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tremain07 posted...

All those riots and broken windows come from leftist groups, when is the last time you heard of a alt-right group doing that level of damage?

They did kill a woman last month, so there's that.
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I do! I have a cheapie ASUS one. If all you're gonna do is browse the internet, there's really not much wrong with it.
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Some rounding was used for my convenience, and this does not include BC games, which don't track playtime on the achievements page

Racing (11 games): 50.3%
Sports (7): 21.5%*
Action-adventure (8): 9.4%*
Strategy (4): 7.1% *
Other (3): 4.9%
Platformer (4): 2.7%
Fighting (4): 2.7%
RPG (3): 1.4%

*Note: Three of my games, Mafia III, Tropico 5, and Super Mega Baseball, do not track playtime, and I'm using estimates for them

Note 2: God, I'm so fucking bored. None of my games interest me right now. Ask me questions to pass the time while I wait for F1 2017 to arrive
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PonyLivesMatter posted...

Well honestly who else would give Democrats a serious chance in 2020?

The average Democratic congressman would have a better chance than Mark Zuckerberg
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http://observer.com/2017/08/dear-democrats-unless-you-nominate-mark-zuckerberg-donald-trump-will-win-in-2020-fake-news-media/

Here is an inconvenient truth that most Democrats do not wish to hear: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg may be their only hope of retaking the White House in 2020.

Yes, that’s right. If the Democrats want to have any chance of winning in a few years, they need to wrap their heads around the reality of a President Zuckerberg. This piece will explain why.

It's incredibly stupid, and I was ready to be very mad at it, but then I remembered...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_Media

Observer Media is based in lower Manhattan, New York City, and is owned by businessman Jared Kushner.

Well played, Jared
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acab
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The Onion is going in with both barrels

http://www.theonion.com/article/peaceful-protest-interrupted-swarm-aggressive-blac-56828
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https://twitter.com/joshledermanAP/status/903703699247255552

Wait no that's how that works
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Bullet_Wing posted...

Welp. Can't say Trump not keeping his word would be a surprise.

Was it his word in the first place? Or the press secretary's?
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https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/903703128834531329

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hurricane-harvey-antifa-texas-flooding-antifacist-storm-relief-efforts-a7921846.html?amp

Political differences have been put aside as people pitch in to help with the Hurricane Harvey relief effort.

Activists from the anti-fascist movement known as antifa have recently come under fire because some - but not all - employ militant tactics and use violence as a means of getting their message across.

But now some of the group - a loose coalition of left-wing groups who oppose fascism, racism and sexism - are reportedly assisting with search and rescue and first aid.

Others claim to have established shelters in poorer neighbourhoods and areas that may be overlooked by larger organisations.

“When real disaster strikes, people put aside what they think about the world and begin to help each other directly,” a relief worker, identified as Scott Crow, told the Revere Press website.

"Gonzo journalist" and self declared anti-fascist, Kit O'Connell also said members of the group were helping with the relief effort.

"Even though we’re not wearing our masks, antifa in Texas are in the streets, saving lives, feeding folks and organising," he wrote in an article for the Medium website.

At least 38 people have been killed as a result of the storm and more than 30,000 have been displaced in Texas alone. ​

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It's a bad joke, IMO.
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The financial crisis
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RebelElite791 posted...

Can say I know any "liberals" who do this. Assuming you mean liberals as in "anyone on the left who isnt a naive teenage socialist"

Trevor Noah had a segment calling antifa vegan ISIS last night.
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whitelytning posted...

Congress isn't proactive?

Shit man, this was reactive. 16 people died in flooding in Houston last year.
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Capn Circus posted...

I wonder what frequency of voting was for members of Antifa and BLM versus conservative groups.

Who are they gonna vote for? Hillary fucking Clinton?
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https://theintercept.com/2017/08/31/harvey-houston-flooding-congress-funds-al-green/

THE RAINS WERE going to come eventually. It was only a matter of when, and how bad.

With flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey still inundating Houston — exacting a toll of 31 deaths and incalculable damage so far — the city is left asking what could have been done to prevent the extent of the catastrophe, or at least diminish its effects. One of the questions is why federal funding that should have been in place to help Houston deal with flood mitigation never arrived.

Houston and surrounding Harris County, in Texas, had many ambitious proposals for flood mitigation projects lined up, but couldn’t afford them. And, despite the efforts of one of the city’s congressional representatives, Capitol Hill declined to fund the cash-strapped local governments.

“We’ve gone at this from every angle we could,” said Rep. Al Green, a Democrat from Houston who sponsored a bill to fund various projects after the “Tax Day flood” of April 2016. “We were hoping to help mitigate flooding across the city. I don’t know if we’ll ever mitigate all of it, but we can mitigate some.”

After the Tax Day flood, which left 16 dead, Green introduced a bill to fund $311 million for the Harris County Flood Control District. That bill stalled out in the House Budget Appropriations Committee and never came up for a vote. (Committee Chair Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., did not return requests for comment.)

The federal funds provided in the bill could have jump-started flood mitigation projects in Houston that had already been approved by the Army Corps of Engineers. Those projects had languished for years, even decades, because the federal share of their budgets was never appropriated by Congress.

“What I can tell you is that if it would have allocated funds, we would have tried to use those to our best ability,” said Nicholas Laskowski, the Corps’ Galveston District project manager, who declined to comment specifically on Green’s legislation.

Eight active Harris County Flood Control District initiatives are dependent on federal funding. Seven of them are concentrated on the bayous in the city and county; the eighth is on the Clear Creek tributary near Galveston.

HOUSTON’S RAPID GROWTH has meant water has fewer paths to escape the city, so many of the projects were aimed at widening bayous and relocating bridges. “When you can make the channels wider, you can improve hydraulic conductivity,” said Laskowski.

The projects are supposed to be directly undertaken by the local flood control authority. The Army Corps provides oversight and technical assistance. “They do the work, they do the design, we review,” said Laskowski.

Once the projects are completed, the Corps checks that the work has been done to the approved specifications. After the Corps signs off on it, the federal government’s appropriations for reimbursement kick in. Without those funds, the county can’t afford to take on the mammoth outlays.

Only two of the Flood Control District’s eight projects are near completion. The other six projects are either being reevaluated or stalled, because of grants drying up.
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The money, however, never came. “Congress was in an austerity mode, and we could not get the votes necessary to get [the bill] to the floor,” said Green, who tried other approaches, such as allocating the funds in a rider amendment to a Republican-sponsored energy and water development bill that failed on procedural grounds.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/30/venezuela-enemy-of-the-u-s-offered-5-million-in-aid-to-harvey-victims/?utm_term=.810e71c620ed

Bad blood didn't stop Venezuela from offering $5 million in aid to the victims of Hurricane Harvey.

As Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza explained on state television, the money would come from Citgo Petroleum, the government-run oil company with a refinery in Corpus Christi, Tex. Arreaza said the aid will be directed to local mayors and be aimed at the construction of homes and shelters around Houston. “We express our solidarity with the Americans affected by the hurricane,” he said, according to Reuters. “When an American fills his tank at a Citgo gas station, he’ll be contributing to the rebuilding of the affected communities.”

(The move might not be quite as charitable as it seems — new U.S. sanctions make it impossible for Citgo to send profits back to Caracas.)

It's not clear whether the United States will accept the aid. The State Department did not return calls for comment. A few days ago, Mexico offered “help and cooperation.” The State Department did not say whether it'll take the country up on the offer, explaining in an email Sunday to The Washington Post that “if a need for assistance does arise, we will work with our partners, including Mexico, to determine the best way forward.”

Venezuela has a long history of trolling U.S. leaders with kindness.

In 2005, Citgo offered $1 million in disaster relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina. It also offered food, water, fuel and other assistance. The Bush administration rejected the aid, calling it “counterproductive.” (Then-President Hugo Chávez personally weighed in on the federal government's response to Katrina, calling President George W. Bush “the king of vacations” for staying in Texas as the storm swept through Louisiana. “There were many innocent people who left in the direction of the hurricane,” Chávez said in a speech. “No one told them where they should go.")

That same year, Citgo began delivering discounted or free heating oil to low-income Americans. The program — which eventually served more than 1.7 million Americans in 25 states and Washington — was celebrated by the likes of Joseph P. Kennedy II. Kennedy, who ran Citizens Energy, said that Chávez cared for the poor when “some of the wealthiest people on our planet have more money than they can ever reasonably expect to spend.”

There were other efforts, too. Chávez was particularly partial to the South Bronx, where he donated millions of dollars over the years. That money funded after-school classes, literacy programs, food cooperatives and the restoration of the Bronx River. One woman, Lucia Solano, remembers “stalking” Chávez when he came to visit the New York borough in 2005. Her nonprofit group was $18,000 behind on rent, and Solano believed Chavez might help. She finally wrangled her way to the leader and made her case. He soon sent her a check to cover the rent.

Since Chávez died and the Venezuelan economy tanked, these efforts have mostly fizzled. And it's not clear that they ever got Chávez what he really wanted — a foothold with the U.S. poor. “Many people questioned his motivation,” Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Council of the Americas and Americas Society, told the Associated Press shortly after Chávez died. “Was this a true humanitarian gesture or was it an opportunity to stick it in the eye of the United States?"

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What's wrong with propaganda?
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Actually, society is good
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Horus_Leftfield posted...

Not be fucking communists

For somebody whose sig quotes WEB Du Bois, you have a weird hostility towards communists.
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averagejoel posted...

Antifa isn't liberal

the other two movements are arguably not liberal

Right. Liberal movements would be, like, uh...actually I'm blanking here. What is it liberals do?
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BLAKUboy posted...

Can those of us without Twitter get a screencap or something?

Sure

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIpI-JyVYAE2KgG.jpg
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/likes

uh
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It's p good. Used to be better when they'd give you cash for things you bought elsewhere, but it's still nice
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bumping
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Yikes, I thought it could only go up from that episode of Bojack Horseman I just watched, but
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Chapo Trap House
Street Fight Radio
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In life, the majority of us will do things for money that
- We find unpleasant, or demeaning
- Take advantage of others

Singling out this one just strikes me as bitterness.
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Depends on the state
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joe40001 posted...

It is bullshit obviously and I can't tell if people defending it are being contrarian or trolling.

What's bullshit about it?
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I don't have a Switch, but it makes it tempting
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NINExATExSEVEN posted...

So the USA bombs Syria and the terrorists think "fuck America, let's kill Europeans!"


Think about that for a second.

A bunch of Saudis hit the WTC and we went after Afghanistan.
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Where's the lie?
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There are programs to provide health insurance for children who don't have it through their parents, but they are limited.
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Yeah, I think it's inevitable, but I'm not convinced it will be soon or quick.
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N1NJAREB0RN posted...

No shit, but why does that mean that Chloe has to have powers? Especially given that it's never even hinted at in LiS?

Plot-wise, of course it doesn't make sense. He's concerned that the gameplay will be boring without the defining mechanic of the original.
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N1NJAREB0RN posted...

itachi15243 posted...

This one looks kinda boring imo.

You're just Chloe, living her life... Where are the powers..?

Why do you have to have powers? What, are you 12?

Max's ability to time-travel was the basis for most of the puzzles in the original game
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Fuck Ronald Reagan, but not like this
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Sephiroth1288 posted...

I can't imagine the WP tried very had to begin with, lmao.

Keep reading:

Instead, The Post found that his personal giving has almost disappeared entirely in recent years. After calling 420-plus charities with some connection to Trump, The Post found only one personal gift from Trump between 2008 and the spring of this year. That was a gift to the Police Athletic League of New York City, in 2009. It was worth less than $10,000.
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In advance of this article, The Post sent more than 70 questions to the Trump campaign.

Those questions covered the individual anecdotes and statistics contained in this article, including the tale about Trump crashing the ribbon-cutting in 1996, as well as broader questions about Trump’s life as a philanthropist.

Exactly when, before this spring, did Trump last give his own money to charity?

What did Trump consider his greatest act of charity in recent years?

Trump’s campaign did not respond until Saturday afternoon, after this article was published online; it sent a written statement saying that Trump “has personally donated tens of millions of dollars . . . to charitable causes.”

Trump officials did not respond when asked to provide evidence of the tens of millions of dollars in gifts.

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Rayman first
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Anything is worth what the market is willing to pay for it
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Sephiroth1288 posted...

Does Trump?

Yes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-boasts-of-his-philanthropy-but-his-giving-falls-short-of-his-words/2016/10/29/b3c03106-9ac7-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html

Then, all of a sudden, there was Donald Trump.

“Nobody knew he was coming,” said Abigail Disney, another donor sitting on the dais. “There’s this kind of ruckus at the door, and I don’t know what was going on, and in comes Donald Trump. [He] just gets up on the podium and sits down.”

Trump was not a major donor. He was not a donor, period. He’d never given a dollar to the nursery or the Association to Benefit Children, according to Gretchen Buchenholz, the charity’s executive director then and now.

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For as long as he has been rich and famous, Donald Trump has also wanted people to believe he is generous. He spent years constructing an image as a philanthropist by appearing at charity events and by making very public — even nationally televised — promises to give his own money away.

It was, in large part, a facade. A months-long investigation by The Washington Post has not been able to verify many of Trump’s boasts about his philanthropy.

Instead, throughout his life in the spotlight, whether as a businessman, television star or presidential candidate, The Post found that Trump had sought credit for charity he had not given — or had claimed other people’s giving as his own.

Trump promised to give away the proceeds of Trump University. He promised to donate the salary he earned from %u201CThe Apprentice.%u201D He promised to give personal donations to the charities chosen by contestants on %u201CCelebrity Apprentice.%u201D He promised to donate $250,000 to a charity helping Israeli soldiers and veterans.

Together, those pledges would have increased Trump%u2019s lifetime giving by millions of dollars. But The Post has been unable to verify that he followed through on any of them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/trump-charity-donations/

For months, The Washington Post has been looking for evidence to back up a key claim Donald Trump makes about himself: that, in recent years, he has given millions of dollars to charity out of his own pocket. There is no evidence of that in the files of Trump's nonprofit, the Donald J. Trump Foundation. And Trump has not released his tax returns, which would detail his recent charitable giving.

In an effort to find proof of Trump's personal giving, The Post has contacted more than 400 charities with some ties to the GOP nominee. Some got money from the Trump Foundation (). In other cases, Trump had a personal connection () to the charity or its leaders . Some were charities that DonorSearch database records () indicated he might have given to. A variety of other reasons () included media mentions, gala attendance, or involvement with Trump's TV show "Celebrity Apprentice."

So far, The Post's search has turned up little. Between 2008 and this May — when Trump made good on a pledge to give $1 million to a veterans' group — its search has identified just one personal gift from Trump's own pocket.

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Sephiroth1288 posted...

What is he done that's so terrible?

Oversee a jail that dehydrated a man to death
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/25/in-sheriff-david-clarkes-jail-water-kept-from-mentally-ill-inmate-for-7-days-before-he-died-of-dehydration/

That forced a woman to give birth in shackles
https://thinkprogress.org/lawsuit-sheriff-david-clarkes-jail-forced-a-woman-to-give-birth-while-in-shackles-fc62122ec9cd/

That ignored a woman in labor, contributing to the death of her newborn.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2016/11/16/inmate-baby-died-after-staff-ignored-her-labor/93988574/

At the very minimum, Clarke is a hugely incompetent governmental official. Given your ideology, and your stated views on government, you should despise him.
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Roxborough4Ever posted...

why is it that people who break the law are upset that justice is coming after them?

Sheriff Clarke has nothing to do with justice.
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Seems like the wrong time for his particular gimmick
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