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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Wall Street and absurdly obviously evil corporations like Comcast keep donating for her for more plausable reasons than stupiduty. She's still trying to run passive-aggressive pro-Wall Street ads like one on her twitter(I can't find the tweet right now, feel free to dismiss me), claiming that "Dealing with Wall Street won't fix this unrelated issue and that unrelated issue", the classic anti-progress diversion tactic. I doubt her past record shows her opposing Wall Street at any point before having to compete with Sanders forced her to pretend she did.
@Drunken Nordmann: If they want the latter, they can't say or do too much against the former, so there's not that much difference in effect.
♭What.Bankers poll at 2% for most respected professions:
http://static.politico.com/bc/7c/c808106e44eaa8855a3a12553bb7/snapchat-generation-release.pdf
Fair number of Wall Street investors are leery of Wall Street firms themselves.
And the top brass of Goldman Sachs itself is beginning to question the value of capitalism.
edited 25th Feb '16 3:52:45 PM by PotatoesRock
Don't forget pining after this empire of yours. You know, the one you lost?
edited 25th Feb '16 4:03:17 PM by DrunkenNordmann
We learn from history that we do not learn from historyGod forbid we respect the people who get shot at in our name. Also teachers are way higher than I expected. I have heard all sorts of stories about terrible teachers, but every teacher I have ever had, even the brutal ones, I am genuinely convinced loved some if not all of the kids. And it's good to see doctors ranked so high, they have a difficult job, face murderous lawsuits if they fuck up, and getting a degree is ludicrously expensive. All and all this whole survey has made me a lot more optimistic about my generation.
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.several generals said they would stage a coup if Corbyn won here, and the army are trained killers, that is something we always have to be wary of, and what did that colonial say... "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance" ![]()
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edited 25th Feb '16 4:07:10 PM by FieldMarshalFry
advancing the front into TV TropesI respect the fact that some people are willing to die to protect their country, definitely, although war itself is obviously horrible.
This is something that is going to be up to personal experience. I have had teachers I liked less than others, but I don't think I ever really had one that just plain didn't care or wasn't willing to do their job properly.
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I'd be at least considering a coup if the man was elected hear. And as a rule if you separate an army from society and consider them freaks because they are "trained killers" you make them more loyal to the army than they are to society.
edited 25th Feb '16 4:12:37 PM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.Speaking of prices of freedom...
I'm pretty sure that's the sort of shit that would make Trump and 40% of the electorate go third party.
It's been not-so-subtly noised about for months that Republicans might aim for a brokered convention if Trump can't land 51% of the delegates, and then agree to lock him out.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

edited 25th Feb '16 3:33:27 PM by Silasw
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