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#4161 User is online   Primateus 

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Posted 17 November 2016 - 11:31 AM

View PostNicodimas, on 17 November 2016 - 07:51 AM, said:

Whatcha you all think

One more year of America??
https://market-ticke...www?post=231661

Or is it all a bunch of fear mongering:

https://market-ticke...www?post=231561

Is this it...did American place itself inside a year of simple math???


Yeah, I wouldn't refer to that site again...
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Posted 17 November 2016 - 09:03 PM

View PostPrimateus, on 17 November 2016 - 07:36 AM, said:

View Postdeath rattle, on 17 November 2016 - 07:10 AM, said:

Sorry. For the record though I was reacting to your post, not doubling down on Venge's gallows humor. That said, I think it's born of real fear and not something we should easily toss aside w/ Godwin's Law. Reminded me of this sharp Tweetstorm from yesterday, on how fascists increase their power by gradually testing what people are willing to accept: https://storify.com/...-testing-people

Where I have hope is that I think there's a big enough group of people who care, enough that we won't fail the tests.


It is possible for fear to be both real and unwarranted at the same time.


Yeah, but just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
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Posted 17 November 2016 - 09:36 PM

View PostBriar King, on 17 November 2016 - 09:30 PM, said:

Mitt Romney, Rick Scott also possible SoS's.


In other news all republicans have now applied to be SOS...
How many fucking people do I have to hammer in order to get that across.
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Posted 17 November 2016 - 09:57 PM

Turns out that when Trump said "drain the swamp" he meant the Everglades, not D.C.
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Posted 18 November 2016 - 12:57 AM

View Postdeath rattle, on 17 November 2016 - 09:03 PM, said:

View PostPrimateus, on 17 November 2016 - 07:36 AM, said:

View Postdeath rattle, on 17 November 2016 - 07:10 AM, said:

Sorry. For the record though I was reacting to your post, not doubling down on Venge's gallows humor. That said, I think it's born of real fear and not something we should easily toss aside w/ Godwin's Law. Reminded me of this sharp Tweetstorm from yesterday, on how fascists increase their power by gradually testing what people are willing to accept: https://storify.com/...-testing-people

Where I have hope is that I think there's a big enough group of people who care, enough that we won't fail the tests.


It is possible for fear to be both real and unwarranted at the same time.


Yeah, but just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.


Wiser words...
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Posted 18 November 2016 - 12:58 AM

View Postdeath rattle, on 17 November 2016 - 09:57 PM, said:

Turns out that when Trump said "drain the swamp" he meant the Everglades, not D.C.


He's still technically correct then, the best kind of correct.
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Posted 18 November 2016 - 04:17 AM

Trump's National Security Advisor (presuming he accepts the offer) is Ret. General Michael Flynn. This guy: https://twitter.com/...387702998278144
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Posted 18 November 2016 - 04:57 AM

View PostPrimateus, on 18 November 2016 - 12:58 AM, said:

View Postdeath rattle, on 17 November 2016 - 09:57 PM, said:

Turns out that when Trump said "drain the swamp" he meant the Everglades, not D.C.


He's still technically correct then, the best kind of correct.


Everglades has oil under it...drill it...

http://www.breitbart...argest-history/

Guys! Exciting stuff here.

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Posted 18 November 2016 - 07:14 AM

Breitbart? :question:
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Posted 18 November 2016 - 07:19 AM

I can't tell if you're trolling or you're still on that "climate change isn't a problem for generations, if at all" tip. If it's the latter, you may be in for a rude awakening.

The coast ain't gonna be the coast for long. The mass displacements aren't in the distant future, or even at the tail end of our generation's span.
http://www.theverge....-climate-change

And things are getting worse faster than we can handle it.
https://www.washingt...inter-descends/

Is there a third thing after geometric and exponential? Cuz that's how it's gonna be.
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Posted 18 November 2016 - 03:41 PM

View Postdeath rattle, on 18 November 2016 - 07:19 AM, said:

Is there a third thing after geometric and exponential? Cuz that's how it's gonna be.


Luckily I was asking myself the same question last week.

Tetration then pentation then hexation.

Source

The article doesn't seem to mention whether it can just keep going after hexation or whether it is mathematically capped at that level.

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Posted 18 November 2016 - 04:07 PM

View Postdeath rattle, on 18 November 2016 - 07:19 AM, said:

I can't tell if you're trolling or you're still on that "climate change isn't a problem for generations, if at all" tip. If it's the latter, you may be in for a rude awakening.

The coast ain't gonna be the coast for long. The mass displacements aren't in the distant future, or even at the tail end of our generation's span.
http://www.theverge....-climate-change

And things are getting worse faster than we can handle it.
https://www.washingt...inter-descends/

Is there a third thing after geometric and exponential? Cuz that's how it's gonna be.


Ocean Acidification is the thing that is baking my brain right now actually.

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Posted 18 November 2016 - 08:57 PM

That's the other thing, right? Even if you take global warming out of the equation -- which you shouldn't, but let's give it a whirl -- environmental recklessness (pollution, overconsumption, mass waste, single-use plastic, etc) is still a death warrant.
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Posted 18 November 2016 - 10:29 PM

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To reiterate, that was the 1980s, not the 1960s. On top of all this: https://www.themarsh...ttorney-general
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Posted 19 November 2016 - 12:30 AM

Maybe Trump's strategy is like a Baelor's Sept kinda plan? Get all the worst picks in the Capitol Building to be confirmed plus every member of Congress, nuke the Capitol from orbit, then set about rebuilding the government from the ground up.

Actually no, that can't be it. Then Trump would still have Chris Christie in the running for AG...

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Posted 20 November 2016 - 03:25 AM

Man, Gov McCrory of North Carolina lost his election but is dragging out the officiating of it by making dozens of complaints, w/ the apparent plan to have it declared a "contested election" by the legislature, allowing it to decide the election in his favor. I bring it up because a) it's so slimy and :question: this is the man who's to this day defending that horrible restroom (plus tons of other discrimination) law in NC -- and enough voters decided they were sick of him -- and it might not matter anyway if he gets his way. This is the election that keeps on giving.
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Posted 20 November 2016 - 03:26 AM

I used a lowercase b and it still turned into sunglasses guy!
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Posted 20 November 2016 - 03:30 AM

Difference is that he's winking behind the glasses.
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Posted 20 November 2016 - 12:30 PM

Why did the poorest vote for someone like Trump who on his own stands for everything that is against them, let alone being the candidate for a party that basically wants to cut off their only income? And that's just for starters.

http://www.news.com....95578f848fd4d10

Cousin-fucker reflex? Trailer-trash logic?

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Posted 20 November 2016 - 06:10 PM

Anti-establishment. I really dont think diminishing and belittling Trump voters is helpful. It reduces a very real and complex socio-economic problem to simplistic finger-pointing. A large part of the Trump voters are well-educated middle to high income families. The real enemy is fear of change and social divisions, which are sustained and enlarged by sticking labels on groups with a different opinion than your own.

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