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IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#169926: Jan 26th 2017 at 4:27:33 PM

@Viper: You might be right. I'm scared to know if you are.

Beer company Corona made a freaking great anti-Trump ad (in Spanish, with English subtitles available in the settings).

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#169927: Jan 26th 2017 at 4:32:07 PM

The author of the voter fraud study Trump is using like a drunk uses a lamp post says that his research is being misinterpreted to reach a conclusion not in the study and unsupported by anyone who worked on it.

Oh, and according to him, even with the actual non-citizen voter percentages used, Hillary would have won the popular vote among citizens alone anyway.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
RBluefish Since: Nov, 2013
#169928: Jan 26th 2017 at 4:34:29 PM

Doesn't matter, unfortunately. The facts don't matter, only the narrative that allows them to further rig future elections.

Still good to see him speaking out, though. Anything we can try to use to undermine this lie.

edited 26th Jan '17 4:35:01 PM by RBluefish

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#169929: Jan 26th 2017 at 4:34:58 PM

"Strapping young bucks" sounds very complimentary and a tad archaic, like something one would say about a cricket team, not gangbangers.

edited 26th Jan '17 4:35:22 PM by TheHandle

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#169930: Jan 26th 2017 at 4:37:18 PM

[up] 'Twas an overt call-out to slave auctions, where the physical health and strength of the males was the prime selling point.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
SilentColossus (Don’t ask)
#169931: Jan 26th 2017 at 4:38:28 PM

"Buck" was also a term used to describe male slaves in the American South.

[nja]

edited 26th Jan '17 4:38:41 PM by SilentColossus

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#169932: Jan 26th 2017 at 4:38:37 PM

Holy shit. These people are sick.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#169933: Jan 26th 2017 at 4:38:58 PM

One thing I'm beginning to expect is a whole lot of businesses to go the way of Burger King and perform corporate inversions where they switch their head offices to one of their international subsidiaries. If they do that, they will be affected by the tariffs, but it would be nearly impossible for Trump to attack them directly.

I'm guessing that a chunk of Hollywood is going to eventually try to invert to Vancouver or Toronto, because pretty much every big Hollywood company has a significant presence there.

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#169934: Jan 26th 2017 at 4:40:24 PM

[up] Very unlikely, given that there's also going to be massive corporate tax cuts and deregulation; this particular plan is actually coming from Paul Ryan, and it's a rather clever, populist sounding way to give the US a vastly more regressive tax system being couched in a manner that's intended to appease Trump's base.

edited 26th Jan '17 4:41:08 PM by CaptainCapsase

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#169935: Jan 26th 2017 at 4:41:26 PM

[up][up]That would be hilarious and sad. The USA undergoing massive brain drain. The Trump era will be known as the Unfunny Aneurysm.

edited 26th Jan '17 4:42:00 PM by TheHandle

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#169936: Jan 26th 2017 at 4:41:56 PM

Popular Mechanics on what infrastructure issues in each of the 50 states should be focused on.

But we need to do something about our hate boner for brown people first! Won't anyone think of the poor unsatisfied hate boners!

edited 26th Jan '17 4:42:24 PM by Krieger22

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#169937: Jan 26th 2017 at 4:47:10 PM

I might be misrembering, but I think Reagan's wording was specifically "strapping young bucks treating themselves to t-bone steaks with their food stamps" or something.

And while I have to admit I'm not familiar with how food stamps work in the US I'm inclined to believe you're not going to get high-quality meat from them.

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#169938: Jan 26th 2017 at 4:50:23 PM

You can use them to buy fresh, still has to be prepared, food at the grocery store. That's basically it. Technically you might be able to buy a nice steak at the grocery store, but you'd still have to prepare it and you wouldn't have many food stamps left over.

edited 26th Jan '17 4:50:55 PM by Zendervai

Wildcard Since: Jun, 2012
#169939: Jan 26th 2017 at 4:52:02 PM

[up][up]Pretty much. Regan lied about a particular case to sweeten the deal. Also, they use any evidence they can "Look that guy has a single luxury!" "Look I bet he has a fridge in his house, must have stolen it!" The baby boomers were dumb enough to believe those lies and we all suffer the consequences.

edited 26th Jan '17 4:52:27 PM by Wildcard

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#169940: Jan 26th 2017 at 4:54:57 PM

Part of the message was that blacks were taking the welfare money they were getting and having kids and buying luxuries while the honest, hard-working whites were having to do with less and less. It was blatantly false, never mind because whites did (and still do today) receive a larger share of welfare money than blacks; indeed, studies of families in poverty indicate that if anyone's more likely to be sitting around the house collecting government checks and not looking for work, it's white people.

And drug use is higher among whites, too.

Undoubtedly, some of the obsession with minority moochers is projection: having unconsciously absorbed the pervasive societal messages that blacks are less moral and less intelligent than whites, and knowing that they would cheat on welfare and slack off while getting government money, it was easy to decide that minorities must do it even more.

edited 26th Jan '17 4:58:40 PM by Fighteer

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Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#169941: Jan 26th 2017 at 4:59:27 PM

Given that today I believe it's done with a sort of debit card...With the price of beef how it is today, you might get hamburger once a week or cheaper steak on sale for a special occasion.

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#169942: Jan 26th 2017 at 5:08:10 PM

There was actually a news story from a couple years ago (from Fox, where else) where the reporter was absolutely shocked that an apartment in a tenement for people with very low income had a refrigerator. And the person living there said that it came with the apartment, and even pointed out that people don't usually take the refrigerator with them when they move. This was in New Mexico.

The idea that a fridge is a luxury good is insane, especially in an environment where it never gets cold on a long-term basis. But a lot of people think it is, for some reason.

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#169943: Jan 26th 2017 at 5:09:30 PM

"knowing that they would cheat on welfare and slack off while getting government money, it was easy to decide that minorities must do it even more."

no, you see, when it happen to white people, is never welfare is just "helping" good,honest american(which seen to mean....dunno, whatever one want it mean it) there some real sense of entitlement here

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#169944: Jan 26th 2017 at 5:15:37 PM

Listen up anyone who isn't American even if you don't live in America. Your privacy is no longer digitally protected:

With a stroke of his pen, the president just potentially invalidated a transcontinental data flow agreement between the US and EU which took years to negotiate.

The US-EU Data Shield agreement is an authorization framework which enables companies to transfer the personal data of Europeans to the US while ensuring that the companies operate within compliance of Europe's more stringent privacy laws. It effectively ensured that a European's personal data — that is, any personal data originating from the EU, not just that of EU citizens — would be protected to the standards that the EU demands whether the data is sitting on a server in Paris, France or Paris, Texas.

More than 1,500 companies including Apple, Google and Microsoft had agreed to abide by the Data Shield agreement, which requires the US Department of Commerce to ensure that American companies are operating in compliance. It took the place of the earlier Safe Harbor agreement, which the European Court of Justice ruled ineffective and invalid after the Snowden leaks came to light in 2013.

This agreement — as well as the legal ability for US companies to serve European customers — in now in very real danger of unravelling. And it's all thanks to an Executive Order that Trump signed earlier this week. Specifically, it's Section 14, which reads:

Privacy Act. Agencies shall, to the extent consistent with applicable law, ensure that their privacy policies exclude persons who are not United States citizens or lawful permanent residents from the protections of the Privacy Act regarding personally identifiable information. Enforcing privacy policies that specifically "exclude persons who are not United States citizens or lawful permanent residents," while aimed at enhancing domestic immigration laws, effectively invalidates America's part of the Data Shield agreement, opens the current administration up to sanctions by the EU and could lead our allies across the Atlantic to suspend the agreement outright.

.@EU_Commission : If adequacy is no longer guaranteed, we will have to suspend the #Privacy Shield #cpdp2017

— Laura Kayali (@Lau Kaya) January 25, 2017 If that happens, things are going to get really uncomfortable for US companies trying to do digital business in the EU. Without that authorization framework in place, these companies will be forced to operate in a legal grey zone making it far more difficult for them to serve their European clients.

edited 26th Jan '17 5:16:23 PM by MadSkillz

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#169945: Jan 26th 2017 at 5:19:52 PM

My Rights under Privacy Shield

Among other requirements, a participating organization must provide you:

Information on the types of personal data collected Information on the purposes of collection and use Information on the type or identity of third parties to which your personal data is disclosed Choices for limiting use and disclosure of your personal data Access to your personal data Notification of the organization’s liability if it transfers your personal data Notification of the requirement to disclose your personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities Reasonable and appropriate security for your personal data A response to your complaint within 45 days Cost-free independent dispute resolution to address your data protection concerns The ability to invoke binding arbitration to address any complaint that the organization has violated its obligations under the Principles to you and that has not been resolved by other means

Basically this is all being cancelled for non-Americans.

edited 26th Jan '17 5:21:24 PM by MadSkillz

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#169946: Jan 26th 2017 at 5:20:25 PM

Fuck.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#169947: Jan 26th 2017 at 5:28:09 PM

I mean, I don;t have much to hide but...fuck Trump, fuck his party, and fuck his voters.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
fruitpork Since: Oct, 2010
#169948: Jan 26th 2017 at 5:35:56 PM

In somewhat decent news, bannon has received a complaint from the FBI.

Wryte Since: Jul, 2010
#169949: Jan 26th 2017 at 5:43:30 PM

no, you see, when it happen to white people, is never welfare is just "helping" good,honest american(which seen to mean....dunno, whatever one want it mean it) there some real sense of entitlement here

If you give a Republican a cookie, they'll insist they baked it themself.

If you provide the Republican with documented evidence that you baked the cookie, they'll accuse you of trying to steal their cookie.

If you inform the Republican that you give cookies to everyone, they'll introduce legislation to take away everyone else's cookies.

And then they'll want you to pay for a glass of milk to go with it.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job

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