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Yeah fuck that noise. Workers need to rise up and overthrow that government.
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_Lyonidias posted...

What happened?

Fluid in abdominal cavity and potential infection.
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So boring.
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Philoktetes posted...

not as bad as obama

Citation needed.
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Antifar posted...

BigSLM1993 posted...

That's pure insanity. They're placing their bets on Trump. Once he's done with his term, idk if they can go back to how they once were >_>

This is what they are, not some aberration.

Yeah this is what they've been the mask is just off now. It had been barely hanging on since Obama won and Trump finally ripped it off.
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ShangDoh posted...

Damn_Underscore posted...

A_Good_Boy posted...

I wouldn't feel sorry.

This really shows your character. Apparently hundreds of civilians getting killed by the military doesn't matter when you disagree with them politically.

They take up arms against the government? They're no longer civilians, they're armed Rebels and we all know how that turned for the Confederates.

Yeah, there were no real consequences. After the war they were allowed to return home with no penalty. In fact they were even allowed to be buried in national cemetaries as war veterans.
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Sean had like every weird or bad thing that could happen to a kid in the 90s happen to him.
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DuranOfForcena posted...

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ScazarMeltex posted...

My only beef is the overly long descriptions of food and clothing. Joffrey's wedding made me rage, like Jesus man, shut the fuck up about embroidery.

The food sounds amazing tho

it does, and the descriptions of it and other things serve a purpose. when you read paragraphs worth of descriptions about opulent 77 course wedding feasts with roasted capons dripping with grease and pease porridge in a pool of butter and lemon cakes and lamprey pies and all that stuff that the nobility eats, and then you read about the pot shops down in Fleabottom that serve bowls of brown, the meat in which you don't want to look too closely at or speculate about, it serves to underscore the massive class divide and really put the reader into the societal mindset of the setting.

Oh I agree, that it serves a purpose and does it admirably, but he covers it so much over the course of the series that it gets old after a bit.
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My only beef is the overly long descriptions of food and clothing. Joffrey's wedding made me rage, like Jesus man, shut the fuck up about embroidery.
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If he had been a child molester though it probably would have been ok.
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Lairen posted...

Calling people fat fucks isnt offensive? Lol

Is he or is he not fat?
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Fortnite is trash.
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lww99 posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

Yeah they absolutely can send it to collections. You can also try to work out a payment plan with the hospital.

They did already, just wondering if theres anything we can do now. Shes been paying faithfully for a couple years.

You can always try and renegotiate or try and get them to forgive the debt.
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Yeah they absolutely can send it to collections. You can also try to work out a payment plan with the hospital.
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She's likely Autistic with an intellectual disability.
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Hardcore fiscal conservatives don't care because they are either rich or have stockholm syndrome.
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This is why no lobbyist should ever be allowed to hold a government position.
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Good. If they succeed then it will push all the other facilities to go that route as well. There is zero excuse for a company that large and profitable to have working conditions that poor.
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smoliske posted...

circumcision does nothing to inhibit masturbation

No but logical thinking wasn't exactly Kellogg's strong suit.
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Lol, the fucking cops are scum. "wah don't record us, we don't want you to catch us doing illegal shit"
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Esrac posted...

Funkydog posted...

Esrac posted...

Is that what Dragon Age has been about?

I only played the first one and it mostly seemed about fighting pseudo-orcs and a demon-dragon and some political backstabbing. And fucking a swamp witch.

I don't remember much about coming together because we are all we have or anything like that.

Then you really didn't pay much attention to the game you played tbh.

It's a major theme of it.

I don't know, it seemed more like a group of people and political frenemies begrudgingly cooperating, or not, to not be murdered and raped by the dark spawn horde.

I don't remember a lot of coming togetherness from Alistair when I opted to make Loghain a Grey Warden or Leliana when I dumped blood in those sacred ashes.

Really, you don't remember the entire alliance building of bringing together Elves, Dwarves, and Mages together with the remnants of Ferelden forces to fight against the blight? Your memory must suck since that was roughly 2/3rds of the fucking game.
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What would his sentence have been if he had been poor and black? Or poor and white?
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UnfairRepresent posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

They should probably have another brexit referendum. Like a "are you guys really sure you want to do this" vote, since a good portion of the people who voted for Brexit didn't seem to understand the consequences of doing so and are now voicing the opinion of "maybe we should have thought this through a bit more".

This is a really bad idea and I disaprove immensely.

It utterly destroys the idea of a referendum if you just do it over and over again until you get the result you wanted.

The idea raised which is a good one is "A referendum on whether or not you support May's deal Brexit or a No Deal Brexit."

At this point the notion of a second Scottish Independance Referendum or a second Brexit referendum is a nightmarish waste of time and money that will hurt people.

It's happened, Brexit is going to occur. There's no turning back after the past several years of shitshow politics from the UK and EU.

The Scottish voted to stay in the UK because the UK was part of the EU. If the UK leaves the EU, then things have changed enough that a second independence vote should happen, and I guarantee you the Scots will vote independence and then join the EU.
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DK9292 posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

DK9292 posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

They should probably have another brexit referendum. Like a "are you guys really sure you want to do this" vote, since a good portion of the people who voted for Brexit didn't seem to understand the consequences of doing so and are now voicing the opinion of "maybe we should have thought this through a bit more".

Why do you think May is so strongly against having another referendum?

You would think that she would want it though, think about it. If they have another vote and they decide "yes we want to brexit still" then May's hands are clean and she can just no deal brexit and blame it on the voters. If they vote "no we don't want to brexit now, we've changed our minds" then May doesn't have to deal with all of the bullshit and can go back to fucking up the British economy.

Because the Tories wanted to leave the EU, and backing out now looks bad on them.

Yeah but so does this entire process, at least having another vote allows them an out.
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DK9292 posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

They should probably have another brexit referendum. Like a "are you guys really sure you want to do this" vote, since a good portion of the people who voted for Brexit didn't seem to understand the consequences of doing so and are now voicing the opinion of "maybe we should have thought this through a bit more".

Why do you think May is so strongly against having another referendum?

You would think that she would want it though, think about it. If they have another vote and they decide "yes we want to brexit still" then May's hands are clean and she can just no deal brexit and blame it on the voters. If they vote "no we don't want to brexit now, we've changed our minds" then May doesn't have to deal with all of the bullshit and can go back to fucking up the British economy.
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They should probably have another brexit referendum. Like a "are you guys really sure you want to do this" vote, since a good portion of the people who voted for Brexit didn't seem to understand the consequences of doing so and are now voicing the opinion of "maybe we should have thought this through a bit more".
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We should force anyone who doesn't want to vaccinate to live in one designated state. Montana or some other state with huge amounts of space. Then when they've all died off from preventable disease we can hold that up as an example of the folly of not vaccinating to future generations.
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It doesn't make him a war criminal but H.W.'s legacy should be shit all over for abandoning the Iraqi population after calling for them to rise up and remove Saddam from power, not once but twice (not counting the CIA operated radio station that called for the people to rise against Saddam), then did nothing to help when they attempted an uprising. Then continued to do nothing as loyalist forces retook cities, often using women and children as human shields, where they detained and summarily executed or "disappeared" thousands of people at random in a policy of collective responsibility, many of whom were tortured, raped, or burned alive.

200 mass graves have been found, one of which the bodies of at least 10,000 victims.
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Antifar posted...

Zerocide posted...

Putting these clowns behind bars means the taxpayers are the one who are insuring his well being.

The appeals process necessary to avoid killing innocent people costs more than the marginal cost of a single prisoner.

And yet it still fails miserably.
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Houston posted...

I dont understand the anger in this topic over a wall. Seems people are more upset about it actually keeping people out than the cost.

The probelm is that a wall isn't a viable solution. It's expensive to build, mantain, and patrol. There are places that it can't be built which means it won't even really work the way Trumpers want it to. Let's not forget that there are people who own the property on which it will have to be built so the land will have to purchased, or imminent domained from people who don't want to sell, which is ironic since a good portion of the libertarian right opposes any use of imminent domain.

I'm fine with immigration controls and stopping illegal immigration. The wall is basically baby's first border control idea. It's impracticle, ineffective, and overly expensive but it seems oh so simple when pitched as a concept to the ignorant masses that make up a huge portion of Trump's voter base.
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TheRealDill2000 posted...

andel posted...

fair, next. should get life no parole

I can't agree with that, assuming he doesn't have a criminal history. Everyone should have a 2nd shot.

The woman he killed and has zero remorse for doesn't get one, neither should he.
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And this is why progressive dems opposed her speakership.
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He basically founded the modern far right version of the brown shirts.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

ScazarMeltex posted...

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Kineth posted...

French economy doesn't work like that, QMark.

Don't ever let facts get in the way of perfectly good hyperbole.

Why are public pensions taxed anyway? That seems silly.

Because it's easier to tax people than it is corporations.

Not in France, apparently. People are about as willing to pack up and leave as corporations.
https://www.newsweek.com/flight-french-118417

Good, that's the way the working class should be, not the docile boot licking wage slaves that we have here in America.
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Let the man die in the ring if that's what he wants to do. He's spent his whole life there, it's what he knows and loves.
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I haven't started a new one since the changes.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Kineth posted...

French economy doesn't work like that, QMark.

Don't ever let facts get in the way of perfectly good hyperbole.

Why are public pensions taxed anyway? That seems silly.

Because it's easier to tax people than it is corporations.
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Antifar posted...

https://wapo.st/2Uxe6dJ

Executives at more than a dozen generic-drug companies had a form of shorthand to describe how they conducted business, insider lingo worked out over steak dinners, cocktail receptions and rounds of golf.

The sandbox, according to investigators, was the market for generic prescription drugs, where everyone was expected to play nice.

Fair share described dividing up the sales pie to ensure that each company reaped continued profits. Trashing the market was used when a competitor ignored these unwritten rules and sold drugs for less than agreed-upon prices.

The terminology reflected more than just the clubbiness of a powerful industry, according to authorities and several lawsuits. Officials from multiple states say these practices were central to illegal price-fixing schemes of massive proportion.

The lawsuit and related cases picked up steam last month when a federal judge ruled that more than 1 million emails, cellphone texts and other documents cited as evidence could be shared among all plaintiffs.

What started as an antitrust lawsuit brought by states over just two drugs in 2016 has exploded into an investigation of alleged price-fixing involving at least 16 companies and 300 drugs, Joseph Nielsen, an assistant attorney general and antitrust investigator in Connecticut who has been a leading force in the probe, said in an interview. His comments in an interview with The Washington Post represent the first public disclosure of the dramatically expanded scale of the investigation.

The unfolding case is rattling an industry that is portrayed in Washington as the white knight of American health care.

This is most likely the largest cartel in the history of the United States, Nielsen said. He cited the volume of drugs in the schemes, that they took place on American soil and the total number of companies involved, and individuals.

The alleged victims were American health-care consumers and taxpayers, who foot the bills for overcharges on common antibiotics, blood-pressure medications, arthritis treatments, anxiety pills and more, authorities say. The costs flowed throughout the system, hitting hospitals, pharmacists and health insurance companies. They hit consumers who lack prescription drug coverage and even those with insurance, because many plans have high deductibles and gaps on prescription drug benefits.

In just one instance of extraordinary cost spikes, the price of a decades-old drug to ease asthma symptoms, albuterol, sold by generic manufacturers Mylan and Sun, jumped more than 3,400 percent, from 13 cents a tablet to more than $4.70. The example is documented in a lawsuit brought against the generic industry by grocery chains including Kroger.

Everyone is paying the price, Nielsen said. He offered a single word to explain the behavior: Greed.

While precise estimates of alleged overcharges have not been released, generic-industry sales were about $104 billion in 2017. Excessive billings of even a small fraction of annual sales over several years would equal billions of dollars in added costs to consumers, according to investigators.

Generic manufacturers reject the accusations. They contend officials lack evidence of a conspiracy and have failed to prove anti-competitive behavior.

Among the 16 companies accused are some of the biggest names in generic manufacturing: Mylan, Teva and Dr. Reddys. Mylan denied wrongdoing in an emailed statement. Sun, Teva and Dr. Reddys did not respond to requests for comment. In a court filing, Teva said allegations of a price-fixing conspiracy are entirely conclusory and devoid of any facts.

Healthy system

Yeah it's almost like people whose only guide is profit motive are going to use every shitty, shady way they can to increase profits for shareholders. Nah who am I kidding, the frww market can be trusted to regulate itself.
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Maybe he shouldn't be a joke. Literally everything that comes out of him is nonsensical blabbering.
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Unfortunately the WCW wildy misused him, like so much of their talent from that era.
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CornBarn posted...

The EU has a much worse problem with youth unemployment and unemployment in general.

Cost of living is high too.

And yet their rate homelessness and bankruptcy is well below ours. Especially people becoming bankrupt and homeless from medical bills.
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The best part of that statement is the people who say shit like that are the same people who think its ok for cops to murder people indiscriminately.
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Im not into poly nor is my wife, but I do agree that humans aren't naturally monogomous, that's why relationships are work and you are still tempted when you find another attractive person out there.
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CW_McGraw posted...

Do you mean to tell me far right authoritarian governments aren't actually friends of the working class?

Yeah it's hard to believe isn't it.
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SauI_Goodman posted...

Never understood why working ot is viewed as a bad thing. Even when I was hourly I would always take ot hours offered to me. Working 12 hour days now but 400 a year really isn't that much.

Because one day I'm going to be dying and the I guarantee you my last though isn't going to be "man I wish I had spent more time at work".
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Yeah fuck all that.
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If you don't count the fucking places where people actually live the GOP would have a clear majority everywhere in the country. Good lord they are scum.
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frozenshock posted...

Antifar posted...

European military build up was part of the cause of those wars, though.

I thought the cause was the austro hungarian prince getting murdered

That didn't happen in a vacuum. 20 years or so of arms race did a large amount to contribute.
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