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Author Topic: American Election Megathread - It's Over  (Read 763900 times)

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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9105 on: November 09, 2012, 10:22:56 am »

I can't remember where I got this, so unfortunately there's no source here, but I remember reading a report that a pretty good number of one-percenters aren't actually against raising taxes on the wealthy.  It feels like a lot of the "Don't tax the rich" sentiment is coming from the people who would benefit the most from taxes on the wealthy, who've somehow been duped into protesting their own interests.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9106 on: November 09, 2012, 10:23:16 am »

Silly Americans, wanting to get into Manitoba.

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I would make a joke deriding Manitoba here, but I quite honestly can't think of one.
There is nothing there to deride besides stupidly long and cold winters. Think of North Dakota jokes, and then shift those to a site even further north. Anyone moving to Manitoba right now is in for a very long season...
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9107 on: November 09, 2012, 10:33:11 am »

I can't remember where I got this, so unfortunately there's no source here, but I remember reading a report that a pretty good number of one-percenters aren't actually against raising taxes on the wealthy.  It feels like a lot of the "Don't tax the rich" sentiment is coming from the people who would benefit the most from taxes on the wealthy, who've somehow been duped into protesting their own interests.
Warren Buffet has been very vocal about this point, but he takes a lot of shit from other rich people for it, or so he says.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9108 on: November 09, 2012, 11:11:45 am »

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/upside-down-flag-west-virginia-mcdonald-raises-questions-154746450.html

McDonalds in west virginia flies their flag at half mast and upside down the day after the election... and blames it on faulty equipment.


http://news.yahoo.com/darwin-gets-4-000-write-votes-against-ga-232412954--election.html

Charles Darwin, the long dead biologist, won over 4000 write in votes in the the uncontested election of Paul Broun, who is notable for calling science "lies straight from the pit of hell" and for being on the House of Representatives Science Committee.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9109 on: November 09, 2012, 12:29:03 pm »

Wow, should NOT have read the comments on the Darwin thing.  Apparently some people are willing to believe evolution is a lie straight from the pits of hell, but are quite ok with saying black people are monkeys.

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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9111 on: November 09, 2012, 01:26:31 pm »

Wow, should NOT have read the comments on the Darwin thing.  Apparently some people are willing to believe evolution is a lie straight from the pits of hell, but are quite ok with saying black people are monkeys.

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That says quite a lot about the sort of people that hold that point of thought really doesn't it?

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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9112 on: November 09, 2012, 01:33:12 pm »

Wow, should NOT have read the comments on the Darwin thing.
Are you sure?

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if EVILUTION WAS CORRECT WHY HAVEN´T CHIMPS,GORRILAS ,MONKIES
"EVOVLVED"
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But Mark! They *have* evolved! They're on the Internet, stabbing at the keyboard with the "Caps Lock" on.....

EDIT: Okay, you are right. These people are idiots.
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lets not start with monkeys - tell me how the first dinosaur evolved with it's many variations. and why didn't they keep evolvin again after they were wiped out. could it be that some being was providing for our oil needs centuries later?
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9113 on: November 09, 2012, 01:35:34 pm »

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/09/murray-energy-obama-layoffs-cut-jobs_n_2100172.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=2153734,b=facebook

Someone drank a little too much of the kool-aid.

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This is why Murray is laying off employees. It has NOTHING...ABSOLUTELY NOTHING....to do with Obama.

Good summary, random internet commentator.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9114 on: November 09, 2012, 02:11:05 pm »

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"EVOVLVED"
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9115 on: November 09, 2012, 02:12:05 pm »

But Gorillas are clearly chimps that have evolved. I mean, just look at them! At least several levels hire, same types, similar moveset...
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9116 on: November 09, 2012, 02:14:47 pm »

Aipom -> Ambipom

Checkmate, creationists.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9117 on: November 09, 2012, 02:24:13 pm »

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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9118 on: November 09, 2012, 03:23:57 pm »

Which imperialistic ventures are you talking about? I thought that we had already established that the Japanese had invaded Manchuria after their economy had already recovered/began to recover. And besides some pre-invasion economic concessions in Manchuria, I can't find any other imperialistic ventures at the appropriate time.
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The imperialistic ventures in Manchuria immediately following the "recovery", which allowed Japan to actually keep it going. Oh, and allow me to complete the quote that you didn't finish:
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This resulted in a strong and swift negative reaction from nationalists, especially those in the army, culminating in his assassination in the course of the February 26 Incident. This had a chilling effect on all civilian bureaucrats in the Japanese government. From 1934, the military's dominance of the government continued to grow. Instead of reducing deficit spending, the government introduced price controls and rationing schemes that reduced, but did not eliminate inflation, which would remain a problem until the end of World War II.

So yeah, the short term recovery was followed by long term inflation.

Also, you conveniently ignored the fact that the Japanese Depression effectively began in 1920, when the economy experienced a massive downturn and Japanese intervention failed to make a significant impact. To compare, very nearly the same depression occurred in the US at the same time, was fought with massive spending/tax cuts, and was replaced by a period of massive growth in 1922. So even assuming imperialism wasn't necessary to sustain Japanese growth, the net result was seven years of depression (20-27), two years of "recovery" (28-29), three MORE years of depression (29-31), and a recovery from THAT for four years, followed by the institution of what amounted to a wartime economy. The Wiki article doesn't even mention if the "recovery" was to pre-1929 levels, when the economy was basically in a depression already, or pre-1920 levels, when the economy was actually in decent shape.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #9119 on: November 09, 2012, 03:29:45 pm »

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/race-city-council-tied-wife-candidate-doesn-t-161355890.html

A city council vote came down to a tie. And the wife of one of the candidates didn't vote.

http://news.yahoo.com/next-bush-makes-campaign-filing-texas-041025927.html

A new George Bush has decided to enter politics.
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