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QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Sep 16, 2016 -> 02:35 PM) LOL Keith said this same thing to you last week and you completely ignored the post. Not to greg specifically but yeah, that is basically exactly the same thing as what I said.

I literally don't give a f*** about what Hillary Clinton's position on gay marriage was before even 5 minutes ago. It doesn't matter.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Sep 16, 2016 -> 12:58 PM) I'm not comparing the stupidity of the underlying original position or the severity in which either person believed in their original position. The fact is both were against something before being for it. It's a classic flip flop. And he's not the only one that has done it. Trump continuing to assert the Breitbart conclusion that Hillary started it is irrelevant to what I was pointing out. This isn't a POSITION to shift from. This is like insisting that mangoes are computers for 5 years, then after a bunch of people tell you that you're stupid, you say ok fine, mangoes are definitely not computers. A position would be "I don't like mangoes" and then later changing your mind to say "I do like mangoes."

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Sep 16, 2016 -> 12:42 PM) ah, yes, #itsdifferent Plenty of people in the last 10 years were very much pro-gay marriage. I'm not exactly comparing someone's views from the 20's or whatever to today. This was in the recent past. She went on a talk show with a well known gay person and told that person she shouldn't have the legal right to be married. Of course she later "saw the light" when it became politically advantageous. And now she pretends like that never happened and she wants credit for being on the "right" side. Yes, the birther s*** was nonsense, and Trump was stupid for ever backing it, but now he's publicly stated that he's over it. So, like Hillary, we should all be satisfied that he's on the right side now, regardless of what an awful person he is. This really isn't a tortuous attempt to compare the two. It's comparing the reactions that the respective supporting sides have for their douche/turd sandwich candidate. It seems justified for one, but not the other. That's exactly what it is. This is like if CNN said "We never thought it was important where Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 landed. The whole thing was Fox News's idea." Then your equivalent reaction would be to point out that Fox News has a strong pro-Republican bias. This is a logical fallacy, put it either in "False Cause" or "Irrelevant Conclusion."

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Sep 14, 2016 -> 11:27 PM) Thank god for Malcolm X and the Black Panthers or MLK would have been Kaepernicked as well. He WAS. He, and the Freedom Riders, had really low approval ratings while he was alive. Most white people hated him.

"We got other business to attend to. I was pretty confident about where I was born. I think most people were as well. And my hope would be that the presidential election reflects more serious issues than that. All right?" Sigh. God bless POTUS for trying, but the electorate is composed of mostly idiots, so this is what happens.

which bathroom should North Carolina have this trans woman use? Seems fairly obvious to me and probably most others, apparently not so much to the NC GOP.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 12, 2016 -> 06:13 PM) Your case would have been stronger of: "I dont' care that they ignore Russian issues so long as they provide safe haven to US whistleblowers", but you didn't just say that. You said that Russia is a better global citizen, and when you say that, you at some point need to reconcile the actual actions and motives of the countries involved. Is everything Russia does terrible? No. Does Russia oppress its opposition with violence, property seizure and threats? Yes. That is true. Russia's ruling class came to power from using grift to take power over former state run industries and reap the profits. As long as they supported the right russian party, that is fine. A lot of people try to investigate how some came to be in power. They don't get far. So it can't be that you care about "global citizenry", you only care about US citizens. And you know what sucks about that? Turns out it's really hard to create change in democracy. It requires working institutions and convincing people. You probably feel like US gov't is some oppressive top down scheme. But the reality that's hard to face is Snowden dumped all of that information and people don't really care. They employ their gov't to protect them and don't care that their data is being tracked. They don't care about drones. They don't care about other governments. It takes a lot of work to convince people that the effects to try and control small amounts of risk is not worth it, and causing worse issues and creates the potential for far worse. But a lot of people in this thread do work to elect and make those arguments to people to make it better. I think that's the better route, I think you think that's a route for shills. But , I am pretty certain that hoping for a foreign government to interfere with your government to punish the people in charge for being so corrupt is not going to end up with the outcomes you envisioned. 2 things i've learned from following politics and traveling to other countries: 1. People assume the opposite of bad is good, but most of the time the opposite of bad is worse 2. Corruption in the US compared to most other countries is very small. And a second point, considering your pointed criticisms of others: - You complain about strangesox putting articles to vox, but you very rarely are capable of backing up your claims. Including one time accusing us of not being familiar with the most famous case of the wikileaks DNC drop that you yourself turned out not to be familiiar with. You are free to post all of the Michael Hastings conspiracies you want. Just don't be surprised if you get push back. That's why I didn't really care much about the DNC email leak, aside from the fact that the vast, overwhelming majority of people discussing it talked about what they heard people saying about them rather than actually reading them. People think that was evidence of corruption, that was nothing. Mexico has honest to god election fraud. What just happened in Brazil is unheard of here. To the extent that "corrupt" things happen here, it's usually legit, because some politician (or lobbyist or both) convinced people it should be legal, or shouldn't be changed from the way it is. That's not on the government, that's on the public.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 12, 2016 -> 05:02 PM) Heard on the radio last week that Kaep jerseys were the number 1 seller in all of the NFL. Hope its a bunch of dummies dropping $100 to make youtubes of themselves burning them. He's donating all the money he makes off that to various charities.

John Fox makes poor decisions in-game. He's a decent strategic coach, but a poor tactical coach, always was, always will be.

CNN's election coverage this year is the worst I've ever seen. I'm including Fox News in this because Fox doesn't really pretend to be something it's not (or at least they give the thinnest of pretenses that they're not the official communications arm of the RNC). What are Hillary Clinton's policy proposals? What would she actually do if she was president? I'm asking rhetorically, but those questions have answers, and you wouldn't be able to answer them if you rely on CNN for president. But you will be able to see the latest Trump ramblings, a couple of pointless arguments over them, whatever Breitbart and Drudge are saying about Clinton that day, etc. (I would mention that they don't talk about Trump's policy proposals but he doesn't actually have any, and people have tried asking.)

Poison ivy on dick: 0/10 do not recommend.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Sep 12, 2016 -> 12:23 AM) You were right greg. Her pneumonia wasn't the bad case where you're on bed rest. My mom had pneumonia once, she ended up in the hospital. Oddly enough, it's how she met my dad. That's a bad case. Hillary's got better quick. Here she is sometime after she left an event after fainting due to pneumonia: "I feel great." Walking pneumonia. Bacterial infection, antiobiotics, she'll be fine after a few days.

It's so fitting that "Aleppo" was trending yesterday because a politician said something dumb, and the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo was only tangenitally related and was already forgotten by the next day, isn't it?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 9, 2016 -> 02:16 PM) The longer they are isolated, the better the chances of their selling off technology is. They will become more and more desperate for hard cash. I see no reason to think they wouldn't sell the tech. They're not really big on relying on the outside. That's their national identity (juche, self-reliance)

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Sep 9, 2016 -> 02:04 PM) So liberal types and minorities needed a bench player in the NFL to kneel during the Anthem to learn that police brutality is a problem that we as a society need to discuss? Not sure what you're getting at. He gave his specific reasons for doing what he did, when did he mention this as one of them?

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 9, 2016 -> 02:05 PM) He's a really strong leader thouhg, you gotta respect that. Has really high approval ratings. I always think it's funny when people say this. Of course Putin is a strong leader! He's basically a dictator and he's either killed or banned his opposition, made all media state-controlled, and ended private polling in his country. That's the whole point of being a dictator! To want to emulate this says... a lot

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Sep 9, 2016 -> 02:01 PM) Outside of the Broncos trying to kill Cam Newton on the field, it was a really good game. I liked that the Broncos were constantly trying to hit Cam in the head and there was no warning of ejection of anything, but the guy doing a little post touchdown dance got flagged and they told him if he danced again he would be tossed. It was. a much better game than the actual Super Bowl.

The entire basis of North Korea's anomosity towards the U.S. is that they want their sovereignty recognized and a formal promise that the U.S. will never attack them. The U.S. ignores them, because they're a bunch of s***heads, so they do provocative things to get attention and force the U.S. to bargain with them. When their stunts lose effectiveness they have to do something more provocative the next time. They never actually follow up on these threats though (mostly because they can't, partly because China has to grab them by the collar). Threatening them with aggression is literally the last possible thing you'd want to do.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Sep 9, 2016 -> 01:46 PM) It's a s***ty way to protest because the act got more coverage than the message. I mean, from conservative types and a loose assortment of white people who were never actually listening to the message in the first place, sure. That is to be expected. MLK even touched on this.

Ray Lewis has an awful lot to say about activism when it makes national news (almost always negative or scolding) but he really contributes nothing to those movements. But he gets a platform because he's Ray Lewis, and he loves the sound of his own voice. I won't say he does nothing for Baltimore (he buys school supplies, helps single mothers, things like that which aren't publicized) but politically? he's a ghost.

The Broncos won the Super Bowl last year with sub-replacement level quarterbacking. That's a significant anomaly, and not something they'll keep doing.

Hell, NBC Sports had a tweet using the play Cam Newton was nearly injured and Denver should've been penalized as a highlight.

QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Sep 8, 2016 -> 04:18 PM) Would the dongle they supply handle that? It seems like it would I guess.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 8, 2016 -> 03:48 PM) You know what, I'm an idiot. I forgot to realize those vendors that have marketed and made the credit card scanners etc that plug into that port. They enable small businesses to do things like take credit cards on the fly. That's f***ed up and I'm pissed I didn't think of it. I was actually gonna post about this earlier. Just about every vendor in comic cons uses Square (though at the mercy of their data reception) and I wonder how that'd affect them? I guess they would use a converter.