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dj1200 posted...

Lol @the chick on right. She just looks like "yes her tits are ridiculous".


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Lathissamus posted...

You also don't know what fascism is apparently. Or authoritarianism. Basically buzzwords at this point.

Shut the fuck up.

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Lathissamus posted...

Again, you don't know what fascism is

Shut the fuck up.

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tremain07 posted...

There goes her career as a cop, cops hate snitches in their own ranks

Good chance she gets killed.

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Gonna try and stop the fire with bullets.

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Error1355 posted...

"Alabama is the least vaccinated state"

*crowd cheers*

come the fuck on

Did you expect any better from a crowd of Alabamans who went to go see this monster speak?

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UT1999 posted...

how so?

It predicted the proliferation of garbage information and the creation of political echo chambers back in 2001 when it came out.
The relevant bit is from where it starts till about 5 minutes in or so.
https://youtu.be/eKl6WjfDqYA?t=139

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The bar to be impeached is now something worse than staging a coup thanks to republicans. In short, fuck off.

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Jabodie posted...

I was under the impression this was due in part because of increasingly sense cities and the rise of airbnb.

To some degree that is correct. After the collapse in 08/09 huge amounts of foreclosed properties were bought up property management firms and became rental properties, which is essentially permanently removing them from the purchase market, which in and of itself generated scarcity as people returned to the housing market during the recovery years. Las Vegas is a huge example of this. Then came the Airbnb boom which has further exacerbated the issue. This is driven less by huge fims and instead by smaller scale investors, but does still generate scarcity.

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Jabodie posted...

I'm no economist, so take this with a pound of salt:

These price increases have more to do with the general availability of money due to COVID quantitative easing. It's why the price of every asset, including stocks and even depreciating assets like cars, are skyrocketing. Where in pre 2008 the problem was that any idiot could get a mortgage, the problem here is that rich people have so much cash available to them that they'll pay any price because interest rates are crazy low. And with that availability of cash is the fear of inflation, or at least asset inflation, which then continues to drive asset prices up as everybody dumps their cash to protect their real wealth.

Until the Fed raises interest rates, prices will not go down for housing, or for the majority of other assets. And even then, there's no guarantee houses will flood the market because we aren't expecting tons of foreclosures. These buildings aren't bought by people who can't afford them. Much of the price increases may be permanent (as they were across different asset classes the previous time we used quantitative easing), with some value loss simply due to interest rate increases. But who knows, many more people may just become landlords with what they're sitting on.

The net effect at the end of the day is probably going to be further wealth inequality. The rich get richer here, but a big economic crisis is (hopefully) avoided.

Some of that is the case, but housing prices were already on the climb prior to the pandemic. The current spike without flattening began in late 2018 early 2019.
https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/

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DarkRoast posted...

As someone who is still technically registered Republican, I would never associate with them in any form ever again after what they allowed that Dipshit in Chief to do / get away with.

If the #NeverTrumpers like Romney want to form a new party, I might be interested, but even then it'd be a very hard sell.

They still aren't going to think that you or your wife are actual human beings worthy of the same rights as other people.
To the original question of the topic? No. The party line post coup attempt is either that it was not as bad as it's being portrayed (it's actually worse in reality) or that it was justified. So either Fascist or Fascist adjacent. The party has been pandering to this group since Nixon. It's just grown beyond their control now.

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wesastro911 posted...

Just looking at homes on Zillow and seeing their price history is astounding. Some have increased almost 100% in just a few years.

If only we had an example of the end result of these giant bubbles. We truly have no precedent to extrapolate info from to determine how this will turn out.

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TheApexPredator posted...

Homeless guy gets a roof over his head and fed for two years. Can now sue get a chunk of good cash for the mistake. Seems like a win for him.

This is certainly a take. A truely, stunningly fucking stupid one, but it is a take nonetheless.

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ChopinList posted...

Shouldnt they all be arrested. They would do this if it was ISIS. Just arrest them and put them in Guantnamo Bay. And torture them until they tell you other members of their organization. That should stop any future terror attacks like Jan 6th from happening again.

Lol we don't do that to white people. Well, non left leaning white people anyways.

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Demon1050 posted...

Yeah, I'm sure a small minority of trump voters like 1 in a 100,000 might turn violent. The same can be said for biden voters. Whites.Blacks. Doesn't matter. There's bad apples in every applicable group. That doesn't mean you criminalize the other 99.999% that just want law/order and the freedom to just life and enjoy life. It's insane everyone thinking it's OK to criminalize all of them just because it's trump. It's not like they supported him because they wanted to support a criminal. They did it thinking he was a good honest guy trying to do the right thing. If they're being lead by a false prophet (At this point I have no idea anymore) then help them see why they're wrong, you don't criminalize and criticize.

So sick of the lies though. If everyone would shut the god damn TV off, put the phone down and delete their online social shit and go outside and enjoy each other's company again and act like politics don't even exist we would have a beautiful happy society. Too bad everyone is in too much of a trance to ever actually do it. :(

BoTH siDeS

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metallica846 posted...

Why do people hate Jordan Peterson again?

No one hates him, just that anyone with half a brain doesn't take him seriously because he's a grifter whose bought into his own bullshit. Then, when he finally got called on it he ran off to Europe and got hooked on benzos and almost died.

When it comes to his motivational shit, it's all stuff that any sort of rational thinking person with common sense should have figured out for themselves. His "rules for life" is all stuff the most basic of lame self help shit. I cannot fathom how anyone thinks it's somehow revolutionary.

Then you get into his other moronic ideas like "enforced monogamy" being the solution to the incel problem. It's patently fucking absurd and should not be taken seriously in any context.

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He was never that smart to begin with.

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Lol fuck you.

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Kolibri X posted...

350 million lol.

Either he's a senile old fool or he had Dominion help with the counting.

I'm sure you thought that was clever when you came up with it.

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Antifar posted...

Now personally, I would not extend legitimacy to Jair Bolsonaro

Fucking same.

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averagejoel posted...

providing people with housing is more important than providing investors with return on their investment

Not when you believe that the return on investment is more important than human life.

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Guide posted...

isn't that just not having an attention span

More like not wanting to get bogged down in outdated game mechanics.

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Should have knocked him the fuck out.

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KawiKa posted...

It was just our dumb commentators saying things like "having a fight with an invisible enemy". I was expecting people to be going crazy like they do in an air guitar competition lmao.

Oh I really shouldn't stay up till the early hours watching this stuff.

Back to normality. Women's beach volleyball.

I've seen some really dumbass Kata performances that are like that. Usually it's Bo Kata where people will do all kinds of crazy shit like throwing their bo in the air and catching it behind their back. It's ridiculous and there is no practical combat techniques (bunkai) in them.

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Kata is how most martial arts teach technique.

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mooreandrew58 posted...

I think this whole is thing stupid. Trump just needs to fade out of the lime light and accept he lost. But on the other hand are people really equating him using a eagle as lookimg like Nazi stuff?.

It's called a dogwhistle.

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Imagine the amount of compassion I have for this person.

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Who would guessed that allowing the virus to run rampant amongst a population would lead to it mutating? No one could have seen this coming.

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People who don't ask permission tend to get fucked up.

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divot1338 posted...

Spelling error aside, what is that supposed to be?

An official what?

Official certificate of having been grifted.

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Imagine giving a fuck about what a disgustingly obese fat fuck has to say about a sport.

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Surely we can trust a giant mega conglomerate with that kind of responsibility.

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Service industry people were one of the hardest hit demographics by COVID. If you want to people to provide you a service perhaps you should treat them better and compensate them for the risk they are taking.

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Missouri is going to start getting this way soon I fear. I am glad every day that I had cancer in 2019 and not in 2020 or 21. I would likely be dead.

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They only care if children are born, after that they are on their own.

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The grift just keeps on going.

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Clutch posted...

Trump isnt around so now people have to time travel back to 2012 to get their hate on.

People need to be reminded of who conservatives are and what they believe.

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Samurontai posted...

I feel like that was proven false in the last election cycle, when the democrats won the house and senate, etc.

And yet they are allowing the GOP to gerrymander and vote suppress to make sure that this never happens again.

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DemonBuffet posted...

You wanna talk about a racist country? Pretty much every country in the world is racist.
America is by far one of the most progressive ones.

The fact that entire demographics are melting down because people want to take the statues of their heroes from their failed slaver's rebellion says otherwise.

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This kind of rhetoric is going to lead to violence against migrants.

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Unsugarized_Foo posted...

For the most part, itll be like the flu.

Good news is (usually) Corona viruses get less virile as they get more contagious and the most contagious variant is usually the dominant one

Imagine if MERS was super contagious, ughhhhhhahh

Or SARS.

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And this is why debating intellectually dishonest grifters like Kirk is a waste of fucking time.

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Because it would make the red line go down and we can't have that.

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SocialistGamer posted...

Because the zombies you were attacking were black?

It wasn't that so much as the enemies you were fighting were really dark skinned and your teammate who was supposed to be black was really light skinned.

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