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Man, the Democrats must be furious at the electoral college system; this seems to be 2000 redux. According to the New York Times, Clinton leads the popular vote by 1.2%; this might change as results come in, but apparently California is one of the states that has late PV results, so it probably...

To be fair, it's not like the US can give lessons in regards to respecting the sovereingnty of other nations, given recent history. Putin's annexations are worse, true, but still. But yeah, WW3 is a complete no-go, folks. Get Fallout out of your head, that's fiction. Reality is that nukes...

You're being generous methinks. No idea how you have Michigan for Clinton and Nevada for Trump, when trends clearly indicate the contrary. Nevertheless, a Trump win seems all but assured, since there's no way the Dems turn back Wisconsin, and Pennysylvania might turn red too. So...

And you think that matters? Russia's military is a mostly underfunded paper tiger. It probably couldn't take the combined armies of Europe, and has absolutely no chances against the vastly larger and better equipped/supplied US forces, not to mention NATO obviously. To say nothing of that fact...

And you think Trump is going to fix that? The guy who did everything to dodge taxes? The Manhattan billionaire who dates models and hangs out with all the establishment he denounces in speeches, and by his own admission played golf with Bill Clinton? The guy who sues everything in sight...

I... OK, there's literally no other way to read this other than bona fide racism. I gave the benefit of the doubt, but it's gone now. I guess Alexandre Dumas wasn't French either, despite being one the nation's best, most well known authors, and that being black ''predisposed'' him to be...

Who said there are no differences at all and we're all the same? I said there are traits common to certain ethnicities and populations, but there's no such thing as a german race with a little flag tatooed on your double helix. There are, at best, genetic similarities among large ethnic groups...

There are traits that are common and recognizable in specific ethnicities (but aren't always unique to said ethnicity), but those aren't ''race specific genes'', and there certainly are no such as thing as culture specific genes either. A German can be a small black-haired guy from Hannover or a...

This is some of the biggest load of pseudo-scientific bullcrap I have ever seen. Culture has nothing to do with ''genetic makeup''. There's no ''german gene'', and what in the blazes are those german features you speak of? Blue eyes, blond hair, tall, high cheekbones? Because a minority of...

And what difference does it makes to you? What difference should it make? If some dude born in Haiti ends up being a legal canadian citizen, far as I'm concerned he's canadian. I'm not going to make an arbitrary distinction because he's black, don't give no fucks on which pile of rock he was...

Yeah, but again, it's hard to say exactly how much this is Medicare, and how much is the population growing older and requiring more care, or our general awareness of some diseases and ailments increasing, or prices going up because of doctor's shenanigans as are detailed in the article, or...

Correlation doesn't equal causation. Just taking one quick look at that graph, the prices didn't start to skyrocket until 1980 (a full 15 years after Medicare) and they were already shooting up considerably way before Obamacare. Plus, many of the price-inflating methods discussed in the linked...

Treatment for cancer is very expensive and demanding. Chemo, hospital stays, possible surgeries, boatloads of medication, requires specialized doctors instead of generalists. Over a year, the costs add up very fast indeed. I mean, I'm not an expert, but I wouldn't be surprised if I'm lowballing...

Socialism as it was originally conceived isn't the most practical, no. Socialism as it has been adopted by most Western democraties, weaved in so that it works in concert with capitalism, is to a much greater degree. Albeit of course it's nowhere near perfect, but nothing is. The problem with...

Oh yeah, fuck statistical analysis, some of which were done by Trump's very own campaign as I pointed out earlier in the linked article. That sucks. But anecdotical evidence such as rally size? Oh man, totally, 100% accurate. I'm not sure why all those losers doing the polls even bother, we...

Ignoring the fact even the CIA isn't sure that torture is actually effective at extracting information, ''we know he's a terrorist'' is actually not something that applies to reality most of the time, unless the guy is caught red-handed. I mean, when you talk about the public figureheads or...

Yeah, let's ignore half the guys tossed in Gitmo (and presumably a number of other, much shadier secret prisons all over the world) weren't even terrorists and most of those remaining have not been convicted of any wrongdoing. But yeah, keep denouncing manufactured talking points of all kinds...

Very interesting article about Trump's campaign on Bloomberg. Basically, the campaign is nowhere near as slapdash as it can appear on the outside, running some fairly sophisticated sorta-marketing models and their own polling. Unfortunately for them, it means they know they're losing right...

Think the problem is that it then becomes endemic. I know France (in the 19th century, admitedly) had duels solve everything, but they eventually figured out that between people who cheated, people who died by mistake or malicious design, people who simply went overboard, and people generally...

Meh, you can keep your guns. I personally have little interest in them, but don't really have a horse in this race either. Only thing that should be done is effective background checks; if you're on something akin to a no-fly list, or have any history of being mentally unbalanced or what have...