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  ANYONE WANT TO PREDICT....
  anyone predict • Aug 21, 2018, 10:04 PM • mayjay   Aug 24, 2018, 4:41 PM

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  @justanotherfan Yes, he has a slim margin but it will also heavily depend on who the democrats select. The new faces and potential candidate are all way to the left and the least liberal is Biden, who did not have enough support even as the sitting VP and would be 78 years old, in comparison, Reagang is the oldest elected president and was 69 at the time of his first inauguration. The next election might be one in which a credible third party candidate can affect the results like Perot did taking many republican votes and helping Clinton in the process. If Sanders, who would be 79, runs as an independent the votes would come from the democrats; a more centrist candidate might take votes from both parties and I would no be surprised to see the winner get under 40% of the popular vote.
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  Recommend William Manchester’s 1992 “A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and Renaissance
  world mind fire recommend william manchester’s 1992 lit medieval renaissance • Aug 24, 2018, 2:13 AM • jaybate 1.0   Aug 24, 2018, 2:13 AM

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  Mollie Tibbetts case has sad ending
  sad case mollie tibbetts ending • Aug 22, 2018, 2:35 PM • Kcmatt7   Aug 22, 2018, 7:29 PM

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  @approxinfinity One of the most insidious parts of oppression and then victimization of individuals, groups, or nations is that it makes so many begin to self limit their goals to within the box oppression builds for us. Why did John Lennon have to be killed by an apparently mind controlled assassin with the legend of an obsessed lone gunmen? Because he sang about what was not merely possible, but actually feasible. He added an explanation that the enforcers of the private oligarchy really did not want the public to recognize, or think was feasible to get away with having said. John said go ahead, imagine what you want; that apparently angered the shit out of those already in control of the explanations. This puzzled me for many years. Lennon was already long past his great influence. It was very improbable the lightening of mega popularity would strike twice. The Deep State can stop popularity by denying mainstream distribution any time. Then it occurred to me. Lennon had seen through the oppression game. It’s a set of obstacles and misrepresentations intended to make the oppressed embrace victim hood as the only feasible path. It makes them self-limit the possible. Lennon wrote songs (created an entertainment) that outflanked the oppression game, same as Gandhi built a resistance philosophy that did. Same as Lincoln built a republican government that out flanked the oppression games being played by the private oligarchies of North and South. Anyone that restores a nation’s capacity to focus on what is best for itself, instead of on limiting itself to accepting what is best for its private oligarchy is apparently best murdered, when ever feasible, from the POV of the oppressing private oligarchy. Put another way, oppression works by focusing us on the problems, not on our best interest. The oppression game is a very clever way of getting us to focus on our problems rather than on what we want and should have. Everyone should be free, well fed, well housed, have any needed medicines, feel safe, get equal justice, have their votes counted, live under representatives trying to serve their constituencies best interests, be prosperous, enjoy life and live as they wish, so long as they hurt no one. They shouldn’t be settling for a victim’s franchise. There, that was easy. Any government, firm, or person that doubts the feasibility of persons best interests is oppressive and part of the problem. The oppression game makes us willing consent to the unfeasibility of our best interests. Our best interests are feasible. Always have been. Always will be. Imagine that.
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  Who came up with the term "leftist" anyway?
  Aug 13, 2018, 10:04 PM • approxinfinity   Aug 22, 2018, 12:49 PM

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  Aug 22, 2018, 12:49 PM

  @Kcmatt7 truth. @DoubleDD please chill out.
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  Cards Against Humanity Survey
  against survey cards humanity • Aug 20, 2018, 8:18 PM • approxinfinity   Aug 21, 2018, 3:56 PM

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  Aug 21, 2018, 3:56 PM

  These results are exactly what you would have predicted lol.
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  Abolish the Presidency!
  abolish presidency • Aug 10, 2018, 1:15 PM • approxinfinity   Aug 21, 2018, 3:04 PM

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  Aug 21, 2018, 3:04 PM

  @JayHawkFanToo Its not the system. It’s the issues. Foreign policy is complex. Domestic budgets are complex. Economics are complex. All of these levers that operate civil society aren’t just simple things. Pull one, that may throw another off kilter in the same way that adding one chemical to a mixture will cause a certain reaction. I remember when the “tea party” wave swept across the country in 2010. The thing that struck me more than anything, as a person that had previously very much been in support of shorter terms for politicians, was the lack of overall competence demonstrated by many of these newly elected “leaders.” They didn’t know even the basics that you learn in junior high social studies or civics. Because of that, many of them were dependent on certain special interest groups to tell them how to vote on bills that they had no personal knowledge about. One newly elected legislator, when handed a new bill in committee asked “how am I supposed to know what this bill does?” A veteran legislator told him he needed to read the bill. At that point, the freshman legislator asked “and then how do I know how to vote?” While it may seem like getting rid of career politicians would limit the special interests, in reality, the opposite is true. Because the special interests are experts in their field, they can generally sway newer legislators more easily. One year here in Kansas, the NRA sponsored a bill about knife length and crossbows. Before knowing that the NRA was behind the bill, the bill couldn’t even get a committee hearing. Once the NRA came out backing the bill, the bill flew through committee and passed through the House easily. When questioning the bill on the House floor, the response “this is the NRA bill” was given to answer the question of why this bill needed to pass. Like I said, it passed easily. Term limits don’t eliminate lobbyist influence. They increase it. As for the idea that @jaybate-1-0 poses to allow government workers to educate and keep things operating, in this partisan climate, that is troublesome. I have seen non partisan workers skewered by politicians simply for telling them that something would not work, or that it was a bad idea. Because an idea like lowering taxes is partisan, telling a legislator that its a good (or bad) idea is seen as partisan rather than sound policy advice. That’s how it is on most hot button issues - advice is viewed through a partisan lens rather than sound or unsound policy advice. This cripples the internal bureaucracy because they can’t just advise without sounding partisan if they disagree with what certain interest groups suggest.
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  How to get the local government's attention
  local governments attention • Aug 19, 2018, 2:36 AM • approxinfinity   Aug 20, 2018, 8:27 PM

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  A sobering view of what the future holds.
  view future sobering holds • Aug 20, 2018, 2:52 AM • JayHawkFanToo   Aug 20, 2018, 4:26 PM

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  @JayHawkFanToo Because China has been in its current form (geographically, at least) for centuries, it is far more stable than the former Eastern Bloc ever was. This long history also means that, ethnically, China is actually quite homogeneous. The Han-Chinese make up over 90% of the population. While China is linguistically very diverse (nearly 300 languages, probably twice that if you include local dialects), most Chinese speak Mandarin (about 70%). Based on that, more than 60% of the population is both ethnically and linguistically united. Simply put, it is unlikely that China would break up even in the event of a revolution because of its longstanding historical borders. Many of the subgroups are so small that it would be difficult to break off into a separate nation, particularly for those that would be entirely surrounded by mainland China. I think those factors contribute to actually stabilizing China substantially. Even in the event of a change in governance, China would probably still have a population over 1B, making it a substantial world player either way.
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  HEM: Semi-Regular Observations
  Jul 26, 2018, 9:45 PM • HighEliteMajor   Aug 19, 2018, 9:38 PM

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  Aug 19, 2018, 9:38 PM

  @JayHawkFanToo Tea Leoni should have been a pro golfer.
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  Queen of soul
  queen soul • Aug 16, 2018, 3:03 PM • Crimsonorblue22   Aug 18, 2018, 6:21 PM

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  @DanR King was Queen of the song. Aretha was Queen of the voice.
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  Is a Foundation Being Laid for Medicalizing Doubt
  Aug 18, 2018, 5:21 PM • jaybate 1.0   Aug 18, 2018, 5:21 PM

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  Little Golden America
  Jul 20, 2018, 2:50 PM • approxinfinity   Jul 20, 2018, 9:26 PM

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  Jul 20, 2018, 9:26 PM

  Correct!
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  No Indication ANY American Helped Hack the 2016 Election!!!
  american 2016 helped hack indication election • Jul 14, 2018, 1:44 AM • jaybate 1.0   Jul 19, 2018, 4:34 PM

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  Jul 19, 2018, 4:34 PM

  @DoubleDD Given the amount of controversy the last couple of days stemming from the Trump-Putin meeting, this is why you do not meet one on one. No one knows what was agreed to, and there’s no notes or written documentation to fall back on. All we have is whatever Trump and the interpreter remember. That’s poor practice.
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  Progressive politics in Kansas
  kansas progressive politics • Jul 18, 2018, 12:14 PM • approxinfinity   Jul 19, 2018, 10:21 AM

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  Jul 19, 2018, 10:21 AM

  A Texas-Kansas oligarchy applied its wealth to the politics of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio. Now an older, larger oligarchy is applying its wealth to Kansas. All politics in an oligarchy is application of wealth for increased spatial influence over infrastructure—existing, or planned.
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  Collusion.
  Jul 16, 2018, 7:05 PM • approxinfinity   Jul 17, 2018, 5:11 AM

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  @kjayhawks both, USA
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  Signs are everywhere.
  are signs everywhere • Jun 5, 2018, 2:03 PM • DoubleDD   Jun 13, 2018, 12:17 PM

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  Jun 13, 2018, 12:17 PM

  You sure love them.
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  The shape of our techno-dystopia
  May 9, 2018, 5:25 AM • approxinfinity   May 28, 2018, 11:11 PM

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  May 28, 2018, 11:11 PM

  Facts only.
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  Google removes "don't be evil" from code of conduct
  dont google removes evil code conduct • May 25, 2018, 12:26 PM • approxinfinity   May 25, 2018, 1:07 PM

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  May 25, 2018, 1:07 PM

  lol
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  Must Read Old Book Entitled "Desert War" by Australian War Correspondent Alan Moorehead
  May 8, 2018, 6:35 AM • jaybate 1.0   May 8, 2018, 6:35 AM

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  Welcome to Hypermodernity, or a Patch of It, at Least.
  Mar 14, 2018, 2:22 AM • jaybate 1.0   Mar 14, 2018, 2:22 AM

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