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Hinakuluiau posted...

RebelElite791 posted...

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

The larger problem is that a lot of Clinton supporters were openly derisive of Sanders. Like you said, they agreed on 99% of things. But the anti-Sanders crowd from the democrats side, at the DNC, Twitter, Reddit, and even here on CE, would have made an outsider think he was trying to do everything different from her.

I voted for her. I'd vote for her again. And I think anyone who "would've voted for Sanders but voted for Trump" is an A+ moron who doesn't understand politics or any of the candidates very well, but the people who pushed Clinton are just as responsible for the backlash as the blind idealistic "Bernie Bros."

The general idea being that they feel the Democrats are a bit too centrist, a bit too corporate, and a bit too concession-y while not being liberal enough is not a new idea. I agree that it's better to be pragmatic, but it's also shitty to tell people "hey we're cool with some of the stuff you like, vote for us or you'll get stuck with the people who do none of the things you like." It's a shitty feeling.

This is a good post. Being an American leftist is depressing, though hopefully we can improve things going forward.
Me, personally, I'm a white dude. Probably like most posters here, but I have friends who're women, friends who're minorities or gay or trans. I want them to be and feel as safe as I do.

emblem boy posted...

The main reason I asked is because I see people like Shapiro or Dave Rubin seem to use Leftist as a negative against anyone left of conservatives and Republicans and liberals as classical liberals.
Like, what are Democrats then?

Neoliberals and liberals, primarily, with a few outliers either way.

That was both very dumb and very bad of him. I can't wait for the standard-issue "sorry-you-were-offended" apology followed by this woman magically losing her job for totally unrelated reasons.

Connecticut gets lots of crap, but is actually overall good.
Pros:
-State government isn't evil
-2 casinos
-Some decent cities
-Great pizza
-Lobster rolls done right
-Quality education
-Lots of local craft breweries

Cons:
-State government is dumb
-Liquor laws are dumb
-Taxes are kind of high
-Taxes are poorly distributed(i.e. over-reliance on sales tax)
-Long Island Sound is kind of lame and there is no ocean access

Anyone else get it for 3DS?
For you uncultured rubes who have never heard of Culdcept, it's basically a fusion of Magic the Gathering and Monopoly. You use your deck of creatures, spells, and items to develop/capture lands to develop so that you can fulfill the map goal, presumably while taking your competitors to the cleaners.

Sativa_Rose posted...

The EU has said its not getting involved and says its an internal Spanish matter. Maybe he wants the EU to get involved.

Of course not, because the EU is useless.

It's my understanding that the independence referendum was projected to fail until the Spanish decided to start randomly attacking Catalonians. Now Catalonian independence would appear to enjoy overwhelming support. Good job Spain!

Great barbecue, or so I hear. In fact, IIRC, Chiefs coach Andy Reid can usually be found at one particular restaurant most nights.

Guys, I think the Bears may be bad at football.

They made the level curve way better in HG/SS.
And HG/SS has a terrible level curve.
There are so many trainers with, like, one pokemon that's five levels lower than any of your team of 4. The level curve is bad, but there simply aren't very many trainers either. They usually don't even bother putting them in caves.

This is cool and good. Restricting access to contraception and medical procedures such as abortions are a violation of a woman's right to control her own damned body.

It sounds like people calling Whole Foods on, like, the 4th of July, to ask if we're open and/or what our hours are(normal hours). The supervisors keep a tally for a few hours before giving up in exasperation.

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

mario2000 posted...

grats on joining the 20th century

Not even close. They still execute sorcerers. We're still talking 17th century.

Yeah, let's not get ahead of ourselves. Saudi Arabia is still an oppressive, quasi-medieval absolute monarchy.
Nonetheless, it's good they have finally recognized that women have a right to drive cars.

To be clear, my dream ticket is Bernie Sanders and Tammy Duckworth.

The sad thing is that Roy Moore is basically guaranteed to be a senator. And I'm not sure whether or not he's an improvement over Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III.

Who we think should run matters little. Barring a primary challenge of a sitting president(rare, but not unprecedented), all the action will be on the Democratic side.
I'd imagine the following are at least thinking about it. I've bolded the ones I think should run.

Fmr. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton
Sen. Bernie Sanders
Sen. Kamala Harris
Sen. Cory Booker
Former VP Joe Biden
Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Gov. Andrew Cuomo
Sen. Amy Klobuchar
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand

Tmaster148 posted...

Axiom posted...

UnholyMudcrab posted...

NibeIungsnarf posted...

Whats to stop them trying to get a new proposal through next week? Isn't that what they've been doing since the first failed bill?

After the end of the month (which is Saturday), the reconciliation period ends and they won't be able to pass it with a simple majority.

Lmao. Maybe this will give them some incentive to try and actually come up with something better than just going hard as fuck trying to simply get rid of it with no plan going forward

I don't have any expectations that republicans in congress have any desire to work together to make something good for the people of this country.

To be fair, there are probably some Republicans who are willing to make some minor, bi-partisan tweaks. Collins, Murkowski, McCain, and Alexander chief among them. The problem is that any bill that can get significant Democratic support is unlikely to have the support of the majority of Republican senators, let alone a majority of House Republicans. Neither Majority Leader McConnell nor House Speaker Ryan is likely to defy their caucus for this.
This is why Schumer and Pelosi schmoozing Trump with the prospect of a bi-partisan bill is brilliant: it will help direct Trump's anger towards McConnell and Ryan, thereby making it even less likely they'll ever be able to get something done.

Ex-Kefiroth posted...

It's not going to die. they'll just try again next year.

That would be a few months before mid-terms. Trotting out yet another Obamacare "repeal" bill with ~20% approval a month or two ahead of elections would torpedo their chances of picking up seats in the Senate. To say nothing of the effect on the House. It would be electoral suicide.

I just got Mega Man X Zero collection and started playing it. Makes me feel like I'm bad at this gaming business.

This is important, because they can't pass anything under Reconciliation rules after Sept. 30th, which means all future attempts at repeal need 60 votes. And they had 49 at their high-water mark.
They could try to pass it under reconciliation next year, but that would basically have to happen right before the 2018 elections.

Being worse than the NFL is an achievement Neo-Nazis ought to be proud of. They really had to work at it, but, in the end, their hard work paid off.

I know it's corny, but with great power comes great responsibility.
That should also mean great accountability.

Meh, I've become more leftist with age, not less.

DeMarcus Lawrence was clowning Cardinals offensive linemen all night. It's alright though, because the Seahawks offensive line exists and is worse.

Guess he got triggered HARD. So did Jim Kelly.
Oh well, all this kneeling business probably means there will be less Bills fans wanting Nathan Peterman to start, so it's fine by me.

I like him a lot. And I already liked him by default because he replaced Phil Simms.
He's in my top 4 with Collinsworth, Gannon and Gruden.

Collins was already leaning no, as all of her concerns about previous bills are the same or greater about this one. Unless Rand Paul or McCain does an about-face, it's done.
That's before even considering Murkowski, who has thus far voted down every "repeal" proposal.

pikachupwnage posted...

Vaati_Reborn posted...

I'm really starting to think we're not getting new alola forms :(

Long neglected Johto mons will never be saved.

R.I.P

Meganium
Xatu
Octillery
Bellossom
Sunflora
Ursaring
Noctowl
Furret
Ariados
Ledian
Jumpluff
Sudowudo
Granbull
Miltank
Qwilfish
Girafarig
Corsola
Lanturn
Shuckle
Typhlosion
Umbreon
Magcargo

Many of these are beyond saving though. Or would need evolutions. Like, maybe Xatu or Octillery could be made good with an Alolan Form, but the rest are bad or stuff that would never get a form(starters, eevolutions, etc.)

Ehee. Paradox sale has spread to Steam! DLCs are only 50% off though, and exclude the most recent expansions(except for CK2). CK2 and EU4 are -75% off, Stellaris and Hearts of Iron IV are -60% off.

I had a coworker tell me today that all these hurricanes were created by NOAA's secret weather-control program. Sounded like somebody heard about cloud-seeding and went way off the deep end with it.
I just kind of stared at her, all bug-eyed.

Bankrupt and now in literal ruins. Puerto Rico is in dire need of assistance, Marshall Plan-style.

IIRC, one of the reasons they crashed it into Saturn was that they didn't want it crashing on Enceladus or Titan.

It's perfectly okay to have whatever amount of sex you want however you want it with another consenting adult.
Or multiple consenting adults, for that matter.

dave_is_slick posted...

orcus_snake posted...

dave_is_slick posted...

orcus_snake posted...

shut up shut up, every fuckign ends of episode has been oh shit like that, dont tease me!

I'm laughing, but that's only to mask the pain.

well tbh I already found the buried treasure after the bunker.

Yeah, if the end didn't exist, that would be the most heartbreaking thing I've seen and heard in a video game.

This is truth. Ashly Burch nails that scene.

And, of course, the next major patch, 1.8, which promises major improvements, including a new end-game crisis, new civics, and loads of balance and quality-of-life improvements.

Synthetic Dawn itself is a story-pack focused on robotic civilizations and robots in general. It features playable robots in a few different flavors(including robots who seek to assimilate organic life, robots that seek to exterminate it, and robots hell-bent on putting organics in lush, carefully-managed preserves so the organics don't wipe themselves out.) There's also a new fallen empire type and a brand-new set of robotic portraits.

Full details on the story pack and patch features at the link:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-86-%C4%8Capek-synthetic-dawn-patch-notes.1043979/

It comes out tomorrow. Stellaris will be great someday. Maybe even tomorrow.
Also, earlier stuff might go on sale on Steam. It already is on the Paradox store.

MachoManSavage posted...

I watched 7 episodes.

I... Don't know.

It's good. But it doesn't feel like I think it should.

I get that it's parodying an old cartoon thing. But I want more meta. That's what gets me off. And the two boys are way too stupid and unironic to be funny. They are just two silly boys. Brock is very one note and unstoppable. Dr. Venture is the closest to a deep character. I rather enjoyed the episode they went out to pick up girls.

I understand that season 1 is the worst so I'll get to at least halfway season 2. The episodes go by rather quickly if I'm in the mood.

Oh, it does get pretty meta. You'll see soon.

Zurkon posted...

The_Donald posted...

Half the people still can't figure out how to pay using the chip on their debit/credit card.

Lmao, I always want to facepalm when I see them staring at it with that blank expression.

Happens all the time. The thing's beeping at them, asking for them to remove their card, and they just stand there staring at the cashier. Or at the screen.

I is smart posted...

C_Pain posted...

Do we have any evidence of this?

I wish all fast food went on computers because people either mishear you or get confused or mess up your order. A screen would let you customize and get exactly what you want without any nonsense.

Quite frankly, the average customer is twice as stupid as they think the average worker is.

This is also true. And I suspect the miserable ones would miss having human staff to verbally abuse.

It's not my dad's rock, nor am I, myself, a father. So it isn't.

luigi13579 posted...

I must admit, the lack of physical / special split in FR/LG annoys me. It's great to be freed from the limitations of the old system when creating a team. A Pokemon with shitty Sp. Atk. only having physical STABs or vice versa sucks.

Another down side of FR/LG compared to D/P/Pt: no online features.

FR/LG is also needlessly kludgy in regards to outright blocking 'mons like Golbat and Chansey from evolving before you get the National Dex. If they did revisit the Kanto games, I'd hope they'd inject some more pokemon(certainly the Johto mons that are found there in GSC, for starters) into the region, as 150 is an increasingly small number. If they were feeling really ambitious, an original post-game based partially in Johto would be neat. I mean, the two regions are literally next to each other.(they will never do this).

Would prefer a D/P remake in the style of ORAS first though.

Women shouldn't have to shave anything if they don't want to.

Tmaster148 posted...

itachi15243 posted...

I kinda wish episode 8 had some sort of lasting outcome. I understand it was this season's inter dimensional cable kinda, but some potential was wasted

I do think people are overrating it. I don't think it was a bad episode, but there wasn't much to it. The episode itself also felt very short. The squirrel bit was good, but that's probably the most memorable part of it.

But I wouldn't say there's no lasting outcome. It shows how manipulative Rick is as he was literally removing any memories from Morty where Rick did something wrong. Beth was very quick to chose Summer over Morty. And Summer has some kind of role as an assistant to Rick, which means Rick trusts Summer enough to be backup incase things go wrong.

I actually thought the episode was kind of meh, but Summer walking in at the end was great. You get the feeling this sort of thing happens regularly.

I work at the local Whole Foods. Working there sucks, but I get benefits for being full-time, so it could be worse. Going back to school soon though. Can't put up with this for much longer.

I Like Toast posted...

ElatedVenusaur posted...

s. Kaepernick is a significantly better passer than Hoyer

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Kaep was a better QB when he had legs. Those legs beautifully beat the packers many times. Then, like every qb that relies on his legs over his arm, his legs went and his arm isn't good enough. That's why even before the protest no one was trading for Kaep to be their starters when the 49ers were shopping him.


And kaep hasn't had a y/a over 7 since 2013. Hoyer hasn't had a y/a under 7 since the same year. 3 of the last 4 years kaep has had a completion % under 60%. And that one year above was 60.5%, his second highest in his career. 3 of the last 2 of the last 4 for hoyer are over, with a 67% with the god awful bears last year.

Sure, kaep in 2011-2013 was the better QB by a mile. And how great those 3 years were for the team earned him the next 3 years to figure out how to throw. he couldn't and everyone with a football IQ over 10 knows that the 49ers are just waiting to get cousins when the redskins stop tagging him unless cousins gets the crazy guaranteed money he needs to stick in the hellhole of washington

Butterfiles posted...

he also provides a threat to run, which hoyer doesn't

and unlike kaep, hoyer is a threat to throw. Personally I want my qb to do his job rather than try and run a read option offense with a 30 y/o qb and carlos hyde as the only other option.

Oh, ok then.
Kaep 2016: 196/331(59.2%) 2,241 yards(6.77 Y/A) 16 TDs/ 4 INTs 90.7 rating
Yeah, he can't throw at all.
Oh yeah, I forgot his rushing stats: 69/468(6.8 avg.) 2 TDs
Nope, definitely can't run anymore! That's in 12 games. The rushing leader amongst QBs, Tyrod Taylor, played 15 games and ran for 580 yds at 5.8 yds. per attempt.
2016 happens to have been the best year of Hoyer's career, closely followed by the 2015 season. I wonder why the Texans dumped him?
Hoyer vs. the Chiefs in the 2015 playoffs: 15/34 136 yds. 0 TDs/4 INTs
Woof.

Also, we're only two games into 2017, but Hoyer...
39/62(62.9%) 292 yds.(4.71 Y/A,) 0 TD/ 2 INTs
So, umm, he's not exactly on pace to replicate his only good seasons. I bolded that Y/A because that's positively brutal. In fact, it's worse than 2016 Blaine Gabbert by a whole yard, but I suspect Hoyer will at least outdo Blaine Gabbert.

I Like Toast posted...

Butterfiles posted...

i want to mock my team for getting rid of kaep for literal brian hoyer so yeah i will be watching

Hoyer has 9 games with 300 or more yards, kaep has 6. Of the 34 games hoyer had at least 15 attempts, he was only under 200 yards 8 times. Out of the 58 times kaep had at least 15 attempts, he was under 200 yards 26 times.

That right there is why Kaep isn't a starter. And the media distraction, no matter how much in the right his protest is, is why he doesn't have a backup job.

Just...lol.
Kaep's career stats: 59.8% CMP 7.25 Y/A 72 TDs/30 INTs 88.9 rating
Brian Hoyer's career stats: 59.7% CMP 7.06 Y/A 44 TDs/28 INTs 83.6 rating
Kaep has ~400 more attempts than Hoyer, yet has thrown only 2 more interceptions. Kaepernick is a significantly better passer than Hoyer. Not that Kaep is great or anything, but he's much better than the Hoyers, Glennons, Savages, Bortles, and McCowns of the world.
He doesn't have a job because NFL owners are basically all ultra-conservatives. It has nothing to do with his ability to play quarterback.

I have to close Thursday night, but I should be home in time for the second half. Rooting for the Rams, as they have the 2016 Buffalo Bills top 2 WRs.

CapnMuffin posted...

Remember in FF7 getting the shallow-sea-bound floating plane.

That was like blueball fake annoying exploration.

It basically serves the same function as the pterodactyls in Chrono Trigger.
Except you can also use it to access a sidequest.

Calwyn posted...

The Dolphins actually won today? Well, I'll be damned. Didn't expect that.

I'm a Dolphins fan who had absolutely ZERO faith in the team doing anything good once Tannehill got injured.

Congrats. You have sole possession of 1st-place.
Can't believe the Jets offense outperformed the Bills offense this week. Just embarrassing.

I read a ton. The latest thing I read was an anthology of short stories written by Tibetan authors. Most of them were depressing. I have a massive backlog of books at all times.

The Buffalo Bills can run the ball well, and once Charles Clay inevitably dies, that is all they will be able to do. Passing plays will be Tyrod Taylor moving about the pocket, rolling out, desperately searching for an open receiver that will only ever be LeSean McCoy in the flat.
I have no comments on the defense, other than that it performed adequately against the Jets.