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    I got no mortgage, and grow my own food. Let me know when y'all suckers get it figured out.
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    Psych professor once said only one memorable thing in a lecture, and it was this: The vast majority of people are susceptible to acting against their self interests, and in illogical and immoral ways, if their fundamental worldview is thrown into chaos, and there is a backdrop of change for which they are not personally well adapted to making the appropriate mental adjustments. Yes, some are more susceptible than others. But it is wrong to simply write off a huge chunk of the population simply because their idiocy is more obvious than ours.
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    Universal Basic Income is on its way. But we'll get to witness new and exciting variants of self-destructive stupidity before it finally gets here, because Murica.
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    I am truly frightened: somewhere out there in the world is someone who is more fucked up than Jenna Ryan.
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    What consumers want is one thing. What consumers will pay for is entirely another. It's a cynical calculation, but occasionally it works for good. Sure, but accident, but I'll take it when it happens.
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    Miscalculation city on Mitch's part. Voter suppression can work because the fact that more people hate Republicans than don't can be overcome by gerrymander and Jim Crow. But playing culture-war-footsie with Corporate America is dealing with a totally different calculus. The whole reason companies are defying the GOP in the first place is that they are worried about their bottom line, because there are more consumers who hate the GOP than don't. There's very little the minority party in the Senate can do about the fact that consumer backlash is less controllable than voter backlash.
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    Well, I haven't read any NFL news in five years, so there's undoubtedly things that are different about this year that I am totally blind to. I'd rather be wrong because I don't care than wrong for any other reason, so I'm okay with that.
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    My guess is UDFA is still most likely. And that's okay, his best shot is as a guy who gets to be a backup for a lot of years because he works harder than most starters. Doesn't really matter where a guy like that gets drafted, and might even be better if he gets to pick-and-choose from a few UDFA offers for his first gig.
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    I understand that theory pretty well, in context. It's bullshit, but it is an interesting argument that points to a fairly fundamental fact: solving the meta problem of people generally not being reasonable and accepting of each other is not necessarily an important priority when dealing with one particular group being pathologically intolerant of another. At the extreme end, does it matter that some Jews in concentration camps hated ethnic Germans? I mean, yeah, that was wrong, but clearly not as wrong. Doesn't justify a black man being a dickwad, but in the context of a whole society going Trumpy, black racism isn't really all that big a deal.
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    As of the late 80s, pretty sure it was a Harper's Index that gave me the number, Pepsi was far more popular with Republicans and Coke was far more popular with Democrats. Hell, Jimmy Carter's 1976 campaign plane was paid for by Coca-Cola. No idea why Tennessee's weird RC Cola fixation didn't make the study, but it's so sugared up, it's basically Pepsi with added diabetes. And that's kinda the point. Republicans like Pepsi, and sweet tea. Probably pour sugar on their grits, too, when folk ain't lookin'.
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    My company is based out of Boston, if you want self-doxxing. The "How dare you drop My Pillow!" emails were music to my ears. Strange how losing one segment of our customer base had zero impact on the bottom line and improved morale for both sales and service.
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    No, but I've noticed Justin is a twatwaffle.
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    You don't have to be Caucasian to be a dumbass. It certainly helps, but it's not mandatory.
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    I suppose if he could turn water into wine, Jesus could probably lay an egg if he wanted. Still not clear on the logic, though.
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    I highly advise industrial grade PPE if you are planning on picking up Walmart customers by their tails.
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    Well, duh. It's a Mercedes instead of a Honda, but it's still a car.
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    Well, he is on record saying he gets along better with dictators than with democratically elected heads of state.
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    Is there a GoFundMe for lifetime cigarettes for whichever inmate was the... ahhh... "nearest witness" to the collarbone incident?
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