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Bernie is winning the nomination race and here's whyFollow

#452 Apr 27 2016 at 5:45 AM Rating: Good
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The establishment has rigged this election, but despite that, Bernie's going to come from behind and beat that dino, Hillary.
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#453 Apr 27 2016 at 7:19 AM Rating: Excellent
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Don't discount the chance that Hilary could get hit by a comet, or a sharknado!
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#454 Apr 27 2016 at 8:23 AM Rating: Good
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Well, probably that there aren't enough liberals and the populist vote has been structurally disenfranchised. Both true, but indicative on our general stance on minority rule in America; That we definitely want it, but definitely don't want the be on the out of power majority.
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#455 Apr 27 2016 at 8:54 AM Rating: Excellent
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Timelordwho wrote:
Well, probably that there aren't enough liberals and the populist vote has been structurally disenfranchised.

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#456 Apr 27 2016 at 9:13 AM Rating: Good
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Well, probably that there aren't enough liberals and the populist vote has been structurally disenfranchised.

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Out of the pool of Democrats, Liberals, Greens (the ones who don't protest vote) and Independents trend toward Sanders. Moderates and conservatives trend toward Hilary. Democrats are around 52% of general pop. Therefore, the % of Liberals is too low given the current electoral structure, to compensate for not being the only talking economic populism (as there is no party for that sect, they won't bloc vote)

This seems fairly obvious to me, so I don't get the eye rolls.
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I was referring more to the disenfranchisement.
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#458 Apr 27 2016 at 10:04 AM Rating: Good
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Liberals aren't disenfranchised. Populists are. No major party is really aligned with them; with education level, social class, and culture being the dominant divisor. Therefore, their power in 2 party FPTP is massively underrepresented.

Protectionism is a prime motivator, but no moderate force is really banging that drum.

I don't like their current trade schema for enacting this, but then again I don't primarily identify with them, I'd just like to use them to get my guys elected like everyone else.
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Fair enough. My apologies, I thought it was another "Clinton is rigging the election" Sanders-supporter gripe. Hence my eye-roll.

Cruz is set to make a "major announcement" and Fiorina has been spotted in Indianapolis. Guess the plan is to create some sort of unlikable singularity with her as VP.
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...how...what...please don't agree with me like that...

Free market? Competing schools? Lowering demand for education?

These are children we're trying to teach not ******* commodities...
#461 Apr 27 2016 at 3:20 PM Rating: Decent
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Commercial. Bernie takes Rhode Island and picks up five delegates, really closing that gap. MAYBE HE STILL HAS A CHANCE?!

Clinton only won +76 delegates over Sanders. Sanders can still pull this off if he wins 115% in California.


Don't discount the chance that Hilary could get hit by a comet, or a sharknado!


Or, you know, get indicted. Would be interesting to see if the DNC picks someone else, or if the masses demand Sanders in that case.
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#462 Apr 27 2016 at 3:23 PM Rating: Good
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Or, you know, get indicted.
TLW was suggesting possible scenarios.
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Gbaji's just salty about Trump being the presumptive standard bearer for the Republican party.
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#464 Apr 27 2016 at 5:07 PM Rating: Default
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Uglysasquatch wrote:
The establishment has rigged this election, but despite that, Bernie's going to come from behind and beat that dino, Hillary.


The funny thing is that these people weren't complaining about the system being rigged when she lost in 2008 by the same system.
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Well, they were ten years old at the time.
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>Or, you know, get indicted.

For what? Does it have something to do with the Obama birth certificate SCOTUS case?
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#467 Apr 27 2016 at 7:36 PM Rating: Good
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>Or, you know, get indicted.

For what? Does it have something to do with the Obama birth certificate SCOTUS case?
Don't be silly. It would be for letting embassy folks get murdered because that commie skank hates freedom.


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...how...what...please don't agree with me like that...


Tricksy, I know...

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Free market? Competing schools? Lowering demand for education?


More "let's not artificially increase demand". What we're doing right now is treating education like we're selling them cars.

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These are children we're trying to teach not ******* commodities...


Um... Isn't that what's happening right now? It's already a market driven process. I'm just suggesting that we recognize that fact and actually stop artificially manipulating that market in ways that harm the consumer.

And no. The kids are not the commodities. The education is. The kids are the consumers of that commodity. And right now, we're handing out a lot of lemons, while charging top rate.
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>Or, you know, get indicted.

For what? Does it have something to do with the Obama birth certificate SCOTUS case?
Don't be silly. It would be for letting embassy folks get murdered because that commie skank hates freedom.


Or, I don't know, maybe for knowingly illegally mishandling classified materials? Then lying about it? Obstruction of justice? There's a silly number of charges that could (and in a sane world would) be leveled at her. I'm sure she wont be, but not because she didn't violate the law, but because she's too prominent a (Democrat) politician to indict. So I guess "corrupt legal system" is what's we're all assuming here.
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The kids are the consumers of that commodity. And right now, we're handing out a lot of lemons, while charging top rate.
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So I guess "corrupt legal system" is what's we're all assuming here.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I present exhibit A.
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So I guess "corrupt legal system" is what's we're all assuming here.

If it's OK for Cheney and his Halliburton shennanigans, it's OK for Hillary.

comme ci comme ça, as the French say.
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she's too prominent a (Democrat) politician to indict
Are the Republicans really that impotent that if a Democrat breaks a law, they cant get charges brought on them?
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Apparently there's been a lot of issues with coordinators and supplies and ballots and such in some areas. The voting stations in our vehicle bay went without a hitch, except the part where parents apparently think the recruiting offices upstairs double as temporary daycare.


Are you a recruiting officer or aren't you? I would've dragooned that kid in a ******* snap, he'd be hugging his cuddly cow toy and crying for his mum in some god-forsaken desert within the week.

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Conversely hearing "why do we need to learn this?" followed by a teacher giving a contrived half-answer is something that was all too familiar in my schooling.


I wanted to smack the guy asking that question in school. I don't know, why would you possibly need to learn Pythagoras' theorem? What use might you possibly have for basic geometry?

The only proper answers to that question are: a) Because it's on the syllabus, you little git; b) Because your ignorance disgusts me.
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#475 Apr 28 2016 at 8:34 AM Rating: Good
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gbaji wrote:
she's too prominent a (Democrat) politician to indict
Are the Republicans really that impotent that if a Democrat breaks a law, they cant get charges brought on them?
Obviously either what everyone logically and reasonably wants happens or they were tricked out of what they logically and reasonably wanted.
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I would've dragooned that kid in a ******* snap, he'd be hugging his cuddly cow toy and crying for his mum in some god-forsaken desert within the week.
We already have our quota of whiny children filled to capacity.

Edited, Apr 28th 2016 10:35am by lolgaxe
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"Why do we need to learn this?" is sort of a dumb question anyway. The answer is because the school's job is to give students a wide range of knowledge in different subjects so they can have the foundation to pick a specific area later in life to focus on. So a chemist may not need to know about Hadrian's Wall and an archeologist may not need to know about covalent bonds but it's the school's job to teach you a little of each so you don't enter college with a remedial understanding of history and chemistry.

Besides which, surly 14 year olds probably aren't the best judges of what academic skills they'll need when they are 30.
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