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10 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

Just because you lack sympathy for some idiot putting himself in a bad situation, doesn't mean you're enjoying their suffering. 

Hm good point. 

7 minutes ago, Chris- said:

i thought socialists love when bad people suffer???

I guess there’s very few people I’d call bad. And making up a story for attention doesn’t really qualify. We all want attention and to feel validated. Some of us just go about it the wrong way. 

I don't feel any particular joy from seeing someone suffer, even if they are the cause of their own suffering. 

fucking idiots why dont they just cancel it already smdh 

lol wth

Surprised no one mentioned the miracle on the hudson because that's what I was originally thinking of when @SaysWho? saying that he thought it had been decades since a plane crashed in the US. 

3 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

I get so excited for trips that I can't imagine all the build-up and then the shock as the plane begins to lose altitude/control.  

 

 I'm glad this doesn't happen in America (I think it's been decades since a plane has crashed), but it was disconcerting that these same Boeing planes are used in the US.

wut 

1 minute ago, mclumber1 said:

 

There is no logical way to breakup a company like Facebook.

Then nationalize Facebook. 

i wonder how trump would've ranked in favorability in March 2015. 

the dems need somebody that makes people realize they should be angry. 

He'll run, and he'll win, because the world sucks. 

Poor guy, you really gotta feel bad for him. He screwed up but now he’s going to have to suffer for it.

Welcome to hellworld my friends. 

8 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

People attacking Biden for anti-black stuff make me lol. In focus group after focus group he is seen as a continuation of Obama and is very popular in the black voting community. Attacks like that don't work against Biden (or Clinton). Any outrage is from white people who are acting outraged on behalf of black people.

However he is too old. 

37 minutes ago, Signifyin(g)Monkey said:

Slavoj Bullshit

Why ya gotta be like that though 

1 hour ago, Jose said:

 

Yeah. People that don't overcook the fuck out of their eggs.

I cook my eggs exactly as Gordon Ramsey recommends in his YouTube video tyvm. And then I add ketchup. 

1 hour ago, SaysWho? said:

 

I was saying that sarcastically; I wasn't being literal lol.

 

I love political news, but I'm also of the mind that human interest stories are important, and light news like this can be fun and reveal interesting things about a person. We always talk politics, but finding out whether or not someone puts ketchup on scrambled eggs is fun!

 

Wait. There are people that DON’T put ketchup on scrambled eggs? 

45 minutes ago, Jwheel86 said:

Why does South Carolina have a say in the Democratic Primary? Delegate count per state and calendar position should be based how tight the prior election was (swing states get more delegates and go first, blow out states, win or lose, have less and go last).

I could perhaps see the argument that a republican state should be deprioritized, but prioritizing swing states over democratic strongholds seems like a very bad idea. 

Ok let’s be serious tho vigilantism isn’t cool and an NGO hiring a mercenary army is doubly uncool. 

From the article that @Signifyin(g)Monkey recommended:

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The end of America’s unchallenged global economic dominance has arrived sooner than expected, thanks to the very same Neocons who gave the world the Iraq, Syria and the dirty wars in Latin America. Just as the Vietnam War drove the United States off gold by 1971, its sponsorship and funding of violent regime change wars against Venezuela and Syria – and threatening other countries with sanctions if they do not join this crusade – is now driving European and other nations to create their alternative financial institutions. 

This break has been building for quite some time, and was bound to occur. But who would have thought that Donald Trump would become the catalytic agent?

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For the past half-century, U.S. strategists, the State Department and National Endowment for Democracy (NED) worried that opposition to U.S. financial imperialism would come from left-wing parties. It therefore spent enormous resources manipulating parties that called themselves socialist (Tony Blair’s British Labour Party, France’s Socialist Party, Germany’s Social Democrats, etc.) to adopt neoliberal policies that were the diametric opposite to what social democracy meant a century ago. But U.S. political planners and Great Wurlitzer organists neglected the right wing, imagining that it would instinctively support U.S. thuggishness.

The reality is that right-wing parties want to get elected, and populist nationalism is today’s road to election victory in Europe and other countries just as it was for Donald Trump in 2016.

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The end of our monetary imperialism, about which I first wrote in 1972 in Super Imperialism, stuns even an informed observer like me. It took a colossal level of arrogance, short-sightedness and lawlessness to hasten its decline — something that only crazed Neocons like John Bolton, Elliot Abrams and Mike Pompeo could deliver for Donald Trump.

wtf I love trump now

Oh yeah good point I guess HIV is pretty controllable with antiretrovirals. 

10 minutes ago, Jose said:

The advances in HIV/AIDS treatment are beyond mindblowing and I feel like we dont talk about it enough. 

Explain? It's been almost 40 years since we discovered the virus and we've managed to sort of possibly cure 2 people by sheer accident. Seems a little disappointing to me? 

Well somebody has to have regulatory power over cable right? Otherwise the cable stations could just blast hardcore pornography and no one could do a damn thing about it.

Decriminalize homosexuality wtf. Idgi isn’t gay marriage legal and everything 

There is no saving people from YouTube. The only thing we can do is buckle in. This ride is going to get a hell of a lot worse before it gets better. 

31 minutes ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

Surprised they got into Harvard Law with such a weak grasp on the Justice system.

The article makes no mention of law students protesting.

oh god this is the one thing we didnt want to happen