Doesn't LAPD use their StingRays for basically everything these days
Well, yeah.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 13 November 2016 00:12 (seven years ago) link
like, i'm not really focused on getting people to act in accordance with their class interests, i just want to live in a country where most people agree that pogroms are a bad thing.
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Sunday, 13 November 2016 00:15 (seven years ago) link
who's saying that pogroms are a good thing?
― sarahell, Sunday, 13 November 2016 00:18 (seven years ago) link
my babbling about the alt right upthread is pointless. I have to believe everyone who voted for Trump was aware enough re incitations of violence, punishing women for abortions, judge Curiel, pussy-grabbing. if they didn't care about any of those then they just don't care about anything. except emails I guess.
― acerbic (sic)s (will), Sunday, 13 November 2016 00:25 (seven years ago) link
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 13 November 2016 00:28 (seven years ago) link
welp I guess he Right, such as it is in 2016, has finally found a way to connect with 'the kids'
― acerbic (sic)s (will), Sunday, 13 November 2016 00:30 (seven years ago) link
Frum going ham: https://storify.com/Noahkgreen/let-s-have-a-fresh-start
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 November 2016 00:35 (seven years ago) link
Just wrote the white house asking obama to recess appoint Garland to the SC. Please do this if you agree, folks.
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 13 November 2016 00:42 (seven years ago) link
http://nypost.com/2016/11/11/secret-service-doesnt-want-trump-going-to-ufc-fight/
― 龜, Sunday, 13 November 2016 00:45 (seven years ago) link
Not the Onion.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 13 November 2016 01:00 (seven years ago) link
wait i thought we were going to #draintheswamp
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/305727-bondi-honored-to-serve-trump-in-transition-team
― acerbic (sic)s (will), Sunday, 13 November 2016 01:03 (seven years ago) link
― sarahell
nobody, yet, and i fucking well want to keep it that way.
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Sunday, 13 November 2016 01:05 (seven years ago) link
My 30th birthday was on Wednesday. What a shitty way to start my third decade of life.
― monster_xero, Saturday, 12 November 2016 06:52 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hate to be the bearer of bad news but
― did we ever get wizz sorted (wins), Sunday, 13 November 2016 01:06 (seven years ago) link
Dude has no friends beyond his inner circle, who else is he going to pick?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 13 November 2016 01:07 (seven years ago) link
To paraphrase myself: can we have somebody, anybody besides alt-right redditors flood this form, please?
OK so can "weird twitter" start flooding this please? https://apply.ptt.gov/
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 13 November 2016 01:19 (seven years ago) link
hoo boy
Marc Porter Magee@marcportermagee
Democrats now control only 13 state legislatures (26%). If they lose 1 more they fall below the % needed to stop constitutional amendments.
https://twitter.com/marcportermagee/status/797462124788379648
― sleeve, Sunday, 13 November 2016 01:45 (seven years ago) link
amendments still require 2/3 of the senate
― 龜, Sunday, 13 November 2016 01:47 (seven years ago) link
I threw my name in the bucket. Maybe I'll get a job with the NEA before it's eliminated for good.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 13 November 2016 01:47 (seven years ago) link
xp thank you
― sleeve, Sunday, 13 November 2016 01:52 (seven years ago) link
Yeah the new DNC's #1 job has to be to start recruiting and campaigning at the state legislator level and below. It's really insane how thin the ranks have been allowed to get
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 13 November 2016 01:55 (seven years ago) link
Obama apparently plans to make this his post presidency issue
― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Sunday, 13 November 2016 02:37 (seven years ago) link
source?
― sleeve, Sunday, 13 November 2016 02:38 (seven years ago) link
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/obama-holder-redistricting-gerrymandering-229868
― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Sunday, 13 November 2016 02:38 (seven years ago) link
ty
of course that was before trump won so who knows if it still holds
― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Sunday, 13 November 2016 02:39 (seven years ago) link
A good piece on the disconnect between Democrats and the working class, from the Harvard Business Review of all places:
https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class
― o. nate, Sunday, 13 November 2016 02:42 (seven years ago) link
Oh no I guarantee that NDRC thing is still on like donkey kong
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 13 November 2016 02:42 (seven years ago) link
xp - yeah, a lot of these same points are echoed in that rural vs. urban america piece on cracked that's been making the rounds.
― sarahell, Sunday, 13 November 2016 03:19 (seven years ago) link
and in regards to that one, a lot of my friends laugh when I talk about how my mom refused to let me go to college in NYC because I would get raped and/or murdered, I'd be the next Central Park jogger or Kitty Genovese. Granted, I tell it like a joke, but realizing that many of my friends grew up in cities and that the notion of cities being dangerous places was foreign to them.
― sarahell, Sunday, 13 November 2016 03:23 (seven years ago) link
guys it was Saturday, you shoulda gotten outta the house (all day)
i saw Verhoeven's Total Recall on the big screen. not much of an escape.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 November 2016 03:26 (seven years ago) link
fwiw I watched a documentary about the history of the Einsatzgruppen
― sarahell, Sunday, 13 November 2016 03:28 (seven years ago) link
I dropped off some knives for sharpening at dc union market
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 13 November 2016 03:44 (seven years ago) link
From that HBR piece
Massive funding is needed for community college programs linked with local businesses to train workers for well-paying new economy jobs. Clinton mentioned this approach, along with 600,000 other policy suggestions. She did not stress it.
Dead to rights
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 13 November 2016 03:46 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY5KTVA_2ys
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 November 2016 04:06 (seven years ago) link
The idea that people in exurban Wisconsin would have totally broken for Clinton if she'd only said more about her plan to increase federal funding for community college-based job training is beyond ridiculous.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 13 November 2016 04:25 (seven years ago) link
What if she said it was only for white people?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 13 November 2016 04:30 (seven years ago) link
The questions reflect what Mr. Trump’s advisers described as the president-elect’s coming to grips with the fact that his life is about to change radically. They say that Mr. Trump, who was shocked when he won the election, might spend most of the week in Washington, much like members of Congress, and return to Trump Tower or his golf course in Bedminster, N.J., or his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach on weekends.
god how is this real
― k3vin k., Sunday, 13 November 2016 04:46 (seven years ago) link
― o. nate, Saturday, November 12, 2016 6:42 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
good article
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Sunday, 13 November 2016 04:56 (seven years ago) link
the next four years are gonna be spectacular http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/first-read-what-we-got-wrong-n681956
― the klosterman weekend (s.clover), Sunday, 13 November 2016 05:12 (seven years ago) link
gah, wrong link: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-gov-transition-website-plugs-firm-s-properties-n682401
― the klosterman weekend (s.clover), Sunday, 13 November 2016 05:13 (seven years ago) link
A good piece on the disconnect between Democrats and the working class, from the Harvard Business Review of all places:https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Sunday, 13 November 2016 05:36 (seven years ago) link
"I have to believe everyone who voted for Trump was aware enough re incitations of violence, punishing women for abortions, judge Curiel, pussy-grabbing. if they didn't care about any of those then they just don't care about anything."
you know when i realized that his supporters wouldn't care no matter what he said or did? when it dawned on me that soooooo many southern, middle america, religious right, tea party, republican diehards, etc HATE anything from new york! it's hell to a lot of those people and the people in new york are evil hell-demons. so if they could overlook that, they could overlook anything.
i tell you, these people just don't play fair. their hate doesn't mean much to them apparently. they just dig hating on stuff.
it's possible that donald just translated as "t.v. star". they don't mind their law & order and their stories out there in the woods. those things come from new york.
― scott seward, Sunday, 13 November 2016 05:37 (seven years ago) link
xp i think the win-win solution is that all 60 million trump voters immediately uproot + move into america's elite coastal cities and pursue jobs in tech, data + alternative media
― yolo mostly (sleepingbag), Sunday, 13 November 2016 05:40 (seven years ago) link
huffpo bloggers imho
― the klosterman weekend (s.clover), Sunday, 13 November 2016 05:42 (seven years ago) link
two birds:
http://pitchfork.com/news/69783-kate-mckinnon-opens-snl-as-hillary-clinton-covers-leonard-cohens-hallelujah-watch/
― scott seward, Sunday, 13 November 2016 06:10 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnUqBLez-YU
― scott seward, Sunday, 13 November 2016 06:30 (seven years ago) link
Ha
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Sunday, 13 November 2016 06:47 (seven years ago) link
I tell it like a joke, but realizing that many of my friends grew up in cities and that the notion of cities being dangerous places was foreign to them.
I grew up 6 hours from the nearest city over 100,000 people. I never met anyone who had lived in a large American city until I was in college and still can't imagine being a kid growing up in a place like New York or Chicago.
Big cities are absolutely foreign to lots of small town people, scary confusing places where everyone is dangerous and the food is weird and there are too many people around and everything is expensive and it's really hard to get around and you deal with them as little as possible and only when necessary.
― joygoat, Sunday, 13 November 2016 07:08 (seven years ago) link
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/11/01/saudi-student-assaulted-wisconsin-dies-his-injuries/93101338/
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Sunday, 13 November 2016 07:11 (seven years ago) link