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ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#112626: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:16:59 PM

[up] Will you ever post anything that's not "look what awful thing I found out about Hillary today"?

SolipsistOwl Since: Jan, 2016
#112627: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:18:05 PM

I posted just today about the war in Syria?

NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Jupiterian Local
#112628: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:26:01 PM

Casinos, being private businesses, are allowed to give or prevent access to their facilities to whoever they like (except protected classes). If casinos are letting Clinton campaigners in but not Sanders campaigners, then that's on the casinos, not Clinton.

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#112629: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:27:10 PM

[up][up] The CIA and Pentagon being at war with each other. Inevitable that it would happen, especially since they are both in the South (Virginia and Washington D.C., respectively).

edited 20th Feb '16 1:27:20 PM by Bat178

FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#112630: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:28:34 PM

Um. What?

What does their being in the south have to do with the inevitability of them fighting each other?

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#112631: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:28:41 PM

The CIA really can't be trusted. They've always been out for themselves, not the military or the US.

Oh really when?
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#112632: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:30:12 PM

Climate? Heat waves makes people more prone to bickering, maybe even a North-South difference is enough to increase bickering a bit?

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#112633: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:33:35 PM

[up][up] The FBI as well?

edited 20th Feb '16 1:34:11 PM by Greenmantle

Keep Rolling On
SolipsistOwl Since: Jan, 2016
#112634: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:33:38 PM

The casino is the site of a caucus. How could they have such a privilege in that situation?

edited 20th Feb '16 1:34:14 PM by SolipsistOwl

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#112635: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:38:58 PM

Interservice rivalries are a well known occurrence, you don't need to bring up bullshit coincidences like them being in the same area to justify them happening, guys. There's nothing inevitable about being in the South that's causing anything to happen here.

@ Solipsist; yeah at this point it appears to be on the event organizers? Is it more than rumors at this particular point is my question. And while I do consider TYT to be a reputable source, their bias is well known. (To deny that anyone has a bias is foolish, I think it's simply a matter of degree and how much effort they go to to mask that bias/how rigorous their standards are for backing up their claims.)

Although I wonder why they'd have a caucus in a casino in the first dang place, then I remember that casinos are fairly large and easy to find in Las Vegas. Other Nevada towns are probably having at least some in buildings that aren't casinos.

edited 20th Feb '16 1:39:57 PM by AceofSpades

NativeJovian Jupiterian Local from Orlando, FL Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Jupiterian Local
#112636: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:42:41 PM

The casino is the site of a caucus. How could they have such a privilege in that situation?
You didn't mention that earlier. That rather changes the situation, yes.

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#112637: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:43:26 PM

No the FBI is usually pretty trustworthy. They just drop the ball every so often.

The CIA are just real scumbags.

Oh really when?
Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#112638: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:44:54 PM

[up]Hence the trope CIA Evil, FBI Good

I would argue the CIA does do some good stuff, for example: distributing anti-Kim propaganda in North Korea as well as creating safe spaces there for people to speak their mind. Pragmatic Villainy, perhaps, but helpful nonetheless.

edited 20th Feb '16 1:47:02 PM by Protagonist506

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SolipsistOwl Since: Jan, 2016
#112639: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:44:59 PM

There was a campaign prior to the caucus to get people to film or otherwise document their experience, so I wouldn't doubt we'll see fair evidence of voting/electoral fraud released over the next few days.

Exit polls currently show Sanders leading Hillary with Latinos—back in October they split support. This is a good indication he can make headway among black Americans, too.

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
More like giant cherries
#112640: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:49:43 PM

Although I wonder why they'd have a caucus in a casino in the first dang place,

Probably because many of the voters work at the casinos.

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Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#112641: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:51:12 PM

It's Nevada. So either that or a brothel.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#112642: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:53:05 PM

If Sanders does get ahead, I'm really hoping that he doesn't scare away moderate Dems in the general. Or that Bloomberg does get the GOP the White House in a misguided attempt to "save" America from socialism and/or fascism.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
SolipsistOwl Since: Jan, 2016
#112643: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:53:30 PM

This is America we're talking about. We already primarily vote in churches. What's so inappropriate a metaphor for American politics than a casino or brothel?

Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#112644: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:54:30 PM

Well, I for one, would support holding the primary in a brothel...

DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#112645: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:55:24 PM

Bloomberg is my biggest concern right now. He's making an announcement in early March, and right now the deciding factor is how well Hillary does in Nevada and Southern Carolina.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#112646: Feb 20th 2016 at 1:55:31 PM

Ugh, no brothels or strip clubs.

All the drinks in those are way overpriced.

edited 20th Feb '16 1:55:48 PM by LeGarcon

Oh really when?
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#112647: Feb 20th 2016 at 2:08:10 PM

Solipsist, I dunno where you go but here the polling places are in schools mostly. I've never heard of a polling place being placed in a church. The churches local to me are pretty dang small, and schools have enough room to hold people in line.

SolipsistOwl Since: Jan, 2016
#112648: Feb 20th 2016 at 2:09:43 PM

I live in rural California. Polling places here are about a 50/50 split between schools and churches.

Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#112649: Feb 20th 2016 at 2:15:38 PM

My polling place is a church and i live in a residential neighborhood of a big city.

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#112650: Feb 20th 2016 at 2:15:38 PM

The Syria story is false, the US has provided no backing to the Kurds in Aleppo, it's provided backing to the Kurds out east, but nothing to the Aleppo pocket of Kurds.

The US proxies are only fighting each other if one defines such groups very broadly instead of understanding the local context of many such groups.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran

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