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If he knew it was Petyr in charge, he'd probably get the fuck out of there as fast as possible. Petyr works, at least nominally, for the Lannisters, and there's a price on the Hound's head. Also trying to make a deal with Baelish is literally like trying to make a deal with the devil. He'd...

I don't even think it punishes them that well. If these two really are devious criminal minds, they're just going to be rewarded with knowledge of how to become better criminals.

That's not counting a lot of court ordered in-patient rehabilitation facilities for juvenile drug users (these are almost all private,) or court ordered in-patient psychological 'treatment' facilities that aren't technically full committals (these are about half and half, but getting more...

Our for-profit prison system will get it's customers one way or another. Pretty much all juvenile detention is for-profit.

High on cheese mold. They were probably Packers fans too.

My hypothesis that a handful of rich donors get to choose who gets to run. My data showed that most of the richest donors are male. It also showed that when the donors are less slanted, you get better female candidates, see the Democratic donations. You're right that I didn't show that rich...

I've considered that you suck at posting.

They couldn't have been very serious, for-realzies stabs, or else the girl would have been dead or certainly unable to crawl away for help. They probably weren't actually trying to murder her.

Because it shows just how gender slanted the proportions of the richest donors are. One could easily extrapolate back from that to primary and pre-primary donations. It also shows slants by party. It's also for all elections in that cycle, not just the general election. It's not...

I'm not talking about the general election. Did you watch the Lesterland video? Lawrence Lessig is way smarter than I am (it might have something to do with his penis, I'm not sure, I'd need to see some charts first.)

No, this isn't what I said at all. I didn't say anything about male VOTERS. I proposed the idea that gender is the deciding factor for in incredibly small number of very rich DONORS who are the biggest deciding factor in selecting who gets to RUN in the first place. I think that once women...

I did not uncle tom Meg Whitman, I just said she wasn't a candidate women wanted to vote for. If she was, she totally would have won. Sarah Palin on the other hand is the most blatantly whorish woman to run in major election ever. She could not have been more of a whore if she wore a...

I'm still waiting for the cuntiness chart.

You're wrong. I don't just have a hypothesis. I've also refuted the null hypothesis.

Planning to murder someone based on a fairy tale is not a very grown up thing to do. Unless that fairy tale is a religion, then it's a VERY grown up thing to do.

You're still insisting that the general election matters. Your point would only make sense if there was a roughly equal number of male and female candidates in the general election, or even at the primary level. I keep saying it over and over. The campaign system, as it exists, produces...

Not enough fat chicks?

25% would be fucking great. That'd be a 40% improvement over 18%.

So what's the competing hypothesis for why there's more white men in the US House/Senate?Are white men just naturally more gifted at congressional politics? Because this current crop could not be fucking worse at politics. That's the part that gets me. You'll all agree that our campaign...

I don't see them either. I'm 92 pounds and approx 0% tits.

Keg's here. Thread over.

Like I said earlier, the strong correlation between Democrats having more female donors and also having more genuine female candidates. Also, very few women give money to both parties compared to men. The subset of people who give to both sides could very easily be classified as 'the old...

I know that you know that's not what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about donors in general not giving to female candidates once they reach the actual publicized campaign stage. I'm talking about how the BIG donors, who, by this chart are mostly male, are the ones who get to choose who can...

Closing the gender gap. Good work, girls.

You have to admit that it helps support my hypothesis. Thanks to Citizens United we'll never get this granularity of data on the SuperPAC donations. And we'll never get real data on the pre-campaign donations, campaign seed money, etc, especially at the local level. But the data we do...

Calling them hate groups is really an insult to hate groups.

Technically you can store data however you want. You could build a decimal computer where the voltage running down the lines represents a number from 0-9 instead of 0-1. 1 volt lines, 0v=0, 0.1v=1, 0.2v=3, etc. Unfortunately, electricity doesn't like to actually behave like that, so it's...

Oh wow, Mist, these charts are really fucking good. Look at how much closer the gender figures for Democratic donors are! That's a good explanation for why democrats have more genuine gender parity between their candidates, and less blatantly whorish opportunistic sluts like Sarah Palin. It...

While we're making graphs, I'd like a chart of which bullshit poli-sci/sociology terms we are/aren't allowed to use in a reasonable discussion.

"Identity politics!" Isn't that like "rape culture?" Isn't that just a bullshit word white men toss around when they're under attack for their disproportionate control over the political process?

Here's your fucking data. Donor Demographics | OpenSecrets

You keep implying the general election is what matters. Your argument would make sense if half the general election candidates were women, or even half the primary candidates were women. Women get excluded from the process long before those phases. Long before public attention is cast onto races.

Obvious shit is obvious. This sounds like those people who need a scientific study to tell whether drinking makes you worse at driving.

I DID EXPLAIN THIS. The women who make it through the process required to get the money to run are the kinds of women that women don't want to vote for, because they come out of the process sounding like men in drag or just blatant whores. You're acting like the general election is the part...

I'm still trying to figure out what I'm supposed to be arguing. Do I really need to provide some kind of chart or graph that says that rich white men are more likely to financially back other white men, white men in drag like Thatcher, or just plain money loving whores? It's pretty fucking...

This was my original point. The way the system works right now, the only people you get to vote for is a bunch of whores, whether they be male whores or female whores. Who the fuck wants to vote for whores?

I did not say that women would be better at leading anything. What I'm saying is that the same SYMPTOM that causes there to be less women in elected office is the same SYMPTOM that causes our entire democracy to be fucked up. I'm not saying that one caused the other.

Good, glad we can agree on that.

You completely missed this post apparently.

That's what I'm saying. We're on the same side and you're too dumb to realize it. As long as a tiny handful of people get to pick who gets to run, you're frequently going to be stuck with options like Palin, who are literally worse than any man or woman off the street. I've long since...