Board 8 > Politics Containment Topic 196: You Dun Boofed!

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StartTheMachine posted...

SgtSphynx posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

https://twitter.com/heyitschili/status/1045718359713681408?s=21

This is a hilarious mashup

That is a piece of art

why did this end at 59 seconds

I was ready to watch an hour of this

Agreed
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Chris Coons explains the backstory behind Flakes move today:

https://twitter.com/alanhe/status/1045830251358629888?s=21
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How does this story have so many twists?

https://twitter.com/jbenton/status/1045798556018364416

So, you know the guy Whelan doxxed as the guy in his conspiracy of "He was the real culprit, Ford mixed them up!"?

Turns out he was a friend of Kavanaugh's who was going out with Ford that summer and was at the July 1 party. Kavanaugh testified that he was "Squi." Ford testified that she went out with him.

And yet Kavanaugh testified he and Ford, "did not travel in the same social circles. It's possible we met at some point at some events, although I don't recall that."

yeah okay

The twitter thread goes into more details but seriously the twists in this story are unreal.
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Well...dont get your hopes up too much. But if the truth is out there, if Kavanaugh is shown to have been willfully lying that blows a hole in this whole "they both seemed equally sincere"narrative
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I'm not, Kavanaugh repeatedly and obviously lied during his testimony and the GOP didn't care, I'm just saying the crazy details and swerves in this thing are unbelievable.
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Suprak, you are close to reaching your liberal pizzagate moment. Enjoy. <3
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Corrik posted...

Suprak, you are close to reaching your liberal pizzagate moment. Enjoy. <3

Does this mean someone's going to shoot Kavinaugh?
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Corrik posted...

Suprak, you are close to reaching your liberal pizzagate moment. Enjoy. <3

Suprak has made exactly one post in this topic and there was nothing remotely conspiratorial

Try harder, man
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Eddv posted...

this whole "they both seemed equally sincere"narrative

how is there a "they both seemed equally sincere" narrative in the first place?

the most "seemingly insincere" thing ford did was making claims we do not have evidence of. kavanaugh was all "I USE MY CALENDARS AS DIARIES" and "DEVIL'S TRIANGLE IS A DRINKING GAME."
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xp1337 posted...

How does this story have so many twists?

https://twitter.com/jbenton/status/1045798556018364416

So, you know the guy Whelan doxxed as the guy in his conspiracy of "He was the real culprit, Ford mixed them up!"?

Turns out he was a friend of Kavanaugh's who was going out with Ford that summer and was at the July 1 party. Kavanaugh testified that he was "Squi." Ford testified that she went out with him.

And yet Kavanaugh testified he and Ford, "did not travel in the same social circles. It's possible we met at some point at some events, although I don't recall that."

yeah okay

The twitter thread goes into more details but seriously the twists in this story are unreal.

Okay, and...? I knew quite a few guys back in high school who I hung out with often, but whose girlfriends I met once or twice at most. If that guy comes out and says Kavanaugh and Ford were both with him all the time that's one thing, but otherwise this really doesn't mean much I don't think
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just seems fishy that kavanaugh wouldn't remember ford at all if she was the girlfriend of one of his friends. i remember all of my friends' significant others, even though i obviously didn't know them all super well.
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I don't see how that's fishy at all. Especially when it's been over 30 years. My high school life is a hell of a lot more recent than that, and if you asked me about any girl who was dating a friend of mine and who wasn't already someone I knew before they got together, chances are I'd be saying I maybe met her but I don't actually remember it or her at all. Some girls I'd remember because they ended up part of the group beyond just being that dudes girlfriend, but that would be the minority. If I actually spent any length of time to talking to her I'd probably remember her, but if she just showed up once or twice, mostly talked to her boyfriend and that was all I ever saw of her, I wouldn't remember anything specific.

I'm thinking back on high school and the years after right now, and I can already kind of feel some blank spots in my memory where I feel like there was probably somebody else hanging around but I have no idea who, meaning if you asked me about her...I'd tell you "If she was dating <name> like you say we might have met, but I don't remember it at all".
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fair enough. guess i just have a better memory than the average person (which is probably the case).

fair point on the "it's been over 30 years" thing, though. not sure how much i will still remember of high school when i'm 50 years old.
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I generally have a good memory for people! I can remember the names and faces of people I knew as a kid with pretty good clarity...*if* I interacted with them enough, or they were important in some way (like a teacher). Something has to make them memorable in the present for me to remember in the future. It's not so much about memory as it is about the fact that I think it's perfectly plausible for a guy to have barely ever spent time with his buddy's girlfriend, to the point that it's reasonable he won't remember her because he never really had any reason for her to stick in his mind.
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you're kind of moving the goalposts with the "if he was dating a girl" thing, though. if she's your girlfriend you've moved past the dating stage.

do i remember all the girls my friends in high school dated briefly? no. do i remember all the girlfriends my friends had? absolutely.
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I was using "girl he's dating" and "girlfriend" interchangeably there, actually.

Several of the longer term girlfriends of my friends I either barely knew, am pretty sure I never met (but not certain, which is kind of topical) or did meet but only after a long time, making it plausible that under other circumstances I could have never met her. There are some cases where I do know for sure that I met the person, but I can't remember a name or face, or when/where it may have happened...not actually 100% certain who they were even dating honestly. So even there where I can kind of remember someone was there, if you asked me about him/her, I'd be telling you I don't remember them at all since I don't have any way of knowing who you're talking about.
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Panthera posted...

I was using "girl he's dating" and "girlfriend" interchangeably there, actually.

ok, that's fair. to me "the girl who john is dating" sounds less definitive than "john's girlfriend."
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Panthera posted...

Okay, and...? I knew quite a few guys back in high school who I hung out with often, but whose girlfriends I met once or twice at most. If that guy comes out and says Kavanaugh and Ford were both with him all the time that's one thing, but otherwise this really doesn't mean much I don't think

Really? I admit it's anecdotal, but in high school I'd say the people my friends dated were in my "social circle" and I knew them, etc. Maybe we were a tighter knit bunch or the experience was atypical? I'll say that this applies specifically to high school though, absolutely not the case for me in college.

If you guys think I'm way out of the line/off base here I'll concede. I just thought it was wild that the guy from that conspiracy theory wasn't some random dude but actually connected to Kavanaugh and Ford. The "Kavanaugh said he didn't know her..." part was secondary to me but I was trying to hit the main points of the twitter thread for people who didn't want to read through it.
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I mean, I'd expect that people would know most of their friends significant others, but not all, and not necessarily very well. It certainly doesn't strike me as odd to not really think of a friends girlfriend as in your social circle, even if you have met her a few times. Add in 30+ years to the mix, and it doesn't strike me as implausible at all that someone might not remember. If they can question that friend and he ends up saying the three of them hung out together all the time? Yeah, then it makes him look like a liar, but simply being friends with her boyfriend doesn't really suggest to me that he had to have known her well enough to not be able to forget 36 years later.
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For all the "I knew my friend's significant others in highschool" people...

Did you go to a private single-gender high school? Cause Kavinaugh went to an all-boys school. (I assume that changes social dynamics a little. It's not like he'd meet and learn the names of girls by being in class with them).
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Okay, that's fair I think. I'll disavow that part of the twitter thread and my commentary on it. Sorry guys. I try to be very careful with the stuff I link/comment on and I let my standards drop a bit there because my mind was still blown at the connection between Whelan's conspiracy and this.

still think it's nuts how connected this all turned out to be

Edit: I wrote that in reply to Panthera but mc's point is fair too. I'm sorry everyone.
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What's with the deleted posts
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i mean, it's still worth pointing out because it IS nuts how connected it is, even if it's not that weird that kavanaugh didn't remember her.
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Corrik posted...

What's with the deleted posts

I deleted my post in light of this discussion (though it lives on in quotes and obviously in discussion so I'm not doing it to pretend it never happened). Don't know about the others.
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I responded to the first deleted post. I just meant the subsequent ones.
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Quick delete the whole topic, Corrik must never know what dark deeds were plotted here
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Ummm. This is one of the most diabolical things I've ever seen. Like holy shit. I don't even know what to say. How can this be allowed. Profit over all morals. This is legit Captain Planet supervillanry

https://twitter.com/Public_Citizen/status/1045773149948846082?s=19

This is beyond twisted: The Trump administration is now arguing that the impact of climate change will be so catastrophic that they might as well loosen fuel efficiency standards since our worlds climate fate is already sealed. https://t.co/E7TgMes6sW

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old. but yeah, it is absolutely terrible.
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lol, I linked that story earlier.

Yeah, it's pretty wild. You think the wild part is that the Trump administration itself is saying that climate change is real, man-made, and will result in a 4 degree C/7 degree F rise in global temperature by 2100... but nope it's where they go "and the planet's fate is sealed and therefore that's why we should proceed with gutting environmental policy"
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did y'all watch lindsay lohan attempt to kidnap those arabic children tho
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Even if you believed that there's no point to prevention, that level of predicted temperature rise means they should be investing billions in adaption right now. Preparing to move the entire population of coastal cities, engineering crops that would still be viable, the works.
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I don't know, I've heard a lot of environmentalist types insisting that we're past the point of no return on climate change. Guess they must be happy Trump is handling things in accordance with their beliefs!
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WiggumFan267 posted...

Ummm. This is one of the most diabolical things I've ever seen. Like holy shit. I don't even know what to say. How can this be allowed. Profit over all morals. This is legit Captain Planet supervillanry

https://twitter.com/Public_Citizen/status/1045773149948846082?s=19

This is beyond twisted: The Trump administration is now arguing that the impact of climate change will be so catastrophic that they might as well loosen fuel efficiency standards since our worlds climate fate is already sealed. https://t.co/E7TgMes6sW

Wait a second I saw this headline earlier but are you guys telling me it wasn't satire? The fuck?
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pyresword posted...

Wait a second I saw this headline earlier but are you guys telling me it wasn't satire? The fuck?

If you mean when I posted the story before the link was literally the Washington Post. You thought that was satire? >_>

If you mean you saw it on Twitter or something then yeah, I understand lmao.

Link again:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-administration-sees-a-7-degree-rise-in-global-temperatures-by-2100/2018/
09/27/b9c6fada-bb45-11e8-bdc0-90f81cc58c5d_story.html
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https://twitter.com/DrCChambers/status/1046033643838341120
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Republicans supported Roy Moore. Should we really be surprised they support Kavanaugh? I'd bet they'd approve Earl Bradley as long as he was conservative on the issues.
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Ashethan posted...

Republicans supported Roy Moore.

in fairness, i do recall the board 8 rightists being against roy moore. the only exception i can think of is extha.
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CelesMyUserName posted...

https://twitter.com/DrCChambers/status/1046033643838341120

damn that is brutal
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xp1337 posted...

If you mean when I posted the story before the link was literally the Washington Post. You thought that was satire? >_>

If you mean you saw it on Twitter or something then yeah, I understand lmao.

Yeah I meant on Twitter or Facebook or something.

I must have missed when you posted it here.
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No, I think a lot of people are using Occam's Razor.
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As a judge he doesnt have any letter after his name
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

Ashethan posted...

Republicans supported Roy Moore.

in fairness, i do recall the board 8 rightists being against roy moore. the only exception i can think of is extha.

I can actually confirm extha being "fuck moore, he actually seems like a creep" but not really corrik or ulti

corrik goes to social relativism a lot, legality/age-of-consent for the 16y/o, and "you can't really prove it" for the 14, while ulti vehemently denies any leftist conspiracies and complains of democrat hypocrisy re:Franken.... until the election is over and ulti flops to fuck more but republicans will win the seat back soon

corrik also goes on some "nobody knows what half your age+7 means" while arguing nobody on b8 understands social norms like age gap dating bit which lopen bandwagons saying that anybody in circles that do know "half your age+7" it must be a creep

anyways MWC and Seph were fully on expelling Moore so generally I would agree conservatives here opposed him
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CelesMyUserName posted...

Mr Lasastryke posted...

Ashethan posted...

Republicans supported Roy Moore.

in fairness, i do recall the board 8 rightists being against roy moore. the only exception i can think of is extha.

I can actually confirm extha being "fuck moore, he actually seems like a creep" but not really corrik or ulti

corrik goes to social relativism a lot, legality/age-of-consent for the 16y/o, and "you can't really prove it" for the 14, while ulti vehemently denies any leftist conspiracies and complains of democrat hypocrisy re:Franken.... until the election is over and ulti flops to fuck more but republicans will win the seat back soon

corrik also goes on some "nobody knows what half your age+7 means" while arguing nobody on b8 understands social norms like age gap dating bit which lopen bandwagons saying that anybody in circles that do know "half your age+7" it must be a creep

anyways MWC and Seph were fully on expelling Moore so generally I would agree conservatives here opposed him

Your age +7 is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

Age of consent is all that matters.
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There's no rules that say a dog can't play basketball either, but it doesn't make Air Bud a realistic scenario.
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kevwaffles posted...

There's no rules that say a dog can't play basketball either, but it doesn't make Air Bud a realistic scenario.

This is so dumb that I cannot even believe you posted it.
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I'm being tongue-in-cheek. Good lord simmer down, man.
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That sounds like sexual assault, brother. Did your tongue ask the cheeks permission?


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Corrik posted...

That sounds like sexual assault, brother. Did your tongue ask the cheeks permission

This is so dumb that I cannot even believe you posted it.
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