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06-11-2019 , 11:38 AM
You know how the media are. They wait for a mistake and that's all you are. It happened to Hitler. No one ever talks about his paintings.
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06-11-2019 , 11:40 AM
The Wall Street Journal has gone full racist ******. The garbage they print is astonishing, particularly in light of their actual journalists being quite good (notable lack of MAGA Habes gossip pieces).
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06-11-2019 , 05:34 PM
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the main (i think) central park five prosecutor wrote a bitchy op-ed for the WSJ about how the new netflix movie got it all wrong, and how no one talks about how those kids were guilty of something, maybe just not what she charged and prosecuted them with..
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. The former prosecutor has had her life turned upside down by this, which some would argue is simply karma. But the director of the film faced some pretty serious criticism about fudging facts in her movie Selma, and the Ken Burns documentary about the case didn't seem to reach the same conclusions about her actions.

I would be wary of making any judgement about the actions of the people involved based on the current show. Oftentimes shows like this are written to evoke emotions rather than convey truth.
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06-11-2019 , 06:00 PM
i haven't watched either the ken burns nor the netflix, i've only read about it, but i mean the city paid them 41 million dollars for wrongful and malicious prosecution..
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06-11-2019 , 06:01 PM
also yeah WSJ is ridiculous now. i dont subscribe, but i follow them on twitter and their headlines make me laugh.
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06-11-2019 , 07:47 PM
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Ryan Struyk @ryanstruyk

New 2020 head-to-heads in national Quinnipiac poll just out:

Biden 53%, Trump 40%
Sanders 51%, Trump 42%
Harris 49%, Trump 41%
Warren 49%, Trump 42%
Buttigieg 47%, Trump 42%
Booker 47%, Trump 42%

lol creepy joe bipartisen, gtfo


(and lol your stupid country being 40% deplorable)

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06-11-2019 , 08:11 PM
Remember how a week ago domer said ppl have to vote for Biden bc only he could beat Trump bc of polls? Good times.
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06-11-2019 , 08:12 PM
Dude at work who before today appeared to be a normal human, who is undeniably smart and stuff, outed himself as a MAGA CHUD today. Rough.
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06-11-2019 , 08:47 PM
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i haven't watched either the ken burns nor the netflix, i've only read about it, but i mean the city paid them 41 million dollars for wrongful and malicious prosecution..
Yeah but they gave $10 million to a drunk guy who fell into a crack in the subway. It's like the land of free money:

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06-11-2019 , 09:45 PM
National polls are dumb.

There are somewhere in between 5 and 10 states that actually matter. Polling the others is 100% pointless.
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06-11-2019 , 10:18 PM
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06-11-2019 , 10:36 PM
WSJ does some good work. They had an article today exposing rampant liberalism at Oberlin college where a business was blackballed when the liberal students tried to turn an open-and-shut theft case by a couple blacks into racism. The business sued the school and won $11 million, with another $11 million possible as further punishment for the school.
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06-11-2019 , 10:42 PM
That article was federalist level trash.

Nobody should be surprised that an outfit that employs Noonan is trash though.

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06-11-2019 , 11:16 PM
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I'm only upgrading Alabama to "not impossible". Even if Moore doesn't win the nom (which he might--the leading favorite is one of those "nobody in the most populous areas of the state has ever heard of him" guys) he'll have enough support to hang in the whole way, split the party, AND move the debate (impossibly) further to the right. Of course the truly sad part is he'd probably also win the general election now that Doug Jones has had some time to show he's mostly interested in pleasing republicans rather than actually defending the black communities that single-handedly got him elected by voting (which is being made harder than usual) for him in a uniform wall.
Really late to this: Definitely think Moore can win the nom. There are still scars for Byrne from the 2010 gubernatorial race when Paul Hubbert went scorched earth on him and took him behind a woodshed.

I also think Roy Moore would win the general, but not because Jones would have lost the base but bc straight-party voting in Alabama (and everywhere) is a nuisance and this is a presidential election not a special one. "Oh I only have to check this one box, ok!" I agree that Jones should just go full-blown reparations, but he clearly wants to try to serve another term and staying pat in an old school Southern Democrat way and hoping for a Moore nom is his best-case scenario. The egotism of a politician (and especially ones who were former prosecutors) just won't allow them to consider running to the extremes, even when they have 0-1% chance of winning.
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06-11-2019 , 11:54 PM
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WSJ does some good work. They had an article today exposing rampant liberalism at Oberlin college where a business was blackballed when the liberal students tried to turn an open-and-shut theft case by a couple blacks into racism. The business sued the school and won $11 million, with another $11 million possible as further punishment for the school.
And to think I'm over here worrying about immigrant children locked in cages, mass slaughter in Yemen, Sudan and Syria, climate change, and the death of the free press and Democracy in the US.

I feel ashamed when clearly the most pressing issues of our time involve campus libtards stepping over the line every now and then.

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06-12-2019 , 12:17 AM
Chiefsplanet is all over the Oberlin thing: http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=323318

Just below their "Repository: Crimes Caused by Illegal Aliens" thread.
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06-12-2019 , 01:01 AM
All-white MAGA jury and judge ruling in favor of owner-class whites against "a couple blacks" and SJW radical left extremist brainwash college?
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06-12-2019 , 01:53 AM
Let's see the 2016 ballot from this totally-not-racist bakery tough guy that committed a trespass to assault a black college student. If it's marked anything other than Donald J. Trump I'll eat ****.
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06-12-2019 , 07:20 AM
Let's see, where is Oberlin again? Oh I see, Ohio.

The real story, the real tragedy is probably what's happening to all their daughters.
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06-12-2019 , 10:22 AM
https://slate.com/human-interest/201...ck-voters.html







Lol 10 minutes, and one wrong answer loses you the test. Only applied when to people they felt like of course.

Edit: there are actually 30 questions - SUPER LOL. I just updated it.

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06-12-2019 , 10:27 AM
The **** does that first one even mean?
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06-12-2019 , 10:56 AM
Gotta be Onion
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06-12-2019 , 11:00 AM
I did check just to make sure: https://slate.com/human-interest/201...ck-voters.html

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The website of the Civil Rights Movement Veterans, which collects materials related to civil rights, hosts a few samples of actual literacy tests used in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi during the 1950s and 1960s.

In many cases, people working within the movement collected these in order to use them in voter education, which is how we ended up with this documentary evidence. Update: This test—a word-processed transcript of an original—was linked to by Jeff Schwartz, who worked with the Congress of Racial Equality in Iberville and Tangipahoa Parishes in the summer of 1964. Schwartz wrote about his encounters with the test in this blog post.

Most of the tests collected here are a battery of trivia questions related to civic procedure and citizenship. (Two from the Alabama test: “Name the attorney general of the United States” and “Can you be imprisoned, under Alabama law, for a debt?”)

But this Louisiana “literacy” test, singular among its fellows, has nothing to do with citizenship. Designed to put the applicant through mental contortions, the test’s questions are often confusingly worded. If some of them seem unanswerable, that effect was intentional. The (white) registrar would be the ultimate judge of whether an answer was correct.

Try this one: “Write every other word in this first line and print every third word in same line (original type smaller and first line ended at comma) but capitalize the fifth word that you write.”
https://allthatsinteresting.com/voting-literacy-test

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In Georgia, they were more state-specific, with questions such as “If the Governor of Georgia dies, who succeeds him and if both the Governor and the person who succeeds him die, who exercises the executive power?” and “Who is the Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture?”
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06-12-2019 , 11:02 AM
I read it as to circle the 1, but who knows.

I’ve seen stuff like that before, it is diabolical. Q25 is a particularly evil trick question that most people would miss.
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06-12-2019 , 11:09 AM
What the hell does "Spell backwards, forwards." mean?
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