Lord Raven
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@eclipse I think you and I can both sympathize how fucking hilarious it is to watch Trump ban evade. Makes any online moderator feel power over the president in this moment.
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If you all want to laugh.
Last thing at dragoncat before I take it to DM: I don't defend my friend's character unless they understand the fucked up shit they did, why it's fucked up, how they plan to make amends and then make attempts to figure it out.
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I probably don't have a popular view on the pardon but I think it should have oversight by a committee in congress (legally). Obama had a lot of very good and beneficial pardons and commutes for federal drug offenses. Trump overusing it shouldn't be that much of a deterrent imo; a power that grants freedom is heavily preferable to one that takes it away, and I don't actually believe there should be much a limit to that power beyond the public perception (and no state crimes).
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15 hours ago, Dragoncat said:
I will gracefully back out of this. My final word is that I am saddened by this country. I will back out before I put my foot in my mouth with the final word:
There are Republicans who are not these people we speak of. Source: My mother. She is a lovely lady. And most of the state of Wyoming. If I don't get to say that Biden supporters may have possibly pulled this, then you guys don't get to say that all Republicans are the same as these idiots.
I just want to say something to you real quick. This friend you're talking about is presumably Ana and she pretty much said talking to me makes her want to kill herself. In fact she's had a history of telling me that if she weren't a coward she'd kill herself just to get out of being banned from anywhere. The fact that she's a Trump supporter -- that we (and I) had to endure all of the little dog whistles she repeated, lots of which reminds us of growing up, too -- was the cherry on top of an already ugly person. If you think she was banned for being a Trump Supporter, then you really aren't being objective.
I can provide chat logs of my interactions with her. But Trump is an abusive fucking narcissist and you're reading propaganda if you believe Biden supporters would do the same. I have no fucking idea why you voted for Biden if you think BLM are rioters.
EDIT: I mean if a guy said that he wanted to ban all autistic people from the US because they're terrorists, that person became president, and another person you're talking to not only voted for that cunt but vehemently defends him and his ideology, you'd be just as fucking pissed at Trump supporters as I am. The fact that I've spent five years being told that "they're not all like that, they're just the crazies, please understand them they don't mean it" while I watched our president gas protesters who are fighting for *everyone's right to not be assault by the police for not being rich and white* and these people stood by them told me all I needed to know.
The literal fact that he withheld aid to investigate a political opponent didn't ring the fascist bells for many of these dumbasses (he got impeached but not removed for this horseshit). The fact is that I gotta be told to understand the mentality that would lead to a Trump vote and that it was never fucking mutual is gaslighting.
Why doesn't one of these Trumpers go to my face and ask me what stupid shit would lead me to vote for Biden? At least we are and were curious, it's pretty obvious that they know why and they just don't care.
I know you wanted to back out of this but I have had to spend like 6 years dealing with her, her uncle, and her bullshit; even if it's someone you hate and don't care for, nobody with a soul wouldn't be affected by someone saying "you make me want to kill myself." Especially when the thread she said it in is about shit you fully fucking care about (BLM).
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imagine being this mad about getting 2000 dollars in two weeks
we need to get these thugs in the capitol in order
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16 minutes ago, Crysta said:
they did when antifa was outside
bullets and gas work best with melanin don't you know
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Time to start calling senator van Hollen's officd with every bill I want passed in 3 weeks
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I know Wasserman called it. Basically massive underperformance in red districts and black people / white suburbanites saving the day. The weirdest coalition I've ever seen.
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the nyt needle is the mvp
that needle kept moving left as the republicans got more votes. turns out you need trump on the ticket
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5 minutes ago, Crysta said:
it IS really weird that ossoff is struggling so much more
It's incumbency and Ossoff being 33. I guarantee it.
Loeffler is not a true incumbent. She was never elected.
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11 hours ago, Crysta said:
The weird thing is I think the people who were arguing with the red hats back then were much, much more harsh and sardonic than the ones who are still here.
I went back to find my 2016 predictions and it was pretty much skewering after skewering and they still persisted. I think they just got bored/tired and moved on after the win.
It might be better for us really, there's a lot of young kids here and some of them said things in the exact way to make things sound reasonable. Or to rile teenagers up against others, which they're already prone to. I know for a fact that i had that boiling feeling in my head when I read a lot of comments about Islam four years back.
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1 hour ago, Dr. Tarrasque said:
None of it surprised me. What does annoy me is how good the Democrats are at submitting to the Republicans. As you've said before, "Never underestimate the Democrats' ability to snag defeat from the jaws of victory".
It should be obvious that the Republican party needs to cease existence but it is so difficult to get some people to see that given the Democrats' own corruption as it is true, both parties are corrupt and most people will just stop there and fail to see the differences in the extent of their corruption.
I think part of the reason it even happens in the first place is because any party that would oppose the Republican party still has to push the Republican Party and many of the dumbasses that red hatted the party up a hill. This is a solid chunk of the country that will never go away and preaches fiscal responsibility, then just don't pay attention when their elected congress do the exact opposite.
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53 minutes ago, Acacia Sgt said:
I think the word is jaded.
Which is also something of a strategy sometimes. Make your opponent jaded enough to stop bothering in trying to stop you.
He's made me jaded to the extent where I stop picking and choosing his cuntery; I just want to nuke it all at once.
18 minutes ago, Shoblongoo said:Thats the part that surprises me. I thought they were better then that.
I think this extremity is where I differ from people. I've always known and felt they were fuckfaces, assholes, and pieces of shit -- but this year made people go from "stop being so partisan" to "oh, yeah, fuck cocaine mitch."
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13 hours ago, Excellen Browning said:
I have to say, I'm kind of surprised by the lack of outrage over the recent trump pardons. Because holy shit the list. Co-conspirators in the Russia and Ukraine schemes, fraudsters, traitors, child murderers, it's all fair game.
And apparently everyone's cool with convicted murderers walking.
That's the thing. I don't even fuckin know where to begin to talk about that. What is there to even talk about? He pardoned his cronies... just the most expected shit ever. I'm not saying this to argue against you or to nullify your point, just to emphasize that I'm just a gaslighted and abused husk right now and that's one of those things that just didn't register because he'd been exploring it for like four years.
It's like how a Canadian friend of mine was telling me "how do you think people on the outside will perceive McConnell not giving away checks?" and I said "what do you mean by outside? like in the south or what?" and they said "outside the US." Which a) that's the most blatantly american question i could've ever asked and b) I just never thought about how 2000 dollars in aid was a norm everywhere else, but McConnell obstructionism is a norm here we're entirely too used to because... he's a cunt. And we know he's a cunt. And we're only outraged now because we have a sliver of a chance of getting better relief, because a week or two ago I was singing a tune of "lol yeah fuck that." But now the entire world is seeing what we've been seeing for years and years and years upon years. And Cocaine Mitch weathering the storm somewhat... although GA Republicans seem to be fucking losing based on /r/conservative... but I don't even know anymore. We're just too used to the shit state of our country.
9 hours ago, Excellen Browning said:Pardoning random murderers is a new low, even for trump. Cronies and rich businessmen, sure. Thats the trump we know and despise. But again, child killers? Are you for real?
This is the guy who wished Ghislaine Maxwell well.
Seriously, where the ever living fuck are those red hats from earlier in this thread? I know at least two are banned. I distinctly remember someone laughing because those damn ivory tower academics were punched down a peg or two. And "conservatives are tough" was another line I recall, except they pardon all their cronies after they lose an election lol. Do they just laugh at this thread? Are they just off the board because someone couldn't stand to be called out for wanting a Muslim ban because of the Pulse nightclub shooting? For a bunch of tough guys, they're sure unwilling to answer for their dear emperor.
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15 hours ago, Dr. Tarrasque said:
True that, there's also "Both parties are the same". I see this a lot and it is sad to see as someone who wants both parties to be destroyed because there's literally one side straight up acting like Disney Villains lol
Like big tech companies, Democrats need to split.
Like plantations, Republicans need to disappear to history.
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If there's anything I have confidence in, it's the american people brushing off abuse in favor of owning libs
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8 hours ago, Dr. Tarrasque said:
McConnell is old as fuck and this 6 year term may be his last term. He'll concede on matters if it can cost him his power as Senate Majority Leader because it's all he really has left now that his puppet President lost.
I don't think he will concede anything. I think he believes he can win GA without 2000. He's quite a confident little turtle.
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7 hours ago, Roxas said:
this year sucks
also like the worst year to be a 3rd year medical student on rotations because i haven't been able to do shit and all of our clerkships got cut by like 25% because we started late because nobody knew how reopening was going to work so basically my neurology rotation back in september was 2 and a half weeks with a few hurricane days sprinkled in and my school has the NUTS to ASK me why i FAILED the SHELF EXAM also i did mediocre on step 1 because my test date got cancelled three different times because the nbme had no idea how they wanted to open prometric back up again and they decided to run on some staggered opening schedule but started that by cancelling everyones exams and yeeting them into schedule limbo so then i ended up taking it in the middle of my pediatrics rotation and of it had to be when i was on inpatient subspeciality heme/onc/cardiology that all went over my head and of course i did poopy and i just feel like nobody understands because the 1st and 2nd years are preclinical still so they're just chilling on zoom lectures and self studying and the current 4th years were just chilling all year since they did their sub-i's already and step 2 cs got cancelled and they're also chilling on zoom doing all their electives online so it just really feels like class of 2022 got screwed over super hard in particular!!!!! !! ! ! ! ! ! !
Dude fuck higher ed this year. I really truncated my feelings about my internship and my advisor, but holy fuck it's been one after another. My boss is giving me shit because we have no results... Because we either had no time, no open days, or no cryostat. Colossal waste of a fucking year. I once worked 3-2-3-2-3-2 day weeks and I'd have to drive back home to help rebuild everything at home due to all this shit.
I have to graduate next semester lol
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On 12/26/2020 at 2:33 AM, Lord Raven said:
My take is that Mitch is spiteful enough to not agree, but also has not been punished for similar bullshit in the past and has no reason to do otherwise now. I believe that Trump knows this and rejected the 600 dollar proposal for 2000 precisely to fuck with all of Congress.
I personally dont give a fuck if 600 or 2000 pass. Something needs to pass. There's still aid beyond direct paychecks on the line. 2000 is way less likely to pass than 600, if I'm being real, because the Republicans and Trump are trash humans.
Trump isn't a conniving guy, but he knows how to be spiteful.
Also: Trump probably would've pocket veto'd a $600 relief bill, and McConnell will more or less kill the $2000 dollar relief bill. Dumbasses have no fucking idea that Dems in the house actually do come up with bills, but mcconnell just doesn't vote on them if they have even a sweat drop of something progressive in there.
Lol raven you're a dumb cunt. How can someone be this fucking wrong about our Lord and fucking savior
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/27/politics/trump-relief-bill-christmas-eve/index.html
I'm not finding much to suggest this is 2000 in direct payments, but it still has the unemployment bonus in there on too of a funding bill to keep the government running. I think 900b corresponds to the 600 though, but I don't think Trump wants to lose the 2000.
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I don't really post on SF much anymore, part because I'm just too old for some of the users here, part because my life has been hell the past few years, part because you can only discuss FE to death so much before you, personally, have just run out of relatively new shit to talk about. But I'm kinda wondering how everyone's 2020 went so we can all lift each other up from this awful year and talk about our goals in 2021.
My year was just a total disaster. Between COVID fucking my internship, my moveout, and my internship mulligan where our cryostat is straight up broken, my dad passing away and all the fucked up undiagnosed mental issues I'm having from taking care of him, and my PhD adviser yelling at me for not being productive despite all of this... Fuck this fucking year.
On the plus side, I'm looking like I'm 5 months away from finally finishing this PhD program (7 fucking years and a hairline later) and I can live in one place for more than 3 weeks when I get back. And weed is legal in AZ now (where I go to school).
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My take is that Mitch is spiteful enough to not agree, but also has not been punished for similar bullshit in the past and has no reason to do otherwise now. I believe that Trump knows this and rejected the 600 dollar proposal for 2000 precisely to fuck with all of Congress.
I personally dont give a fuck if 600 or 2000 pass. Something needs to pass. There's still aid beyond direct paychecks on the line. 2000 is way less likely to pass than 600, if I'm being real, because the Republicans and Trump are trash humans.
Trump isn't a conniving guy, but he knows how to be spiteful.
Also: Trump probably would've pocket veto'd a $600 relief bill, and McConnell will more or less kill the $2000 dollar relief bill. Dumbasses have no fucking idea that Dems in the house actually do come up with bills, but mcconnell just doesn't vote on them if they have even a sweat drop of something progressive in there.
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can we take a moment and appreciate that some right wing media is pissed that jill biden refers to herself as "dr jill biden" for having a phd
o.o feels like the right wing media wants us to idiot proof the country sometimes
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21 hours ago, Lewyn said:
Reward or inspiration doesn't motivate as much or as well as fear.
Fear was part of the Democratic platform. Everyone was talking about how Trump is trying to destroy democracy and take your healthcare. What you're hoping for is a propaganda network.
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At this point, I really do hope we get out of the next week safely. I really have no idea what will happen. I didn't expect the permanent ban this soon.
You say people, but I know you're talking about Trump Jr.