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Reg posted...

please baseball start so I can see how many pitchers get ejected for throwing at Houston batters

Is Mike Trout going to do anything but hit home runs versus the Astros this year? They pissed off the best baseball player of a generation. They might never win another game again~

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Sir Chris
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That's just old timer talk tbh. Playoffs are fun, when we get down to the final few teams it will be just as awesome.

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Sir Chris
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I will do everything in my power to make M5 a success, I am genuinely fond of many people who are a part of this project even if I become a Dark Lord and start force choking people as a player sometimes. Let me know where my talents are best suited, if anyone has suggestions!

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Sir Chris
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got my WS don't care.

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Sir Chris
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Wigs has single handedly turned me into a Mets hater tbh.

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Sir Chris
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I will vote in every match.

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Sir Chris
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I am working on a top 100, inspired by this topic.

Spoilers: I am a slave to the jrpg

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Sir Chris
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5 > 6 > 11 > 7 > 3 > 8 > 4 > 9 > 2 > 1

Is where I end up I think.

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Sir Chris
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Why was I not aware wtf

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Sir Chris
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HanOfTheNekos posted...

Solo > 5 > 7 > 4 > 6 > 9 > 1=2=3=RO=8

What the fuck

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Sir Chris
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If you thought part 3 was about dq11 I get it

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Sir Chris
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I blame my dinner. Steak was distracting.

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Sir Chris
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Due to recent events I have decided Maria is wrong about everything.

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Sir Chris
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Help

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Sir Chris
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Don't let your guard down this is when he goes in for the hug

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Sir Chris
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Suprak the Stud posted...

Just to be clear, there is only one person in this topic I consider far left and no just normal left or liberal or moderate dem or whatever else.

Im talking like r/chapotraphouse or equivalent levels of far left.

Oh you mean crazy

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Sir Chris
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Paratroopa1 posted...

Weirdly enough, Biden saying he'd consider a unity ticket in a 4D chess way almost makes me trust him more - his comments about reaching across the aisle to work with republicans have made me feel really uneasy, but I don't believe for a second that he's so friendly with republicans that he'd ACTUALLY consider bringing one on as his VP, so it makes me feel slightly more confident that he'd just playing the game.

Yeah he is a little bit. Just not enough to be great lol

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Sir Chris
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I have them all for android. 6 plays well.

Edit: get 6

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Sir Chris
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I do not hate Biden. I do not think he is what our country needs.

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Sir Chris
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Dragon Quest 11 is superb. This reminds me that I have to dig into the Switch version as well as the dq7 3ds remake. Sweet, sweet memories.

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Sir Chris
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https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-originals/watch/-red-white-who-digital-exclusive-sen-bernie-sanders-extended-interview-75851845619

Oh man this Bernie interview is amazing. You could tell when she asked about his parents both dying young that it was a huge deal to him.

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Sir Chris
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I dive pretty deep into the muck and both Aanders supporters and other candidates have some yikes people.

That being said some Democrats are for sure my enemy btw. It is hard to hear I am sure but yeah.

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Sir Chris
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Now back to my usual glaring at moderate Democrat ways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll3SUyUjZEc

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Sir Chris
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Meanwhile.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-conviction-all-time-high-msn-news-a9260336.html

Maaaaybe Mitch was a little too blatant.

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Sir Chris
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I just saw the Patriot Act episode on mental health and just how bad insurance companies routinely screw people over.

Being reminded of that makes me so angry how cowardly most candidates are at confronting them.

I also saw the one about Asylum and yes Trump is a next level villain, just to sate LotM's need to remind us.


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Sir Chris
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:O Civ VI, awesome! It has been too long since I played a Civ game ^_^

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Sir Chris
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I will not lie it is hard for me to discuss Trump these days for numerous reasons, but any steps in the right direction are appreciated.

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Sir Chris
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We should never paint a regular employee at one of these places with the same brush as the people up top who organize these businesses with pure profit motives. The people who work for them have the same struggles as many people in this day and age. He expressed concerns that we are frankly failing on as a nation. Child care, education, family leave. What is great news for him is Bernie Sanders understands that plight and wants to help him. These debates require a large amount of nuance, there is no need to make someone feel badly about providing for their family and earning a modest wage. He is not the enemy. So don't talk to him as if he were.

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Sir Chris
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No, there are plenty of dumber things said in this topic all the time. Being shaped by our experiences is very human. There was no need to use that rhetoric against Raiden tbh

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Sir Chris
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RaidenGarai posted...

When that organization gave me the better of the two job offers that I had out of college back in 2006, and my family requires the flexibility that they give me for scheduling, Im not going to leave just because. With how expensive daycare is, and the fact that our school district doesnt have buses, I need to work very odd hours to cover childcare and do school pick up and drop off.

I shouldnt have mentioned that I worked for an insurance company, especially in a topic that seems to be mostly progressive. It doesnt matter what I say, it always comes back to this kind of comment.

That's not true. Keep in mind we are not enemies, it is tough for everyone. Our fight should never be with the working class, OWL

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Sir Chris
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Despite what some may think, I don't bite anyone who disagrees with me or shows a different opinion. Someone who works in an insurance company being concerned about their future just makes sense. Raiden is a human too, his family's future matters too. Just as much as the person who needs to be able to afford their medical bills without going into debt or worse staving off care and having a bad outcome. To me it all begins with M4A as the groundwork, then we can fill in what M4A means in terms of the details and how it impacts regular folks.

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Sir Chris
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Some of that is due to administrative cost with the go around for insurance. I am surely not as well versed as you, but I know my doctor has spent hours on paperwork before to make sure things can be covered. They rely on higher reimbursements but to get those reimbursements often take a lot of manpower.

I think these are things that need to be addressed, but I don't think the answer is 'not M4A.' I think voices like yours can be important in making sure the final bill makes sense. But like someone said before it seems less to be a problem with M4A and more of a problem with M4A poorly implemented. Let's implement it well. Support M4A but stress that these things have to be a part of it. That's what I say.

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Sir Chris
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RaidenGarai posted...

One thing I have yet to see anybody answer about M4A is how many people its going to put out of work. There are around 900,000 people who work for health insurance companies alone, and thats not counting the people who work in smaller, private practice doctors offices that will also lose their jobs under M4A.

Full disclosure, I work for one of the major health insurers (so Im automatically evil to a bunch of you for stating that if history has told me anything). If I felt the system would actually work Id be fine with my wife and I losing everything weve worked for, but I just dont see it based on what I know about the healthcare system in this country.

Its broken, and broken badly, theres no denying that. I just cant see M4A as the answer right now. Long term maybe with some tweaks, but not right now, in its current form.

Thats something I really dont hear in these discussions about healthcare. Even with the people the government would have to hire for the administrative work, youre still putting an enormous amount of people out of work. The area I live in alone would lose almost 8,000-10,000 jobs between all of the insurers around here, and there arent enough openings elsewhere for more than a small portion of then to find other work.

I don't have the specifics on this, and I won't assume you are evil or anything. However what the insurance industry has done to this country through lobbying is heinous, and it needs to be undone.

A couple of things that help with M4A is it wouldn't be rolled out right away even once it is passed, but over four years, which should give a bit of time to ease people into new jobs with the government or with other companies. Also insurance would not be going away entirely, it would just be elective. I imagine that'd still mean down sizing by 90% though. I have thought about this before and it is something that needs to be answered, but I am not overly concerned by it given the transition time.

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Sir Chris
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CaptainOfCrush posted...

Congrats! Glad things seem to be going so well.

Very well! My health is doing well, my small business is starting to take off, and my fiance is the best <3

Nelson_Mandela posted...

Congrats! Enjoy those Trump tax breaks!

Will work hard to pay my fair share :P

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Sir Chris
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

I think you first need to convince the people that there's a major problem with the current system (hasn't been done yet) and then that it's a problem so big that everyone's plan needs to change to solve it (a virtually impossible case to make).

I'm happy to watch everyone try though

Get back to me in 10 years!

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Sir Chris
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xp1337 posted...

My position is that if you can get a Democratic Senate you can get the public option regardless of your starting point. It is probably more likely you get it if you start from M4A and get argued down to public option and likely dodge the risk of somehow forgetting 2009 and watering down the public option if you start with it. You'd think that mistake wouldn't be made again but never say never with Senate Democrats. Specifically, I think you can't get Manchin and maybe a few others on M4A at which point the Senate math falls apart but if you start there you might be able to give them an easier path to the public option by making it look like they compromised it down to their voters.

I support M4A I'm just looking at it impartially.

I am for M4A as well, but what you said to me is 100% right. Which is why we need Sanders as president out of the current field. He's the only one who leaves room for acceptable compromise!

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Sir Chris
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Do you agree that going to the table wanting a public option is unlikely to result in a public option?

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Sir Chris
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Hawkeye can't hurt anything, not even our economic standing in the world!

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Sir Chris
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StealThisSheen posted...

Where do I vote for The Avengers

I would vote Captain America every time.

President: Cap
Vice President: Thor
Secretary of State: Black Panther
Secretary of Defense: Ironman

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Sir Chris
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xp1337 was it you or pyresword who wanted polling that showed people support bernie's policies more than Biden's when we discussed it the other week. Because I think I saw like 4 different polls indicating that.

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Sir Chris
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I didn't like my previous title.

October 10th, 2020.

I am beyond fucking hyped tbh

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Sir Chris
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Whose going to enforce the 22nd Amendment? The Supreme Court? With what army?

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Sir Chris
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People with less than 29,000 in income pay nothing for health care under Bernie's proposal.

You don't think that is far more valuable than 1000 a month?

Mind you I like UBI in theory, not trying to attack it buy that health care policy is mega yikes, and I like Yang in general.

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Sir Chris
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I just mentioned a Congress seat! Sure we think "well that's AOC" but AOC wasn't even a thing five years ago. Yes getting money out of politics is important perhaps I misphrased. I am not saying never do it, it just isn't the first step. Electing people who will push for it is. Not saying never overturn CU

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Sir Chris
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Forceful_Dragon posted...

Yang's Democracy Dollars would do the trick!

How can you still support Yang after that horrific health care policy? <_<

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Sir Chris
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By the time you can overturn Citizens United money in politics would already be neutered in the way we understand it. It's just fact. The Supreme Court is not going to turn it in the next 8 years regardless of Preisdent in all likelyhood. An amendment is even less so. That is the type of thing that comes in the middle of a movement, not in the beginning.

And so far Bernie has by far raised the most money out of anyone in the Democratic field. AOC I believe leads all of congress in donations. It is a math game to the billionaires. Bloomberg is blowing 100s of millions of money for... whatever he thinks he is getting.


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Sir Chris
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banananor posted...

That's great! I'm interested in the specifics as to how you will do that

Well, my ideas mean nothing unless they work. So I need to see if they can work. For example it has long been a thought that you need dark money, big donors, to fight against other special interests. It is what Reagan taught the world. However if Bernie can win the primary with nothing but small dollar donations - something Pete said would hamstring someone, and I understand why he thinks that, then the idea is fractures. If Bernie can win the presidency with that model the idea shatters. It starts there. Democrats and Republicans alike at the end of the day care about winning more than anything, and... yeah sure we'll go with that being correct. You have to win before you can have the power to do anything, so in that view that makes sense. The window has shifted so much on "how can you win?" though it isn't serving people as well as it ought to.

You don't need an amendment to get money out of politics, in reality. You need to prove to the people investing it is a waste of money and they will stop investing. Having the votes on any one issue doesn't matter, it is about building a movement and getting people reinvested into our political process. If Bernie is elected and a democrat doesn't want to vote for his agenda, primary that democrat. If that democrat is voted out in the primary, other democrats are like "oh... so this is how it is."

The world does not dictate what we can do, we dictate what the world does. There are a lot more working class people than there are millionaires and billionaires, but we have been nursed on this feeling of hopelessness and that the system will never change. The cracks are showing though. The democratic party is moving more towards the left again, and yes there is resistance but people who would never have had a chance to be in congress even a decade ago are winning here and there. It is slow. It takes time. But the cracks are showing. Even Trump's presidency is a positive sign. Go back to a lot of his campaign promises. They were speaking to the suffering of people who were desperate for hope. We just need people who are not bad faith actors of that hope.

Bernie Sanders is proof of concept. If he can become President, the typical way of doing things in America is dead on the spot. He is inspiring an entire generation of people to care. Hope is a disease and it can spread quickly. That is the most important thing about a Sanders presidency. It is a transformation of American politics.

The specifics are going to take time. And on many issues I am maybe more open to compromise than many in this topic might suspect. What I am not willing to do is compromise before the negotiation even begins.

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Sir Chris
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I agree with that, we should look into how to stop that.

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Sir Chris
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xp1337 posted...

I think my post makes it clear that Biden is far from my first choice!

My personal preference currently looks like: Warren > Sanders >>> Biden > Buttigieg. I just feel like we're marching to an inevitable conclusion now. We'll see if Sanders can turn it around, but if you had me betting I'd take Biden easily.

Support Bernie now! Phone bank. Donate. Make a difference. Be an active participant.

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Sir Chris
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In fairness we have only had no third terms for 70 years.

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Sir Chris
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