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Off Topic / Re: what's the worst fandom in your opinion?

« on: November 15, 2017, 09:42:10 PM »

Steven's Universe

im triggered

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Off Topic / Re: what's the worst fandom in your opinion?

« on: November 15, 2017, 09:37:38 PM »

the entire show is stuff so it doesn't matter

false

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Off Topic / Re: what's the worst fandom in your opinion?

« on: November 15, 2017, 09:34:01 PM »

Probably Steven Universe

Maybe if you go on Tumblr, but that's just a problem with the kind of people that use Tumblr.

Check out the subreddit. It's just normal stuffposting and none of the SJW stereotype.

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Off Topic / Re: [NEWS]Cards Against Humanity buys land on U.S./Mexico border to block wall

« on: November 15, 2017, 08:27:28 PM »

conservative logic: the reason why liberals won't read 8000 pages of dry, bureaucratic email logs is because they're under the threat of death by CNN-instigated mind control

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Off Topic / Re: Annoying Orange's magic wand obama was talking about.

« on: November 15, 2017, 03:36:05 PM »

At least we have a powerful military so its not like anyone can force us to pay it back

We've never not paid it back, and it's literally impossible that every single one of our debtors would cash in their treasury securities at the same time. So the national debt is very much a long-term problem.

But it doesn't matter whether our military is powerful or not because defaulting on our debt would destroy the economy. Our credit would plummet, which is particularly bad because our currency's value is backed by our credit. The dollar would inflate a stuffload. World markets would crash because the dollar is the global reserve currency.

Nobody could invade us to get us to settle our debt, but it would be the economic equivalent of the sky falling.

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: November 15, 2017, 03:01:20 PM »

Bob Menendez child love and corruption trial ongoing but Roy Moore is the devil.

your obsession with 'liberals supporting menendez' is entirely a strawman. find one user in this thread that has defended menendez at any point in time.

you won't because you can't

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Off Topic / Re: Annoying Orange's magic wand obama was talking about.

« on: November 15, 2017, 10:45:12 AM »

Kind of reminds me of how everyone gives Obama credit for the termination of Bin Laden when it was all built on everything Bush had done prior.

Yeah, Obama didn't really have any hand personally in killing Bin Laden. I don't think he really deserved a Nobel Prize either. There's sensible limits to how much people can circlejerk about his presidency.

But you're right, this is probably at least 80% because of Obama's policies. He did help job growth, but at a very heavy price. Our national debt more than doubled in the 8 years he was president while the previous debt was steadily accumulated over the course of the past two centuries. But hey, that's Keynesian economic theory for you.

If you take his stuff at face value, Annoying Orange is pretty Keynesian too. He wants to invest large amounts of expansionary federal spending into infrastructure (namely, a wall, but also highways) to stimulate the economy, which is a move that's pretty characteristic of Keynesian theory. Some economists say that it's unnecessary expansionary spending that will cause inflation, some say that a little bit of inflation is worth it. I'm not equipped to say whether it's a good idea or a bad one since that's outside my knowledge of macroeconomics.

The problem is that Annoying Orange also wants to drop taxes, which means that the national debt will rise because we'll be spending more money but taking in less revenue, meaning we can't buy back as many treasury securities as we could otherwise.

In defense of Obama, the national debt didn't double (it was like a 69% increase), and the increase was roughly proportional to the increase that happened over Reagan and Bush Sr.'s tenure, which, remember, didn't include a housing market crCIA right at the beginning that plummeted consumer demand and mandated the use of expansionary spending.

And yeah, sure, it made our debt skyrocket, but people didn't want to live in a recession. Ending the recession was definitely the popular choice, and he succeeded in getting us out of it.

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Off Topic / Re: [[[[NEWS]]]] Amazon announces a "Lord of the Rings" TV show

« on: November 15, 2017, 09:45:27 AM »

See, when I think of Lord of the Rings, I think of Primetime Television, and when I think of Primetime Television, I think of Amazon.

This is gonna be a turd on a whole new level.

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Off Topic / Re: [NEWS]Cards Against Humanity buys land on U.S./Mexico border to block wall

« on: November 15, 2017, 09:09:04 AM »

Eminent domain cases are possibly strongest on the border, but the landowners can fight it in court. Hundreds of land-owners have sued the US government over border agents erecting fences on their land. Some win. CaH wouldn't spend the money to launch a full-on lawsuit (probably) but the point is moot because there will be no border wall anyway.

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Off Topic / Re: #MeToo: Allegation Predictions for 2017-2018

« on: November 15, 2017, 01:59:54 AM »

Paul McCartney

If this happens I'll off myself.

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Off Topic / Re: can someone explain to me why people find adam devine funny

« on: November 15, 2017, 01:41:20 AM »

He's 1/3 of Workaholics. Good enough for me.

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Off Topic / Re: Why is there not an investment + crypto discussion topic?

« on: November 14, 2017, 10:57:13 PM »

The values of these cryptocurrencies are driven significantly by excessive speculation, hype, and optimism. It's gonna pop at some point, and everyone who kept their assets long-term in BTC is gonna be boned.

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: November 14, 2017, 10:31:52 PM »

Nah instead you go on more reliable sites like 'realclearpolitics'

It's a direct quote dude. I linked the site for the dialog box, not for any editorializing.

They are referring to the mountains of corrupt stuff she does that you idiots ignore by daisy chaining each other whilst crying out BUH HER EMAILS mid climax.

I'm tentatively considering asking for a citation on this, but that means committing to the (massive) time needed to actually address whatever trove of emails you find corrupt and incriminating.

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: November 14, 2017, 10:10:55 PM »

I'm gonna go ahead and take that as a "no, we have not read the emails, we think it is illegal to read them because that is what CNN told us so we did not look because we are fools"

dude I doubt CNN viewership in this thread is nearly as high as you think it is

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: November 14, 2017, 09:07:28 PM »

Comey said it happened. "If it was anyone else". That is a travesty of justice. Need an impartial investigation and trial.

You're implying like he was saying "if anyone else besides Hillary Clinton did this, they'd be prosecuted." That's not what he said.

REP. BLAKE FARENTHOLD (R-TX): Why should any person follow the law if our leaders don't? And we can argue about intent or not, but you laid out the fact that she basically broke the law but you couldn't prove intent. Maybe I'm putting words in your mouth but I do want to know why any person should follow the law if our leaders don't have to, maybe that's rhetorical but I'll give you the opportunity to comment on that.

JAMES COMEY, FBI DIRECTOR: That's a question I'm no more qualified to answer than any American citizen. It's an important question. In terms of my work, in my world, my folks would not be -- one of my employees would not be prosecuted for this. They would face consequences for this.

So the notion that it's either prosecute or you walk around smiling all day long is just not true for those people who work for the government. The broader question is one for a democracy to answer, not for me.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/07/07/comey_if_fbi_agent_did_what_hillary_did_they_would_not_be_prosecuted_but_would_face_consequences.html