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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
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plasmidghost
Belgium16168 Posts
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Zee_Kyle
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On December 01 2018 13:53 plasmidghost wrote: George H. W. Bush has died. May he rest in peace. https://twitter.com/jgm41/status/1068728578890653696 He was a warmongering Neocon that caused the suffering of untold amounts of people. Rest in piss. User was banned for this post. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States44300 Posts
On December 02 2018 01:51 Zee_Kyle wrote: He was a warmongering Neocon that caused the suffering of untold amounts of people. Rest in piss. User was banned for this post. It's probably in everyone's best interest if we just ignore GHWB's death in this thread. It'll minimize the amount of red font we see at the end of certain posts. | ||
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Sermokala
United States13924 Posts
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Excludos
Norway8072 Posts
On December 02 2018 04:22 Sermokala wrote: We should ignore topics that people care about to avoid them getting actioned for it. Real hot take there. What could his death possibly bring to the conversation other than either "rip" or "He was a shit president!"? It's best to just let it lay | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Sermokala
United States13924 Posts
On December 02 2018 04:25 Excludos wrote: What could his death possibly bring to the conversation other than either "rip" or "He was a shit president!"? It's best to just let it lay People might not speak ill of the recently deceased former leader of the country? I mean should we have a policy of ignoring when people die beacuse people can't be expected to have basic manners and decency? | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Ayaz2810
United States2763 Posts
On December 02 2018 06:25 Sermokala wrote: People might not speak ill of the recently deceased former leader of the country? I mean should we have a policy of ignoring when people die beacuse people can't be expected to have basic manners and decency? I mean, what does it even have to do with politics really? He hasn't been President for decades. Unless you're going to somehow tie his policy decisions into what is happening today, what does posting "RIP" or "he sucked" accomplish? I'm basically just re-wording what was already said. I just don't think it's a topic that belongs in this thread because it won't have any content. | ||
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Taelshin
Canada418 Posts
RIP George H. W. Bush. | ||
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Nouar
France3270 Posts
in North Carolina, according to a number of affidavits, several from elderly black voters, a member of the republican campaign coordinated an effort to go door-to-door in a democrat-leaning county, posing as election official, and asking to hand over absentee ballots, even if blank. Then, he would have filled in or discarded them. In addition, it seems there is a unusually large number of absentee ballots in that county, with over 96% of them going to the republican candidate, while the usual win margin is around 65% from what I read previously (can't remember where). The republican is leading by around 900 votes, but the board is refusing to certify the result. For all the republicans crying about voter fraud, now this one seems to have some basis. And it's not coming from who they would love it to :-D WaPo Source | ||
Womwomwom
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
On December 02 2018 08:08 Nouar wrote: So, a less talked about election issue from the midterms : in North Carolina, according to a number of affidavits, several from elderly black voters, a member of the republican campaign coordinated an effort to go door-to-door in a democrat-leaning county, posing as election official, and asking to hand over absentee ballots, even if blank. Then, he would have filled in or discarded them. In addition, it seems there is a unusually large number of absentee ballots in that county, with over 96% of them going to the republican candidate, while the usual win margin is around 65% from what I read previously (can't remember where). The republican is leading by around 900 votes, but the board is refusing to certify the result. For all the republicans crying about voter fraud, now this one seems to have some basis. And it's not coming from who they would love it to :-D WaPo Source Funnily enough, voter fraud only became a concern for Republicans once they took power at the state level during the Obama years. Interesting isn't it? | ||
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Blitzkrieg0
United States13132 Posts
On December 02 2018 10:04 Doodsmack wrote: Funnily enough, voter fraud only became a concern for Republicans once they took power at the state level during the Obama years. Interesting isn't it? This is election fraud. A republican systematically went around to change the result of the election in their favor. This isn't voters cheating the system and nothing Republicans have been suggesting like voter ID would have fixed this or maybe that's the point. | ||
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Introvert
United States4748 Posts
On December 02 2018 10:04 Doodsmack wrote: Funnily enough, voter fraud only became a concern for Republicans once they took power at the state level during the Obama years. Interesting isn't it? where did you get this from? | ||
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Wulfey_LA
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On December 02 2018 10:28 Blitzkrieg0 wrote: This is election fraud. A republican systematically went around to change the result of the election in their favor. This isn't voters cheating the system and nothing Republicans have been suggesting like voter ID would have fixed this or maybe that's the point. The quote is a bit off, but the sentiment is dead on. “I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how.” https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stalin-vote-count-quote/ Voter fraud has never changed a damn thing a may only arguably exist beyond double digits over the last several decades. But election fraud, oh yeah, that one is real. And in NC it really happened and flipped the result. Hell, Paul Ryan and Trump were calling for ending counting of the votes on election night because they were head. The nominal heads of the Republican party are opposed to counting every vote if they think they are losing. But I am sure our resident Republicans will pretend they don't share the views of the people they voted for and will continue to vote for. We were only down 26 seats the night of the election and three weeks later, we lost basically every California race,’’ Ryan said Thursday. “This election system they have — I can’t begin to understand what ‘ballot harvesting’ is.” In part due to mail-in and provisional ballots that delivered the margin of victory to Democratic challengers in a handful of seats, California’s Republican delegation appears to have been slashed in half — in the new Congress, Republicans are likely to hold just seven of the state’s 53 House seats, the party’s lowest number since the 1940’s. Ryan’s statements drew a sharp rebuke from California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, who said Thursday that “it is bizarre that Paul Ryan cannot grasp basic voting rights protections.” Padilla, a Democrat who oversees the elections process in a state with 19 million registered voters, told POLITICO that “our elections in California are structured so that every eligible citizen can easily register, and every registered voter can easily cast their ballot.” That concept, he said, “[might be] strange for Speaker Ryan, who comes from Wisconsin,’’ but Padilla added, “I’m happy to walk him through the bottom line.” https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/29/california-2018-midterm-elections-results-voting-republicans-1031072 | ||
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plasmidghost
Belgium16168 Posts
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iamthedave
England2814 Posts
On December 02 2018 08:04 Taelshin wrote: The passing of a former president definitely worthy of this thread, Frankly I cant believe this is even up for debate. The fact that some people wont be able to hold back their jubilee or hatred is pretty unreal, no one is getting "red font" for being respectful. RIP George H. W. Bush. Gonna be some red flying around here when Clinton finally goes. | ||
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