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I think it's time to reveal. Thread is dying.

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Yeah, that guy doesn't seem legit...but there are definitely people who think anything less than screaming racial slurs and vile hatred of a particular race doesn't count as racism.

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That dude is also an anti-vaxxer, so to see him lecture on what is good vs bad science was pretty funny.

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Yeah, it's a bullshit argument and a bit of catch-22. You see this kind of thing with superhero action figures, where women superheroes are rarely included under the assumption that 1) boys don't like toys of girls and 2) girls don't want superhero action figures. I don't think either of these are a...

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Fuck that guy.

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Is this based on the dude I started trolling on Facebook after you argued with him?

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Happy belated!

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High Fidelity - Great movie. I think I couldn't appreciate it quite as much as someone who's really into the music scene. And, Rob wasn't supposed to be likable, was he? I hope not. Kind of like JGL in 500 Days of Summer; he's not a character to be looked up to at all. I collected records but was n...

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Based on her photos, she does look like she has Asian heritage (perhaps Hawaiian?), but I do find it difficult to defend this woman after she basically threatened to ruin his life over it

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Thanks!

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Oy, that's painful to watch. She started out okay. I don't think it was wrong of her to say that she thinks its offensive, but her actions deteriorated quickly. Lol, Gawker?

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What did the Ender's Game people do wrong? There's a lot of cognitive dissonance going on in there. Quite a few of his stories also have vague homoerotic/pedophilic vibes (the young boys in Ender's Game hang around each other while naked all the time, plus there's that naked shower fight scene). He...

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http://www.vox.com/2016/8/16/12506524/glenn-beck-black-lives-matter So it may come as a surprise that Beck is now pleading with conservatives to come to grips with the Black Lives Matter movement. What's more, he actually criticized the “All Lives Matter" chant. Dave Weigel reported for the Wa...

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Happy birthday

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I saw Mortal Kombat in theaters with my friends, and we were all alone. It was pretty awesome

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_b ... lo_buffalo

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Hillary should speak out against discrimination against trans people in the credit loan industry, but it seems like the author was trying to find one thing Hillary hasn't publicly spoken out about and use that as proof that she doesn't support trans rights. https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/fa...

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Pretty sure mine was Kelly Kapowski (Tiffani Amber Thiessen)

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Setting aside that the original post is inaccurate anyway. Shitloads of LGBTQ people, black people, women, etc., aren't voting for Clinton. For instance: https://blackmattersus.com/12024-we-wont-vote-for-hillary-blm-protesters-chant/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" on...

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How was she forced to the left of Bernie on gun-control? Her position on that issue hasn't changed at all from what I've seen. She even made sure to shout Bernie down during the debates to try to prevent him from even having a chance to present his somewhat reasonable view. She was closer to Bernie...

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Hilary doesn't believe any of that and she's going to betray the left the instant she gets in. Her pick of Tim Kaine is proof of that. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trust-us-politicians-keep-most-of-their-promises/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/contrary-to-popular-belief-pol...

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Except your whole argument was that the Democrats "trot" people like Bernie out every election cycle, when there's really no evidence (and mostly counter evidence) that Bernie was a tool used by the DNC to foster excitement in the primaries. I suspect that, without Bernie, there would have...

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Except Bernie was never a Dem, and has tried to use that to bolster his position. He was trying to get the Democratic party to move the left. I don't think he ran to try and get those on the far left to join the establishment, but to move the establishment to the left. He largely succeeded in that r...

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It never seemed clear to me that Bernie had all that much integrity to begin with, looking at his record (as you know), so it's still not a surprise to me. My theory was that Bernie always meant to function as a sheepdog for the Democrats. His purpose was to corral leftists disillusioned with the D...

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I whomever picks up PA will likely get Ohio as well. He's also basically tied in FL, IA, and NH right now and leading NV.

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Also, nobody with knowledge of Hillary Clinton's actual record would so easily label her as the "lesser evil" candidate, even against Donald Trump. Just throwing that out there. I think people with a "leftist" political view are just unwilling to realize, or else they severely u...

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Eh. Even after Trump got his supposed convention bump he's still trailing slightly behind Hillary. John McCain was up by four at this point. Romney was up too. With the electoral map the way it is, I can't really see how he can pull it off. The DNC e-mail thing might shake things up a bit, but I'm ...

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And for people confident that Trump won't win, he's now basically polled even with Hillary, perhaps even leading. Yes, it's the convention and the e-mail scandal(s), but the fact that it's so close at all should make everyone at least somewhat concerned.

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So the way to fix the screwed up system is to continue voting for one of the two parties responsible for the screwed up system? Sorry, no. If I vote it will be for Gary Johnson and then no matter whether the winner is Hillary or Trump, neither I nor people who vote for Jill Stein will be responsibl...

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Haha, awesome.

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Cassius Clay wrote:This thread is crazy. I know we joke about how both sides are basically the same, but they really aren't literally the same. The GOP is completely nuts. Hilary obviously isn't great, but a whole lot of people don't have the luxury of voting strictly on principle.

This

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Food stamps/SNAP, EPA, Dept. of education, prob Medicare/Medicaid, etc etc I don't really see that happening at all. For all the bluster Republicans like to spout about small government, the fact is they've never repealed any major progressive programs, and this won't be the first time they've held...

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Food stamps/SNAP, EPA, Dept. of education, prob Medicare/Medicaid, etc etc

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Yeah, I'm voting for Clinton. With her, things will be similar to Obama. With Trump, who knows wtf will happen. And if he wins, the GOP will control all three branches of the Federal government, which will likely lead to massive cuts that will hurt the lower middle class and really fuck the poor. Ne...

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Now it's coming out that Pokemon GO has full access to your Google account. Pretty much all other apps request "basic account information"' access. Full acces means it can do anything you can do; send emails, delete documents, etc. I revoked the access. I keep seeing this, but when I chec...

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Now it's coming out that Pokemon GO has full access to your Google account. Pretty much all other apps request "basic account information"' access. Full acces means it can do anything you can do; send emails, delete documents, etc. I revoked the access. I keep seeing this, but when I chec...

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Cassius Clay wrote:

Holy shit I just burst out laughing at work.

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I got really, really drunk Saturday night, mostly on sangria. Then went to the beach in Southie before it started to rain, headed back to my friend's place before vomiting several times in his toilet. It's been a while since I've been that drunk, and then that hungover the following day. I then play...

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Derived Absurdity wrote:You two should have just said "lol".

http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000053/nes ... #259057727

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Happy belated!

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gogo and OGL got into another spat on the video games board over at IMDB, and gogo is now claiming that he left this board willingly rather than being banned. And apparently he left because we were being childish. http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000053/nest/259006454?p=3&d=259034840#259034840 I was...

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I've always been sort of confused about how Ali became so universally loved(as opposed to being more polarizing). Because I'm seeing a lot of people saying "RIP Ali" who would despise a young Ali today...because he was a brash, unapologetically black, politically outspoken athlete. People...

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That is pretty terrible. Looks like a website from the 90s

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I don't think it's too much to ask for a parent, when their kid is near a gorilla enclosure, to make sure they don't fall into said gorilla enclosure. Especially if the enclosure is as badly constructed as that one apparently was, you should be extra vigilant if your kid is near it. I haven't follo...

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Huh, I looked for it but didn't see it.

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This is one of those issues where you hate the thing someone says but fight for their right to say it, but I'm really struggling with the latter even though I now it's important.

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