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@poochyena
What did he mean by this?
How is tim pool reporting on a statement by another colleague that he was pressured by the DNC in anyway related to ben shaperio?

look his video titles.

Ok.
shits clickbait, don't really care tim worked for vox i expect it
does this change the matter at hand?

A take.

It would gain the EU long term political capital to let Brexit happen with favorable terms. If the EU's ultimate goal is to create a sovereign federative state out of the myriad of parliamentarian nation states than it has to let nation states leave the Union.

For one, this reinforces the importance of national character and identity, within nation states, while simultaneously fostering the idea that it could be balanced with a limited centralized super state.

Otherwise the EU is going to continue facing crises after crises as it attempts to use power that it neither has, nor has any legitimacy to have, to force nation states within the Union to elect far-right, ultra-nationalist governments, that would ultimately spell it's doom.

Unfortunately, the ones in charge of th EU's major political arena are cosmopolitan technocrats that believe that they can engineer a continental wide sovereignty out of nations with distinct histories, languages, cultures, customs, and even national interests.

They are the sowers of their own demise. Where they could have created a truly wonderful example of a confederated government – which simultaneously can muster numerous nation-states towards goals, while respecting individual nation-states particular characters. Instead they chose the path of Empire.

And Empires do not long last. Empires foster nationalism, and nationalism is born out of Empire. Looks like the HRE is back bois.

The Trudeau scandal continues, with the former AG release a trove of documents and an audio recording of the AG and one of Trudeau's top ministers arguing about the case. Curiously, that minister was one of the ones that has resigned.

BrentD15 said:

NRA official conspired with Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist to spread false rumors regarding Parkland shooting, according to e-mail.

How dare he have the audacity to wonder, in the immediate aftermath, if there were more people involved in the attack.

Adegeneratefurry said:

The interesting part of this is that this third vote was simply a vote on whether or not to leave the EU. Their parliament has rejected leaving the EU.

Gonna have to give a sauce there. Everything I see says they just rejected May's consent agreement again. Brexit is still scheduled for April 12th, until they inevitably opt to kick the can past the next general election, setting up a de facto Brexit 2 vote.

Oh boy! Looks like Joe Biden was sexually harassing a young woman named Lucy Flores in 2014 and Now she is talking about it

I wouldn't be surprised more claims against him will surface soon. This could knock out the best hope the Democrats have in beating President Trump in 2020

Oh, btw, she was the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in Nevada too.

Oh the Irony of it all. Staffers of the SPLC are saying that a rampant 'systemic culture of racism and sexism' exist there.

If anyone needs to find a cesspit of hate and bigotry, it's the Southern Poverty law Center.

William Barr is seeking to identify and redact 'information that would unduly infringe on the personal privacy and reputational interests of peripheral third parties.'

Who's reputation, to be exact?

Alex Jones flips out during Sandy Hook deposition video.

The surprising thing about the demographics is that younger adults aren't becoming more Democrats, rather they're becoming less Republican.

This is purely my opinion, but what is probably going to happen in the long run is that since Trump's highest approval is on economics Republicans will be forced to not necessarily get rid of social conservatives so much as push them under the rug. Like how Republicans didn't necessarily get rid of anti-gay marriage Republicans so much as took it down as a Republican platform.

Tldr; $50 says the Republican party will eventually rename itself "The Capitalist party".

>First the google pay wage gap I mentioned
>Now this
Equality

And people still wonder why MGTOW are still alive and kicking

Biden being ahead in the polls doesn't mean much, especially since at about this point in the 2016 cycle Jeb was ahead in the polls and we all saw how that turned out. And with populists like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Andrew Yang along with fake populists like Beto O'rourke, Bidens campaign will fizzle out just like it did 1988 and 2008.

^--I agree.
Biden has his own problems. Lot's of them. The reason he's ahead in the polls is because the majority of Democrats do not subscribe to left-populism as much as people think they do.

i also know that even if a candidate does lose, if they show that they are very favorable then it shows that there is a sizable political will to get things done…in that regard I really am rooting for Yang.

Despite me disagreeing with Yang on a lot of issues he's the only one that seems to be talking about the potentialy impact of automation, and how to best tackle that. Not to mention that he isn't approaching the solution from the perspective of "Fuck the rich let's give all this money to the poor" and more from the approach of "having extra income for lower-income families will give them room to become entrepreneurs".

I hope that kind of thinkings is diffused into the political rhetoric of both the right and left. We need someone to tackle these issues who understands them. Not like Elizabeth Warren who is talking about all this crap just to get attention. But to be fair, I am very VERY biased against Warren, who I think is just a slightly more leftist Clinton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8yXKjLCGf4
well since people brought up creepy uncle joe

@xTSGx
join the discord

just to clear up one annoying thing
>I know. It's almost like I, someone living in a rural area, am paying taxes for something that benefits urbanites without it providing any actual benefits to me.

I already told you that it can benefit rural people. If you travel to a large event, there is a good chance you'll take public transport between the event location and your hotel. I've used public transport in places I don't live before. Many people have. I've also never used the public transport in the city I currently live in.

@The greater aerie

It would be better for your health if you subscribe to less bias sources. Credible publications aren't going to have titles like "LEFTISTS absolutely DESTROYED by FACTS and LOGIC"
I'll take your comments more seriously when you post less bias content.

@poochyena
>It would be better for your health if you subscribe to less bias sources.
you are able to determine that Tim is biased by his titles alone?
What's his bias?
because it sounds like you looked at the title, you went HRRRM THIS MUST BE RIGHT WING I WILL BE VERY CRITICAL OF THIS SOURCE.
Tim's left wing bud, more left libertarian, was talking about his support for yang and Tullsi. As well as his former support for bernie sanders.

> Credible publications aren't going to have titles like "LEFTISTS absolutely DESTROYED by FACTS and LOGIC"
I am very glad he didn't, because he didn't unless your major issue is that he capitalized WORDS to EMPHASIS THEM and PHRASED THEM for MAXIMUM ATTENTION,
Dude used to work at vice, he's an experienced journalist, i assume he does this because it sells. i don't tend to notice them myself.
This is just a petty excuse at best poochy, you are looking for hook or crook for whatever reason to dismiss this out of hand and i can't for the life of me understand it because it's not a big deal.
so let me find another one that says reports the same thing
https://nypost.com/2019/03/30/journalist-says-nbc-and-msnbc-boss-used-menacing-tone-to-advocate-for-dnc/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/msnbc-nbc-news-top-political-editor-accused-of-trying-to-intimidate-reporter-on-behalf-of-the-dnc
balanced , including one left and one right sources
oddly enough the fox news on appears to be better because it has the embedded tweets.
Boom.

>I'll take your comments more seriously when you post less bias content.
poochy i cannot honestly take you seriously because you looked at a title, decided it was biased and decided to then write me off as a result.
When my comment was "hey look at this allegation"
and to be blunt my conversations with you have given me no reason to concern myself with your personal esteem because i don't believe it worth anything

>you are able to determine that Tim is biased by his titles alone?

yea

really what is it

bias title = bias content

You said you could determine his bias. I ask again what is it. What is his lean. And since i have provided you with 2 other sources on this topic what is so greatly different about his work and this?actual

>You said you could determine his bias. I ask again what is it.

Its what ever the title says.

You mean "major media network exposed…dnc"?
Uh yeah this is what others have reported
Whats the issue.

>Whats the issue.

I told you, the bias.

Just to be clear, you understand that bias =/= wrong, right?

So your issue is this man makes headline that is sensational thus this descredits his work? Even if its on something we can point to other sources to coraborate? What are you even arguing aside "well this reminds me of those YouTube videos where they clip a person OWNING another in an arguement?
Poocy what is this?

Well this is going to get a bunch of people arrested.

So anyway: facebook and such have been slowly getting more effective at determining what is fake news. What they've been doing is checking citations and cross referencing them. To over simplify if a news article's citation leads to another news article without citations chances are it's phony. Another way of determining fake news is cross referencing it; if there's a article saying mythical unicorns have been discovered in a English news article and you can't find such a news article in other languages chances are it's phony also. Or another way is if news article a references news article b and news article b uses news article c and news article c uses news article a as the reference then there is no actual original news article and chances are it's fake.

Anyway between Facebook, Google and Twitter working together so many IP addresses have been banned that now what people are doing is offering to "rent out" people's Facebook accounts. The reason why this is going to be awkward in the long run is that Ukraine has arrested several dozen people doing this inside of Ukraine.

Could you imagine in 2020 Russian intelligence officers being arrested in the USA trying to get people to sell their twitter accounts how awkward that's going to be?
Russian officer, "I was not trying to spread fake news I was simply trying to post pictures of trip to Washington to babushka!"
"Right to your two hundred twitter accounts?"

You even quoted where I said "bias =/= wrong" yet you think i'm saying "this descredits his work".

This is what bias mean; "prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair."

The problem with bias media is that it radicalizes people. It can push a narrative about a certain group and make them seem worse by solely focusing on their misdeeds. Its propaganda essentially. Everything said can have no false statements, but can still be bias. You don't allow yourself to think critically about a subject, but instead just let someone tell you how to feel.

So the Saudi Arabia king is ignoring how Trump is calling for them to increase oil production.

@poochyena
Of course because it doesn't matter what you perspective is on bias because i completely disagree on your assessment that it is bias. i thought i made this clear when i said "So your issue is this man makes headline that is sensational thus this descredits his work? "
(inb4 i didn't mean that when i said i wouldn't take you seriously for using this source). time and again i have asked you what in simple terms is his bias?
what is the issue here and as i said before why do you believe you can pass judgement on something you've not watched.

as you pointed out" prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair."
you've not clarified what he is prejudiced against, you've only made the claim, you've not demonstrated that he is

>The problem with bias media is that it radicalizes people
vacuous infact really insipid generalizations particularly when you are talking in this context, Tim is not a man with a strong bias and a very moderate person. his political views are as i've seen more mild then yours being that he is a moderate democrat.

>It can push a narrative about a certain group and make them seem worse by solely focusing on their misdeeds.
and what narrative is that, media bad wrong? watch the damn video

poochy i'm getting real sick of this shit because it seems to me that you said something you didn't consider and then you are bending over backwards and worse conceding to me on generalizations over work you have not taken time out to watch because you had a visceral to the title

Ouch; someone made a good point: Trump has only successfully managed to pass one law he penned so far during his presidency; the tax cut.

Given he's only managed to get one law passed chances are pretty high nothing else he'll pen will get through congress. No wonder why he's abusing executive mandate, cause his only resort is to throw as much as he can at the wall and see what sticks.

PatrickBateman96 said:

especially since at about this point in the 2016 cycle Jeb was ahead in the polls…

To be fair, though, pretty much all the contenders for the Dems are in now. Nobody saw Trump coming, but Biden might very well be the last one to join for the Dems. A darkhourse overtaking him isn't going to be the problem. The problem he's already having is he's awkward (have you seen those videos of him doing photo ops with kids?) and a gaffe machine, which was fine in '08, but now is a virtual death sentence in the social media outrage age.

poochyena said:

join the discord

Already a member, I just don't have time for it. I already spend an hour a day here as it is.

If you travel to a large event…

I don't pay taxes for that. The public transit I pay taxes for, I can't use because of how much of a waste of time and money it is for me. It is cheaper, quicker, and more efficient for me to just drive. It is a service I pay for, that has no benefit to me but benefits urban populations.

Adegeneratefurry said:

Given he's only managed to get one law passed…

Wut. 443 laws were passed by the 115th Congress. Assuming you mean "presidential initiatives," that's kind of how it usually works. Presidents only have the political capital for two or three big legislative pushes. Obama spent most of his with Obamacare and the Iranian deal, Bush burned through a lot of his with the Iraq War and Medicare Part D, etc.

The Saudi's got ahold of Jeff Bezos' private data.

For a brief moment, I would like to ask all of you who participate in this thread to read this about the evolving threat of transnational organized crime, and what we're up against today.

@xTSGx
> It is cheaper, quicker, and more efficient for me to just drive.

And when it isn't? It can benefit you if you even go out and go to large events. If you want to go to momo-con, nearby parking is something $50 per day. Public transport is around $5. You don't have to live in urban areas to use their transport. Its an option to you. Whether you use it or not is irrelevant, its about whether its an option for you or not.

We may have our first major Democrat candidate to fall out of the race; Warren is struggling to get donations.

Out of all the people running so far only Beto, Sanders, Harris and Klobuchar have enough money to really be considered contenders. Somebody could come from behind, but so far it's pretty safe to say the group of serious contenders is much smaller than the number of people who have announced their run.

you yanks pay $5?
god most transit here is 3.25 – 4.00
i'm willing to say that sometimes it's just better to drive having lived in the country side and dealt with massive fucked issues with transport but like shit man.
cheap
you can just sit down and read.
and in Canada you don't get as many freaky people and gross shit like i hear the states has.
I always ALWAYS point to how in soma, they had to fuck the shit out of the spandia line to make it understandable to Americans

>you yanks pay $5?

I said around. normally between $0 to $5

@poochy
Well i'd say we Canadians pay around 3.50
lower ceiling
this sounds like you boys pay more for once because damn we pay more for everything compared to you

@poochy
oh if you are talking about publicly funded transit, my experiences are the private transit forms are better just better generally
fuck ottawa transit + ottawa weather

She hasn't dropped out so you can't say she's out. Also Richard Ojeda dropped out at the end of January, he was the first major candidate to "fall out".

Erdogan has lost some key local elections in Turkey, with Ankara electing an opposition mayor and Istanbul possibly doing so as well (the opposition candidate is leading by 4,000 votes).

poochyena said:

And when it isn't?

Then I wouldn't be paying for it in taxes, since any use would be outside of Washtenaw County, which was the point of the discussion: something that affected rural residents, but only benefited urban residents. I get no benefit from The Ride. None whatsoever, despite it affecting me with taxes.

Population Density can be a real pain in the ass. It's why a lot of major cities are absolute trash heaps.

Let me rephrase that; she's probably going to be the first major candidate to fall out of relevance. The Democrat FEC guideline requires a candidate get at least 1% of polls and at least 65,000 donations. Unless she has a spectacular first debate she probably isn't going to remain relevant.

Aww too bad. I would have enjoyed, quite a bit actually, seeing her get absolutely annihilated if she was the presidential candidate. Would be like Clinton vs Trump 2.0 except with non of the political power that Clinton had.

@xTSGx
>since any use would be outside of Washtenaw County, which was the point of the discussion: something that affected rural residents, but only benefited urban residents.

…
We were talking about things that the president has control over. Thats local government.

Amazon has cut their prices on their foods; it's pretty clear that they're trying to undercut Walmart.

China's manufacturing continues to grow, despite usa tariffs, because of how they're expanding exports to other countries.

Bitcoin surged 15% last week.

>Amazon has cut their prices on their foods; it's pretty clear that they're trying to undercut Walmart.

Amazon really need to create a better food shopping system. It is soooooo much easier to compare two brands of food in person than online. Heck, most foods don't even list the nutritional values on amazon.
Also lots of people like me who live walking distance from a grocery store. Why wait ~2 days (or, in a few areas, ~2 hours, but that costs extra I think) when I can take a 5 to 10 minute walk to the store?
I feel very strongly about Walmart beating Amazon in the grocery war or whatever. I think Amazon will be able to find and fill a certain niche, but won't be able to take over the grocery market.

I also don't think Amazon will be able to dethrone Walmart, but a bit of rivalry could be good.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is pressing the IRS to investigate the tax-exempt status of leftist group Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an organization that has been mired in scandal.

Here is his letter.

There is some good news with gene engineering; what people are now looking at is engineering bacteria to attack other bacteria, viruses and shit that is dangerous to humans or to the ecosystem.

The chance of this becoming dangerous is relatively little, because you're not reprogramming plants humans eat or humans directly rather bacteria naturally found in nature. Even if the bacteria mutated it wouldn't necessarily effect humans. I think this'll be a good thing in the long run, because say in thirty years you wouldn't need to reprogram human cells to handle high levels of plastic in food or such, rather reprogram bacteria found in soil to break down plastics or dangerous shit in soil.

Keep in mind I'm not talking about overnight undoing global warming, pollution and destroying all hazardous materials overnight, rather reprogramming good bacteria to have a high tolerance to hazardous materials and break them down would slowly over a couple decades turn the Yangtze river from yellow back to something you can actually swim in.

Rhizobia bacteria be like, "I don't recognize this Polypropylene thing"
Geneticists, "It's highly toxic"
Rhizobia bacteria, "Remember me soybean legume buddy!"
Soybeans, "(presses F to pay respect)"