ShamefurDispray
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Biden probably would have won in 2016 against Trump but it would be very hard for him to win against incumbent Trump.
It's always much harder to unseat an incumbent president.
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Knowing how the DNC always manages to fuck things up, I wouldn't rule it out
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16 minutes ago, Sturgeon said:
It's in America's best interest to pay for everyone else in a scheme that may or may not work.
Really makes you hmmm
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On 12/11/2017 at 1:33 AM, Donward said:
Philadelphia is considering banning the use of bulletproof glass by shopkeepers in the hood.
“It’s an indignity” to make purchases through such a window, said City Councilwoman Cindy Bass in this Philadelphia Inquirer article. Bass and others believe the windows represent race and class differences and a “symbol of distrust.”
A symbol of distrust? Ya, you think?
Is that even constitutionally legal? They are trying to take away the shopkeepers' right to protect themselves from harm.
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Democrats trying Californian tactics in Alabama.
Really makes you hmmm...
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In other news, China does something that's almost satire
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11 hours ago, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said:
The stuff about all the top level FBI people being corrupt cunts that let the hildabeast walk really has me pissed off. At the corrupt FBI assholes, Comey, Meuler, the Storzk guy, also the press for basically doing zero investigating while Obama was in office, while sucking his dick and acting like he did anything worthwhile, and Obama admin for being both corrupt as fuck as and incompetent. Throw the democrats in for abandoning the first amendment to embrace identity politics, group thing and socialism while fucking over health care, and I don't think I've ever been as disgusted with politics as I am now. The republican mainstream guys are no better, hell the democrats have trained them to be polite losers with no fight, so fuck them too!
You would let them off too if you didn't want to off yourself with two gunshots to the back of your head
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29 minutes ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:
Yeah, Sagan raced MTB for a bit an then went to road. Can't blame him. The money is in Road. Sad to see him get a flat in Rio. It would have been interesting to see him fight for position with the others.
I believe Fontana used to be Sagan's team mate, actually.
Trying to watch the olympics for the interesting sports here in the states is atrociously difficult. Usually all you get to see is tennis, swimming, and gymnastics. And that's IF you have a subscription to NBC.
The mountain bike commentary SUCKED ASS too. I eventually muted it (after pirating the race) and did my own commentary. I was more knowledge AND witty.
Well, road is pretty poor itself for a pro sport
Part of the reason why it's so hard to watch cycling in NA is the poor commentary. I only watched the Giro one year because it had good commentators from Eurosport that involved them being savage toward the riders half the time.
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54 minutes ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:
For me, the only sport I truly follow is mountain biking. And the one interesting thing about the Olympics is that each country only has a few people they can send depending on standings. So you see countries represented that otherwise would never see a world cup race. And you see sometimes counties sending people from other cycling disciplines to race. Like this previous Olympic race when a famous road cyclist came out to battle for gold.
I only really watch track cycling and in the olympics they cut out quite a few events to fit everything in the schedule. I would kill to watch a standalone points race.
And doesn't Peter Sagan come from an MTB background then go into road?
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The olympic games are pretty overrated tbh. There is no real reason to watch it over the world championships of the sports you watch anyway. Especially when they cut out some events to try to fit everything into their schedules.
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New president of Zimbabwe wants to repay whites for driving them off their land.
This is a very smart move even if none of the whites return.
First, he shows that he actually wants to reform Zimbabwe economically, unlike Mugabe. If Zimbabwe gets richer, he can make some money in the process, either through corruption or more legitimate means. Good results would likely lead him to legitimately win the next election, solidifying his position.
Second, it's not a terribly high amount of money since it's only being paid to 5000 people. Even if he decides to give out a good sum, he can probably get it from other sources (aid money).
Third, it improves Zimbabwe's image to the west, who may be more willing to give him more aid money.
Fourth, it restores some confidence for investors looking to invest into Zimbabwe, especially reassuring the Chinese that he probably wouldn't pull something like nationalizing their investments.
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47 minutes ago, Collimatrix said:
Do you not remember the Clinton Administration?
Oh right. It's only ok when we do it!
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23 minutes ago, Scolopax said:
I thought it was taboo for liberals to bring up past behavior and sexual history when it comes to sexual harassment and sexual assault allegations.
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Well, you would have to try really hard to manage to be worse than Mugabe at running a country. This coup is likely going to be the 1st coup in a series of coups to follow in Zimbabwe.
Developing nations generally face a cycle in regards to coups that can end in a spiral of civilian governments and coups against them. Militaries in developing countries are almost always politicized, usually the best organized and with the highest concentration of skilled people in those countries. Unlike developed nations, coups are not always seen as unsavory and unpromising as the people usually have little faith in their civilian governments due to poverty; politics don't mean much as long as it gets them out of poverty. Very often, coups are supported in these countries if it means that an inept or corrupt ruler is gotten rid of, especially for countries with limited democratic institutions, where the military acts as the final balance or check. The military is often seen as patriotic by the people, especially if they remove a corrupt and incompetent ruler like Mugabe.
The usual cycle is that the civilian government loses the backing of the military for whatever reason, through incompetence, corruption or in this case trying to get rid of military influence in government. Military throws coup and administers for a short period of time before returning power to a civilian government with very few exceptions. Militaries have recognized that they are generally not very good at governing and the international community frowns upon military governments, making trade and loans much harder to obtain. The new civilian government will get into the swamp and likely be overthrown by the military for being too inept or corrupt and the cycle continues. The only way out of the cycle is to develop political consciousness within the country, eventually making coups frowned upon and unsavory for the populace; the only way to achieve that is to develop and lift people out of destitute poverty.
I am optimistic about this coup since it is a relatively bloodless coup to remove Mugabe from office and get someone that likely has more opposition into power, making the new leader more likely to compromise with opposition for the future development of Zimbabwe, especially with the threat of the possibility of a coup. Furthermore, removing someone like Mugabe may give Zimbabwe a relatively clean slate and attract some foreign investment into the country, which it is desperately lacking in Zimbabwe.
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2 hours ago, Lostwingman said:
What is it about marketing that attracts retards?
They are generally business school majors that don't realize the purpose of business school (getting business connections), thinking that they can climb corporate with a shitty business degree and end up going to a shitty business school. These people are usually some of the worst people on campus, with some of the most severe Dunning-Kruger syndrome in regards to their "future success" possibly only after pre-meds. After entering the workforce, they become two types of people. The first type being those who work super hard and doing whatever they can to climb corporate but they don't have the pre-requisites for climbing corporate. The second type being formerly the first type, except reality hit them and they pretty much work to not get fired as their dreams of climbing corporate ladders get crushed brutally in front of them as they work. Which is why they end up being pretty much braindead and doing stupid things, both types of marketers but in different ways.
2 hours ago, Belesarius said:Marketers are almost as bad as politicians.
Marketers are basically salesmen without actual sales skills.
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5 minutes ago, Donward said:
Maybe the Dems shouldn't be dropping tens of millions of dollars in off-year special elections in Trump/Red states on candidates that have no chance of winning if they are having money problems?
This is the same party that managed to lose a rigged election against one of the most disliked people in America.
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20 hours ago, Belesarius said:
@Khand-e, commentary on this?
On Thursday, the chief of China's securities commissions, Liu Shiyu, listed names of six "high-ranking and powerful officials, who were hugely greedy and hugely corrupt, and who plotted to usurp the party's leadership and seize state power".
Eh there's always a purge of opposing factions whenever a new faction takes power in China.
Probably gonna be a large round of purging coming when former premiers Zhu Rongji and Jiang Zemin croak.
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TIL: Harvey Weinstein's surname is inspired by his love for Rick and Morty- 'W' is the first lettter of Rick's iconic catchphrase, while Einstein is the first person to have ever understood the show.
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And then they wonder why the Secret Service is running out of money.
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6 hours ago, Ramlaen said:
Right on time for a YouTube 'expert'.
+500 rupees!
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