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AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#140801: Sep 28th 2016 at 8:54:51 AM

Another Trump staffer leaves over Russia connections.

[[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-womack/stop-pretending-you-dont-_b_12191766.html? Time to stop pretending the Clinton hate isn't misogynistic]].

EDIT: There a reason my second link won't do what my first one did and pothole normally?

edited 28th Sep '16 9:10:27 AM by AmbarSonofDeshar

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#140802: Sep 28th 2016 at 9:15:44 AM

Sorry if I offend you but if your friend is an intellectual and still vote Trump then he is either 1. a privileged asshole 2. a pseudo intellectual 3. pulling some weird Zero-Approval Gambit. 4. having schizophrenia 5. being blackmailed by Trump's cronies.

I literally just had an argument with one of those people last night. Friend of a friend, backing Trump because he claims that Trump would "at worst" be too stupid to do any real harm to the country or world "like George W. Bush" and that Trump will defend good Christian values.

Which, over the course of the discussion, was revealed to really just mean "Trump will criminalize abortions." He was a Single-Issue Wonk trying to dress it up as a generalized political platform.

Also spent over an hour trying to convince me that Objective Morality is a scientifically provable fact based on the Higgs-Boson Particle being a thing. When backed into a corner over the inability to scientifically prove that cannibalism is morally wrong, he even whipped out the ultimate Christian Pseudo-Intellectual fallback: "Prove to me that God doesn't exist."

edited 28th Sep '16 9:16:29 AM by TobiasDrake

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AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#140803: Sep 28th 2016 at 9:17:09 AM

[up]I have a running joke that cannibalism should be grounds for leniency in murder since it's less wasteful.

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#140804: Sep 28th 2016 at 9:20:47 AM

[up][up][up]It's as if every Trump staffer read a biography of Kim Philby and decided, "I want to be this guy."

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
thatguythere47 Since: Jul, 2010
#140805: Sep 28th 2016 at 9:31:08 AM

Wait, the higgs?! Everyone knows objective morality is derived from photons!

But no seriously, deets. The fuck does the higgs boson have to do with objective morality

Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#140806: Sep 28th 2016 at 9:48:31 AM

Senate Votes To Override President Obama's Sept. 11 Lawsuit Veto

http://n.pr/2dq9ArU

Something from my local paper, related a bit to Y'all Qeada: members of an Idaho militia group, 3% of Idaho, are claiming that their leader took money for Idahoans arrested in the original standoff with Clients Bundy.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/state/idaho/article104649526.html

edited 28th Sep '16 9:58:12 AM by sgamer82

Falrinn Since: Dec, 2014
#140807: Sep 28th 2016 at 9:57:59 AM

[up][up]Probably because it was nicknamed the "God Particle", though it's been awhile since I've heard it called that. Some people misinterpreted this as meaning the particle had anything at all to do with proving existence of God, which it did not.

Higgs, the actual person who first theorized the particle's existance, came to dislike the nickname because the completely bogus religious parallels the nickname created. I believe it was a publicist trying to come up with an attention-grabbing title who actually originated the term.

edited 28th Sep '16 9:58:25 AM by Falrinn

Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#140808: Sep 28th 2016 at 10:05:32 AM

They managed to agree on something enough to get the 2/3rds majority that takes? I'm shocked.

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#140809: Sep 28th 2016 at 10:15:13 AM

[up][up] I heard that the journalist who picked that name did in part because some of the scientists referred to it as the "goddamn" particle, since it was so hard to find, and decided the censored version sounded better.

BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#140810: Sep 28th 2016 at 10:22:57 AM

The idea that the entire world hates the US is popular amongst the ill informed and the knuckle headed,
I think there is a significantly large chunk of the world that hates the US. At least as much as most of us hate eating our vegetables. However, I also think that most countries don't care about their people's hatred of us enough to do something about it.
American culture likes to act like only vets get PTSD but that's simply not true, hell I only know one person with PTSD and they've never been in a military.
There are clear documented cases of people who experienced sexual assault, physical assault, kidnapping, all experiencing PTSD ... but in general, the media treats it as a veterans-only condition.
there are plenty of white people on welfare. Are the alt-right going to start acting racist towards them, too?
I know Boomerang Bigot is a thing, but I wouldn't count on it.
That and I'm in love with the sound of my own voice.
You have one of those webpage-reading-aloud apps in your own voice?
Fox News Pundit: Hillary Clinton wasn't attractive during the debate
Faux News wants Hillary to look like a GILFnote  during the debate while she kicks Trump in the ankles?
shallow political theater is as American as Vicodin and apple pie.
... I don't think my apple pie recipe calls for vicodin.
Ya'll need to get avatars
I second this motion.
this discussion about what the polls could not be seeing.
natesilver: I’m a big fan of the Pravda.ru poll, but it’s a little Trump-leaning. The raw numbers were 99-1 Trump, but our model adjusts it to 97-3.
[lol] I think it's pretty clear who Putin wants, alright.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#140811: Sep 28th 2016 at 10:39:24 AM

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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#140812: Sep 28th 2016 at 10:42:55 AM

It should be pointed out that when the Senate overrid Obama's veto, Reid was the only didsenter.

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nervmeister Since: Oct, 2010
#140813: Sep 28th 2016 at 11:01:00 AM

[up][up]Damn you, Adam! **sigh** Fine. Baseball and Vicodin, then.

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Keep Hope Alive
#140816: Sep 28th 2016 at 11:12:28 AM

According to that article from Huff Po, Trump cut off medical care to his nephew's infant son who suffered from seizures.

Why the hell isn't this more well known? I knew Trump was bad, but I didn't know he was that fricken' evil. I mean I can kind of understand being such a douchebag to people you don't care about or have any connection to. But your own flesh and blood? I would have liked to see how he would have responded to that during the debate.

edited 28th Sep '16 11:23:20 AM by Mr.Didact

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unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#140817: Sep 28th 2016 at 11:13:38 AM

"in general, the media treats it as a veterans-only condition."

I call that vet-fetish, something I saw a lot in US media is that vet seen to exist as huge rock start who kill bad guy and make america safe for whatever other people do, , after that they dont seen to exist, in the same vein PDTS is something that happen to poor soldier who kill a lot of bad guys, nothing else, nothing more

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
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#140818: Sep 28th 2016 at 11:25:56 AM

Saudi-Arabia has been stepping on enough toes - the Yemen war, the Iran scuffles, the nebulous relationships between Saudi citizens and Islamic fundamentalism - that it's no surprise such a bill would pass.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#140819: Sep 28th 2016 at 11:27:01 AM

[up][up][up]I mean, I thought the fact that he something that I struggle to find a word more accurate for than 'evil' was pretty common knowledge.

edited 28th Sep '16 11:27:09 AM by Gilphon

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United Earth
#140820: Sep 28th 2016 at 11:28:20 AM

[up][up][up]American Sniper?

[up]No, Trump is about as evil as it gets without actively murdering people. And I certainly wouldn't put it past him.

edited 28th Sep '16 11:29:50 AM by TheHandle

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Lost in Space
#140821: Sep 28th 2016 at 11:35:02 AM

His ideas on economics, race, and war certainly kill lots of people indirectly, but if you were to issue indictments for such things, they'd have to apply to large swathes of our business and political leadership.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#140822: Sep 28th 2016 at 11:39:16 AM

[up][up]

And I certainly wouldn't put it past him.

You wouldn't put it past Trump to attempt to murder Clinton during a debatenote ?

Keep Rolling On
nervmeister Since: Oct, 2010
#140823: Sep 28th 2016 at 11:42:17 AM

I mean, I thought the fact that he something that I struggle to find a word more accurate for than 'evil' was pretty common knowledge.
In the interest of staying Above Good and Evil, I'm going to go with "self-serving" as my descriptor of choice - with a dash of "conceited" thrown in. Also he has relative Lack of Empathy, though I'm not sure if he's technically a sociopath.

edited 28th Sep '16 11:58:10 AM by nervmeister

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#140824: Sep 28th 2016 at 11:43:19 AM

[up][up][up][up]Pretty much, he kill horrible muslim to protect america, everything else dosent exist and dosent really need too

Also is the narrative of "if you dont fight your problem in awsome way, them your problem arent real" many people dismiss thing if they didnt show how is "suposed" to mean, a vet strugling with PTDS? understandable, a women or minority have it for whatever other reason? whinner.

edited 28th Sep '16 11:44:04 AM by unknowing

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#140825: Sep 28th 2016 at 11:58:53 AM

But no seriously, deets. The fuck does the higgs boson have to do with objective morality

His logic was that science worked for years on physics, trying to perfect our understanding of it, and something was missing until we theorized and discovered the Higgs-Boson. It was always a part of the world, we just couldn't understand the whole picture until we discovered it.

Thus, in the same way, morality is a physical objective law of the universe and we are merely discovering it piece by piece as we go along.

It's the tortured mental gymnastics of a person creating logical chains from a preconceived conclusion rather than deriving conclusions from a chain of logic.

Shit like this almost makes me believe in Karma.

Delicious irony

Oh my god, that's great. [lol] With the debate behind us, I really feel much more confident in Hillary's impending Presidency than I have in a while.

edited 28th Sep '16 12:00:40 PM by TobiasDrake

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