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  1. 8 hours ago, deft said:

    Who didn’t love the secret dart bowl menu home run……order of enchiladas with the fried egg and white onion……but on top of a chicken fried steak. Toast on the side.

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  2. On 2/9/2024 at 1:01 PM, Neonmoon said:

    I was writing a quick summary about redlining for work, and reading the history of it, and am still blown away. The US government made it systemically harder for minorities to get loans, and research has show these redlined families have achieved something like 42% less wealth through property because of it. When you realize most people achieve wealth through homeownership, it’s a big deal. (Same could be said for women that needed a man to get a loan for a loan time)

    I once was a ‘it’s not a race issue, it’s a class issue’ person for a long time, but the more you learn, the more you realize there’s a pretty big fucking reason a certain race is in a certain class. 

    "oh, that redline thing, that was wrong and we're going to stop.

     

    "but that interstate we built on the redline?  that stays."

     

  3. 13 hours ago, DixonHur said:

    Not fake news, I'm just suspicious of modern polling.  Polling has long been a land line thing.  I'm just wondering how they are collecting the data.

    text poll invites are a thing.  got one the other day for the harris county democratic primary. 

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  4. On 2/7/2024 at 7:34 PM, 956 Worldwide said:

    I’ve driven in Central and South Asia and I can say that you cannot be reasonably safe there. 
     

    In Uzbekistan many drivers turn off their headlights and night because they believe it saves gas and also a lot of cars have shade-tree conversions to natural gas and they are extremely explodey. 
     

    Balkans was mostly fine except Kosovo. Rest of Europe OK. 

     

  5. Meanwhile, China Joe really helping out his puppet masters in the Chinese Communist Party

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    The U.S. imported a total of $427.2 billion from China last year, a roughly 20% decrease from the year before, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis


     

     

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  6. 4 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    I mean…wouldn’t there need to be spurious reasons listed in constitution to use as disqualification criteria?

    As if having something not listed as a disqualification criteria would stop bad faith actors. I guarantee there’s tweets being fired off right now that releasing funds to Iran is insurrection.

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  7. 5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    He'll remain on the ballot in every state that could possibly go red.  That's the funny thing -- in terms of "deciding the election," this is all a phony war.  It may affect the total national popular vote, but it won't affect the only thing that matters -- the EC vote totals -- at all.  Hell, if Trump is off the ballot in 10 blue states, then he'll really get his ass kicked in national popular vote numbers, but he could still be elected POTUS because he wins the necessary swing states in addition to his red state base.

    “We could end up with just a few or even one state deciding the presidency”

     

    and that’s different from what we have how?

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  8. Gorsuch (I think): the constitution is full of holes and how do we even deal with that?


    Alito: judging is hard I’d rather just be an ideologue.

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