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Re:Translation: More money to the big telcos
AT&T's market cap is 226 billion. Your 300 billion claim is not plausible. If you got that somewhere, post the link, so we can know who the liars are.
I'll dig it up, but it was since 1990.. So, yeah it is plausible. But I don't blame you for asking for a citation (which I am trying to find).
Take a look at this: https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
By the end of 2014, America will have been charged about $400 billion by the local phone incumbents, Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink, for a fiber optic future that never showed up. And though it varies by state, counting the taxes, fees and surcharges that you have paid every month (many of these fees are actually revenues to the company or taxes on the company that you paid), it comes to about $4000-$5000.00 per household from 1992-2014, and that’s the low number.
Not precisely what I said, but close enough to the ball park that my $300B is "plausible". I'll keep looking.. I know I saw a $300B tagged to AT&T from WAAAY back when.. Even before the Internet existed, we were connecting computers to networks, of course. I want to say that the promise of 45 mpbs was made somewhere around 1985.
Oh, and I'm not quoting the HuffPost (which is a shitty rag, IMHO), but rather a book they reviewed or featured or something.. Anyway the quote is from the book.
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Re:Translation: More money to the big telcos
Actually, it's now up to $400 billion:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
I don't understand the reference to AT&T's market cap... $400 billion paid to various large telcos for services and upgrades they never provided over the course of 20 years has little connection to AT&T's current market cap.
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Re:This is going to be one of the biggest lawsuits
The term is "regulatory capture", and it's been blamed for the Deepwater Horizon incident, and Wall Street's shenanigans.
From that second link, "the process by which regulatory agencies eventually come to be dominated by the very industries they were charged with regulating. Regulatory capture happens when a regulatory agency, formed to act in the public's interest, eventually acts in ways that benefit the industry it is supposed to be regulating, rather than the public."
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Re:Washed Through By The Mainstream
Well, no more fucking baseball for japs and chiners then.
Funny how they all love blue jeans and heavy metal, but white culture "doesn't exist".
What I find bothersome about the whole Cultural appropriation insanity is that interest in other people's cultures should be the absolute height of learning to get along with others. Yet here, the far left wing kooks demand that a chinese style dress cannot be work by someone who is not Chinese.
Like the two women who had to shut down their burrito cart after they committed the crime of CA https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
Ahh, here are responsible citizens ensuring Cultural purity - a listing of Portland Oregon restraunts that practice cultural Appropriate restaurants. https://www.tastingtable.com/d...
And serviscope minor thinks I am talking about a small group.
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Re: Killing nazi faggots is a PROUD American tradi
If you had an ancestor who was being paid by IBM during the WWII, he or she was receiving 3rd Reich money paid for helping the Nazis run their concentration camps. Be proud.
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Re:Say isn't this the same city with anti-vaxxers?
Portland is actually the least religious city in the U.S.
This would appear to support something I've suspected for a while now: That we seem to be hard-wired to reach conclusions based on faith. And that when people ditch faith in religion, it doesn't make them less "religious." They just put their faith into something else, be it anti-vaxx theories or 9/11 conspiracies or atheism. (Yes atheism is a faith. You cannot prove a negative, at least not without investigating every single possibility, so you cannot realistically prove there is no god. You can be agnostic without needing faith - uncertain or doubtful if there is a god. But to be atheist - convinced that there is no god - requires a leap of faith.) -
Re:money-mouth
What are you talking about? That's not at all how this works. cite your sources.
Yeah, it's how it works.
Here is the story:
By David Cay Johnston
April 12 (Reuters) - Across the United States more than 2,700 companies are collecting state income taxes from hundreds of thousands of workers - and are keeping the money with the states’ approval, says an eye-opening report published on Thursday.
The report from Good Jobs First, a nonprofit taxpayer watchdog organization funded by Ford, Surdna and other major foundations, identifies 16 states that let companies divert some or all of the state income taxes deducted from workers’ paychecks. None of the states requires notifying the workers, whose withholdings are treated as taxes they paid.
General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Procter & Gamble, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors and AMC Theatres enjoy deals to keep state taxes deducted from their workers’ paychecks, the report shows. Foreign companies also enjoy such arrangements, including Electrolux, Nissan, Toyota and a host of Canadian, Japanese and European banks, Good Jobs First says.
Why do state governments do this? Public records show that large companies often pay little or no state income tax in states where they have large operations, as this column has documented. Some companies get discounts on property, sales and other taxes. So how to provide even more subsidies without writing a check? Simple. Let corporations keep the state income taxes deducted from their workers’ paychecks for up to 25 years.
It was not always this way. Letting companies keep their workers’ state taxes apparently began in Kentucky two decades ago as a way to retain jobs.
Last July when I wrote about six big companies that pocket Illinois state taxes () I knew there was more to this. But I had no idea how pervasive these diversions were until I read an advance copy of the 39-page report by Good Jobs First.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
And here's where you can find the report itself and updates and a handy subsidy tracker where you can look up the type and amount of subsidies states and municipalities are handing out to corporations.
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Re:e-cigarrettes arent tobacco
The health affects of caffeine aren't fully known, but Nicotine does reduce your body's defenses against cancer.
You're right that vaping is definitely less unhealthy than cigarettes though.
Until it blows up in your face and kills you.
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Re:Simple solution
The 2018 US Military Budget was right at $700B:
https://militarybenefits.info/...
For the sake of the conspiracy folk let's allow as it is actually double that, so $1.4T.
So then if we halve that we're back down to our $700B.
OAC's bill has an estimate cost of $4.1T. That has been widely criticized as too little, and estimates I could find online range from $14T to $50T over 10 years:
https://reason.com/blog/2019/0...
https://pjmedia.com/trending/o...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
Since these numbers are obviously off the cuff I went ahead and took the average of $25.66T over 10 years.
This means confiscating the $700B for the first year that the AC above suggested would account for approximately 3.5% of the cost. At that rate it would take around 35 years to recoup the costs.
Not to mention that catastrophic impacts on the men and women who WORK in the DoD, disruption of every line of industry who makes and supplies equipment to them, etc. Many businesses would probably be severely impacted if not completely out of business.
TLDR: The AC who suggested cutting the military budget in half for a year has zero understanding of what that would do or cost.
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Stupid Counter-Productive & Egotistical Projec
Sounds like you may have done too many lines of Obama kool aid in powered form. Getting a politician on the record saying no is just as important as getting them to vote yes. So you can take that stance and end their political careers in the next election. And you only know how many votes you have when you actually hold the vote - which is why Obama worked so hard to kill the public option before it ever came up for a vote.
Besides, how do you think any change or policy that required a mass movement happened? Do you think suffragists or civil rights activists just held their powder dry until they came up with 60 votes, or whatever the excuse was of the day?
Unless that was the goal. Maybe the Democrats don't actually want the goals of this bill to come to fruition. Maybe they just want to use Ocasio-Cortez as a token idealist that blah blah blah
The country already supports lefty ideas, conservatives included. A majority of Republicans are onboard Medicare for All, just as a majority of Republicans were for DADT repeal before the previous homophobe-in-chief "evolved" on the subject. Republicans don't want coal, they want jobs. Which is why this is the easiest sell in the world:
"We're going to bring you a motherfucking fuckton of jobs. Well-paying jobs manufacturing wind and solar. Jobs to every county, hamlet, parish, town and city to install them. Jobs for decades to replace coal and nuclear. Jobs that won't require a degree and ten years experience. So many jobs it will make the post-WWII economic boom look like a recession. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs, motherfucker, do you want them?"
And then you use that club and end the career of anyone who doesn't support it 110%.
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Re: C# Killed Java
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"privilege, cause cherry picked stats" on slashdot
"privilege, since cherry picked stats" on slashdot, we are "progressing" fast.
Now let me cherry pick some other stats for you:About 350 firemen died on 9/11, most of them white, 100% of them men.
Men earn more, but spend a fraction of earnings, yet are pointed out to have "privilege".
Average US man works 30% longer hours and spends 30% more to commute to work, than working woman.
Men are getting longer prison sentences and are more likely to get sentence than women, (for the same crime, both first timers)
Boys are lagging behind at all stages of education, enrollment at high school soon to reach 40% vs 60%, but gender focused programs are still focused on girls.
Men are times more likely to commit suicide.
Men dominate at the bottom of the social pyramid, regardless of their skin color (homless, high risk jobs (90%+ of workspace fatalities) etc).So, what you were saying again?
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Re: BeauHD put me up to it.
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Another coward hides from a question like a bitch
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Can't you answer the question, cowardly traitors?
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Why is Vladimir Putin defending Trump suddenly now
Why is Putin suddenly opining that Trump helping advance Russian interests, including removing sanctions on Derepaska and vowing to get rid of the Magnitsky Act, is somehow "stupid"?
What's stupid is that Trump supporters are pretending the traitor had no deals with Russia, like he repeatedly claimed, and as we know is dead false.
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Why is Vladimir Putin suddenly defending Trump now
Why is Putin suddenly opining that Trump helping advance Russian interests, including removing sanctions on Derepaska and vowing to get rid of the Magnitsky Act, is somehow "stupid"?
What's stupid is that Trump supporters are pretending the traitor had no deals with Russia, like he repeatedly claimed, and as we know is dead false.
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Why is Vladimir Putin suddenly defending Trump now
Why is Putin suddenly opining that Trump helping advance Russian interests, including removing sanctions on Derepaska and vowing to get rid of the Magnitsky Act, is somehow "stupid"?
What's stupid is that Trump supporters are pretending the traitor had no deals with Russia, like he repeatedly claimed, and as we know is dead false.
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Why is Vladimir Putin defending Trump suddenly?
Why is Putin suddenly opining that Trump helping advance Russian interests, including removing sanctions on Derepaska and vowing to get rid of the Magnitsky Act, is somehow "stupid"?
What's stupid is that Trump supporters are pretending the traitor had no deals with Russia, like he repeatedly claimed, and as we know is dead false.
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Re:Already out of stock
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Re:This might call for some Fox News counterhackin
The Democrats, and the majority of Americans, don't support the wall.
What are you talking about? A recent poll showed that 67% of Americans support the wall. A very small minority, around 15%, oppose it. The rest don't care. The Wall is incredibly popular.
Which poll was that?
Quinnipiac, December 18, 2018: "U.S. Voters Say No Wall And Don't Shut Down Government.
... American voters oppose building a wall on the Mexican border 54 - 43 percent and say 54 - 44 percent the wall is not necessary to improve border security, according to a Quinnipiac University National Poll released today. This is the highest level of support for the wall since the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN- uh-pe-ack) University National Poll first asked the question in November 2016.""ABC 30 News, St Louis" (undated): "CBS Poll: 51% Of Americans Support Border Wall"
Fortune magazine, December 12, 2018: "69% of Americans Don’t Think Trump's Border Wall Is a Priority, Poll Says.
... More than two-thirds of Americans don’t think the wall should be a priority, according to a new poll by NPR, PBS News Hour and Marist. Only 28% of those polled answered that the border wall should be an immediate priority, while 19% replied it shouldn’t be an immediate priority, and 50% said it shouldn’t be a priority at all."Huffington Post, January 3, 2019 (politically liberal): "Trump Says Country Wants Border Wall, But That’s Not What Polls Say"
"The Hill", December 28, 2018: "... a new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released exclusively to The Hill. The survey found that 56 percent of respondents do not support the president’s proposal to construct a wall along the southern border, compared to 44 percent who do."
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Trump ahead of his time, lol?
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100+ contacts with moscow =collusion, hang traitor
The treason-backer faggot syndrome is strong with you Ivan-eunuchs. Trump is a traitor, caught and soon hanged.
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Re: Thou Shalt not Expose...
You say you're not a right-winger, but you do a perfect job of spreading far-right propaganda:
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Re:Self driving electric cars
Self driving electric cars are going to make most of this moot before long.
Bwahahahah, cars are nowhere near ready to be let loose on their own en masse in traffic, and even if they were, a million cars are still a million cars no matter who's driving them. It doesn't matter that you can pack them tighter, it's like peeing in your pants. It warms you up for the moment, but it's not really a solution.
If you think a larger volume of vehicles are going to solve any problems, I have a picture to show you. The only thing that so far is proven is that if you increase the capacity for cars is that you get more cars, so you need more roads. And even if you can pack these magic autonomous EVs tighter, you're still so far behind a bus, let alone a train that is't not even funny. In fact it doesn't even measure up as what it is though, a poor, expensive excuse for people who simply doesn't want to acknowledge that everyone constantly going everywhere by car simply isn't feasible.
Thanks for the laugh though.
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Re:Yeah, that's impressive and all
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Re:Fake News!!! Was this CNN or NBC?
When I watched it I thought something looked wrong, but I couldn't say exactly what.
All the major news outlets and FOX covered it:
FOX:
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/f...CNN:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/18...ABC:
https://www.abcactionnews.com/...NBC:
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/new...
https://www.nbcchicago.com/new...
https://www.nbc-2.com/clip/147...CBS:
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/...
Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...New York Post:
https://nypost.com/2018/12/19/...Huffington Post:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...BBC:
https://www.bbc.com/news/techn...I think the New York Times is the only major news organization that didn't cover it from what I can google, but I don't have a subscription so I may have missed their coverage.
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Re:Puritanism rears its idiotic head again.
And now the SJWs, or "feminists" as normal people call them, are pissed off.
To be more precise, the Social Justice Warriors are not exclusively feminists.
The whole thing is rather complicated isn't it? Few people are very interested in a pair of manboobs, so really, the complaint is all about representative female parts.
And one of the interesting things about the porn watching habits of women is that they tend to prefer lesbian porn. https://www.huffingtonpost.com... I pretty much suspect that many women prefer going to a site like Tumblr as opposed to say PornHub when they are in the mood for a little titillation. It probably seems less icky. Conjecture on my part, but plausible.
So I wouldn't be surprised if this move pisses off a lot of women - both those who identify as feminists, and are angry about manboobs, and females who are seeing their more innocent seeming source of porn going away.
Because really, one less website with naked people on it doesn't mean that much in the big picture of naked people - does it?
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this
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Re:HE DID
Sycophants like you are the traitors. https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
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Re:Please, PLEASE.
Hell, we had a really bad hepatitis outbreak in SD because of our homeless problems. This stuff is actually happening.
Yeah, about that "San Diego Hepatitis Outbreak". It's a nationwide outbreak occurring in rural areas of Missouri, Kentucky and Indiana at a higher rate than in any California city. Also, Utah, Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia.
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breaking news
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
1. There are conspicuous mentions of Trump and his family.
2. Putin’s spokesman appears to have helped cover this up.
3. This ties the Trump family’s efforts to the Russian government.
4) The deal apparently died the day The Post broke a story about Russian hacking. -
Colbert Report
LEGAL NOTICE: From now on, I will be posting the following quote whenever there is a discussion here on Slashdot about climate change or renewable energy:
"“They’re making a mistake because I have a gut and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me.”
It's a bit dated now, but I recall at the time that a lot of conservatives initially thought the Colbert Report was real. Here is a clip from when he did the White House correspondence dinner. link
Basically Trump is saying, with the apparent intention of conveying he is serious, the same total bullshit Colbert was mocking conservatives with.
You can't make this stuff up... *cries quietly over the loss of sanity and reason.*
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And what if you're falsely accused of a crime?
It's not like police would limit this ability to just car thefts, they'd use it for active warrants on car owners as well. And police fuck up and kill innocent people all. the. time. Hell, just within the last week, cops have gunned down two "good guys with a gun" - a security guard and a man fleeing a shooting at a mall without warning.
So lets say the case of Brandon Mayfield happened today instead of 2004. Mayfield was falsely identified by the FBI as being a suspect in the Madrid train bombings via supposedly infallible fingerprint matching. The FBI takes remote control of Mayfield's Tesla, drives it a certain location where he is promptly shot and killed by federal agents. And the public goes on thinking that an innocent man was guilty, as he's no longer around to challenge the evidence against him.
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Re:If we don't stop lighting fires ...
Individuals might have gone out on a limb, but then individuals will believe almost anything.
How cute! You've cited one individual with a (seemingly) successful prediction to prove, that Climate Science is actually science, but are now dismissing multiple other individuals as "out on a limb", because their predictions have proved spectacularly wrong.
You can't have it both ways — cherry-picking some predictions as solidly scientific, dismissing others. The discipline's record remains in shambles and even its practitioners and adherents admit, it is "not always" falsifiable.
It is obvious, that Climate Science is not, so to speak. Perhaps, you need to argue from a more religious point of view, as these guys are doing (and as was predicted you'd do many years prior).
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The purpose of NASA
why is NASA subsidizing a commercial project..
You don't have any clue what NASA does do you? Research is their primary mission, specifically including public/private research partnerships. This is how NASA's research activities benefit the US. NASA research eventually gets turned over to the private sector and we all benefit from it - the term for this is technology transfer. This is exactly the sort of "subsidy" you want because no private company could justify the risk for such an exotic and unproven technology.
Also you do realize NASA doesn't build rockets or aircraft themselves right? They hire contractors to build and operate them including lockheed. NASA isn't an intergalactic bus and freight service and shouldn't be. Furthermore this is an X plane. The X stands for experimental. This is a public/private research project which if it works it will result in jobs and grow our economy. Call it a subsidy if you want but technology research like this is among the best uses for tax dollars there are. The internet that you are using right at this moment is a great example of a US government (DARPA) research project that resulted in a gigantic ROI to the American people.
i guess they DO have to much money?!!!!
Every dollar we spend on NASA results in somewhere between a 7X-14X return on that investment to our economy. Are you seriously arguing we should reduce our investment on something that has that much benefit? Especially when NASA's budget accounts for 0.5% of the federal budget?
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Since when is Silicon Valley patriotic?
pushed around by powerful employees who do not care about patriotism.
So, since when is Silicon Valley patriotic? As in, they care about America and their fellow Americans? Huh? Silicon Valleyites are "citizens of the world". They care far more about distant peoples from backwards cultures than their own neighbors in places like Texas, Idaho, and West Virginia. They regard us with mingled scorn and apprehension. Scratch an intellectual, and you find a would-be aristocrat who loathes the sight, the sound and the smell of common folk. Here is a great essay I have bookmarked that discusses the issue very eloquently and precisely.
Every election cycle like clockwork, conservatives accuse liberals of not being sufficiently pro-America. And every election cycle like clockwork, liberals give extremely unconvincing denials of this.
"It's not that we're, like, against America per se. It's just that...well, did you know Europe has much better health care than we do? And much lower crime rates? I mean, come on, how did they get so awesome? And we're just sitting here, can't even get the gay marriage thing sorted out, seriously, what's wrong with a country that can't...sorry, what were we talking about? Oh yeah, America. They're okay. Cesar Chavez was really neat. So were some other people outside the mainstream who became famous precisely by criticizing majority society. That's sort of like America being great, in that I think the parts of it that point out how bad the rest of it are often make excellent points. Vote for me!"
I was an Obama voter, and I have proud memories of spending my Fourth of Julys as a kid debunking people's heartfelt emotions of patriotism.
Here is a popular piece published on a major media site called America: A Big, Fat, Stupid Nation. Another: America: A Bunch Of Spoiled, Whiny Brats. Americans are ignorant, scientifically illiterate religious fanatics whose patriotism is actually just narcissism. You Will Be Shocked At How Ignorant Americans Are, and we should Blame The Childish, Ignorant American People.
Needless to say, every single one of these articles was written by an American and read almost entirely by Americans. Those Americans very likely enjoyed the articles very much and did not feel the least bit insulted.
Here's another great essay, "Revolt of the Elites" that also addresses this issue.
When confronted with resistance to these initiatives, members of today's elite betray the venomous hatred that lies not far beneath the smiling face of upper-middle-class benevolence. They find it hard to understand why their hygienic conception of life fails to command universal enthusiasm. In the United States, "Middle America" - a term that has both geographical and social implications - has come to symbolize everything that stands in the way of progress: "family values," mindless patriotism, religious fundamentalism, racism, homophobia, retrograde views of women. Middle Americans, as they appear to the makers of educated opinion, are hopelessly dowdy, unfashionable, and provincial.
These privileged young people acquire advanced degrees at the "best [universities] in the world," the superiority of which is proved by their ability to attract foreign students in great numbers. In this cosmopolitan atmosphere, they overcome the provincial folkways that impede creative thought, according to Reic
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Re:Motivation
The Left has done a great job stirring up hate without any help from "those dirty foreigners". Did you hear just the other day they mobbed and vandalized a journalist's house while his terrified wife cowered in the pantry? How does this unite us?
There is no doubt that the anarchists who brand themselves as Antifa commit criminal acts. For doing so, they should be prosecuted for their offenses. The rule of law is very important and is something we should all agree on. That's exactly why the investigation into Russian interference in 2016 needs to be protected.
As for conspiracy theories, you mean the one about how the Democrats rigged the primaries to keep Bernie out?
"Rigged" or not, Hillary won the popular vote which nullifies any sway the superdelegates had. Do note that party reforms have stripped superdelegates of their power so that a disconnect between voters and superdelegates cannot happen in future primaries.
Or the one about how they Democrats ordered the media to cover Trump? And the media obeyed? Those conspiracy theories?
Ordered them? LOLWUT?
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Re:My thoughts
They probably want to avoid something like this:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/18/sara-firth-resigns-russia-today-lies-anchor_n_5598815.html
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One more thing, here's a lengthy articleproving you're wrong. In particular:
LAHSA also found, but did not publish, that the percentage of homeless people who were housed in Los Angeles County when they became homeless increased to 84 percent
You can find plenty more to disprove that myth on google.
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Obama killed the PO. Not the GOP. Not Bush Dogs.
This is not news. Obama drowned the public option in the bathtub long before any Republican or Bush Dog could vote against it.
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Re:Democratic control
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It’s a matter of faith
In the US, the Right completely disagree that humans have the ability to change the environment – or species count. And they own the House, Senate, White House and are really busy appointing Corporate Friendly federal judges. In the US, Evangelicals and people of deep religious faith believe its nonsense that humans can affect planet as only God can. And if it is changing, its Gods will and God will save us (or those deemed worthy). Many of them are actually looking forward to the mass destruction of humanity believing we approach the “rapture”. A completely made up bs word never used in any scripture but signifying the end of time when believers will be rescued. So, why fix what will be wonderful?
A recent study says we have till 2030 – or just 12 short years – to fix this mess.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
Also realize that there’s 2 years left of Lord Trumpkin and his army of Climate Change deniers busy rolling back environmental regulations. Then there’s another election, and probability shows the incumbent likely to win. Even though he lost popular vote last time, and since he’s become the most popular POTUS with his base since Reagan. Likely giving him 4 more years, or ½ of the total time we have left to fix the environment. Can the world fix it in 6 years despite the US doing it's best to ruin it? I wouldn’t bet on those odds.
So, like most societies before ours that found religion, and it’s faith-over-fact requirements, faith will ultimately end the human species. But, as George Carlin pointed out – in the end, the planet. Humans will be just another failed experiment. -
Re:Bueno! Excellente'
You must be living on a different planet to the rest of us. You really have to be hugely ignorant to say that statement, there is very little wilderness left on earth for example - what is left is typically not arable land.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
Not to mention the global mass-genocides of other species caused by humans.
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Re:False positives?
All these computers are just fancy hammers
This is my new favorite thing to tell people. As far as the "deleting evidence" thing goes, Facebook probably still has it and has simply rendered it no longer accessible by the public. The problem with seedy shit online fueled by human desires is that when you try to ban it, it doesn't go away, it just disperses and hides better. This is the "going dark" problem no one considers when they try to do things like shut down the prostitution ads on Backpage. Backpage became a huge hub for prostitution which meant it was also a huge hub for exploitation of human trafficking victims since those people will inevitably be exploited in some way. When ads were publicly posted, people and patterns emerged. Trails and trends could be followed by police very easily. Actual victims could be found and rescued. Then Congress showed up and decided that this big exploitation station had to be shut down, despite the value of the marketplace as a resource for law enforcement to find real victims and the uncomfortable (to certain prudish cretins in power) fact that most prostitutes are not victims of anything other than the damage that prostitution illegality brings about. Prostitutes who previously used the site are now at far greater risk of harm.
In that respect, the deletion of these images from Facebook makes it a lot harder to track down people that are harming children. Never mind the fact that tons of content which isn't even objectionable had to have been nuked in the process. All Facebook is doing is bragging about their "kill count," and to hell with anyone who was "killed" inappropriately, and to hell with anyone who might have been rescued had some of what was "killed" remained accessible without begging for a law enforcement backdoor to try to fish for it. Their hammer is a 20-pound sledge, and hammers do not care what nails think. -
Re:Huge surprise!
Basically rampant Feminism and Stupid Juvenile Whiners such as Sweden's Feminizing Boys with Genderless Schools
-- "When you don't stand for something, you'll fall for everything."
Okay, I just read the article at Huff post. As a left-leaning person, I think that is fucking stupid. You are clearly out of real problems to solve if you are concerned about what position people are in when they pee. Shit like that gives the left a bad name.
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Re:Huge surprise!
Basically rampant Feminism and Stupid Juvenile Whiners such as Sweden's Feminizing Boys with Genderless Schools
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Re:The federal deficit has soared +17 percent.
The federal deficit has soared 17 percent in the president’s first fiscal year. Other people's money is running out again, "conservatives"? - https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
Never mind that, just keep repeating the line that trump is the best thing ever and eveything is better than it ever has been as everything will be just fine, the truth is irrelevant.
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Re:Speaking as a man...
The Third wave feminists and Mengele type trans kooks are the far left's equivalent of The far Right's White supremacist and conspiracy nuts.
The fucking 'alt-right' isn't trying to chemically castrate preteens. In fact, to the extent that the left seems to consider crimes of a sexual nature more terrible than run-of-the-mill violence these days, nothing done by post-civil war white supremacists (that I can find in a quick google search) was as bad as this. Even slaves weren't castrated except sometimes as punishment.
Oh fuck, You white supremacists hav a lot of suppressed memories. Tell me do you get an erection when you think about James Byrd Jr.. Drug behind a truck and ground to death. Look it up for your friday wanking fun. That was 1998, so hardly ancient history. Here's the cite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
And y'all are still loving it! https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
And you white supremacists have the moooslims beat in modern day killings https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u...
So lose the attitude. You supremacists and the SJW's are all the same, just different shit that you are mentally unhinged about.
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Re:More accurately - A **few** FB employees outrag