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Taxman 11-13-2013 04:32 AM

This story sounds like America

djchameleon 11-13-2013 04:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla (Post 1383948)
Shouldn't this headline be in past tense?

Yep but I didn't make the headline. They were so excited they forgot to change kill to killed.

You still understand that it was in the past though.

Plankton 11-13-2013 10:17 AM

Not really a "I can't believe" story, but very interesting just the same:

The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone

The Batlord 11-13-2013 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by butthead aka 216 (Post 1383905)
thats badass. cheers to them


theres a story that just happened on election day. a white guy basically misled voters to believe he was black and won the election in a black jurisdiction or whatever. i think his name was dan wilson or somethin. i just find that hilarious

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Originally Posted by djchameleon (Post 1383908)
ROFL what a douche. I just looked it up. Dave Wilson.

Huge Anti-gay republican.

White, Anti-Gay Republican Wins Local Election After Pretending To Be Black

Baha. Baha. Bahahahahahahahahaha! That's what you dickbeaters get for being from Texas.

#davewilson4prez

Mr. Charlie 11-13-2013 05:05 PM

$83 million for a rock. A bloody rock.

BBC News - Pink Star diamond fetches record $83m at auction

Freebase Dali 11-13-2013 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon (Post 1383908)
ROFL what a douche. I just looked it up. Dave Wilson.

Huge Anti-gay republican.

White, Anti-Gay Republican Wins Local Election After Pretending To Be Black

In the video, the guy makes a good point about research and knowing who you're voting for.
At the same time, it does say a lot that all it takes to win an election in a black majority is to be black or not white. There are some black Republicans. Might pay to vote based on record and social/political ideology rather than skin color...

Scarlett O'Hara 11-13-2013 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon (Post 1383955)
Yep but I didn't make the headline. They were so excited they forgot to change kill to killed.

You still understand that it was in the past though.

Oh not you, I mean't the person who wrote it.

djchameleon 11-14-2013 01:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vanilla (Post 1384233)
Oh not you, I mean't the person who wrote it.

Gotcha.

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 1384211)
In the video, the guy makes a good point about research and knowing who you're voting for.
At the same time, it does say a lot that all it takes to win an election in a black majority is to be black or not white. There are some black Republicans. Might pay to vote based on record and social/political ideology rather than skin color...

Not necessarily, the whole all it takes to win an election in a black majority is to be black or not white.

In this case specifically, the guy that he was running against was black. So it was "two" black people running for the same position not just a "oh he's black let's vote for him".

The aggression of his marketing campaign and the deception that he went through to make it seem like he was a friendly candidate to vote for is the big issue here. It's actually the main reason he won. I do agree that most voters are slow and just end up voting based off of ad campaigns.

Janszoon 11-14-2013 06:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vanilla (Post 1383948)
Shouldn't this headline be in past tense?

No. That's a pretty standard way of writing a headline, at least over here.

The Batlord 11-14-2013 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 1384211)
In the video, the guy makes a good point about research and knowing who you're voting for.

Indeed. They got who they deserved, which is in this case a lying, homophobic scumbag.

I honestly don't know how to say that in a way that doesn't make it look like I'm making a joke about Republican politicians in general, but I actually wasn't.


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