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04-07-2017 , 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by pvn
uh, Hil *IS* more hawkish than TRUMP. She would have bombed Syria like 10 weeks ago.
Cool argument, dude. It's got a lot of evidence and everything.
04-07-2017 , 12:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib
Science news for the day, gene mutation may cause people to be night owls, and around 50% of US adults have HPV with around 1 in 5 adults having the cancer-causing version of the disease.
As somebody who has a circadian rhythm sleep disorder, clickbait garbage like this isn't helpful.
04-07-2017 , 12:04 PM
Devastating piece in the most recent New Yorker on the migrant trade in Western Africa through the Mediterranean to Italy ---

"I was in prison for one month and two days,” a twenty-one-year-old Gambian named Ousmane recalled. The facility was run by Libyans, and, to clarify the stakes and to make room for more detainees, “every Friday they would kill five people,” he said. “Even if you pay, sometimes they don’t set you free—they say they will throw you out, but they just kill you instead.”

...

"In January, according to the newspaper Welt am Sonntag, the German Embassy in Niger sent a cable to Berlin corroborating these weekly executions, and comparing the conditions in Libya’s migrant connection houses to those of Nazi concentration camps. Sometimes the sick are buried alive."

Read it this morning; provided some sharp perspective real quick.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...rafficked-girl
04-07-2017 , 12:08 PM
If we're gonna bomb airfields no matter who is president, it's clearly optimal to bomb them ten weeks ago before they take off and gas people.
04-07-2017 , 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
If we're gonna bomb airfields no matter who is president, it's clearly optimal to bomb them ten weeks ago before they take off and gas people.
Yes, we'll just get out the Palantir.
04-07-2017 , 01:03 PM
Why free lunches to children are a good thing, and why "neoliberalism" or whatever people want to call it is bad.

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/w...e-a-great-idea
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On Thursday, Labour announced they would introduce free school meals for all primary school pupils, paid for by introducing VAT to private school fees. You might have instinctively come to the rash conclusion that ensuring all children are fed was "a good thing". Thankfully, we now have wonderful things like cold hard data, metrics for success plundered from bestselling books on marketing, subreddits called R/ObjectivelyCorrectDevilsAdvocates and comment journalism, so we're not simply going to accept that safeguarding infants' sustenance is a worthwhile policy without the sufficient evidence.

Jane Merrick complains that ending the tax break bafflingly afforded to private schools would penalise the parents "breaking the bank" to afford fees, forcing them to send them their kids to, ugh, state school. Stephen Bush and Mary Ann Sieghart lament the fact that free school meals have been used to benchmark the progress of the poorest through the education system and this would effectively nullify that dataset, because it would be a shame to sacrifice great A-B data at the expense of something paltry, like feeding kids.
It goes on.
04-07-2017 , 08:58 PM
Lol:

"Since redistricting following the 2010 United States Census, Austin has been divided between six congressional districts at the federal level: Texas's 35th, Texas's 25th, Texas's 10th, Texas's 21st, Texas's 17th, and Texas's 31st. Texas's 35th congressional district is represented by Democrat Lloyd Doggett. The other five districts are represented by Republicans, of whom only one, Michael McCaul of the 10th district, lives in Austin."
04-08-2017 , 01:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson
If we're gonna bomb airfields no matter who is president, it's clearly optimal to bomb them ten weeks ago before they take off and gas people.

This post is so low energy.
04-08-2017 , 02:16 AM
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Originally Posted by microbet
Of course WW1 leading to Hitler is largely true, but the Germans occupied Paris 45 years before WW1 and then 25 years after. Trying to take over Europe was their thing for quite a while. There's a reason "Prussian" is understood as militarism.
The Treaty of Versailles was responsible for Hitler. It was the peace, not the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ec...s_of_the_Peace
04-08-2017 , 04:08 AM
It can be more than one thing and it mattered that this is where they were coming from:



A lot of countries have had hard times and didn't try to take over Europe because of them.
04-08-2017 , 02:21 PM
nice country you have there


https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/850769811047157761
04-08-2017 , 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by stinkubus
The Treaty of Versailles was responsible for Hitler.
No, Hitler was responsible for Hitler.
04-08-2017 , 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by daca
nice country you have there


https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/850769811047157761
Just saw this, **** YOU REPUBLICANS.

**** OFF AND DIE FOR EMBRACING THIS BULL****
04-08-2017 , 02:42 PM
Also, that **** is ****ING RACIST. I guarantee you they aren't putting "I Need Lunch Money" on any white kids.
04-08-2017 , 03:04 PM
late stage capitalism.
04-08-2017 , 03:31 PM
but don't hold up a colored piece of paper at a town hall because that would be appalling
04-08-2017 , 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by 57 On Red
No, Hitler was responsible for Hitler.
To some degree others were responsible for him. He had a mentor or two who were racist POS's prior to his rise.
04-08-2017 , 08:34 PM
Probably ponied, but I'll leave this here just in case. I found it amusing.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate...ors_picks=true
04-08-2017 , 08:59 PM
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Originally Posted by vaya
Someone should write a magical realist Lysistrata where libertarians' anime pillows refuse to be jerked off on after the libertarians don't march against a tyrannical Trump like they said they would
04-08-2017 , 11:23 PM
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Originally Posted by champstark
Also, that **** is ****ING RACIST. I guarantee you they aren't putting "I Need Lunch Money" on any white kids.
I guarantee you they are.
04-09-2017 , 12:06 AM
Find you somebody that looks at you the way Ted Cruz looks at Neil Gorsuch
04-09-2017 , 12:14 AM
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Originally Posted by champstark
Also, that **** is ****ING RACIST. I guarantee you they aren't putting "I Need Lunch Money" on any white kids.
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Originally Posted by 2/325Falcon
I guarantee you they are.
Yeah, Falcon's correct here, not that that saves this from being anything but a horrible embarrassment of a policy. Feeding kids should be non-optional for any civilized society.
04-09-2017 , 12:35 AM
Does feeding them bootstraps count?
04-09-2017 , 12:36 AM
Both sides are kinda right imho. Like, for sure some poor white kids are going to be collateral damage, but dicking over black people is the primary target.

But like, holy **** this is the most prosperous society that's ever existed and we're seriously debating whether poor children should have to mop floors for school lunches like characters from a Dickens novel. This is actually happening.
04-09-2017 , 12:36 AM
Talking to a conservative friend of mine who is blinded by his hate of Hillary and democrats. Yet he actually agrees with quite a few liberal policies.

With that in mind, how the hell do liberals start to separate ourselves from the current incarnation of the democratic party? That's got to be the first step to winning some of these people over right?

      
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