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04-04-2017 , 02:38 PM

#101

Mayo

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🤔

04-04-2017 , 02:40 PM

#102

Trolly McTrollson

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Troll of the Week from the FBI

04-04-2017 , 02:41 PM

#103

Mayo

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Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

Do you even local paper bro's?

I try to. But coverage in the local paper is pretty bad, and coverage in the Lexington paper is non-existent.

We did just have a tie vote on a fairness ordinance that got a lot of coverage, so next time I'm just gonna base my votes on that roll call.

04-04-2017 , 02:55 PM

#104

iron81

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I have a Chi Tribune subscription, but that isn't local enough when there are something like ten thousand elected officials in the Chicago media market.

The only contested races were for Mayor and two of the three school boards. I skipped the school boards because I didn't have awesome yard sign info.

04-04-2017 , 03:06 PM

#105

zikzak

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Some of the better alt-weeklies out there do great local politics coverage.

04-04-2017 , 03:17 PM

#106

xdeuceswild81xx

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SenorKeeed

lol incredible you think that is some sort of cutting insult as you post about wanting to be a degenerate gambler at work on company time on a company computer. I don't have the most glamourous job, it is true, but at least I'm not a complete piece of **** at work as you apparently are.

Thought DIB said he worked for the government? Social worker possibly? Tax dollars at work yo

04-04-2017 , 03:32 PM

#107

Mayo

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Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

Some of the better alt-weeklies out there do great local politics coverage.

Not a lot of those in small city Kentucky, I'm afraid.

04-04-2017 , 04:12 PM

#108

2/325Falcon

Conehead

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Maybe you could start a zine.

04-04-2017 , 04:57 PM

#109

ASAP17

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When you get owned after attacking a ham like Don Lemon...

04-04-2017 , 05:13 PM

#110

Riverman

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$32 million (that we know about) for Ailes and OReilly scumbaggery. Nice outfit you got there Rupert.

04-04-2017 , 05:20 PM

#111

DVaut1

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mayo

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Aside but I really dislike that quote. Obama borrowed it a few times too and I think it ultimately breeds passivity that progress is natural and un-ending and removes human agency.

For instance: Is the Trumpening part of the moral arc bending to justice? Reductions and erosion and devolution away from norms that promote justice are common in history. Take Russia, which in many ways was far freer and more liberal and just 200 years ago under Catherine the Great than Putin. The arc of the universe bends to justice when people desire it and fight for it and preserve it. It isn't a naturally occurring phenomenon.

04-04-2017 , 07:30 PM

#112

fuluck414

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How the **** is "journalism" like this even legal? Serious question.

http://freedomsfinalstand.com/obama-...len-taxpayers/

04-04-2017 , 07:36 PM

#113

AllTheCheese

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Didn't click, and lol @ ever clicking a link to something called freedomsfinalstand dot com.

Anything with the words "liberty," "freedom," or "truth" in the title should be instantly discredited as RWNJ jerkoff material. You don't even need to click one article or read one headline. It is a stone lock from the title alone.

04-04-2017 , 08:21 PM

#114

microbet

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Quote:

Originally Posted by simplicitus

Dan is generally pretty deplorable but I gotta say his question was fair. Not sure what jmakin does for a living, but not many good jobs involve Nazi co-workers. Maybe lineman for Miami Dolphins or senior Whitehouse official.

Ferry Boat Captain. It seems to have its drawbacks, but would be hella cool for a little while anyway.

04-04-2017 , 08:23 PM

#115

Trolly McTrollson

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Originally Posted by DVaut1

There's a well-regarded historian (I forget who) who makes the case that American race relations actually went backwards considerably in the 1910s-1930s as a kind of backlash against early progress in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. The KKK blossomed, Woodrow Wilson was a huge racist assbag who re-segregated the federal government, a lot of landowning blacks got kicked back into sharecropping. Human progress isn't something that naturally improves monotonically; it takes a lot of pushing to move it forward, and very often it backslides.

04-04-2017 , 08:54 PM

#116

fuluck414

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Quote:

Originally Posted by AllTheCheese

I click on them sometimes for the lolz, was just shocked at how completely fraudulent it was.

04-04-2017 , 09:14 PM

#117

Huehuecoyotl

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So you remember the cops who were aiming for the autistic kid with a toy truck but missed and shot the black therapist who was lying on the ground with his hands up?

And the cops said they mistook the kid's toy truck for a gun and that's why they shot him?

Turns out the audio from the incident has a cop screaming that the kid only has a toy and to stand down before the cops opened fire on the kid.

The police went with the cover up anyways.

Apparently the whole thing was a sh*tshow.

Quote:

The audio tape, indeed, showed Holland had warned that the autistic man was loading a gun. But that warning didn't spark Aledda to shoot. In fact, several moments pass until another sergeant on the scene warns that the man is only holding a toy. Only after that warning did the shooting take place, contends Eugene, who could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

"I heard the sergeant, who advised earlier that it was a toy, say, 'Hold fire! Hold fire! It was a toy,' trying to stop whoever was doing the shooting," Eugene says. "I said, 'Oh lord.'"

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/ch...-a-toy-9254204

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04-04-2017 , 10:17 PM

#118

Trolly McTrollson

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Holy **** someone better go to jail for that WTF

04-04-2017 , 10:24 PM

#119

kerowo

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Whitey gonna whitey

04-05-2017 , 12:18 AM

#120

Loki

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anyone go ahead a sign up with a vpn? I found one that's 70-80 bucks for a two full years, up to 6 devices. Seems like a good company too. Only problem is our mac router can't handle VPNs so I'd have to daisy chain routers or something weird.

04-05-2017 , 01:28 AM

#121

DVaut1

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Right. The quote makes MLK (obviously a hero despite a questionable quote) sound like a Hagelian or modern day Marxist where all events are simply bumps in the road to pre-determined outcomes. I do not find those sort of determinalist takes on history compelling.

04-05-2017 , 02:34 AM

#122

microbet

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I just got rousted by the police in front of my house! He had me sit on the curb, checked my ID, called me in, said I fit the description etc.

04-05-2017 , 05:58 AM

#123

2/325Falcon

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Thanks, Obama.

04-05-2017 , 06:46 AM

#124

suzzer99

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My Uber driver was playing some AM Radio show - seemed ok not overly political. Then they had a guest - Father Joseph or something (so you can trust him!) who had written a book about Social Security in the free market. Highlights:

We need to stop this inter-generational warfare and kids need to think about taking care of their parents, after all they took care of you when you were little.
It's so important to kill Obamacare because we can see how hard it is to end something like SS once the cat it out of the bag.
Who's a better steward of your money than you - the govt? They don't care about you.
We need to end the stigma around privatizing SS - just own that **** (paraphrased).
Zero acknowledgement of course that a freaking pension is completely standard in a first world country - like SS is some grand failed US experiment that's never been tried before anywhere else.

The creepy thing was how softspoken he was. And you know you can trust him because he's a father. The hosts weren't challenging him either and at one point he praised them for the good work they're doing. So they must be big free market fans as well. The bubble is subtle and pervasive and insidious.