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Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Fri Jan 20, 2017 4:11 pm
by rublev
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Wed Jan 25, 2017 6:01 pm
by rublev
i'm not sure i was prepared for it to be this bad only a few days in
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:50 pm
by swampblood
Welp this has been an incredibly demoralizing couple of weeks to start working on the Hill. I've been trying to work through empathizing with some Trump voters while not showing solidarity with the man or his policies, but in all honesty this first couple of days just has me seething. The gag order placed on the EPA & National Park Service staff is particularly egregious. Our phones literally haven't stop ringing as these confirmations happen, still holding out hope that DeVos doesn't make it through but I'm really not sure.
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Sat Jan 28, 2017 3:57 pm
by CheerUpBrokeBoy
trump's a repulsive pig but obama deliberately killed a 16-year-old american citizen with a drone strike so are things really gonna get worse or is the shit just more transparently shitty now
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Sat Jan 28, 2017 5:03 pm
by odradek
things are actually worse.
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Sat Jan 28, 2017 6:40 pm
by swampblood
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Sun Jan 29, 2017 9:22 am
by rublev
hehehe
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Sun Jan 29, 2017 9:57 am
by rublev
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Sun Jan 29, 2017 3:51 pm
by rjbman
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Mon Jan 30, 2017 3:41 pm
by Ques
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Mon Jan 30, 2017 4:27 pm
by rjbman
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Mon Jan 30, 2017 8:11 pm
by CheerUpBrokeBoy
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Tue Jan 31, 2017 1:59 am
by BobbyZamora
Just dropping in to mention the fact that the guy who shot up a Mosque here in Canada, killing 6 people and wounding 8, was a trump supporter who frequented alt-right forums on the internet.
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Tue Jan 31, 2017 3:30 pm
by rublev
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Wed Feb 01, 2017 5:53 pm
by rublev
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Fri Feb 03, 2017 11:51 pm
by ramseames
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Tue Feb 07, 2017 2:01 am
by BobbyZamora
I haven't heard anyone here mention the fact that Trump is reviving the Dakota Access pipeline
So as a reminder, this is what happens when militarized police throw a flashbang at your arm while you are protesting the pipeline:
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Tue Feb 07, 2017 8:45 am
by pirxthepilot
pwc lols @ bela's 10 year uncertainty and goes full futurologist. srsly if we are ever going to make money out of report on teen consumption patterns in 2050 the time is now
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... -brexit-us
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Tue Feb 07, 2017 9:53 am
by bels
I thought you said pwvc and thought there was a futurist ventile collection in boring colours incoming
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Tue Feb 07, 2017 11:11 am
by rublev
i'm ready
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Tue Feb 07, 2017 11:16 am
by vgtbls
The teen consumption patterns I'm most interested in are the inevitable rise of drug-resistant juvenile tuberculosis
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Mon Feb 13, 2017 4:32 pm
by rjbman
- something fucked up going on with the Sandusky clan. Either they're both just horrific deviants or Jerry Sandusky abused his son.
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Tue Feb 14, 2017 8:58 am
by wolflarsen
. Flynn sets a record when it comes to shortest tenure here, but will this be some sort of major defeat/hurdle for the administration? From what the last two years have shown, probably not. Maybe another think piece will do the job though?
When it comes to neoliberal democracy, institutions trump (no pun intended) individuals. The current US administration is heralded as the death knell for the neoliberal age, but it was granted power/is shielded by that same political philosophy.
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Tue Feb 14, 2017 12:45 pm
by rublev
trump's national security apparatus is a disaster. i think we need wait for the rest of the investigations re russia and the new administration to run their course. flynn will be the short term fall guy for a potentially compromised administration. with his IC history / record, i still can't get over how stupid he was to have made that phone call - he would have know it would be recorded. presumedly trump knew about it. peskov is giving a 'no comment' to all questions flynn related. i'm surprised by the level of discomfort in the kremlin / state media over the resignation.
btw, most criticism i've read of trump has been less chomsky dialect / ' end of neoliberal age' (???), and more centred around his attacks on the independent media and judiciary, his disregard for checks and balances, his nativist agenda smuggled in under the guise of 'law and order' and his general apathy towards the US role of 'balancing' (europe, east asia etc). i'd imagine everyone would be concerned about those
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Wed Feb 15, 2017 8:06 pm
by rublev
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Wed Feb 15, 2017 9:35 pm
by deadirishwriters
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Fri Feb 24, 2017 4:16 pm
by rjbman
Characteristics of Facism:
#6 Controlled Mass Media: check
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Sun Feb 26, 2017 8:24 pm
by rublev
3 years ago today russia's little green men began to seize crimea
it's quite interesting to BBC reports from 2014 again
also worth binge watching simon ostrovsky's vice news dispatches from on the ground which really were A+ (and addictive)
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Wed Mar 01, 2017 10:23 pm
by rublev
Re: News/Current Events, discussion (Bullets, Ballots & Bomb
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Thu Mar 09, 2017 7:51 pm
by rublev
what a correction