whyamihere
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lol fuck you Jill Stein
Excited for Hillary to be blamed, again, for someone else's mistakes.
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lol fuck you Jill Stein
Excited for Hillary to be blamed, again, for someone else's mistakes.
Yeah...
Poodlestrike
Banned
When a candidate throws a hissy fit in the forest, but they only got .3% of the vote, is it actually news?
She's on the Board of Directors for Jeb!'s Common Core org.
http://www.excelined.org/board-corner/board-of-directors/
Particle Physicist
between a quark and a baryon
What exactly are you proud about?
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Betsy devos for education
Seriously?
Seriously?
Sirpopopop
Member
Honestly, I'll take no experience over Rhee's experience.
Still, it's clear that Common Core is going to be further advanced by this administration.
Half of me looks at those states listed and wonders if she's buying into the "Trump won by hax" conspiracy theories and, in her heart of hearts, knows Trump is worse than Clinton and is taking a political step Clinton can't.
The other half is going "lol Stein."
metalslimer
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Trump is going to go to war with teachers unions.
Fixed that for you.
As typical, you are preoccupied with labels rather than actual policy and problems.
Fair enough. I think one of the major things the Obama team did was announce a slew of economic positions at once in late Nov/early Dec? Because the world was falling down over their ears.
Scrotum Phillips
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Betsy Devos is an insane choice if you know her history in regards to education. My mother who is a teacher in Michigan is completely despondent over this choice.
This is going to get worse.
This is going to get worse.
nintendoman58
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Could someone who is knowledgeable about this subject please answer some questions I have?
Assuming that efforts to stop Net Neutrality in the US from going away fail, what will realistically happen? Everybody keeps saying RIP Internet but I would like some more insight into this.
I understand that it would allow ISPs like Comcast to slow down or otherwise stop people from visiting certain sites, but realistically, what sites will be affected by that? Youtube, Netflix, definitely. But what about lower-end sites like Deviantart, Fanfiction.net, Pixiv and others that are mostly just pictures and text? Would ISPs outright block those just because?
I live in Canada, so this won't specifically affect how I access the internet, but I'm concerned about many content creators living in the US who will be severely limited or even crippled by this. Jim Sterling, Nostalgia Critic, AVGN, Thousands of Patreon users, etc.
It's why I feel like Net Neutrality going away is still unlikely even with the latest FCC appointments. It's in more danger than before, yes, but that won't stop people from fighting. Which leads me to my next question.
How much time would they have to get rid of it, and subsequently how much time would we have to fight for it? They can't so much as kill it at the drop of a hat without warning can they? I say this because the last time this was an issue I remember people fighting. People were all over it. I'm pretty sure companies like Netflix and Google even stepped in at some point.
I don't expect the Internet to just outright give up.
Assuming that efforts to stop Net Neutrality in the US from going away fail, what will realistically happen? Everybody keeps saying RIP Internet but I would like some more insight into this.
I understand that it would allow ISPs like Comcast to slow down or otherwise stop people from visiting certain sites, but realistically, what sites will be affected by that? Youtube, Netflix, definitely. But what about lower-end sites like Deviantart, Fanfiction.net, Pixiv and others that are mostly just pictures and text? Would ISPs outright block those just because?
I live in Canada, so this won't specifically affect how I access the internet, but I'm concerned about many content creators living in the US who will be severely limited or even crippled by this. Jim Sterling, Nostalgia Critic, AVGN, Thousands of Patreon users, etc.
It's why I feel like Net Neutrality going away is still unlikely even with the latest FCC appointments. It's in more danger than before, yes, but that won't stop people from fighting. Which leads me to my next question.
How much time would they have to get rid of it, and subsequently how much time would we have to fight for it? They can't so much as kill it at the drop of a hat without warning can they? I say this because the last time this was an issue I remember people fighting. People were all over it. I'm pretty sure companies like Netflix and Google even stepped in at some point.
I don't expect the Internet to just outright give up.
lyrick
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If any part of our election process is under scrutiny it is best for our Democracy to investigate possible forms of corruption that have merit. A call like this is not a good political play for anyone on the losing side of the ballot, but I doubt Donald is going to go out of his way to verify that our system is in working order.
ArkhamFantasy
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Any site that becomes an inconvenience to the ISP or the government. The possibilities are endless.
lyrick
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Not having any knowledge of the MIchigan public school system, will you share what are we looking forward to?
Are we looking at a "no child left behind" issue or an " 'unpaid workers' from Africa" textbook thing?
Yeah. Trump temporary saved the GOP for what they will have to deal with in the future.
Obama's team did actual vetting, which takes time, even if they started months before the election. Trump is just randomly meeting with people, thinking about them for five days, and making decisions.
At this point I'm only shocked when the least insane candidate is picked. I'm still desperately hoping Mittens wins SoS to save the U.S. some sort of dignity, but my expectations are at rock bottom.
I also love how we are draining the swamp with Republican mega donors now. Seems like a legit way to get things started.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
An "Every chance she gets to destroy the public school system on any level, she will" issue.
The woman has never been a teacher or any sort of school official, by the way, and now she's running this department. I currently teach at a private school and even I can tell you: This is going to be a disaster for public education in our country. Absolute disaster.
Betsy DeVos is the sister of Erik Prince of Blackwater infamy? Fun.
She's all about school choice, vouchers, charter schools, etc. Public schools are the enemy.
Team Alucard
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whyamihere
Banned
At least you have your guns.
Cesare Borgia
Banned
DeVos is a nightmare scenario. Wow.
In terms of Shumer...I think he would have been a good minority or majority leader with a President Hillary Clinton. If you want a fighter playing hardball with President Trump you need someone who is an asshole and tough, preferably from Chicago. Durbin.
In terms of Shumer...I think he would have been a good minority or majority leader with a President Hillary Clinton. If you want a fighter playing hardball with President Trump you need someone who is an asshole and tough, preferably from Chicago. Durbin.
With two questions:
1. Did you support me in some significant fashion?
2. Is there a certain sector of government you particularly enjoy trying to dismantle or regress?
Team Alucard
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I voted for Hillary.
whyamihere
Banned
Good.
SerAardvark
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LostMyNarbles
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Really depressing waking up and seeing this administration look worse and worse every day. Earlier today it was the whole NASA scrapping and climate crap and now he's going to royally screw education and I would not be surprised if this idiot tries to completely gut it in favor of private schools. The next four years are going to be so messy. I hope the people who were too fucking lazy to vote are happy with themselves at the choice they made and I wonder how Trump voters are going to be to reacting in the next four years after he cripples their households even more, guts their jobs, scraps education, and fucks the planet up.
It is hard to even muster up any optimism at this point. The country and the entire world are going to be irreparably damaged over the course of the next four years and if Republican's keep pushing their shitty voter suppression they can lock down the country in their favor. I wouldn't be surprised if we see some sort of a civil uprising if that happens and the results of any kind of war would be devastating.
It is hard to even muster up any optimism at this point. The country and the entire world are going to be irreparably damaged over the course of the next four years and if Republican's keep pushing their shitty voter suppression they can lock down the country in their favor. I wouldn't be surprised if we see some sort of a civil uprising if that happens and the results of any kind of war would be devastating.
They'll keep voting Republican because fuck the nonwhites.
whyamihere
Banned
2018/2020 thing that DKE found:
Romney won GA-6 by 23.3%
Trump won GA-6 by 1.5%
Romney won GA-7 by 21.9%
Trump won GA-7 by 6.3%
Romney won GA-6 by 23.3%
Trump won GA-6 by 1.5%
Romney won GA-7 by 21.9%
Trump won GA-7 by 6.3%
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thepotatoman
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For the giant providers, I think the most likely thing is they just slow everything down accross the board, and then ask companies to pay them for faster service to their customers. Non-video websites might be able to do without paying for the faster access, but all video streaming might be. I don't know how expensive they'll make it.
FCC already had to stop Comcast from blocking P2P technology, and AT&T from blocking Skype, Google Voice, and Facetime. So at the very least there will be a return to that sort of thing.
I don't know if any of the big providers will be brave enough to stop all streaming services outside the ones they approve, but I'm sure smaller providers in not very competitive markets will surely try at some point.
That is really bad for the republicans.
True, that's probably a main goal of a lot of charter school proponents.
What a fun time. If all goes according to plan, I'm heading to grad school in the spring to switch careers and become a teacher. At least I live in Los Angeles.
whyamihere
Banned
Of Georgia's 14 CD, Trump only improved Romney's margins in 4 of them. And most of those were marginal, at best.
Yep this is why I've been a wreck the past 2 weeks. Logically I don't see any hope. And. In less than 2 months everything is going to hell. And at least as a minority goodbye to my civil rights.
And_Gignac
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Stein is not launching the campaign because she believes she can get more votes out there, c'mon.
Maybe she feels guilty and wants to ease her conscience.
Maybe she feels guilty and wants to ease her conscience.
Somebody found something interesting:
about Mussolini by Luigi Barzini.
Doesn't sound like Trump at all, nope.
Not at all.
Slurpy2k20
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..and hopefully you get banned again, as clearly you're just trolling for reactions. "So dang proud", "walking on clouds"? People are terrified that Trump will actually follow through with his promise and harm them, but I'm sure you couldn't give two fucks about that. God knows what there is to be "proud" about, and what it is that's making you so ecstatic except the obvious, which is Trump's empowering of neo-nazis, bigots, and racists. Glad you're so fucking excited about the most pathological liar in the history of US politics.
PepsimanVsJoe
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With all this debate about whether to pursuit identity politics over economic politics in the Dem party going forward, I thought this is worth considering from Ohio:
It's from a Democratic chair in Mahoning County, Ohio, where Dems have always won by double digits but Hillary barely eked out Trump by 3 points.
The problem also si that Hillary did visit Youngstown twice, and Bill Clinton visited four times. It wasn't enough:
The rest of this DailyKos post makes a rather sombering point to Democrats who say that they shouldn't even concentrate on the midwest anymore because of the prospect of winning in the Sun Belt:
It's from a Democratic chair in Mahoning County, Ohio, where Dems have always won by double digits but Hillary barely eked out Trump by 3 points.
The problem also si that Hillary did visit Youngstown twice, and Bill Clinton visited four times. It wasn't enough:
The rest of this DailyKos post makes a rather sombering point to Democrats who say that they shouldn't even concentrate on the midwest anymore because of the prospect of winning in the Sun Belt:
It has begun.
But Obama's still in power, not Trump. I mean?
Russia?
could be Obama
Yeah, but, that "And here we are" tweet from Julia Ioffe made it seem like this was a Trump attack or something.
No doubt it's Russian hackers, if it is a "government backed" hacking attempt.
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