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Jakyl25
06/04/18 8:58:28 PM
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Okay my bad

Trade wars are still good and easy to win
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xp1337
06/04/18 9:00:28 PM
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should have played it off as a meta-commentary about the NK summit being cancelled and then the administration pretending like that never happened
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Mr Lasastryke
06/04/18 9:03:13 PM
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The name basically comes from the idea that music, which was almost universally influenced by the blues, tended to be more upbeat, ie. have more rhythm.

So, upbeat blues with a heavy backbeat.

Rock Around the Clock is exactly that.

Here's another way of looking at things - is Michael Jackson a rock, pop, or R&B artist? Is he all 3? What's the difference? Where do you draw the lines?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Around_the_Clock

wikipedia doesn't describe it as an R&B song. are they lying to me?!?

as for michael jackson, i'd say he's all three (among other things), yeah. but i agree with your point that all three terms are so broad that they're basically meaningless. ("pop" is probably the worst offender in this regard. i own a book on pop culture that spends like 25 pages discussing the "how do you define pop?" question.)

i do think music genres become more useful the more you narrow them down, though. "metal" is also quite vague. "progressive metal" is a lot easier to define.
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Peace___Frog
06/04/18 9:07:25 PM
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Kpop the one true genre
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kevwaffles
06/04/18 9:19:27 PM
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Maybe NKpop vs SKpop will become a thing of negotiations are successful.
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Peace___Frog
06/04/18 9:24:16 PM
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Actual news time!

https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/1003769655708864512

Special Master: 169 out of 292,000 items seized in the Michael Cohen raid and reviewed so far meet the standard of privilege, partial privilege, or highly personal.

The other 291,800+ are fair game for prosecutors.

Here's Jones' report: https://t.co/YW5GP0Wqli

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Jakyl25
06/04/18 9:27:10 PM
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Special Master is a great job title
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Jakyl25
06/04/18 9:29:52 PM
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So basically Cohen tried to claim that 172 items were privileged and the Special Master agreed on all but 3.
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Peace___Frog
06/04/18 9:53:49 PM
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I feel like if a "lawyer" has that many items that don't fit the standard of privilege, they might not be doing much actual lawyering.

Also, on another piece of the puzzle:
https://twitter.com/ReutersPolitics/status/1003796287035248640
JUST IN: U.S. Special Counsel Mueller says ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has attempted to tamper with potential witness - court filing https://t.co/9Dcxi9YGyw

And even though we know they're going to claim he was just a coffee boy, he managed the campaign for nearly 5 months. That's not an insignificant amount of time. Lots of 'muccis!
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HanOfTheNekos
06/04/18 10:04:42 PM
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Mr Lasastryke posted...
The name basically comes from the idea that music, which was almost universally influenced by the blues, tended to be more upbeat, ie. have more rhythm.

So, upbeat blues with a heavy backbeat.

Rock Around the Clock is exactly that.

Here's another way of looking at things - is Michael Jackson a rock, pop, or R&B artist? Is he all 3? What's the difference? Where do you draw the lines?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Around_the_Clock

wikipedia doesn't describe it as an R&B song. are they lying to me?!?

as for michael jackson, i'd say he's all three (among other things), yeah. but i agree with your point that all three terms are so broad that they're basically meaningless. ("pop" is probably the worst offender in this regard. i own a book on pop culture that spends like 25 pages discussing the "how do you define pop?" question.)

i do think music genres become more useful the more you narrow them down, though. "metal" is also quite vague. "progressive metal" is a lot easier to define.


Rock Around the Clock did chart on the R&B charts though!

The main issue is that genres are made with general definitions, but then those definitions grow to become meaningless. Metal refers to a LOT of music - not because it's necessarily vague, but because the defining features of it (mainly distortion on guitar) became a standard.

Anyway, before people complain, I'm good calling this discussion over here.
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Jakyl25
06/04/18 10:08:39 PM
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Witness tampering is pretty serious, isnt it?
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Reg
06/04/18 10:13:25 PM
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Jakyl25 posted...
Witness tampering is pretty serious, isnt it?

That's one way of putting it.
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CoolCly
06/04/18 10:47:39 PM
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i am now at trade war with america
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Dancedreamer
06/04/18 11:25:00 PM
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With news of that pastor who is using donations to buy himself a FOURTH Jet... I feel like we should tax things like that. I mean fine, your church building can be exempt from taxes. But why should you get a tax-free airplane, and a tax-free mansion because you are a preacher?

Maybe we're all doing this wrong, and we should all just start our own religions. Then claim tax exemption. Seems to work for Scientology.
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FBike1
06/05/18 12:29:40 AM
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As much as we all hate Scientology, the government can't get involved in deciding what is or is not a religion. So go ahead and get that tax exemption.
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HaRRicH
06/05/18 12:33:07 AM
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I feel like witness tampering is a desperate move. Not a good look.
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Jakyl25
06/05/18 12:36:59 AM
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FBike1 posted...
As much as we all hate Scientology, the government can't get involved in deciding what is or is not a religion. So go ahead and get that tax exemption.


But they are though. You cant just claim religion! They have to meet some criteria
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Jakyl25
06/05/18 12:37:40 AM
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From the CNN article on Manafort witness tampering:

Manafort currently wears two GPS monitor ankle bracelets on separate legs, keeping him confined to his Alexandria condo except for legal, medical and religious appointments.


LOLOLOL
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Not_an_Owl
06/05/18 1:08:04 AM
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Jakyl25 posted...
From the CNN article on Manafort witness tampering:

Manafort currently wears two GPS monitor ankle bracelets on separate legs, keeping him confined to his Alexandria condo except for legal, medical and religious appointments.


LOLOLOL

I guess they figured just one makes him a flight risk because he could just saw his foot off and get on a plane, but both feet? Now that's just too much commitment.
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metroid composite
06/05/18 1:13:16 AM
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I'm getting tense for the upcoming primary in California.

I'm in the 49th, and feel pretty good about Applegate. He's not a lock, but I chatted with him yesterday, and

A) He's been talking to constituents, and a lot of them have said that they've already voted through early voting (for him), which is often a good sign.

B) He's military in a military heavy district, which means he overperforms. (He ran in 2016, and came within a razor thin margin of unseating the incumbent massively outpacing the polling; and the incumbent has now retired which means he's walking in with the most name recognition).

I'm also going to be watching the senate race, where I think I like Alison Haartson. Her polling has been weaker, but within margin of error. TBH I don't think she's as strong of a candidate as Applegate but the senate race is also at risk of being really boring if she doesn't win, like...Feinstein vs that nazi guy, or Feinstein vs someone with pretty similar positions to Feinstein (pro death penalty, anti legalization of Marijuana).
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Corrik
06/05/18 6:45:45 AM
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Jakyl25
06/05/18 7:43:24 AM
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Peace___Frog
06/05/18 7:57:01 AM
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https://twitter.com/arielhart/status/1003393628285198336

Except replace corporations with governments. That's so fucking cringe and tone deaf. Worse than that god-awful Pepsi protest commercial.
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Dancedreamer
06/05/18 11:10:30 AM
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So apparently someone swatted David Hogg's home.

I feel like swatting needs to carry stiffer punishments. Like 5-10 years in prison. More if someone dies as a result (20-life if someone dies).

Then again, there's so much wrong with our justice system. Rape a girl? 3 months in prison! Kill a transgender person? Probation! Run over 4 people, killing them all in a drunk driving accident, then ESCAPE from rehab and go on the lam to Mexico? 2 years in prison. (Rehab before that, though!) Molest a 5 year old girl? 5 years probation. Have a little too much weed on you? 20 years in prison. Swat someone... and cause their death..
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HaRRicH
06/05/18 11:40:20 AM
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Link?

If swatting innocent people isn't bad enough, this situation features a crew of armed people busting into the home of someone who survived a mass shooting less than four months ago. He speaks against guns, and in return strangers send strangers with guns to his home in hopes of scaring him if not straight-up killing him.

That's gotta be especially traumatizing. Fuck cowards who falsely swat people like that and try to turn an important group of people into their personal hitmen.
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Peace___Frog
06/05/18 11:40:59 AM
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Swatting is attempted murder. It is not as bad as murder, but it's damned close. Similar to how attempted collusion is almost as bad as actual collusion!
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trdl23
06/05/18 11:42:13 AM
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Thankfully he was in DC while it happened.
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Dancedreamer
06/05/18 11:46:10 AM
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https://abcnews.go.com/US/swatting-prank-reported-home-parkland-teen-activist-david/story?id=55658829

There's the link.
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Jakyl25
06/05/18 11:48:52 AM
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/charlottesville-hate-marcher-elected-by-republican-party

This isnt the first time Allsup has tried entryist tactics.

A month after Charlottesville, Allsup told white nationalist podcast Fash the Nation that he tried to take over WSUs College Republican club with fashy goy (fascist, non-Jewish) friends.

If you are a college guy, or a college girl, and you are on a college campus, if you have three or four fashy goy friends, you can take over your schools College Republicans group and move it to essentially being an alt-right club, Allsup said.

You can easily do that and it gives you access to so many more resources. It gives you political credibility. It gives you all of these things that come along with the name of being a Republican.


Stay vigilant.
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Corrik
06/05/18 11:51:57 AM
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Jakyl25 posted...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/charlottesville-hate-marcher-elected-by-republican-party

This isnt the first time Allsup has tried entryist tactics.

A month after Charlottesville, Allsup told white nationalist podcast Fash the Nation that he tried to take over WSUs College Republican club with fashy goy (fascist, non-Jewish) friends.

If you are a college guy, or a college girl, and you are on a college campus, if you have three or four fashy goy friends, you can take over your schools College Republicans group and move it to essentially being an alt-right club, Allsup said.

You can easily do that and it gives you access to so many more resources. It gives you political credibility. It gives you all of these things that come along with the name of being a Republican.


Stay vigilant.

What a piece of work. He needs to be voted out next election and an eye remained on him while he is in his post.
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Corrik
06/05/18 12:04:56 PM
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So Facebook made me go through these data sharing things today and who can see what. It lists my interested in sex, my religious views (blank), and my political views which lol said "Republican (Ireland)"

I don't even know what the Republicans of Ireland stand for but supposedly I was one according to Facebook!
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Ashethan
06/05/18 12:34:59 PM
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So Fox News was caught using footage of Eagles fans praying and tried to say they were KNEELING for the anthem. When no Eagle fan actually knelt for the anthem.

Part of me thinks Fox news is just so incompetent.
Then part of me thinks someone there is trolling the higher ups by making them look like idiots.

I still remember the time they posted a traditional wedding photo of a lesbian couple.
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The Mana Sword
06/05/18 12:37:14 PM
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That's not incompetence, they know exactly what they're doing.
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Corrik
06/05/18 12:40:53 PM
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Ashethan posted...
So Fox News was caught using footage of Eagles fans praying and tried to say they were KNEELING for the anthem. When no Eagle fan actually knelt for the anthem.

Part of me thinks Fox news is just so incompetent.
Then part of me thinks someone there is trolling the higher ups by making them look like idiots.

I still remember the time they posted a traditional wedding photo of a lesbian couple.

When brought to their attention they took it down and apologized. Is there really a point to use a picture of someone kneeling for prayer as their picture instead of for the anthem? It isn't like these pictures don't exist.

It really serves zero purpose to use the improper photo. Imo
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Jakyl25
06/05/18 12:44:03 PM
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It serves the purpose to make people think the Eagles had players that kneeled for the anthem when in fact none ever did.
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Jakyl25
06/05/18 12:44:51 PM
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Corrik posted...
my political views which lol said "Republican (Ireland)"

I don't even know what the Republicans of Ireland stand for but supposedly I was one according to Facebook!


Congratulations, youre an IRA supporter
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Corrik
06/05/18 12:45:38 PM
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Jakyl25 posted...
Corrik posted...
my political views which lol said "Republican (Ireland)"

I don't even know what the Republicans of Ireland stand for but supposedly I was one according to Facebook!


Congratulations, youre an IRA supporter

Lol I was thinking that is who it probably was. FBI probably thinks I am going to bomb someone or something.
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Paratroopa1
06/05/18 12:47:36 PM
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Ashethan posted...
Part of me thinks Fox news is just so incompetent.

No, they're malicious.
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Corrik
06/05/18 12:49:08 PM
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Jakyl25 posted...
It serves the purpose to make people think the Eagles had players that kneeled for the anthem when in fact none ever did.

None of the eagles ever knelt? Well that is more damning.
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Jakyl25
06/05/18 12:51:30 PM
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Corrik
06/05/18 12:55:19 PM
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Jakyl25 posted...
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/1/no-philadelphia-eagles-players-knelt-anthem-2017/

Good men them Eagles. Proud of them.
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Jakyl25
06/05/18 12:57:56 PM
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Isnt that akin to blasphemy in your neck of the woods?
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Shaduln
06/05/18 1:01:04 PM
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LapisLazuli
06/05/18 1:04:20 PM
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Shaduln posted...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us/graduate-quotes-trump-obama.html


Saw this yesterday. I've never seen the current political climate laid out so succinctly.
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Eddv
06/05/18 1:10:01 PM
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I always knew Corrik was a terrorist.
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Corrik
06/05/18 1:15:53 PM
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LapisLazuli posted...
Shaduln posted...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us/graduate-quotes-trump-obama.html


Saw this yesterday. I've never seen the current political climate laid out so succinctly.

Well, I mean, they weren't cheering the quote. They were cheering the name drop. Not really unexpected. Would probably happen anywhere under the same circumstances.
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Corrik
06/05/18 1:16:19 PM
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Jakyl25 posted...
Isnt that akin to blasphemy in your neck of the woods?

I am an Eagles and Dolphins fan.
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Shaduln
06/05/18 1:24:04 PM
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Corrik posted...
LapisLazuli posted...
Shaduln posted...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us/graduate-quotes-trump-obama.html


Saw this yesterday. I've never seen the current political climate laid out so succinctly.

Well, I mean, they weren't cheering the quote. They were cheering the name drop. Not really unexpected. Would probably happen anywhere under the same circumstances.

They were cheering the quote because they thought Trump said it.
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Jakyl25
06/05/18 1:51:52 PM
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https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1003962584352030720?s=21

The Russian Witch Hunt Hoax continues, all because Jeff Sessions didnt tell me he was going to recuse himself...I would have quickly picked someone else. So much time and money wasted, so many lives ruined...and Sessions knew better than most that there was No Collusion!


Lives ruined?
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Jakyl25
06/05/18 1:53:33 PM
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https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1003949263481696256?s=21

What is taking so long with the Inspector Generals Report on Crooked Hillary and Slippery James Comey. Numerous delays. Hope Report is not being changed and made weaker! There are so many horrible things to tell, the public has the right to know. Transparency!


Reminder that this behavior is not normal and should not be normalized
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