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@gamemeat Trump can be clever, and he knows how to read a room, but that has nothing to do with intelligence or a broad range of knowledge, neither of which he has in any appreciable quantity.

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I agree with you totally. He is shrewd especially when cornered,

and hits the tone better even than W with people, who believe

that the government forgot or despises them.

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It’s not superficial when those characteristics are relevant to the outcomes. A uniform group is likely to favor outcomes that mirror the group’s own standards than those that break it. It’s not like “Oh, they’re being racist” it’s more like “oh, they’re wearing blinkers”

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How do you think “best screenplay” is determined? Do you think there’s like, some sort of rigid standards that a screenplay must meet? A bunch of hurdles it has to clear? ‘Cause… there aren’t. The entire thing is nothing more than a vote within a mostly self-selected clubhouse.

Tarentino is going to win with “Once Upon A Time in…[Read more]

@gamemeat ID politics loses its potency when people are just one paycheck away from utter destitution.

@gamemeat In your quote, Warren speaks of exciting every part of the Democratic Party. That’s impossible, because the interests and policies advanced by the Vichy Dems are fundamentally opposed to the interests and policies of progressives.

Progressives must either wrest control of the Party from the “centrists,” or form their own party. They…[Read more]

I am in agreement with what @gamemeat has said.

I don’t see this as meaning anything.  As a person, we work with any one who is willing and capable to do a job regardless of what stripe.  As long as someone is setting up the agenda, I don’t care who they hire as long as they do their job well.

Many would say “Obama” put “Republicans” in his ca…[Read more]

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What I find especially disturbing is that many if not most of these contractors from grunt level to highly trained intelligence personnel come from government agencies with intimate knowledge of the inner workings of our most highly classified and sensitive information gathering techniques, institutional command structure, weapons…[Read more]

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Good points.  Eventually it will come down to numbers and bodies – but if the mercenary forces (contractors, heh) available are sufficient enough, then no draft will be required.  Hmm.  I hadn’t really thought of that.  They don’t need poor people like me – they can just keep on hiring “private security firms” and such.  Fuck.  When…[Read more]

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I totally agree that this is just the beginning…the other du jour crisis (Iran) is bad enough….But the wildfires in Australia could be the new norm as in the planet is at a breaking point.

The wildlife and also the domestic animals – don’t know or at least can’t articulate what’s going on but at the end of the day they are…[Read more]

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Yes.  Thank you.  Telling folks that hey, they could get their little spoiler vote out of their systems, but to go ahead and choose, say, Hillary! for second choice is a big huge tell.  I cannot think of any candidate this time around that I would choose as second to Bernie.  Or vote for if Bernie is not the candidate.  Not out of piqu…[Read more]

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Not my intention to put words in your mouth.  Sorry if I offended.

This one gets me riled up, I’ve had similar debates many, many times – and with people (not you) who seriously made me reconsider my faith in humanity.  People are scared of us, you know?

Whether on the street, in school, a hospital, whatever.  So many act as if me…[Read more]

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You know what the difference is between mentally ill people committing violent crimes and those who are not mentally ill committing violent crimes?  Those who are not do it more frequently.

Oh, I realize there is a popular notion that only mentally ill people do this kind of shit – but its wrong.

Easy to punch down though – and…[Read more]

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understood; because the costs of a child go up & the (economic) benefits go down with economic transition (e.g. agriculture to industry) & also in hard economic times.  all that’s left is the love factor.

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Exactly what I was pointing to. She is OUR Anti-War voice. We need an anti-war voice out there.

Why throw the baby out with the bath water?

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Life is always better with puns.

@gamemeat Tulsi lost me when she came out with her bullshit health plan. Nothing else she’s said or done since then has mattered nearly as much.

@gamemeat Honestly “Manners before morals” is the name of the game.

Even the AG report on the FBI’s wire-tapping, basically saying they are exonerated by saying they followed protocol, except for one low-level staffer.

Tullsi WILL GET THE LAST LAUGH  …in the long run.       @gamemeat, when the dust settles, Tulsi will  be the only candidate remembered for not participating in this impeachment fiasco!

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“Trump’s impeachment is just a cheap sugar high”

The best description I have read so far.