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"You know, it’s a valid question. And it deserves an answer. So I crunched the numbers. And it turns out 1,776 more people have to die in this country before we do something about it. But there’s a caveat: it’s not cumulative. Has to be all at once.” - David Cross
edited 28th Sep '16 12:17:19 PM by Lennik
That's right, boys. Mondo cool.LAWD HAVE MERCY!!!!
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edited 28th Sep '16 1:03:39 PM by TacticalFox88
New Survey coming this weekend!If it was anyone other than Trump, I'd be amazed that he hasn't hired coaches yet.
Not sure if this has been brought up yet, but the FBI is worried that the phones of Democratic staffers may have been hacked.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/27/politics/fbi-dnc-hack/index.html
edited 28th Sep '16 1:12:06 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.After dealing with my insurance company for two days now, trying to pick up my insulin, and all the talk about mental health here, I think it's fair to say our healthcare system in the United States is atrocious. I should not need to jump through hoops in order to pick up a substance that I will literally die without, and I'm actually in a very lucky position. If I were homeless or impoverished with my Type 1 diabetes I'd probably be screwed.
Insurance companies are basically carrion eaters; they make money off of other people's suffering.
edited 28th Sep '16 1:29:42 PM by randomdude4
"Can't make an omelette without breaking some children." -BurEveryone except possibly our politicians. Or maybe they just don't care.
Meanwhile, Trump's asskissing of Russia pisses me off more than ever now, for personal reasons. My Instagram (I never actually used it; I just signed up a few years ago out of curiosity) suddenly received a hack attempt apparently every 15 minutes (if the "did you forget your Instagram password?" e-mails are anything to go by) until 4 PM when they miraculously stopped. I changed the password at some point during that time. Today? It just got hacked. An e-mail told me that the e-mail address of my Instagram account was changed to some random Russian firstname.lastname@somethingrussian.ru address.
To add injury to insult, my fucking Yahoo e-mail, which I do use, like, all the time, got hacked as well and I had to use my phone to reset it.
Not saying I want a war with Russia over this, but if we can prove that this is state-sponsored stuff, what are we going to do about it? We didn't do shit against China when they were proven to have tried to hack Google back in 2010! China is still our "friend".
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Sorry if I said something stupid. I was just griping about my own personal problems with it I suppose. It just feels like there's no clean fix with it either because every change towards any policy comes with positives and negatives, and I'm sure there's some unforeseen consequence that would make things really bad for a bit after reforming the system, which in of itself will take a very very long time.
I also seem to have the same effect on this thread that a concrete wall would have on a speeding car.
edited 28th Sep '16 2:55:32 PM by randomdude4
"Can't make an omelette without breaking some children." -Burhttps://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/781234111272804357
No.
NOOOO.
WHY?!
Wake the fuck up, Americans and VOTE. He's not even hiding it, anymore. Palpatine was more subtle than this
New Survey coming this weekend!One of the polls doesn't exist. The others he claimed to have won were all online polls that had no statistical validity, because they didn't vet respondents and you could vote as many times as you wanted.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Hearing the conspiracy theories about Lester Holt is kind of hilarious.
A woman is going to be judged for her looks more than a male candidate, or at least in a different way. That's just the way it is.
Some of us women probably do it ourselves to each other.
edited 28th Sep '16 3:27:35 PM by BearyScary
Do not obey in advance.Some of you do. Internal categorism is a thing.
But yes, one of the ways we know that Patriarchal values still hold sway over America is the fact that even when vying for President of the United States, one of the biggest questions questions that people have about a powerful, influential woman is, "How happy does she make my boner?"
edited 28th Sep '16 3:30:11 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Because he's not a career politician, which is a profession that a lot of people feel has become synonymous with dishonesty.
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I know right? The amount of cognitive dissonance in Trump supporters is just pure insanity.
edited 28th Sep '16 3:46:33 PM by randomdude4
"Can't make an omelette without breaking some children." -Bur

There was a shooting at a South Carolina elementary school, at least two students have been shot (one was airlifted to hospital) and the shooter was detained.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/28/us/south-carolina-elementary-school-shooting/index.html
What will it take for American politicians to actually take action on this? Hundreds being massacred at once?
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.