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View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of January?

Matthew Whitaker

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Kjrstyn Njielessen

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders

4 10.81%

Steve Mnuchin

4 10.81%

Wilbur Ross

2 5.41%

Stephen Miller

0 0%

Rod Rosenstein

3 8.11%

Roger Stone*

3 8.11%

Donald Trump Jr*

2 5.41%

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01-31-2019 , 04:07 PM

#2251

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

Eli thread seems kinda boring since Abe entered it (none of cts/Eli/Mason have posted again since then) but this is classic:

I was lmao when he said that. Pure gold.

01-31-2019 , 04:23 PM

#2252

Johnny Truant

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Originally Posted by Riverman

Anybody ever legit want to get fired?

Laid off, yes.

01-31-2019 , 05:24 PM

#2253

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One of the houses I worked on in Santa Barbara was destroyed in the mudslides and the owners killed. Their daughter called me today for info for the insurance company.

01-31-2019 , 05:53 PM

#2254

Namath12

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I cannot stop laughing at this

01-31-2019 , 07:46 PM

#2255

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Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

Artie's been topping death pool lists for 20 years, he's unkillable

i thought he'd been dead for years until i saw the mugshot post above yours

01-31-2019 , 08:28 PM

#2256

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Current Affairs article from last year: How Parents Kill Progress

Curious what the forum parents think about it. I don't think it's the best-written piece, but its central argument is pretty simple:

Quote:

Over the last half-century, we have succeeded in pushing many social norms in an egalitarian direction. It’s cool for Wall Street elites to support wealth redistribution. It’s no longer cool for them to consume conspicuously. High-earning Millennials demand that their employers not only pay them well, but also invest in sustainability, diversity, and community development.

But some switch flips when we enter into parenthood. The egalitarian social contract suddenly no longer applies, displaced by a Darwinian determination to guarantee our children’s success at all costs—most prominently, at great costs to other children. And for some reason, we tolerate this vicarious class warfare.

01-31-2019 , 08:41 PM

#2257

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I once had a conversation with a good friend of mine where I mentioned in passing, by way of illustrating some point, one of those contrived moral dilemmas where you can either have your children die or wipe a city of 100,000 people off the map. He said he would go for Option B there.

01-31-2019 , 08:43 PM

#2258

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

Current Affairs article from last year: How Parents Kill Progress

Curious what the forum parents think about it. I don't think it's the best-written piece, but its central argument is pretty simple:

Quote:

The people of old mississippi
Should all hang their heads in shame
I can't understand how their minds work
What's the matter don't they watch les crain?
But if you ask me to bus my children
I hope the cops take down your name
So love me, love me, love me, i'm a liberal

01-31-2019 , 08:45 PM

#2259

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If anything, I feel like I can understand that more than option B in...
a.) your child gets a slightly worse education at the same school as everyone else
b.) your child gets educated at a very nice suburban public school while you actively block a couple hundred underprivileged children from the other side of the highway from attending

01-31-2019 , 08:45 PM

#2260

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I do think that the nuclearization of families has been a social ill. The human race is built to live in tribes, not in individual families.

01-31-2019 , 08:48 PM

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That's not really fair. Like, I believe I've contributed to my children being fair/egalitarian, generous, accepting, tolerant and not entitled. They don't expect to get more than others and are comfortable with all classes of people. I'd still grind all your bones to make her bread if it came to that.

01-31-2019 , 08:52 PM

#2262

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Yeah. In the real world situation here I want my children to be good human beings more than I want them to have 20 kids per classroom.

01-31-2019 , 11:20 PM

#2263

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The polar vortex appears to have completely broken conservatives' brains

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status...41029154250752

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1091146441182101504

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...62935605514240

01-31-2019 , 11:25 PM

#2264

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

The polar vortex appears to have completely broken conservatives' brains

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status...41029154250752

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1091146441182101504

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...62935605514240

It is the weirdest thing. This plus that tweet from, who was it, Coulter? About solar panels not being able to heat homes. It’s bizarre.

01-31-2019 , 11:36 PM

#2265

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Quote:

Originally Posted by goofyballer

Current Affairs article from last year: How Parents Kill Progress

Curious what the forum parents think about it. I don't think it's the best-written piece, but its central argument is pretty simple:

It's not really an argument, they're just saying "Hip childless people be like this *pantomimes progressiveness* but parents be like this *acts bougie*"

I am grudgingly impressed that, when they concluded that the nuclear family was incompatible with socialism, they just bore down and sketched out a plan to eliminate the nuclear family rather than rethink anything that led them to that point.

01-31-2019 , 11:40 PM

#2266

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It is the weirdest thing. This plus that tweet from, who was it, Coulter? About solar panels not being able to heat homes. It’s bizarre.

I think these are meant to be digs at heat pumps. I know I was always raised to believe that the only way to heat a house was with a gas furnace, and that heat pumps were newfangled junk that couldn't really be relied on. I have a heat pump now and it's pretty terrible when it gets cold!

01-31-2019 , 11:40 PM

#2267

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So, welp, too bad, I guess we've concluded school segregation is Actually Good?

idk, as a "hip childless person" who is likely to become a parent in a few years, I was hoping for some perspective on how your thoughts about these things change over time, but it sounds like you were never really on the "hip childless person" side at all.

01-31-2019 , 11:47 PM

#2268

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

I mean, obviously school segregation is bad. We should re-desegregate the schools. The dumb part is complaining that when people are faced with the choice between getting a bad public service and a good public service, they're failing progressivism by trying to get the good public service instead of the bad one. Maybe the people who are staring at the prospect of having their kids get a terrible education are actually the victims here?

I was *certainly* never a hip childless person. I'm also pretty firmly convinced that "good" schools are actually terrible, so I don't have a lot of sympathy with the striving parents either.

01-31-2019 , 11:52 PM

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I guess, I mean heat pumps aren’t meant for extreme temperatures, but there area ton of other electrical heating solutions that work just as well as gas or oil so I don’t really get it.

01-31-2019 , 11:53 PM

#2270

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Originally Posted by bobman0330

The dumb part is complaining that when people are faced with the choice between getting a bad public service and a good public service, they're failing progressivism by trying to get the good public service instead of the bad one.

But, like, also tribally colluding to restrict access to that service only to people like themselves, I think that part is worth complaining about.

02-01-2019 , 12:04 AM

#2271

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If only half your schools are good, you're pretty much doomed to having people fight over access to the good schools. I don't doubt that there's a lot of bigotry and racism in school zoning meetings, but if you set up a zero-sum game for people to play, it's unsporting to ding them for not finding opportunities to cooperate.

02-01-2019 , 12:11 AM

#2272

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jman220

I guess, I mean heat pumps aren’t meant for extreme temperatures, but there area ton of other electrical heating solutions that work just as well as gas or oil so I don’t really get it.

electric heat is generally a lot more expensive than gas or oil in cold climates.

02-01-2019 , 12:44 AM

#2273

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Originally Posted by ChrisV

I do think that the nuclearization of families has been a social ill. The human race is built to live in tribes, not in individual families.

I think there's something to be said for the social expectation that everyone has a small, designated group of humans for whom they are supposed to go through hell to protect and support.

02-01-2019 , 12:52 AM

#2274

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Originally Posted by SenorKeeed

electric heat is generally a lot more expensive than gas or oil in cold climates.

Do you think that is what conservatives are getting at in their tweets?

02-01-2019 , 12:55 AM

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I like the village raising kids stuff, but it's probably more true that human societies adopting nuclear families meant that two adults gave a **** about kids instead of just one. The village was good for adults (and adolescents) though imo and modern life is alienating.

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