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Same way they made the word “Liberal” a pejorative term.

This book by George Lakoff outlines just how Republicans have hijacked the political discourse in this country and explains how to undo the bunk framing and take it back to reality. Quick and fascinating read. Check it out.

u/drawinkstuff has brought Hidester burner email service to my attention as an option for people to fill out this survey. I've set my zip code as 08081 (Dicktown NJ) and name as Chuck Tingle, legendary Amazon gay erotica writer who amazingly parodied Trump himself.

Kentucky has a gubernatorial election in 2019, VA and NJ have state legislature elections, and there are municipal elections in NY, CT and plenty of other states, so let's get ready https://www.amazon.com/precinct-captains-guide-political-victory-ebook/dp/B01M4IG914/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1544461086&sr=8-1&keywords=The+precinct+captain%27s+guide+to+political+victory

Thank you for this post. To me, 2009 was when we really started to screw up, since we falsely assumed that Obama was going to make everything better for us as a cure-all. Many of us thought that things would be fine and decided to step back and let the pros handle things. The Tea Party, IMO, would not have grown as dangerous as it is if we hadn't let our guard down. In reality, we cannot put ALL of our stock on ONE person ... it takes millions of us in order to make the change. We should have learned this lesson in 2010 and 2014, since we don't lose out to freaks like the GOP today unless we fail to do our due diligence and put in the research like they did back then.

This is what everyone should read in order to see how to win a war. It's a real eye-opener.

"Informed observer," my ass. Net neutrality has been enforced since 2010. To suggest that it was a new rule in 2015 is deliberately misleading. Net neutrality had to be reimplemented in 2015 because an appeals court ruled that the FCC had misclassified the internet. The FCC merely reclassified the internet, and the rule was not substantially changed. Net neutrality stood for 7 years with just that one bureaucratic hiccup. We are not returning to a 2014 state of regulation. We are returning to a state of regulation more closely resembling 2009. Cruz says net neutrality supporters are "believing online propaganda" in the same breath that he himself spreads dishonest and juvenile propaganda.

His argument that the net neutrality should be repealed because the internet was healthy in ~~2014~~ 2009 is nonsense—firstly because the internet wasn't perfectly healthy in that era (e.g. Comcast had been blocking perfectly lawful file-sharing traffic) and that's why net neutrality was implemented in the first place, and secondly because internet usage is substantially different now than it was then.

What good does repealing net neutrality do for the public? This is the question that matters. It has most often gotten me the answer, "more investment in infrastructure," which is vague and not well supported. ISPs, the FCC, and the GOP are not presenting serious arguments to justify their immensely unpopular move. Why not?

Son't forget her clothing line that used child labor https://www.npr.org/2017/05/31/530929887/chinese-labor-conditions-threaten-value-of-ivanka-trumps-brand I feel like everyones forgot that one in the pile of shit.

PIA = Private Internet Access, a VPN provider company that is well-known and generally highly reviewed, but based in the U.S.

Consensus seems to say that you shouldn't get a VPN from a host in your own country, because if your gov't really wants the data on you they can just go to that VPN provider and demand it, since that VPN provider is under the same gov't as you are. All this said, most I think would say it's best to get a VPN that's NOT hosted in one of the "14 eyes" countries (look this up).

I'm really pleased to hear that. I've gotten cynical enough about electoral politics to think that people will vote for their team no matter what. Especially ever since I saw this poll, in which Evangelicals apparently demonstrated their complete lack of moral fiber, I'd begun to think there was nothing that could be done.

I hope there is real, serious outrage over this and that the good people of Alabama decide that morals matter.

Children's Health Insurance Program. It's exactly what it sounds like. From healthcare.gov:

>If your children need health coverage, they may be eligible for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). If they qualify, you won't have to buy an insurance plan to cover them.

> CHIP provides low-cost health coverage to children in families that earn too much money to qualify for Medicaid. In some states, CHIP covers pregnant women. Each state offers CHIP coverage, and works closely with its state Medicaid program.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/07/politics/bredesen-tennessee-senate-race-analysis/index.html

>It turns out that there is and the relationship seems to be becoming stronger. When Bredesen last won an election in 2006, the partisan tilt of a state on the presidential level gave us no additional information about where a race was heading once the early polls were taken into account. Since then, the tilt has gained explanatory power every year relative to the early polls. If you were to weight how much to take into account from the early polls and the partisan tilt, it went from 11:1 in 2008 to 7:1 in 2010 to 2.2:1 in 2012 to 1.5:1 in 2014 to 1.2:1 in 2016.

>In other words, the best prediction in 2016 Senate races was to basically weight the early polls and the partisan tilt of the state basically evenly. That would be very bad news for Bredesen even if you use the best poll for him this year (the Middle Tennessee State University poll) given how red Tennessee is. Such a poll would still suggest that Bredesen would go on to lose by about 10 percentage points.

Given the level of partisanship today, early polls are barely more indicative than the partisan lean of the state, hence the skepticism.

https://www.npr.org/2016/05/19/478705022/sanders-campaign-now-says-superdelegates-are-key-to-winning-nomination

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/05/02/bernie-sanders-insists-he-can-still-win-the-math-says-otherwise/

So... a bit more stuff is out on the Ellison thing. It doesn't make him look good:

• It's not the first time he's been accused of assaulting a person he's been in a relation with:

> "This is not the first time Ellison has come under fire for abuse. In 2006, another one of Ellison’s former girlfriends, Amy L. Alexander, wrote a piece in The Wright County Republican in which she claimed “he could explode in a tirade at any moment. He was a little dictator.”

> “He grabbed me and pushed me out of the way. I was terrified. I called the police,” Alexander wrote. “Keith began a smear campaign against me that very day … I feared for my life and for the safety of my daughter.”

• The woman he's accused of having abused <em>did</em> mention it to at least three acquaintances, who confirmed it with CNN, months before the story blew up:

> Three friends of Monahan, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of backlash, told CNN she had confided in them about the bed incident in the months after she had moved out of Ellison's apartment.

I have been of legal age to vote for more than 20 years. Never bothered to do it once. I avoided the hell out of politics and political discussions. To me, it was always "Same shit, different president."

To get me off of my ass to care enough to vote, the government would have to do a hell of a lot of reaaaaaally bad shit to motivate me.

Well...

The district is 25 points more Republican than the rest of the country and is the 90th most Republican district in the nation according to Cook's Partisan Voting Index.

If we're within 5 there, that means something like 300 seats are competitive or Dem-leaning.

I'll take it.

Maybe. But she's not hiding from them, so my first inclination without reading them is to think they can't be that bad. I think she technically writes romantic suspense, which aren't often all that racy.

Here's one of her amazon listings: https://www.amazon.com/Reckless-Selena-Montgomery-ebook/dp/B001AZRJIK

Multiple studies have shown that fights on Facebook are the best way to drive voter turnout.

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I would recommend starting with PostcardsToVoters.com or votefwd.org. These are things you can do on your own time, even if you have just a few minutes. votefwd.org is simpler in that you don’t need to buy any postcards, as long as you have a printer. You largely follow a script, so there is no concern about “messing up” as you might fear on a phone bank call.

If you decide to go with postcards, you can buy a 100 pack for $5 on amazon

Send all the fundraising request emails to junk.

There are many other things you can do (as you have noted), but I think this is a good place to get started. I’m happy to help if you find some more free time and want to try something else.

Thanks for getting involved!!!

Hillary-McCain: 41%

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-were-those-clinton-mccain-crossover-voters/

Bernie-Trump: 10%

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/545812242/1-in-10-sanders-primary-voters-ended-up-supporting-trump-survey-finds

It makes sense, too. Clinton and neoliberalism in general is really only a stone's throw away from conservatism. They just don't hate minorities and poor people.

Feel free to reach out to them and invite them over for an AMA! :)

Also, just curious - do you have a source for reddit being #4? I just did a quick Google, and I see it ranked #7 http://www.alexa.com/topsites

And yet, 3 hours later:

OHIO - Too close to call:

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/08/08/ohio-latest-election-results-12th-congressional-district-vpx.cnn

13th.

The title of Ava DuVernay's extraordinary and galvanizing documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States." The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison industry is laid out by DuVernay with bracing lucidity. With a potent mixture of archival footage and testimony from a dazzling array of activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men, DuVernay creates a work of grand historical synthesis.

Watch 13th on Netflix to see where this all has led.

> And we do not want everyone working for the Fed.

This is not what federal job garantee is.

Also it's very mainstream, three possible presidential candidates are proposing too (Sanders, Gillibrand and Booker).

You can learn more here

Three possible presidential candidates (Sanders, Gillibrand and Booker) have proposed a plan.

To be fair, the link itself says:

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/27/politics/nevada-shows-democrats-are-dreaming/index.html

So it's possible the article itself had a more inflammatory title and then was changed, or that the titled showed up differently in other sites and the OP copy-pasted that inflammatory version?

>I'd rather work to make a decent system better than start from scratch using a model that has only worked (at least so far) in societies with a few hundred people at most.

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/germany-population/

>Germany Population: 82,259,032

It's worked almost every time I've tried it for the NY Times.

I've had occasional problems with almost every paywalled newspaper website I regularly link to, but I think that most of the time it's been a problem at http://outline.com/.

It also doesn't work with interactive webpages, and I've had problems with news webpages that have been updated.

It's so useful I keep http://outline.com/ bookmarked.

As a conservative, this is great - if I could ask her one ? it would be how she feels about this:

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/07/04/419498242/at-age-3-transitioning-from-jack-to-jackie

An amendment to make an exception to the First Amendment? No, thanks. There’s a reason it’s the First: it’s the most vital.

Plus, this is an unserious proposal. The text talks about setting “reasonable limits on the raising and spending of money by candidates and others to influence elections”, which is to say “by individuals looking to advocate policies they think will make the world better”. If this proposal was even remotely serious, it would not leave the definition of “reasonable limits” to the Judiciary; “reasonable” is a word so vague even its relevant definitions are vague.

If the Senator was serious, he would put his weight behind the DISCLOSE Act, is far easier to enact, instead of trying to pass an amendment which requires a higher threshold in the Congress than the DISCLOSE Act AND must then be approved by 3/4 of the states afterwards. If the Senator was serious, he would push for what he can get and use that to build on to get the next. But he’s not. So, he’s not. Don’t kid yourself.

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Well there's a lot of mention of PureVPN on the tripadvisor forums. From what I know it's not exactly the best one to use but it definitely works in China.

I've been meaning to read The Art of War for a while. You may have just convinced me to start reading it after I finish my current book. It looks like it's cheap on amazon (the kindle edition is free)!

I was leafing through "The Art of War" last night and one point jumped out at me as a thing our side fundamentally misses: "All warfare is based on deception".

I got in an argument once because I said that it was it was a good thing Obama probably lied about his opinions on marriage equality in 2008, because that made him electable, which meant he was in a position to help ensure that it spread to all 50 states (via his "evolution" on the issue, and the DOJ's refusal to defend the Defense of Marriage Act).

The person I was arguing with thought it was just terrible that a politician might ever be deceptive, to the point that they were sure Obama wouldn't have done such a thing.

Great info. Here is a great book in case any one is interested. It certainly enriched my ways of thinking about Christianity and allowed me to see the modern corruption around it with a clear lens.

This is a really great book, and very entertaining also. I spent the first 22 years of my life in Norway and can tell you from experience that the "polls" used to show Scandinavia in general as a happy place are complete B.S.

https://www.amazon.com/Almost-Nearly-Perfect-People-Scandinavian/dp/1250081564

On Amazon. There's a free audiobook as well.