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5 hours ago, scumtron said:
Just realised Sigur Ros has released several droney ambient albums. Currently on Route One and it's Lush AF.
Check out Jonsi & Alex's "Riceboy Sleeps" if you haven't already.
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42 minutes ago, caze said:
Biden was pretty timid at the start, but I thought he finished strongly, got more energised as it progressed. And overall he was perfectly cogent and switched on, rubbishing the idiotic notion that he's suffering from dementia.
I think a lot of the perceived dementia talk comes from how he appears when using the tools he has developed to cope with his stammer. I struggle with that myself and thus am very acutely aware of what he's doing and can recognize it from a mile away. The relaxed and constant facial expressions, the muttering softly to start a sentence, spending a few extra moments searching for the easiest way to speak a sentence... It would be very hard for him to freestyle what he's feeling into words in any moment. It's actually extremely frustrating and stressful to not be able to express yourself that way sometimes, so I give him lots of credit for that.
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Breaking news, actual footage of Putin watching the debate:
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I don't see it as Trump bullying, this is the only mode he has.
Biden's really not that bad. Sure he's not very articulate but that's probably due to his stammer. I don't necessarily want a verbose, dude-you-wanna-have-a-beer-with guy in office if he's gonna accelerate the drone strike program and kill lots of innocent people, for example.
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This is hard to watch. Such childish bickering. Is this what the Republicans have sunk us into forever?
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42 minutes ago, azatoth said:
The only thing that matters now to the conservatives is to 'own the libs' and make them mad. They would cut their dicks off if it made liberals mad.
This should be the platform Biden should run on. He should tell everyone to NOT cut their dicks off. Conservatives would go all FUUUU and cut their dicks off, thus cleaning up the future gene pool a little bit.
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10 minutes ago, luke viia said:
Instead, we're still seeing articles with wording like "we may not have the results on election night" and "if the ballots are not counted by the end of the night, Trump may yadda yadda yadda" as if it's a mere possibility that this election is different.
Why do you think that is? It's because the media knows they can get clicks on that headline. Many more clicks than a headline like "Keep Calm, Everyone, It May Take a Few Weeks to Count All of the Votes".
It's all about the $$$, even at the expense of our civilization.
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10 hours ago, zero said:
...the way they are acting is in someway beneficial for the majority of the people that will feel the effects of their close minded, self congratulatory decisions?
There's your problem.
I keep going back to my theory that the base motivation for most Republicans/conservatives is selfishness and the base motivation for most Democrats/liberals is selflessness. When one side is selfish as hell and the other side says hey guys why aren't you respecting the system, this will keep on happening.
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Florida gonna Florida.
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4 hours ago, zero said:
and if we are watching a modern day Nero story, then the next act in the play should be donnie setting fire to the white house and blaming the dems for it.
And then having a 1990s CD burning software named after him
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2 hours ago, zero said:
and why we're at it, why the hell hasn't he fired most of congress and replaced them with hookers and strippers? why are we starring at old dustbags when we could be looking at t&a? turtle man vs. tits. c'mon donnie, get your shit together.
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41 minutes ago, beerwolf said:
Mister Wabbly from Barleycorn recommended this....
Just pulled the trigger on this bad boy
The fucking thirsty Wolf and the savage Badger is happy
Slips down the neck like sweet treacle but blows your brain into smithereens like a UXO bomb!
Damn, looks good.
It's really interesting, in the past year I've found that I've really started to dislike stouts and like IPAs, whereas I used to hate IPAs and like stouts in the past.
Weather is cooling off here, and I'm looking forward to drinking some more of my cold weather favorites, e.g., Belgian strong dark ales.
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7 hours ago, very honest said:
you're right. maybe the russian machines will shut off one day. if we get the blue wave we deserve, they could end the electoral college and do good healthcare and weed and all that. it just seems like the sane thing to happen, people are pushing for it. it's just a matter of spreading the information. the information is all out there. it just doesn't reach the people.
There are plenty of R shitbags in Congress who have been empowered by him, and I'm afraid that if orange blob loses they'll try to usher in someone similar in the next election cycle while shouting and pitching fits for four years lest we forget about them or try to marginalize them.
I have a feeling that most of these crazies we're seeing at Trump rallies are people who never used to vote because there weren't candidates racist / stupid / populist enough to suit them. Trump was able to mobilize these people into voting and I think that's a big reason of why he won. I am hoping that if we get even a moderate blue wave and things die down a little, these people will crawl back into their homes and bemoan the system from afar without actively participating, leaving the voting pool to the mostly responsible people on both sides. However, that will partially depend on what sort of media connections and groups they've made in the past four years and how long that continues in the future.
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22 hours ago, zkom said:
These are the daily new cases in China, but how much can this be trusted, I don't know.
y-axis log scale pls
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I liked running red lights, but then again I love cheese, real and in music so I guess that makes sense.
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10 hours ago, very honest said:
it's all executive branch. intelligence is mostly under defense department, fbi is under justice dept. DHS is its own department, a new one., all cabinet departments are designed as an appendage of the president. counter intelligence investigations serve the purpose of informing the president. for them to investigate the chief almost just sets bait for him to destroy the institution.
Agreed, but intelligence and counterintelligence are supposedly these people's games. I'm sure they know much more than us how dangerous orange blob really is. Couldn't they devote some small resources to the task of really moving the needle on the things that fuel the fires of the people who support him, without being discovered by the seemingly hapless executive branch?
Maybe not, because I know how hard it is for any part of the government to actually organize to do anything sustainably useful.
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Would be nice if the US intelligence community actually did something tangible against him instead of just saying yeah we think he's a dangerous guy.
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6 hours ago, Gocab said:
^Why are people so fucking stupid. Scary and infuriating stuff.
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11 hours ago, ignatius said:
power is more important to them than anything. they won't give up power if they don't have to. they'll abandon democracy before they give up power.
The best case scenario I can think of is that they're afraid that if they speak out against him, their constituents will vote them out and vote in completely crazy Trump loyalists and once they get a critical mass in Congress it's game over. Maybe they're trying to weather the storm and hide until they can bring the GOP back to some semblance of what it used to be.
Or they could just be greedy assholes who don't give a fuck about anyone but themselves.
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What's more troubling are all the Republican congressmen and women that are basically condoning his behavior by not speaking out against him. I mean how far can this go until they determine that the damage outweighs the "gains".
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True, but he's fooled a lot of people here into helping him drag everyone, including them, down.
Today I drove from NJ down through Delaware and into the eastern shore of VA. There are a lot of poor, rural, depressed areas here and I saw so many Trump flags I lost count.
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1 hour ago, Rubin Farr said:
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A Facebook post said that there have been 317 criminal indictments under three recent Republican presidents and only three under three recent Democratic presidents.
The claim is essentially on target for the Democratic presidents, but the comparison to the GOP presidents is overstated, because the numbers of Trump and Nixon administration indictments claimed are greatly exaggerated.
Even so, with a generous count, there were roughly 142 people indicted in the three GOP presidents — far less than 317, but far more than the two under the Democrats.
We rate the statement Half True."
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1 hour ago, joshuatxuk said:
Lame jokes aside civil wars are incredible messy and convoluted - it's never state vs state, region vs region on the ground. The U.S. isn't so much red state / blue state as it is blue urban versus red rural & ex-burb.
When civil conflicts erupt it's city versus rural, neighborhood vs neighborhood, and a nuanced ebb and flow of various groups warring with each other. Even the U.S. Civil War had these complicated divides - neutral German immigrants were massacred in Texas for not joining, some Native Americans threw in their lot with the confederacy and ultimately lost more than could have ever gained, states in Appalachia now littered in confederate monuments and dixie flags were usually split 50/50 or even more pro-Union.
Best case scenario we're going to see some violence propagated by right-wing militias in small but nasty incidents even if the election "goes smoothly." We'll have more ugly confrontations in the street before 2020 ends. Worst case scenario is going to be the violence of the summer x10 or x100 in many parts of the U.S. and the cops and national guard will only intervene when it's too late in many cases and in deep red states they'll literally enable right-wing militias. We've already had previews of MAGA brown shirts showing up at protests and shooting people, running people over, or instigating violence and then fleeing as the cops arrest the activists who were assaulted.
I'm hoping for the best but likewise I literally bought a pump action shotgun expecting the worst. I hope to god I never have to use it beyond hunting and recreational plinking but I feel better knowing it's on hand.17 minutes ago, ignatius said:another civil war wouldn't look like the last one w/north vs south.. it would be everywhere vs everywhere.
Yeah you guys are right, my joke was super lame. I'm just really frustrated that the nuts in that video seem to be the ones driving the country right now but hey that's democracy in the current age, right?
Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)
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I believe it's a lot of this, and in the past with Republicans it used to be dominated by gun rights, anti-abortion, and evangelical people who would vote the Republican ticket no matter what. However, Trump was able to mobilize a lot of the racist / populist and all around nasty people who would've just voted for anything against the Dems but didn't have a racist enough candidate to mobilize them to get out and participate in the political process.