Lurker > ElatedVenusaur

Liberals are actually more or less okay with the status quo. They'd prefer more free trade, a few more regulations on certain things, and more open immigration. Maybe a tweak here and there to our social safety net.
Socialists like myself; however, think our current level of wealth inequality is not only grossly unfair, but fundamentally unsustainable. Serious changes in policy are required to liberate the majority of Americans from economic anxieties, many of which are unique to our country(i.e. bankruptcy resulting from medical debt, student loan debt, etc.) The wealthy will remain wealthy, but it is their duty to pay a much fairer share.

Samurontai posted...

The party of "Pro life"

They're only in favor of certain white children.

What is shocking here, more so than the DNC being in cahoots with the Clinton campaign, is the extent to which it wasn't even an independent entity. It was literally nothing more than an extension of her campaign, and its resources were disposed of in a way that benefited Hillary Clinton at the cost of the Democratic Party as a whole(and, with fitting irony, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign).
These people are not only corrupt, but utterly incompetent. This article serves only to confirm that they have no place in the future of our politics. They should all be fired into the sun. Donna Brazile included.

StucklnMyPants posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

ElatedVenusaur posted...

IIRC, the scope of Mueller's authority is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 elections, but he also has authority to investigate and prosecute whatever other crimes he turns up, so it's not impossible.

But would that mean opening up a separate investigation or are you saying that it's a broad enough investigation to pretty much grab anything from parking tickets to high treason?

Forgive me if I'm being dense.

It's broad enough that he can prosecute anything that he comes across in his investigation, if he so chooses. I doubt you'll see him go after parking tickets, but more along the line of white collar crimes.

This is correct. Mueller's authority is quite broad.

In any case, Politico has an interesting nugget: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/31/sam-clovis-senate-russia-investigation-244370
Sam Clovis is apparently cooperating with the Mueller investigation and testified before the grand jury. He was part of Trump's campaign and assembled Trump's foreign policy team(which included Papdopolous) and is also Trump's nominee to an important post in the Department of Agriculture.

Yanmega is literally the best Bug/Flying pokemon though.
Probably run something like Bug Buzz/Ancient Power/Air Slash. Protect would be good in the 4th slot if it has Speed Boost.

Oh, I can assure you that conspiracy theories can be found on the left too. The difference is that the bad actors are usually corporations and/or the U.S. military or intelligence(especially the CIA. To be fair, the CIA got up to all kinds of shady stuff during the Cold War).
One particularly pernicious tendency on the left is that some are supportive of anyone who opposes the US's aims abroad, regardless of merit, which leads to some lefties defending the likes of Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad.

Dash_Harber posted...

StucklnMyPants posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

Also, what are people speculating? Who is left that could be a potential defendant?

Who knows. It could be anybody. Podesta, Kushner, Flynn, Sessions, Trump, Clinton, or some person no one has every heard of. What more Mueller has or hasn't found is anyone's guess at this point.

Can someone explain how she was involved in the investigation into the Trump campaign? I get that if the uranium deal was real (I haven't seen enough either way), that she could be charged, but wouldn't that be a completely separate investigation?

IIRC, the scope of Mueller's authority is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 elections, but he also has authority to investigate and prosecute whatever other crimes he turns up, so it's not impossible.

Of course, no actual uranium was sold to the Russians.

IIRC, Papdopulous was charged and plead guilty in July. Mueller managed to keep that under wraps for the past 3 months. He's apparently been cooperative too: a bad sign for other potential conspirators.
Carter Page and Mike Flynn are the low-hanging fruit now, and the former is breath-takingly stupid(he was literally on All In With Chris Hayes tonight talking about an active federal investigation in which he is involved).
It's all speculation, in any case. Mueller's a career prosecutor with an excellent rep. This will unfold as he wants it to.

Between that and this:

Of course not. Some pokemon are bad or boring.
Aside from my namesake, my favorites include Steelix, Hawlucha(how could anyone NOT like Hawlucha?), Victreebell, Yanmega, Volcarona, Infernape, Joltik, Galvantula, Ferroseed, and many, many more.

RebelElite791 posted...

It's okay lindsey, self-righteous "leftists" will keep the left fractured enough for the republicans to keep control

This is a joke post, right?

Also, I think old Lindsey is overestimating the popularity of a huge tax break for the wealthy.

He'd do fine until he inevitably drunk-posted a bunch of barely-censored obscenities.

Muffinz0rz posted...

inb4 nothing actually happens as a result of this

There will be arrests on Monday.

My guess is that either one or both of Flynn and Manafort is going down. Trump seems pretty shook on Twitter, so they're probably just the appetizers.

I wonder if he realizes the difference between his position and President Xi's?

Seems like the EU is intent on looking the other way and maybe whining a little bit if things get messy. Which they probably will, based on Spain's recent actions and rhetoric.

The giant pile of crap just keeps on growing...

It isn't profitable for the ISPs, so they don't bother. Why has already been explained.

Paradox games are also on-sale. CK2 and EU4 75% off, dlc 50%(except recent DLC, which is discounted less). Stellaris is 60% off, Leviathans 50%, Utopia 20%. HoI IV is also 60% off.

Gotta love the plutocracy.

eston posted...

Not running for reelection isn't really the same as quitting

It is when you're unlikely to survive a primary.
In any case, this should net Flake a circle or so higher in Hell.

Cherrys2000 posted...

ElatedVenusaur posted...

Term-limits are inherently anti-democratic, as they artificially restrict who the voters are allowed to vote for. And they do so on a completely arbitrary basis. Moreover, with how American politics work now, term-limits would simply serve to worsen partisanship and increase the influence of dark money and special interests.

We are a republic first, a democracy second. There are a lot of anti-democratic things we do that have saved our lives and our society.

I think you'll find that those things make things worse, not better.

Term-limits are inherently anti-democratic, as they artificially restrict who the voters are allowed to vote for. And they do so on a completely arbitrary basis. Moreover, with how American politics work now, term-limits would simply serve to worsen partisanship and increase the influence of dark money and special interests.

Nocturne is great. SMT 4 and Apocalypse are both great. The Devil Survivor games are tactics-based and also great. Digital Devil Saga is insane. Also good.

FLUFFYGERM posted...

because the left doesn't care about russia taking over

the left wants russian marxism to be the norm everywhere

Uh, the Soviet Union fell over 25 years ago. I think you'll find that Putin is more in line with the likes of Trump and Le Pen.

ROBANN_88 posted...

i want to know one thing.

people from Nigeria are called Nigerians.
what are people from Niger called?

Nigerans? C'mon.

GSC is pretty slow in the beginning and has a poor post-game, but it gets a pass on the latter because it was the first to attempt a post-game(and battling Red was legit cool).

RSE has a ton of water, which is bad, because it's very samey. Not just from a visual standpoint, but from an encounter and trainer standpoint(Tentacools and water types. Forever).

D/P suffered from being quite slow, but I'm biased in its favor because I love Sinnoh. Platinum (mostly) fixed that though.

Oh, and I really didn't like Kalos and found the X/Y post-game really underwhelming, so that gets my vote.

prettyprincess posted...

'normal people' by whatever measure you are using to compare frequency of direct investingtend to have 401ks

Yeah, even companies like Macy's and Whole Foods offer 401(k)s. Sure, I can't come close to maxing it out, but they're very ubiquitous. Not only is this is terrible from a policy standpoint, it's awful from a political standpoint: it's Republicans going after 401(k)s for the sole purpose of saving the wealthy more money. That fits well in a sound-bite too.

And he'll probably be a Senator in a few weeks.

WizardPowers posted...

what kind of postgame content did Platinum have?

Are they talking like an extra region to go through? Cause I think that'd be the only thing that would make me buy it.

Platinum also had an expansive Battle Frontier area, which was basically the Battle Tower, but with five different modes.
My fave was the Battle Factory, where you used pre-set pokemon to fight. You'd be given a description of your next opponent's team(which got increasingly vague as you progressed) and could swap out any one of your pokemon for a defeated opponent's.

LOL, you think that's bad? The Bills haven't been this millennium. They were last in the playoffs in 1999.
And they have somehow won a playoff game more recently than the Lions and Bengals.
I know this because I'm a Bills fan.

https://www.thenation.com/article/harvey-weinsteins-greatest-enabler-was-hollywood-itself/
Quite simply, this stuff happened, happens, and, in all likelihood, will keep happening, because Hollywood as a whole is perfectly okay with it.

If the U.S. does nothing, then no one will. It's that simple. China and Russia do similar stuff(though it's generally much more gradual and quiet than sending soldiers to slaughter defenseless villagers). Ideally, you'd undertake a peace-keeping mission. Myanmar's army is crappy and rife with corruption, so they're basically counting on the idea that nobody cares to get away this(they're right, unfortunately).

The very least we could do is pay-off Bangladesh to settle the refugees and grant them citizenship, but not even that will happen. Trump can hardly be bothered to care about Puerto Ricans(U.S. citizens!), so the odds of him caring about the Rohingya are basically zero.

Samurontai posted...

ElatedVenusaur posted...

Lots of victim-blaming going on ITT. Remember, if the government treats you like crap, you're not supposed to try to do anything about it, because you might justify them genociding your people.
This kind of thinking is disgusting. Genocide is never "understandable".

Nobody is victim blaming, nobody is justifying genocide, and nobody is saying that genocide is understandable

Are you even reading the same topic? Lmao

Samurontai posted...

Sir Will posted...

How do you integrate into a place that doesn't consider you a part of the country? And, it seems from this treatment, not even human.

By... integrating? Giving up their religion, or at least attempting to follow the cultural customs set by the indigenous people of that land while keeping their faiths?

They failed to even attempt any sort of integration since the moment they arrived

This is not uncommon when it comes to Muslims who migrate to other cultures lands

Are you reading your own posts? You're literally saying the Rohingya brought this upon themselves.

Lots of victim-blaming going on ITT. Remember, if the government treats you like crap, you're not supposed to try to do anything about it, because you might justify them genociding your people.
This kind of thinking is disgusting. Genocide is never "understandable".

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/world/asia/rohingya-myanmar-atrocities.html
I, well, just read it.

They grow potatoes. Probably some natural beauty. Maybe Boise is alright.
It's Idaho, what do you want from me? Do we have any CEpeeps from there?

I'm kind of average health. Family history contains a number of long-lived relatives, but cardiovascular problems run in the family as well. I'll call it even at 70s, though I'd like to live long enough to see the Tricentennial, so I'd ideally live longer than that.

Figures the Bills would manage to lose to the Bengals. And Charles Clay, the only non-Shady McCoy receiving option we have that's worth mentioning, left the game with a knee injury. He's probably dead, and now Tyrod will have even fewer options in the passing game.
Oh well, I had low expectations anyhow. Rodgers owns.

I'm fine with people from Connecticut bashing Connecticut, but I get annoyed when people who aren't from here do it. It's our state, we're the only ones who get to bash it. Bash your own dumb state.

I wouldn't call Episode 3 great, but it was decent film following on the heels of the train-wreck that was Attack of the Clones, which managed to make something called "The Clone Wars" boring and inconsequential.
Also, so very little of consequence happens in Episode 1, which is a shame, because Darth Maul was legit.

Tea is amazing. I drink two-to-three cups of it a day(usually a cup of lapsang souchong plus whatever else I have).
Coffee is fine though. Great if you need a little boost.

Stellaris is pretty good now though.

bevan306 posted...

the difference is that liberals live in the real world

Say those without the imagination to solve our country's problems.
A big part of WHY Trump won is that he was entirely correct when he said America isn't good for most people. The lower and middle classes, particularly inner cities and rural areas, have been left behind for decades.
Trump's solutions, of course, are odious and will/are making things worse, but Hillary Clinton never seemed to recognize how messed up the status quo is, in large part because she was one of the people who helped craft it.

RebelElite791 posted...

averagejoel posted...

RebelElite791 posted...

averagejoel posted...

RebelElite791 posted...

Clinton and Sanders agreed on almost every issue.

Blind idealism gets people killed if you're too stubborn to be pragmatic when needed.

One was going to be elected. That wasn't up for debate. If you're too stupid to vote for the CLEARLY better one that's on you

wait, are you suggesting that Clinton was the better option?

because... lol

Between Clinton and Trump? The two people I'm talking about? Yeah?

you clearly said "Clinton and Sanders" at the start of your post >_>

Yeah. And then I was clearly talking about the general election when I said that blind idealism refusing to vote for Clinton gets people killed with someone like Trump in office. And that one of Clinton or Trump was going to be elected, there was no other option.

But I voted for Clinton? I didn't like it, but I was under no illusions that she'd be worse than....THIS

They're both pretty good games. Some of the voice-acting in the first one is bad though.