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09-02-2017 , 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by 2OutsNoProb
Pretty much every metric in existence that could be used to rank states - other than traffic/"commute time" - will have a very similar look to the above when it comes to the worst 10. It's amazing; from education levels to average income to welfare abuse, the usual ultra conservative suspects always show up.
Atlanta is figuratively really pulling their weight in GA. Figured we'd be in the top 5.
09-02-2017 , 07:08 PM
Those states are all run by white people with enormous black populations, their terrible statistics aren't a failure of governance, they are success of government with different goals.
09-02-2017 , 07:28 PM
Yeah, you gotta look at the black / white splits of these things. If the white numbers look like blue states and the black numbers don't, mission ****ing accomplished.
09-02-2017 , 07:47 PM
More broadly, removing race from the equation, the post-Tea Party Republicans do not agree with the New Deal-era idea of government as a force for social good, but as an engine of economic growth whose job is to assist business interests at making money.

Improving the lives of the poor is explicitly seen as a bad thing, that removes part of the incentive to not be poor.
09-02-2017 , 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
More broadly, removing race from the equation, the post-Tea Party Republicans do not agree with the New Deal-era idea of government as a force for social good, but as an engine of economic growth whose job is to assist business interests at making money.

Improving the lives of the poor is explicitly seen as a bad thing, that removes part of the incentive to not be poor.
Which addresses WV, the fattest, smokiest, and third whiteist state in America.

And second Trumpiest.

Last edited by microbet; 09-02-2017 at 08:02 PM.
09-02-2017 , 08:12 PM
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/201...e_country.html

Trump getting 4% of the vote in DC is pretty amazing. The city is only 51% black (2010 census), probably less, so you can't explain it as just the black vote. No one who would have to deal with Trump up close voted for him.

The bureaucracy shouldn't get to pick the POTUS, but if they can't get like 10% support, maybe there should be a redo.
09-04-2017 , 03:07 PM
09-06-2017 , 09:04 AM


Dude should have probably just brought a bunch of guns and waved them around at people and I'm guessing the cops would stand down in awe of his Constitutional rights. Bad move asking the wrong kinds of questions.
09-06-2017 , 11:27 AM
Lo(pi)ers

As in "interlopers"


As in "we are not here for you"

Because Texas.

See also: assault rifles for hunting and self defense at 500 yards.
09-06-2017 , 11:29 AM
Maybe that congressman is funded by swamp cartographers?
09-06-2017 , 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

we lobbied the government to legally classify gay people as second class citizens, and the big mean southern poverty law center labels us a hate group!
How any organization could be called "terrorist" based upon unflinching adherence to traditional religious values is beyond me....
09-06-2017 , 11:37 AM
Seems like a lot of **** is beyond you, buddy
09-06-2017 , 11:41 AM
Trolly's Troll of the Week:

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A joint Senate resolution is being drafted to condemn the violence in Charlottesville and reject “white nationalists, white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and other hate groups”—and will require President Trump’s signature and official denunciation of hate groups if it passes, Politico reports. Democratic Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, along with Republican Sens. Cory Gardner and Johnny Isakson, will introduce the measure Wednesday. The Senate frequently passes non-binding commemoratory resolutions, but introducing the measure as a joint resolution means it would require the president’s signature.
09-06-2017 , 11:55 AM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Seems like a lot of **** is beyond you, buddy
nothing gets by you, friend

09-06-2017 , 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by iamnotawerewolf
How any organization could be called "terrorist" based upon unflinching adherence to traditional religious values is beyond me....
I belong to the church of stripping iamnotawerewolf of all basic civil rights. How dare you trample my religious beliefs.
09-06-2017 , 02:34 PM
It was funny sarcasm/parody because ISIS/Al-Qaeda/etc. I don't really get it though since Islam is not a traditional religion.

Spoiler:
09-06-2017 , 04:08 PM
09-06-2017 , 05:12 PM
Interesting set of qualifications here

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/new...170742532.html

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A Charlotte mayoral candidate wants people to know that she’s Republican, smart – and white.

“VOTE FOR ME!” Kimberley Paige Barnette posted on Facebook. “REPUBLICAN & SMART, WHITE, TRADITIONAL.”

Barnette, who turned 53 on Friday, is a former Mecklenburg County magistrate making her first run for office.
Normal brain: lol she's bragging she's white, what a mistake, Republicans will never stand for that
Galactic brain: lol she's bragging she's smart, what a mistake, Republicans will never stand for that
09-06-2017 , 05:22 PM
Universal brain: it's OK to claim to be smart if you make it clear in the same sentence that you aren't.
09-06-2017 , 05:24 PM
You win.
09-06-2017 , 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by MrWookie
Yeah, you gotta look at the black / white splits of these things. If the white numbers look like blue states and the black numbers don't, mission ****ing accomplished.
Some of those types of splits can be found here:

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/prevalence-maps.html

It's interesting stuff.
09-06-2017 , 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by well named
Universal brain: it's OK to claim to be smart if you make it clear in the same sentence that you aren't.
Amazing
09-06-2017 , 05:52 PM
I'm thinking about hiking the Lost Coast Trail in Northern CA. Actually forgot about politics for a few minutes reading up on it. Then this of course: https://www.wonderlandguides.com/hik...st-coast-trail

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Last of the Mattole

We know little of the Mattole people, except that they met a violent and tragic end at the hands of European settlers. The Mattole people were nearly wiped from the earth after European settlers arrived.

At the Eureka library, microfilms of early Humboldt Times partly document how this happened: White settlers came to the Mattole area to raise cattle. They named the area New Jerusalem. Initial contact with the Mattole people was friendly, but peace was short-lived.

In the mid-19th century conflicts emerged between the white settlers and the Mattole people. There were murders on both sides. By 1858, conflicts were frequent enough that a peace treaty was established, but it did little to quell the violence.

Between 1858 and 1864 a series of disputes with settlers escalated into massacre of most of the Mattole at the hands of local militias and the army. Many of the natives that weren't killed in fighting were sent to a prison camp in Humboldt Bay.

In 1868 a measles epidemic wiped out almost all remaining Mattole living in the region.
Only a few descendants survived. They were mostly children. They grew up with only thin threads of experience in their native culture. The Mattole language went silent in the 1930's, slipping into extinction. There was almost nothing recorded of Mattole culture. Written history mentions little more than how many were killed on what date.
Maybe Trumpism is our true nature as a country and we're just deluding ourselves that it could be any other way. White Christian murderers. Militias + army = . Bad Hombres on both sides. Those Mattole don't respect property. It's about rule of law.
09-06-2017 , 07:27 PM

      
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