Phoenix Wright
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On 11/6/2021 at 4:09 PM, UNLEASH IT said:
Aren't she and Manchin senators in republican leaning states? Maybe they're afraid of losing their seats in the next midterms.
sinema has been a progressive her entire career until.....when it matters the most....
manchin is a dino so his opposition is expected. nytimes daily had an execellent ep on sinema wherein they said they basically have no idea why sinema has 180'd and that in the end it's really only hurting her and her legacy.
i guess this is why i'm not a politician, but if i were in either of their shoes, i'd be gunning for the most progressive policies possible. laws are really hard to undo and dems have been incredibly bad at holding power for long in congress. dems have absolutely no chance at holding congress come 2022 so i'd make damn sure my legacy is in passing revolutionary climate, voting, and civil rights laws. and fuck it, i'll try again in 6 years!
oh, and taxes/infrastructure/education would be other priorities.
@NinjaMonkey i forgot that your 'perspective' isn't really based in reality so i have no more comments for you lol.
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On 11/3/2021 at 12:33 PM, NinjaMonkey said:
It's nice to see Biden's "Build Back Better" policy working. It has done wonderous things... for the Republican Party, as this Virginia Governor's race has shown.
if only the democrats weren't the weak pos that they are... 😢
kirsten sinema is a witch that should be burned at the voting stake.
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i think my 2 faves: kingdom of bern and beneath a new light (fe7, 6 respectively) and ofc the recruitment themes. but man i need to play these games again i miss them lol.
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2 hours ago, Acacia Sgt said:
where is his cheering? i see his son cheering, but not him.
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scary. this twitch live stream is cancerous.
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4 minutes ago, Sooks said:
Oh don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it will physically help but that’s not the point. It was more the expression of the thought, but I won’t pretend like I know that much about the build up to this.
it's such a lack of response that one has to wonder if this is what trump wanted.
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Maggie Haberman
White House Correspondent
We are seeing reports of people being transported to hospitals from the Capitol complex.
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Mark, one Trump adviser told me that people — even those close to him — are certain the president wanted this and is enjoying it.
ask yourself, if there were violence occurring in your state capitol and you're head of state, would you simply respond with, "stop," via twitter?
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5 minutes ago, Sooks said:
This is ridiculous. If they’re trying to make themselves look just they’re failing. Horribly.
At least Trump & Ivanka have the sense to tweet out to be peaceful. I’ve heard people saying that they encouraged this though, I don’t know about all that.
no, not at least! do not be fooled by that. tweets do not quell already angry and active protestors--especially the ones that won't read them!
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is there a realistic way to change how the pres. pardon works?
conspiracy: did trump decline national guard? did he instruct to decline national guard?
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indeed, eclipse.
1 minute ago, Excellen Browning said:Not insignificant number of people I know, who are normally very reasonable, now telling me the rebels should be shot
reactionary--i'm sure they'll come to their senses.
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just started watching the streams, definitely lead. i'm not at all surprised, and i'm especially worried for jan 20, but i still find myself at a loss for words. i'm sure we're all reading similar takes--will republicans continue to debate the results in poor faith? will trump face repercussions? how fierce? etc etc.
all i know is, republicans need to play their cards right and i don't think that they will.
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rubber or...?
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On 10/30/2020 at 12:07 PM, Glennstavos said:
He would only need a state with a fraction of Texas' electoral votes to be that secure. You can play around with possibilities here. But the deciding states that are being anticipated are North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Arizona, and Ohio. Texas skewing purple is surprising, but Georgia as an actual swing state is probably the weirdest.
im 2 months late and im sorry for that, but anyway 538 is exactly the site whose numbers i was alluding to in the first place. there's a reason why the deciding states were nc, ga, fl, az, and oh--they were more likely to go blue. if tx had gone blue, it'd likely have been a landslide victory for biden. like california going red.
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if biden takes texas he's got about a 0% chance of losing. this is a gut feeling that's backed up by the numbers too. tx aint gone blue since carter!
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when you highlight the bad and ignore the good, i'd honestly argue that's hate speech. it's also disingenuous.
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3 hours ago, Dr. Tarrasque said:
There is no such thing as "too low" for him. However bad you think he is, he's worse. He's incapable of improving, specially with a base performing mental gymnastics to portray him as someone succeeding against all odds
lmfao last night should have been the nail in the coffin, like countless times before, and instead we get people deeper into psychosis...
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22 minutes ago, Lewyn said:
On Trump's tax returns, well no wonder he didn't want anyone to see. Sham president, sham businessman. What is he good at? Selling himself, but other than that he sucks at everything.
I think a secret power he has though is how incredibly limited his vocabulary is as well as the strong Queens accent. His incredible lack of intellect and not being good at academics works in his favor. If he were like most trust fund babies who after attending the finest schools, have immense vocabularies and sound like an intellectual he would not appeal like he does. He seems as 'one of the people' rather than an elitist. A weakness in fact becomes a strength, at least in politics.
indeed. a personal favorite of mine is his description of various plots & graphs he has folks prop up as he attempts, in vain, to explain what the plots are saying and ultimately predict.
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On 10/17/2019 at 3:22 AM, Zerxen said:
How should I go about asking this? I never asked out a girl before. This is someone who happens to be occupied a lot. I don't want to ruin my friendship.
bro, you've only known her for 2 weeks. you're barely friends. ask her out
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as a dissenting opinion, i'd rather see these companies not get involved at all. i fucking hate when companies release commercials claiming to be on the moral side of history in order to sell a product (pepsi is the most recent egregious example, followed by gilette). fuck the nba, fuck blizzard, fuck nestle, etc. the nba has been injecting itself into china for decades, what tf yall expect them to do? the chinese people don't necessarily agree with the protests in hong kong. the reasons why are irrelevant. the point is, the nba choosing a side is bad for business, especially if that side is hong kong.
you want to see businesses act morally? force them to by supporting legislation that does just that. how many of us wear shoes, for example, likely made in sweatshops? i'm not gonna point the finger at the nba when i'm part of the problem. especially when there's nothing i, or the nba, can do about china's political policy. the proper thing to do is to shut up about it--and if that doesn't work, "the views of (person) X do not reflect the views of (company) Y."
that being said, if companies want to use their leverage to fight for democracy, i am indeed all for that. i just don't think it's companies, specifically, that should be blamed when they don't. it's all of us...
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On 9/20/2019 at 8:45 PM, Life said:
And... Oooh. Rams are -3.5 (+102) in Cleveland. That feels like a sucker bet.
why?
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On 9/15/2019 at 11:38 PM, Life said:
Second time in two seasons that the refs have screwed the Saints out of a TD against the Rams.
This is totally karma for Bountygate at this point.oh please. saints fans have easily become my least favorite fanbase for the constant fucking whining. the only real bad thing for the saints that happened that night was brees getting injured. and of course, the handful of other injuries on both sides of the ball.
saints got outplayed on all 3 phases. refs be damned.
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you're good at having correct opinions.
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On 9/6/2019 at 7:53 AM, Tediz64 said:
Part 1) but see, im making the point that it is useless to throw numbers at people who don't even care about the numbers and are simply using that as a reason to reject immigration because the truth is they are quite possibly prejudice against outsiders. It's not an individual's responsibility to educate others on how beneficial immigration can be or is, it falls to them to do that. But they know it's a super complex and nuance problem to solve and they don't have time to understand it all. Do you really think Observer is going to have time in a one on one session teaching another person about basic economic terminology and telling that person about their various sources of information (which they won't go look up or believe) and how at the end of the day, it is beneficial for them to come? I'm very doubtful.
Part 2) sorry buddy, but college is not a requirement. I disagree there. The perspective I'm looking at this from is that nobody is entitled to that so called "skilled" work. There is plenty of work to do and money to make unskilled. It might not be favorable and it might even make life a struggle to keep up with (we can talk about inflation and cost living separately and figure out who to point the finger at) but that doesn't mean it's the government's job or responsibility to grant you opportunities to get your dream job. If you want a life of luxury or a lifestyle different from the poor and unskilled, be prepared to make sacrifices for it. In America that naive notion that you can have it your way is what is making us weak in my opinion. Your duty and obligation in life is to be independent. The rest is what you make out of it. This means putting a roof over your own head and stop mooching of the parents. Pay bills and put bacon on the table. I know I could think a little harder and try to put this in a less crude way and make it sound more delicate, but that isn't my style. You want that fancy job sitting in the a/c making good money only using your head (and your hands too i guess. In a dexterous way)? You want a lifestyle where you can eat fancy food, have a piano in your foyer, take vacations around the world? Well buddy, that sounds like a personal problem. Sounds like you "want" something, not "need" something. That "skilled" stuff your talking about that colleges and universities open the door for you, is optional. Its a privilege. A luxury. Not a requirement. You can live working unskilled labor. You just aren't going to be happy or being doing a bunch fun stuff getting the chance to have different experiences in life. Nobody is entitled to those dream jobs or careers they keep reaching for that they have no business aiming for. People need to learn to be more practical. If you want doors opened up for you, then find a way to open them without making others open them for you. It's called hard work, determination, ambition, and being self sufficient. It use to be at least. I dunno what this new generation calls it. By the way, I know how I said all this sounds like I'm aiming it directly at you, but i meant it in general to any individual. Just saying. I'm not aiming at you personally. That is my opinion regarding higher education and what not.
getting into a conversation with someone you have already assumed will ignore you means you shouldn't have started talking in the first place. it's possible to be anti-immigration for myriad reasons--not just racism and xenophobia. so knowing the facts is helpful in those situations. shoblongoo makes the point that politicians are using immigrants as their scapegoat, etc etc and he's right. but i think if you read my post i'm not even making that sort of argument. what i said i think is still true, immigration is more subtle depending on how deep you'd like to go. if for whatever reason 400,000 people decided to immigrate into san diego, i don't think san diego could handle that (depending on how quickly it happens obviously, and i'm assuming in this instance that it'd be quick). i also said, in general, immigration is a net positive, so this is where shoblongoo's point comes in. in the united states, people who generally disfavor immigration are likely using them as a scapegoat or whatever. i'm aware of that bit, but more nuanced discussions can exist too.
yeah, where? lol. you sound like a boomer--blissfully unaware of the exploitative nature of capitalism with a bs "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" mentality.
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the problem with your argument is simply that it is all conjecture. your estimations arise from thin air if they're unsourced. what interdimensional observer is asking for, consequently, is a factual framework to argue in favor of immigration.
the thing is, immigration is a nuanced subject. not all immigrants are the same and obviously not all immigration strategies are the same. for the united states, with the largest immigrant population in the world, the numbers tell us that immigration is a net positive--that's great for people like me who are pro-immigration. but, when you ask how certain immigrant populations are doing, you'll get very different stories. moreover, when you ask which cities/regions/states are actually able to support large influxes of immigrants, you'll get vastly different answers. this is why i think the best course of action is a general overview of the facts (read: average effects immigrants have on the country) and then much more research into a specific topic you might be interested in. how mexicans are doing in southern california is much different than how somalis are doing in minnesota.
immigration is not always a good thing. mexico, specifically tijuana, could not actually sustain the recent migrant caravan from central america. their president, more reasonably than ours at least, wants to find a way to settle as many as possible. as nations, mexico and the united states sympathize with asylum seekers (in general, at the moment the current american administration appears wholly xenophobic), but it's simply not always feasible. what hurts these people is the lack of real problem solving because we're busy arguing about things that don't matter, like whether or not immigrants should be let in in the first place.
on the topic of college, it's important to note that you might be lazy, but to me it sounds you're being extremely unfair to your peers and yourself. would you make the same arguments if you had to pay for primary school? (k-12.) if a 5th grader had to do extracurriculars to get themselves a sponsor to pay for school but didn't, are they lazy? the point i'm making is that college has rapidly become not a privilege for the elites, but a requirement for most skilled work. because it's a requirement, the onus, like primary school, like police, like firefighters, is on all of us (ie, the government) to fund education, not the individual. and, because of the expense, applying for one or two scholarships will only in rare cases be sufficient to pay for school; prospective students likely will have to apply to dozens. this is on top of school, applications for college, standardized tests, and outside stressors you aren't privy to. i reject your conclusion that your peers are lazy--instead i'd argue the state is putting too much of a burden on young people to pay for their futures.
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On 8/30/2019 at 6:36 PM, Life said:
White Nationalists actually hate Conservatives (has to do with most White Nationalists also being socialists) and the reverse is also true (due to Conservatives not being racial collectivists by sheer virtue of ideology).
But sure, let's just throw out the idea of freedom of association and not even allow people to speak to each other.
Also, if the Democratic Party wasn't pro-mass immigration, White Nationalists would most likely vote Democrat because they actually agree with the majority of Democratic policy. They just hate mass immigration (and anti-white racial collectivism) to the point that they'll vote against their own principles. Even the boogieman Richard Spencer has said that he agrees with 80% of Bernie Sanders' platform.
I'm not scared of these people and I'm a Jew. They're not the ones who will put me in a re-education camp.
how hard do you laugh when writing this shit? lol
2 hours ago, Interdimensional Observer said:The "immigrants steal jobs/welfare/other opportunities 'natives' deserve (like college tuition grants)" argument, whenever I overhear someone bring that up IRL, I sheepishly back away instead of confronting them and proving them wrong.
It's not necessarily I want to back away from defending immigration, but rather, I am not armed with the empirical data to contest those against immigration. I know nothing of how large the various social programs are, and what percentage of their revenues are spent on immigrants. Nor do I know the quantity of taxes paid by immigrants. I cannot fight wrongful perceptions with only "good" perceptions, I need hard facts, hard truth to prove my point.
Politicians on the left seem to only address the immigration matter on the moral and humane rightfulness of letting people into this country, which is a good argument. But they don't use statistics (ideally accurate ones, bad ones are arguably worse than none) to counter the core complaint of "needy immigrants bankrupting the country and taking 'our' money". That pro-immigration politicians don't attempt to blunt that criticism, leaves them exposed to being branded "Lots of heart, but not enough brain". And it leaves me as I am, someone who has been cultivated with the ideal of a pluralistic society in them, but feeling as though the position they want to unflinchingly adhere to, has a glaring flaw in it.
Does anyone actually know where I might be able to find the empirical statistical information which could solidify my position? Ideally from a more centrist or nonpartisan source?
And just to make sure I'm not misunderstood:
Want to: Be able to defend immigration against those who think immigrants are a colossal drain on taxpayer dollars and social programs.
Problem: I don't know where to find information on government spending and income related to immigrants. Not knowing those statistics weakens my abilities to counter those opposing immigration. Pro-immigration politicians (insofar as "the news" covers them) never counter this argument with numbers. That does not help me, nor anyone else out there like me.
I hope this is clearly stated enough. I'm on edge after some unfortunately catastrophic mistakes on my part elsewhere.
0) first, get to know the immigrants: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/key-findings-about-u-s-immigrants/
1) the real "start" is a summary from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impact_of_illegal_immigrants_in_the_United_States
2) after getting a general overview, you're better off asking specific questions and consulting good sources (pew research, published articles, fbi stats, etc). sources in the wikipedia page will likely present you with excellent landing pages to start from on a whole host of topics regarding immigration.
Primary and secondary education thread
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yeah, i mean, in truth school only works for some people. "it" referring to the way school is structured. it hasn't changed much in hundreds of years in (most of) the world and certainly the united states. pedagogical studies have shown as much and are one of the handful of reasons universities "give cs degrees to folks who can't code." lesson->hw->exam simply doesn't work for the vast majority of people; it's boring, lazy, and impractical. interestingly, we all still have this internal belief that performance in school is somehow proportional to performance in life.
what pedagogical studies have *also* shown is that our educational infrastructure is not just decrepit, but inefficient too. the answers on how to fix this mess are obvious to the layman too, and backed up: more hands-on, practical, 1-on-1 lesson plans, but the issue with that is money. no nation intends to invest in this because we get by with the 10-15% of people who excel in the environment already established.
an excellent analogy is obamacare and common core. a positive step towards what we need, but in reality it's much too small a step towards how things ought to be.