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Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« Reply #3360 on: July 15, 2012, 04:55:49 am »

MrHappy is one of the guys who show up once in a while on these forums and ends up being enlightened in his own way is all. He is on his dream journey so to speak if that is more relateable except in waking internet form. Also how the hell do you spell relateable? The spellchecker doesn't recognize it and the grammatical security my robot teacher provides is reassuring.
Relatable is pretty much wrong anyway. It means that you can relate that thing. What should really be said is relate-to-able or something.
It's like reliable, that doesn't make much sense as a word either.
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« Reply #3361 on: July 15, 2012, 05:33:08 am »

It's like reliable, that doesn't make much sense as a word either.

:P I always thought "funner" should be a word, but correctness unfortunately isn't decided by what makes sense. It's decided by language nazis who cling fiercely to the past and don't like new lingo, calling it slang or colloquialism.
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Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« Reply #3362 on: July 15, 2012, 07:14:42 am »

Banks


From that link:
The documents released by the New York Fed and other regulators late Thursday and on Friday paint a picture of banks desperate to under-report their borrowing rates in order to appear stronger, and of regulators aware of a broken system but overwhelmed by the financial crisis.
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Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« Reply #3363 on: July 15, 2012, 08:21:40 am »

:P I always thought "funner" should be a word, but correctness unfortunately isn't decided by what makes sense. It's decided by language nazis who cling fiercely to the past and don't like new lingo, calling it slang or colloquialism.
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Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« Reply #3364 on: July 15, 2012, 08:39:21 am »

Some worrying things about Romney:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/07/2012712122146656404.html

Then Legum quotes from what he describes as "a stunning interview with Breitbart.com, [in which] two top advisers to Mitt Romney revealed the campaign's plan to largely ignore journalists in favour of right-wing conspiracy websites". He quotes Romney campaign spokesman Lenny Alcivar as follows:

    "When this election is over, one of the lessons that will be learned by the mainstream media is that they no longer have a toe-hold on how Americans receive their news. Never before - in a way that has taken Democrats off stride - have we seen the confluence of an aggressive online community, led by Breitbart, and an aggressive campaign team not willing to cede an inch of ground to Democrats. This combination has created a new political reality. We no longer allow the mainstream media to define the political realities in America. The rise of Breitbart, Drudge and others, combined with an aggressive Romney campaign is a powerful tool in the arsenal of the conservative movement… The governor will no longer allow the mainstream media to dictate the terms of this debate. This is just the beginning… We are witnessing the rise of the centre right media.
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« Reply #3365 on: July 15, 2012, 09:31:55 am »

We no longer allow the mainstream media to define the political realities in America.

That part sounded good. The rest sounded like a conservative mirror image of Obama's old "grassroots" thing from before he won the funny little game they call an election, a clever way to preserve the charade of "democracy" a while longer before people really stop playing along.
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« Reply #3366 on: July 15, 2012, 10:03:15 am »

Sorry, but that strikes me as the same level as whining about the "liberal media."


People and politicians have been cherry picking their news sources forever. It's not a new phenomenon.
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Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« Reply #3367 on: July 15, 2012, 03:08:09 pm »

I wonder how much it would cost to do presidential product placement. Anyone know how much boeing paid?

Yeah, that's a good point except the president, if anyone, has use for a private customized airplane in order to fulfill his duties to the public. Maybe he should build one himself to satisfy you. Or maybe he could give free flights to people on the taxpayer dime when he's not using the plane; or maybe charge for it. Oh wait, any of those options might be socialism. Scary.
Or! Instead of arguing about how I want Obama to use his legs, we could look at the diplomatic cables released by my presidential contender, Bradley Manning, and recognize that product placement is an important item of national interest. It is vital for us to protect the world from the clearly inferior Airbus!
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Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« Reply #3369 on: July 17, 2012, 11:41:31 pm »

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« Reply #3370 on: July 17, 2012, 11:43:57 pm »

Which is why I haven't bought anything at a Wal☆Mart for a few months, and don't intend to ever again. Sure, other stores might be just as bad ethically, but at least their owners aren't already so ludicrously wealthy.

The Walton family has as much wealth as the bottom 41.5% of Americans combined.
I read that then some of the other postings they got, very too liberal for my eyes.
Which parts? ThinkProgress has some fairly out-there stuff, but most are articles like this - pointing out something crazy and sometimes trying to get people to stop it.
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Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« Reply #3371 on: July 17, 2012, 11:47:41 pm »

Which is why I haven't bought anything at a Wal☆Mart for a few months, and don't intend to ever again. Sure, other stores might be just as bad ethically, but at least their owners aren't already so ludicrously wealthy.

The Walton family has as much wealth as the bottom 41.5% of Americans combined.
I read that then some of the other postings they got, very too liberal for my eyes.
Which parts? ThinkProgress has some fairly out-there stuff, but most are articles like this - pointing out something crazy and sometimes trying to get people to stop it.
Yea thats fine but then the fine digging of Romeny's taxes, one of his supporters did dealings with the chinese mobs, and the blocking of the Voice for covering the Olympics (seems overreacting to me as someone probably did some bribing i don't see anything racist).

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« Reply #3372 on: July 17, 2012, 11:49:57 pm »

They did state their references in the article.
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Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« Reply #3373 on: July 18, 2012, 12:19:50 am »

Which is why I haven't bought anything at a Wal☆Mart for a few months, and don't intend to ever again. Sure, other stores might be just as bad ethically, but at least their owners aren't already so ludicrously wealthy.
Wish to hell there was a better alternative for food-that-I-eat in my area, price wise. Much as Wally disgusts me, I save a good few hundred dollars a year grocery shopping there which... makes a damn sight of a difference, re: essentials (shelter, transport, health). Regularly price scope other shops, but when what they sell is $.20 or more higher per unit... it comes out to saving twenty, thirty bucks a month at minimum, which adds right the buggery up. Hopefully the next move I make'll put me in range of something near cost that's not quite as reprehensible :-\

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Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« Reply #3374 on: July 18, 2012, 12:57:34 am »

The thing is, nothing's going to get lower without being just as immoral, with how American corporations are right now. That thirty dollars a month in your pocket is thirty dollars being denied to some sweatshop workers or Wal Mart employees. BUY LOCAL
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