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Posts posted by wildcat09
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2 hours ago, Seasick Sailor said:
Yeah, we are seeing the effects of the response to the Taubman incident and JV banning the Detroit reporter from the club house.
Well also seemingly half of all national sports journalists live in the DC area and virtually none live in Houston.
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4 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:
Let me throw this at you, what if I found a black woman who hated blacks and women?! I think a female Clayton Bigsby would do well. Just as long as they NEVER slipped up, even for a second, and acted like a human being.
Will Candace Owens be old enough in 2024? If so we might be in trouble.
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20 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
While pissing off the suits above certainly didn't help their cause, this was always going to be how things went down, regardless of who they mocked (or didn't). As somebody who follows DS and a few of the other Gawker/Gizmodo sites, things have been really going downhill over the past several months, and it wasn't necessarily politics.
It was pretty clear a while back that whoever bought the company planned to cut costs and use all of the sites to promote the popular content of the other sites, which can help drive up advertising revenue, but it can also drive down staffing needs - You have X amount of writes for a site, but if all of the sudden 25% (or more) of that site was being replaced by stories from other sites, you can cut a writer or two or three.
That was the appeal of that company - while they may be different domains, they were all hosted as one large site, and if you got a popular story going on one site, it only took a few clicks to promote it across all of the other sites, and voila, you almost instantaneously drive up the number of views.
Yeah, all the Gawker network sites were doomed the moment some vulture capitalists bought them up and that has nothing to do with partisan politics. Most private equity acquisitions are just bust out scams.
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Shouldn't OP be more interested in sheep than people?
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39 minutes ago, Bottlecap said:
David Roth and Drew Magary are national treasures, especially when they go in raw on el trumpo. Fuck BIG BILLIONAIRE.
When Trump's administration ends Roth should compile all of his articles about Trump into a book. It'd be the definitive book on the Trump era and nothing else would even come close. Also he could remember some guys in it too.
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1 hour ago, Todd Gack said:
So uhh... Sondland's fucked now right? How does he not end up serving time?
Bill Barr runs the DOJ.
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1 hour ago, mchookem said:
jfc i can't even.
i just don't understand. really, i can't wrap my head around it like at ALL. ~half of my fellow citizens look at that and think Obama is a piece of shit and Trump is a god. how is that our reality? HOW??
wtf happened to us.
A bunch of conservative white people got really mad when a black man got elected President.
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Cybersecurity expert.
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51 minutes ago, Goredho said:
Maybe, but its at a significant risk to Trump himself. So if that's the reason, there must be greater risk to Trump in not getting sanctions against Russia lifted.
What does this picture tell you?
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9 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:
She wasn't. Putin was seated at a separate table and went from table to table to talk to people. He came to her table to talk with Flynn and never really talked to Stein. Watch.
The Green Party? Dude, come on. How deep does this McCarthyism run?
So everyone who furthers a purpose of the Russian state is a "useful idiot"? Or is it just the ones MSNBC and Hillary are mad at?
Worse. We are actively funding Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and protecting it in the UN.
Ah, so if Hillary is unknowingly furthering Russia's ends, it's innocent.
If Gabbard is doing it, it's nefarious.
Gotcha lol
My thoughts have nothing to do with McCarthyism or Hillary. Hillary can fuck off and I think the "HILLARY WAS RIGHT" people are idiots. Of course she was right but so was everyone else with a functioning brain, it didn't make her unique or special. I also don't think simply anyone who helps further a purpose of the Russian state is an agent.
But I do have a couple simple questions for you. Do you or do you not think that the findings in Part 1 of the Mueller report about Russia's attempts to infiltrate the Trump campaign and otherwise fuck with our election are accurate? If you think they were accurate, do you think they limited their influence attempts only to the Trump campaign? I think the findings were accurate and I think it would be stupid to think that Russia limited their attempts to only the Trump campaign. While I doubt they found similar success with other campaigns, I DO think they could have been successful to some extent with Stein's campaign. To the extent they were, it's probably because Stein was running a grifting operation and was happy to accept support from anyone who could help her keep it going.
This anti-anti Trumpism shit is tiring. Yeah, some #RESISTANCE types are dumb, but they're far from the biggest problem. The Kurds and others in Rojava had a really good and interesting experiment going on there that deserved support and protection. Anyone who's supposed anti-imperialist politics would lead them to support their slaughter at the hands of Turkish and Russian imperialistic ambition should seriously rethink their shit.
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14 minutes ago, Goredho said:
Your second sentence is the only thing that really makes sense here. Otherwise, take the win and move on to your next criminal endeavor.
No, I think the explanation for their behavior is that Trump wants to vindicate Putin and Russia in the eyes of the American public to justify lifting sanctions against Russia, which Putin has been demanding. In order to do that they have to find a way to refute the basic factual findings of the Mueller report pertaining to Russia's meddling operations.
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1 minute ago, bad_teammate said:
The Stein picture is from the RT Gala in 12/2015.
RT is is a Russian-government-funded television network, much like al-Jazeera is Qatari. RT runs actual international journalism with editorial independence with good shows like Breaking the Set with Abby Martin and On Contact with Chris Hedges. It also has had dumb ones like Larry King and Jesse Ventura. At its best, it is far better international journalism than basically anything you get from mainstream American media. (al-Jazeera, of course, is head and shoulders above American media in journalistic independence and quality)
RT gave Stein airtime because anti-imperialist messages like Stein's don't get mainstream media airtime. So she went to the gala.
Anti-imperialists often do and say things that jingoists get nervous about.
c'est la vie
If they don't know they're in on the gag, then it's pointless to even talk about, because then literally any American who proposes anything that Russian power would like is now an "asset".
All of us have some views that Russian power supports. The idea that Russian power and good are just diametric opposites at all points is just dumb.
C'mon man, Jill Stein didn't get seated at a table with Vladimir Putin by accident.
Do I have a precise theory? No. I tend to think Stein is largely a grifter who ran for President for the same reason most of the Republican field of candidates did (including Trump): self-promotion. But I certainly think her campaign could have been influenced by Russian intelligence. Hell, Trump's campaign was riddled with Russian intelligence contacts and it would be dumb to think his is the only one they tried to influence, so there's no real reason to doubt that the woman literally seated at a dinner at Putin's table wasn't at least a target of Russian influence attempts. Did they succeed to the extent that she consciously chose to be a Russian asset? No clue. Maybe she was just a useful idiot, maybe the Russians weren't successful at infiltrating her campaign like they were Trump's, but she furthered their purposes regardless.
As for Tulsi, I don't think she's coordinating with Russia but I think she knows her politics and Putin's politics align.
There's virtue in anti-American imperialism politics, but this shit about "oh everyone is just saying this shit about these two because they oppose American imperialism" is stupid. They're two shitty people, one of whom has already played spoiler in an election between a bad choice and a potential dictator, and the other very obviously intends to play the same role. Neither one of them actually opposes imperialism, they just oppose American imperialism. When the anti-anti Trump/anti-American imperialism stance ends up affirmatively supporting Russian imperialism, it's disappeared completely up its own ass. An extended-duration US presence in Syria sucks, but so does abandoning the SDF and allowing Turkey and Russia to carve up and destroy Rojava. In fact, that sucks much more.
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57 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:
Nah man Glenn Greenwald is only responsible for exposing, at tremendous personal risk, two of the biggest corruption stories in modern history, Snowden & Lava Jato. But some of his Tweets are bad, so basically he's garbage unlike these temporary-non-Republicans who supported the Iraq war and think BDS is basically ISIS and Israeli soldiers shooting children in the head through a chain link fence is regrettable, but fine.
Tulsi Gabbard is lame and her politics aren't anything I care about and it's cool that she'll disappear soon and nothing of value will be lost. She's not a Russian agent or asset.
Jill Stein is kind of funny and even less relevant than Tulsi, which is hard to pull off if you supposedly have thousands of agents working on your behalf. She's not a Russian agent or asset, either.Still waiting for evidence of actual Russian intelligence connections to either of these women.
Well, there was this:
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3 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:
Representative republic
Is there such a thing as an unrepresentative republic?
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4 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:
Damn, actions have consequences.
That dude just blew up his career. There’s always barber college and the world will always need ditch diggers.
He'll probably have a job with MLB by the end of the week.
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3 hours ago, kevwun said:
Attempted bribery not counting will definitely be a talking point.
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1 hour ago, bad_teammate said:
Going to be hilarious when President Pete installs Bipartisan Moderate choices to the SC that overturn Roe and strike down regulation of CO2 emissions
Pete's heel turn this week has been pretty epic. He's obviously fully bought in on politics as WWE. Next we'll see him take a chair to Bernie or Warren and start promoting Tulsi.
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17 minutes ago, HenryJames said:
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5 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
Odd choice of words. Were the 65,844,610 voters who cast ballots for Hillary Clinton a "mob"?
The "mob" is anyone who aren't white Christian conservatives.
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33 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:
Maybe we should have forfeited after the “Astros support domestic violence, rape and kicking puppies” story broke.
The only solution is to ritually sacrifice Taubman to the baseball gods.
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1 minute ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
Trump will never admit failure but he can convince himself that resigning is the winning move and declare victory. He has done this with every failure he’s had and there have been a lot of Trump failures, even in his own presidency.
Of course, it’s going to have to get much worse for Trump than where it is now but the train has left station and it’s moving towards the inevitable disaster at rapid speed.
Yes, but quitting those wouldn't likely result in his going to prison.
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3 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
seriously how they not all in custody right now?
Democrats are pussies.
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It's so fucking obviously Kellyanne.
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15 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:
If I ever win the lottery I plan to end my legal career by sending a letter like this to some asshole.
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Twitter bans political advertising on its platform worldwide
in Cloak Room
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It's literally stunning to see a tech bro get such an easy decision right, but happy to see it.