School District, which includes Austin, to provide assessments and support for school children from the countys growing Arabic-speaking immigrant community. The children with whom she has worked span the ages of 3 to 11. Ever since her work for the school district began in 2009, her contract was renewed each year with no controversy or problem.

But this year, all of that changed. On August 13, the school district once again offered to extend her contract for another year by sending her essentially the same contract and set of certifications she has received and signed at the end of each year since 2009.

She was prepared to sign her contract renewal until she noticed one new, and extremely significant, addition: a certification she was required to sign pledging that she does not currently boycott Israel, that she will not boycott Israel during the term of the contract, and that she shall refrain from any action that is intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations with Israel, or with a person or entity doing business in Israeli or in an Israel-controlled territory.

The language of the affirmation Amawi was told she must sign reads like Orwellian or McCarthyite self-parody, the classic political loyalty oath that every American should instinctively shudder upon reading.

That language would bar Amawi not only from refraining from buying goods from companies located within Israel, but also from any Israeli companies operating in the occupied West Bank (an Israeli-controlled territory). The oath given to Amawi would also likely prohibit her even from advocating such a boycott given that such speech could be seen as intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations with Israel.

Whatever ones own views are, boycotting Israel to stop its occupation is a global political movement modeled on the 1980s boycott aimed at South Africa that helped end that countrys system of racial apartheid. It has become so mainstream that two newly elected members of the U.S. Congress explicitly support it, while boycotting Israeli companies in the occupied territories has long been advocated in mainstream venues by Jewish Zionist groups such as Peace Now and the Jewish American Zionist writer Peter Beinart.

This required certification about Israel was the only one in the contract sent to Amawi that pertained to political opinions and activism. There were no similar clauses relating to children (such as a vow not to advocate for pedophiles or child abusers), nor were there any required political oaths that pertained to the country of which she is a citizen and where she lives and works: the United States.

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MorbidFaithless posted...

Can Republicans be trusted?

No
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CADE FOSTER posted...

How much has he been bribed by foreign powers for favors he is the most corrupt president ever

It's hard to tell where his love of dictators ends and his love of bribes begins
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What team does your dog play as?
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TheMikh posted...

The extradition of Fethullah Gulen would be a strategic effort to persuade Turkey to lessen scrutiny on Saudi Arabia over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

what the **** donald

He loves Saudi Arabia. Can't get enough of them doing crimes
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https://bit.ly/2CgqxU1

Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate for governor, had a problem. As did Brian Kemp, Georgias secretary of state.

It was Nov. 3, a Saturday, 72 hours to Election Day. Virtually tied in the polls with Democrat Stacey Abrams, Kemp was in danger of becoming the first Georgia Republican to lose a statewide election since 2006. And, now, a new threat. The secretary of states office had left its voter-registration system exposed online, opening Kemp to criticism that he couldnt secure an election that featured him in the dual roles of candidate and overseer.

But by the next day, Kemp and his aides had devised one solution for both problems, an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows.They publicly accused the Democratic Party of Georgia of trying to hack into the voter database in a failed attempt to steal the election. The announcement added last-minute drama to an already contentious campaign. More important, it also pre-empted scrutiny of the secretary of states own missteps while initiating a highly unusual criminal investigation into his political rivals.

But no evidence supported the allegations against the Democrats at the time, and none has emerged in the six weeks since, the Journal-Constitution found. It appears unlikely that any crime occurred.

There was no way a reasonable person would conclude this was an attempted attack, said Matthew Bernhard, a computer scientist at the University of Michigan who has consulted with plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging Georgias use of outdated touch-screen voting machines.

To reconstruct the campaigns final weekend, the Journal-Constitution interviewed more than 15 people computer security experts, political operatives, lawyers and others and reviewed court filings and other public records. That examination suggests Kemp and his aides used his elected office to protect his political campaign from a potentially devastating embarrassment.

Their unsubstantiated claims came at a pivotal moment, as voters were making their final decisions in an election that had attracted intense national attention.

The race seemed to turn on whether rapid demographic changes coupled with dislike of Kemps most prominent supporter, President Donald Trump would help break the Republicans hold on political power in Georgia. Kemp was a typical Georgia Republican standard bearer: conservative, business-oriented, an abortion-rights opponent and a gun-rights advocate. Abrams was different: the first African-American and the first woman nominated for the states highest office, an unapologetic progressive appealing to young and minority voters who felt disenfranchised.

Ultimately, Kemp won with 50.2 percent of the nearly 4 million votes cast. In Georgias closest race for governor since 1966, any voters swayed by a purported Democratic cyberattack could have tipped the election.

The episode highlighted the inherent conflicts that Kemp straddled throughout this election. He rejected calls to resign as secretary of state or to step away from election-related duties, despite concerns that he could use his elected office to his campaigns advantage. When he assigned his own staff to investigate his opponents, Democrats say, Kemp proved their point.

He was doing anything he could do to win, said Rebecca DeHart, executive director of the Democratic Party of Georgia. It was an extraordinary abuse of power.

In his only public statement on the investigation, Kemp said his office handled the case like any other. Because I can assure you if I hadnt done anything and the story came out that something was going on, youd be going, Why didnt you act? Kemp said on the elections eve.

Im not worried about how it looks, he said. Im doing my job.

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Song of the Stubborn One Thousand, by Peter Shapiro
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Golden Sun
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Guide posted...

Have you ever worked retail?

lmao

But also: try visiting a Planned Parenthood sometime if you wanna see that sort of thing
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averagejoel posted...

Angelique Kidjo's version of Remain In Light (the whole album) completely eclipses the Talking Heads version

Tagging so I'll listen to this later
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/republicans-who-could-run-against-trump

Given that the Republicans, particularly in Congress, have largely ceded their party to Trump, the 2020 campaign seems headed toward a contest between him and the Democratic nominee. The Democrats now have to decide what kind of candidate they want. But why should the Republicans be let off the hook? Those who dont share Trumps more corrosive views often wallow in the perception of their own powerlessness. Yet they have options, if they choose to use them, including one that the Democrats dont. They can challenge Trump in the primaries.

Trump knows that, which is why his campaign is already working to engineer a premptive endorsement in the New Hampshire primary, the first in the nation, from the state Party, which traditionally remains neutral. He could be much more vulnerable by August of 2020, when the Republican National Convention meets in Charlotte, North Carolina, depending on, among other things, how the Mueller investigation develops. (Last week, forty-four former senators, ten of them Republicans, signed an open letter, urging the Senate to uphold the rule of law; it reads like a foreshadowing of a crisis.)

One Republican who has been openly considering a run against Trump is John Kasich, the outgoing governor of Ohio, who was the last candidate to drop out of the 2016 Presidential primaries. He has been to New Hampshire twice recently, and his advisers have spoken out against the attempt to change the state Party rules. Still, Kasich told the Columbus Dispatch last week, Maybe the Lord will say, John, enough of you for 30 years, enough of you. Go sit somewhere in the corner, shut up for awhile. He is not alone in this wavering. I do hope that somebody else runs in the Republican primary, Senator Jeff Flake, of Arizona, who will retire next month, said in October. But, he added, I dont see that happening in my case. Ten days later, he said, Im not ruling it outbut I need a break.

Perhaps a way to speed matters up is to put some more names on the table. Mitt Romney, once a vocal opponent of Trump, was just elected to the U.S. Senate from Utah, and so he has an active political operation. Romneys old running mate, Paul Ryan, who is retiring as Speaker of the House, and liked to hint, when convenient, that he was not happy with the President, might want to prove that he meant it. Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, left her job as Trumps U.N. Ambassador with her dignity intacta harder trick than winning some primariesand may be positioning herself for a post-Trump moment. Why wait until 2024? Aside from Romney, several other senators could be potential challengers. Rob Portman, Kasichs fellow-Ohioan, had considered running in 2016, and withdrew his endorsement of Trump after the Access Hollywood tape emerged. Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, most recently showed her independence with her No vote on Brett Kavanaughs confirmation. Susan Collins, of Maine, a frequent Trump critic, voted the other way, but that might prove useful with G.O.P. primary voters. Last month, Bob Corker, of Tennessee, who is also retiring, said, when asked if he might run in 2020, that he hadnt ruled it out. In September, when Ben Sasse, of Nebraska, who talks a lot about his problems with Trump, was asked the same thing, he said that the odds are a lot higher that I run for the noxious-weed-control board of Dodge County. But he allowed that such odds were better than zero.

The idea that there is either a willingness among Republican politicians to seriously challenge Trump or a desire among voters for one is fantasy.
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hoo boy that comments section
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Seems bad, imo
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I have some news for you about Reagan
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PokemonYoutube posted...

Just move the Palestinians to Lebanon or Jordan or Iraq or whatever.

You realize this would amount to an ethnic cleansing of Israel, right?
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Because they would like more billions
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Bio1590 posted...

Also reminder this is the guy that Michael Flynn was reportedly paid by Turkey to kidnap and deliver to Turkey:

I would watch a feature-length movie about this plot
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No
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That's just any conservative party
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Normal stuff
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No
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BeyondWalls posted...

So super hottie (by Russian standards),

Your perception of Russian standards is much different from mine.
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Doesn't Spain?
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Frasier
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ohnoitschris posted...

She was originally planned to show up with an actress playing her, but no known actress was ever cast and they just kept her as an unseen character instead. It would have been hard to find someone small, thin, and reptilian enough to play her, anyway

Tbh I don't think Niles' crush on Daphne could have been played so sympathetically if Maris was an on-screen figure, however hideous.
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Click so hard I break my mouse
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