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Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#169551: Jan 25th 2017 at 3:58:26 PM

On a more serious note, for fellow Californians, at the rate things are going, "The Big One" will finally hit too.

And it would be the exact kind of crisis that Republicans will exploit for their own gain, and use to thoroughly eradicate any means of opposition or resistance.

So I would take disaster preparation very seriously. Or develop the ability to simply get out. Family, a job, study abroad, anything.

Journeyman Overlording the Underworld from On a throne in a vault overlooking the Wasteland Since: Nov, 2010
Overlording the Underworld
#169552: Jan 25th 2017 at 3:59:01 PM

[up][up][up][up]High five. Not the only one going Fallout here.

We need humor. I need humor. Can't drink because of health problems. Haven't been gaming nearly as much since Trump started since I need to save the source of my games before I can consider devoting whole days to them again. Which isn't likely, but I did get a few hours of Crusader Kings 2 in in between posts here and chatting with others.

The good fight has its own rewards. At least I'm doing something about this stuff instead of sitting on my ass being one of the mediocre shits like I used to.

edited 25th Jan '17 4:00:06 PM by Journeyman

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#169553: Jan 25th 2017 at 3:59:14 PM

Next up, Trump finances research into earthquake machine, because he wasn't enough of a cartoon villain already.

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#169554: Jan 25th 2017 at 4:01:17 PM

In the event of societal collapse, gold will become worthless. Gold has relatively little intrinsic value and was basically fiat currency all along.

Buy things of practical value, like canned goods, tools, energy (batteries, gasoline, ect), toilet paper, ammunition.

@Big Earthquake: Damn. Big Earthquake? This is sounding oddly biblical. Can the rapture happen already, please?

edited 25th Jan '17 4:02:37 PM by Protagonist506

Leviticus 19:34
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#169555: Jan 25th 2017 at 4:05:36 PM

bin Laden has to be rolling in his grave. Motherfucker lost the battle but won the war

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Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#169557: Jan 25th 2017 at 4:06:53 PM

I've been living here in California for more than 10 years, and have rarely experienced earthquakes, so I'm not too alarmed by that. Also, Yellowstone could erupt, which would take out the Republicans... as well as most of the rest of North America and probably parts of South America, Europe, and Russia.

edited 25th Jan '17 4:14:42 PM by Bat178

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#169558: Jan 25th 2017 at 4:13:02 PM

What the conservative voter base wants, of course, is their manufacturing jobs back. Starting a nuclear armageddon is somewhat incompatible with that.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
RabidTanker God-Mayor of Sim-Kind Since: May, 2014 Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
God-Mayor of Sim-Kind
#169559: Jan 25th 2017 at 4:14:13 PM

[up]: I can also vouch that California doesn't get an lot of strong quakes too. But I blame the one that burnt San Francisco for giving the state it's reputation.

And about Trump bringing Fallout X to life, aren't there bureaucratic safeguards to prevent him from launching nuclear ICB Ms at the push of an button?

Answer no master, never the slave Carry your dreams down into the grave Every heart, like every soul, equal to break
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#169560: Jan 25th 2017 at 4:15:21 PM

They were never getting their jobs back anyways. I can only hope that enough of them realize Trump and his cabal are just gonna make things worse for them.

Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#169561: Jan 25th 2017 at 4:19:10 PM

[up][up]I've lived in California for my whole life, so I've seen my share of mild ones as well. But it's not about the number of quakes, but the potential intensity of just one.

I'm not gonna get hysterical about it. Just want people to take proper precautions.

[up]That's going to be significantly harder when Trump succeeds at making the lives of the people they hate even worse than their own. Because then their lives are better by default.

edited 25th Jan '17 4:20:10 PM by Eschaton

Journeyman Overlording the Underworld from On a throne in a vault overlooking the Wasteland Since: Nov, 2010
Overlording the Underworld
#169562: Jan 25th 2017 at 4:20:32 PM

There's no incentive to give them their jobs back anyway. Machines do things quicker, safer, cheaper. If they break you just fix or replace them. They don't complain, they don't ask for more (except when they're wearing out and you have to put more maintenance work into them to keep them going) and they don't join unions to bring you to your knees when you're keeping too much money and not giving enough to them.

The only win in using humans hinges on the current market system where you're selling a product. If the Republicans switch their thinking from sales to accomplishment instead, then the workforce either learns computer jobs and stays out of the way of the "Great Ones" or they get smashed into tiny bits.

I honestly think big business always wanted to veer towards an accomplishment focus instead of sales. They just didn't have the sort of economy or political power they could use to get it.

Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#169563: Jan 25th 2017 at 4:24:51 PM

[up][up] Nuclear war and destruction of Net Neutrality are bigger worries to me than earthquakes.

MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#169564: Jan 25th 2017 at 4:32:45 PM

That fear of dying in nuclear fire has caused me to wake up early each morning the last few days and freak out whenever a plane or jet flies overhead (Which is quite often over here)
What a coincidence, I too had a similar bout this morning. Mere minutes from waking up, while I was still turning around in my bed and debating with myself over the pros and cons of getting up now and delaying that, a couple of commercial jets decided to fly over my area a lot lower than they usually do (and probably violating some air traffic regulations). The sound was not one I was that familiar with, and so I went from half-sleep to panicking on mental overdrive as I tried to figure out whether I was hearing a plane or an Iranian ballistic missile. Thankfully my frightened confusion lasted for only the half a minute it took for the planes' sounds to fade away.

But dammit, for a second I thought I was either going to die or will have to fight for my life in a ruined city!

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#169565: Jan 25th 2017 at 4:32:46 PM

Well, there's not a whole lot an individual can do when it comes to nukes and quakes.

Net Neutrality, on the other hand, is something citizens can and should rally around, as they did before.

rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#169566: Jan 25th 2017 at 4:34:38 PM

Right now they've got Kellyanne Conway talking jobs.

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
Journeyman Overlording the Underworld from On a throne in a vault overlooking the Wasteland Since: Nov, 2010
Overlording the Underworld
#169567: Jan 25th 2017 at 4:38:00 PM

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13103447000A18674100&page=6780#169488

If you're worried about Net Neutrality, that's a good place to start. Put it in your own words or add to it as you see fit and slam something like it into an email to each of your representatives. I stay away from mentioning protests on these things because saying that sort of thing is likely to tweak anyone in office who can stand Trump.

Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#169568: Jan 25th 2017 at 4:43:25 PM

[up] I'm already in California which would be almost 100% pro-Net Neutrality anyways, especially since most of the big businesses that rely on it are from here.

edited 25th Jan '17 4:44:18 PM by Bat178

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#169569: Jan 25th 2017 at 4:49:28 PM

So guys, want to know what Trump's proof for fraud is?

Non-citizen couldn't vote while suspect Hispanics could

Mr. Trump kicked off the meeting, participants said, by retelling his debunked claim that he would have won the popular vote if not for the three million to five million ballots cast by “illegals.” He followed it up with a Twitter post early Wednesday calling for a major investigation into voter fraud.

When one of the Democrats protested, Mr. Trump said he was told a story by “the very famous golfer, Bernhard Langer,” whom he described as a friend, according to three staff members who were in the room for the meeting.

The three witnesses recall the story this way: Mr. Langer, a 59-year-old native of Bavaria, Germany — a winner of the Masters twice and of more than 100 events on major professional golf tours around the world — was standing in line at a polling place near his home in Florida on Election Day, the president explained, when an official informed Mr. Langer he would not be able to vote.

Ahead of and behind Mr. Langer were voters who did not look as if they should be allowed to vote, Mr. Trump said, according to the staff members — but they were nonetheless permitted to cast provisional ballots. The president threw out the names of Latin American countries that the voters might have come from.

Not even hiding it.

lmfao

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FluffyMcChicken My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare from where the floating lights gleam Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare
#169570: Jan 25th 2017 at 4:50:19 PM

Washington Post: D.C., other ‘sanctuary cities’ defiant in the face of Trump’s threats

The comments section is stuffed to the brim with "The government is only enforcing the law" and ". . . but they're still illegal immigrants amirite?"

Anyone got any tips on how to respond to that tactic in a face-to-face conversation?

PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#169572: Jan 25th 2017 at 4:54:31 PM

[up][up] You shouldn't be reading comments on articles/videos relating to politics anyways.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#169573: Jan 25th 2017 at 4:58:16 PM

[up][up][up]How can you tell an illegal from a legal one by looking?

Would you rather I presume you're guilty of being a criminal without evidence based on your looks alone?

The government was just enforcing the law at Ruby Ridge and Waco too, were they right to do it?

Drying the funds for those cities also harms US born citizens regardless of their heritage

The US was founded by immigrants and immigration has been a net positive in the US society and economy Okay they won't listen to this one though.

Collective punishment for citizens who stand for their beliefs is Un-American.

If you think that immigration is a problem, then you should knock on the door of the big business that hire them in the first place

If you don't want to work the jobs the immigrants do, then don't complain about them picking up the tab

Unlike Fox News told you, illegal immigrants can't enjoy things like the ACA or Obamacare as you know it, the EBT and many job and securities you do, so they aren't a drain in those resources

edited 25th Jan '17 5:01:52 PM by AngelusNox

Inter arma enim silent leges
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#169574: Jan 25th 2017 at 5:03:52 PM

How can you tell an illegal from a legal one by looking?

Would you rather I presume you're guilty of being a criminal without evidence based on your looks alone?

These are the first things that come to mind.

Like you can't be Trump and make up a bullshit statistic about how many illegal immigrants there are in the country (or to be more specific, that the people who voted for him are obviously illegal so they don't count), that's the sort of thing that's tough to gather data on and needs some very rigorous research to make claims about.

Likewise unless there is very rigorous evidence about voter fraud it is not wise to assume it is going on just because you feel threatened about the people who are voting against you.

edited 25th Jan '17 5:07:12 PM by Draghinazzo

AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#169575: Jan 25th 2017 at 5:09:34 PM

Ok so I skipped like fifteen pages. Doesn't seem like I missed much, though, because it you guys appear to be talking exactly about what I heard on the news already.


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