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TopicTurns Out Trump Cheated on His SAT Exam Too
Antifar
07/07/20 9:41:48 PM
#10
I don't care that Trump cheated on his SAT in the 60s.
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TopicElectoral College: 248 Dem vs 204 Republican, 86 toss ups.
Antifar
07/07/20 9:26:23 PM
#19
No, but polls remain the best metric we have for judging public opinion on electoral matters. The lesson from 2016 is not "never trust polls."
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TopicElectoral College: 248 Dem vs 204 Republican, 86 toss ups.
Antifar
07/07/20 9:24:39 PM
#17
pogo_rabid posted...
You know what, after living through this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TwuR0jCavk

and this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRf0tvEIbz0

I know not to trust any poll or "expert" on election predictions

The thing about Karl Rove in 2012 is that he had been ignoring all the evidence from polls. Nate Silver's projections got every state right in 2012
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TopicTucker Carlson not really trying to hide it anymore
Antifar
07/07/20 9:04:17 PM
#11
AlisLandale posted...
Fox News is literally trying to make White Nationalism a socially acceptable part of American Society >_>

That's correct
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TopicSweden's covid strategy failed.
Antifar
07/07/20 8:57:46 PM
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/sweden-economy-coronavirus.html
Ever since the coronavirus emerged in Europe, Sweden has captured international attention by conducting an unorthodox, open-air experiment. It has allowed the world to examine what happens in a pandemic when a government allows life to carry on largely unhindered.

This is what has happened: Not only have thousands more people died than in neighboring countries that imposed lockdowns, but Swedens economy has fared little better.

They literally gained nothing, said Jacob F. Kirkegaard, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. Its a self-inflicted wound, and they have no economic gains.

The results of Swedens experience are relevant well beyond Scandinavian shores. In the United States, where the virus is spreading with alarming speed, many states have at President Trumps urging avoided lockdowns or lifted them prematurely on the assumption that this would foster economic revival, allowing people to return to workplaces, shops and restaurants.

In Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson previously hospitalized with Covid-19 reopened pubs and restaurants last weekend in a bid to restore normal economic life.

Implicit in these approaches is the assumption that governments must balance saving lives against the imperative to spare jobs, with the extra health risks of rolling back social distancing potentially justified by a resulting boost to prosperity. But Swedens grim result more death, and nearly equal economic damage suggests that the supposed choice between lives and paychecks is a false one: A failure to impose social distancing can cost lives and jobs at the same time.

Sweden put stock in the sensibility of its people as it largely avoided imposing government prohibitions. The government allowed restaurants, gyms, shops, playgrounds and most schools to remain open. By contrast, Denmark and Norway opted for strict quarantines, banning large groups and locking down shops and restaurants.

More than three months later, the coronavirus is blamed for 5,420 deaths in Sweden, according to the World Health Organization. That might not sound especially horrendous compared with the more than 129,000 Americans who have died. But Sweden is a country of only 10 million people. Per million people, Sweden has suffered 40 percent more deaths than the United States, 12 times more than Norway, seven times more than Finland and six times more than Denmark.

The elevated death toll resulting from Swedens approach has been clear for many weeks. What is only now emerging is how Sweden, despite letting its economy run unimpeded, has still suffered business-destroying, prosperity-diminishing damage, and at nearly the same magnitude of its neighbors.

Swedens central bank expects its economy to contract by 4.5 percent this year, a revision from a previously expected gain of 1.3 percent. The unemployment rate jumped to 9 percent in May from 7.1 percent in March. The overall damage to the economy means the recovery will be protracted, with unemployment remaining elevated, Oxford Economics concluded in a recent research note.

This is more or less how damage caused by the pandemic has played out in Denmark, where the central bank expects that the economy will shrink 4.1 percent this year, and where joblessness has edged up to 5.6 percent in May from 4.1 percent in March.

In short, Sweden suffered a vastly higher death rate while failing to collect on the expected economic gains.

The coronavirus does not stop at national borders. Despite the governments decision to allow the domestic economy to roll on, Swedish businesses are stuck with the same conditions that produced recession everywhere else. And Swedish people responded to the fear of the virus by limiting their shopping not enough to prevent elevated deaths, but enough to produce a decline in business activity.

Here is one takeaway with potentially universal import: It is simplistic to portray government actions such as quarantines as the cause of economic damage. The real culprit is the virus itself. From Asia to Europe to the Americas, the risks of the pandemic have disrupted businesses while prompting people to avoid shopping malls and restaurants, regardless of official policy.

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Topicgames for a punk rock feel?
Antifar
07/07/20 8:09:24 PM
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Most skateboarding games.
SSX On Tour
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TopicAOC uses foreign propaganda to undermine Trump according to congress hopeful
Antifar
07/07/20 8:08:15 PM
#6
You don't have to share the tweets of a guy whose campaign for a seat currently held by a Republican hasn't raised any money. He's not a real candidate for office in any sense. The only thing differentiating this kook from thousands of others on Twitter is he took the time to fill out paperwork.
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TopicI attended a socialist meeting this evening, ask me anything
Antifar
07/07/20 8:03:04 PM
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GentlemanGamer posted...
Do you think your local chapter of your organisation is good? I am assuming it is DSA or something. I have heard a lot of the chapters vary wildly in quality.

I think we do good, important work, and have avoided the petty feuds and factionalism that seems so common elsewhere.
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TopicI attended a socialist meeting this evening, ask me anything
Antifar
07/07/20 7:56:15 PM
#21
Ivynn posted...
Did you wear pants

Shorts
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TopicI attended a socialist meeting this evening, ask me anything
Antifar
07/07/20 7:55:56 PM
#20
Kastrada posted...
Affiliated with one of the 20-something socialist parties in the U.S? Or unaffiliated to a political party?

Unaffiliated with a party, and not trotskyist.

Houston posted...
Why do you think that is? What percentage were under 25?

Maybe 20-30 percent under 25? I think those who grew up after the Cold War ended view socialist ideas in a much different light, but that's not to say we don't have Gen Xers who have been in the struggle going back decades.
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TopicI attended a socialist meeting this evening, ask me anything
Antifar
07/07/20 7:48:25 PM
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R1masher posted...


how about a pin, you guys wear a pin or button?

I mean we have pins, but I've never seen people wear them.
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TopicI attended a socialist meeting this evening, ask me anything
Antifar
07/07/20 7:43:42 PM
#11
GentlemanGamer posted...
how many people at the meeting were secretly feds

I'm not at liberty to say.

Master_Bass posted...
Are the members more on the older or younger side on average?

Probably 80-90 percent are 35 and younger
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TopicI attended a socialist meeting this evening, ask me anything
Antifar
07/07/20 7:41:20 PM
#8
R1masher posted...
Do you guys wear matching berets?

We don't wear matching anything.
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TopicI attended a socialist meeting this evening, ask me anything
Antifar
07/07/20 7:38:00 PM
#6
Romulox28 posted...
what are you guys doing about the impending mass covid-related evictions that will occur in states that dont have safeguards in place

Our chapter has joined an alliance of local groups working on housing issues, and we'll be providing training on eviction blockades later this week. In addition, we've helped to set up a mutual aid network that has been able to help people meet needs during the crisis, though most of those needs haven't directly been housing.
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TopicI attended a socialist meeting this evening, ask me anything
Antifar
07/07/20 7:32:11 PM
#4
onedarksoul posted...
It differed from this board how?

Fewer alts
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TopicPlaystation vs Xbox summarized in one meme
Antifar
07/07/20 7:30:42 PM
#11
The lambos are very nice.
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TopicI attended a socialist meeting this evening, ask me anything
Antifar
07/07/20 7:29:56 PM
#1
It was a video meeting, just to be clear.
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TopicSFPD will stop releasing mugshots to avoid perpetuating racial stereotypes.
Antifar
07/07/20 4:01:20 PM
#8
God bless. The purpose of publicizing mugshots is to shame people who haven't yet been convicted of anything.
https://fair.org/home/the-medias-profitable-indefensible-addiction-to-mugshots/
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TopicSecond stimulus check might have income cut off point at $40,000 a year
Antifar
07/07/20 3:47:46 PM
#76
Income when? A lot of folks make more than 40k in a normal year and not much now.
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TopicLahren: If you can loot in person, you can vote in person!
Antifar
07/07/20 3:46:02 PM
#11
Bluebomber182 posted...
someone tell this stupid bitch that trump votes by mail and did it illegally because he declared maralago as his residence

She knows. She doesn't care.
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TopicWould you vote for Mike Pence over Joe Biden?
Antifar
07/07/20 3:38:39 PM
#5
No
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TopicTrump's handling of Covid makes no sense. On nearly any level.
Antifar
07/07/20 3:32:13 PM
#9
He's a deeply vain and stupid man who leads a party ideologically opposed to providing people with the financial support needed to make staying at home viable.

He viewed the economy as his ticket to re-election, and so he avoided taking coronavirus seriously as a threat for fear that doing so would cause economic tumult. That became unavoidable, but he has also internalized the idea that admitting you're wrong or apologizing makes you weak.
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TopicFormer Republican Senator writes fanfic about socialists taking over Biden Admin
Antifar
07/07/20 2:45:42 PM
#12
justaguy3492 posted...
I'm not sure if this or the "Beyonce is a deep state socialist" is the crazier Republican take of the day.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8492209/Congressional-candidate-KW-Miller-claims-Beyonce-not-African-American-Twitter-rant.html

This guy is some nobody; the author of the article I posted was a Senator
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TopicWait. Ronald Reagan didn't publicly comment on the AIDS crisis until 1985.
Antifar
07/07/20 2:30:44 PM
#17
I don't think Reagan deserves unique credit for signing a bill that he initially opposed after it passed Congress by pretty healthy margins.
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TopicWait. Ronald Reagan didn't publicly comment on the AIDS crisis until 1985.
Antifar
07/07/20 2:18:20 PM
#12
Proto_Spark posted...
Reagan didnt see a reason to care about something that didnt affect him until his friend Rock Hudson was revealed to be suffering from AIDS-related illnesses.

That didn't make him care!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/03/nancy-reagan-refused-help-dying-rock-hudson-get-aids-treatment
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TopicWait. Ronald Reagan didn't publicly comment on the AIDS crisis until 1985.
Antifar
07/07/20 1:20:36 PM
#6
TopicDeShawn Jackson used a quote literally from Hitler about Jews
Antifar
07/07/20 1:18:54 PM
#21
https://twitter.com/JordanHeckFF/status/1280538458591821828

When he's right, he's right
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Topicgallup poll shows 91% of republicans still love Trump
Antifar
07/07/20 1:09:28 PM
#21
Joenage posted...
I'd be interested in the party approval ratings of other presidents over the years - I'm assuming basically all of them are 95+%?

No, usually more in the 80s range actually.
83 percent of Democrats approved of Obama, on average
84% for Bush, 82% for Clinton
https://news.gallup.com/poll/203006/obama-job-approval-ratings-politically-polarized-far.aspx
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TopicFormer Republican Senator writes fanfic about socialists taking over Biden Admin
Antifar
07/07/20 1:07:23 PM
#5
ScazarMeltex posted...
Like how fucked in the head do you have to be to view people like Kamala Harris and Joe Biden as socialists?

He envisions Biden being pushed out via the 25th amendment, which frankly, not a bad idea.
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TopicBrandon Sanderson's top 10 video games
Antifar
07/07/20 1:06:30 PM
#27
I like Civ 6 and all, but man that's an unexpected #1 all time
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TopicFormer Republican Senator writes fanfic about socialists taking over Biden Admin
Antifar
07/07/20 1:01:41 PM
#1
One of the supposed vehicles for this coup is Kamala Harris
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/505924-judd-gregg-the-coming-biden-coup

Lol
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TopicI feel out of the loop on Paper Mario. Why is the new game being trashed?
Antifar
07/07/20 11:09:02 AM
#16
Reminder that if you want a TTYD 2, Bug Fables exists and is cheaper.
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TopicI feel out of the loop on Paper Mario. Why is the new game being trashed?
Antifar
07/07/20 10:56:27 AM
#7
People have a deep fondness for the original two games, and haven't cared for the direction they've gone with with the last three games, away from RPG elements and unique characters (and also those games haven't been great at the direction they took, either).

So everybody's parsing the info they've shown/said about the new game to see if there are signs of a return to the old style. It seems they've ditched some of the worse ideas from recent games, but it doesn't look like TTYD 2 either, which I think is fans would really want.
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TopicDeShawn Jackson used a quote literally from Hitler about Jews
Antifar
07/07/20 10:34:25 AM
#4
Not good!
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TopicWhy do people even go to ResetERA again?
Antifar
07/07/20 7:54:00 AM
#8
Idk, I've found the video game discussions on there to be active and fairly intelligent in a way that I haven't encountered on this website. Like, there are 75 posts in a thread about F1 2020's review scores.
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TopicThe $1 I spent on Game Pass Ultimate last June has finally run out
Antifar
07/06/20 10:48:31 PM
#1
aw man
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TopicPayroll Protection Program loans meant for small business went to Jared Kushner
Antifar
07/06/20 10:31:44 PM
#12
Smashingpmkns posted...
To be completely fair (lol?), she did rely on social security and Medicare heavily. Grifters gonna grift y'all

That is the joke!
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TopicIf they play the national anthem at sporting events, it should be this version
Antifar
07/06/20 10:30:01 PM
#1
https://youtu.be/sa_1_ME_56U?t=58
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TopicThe "California Miracle" is over, we're just like any other state -Bob
Antifar
07/06/20 10:26:34 PM
#3
How sound was a reopening plan that included indoor dining?
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TopicHow is intentionally going to a packed beach with covid19 not a crime?
Antifar
07/06/20 10:22:27 PM
#4
You definitely should not go out if you know you have the virus. But I would note that beaches seem to be a lot safer in general than many feared at first
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/it-okay-go-beach/613849/
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TopicPayroll Protection Program loans meant for small business went to Jared Kushner
Antifar
07/06/20 10:06:49 PM
#7
Smashingpmkns posted...
https://twitter.com/PatFitzgerald23/status/1280217058677084160

They also went to the Ayn Rand Institute lmao

No better way to honor her legacy than by accepting help from the institution you've spent a lifetime decrying.
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TopicXbox's big three: Halo vs Gears vs Forza
Antifar
07/06/20 8:31:19 PM
#21
Forza is the main reason I'm into Xbox
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TopicITT: The last physical game(s) you purchased.
Antifar
07/06/20 8:00:13 PM
#4
New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe, I think.
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Topichas there ever been a time when concept design was better than final design?
Antifar
07/06/20 7:41:07 PM
#2
Every stadium
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TopicAnother statue torn down, this time one of Frederick Douglass.
Antifar
07/06/20 7:29:57 PM
#18
I have a hunch the people who took this one down knew exactly who it was.
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TopicWhite House hoping that Americans will growth apathetic towards covid deaths
Antifar
07/06/20 7:29:08 PM
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