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Good way to wake up: After watching a flying hypersonic pug dog piledrive a middleschooler into concrete during a grand brawl over cheese products. That's the good stuff.

Some days it

Oh hey, TV said Trump's stated he'll release tax forms just as soon as the IRS finishes a purported audit.

Considering the IRS legally (so far as I'm aware, anyway) can't disclose basically any information on an individual tax payer, including if they're under audit or, if so, when or if it's done, it's almost cunning, in a sort of hamhanded way. He can lie out his ass and the only people that can call him on it are legally bound not to. Is neat-ish trick, though now that I think on it actually sorta' common, particularly for the conservative side of the spectrum in recent years.

Also one week to go on that stated economic policy deadline. C'moooon next tuesday!

While it might be true on an isolated, local level and while much of the poverty that exists today has roots in racist policies from the last century and thus overly affects minorities, it is pretty clearly a problem that exists among all races to some extent and fixing the economic issues would go a long way to helping fix attitudes in other areas.

It's also incredibly bloody clear that regardless as to if the problems are hitting all racial demographics, they're hitting specific ones very disproportionately harder and in a very much not localized or isolated way. Easing economic issues would indeed help turn back some of the attitudes involved, but they're not even remotely the whole of the problem. The USA really does still have a pretty substantial racism problem. Definitely less than it used to be, by significant margins (the last lynchings are almost out of living memory, iirc! Another decade or three to go.), but you basically have to be very willfully blind not see that shit's still stinking up the place.

That'd be pretty easy to test, for what it's worth, I do believe. Fairly sure it's not much of a problem to gen up a random map with no forests and >=1 caves. Certainly you can do one with lots and lots of caves, heh. I've actually got a couple laying that's... something like 75%+ cave provinces. Sometimes you want to fight in the shade, y'know?

Quote from: mainiac on May 24, 2016, 07:18:36 am

Yes because Bernie Sanders is a parasite trying to hijack the democratic party it's unfair for Hillary to have any past with the democratic party.

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S'also not really an accurate portrayal, as should be fair obvious by the extent of support he has recieved. It's not entirely hijacking when a lot of the bus wanted to take that left, anyway. Coalitions and whatnot are also a thing, and you can't really call it parasitism when it's the system basically working as designed. Bloody parties have been built so that third party candidates basically have to do what Sanders is to get anything worth mentioning done.

Also not an entirely inaccurate one either, though. Sanders is pretty explicitly trying to push the democratic dialogue in a direction that doesn't have majority support. If our election system wasn't as shit as it is at representing chunks of the electorate, he both wouldn't be running democrat and wouldn't need to to get dialogue/representation out there that a lot of the party wants to see, cause he'd be running third party and folks would be able to vote for 'm without running an even greater chance of being functionally disenfranchised than they already are just voting straight ticket.

Also pretty sure m's not trying to rub it in (entirely  anyway, they've been doing that explicitly, occasionally, too), just pissed people keep trying to frame the victory as illegitimate rather than actually what more people in the party they're campaigning for wants. And the latter really does seem to be what's happening. I don't think there'd be near as much griping if people were just lamenting the loss.

... okay, so was the OP a joke, or what? Near as I've been able to tell over the last few minutes of checking, the election was basically neck and neck, and the guy that came out ahead didn't do it because of a rigged vote, but instead because his opponent was even more of a colossal shit than he is (which, uh. Now that I check who was running, that doesn't come as much of a surprise).

Incidentally, I've able to find literally zero corroborating english news articles, from any source, making the claim of the elections being actually rigged. Can someone actually provide for that, or is this just going to be Simo Häyhä's spontaneous mutual masturbation session, It Came From Twitter edition?