Board 8 > Politics Containment Topic 259: Raucous Caucus Robots

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what is a youth number
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MoogleKupo141 posted...

what is a youth number

He is talking about youth unemployment which is obviously a super weird number due to how many youth even actually look for employment.

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1030431396341444609


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Yeah very weird how I keep posting about bad stuff that the president of the United States says or does in the politics topic merely because he keeps saying and doing bad things

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LordoftheMorons posted...

Yeah very weird how I keep posting about bad stuff that the president of the United States says or does in the politics topic merely because he keeps saying and doing bad things

He didn't do anything bad by recognizing MLK day while touting the anniversary of his presidency.

You literally have to full stop everything for MLK day? Like, imagine the horror LordoftheMORONs would have if someone wanted to celebrate their birthday on LITERAL MLK DAY. HAVE THEY NO SHAME!

You act like he was like fuck that fool MLK. That holiday is canceled. It's now Donald Trump day. Get real. You spend your entire life reading curated Twitter feeds that live their life to try and complain about every last thing Trump does or literally following people you hate so you can try and do it yourself.

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How about we talk how you cited insurance company disinformation about "choice" in health care which a former exec admits that was made up by insurance companies to keep profits high.

I love policy.

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I was unaware I had the word moron in my username until your post and I sure feel foolish now that youve pointed it out!


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Who you talking to, Chris?

Anyways, what is all your views on forced transparency of hospital pricing that Trump has made mandatory?

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Corrik7 posted...

Who you talking to, Chris?

Anyways, what is all your views on forced transparency of hospital pricing that Trump has made mandatory?

Doesn't actually address the problem in any way. But it is fun to boggle the mind.

Was talking to lotm

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DoomTheGyarados posted...

Doesn't actually address the problem in any way. But it is fun to boggle the mind.

Was talking to lotm

I am curious if it will even make hospitals try to compete with one another or at least streamline prices.

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DoomTheGyarados posted...

How about we talk how you cited insurance company disinformation about "choice" in health care which a former exec admits that was made up by insurance companies to keep profits high.

I love policy.

I dont recall ever doing that. I said that if you force everyone to give up their private insurance for M4A youre asking them to gamble what they may be happy with (or at least satisfied with) for something you claim is better with no recourse if you fuck up your implementation. Thats not a silly objection to a demand that an entire country completely overhaul its healthcare system.

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LordoftheMorons posted...

I dont recall ever doing that. I said that if you force everyone to give up their private insurance for M4A youre asking them to gamble what they may be happy with (or at least satisfied with) for something you claim is better with no recourse if you fuck up your implementation. Thats not a silly objection to a demand that an entire country completely overhaul its healthcare system.

Can you not make it about insurance policy on MLK day. Thanks. Have some respect.

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Corrik7 posted...

I am curious if it will even make hospitals try to compete with one another or at least streamline prices.

No because generally if you are at a hospital and can't pay you dont go shopping around.

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LordoftheMorons posted...

Yeah very weird how I keep posting about bad stuff that the president of the United States says or does in the politics topic merely because he keeps saying and doing bad things

As someone who never goes on Twitter I find the links useful so keep it up!

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LordoftheMorons posted...

I dont recall ever doing that. I said that if you force everyone to give up their private insurance for M4A youre asking them to gamble what they may be happy with (or at least satisfied with) for something you claim is better with no recourse if you fuck up your implementation. Thats not a silly objection to a demand that an entire country completely overhaul its healthcare system.

And yet no country has gone to single payer and then went "oh hold on the Americans had it right"

It is silly.

Also less a problem with the linkage and more the lack of most everything else.

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LOTM, just remember that when you get angry Trump wins.

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Corrik7 posted...

Like, imagine the horror LordoftheMORONs would have if someone wanted to celebrate their birthday on LITERAL MLK DAY. HAVE THEY NO SHAME!

presumably, this hypothetical person isn't president of the united states, so if they try to make MLK day about themselves it's not as bad.

perhaps foolmo was right in one of the previous topics about how you need to stop using analogies.

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

presumably, this hypothetical person isn't president of the united states, so if they try to make MLK day about themselves it's not as bad.

perhaps foolmo was right in one of the previous topics about how you need to stop using analogies.

So President's can't celebrate anything. Did you deride Obama any time he said something on Arbor Day?

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presidents can celebrate MLK day on MLK day. it's in rather poor taste if they go "this day is actually about how amazing and cool i am." this isn't a difficult concept.

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

presidents can celebrate MLK day on MLK day. it's in rather poor taste if they go "this day is actually about how amazing and cool i am." this isn't a difficult concept.

Cuz that's what the tweet says.

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he's bragging about what an amazing president he has been in the tweet, yes.

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

presidents can celebrate MLK day on MLK day. it's in rather poor taste if they go "this day is actually about how amazing and cool i am." this isn't a difficult concept.

Remember: It's okay to make holidays about yourself, but if you say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas you are a monster.

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

he's bragging about what an amazing president he has been in the tweet, yes.

He is bragging about the positive numbers he has achieved in his presidency on the third anniversary of his presidency beginning and tied it into MLK day by how black unemployment is at the lowest level ever.

Literally no one would ever take issue with that except you all just complain to complain.


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Suprak the Stud posted...

As someone who never goes on Twitter I find the links useful so keep it up!

^

well I go to twitter but it's moreso filled with porn than politics

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Dancedreamer posted...

Remember: It's okay to make holidays about yourself, but if you say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas you are a monster.

imagine if you don't give christians proper attention on a folklorist holiday that the christians appropriated

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Corrik7 posted...

Literally no one would ever take issue with that except you all just complain to complain.

"literally no one would ever take issue with that except all the people who aren't madly in love with trump." yeah, sounds about right.


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Look at all the outraged liberals now try to deflect to a pointless different direction about Christmas instead of just admitting they are just complaining to complain like they literally do almost every single day no matter what the issue is.

Donald Trump could literally get on his knees and suck off MLK reborn, and yinz would complain he isn't doing it as good as MLK deserves or some shit. Wild.


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Corrik7 posted...

Look at all the outraged liberals now try to deflect to a pointless different direction about Christmas instead of just admitting they are just complaining to complain like they literally do almost every single day no matter what the issue is.

Oh look at the outraged conservative deflecting like they always do!

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Dancedreamer posted...

Oh look at the outraged conservative deflecting like they always do!

Got em

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Corrik7 posted...

Look at all the outraged liberals now try to deflect to a pointless different direction about Christmas instead of just admitting they are just complaining to complain like they literally do almost every single day no matter what the issue is.

just because you keep saying this doesn't mean you're magically right all of a sudden.


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Mr Lasastryke posted...

just because you keep saying this doesn't mean you're magically right all of a sudden.

Proof is in the pudding, bruh. These topics are like 70% just Trump bashing with outrageously out of context tweets and statements for the majority of that 70%. There is criticism to be had, but when your criticism is "Hey, the guy who released a white house quote recognizing MLk, visited his memorial, and then recognized his own anniversary of taking the presidency with an aside of how it in ways ties to MLK day also is somehow deriding the holiday of MLK and making a farce of it in his own honor" it is readily apparent you are just finding reason to complain over nonsense.

This is where the main divide happens. People have to polarize everything and it keeps the wedge going further and further. Not everything has to be some issue.

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ITT bragging about "best poverty, youth and employment numbers ever" is extremely relevant to MLK day. man i can't think of a better way to honor dr. king than to listen to trump blather on about all the amazing things he has achieved during his presidency.

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

ITT bragging about "best poverty, youth and employment numbers ever" is extremely relevant to MLK day. man i can't think of a better way to honor dr. king than to listen to trump blather on about all the amazing things he has achieved during his presidency.

Every single thing you say on MLK day does not have to be about MLK, bud. News at 11.

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Agree with corrik tbh

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Corrik7 posted...

Every single thing you say on MLK day does not have to be about MLK, bud. News at 11.

the problem is that he's bragging about his achievements in a tweet about MLK day. if it were a separate tweet not related to MLK day i would have no issue.

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DoomTheGyarados posted...

Agree with corrik tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbySdh66npI

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-pence-visit-mlk-memorial/ar-BBZ9QdN

https://mobile.twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1219279605464473601

But, here is you...

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c45ef7ce4b0bfa693c5fc9c

Year 1: He didn't go to a MLK ceremony!
Year 2: OMG he went to a MLK ceremony but only stayed 2 minutes!
Year 3: OMFG he went to a MLK ceremony but made a tweet about the anniversary of his taking office in the same day!

Like. Seriously? Lol

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Corrik7 posted...

Year 1: He didn't go to a MLK ceremony!
Year 2: OMG he went to a MLK ceremony but only stayed 2 minutes!
Year 3: OMFG he went to a MLK ceremony but made a tweet about the anniversary of his taking office in the same day!

Yup seems like Trump fucked up 3 times.

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It might feel like more than cheap talk if his spokesperson wasn't putting words into the mouth of a dead man ("mlk would have opposed impeachment") and if there wasn't a literal lifetime of history full of proof of trump's racism.

Easier to talk than walk, and trump is a man full of talk.

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Corrik7 posted...

Look at all the outraged liberals now try to deflect to a pointless different direction about Christmas

...I count one?
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Peace___Frog posted...

It might feel like more than cheap talk if his spokesperson wasn't putting words into the mouth of a dead man ("mlk would have opposed impeachment") and if there wasn't a literal lifetime of history full of proof of trump's racism.

Easier to talk than walk, and trump is a man full of talk.

If Trump sat there and monologued for 24 hours straight for all of MLK day about how great MLK was, you would still call him a racist and just say he is trying to woo African-American voters or not properly giving MLK his due. I mean, we can be honest with ourselves. No matter what he does, you are going to complain.

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i'm neither outraged nor a liberal for the record

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Corrik7 posted...

If Trump sat there and monologued for 24 hours straight for all of MLK day about how great MLK was, you would still call him a racist and just say he is trying to woo African-American voters or not properly giving MLK his due. I mean, we can be honest with ourselves. No matter what he does, you are going to complain.

Mr Lasastryke posted...

just because you keep saying this doesn't mean you're magically right all of a sudden.

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You're right. One action wouldn't undo decades of targeted harassment and illegal practices. If he made an ongoing effort to undo the damage his past actions directly caused, then I'd happily call him not a racist.

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Corrik7 posted...

If Trump sat there and monologued for 24 hours straight for all of MLK day about how great MLK was, you would still call him a racist and just say he is trying to woo African-American voters or not properly giving MLK his due. I mean, we can be honest with ourselves. No matter what he does, you are going to complain.

Let's be honest here, Donald Trump could lynch a black man on the white house lawn and you'd defend him no matter what he does.

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Only if it was very legal and very cool
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Dancedreamer posted...

Let's be honest here, Donald Trump could lynch a black man on the white house lawn and you'd defend him no matter what he does.

Yeah, okay.

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still don't really see the problem with trump's tweet. is he hyping himself up a bit there, sure, but the content is about how black people are doing better now - with him in charge - by the numbers. that's fine. spinning that into something else or somehow into a negative thing is just weird.

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Wanglicious posted...

but the content is about how black people are doing better now - with him in charge - by the numbers.

why are people ignoring the part where he's bragging about "best poverty, youth and unemployment numbers, ever. great!"


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Corrik7 posted...

Yeah, okay.

don't like it when people use your bullshit line of attack against you?

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

why are people ignoring the part where he's bragging about "best poverty, youth and unemployment numbers, ever. great!"

I assume he means black X numbers. But anyway, the reason it's offensive is that the implication is that black people should on MLK day really be appreciative of Donald Trump, a man who has demonstrated his racism his entire life.

This is similar to how he often brings up passing the First Step Act whenever he thinks black people are being insufficiently grateful to him (as if mass incarceration is only a black issue or that it's the top priority of all black voters).

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