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Author Topic: American Election Megathread - It's Over  (Read 770529 times)

Darvi

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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8985 on: November 08, 2012, 05:04:06 am »

Actually he's wearing that avatar because he lost a bet. At least that I can respect.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8986 on: November 08, 2012, 05:06:07 am »

I'm also 86% sure MW's post was a sarcastic response to Troll's post.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8987 on: November 08, 2012, 05:14:25 am »

Actually he's wearing that avatar because he lost a bet. At least that I can respect.

Oh. Fair enough.

I'm also 86% sure MW's post was a sarcastic response to Troll's post.

Poe's law strikes again. Although what I said is still valid, though not as a response.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8988 on: November 08, 2012, 05:59:47 am »

I'm also 86% sure MW's post was a sarcastic response to Troll's post.
86%?
I must try harder next time to mask my blatant sarcasm to a level where even I can't tell who I am making fun of anymore!

Darvi

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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8989 on: November 08, 2012, 06:03:19 am »

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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8990 on: November 08, 2012, 06:06:42 am »

Like that is ever going to come in handy⸮

Ok, that felt a little strange... Not sure, might have to get used to it.

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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8991 on: November 08, 2012, 06:14:43 am »

So...

What's the deal with florida?
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8992 on: November 08, 2012, 06:27:44 am »

Like that is ever going to come in handy⸮

Odd, it does not appear for me. It is just a box with 2E2E in it.

Initial googling seems to place the blame on Windows. Windows apparently has no sence of ironly whatsoever.
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This is when I imagine the hilarity which may happen if certain things are glichy. Such as targeting your own body parts to eat.

You eat your own head
YOU HAVE BEEN STRUCK DOWN!

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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8993 on: November 08, 2012, 06:29:46 am »

I can't see it either, it's just a box for me.
I prefer boxes to those weird reverse question marks though. They're quite the abomination.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8994 on: November 08, 2012, 06:31:09 am »

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CARACAS, Venezuela — From Caracas to Havana to La Paz, President Barack Obama's re-election victory was welcomed with a sigh of relief by many on Latin America's left, though others cautioned that the U.S. leader had not made the region a priority during his crisis-buffeted first term and was unlikely to do so in a second.

... Except that to Latin America, the U.S.A. "making the [latin American] region a priority" usually means funding covert civil wars to overthrow elected governments. They probably like the fact that Obama pretty much ignores the region. In fact, since U.S.A. started to ignore South America there have been markedly less dictators, militarism, and general hostility there.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8995 on: November 08, 2012, 07:36:26 am »

So...

What's the deal with florida?
Damnit all, has something happened again? I've paid zero flipping attention since tuesday night.

Also, Georgia is the sarcasm font. Spread the word, people.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8996 on: November 08, 2012, 07:39:13 am »

So...

What's the deal with florida?
Damnit all, has something happened again? I've paid zero flipping attention since tuesday night.

Currently Obama's in the lead, at 4,143,362 to 4,096,346, but no winner has been declared.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8997 on: November 08, 2012, 07:41:07 am »

Also, Georgia is the sarcasm font. Spread the word, people.
We can font? Holy crap, I never even knew!

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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8998 on: November 08, 2012, 07:44:34 am »

Most recoveries throughout history take only a year from the start of the recession and feature growth of 4-6%.

Once again you show that you can hide an enormous amount of deceit into a tiny amount of words.  In this case you use the word "Most" to conceal a huge amount of deception.

Most recoveries are through garden variety recessions, not financial crises combined with severe demand side slumps.  They can be solved if the Fed sets the effective fund rate to a low enough rate to increase growth.  Well the Fed had already lowered the rate to 0% before Obama was even in office and we weren't back to growing.  The problem was too deep for conventional policy.  We had to use unconventional policies that are unconventional for good reasons.  Among other reasons it's because they are slower.

The reason that other economies are underperforming? High debt loads are interfering with their ability to access the bond markets and borrow. Our policy now? Access the bond markets for $1 trillion a year. Yep. Clearly it's the fault of the rest of the world, because they should not be doing what we're doing even more egregiously.

And then you give us this, showing that not only do you not know history but you don't know present day world affairs either.  Japan went into this with far and away the highest debt load among major economies.  Spain went into this with a tiny debt load and a surplus.  You have a perception that in no way resembles the real world.  I'm not going to try to explain the economics to you because I have already tried and you ignored it.  So please leave.  People explain things to you and you ignore them and then post the same ignorance again in a few weeks.  If you don't want to talk and don't want to learn then please leave.
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Re: American Election Megathread - It's Over
« Reply #8999 on: November 08, 2012, 07:47:00 am »

Currently Obama's in the lead, at 4,143,362 to 4,096,346, but no winner has been declared.
Oh. No clue, then. Haven't heard anything. Guess they're still counting and want to be thorough. E: It's 4,161,864 to 4,110,272 by the florida unofficial count thingy, though.
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