US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)

Let's pretend for one moment that he does die before the election, just for the funsies. What happens then? Will the nomination revert to option number 2, aka Bernie Sanders? Or will his running mate automatically replace him just the way Vice-President is supposted to step in after the Big Man in the White House chokes on a piece of matzo? Does he even have a running mate yet?

 

[Quijibo69]

Space travel is going to be limited over “climate” concerns.

Rich people are moving to space and killing normies on earth because they're that stupid.

 

[HumanHive]

Rich people are moving to space and killing normies on earth because they're that stupid.

The problem is that while short tourist trips into space are relatively easy, colonizing the Moon or Mars is like trying to colonize the Sahara or Antartica. It is “possible”, but extremely labor intensive.

The actual goal is mass die off of normalfags and their replacement with robotic labor. This is a pipedream, but it’s too late to stop the dieoff.

 

[Back me up!]

Guys I'm starting to think Youngkin might pull it off in VA.

https://twitter.com/zhizhierbuzhier/status/1451918862803419141

Between this, the Fairfax Dems trying to sue USPS, and Fairfax Country getting sued for not verifying the last 4 digital of social on mail in ballots the mail in scheme is looking to fall apart.

 

[Socrates]

The problem is that while short tourist trips into space are relatively easy, colonizing the Moon or Mars is like trying to colonize the Sahara or Antartica. It is “possible”, but extremely labor intensive.

I get the point you're making here but comparing colonizing the sahara/arctic to the moon/mars is hilarious. It's like the difference in difficulty between moving a mountain of sand from one place to another with a teaspoon vs a pair of tweezers on the end of a 20 ft arm that has 10 seconds of input lag and if you fuck up a little bit everybody dies a swift, horrible death.

 

[Stoneheart]

I get the point you're making here but comparing colonizing the sahara/arctic to the moon/mars is hilarious. It's like the difference in difficulty between moving a mountain of sand from one place to another with a teaspoon vs a pair of tweezers on the end of a 20 ft arm that has 10 seconds of input lag and if you fuck up a little bit everybody dies a swift, horrible death.

Its much safer than colonizing africa, you only have to fight the environment, not animals, bacteria and nigger...

 

[Gar For Archer]

View attachment 2654865I get the point you're making here but comparing colonizing the sahara/arctic to the moon/mars is hilarious. It's like the difference in difficulty between moving a mountain of sand from one place to another with a teaspoon vs a pair of tweezers on the end of a 20 ft arm that has 10 seconds of input lag and if you fuck up a little bit everybody dies a swift, horrible death.

…pretty much, yeah.

I’m of the opinion that space is a massive fucking boondoggle. There’s nothing out there but cold, empty space and a few rocks we might get tiny colonies on in 200 years. It’s a miracle we even got off this rock in the first place, but the impossibility of FTL travel practically guarantees that we’ll find nothing interesting out there that can actually be reached within a human lifespan.

Its much safer than colonizing africa, you only have to fight the environment, not animals, bacteria and nigger...

Just don’t use cockroaches to terraform Mars and we’re golden.

 

[Socrates]

Its much safer than colonizing africa, you only have to fight the environment, not animals, bacteria and nigger...

Solar winds are the are the Africans of space. Niggers stole Mars' atmosphere

 

[Back me up!]

…pretty much, yeah.

I’m of the opinion that space is a massive fucking boondoggle. There’s nothing out there but cold, empty space and a few rocks we might get tiny colonies on in 200 years. It’s a miracle we even got off this rock in the first place, but the impossibility of FTL travel practically guarantees that we’ll find nothing interesting out there that can actually be reached within a human lifespan.

Nahhhh. Colonies might not be worth it, but there is a TON of high value minerals floating around in rocks out there that would make it worth it to go up, grab some shit, and then bring it back down.

The sad part is the we could probably pull it off if the US had invested more into Project Orion but that was only a dream that could be alive during the 50s.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

…pretty much, yeah.

I’m of the opinion that space is a massive fucking boondoggle. There’s nothing out there but cold, empty space and a few rocks we might get tiny colonies on in 200 years. It’s a miracle we even got off this rock in the first place, but the impossibility of FTL travel practically guarantees that we’ll find nothing interesting out there that can actually be reached within a human lifespan.

If you'd have told someone 500 years ago that people would cross the non-flat Earth in barn sized metal bird like machines running on liquefied corpse substance, everyone being able and reading the entirety of all human knowledge off of a plate powered by tiny thunder bolts, using said plate to communicate with everyone across the world and freely calling their King a faggot, you'd have sounded cray cray.
Who knows what the future will bring.

 

[verissimus]

Honestly, I don't think you need to blame diversity for this one. At least not entirely. It's definitely the cover reason why they're doing it but not the real one.

The real reason is what I personally term "mediocrity" syndrome. It's when you have people rising to power which they do not deserve. So, in order to preserve their power, they would simply favour underlings which would not out-shine them in any way. Happens the most in a stratified bureaucracy where one can easily control the promotion of individuals, since they are entirely at the whim of the leader. The Arab world is long notorious for this, and from what I can tell, the DNC is also suffering from this post Clinton and Obama-era purges.

EDIT: Come to think of it, this phenomenon is probably just indicative of a malaise in a polity in general. When meritocracy is discarded in favour of tribal loyalties and nepotism.

This also seems to happen when the people on top are control freaks (competent or not) as in the case of Napoleon. The really disgusting thing about this phenomenon is that it isn't just specific to the government. I bet you this mentality has taken place throughout most of the entertainment industry, certainly in the case of LucasFilms.

 

[Trianon]

Guys I'm starting to think Youngkin might pull it off in VA.

https://twitter.com/zhizhierbuzhier/status/1451918862803419141

Between this, the Fairfax Dems trying to sue USPS, and Fairfax Country getting sued for not verifying the last 4 digital of social on mail in ballots the mail in scheme is looking to fall apart.

Vote totals are always going to be lower than the presidential races, but the last governor election in 2017 had a.) a Beltway GOP candidate with little enthusiasm, b.) a folksy Dem running a moderate campaign, who ended up greenlighting every progressive wishlist after he got caught with a blackface scandal in office, and c.) Trump in office. Oh and d.) Charlottesville. That led Northam to a pretty comfortable win, but it was a different kind of race with less wind at the GOP's backs.

McAuliffe may have some built-in Dem advantage, but only one other governor has successfully run a second time in Virginia. Backlash to the incumbent president is the rule in Virginia. It may have changed in the past few years, but it's likely that the state electorate are just contrarian moderates who could swing to Youngkin enough for a win.

Obama doubling down on school issues being ginned-up culture war wedges is ... not a great look. Youngkin supposedly had bigger crowds in Richmond than Obama last night.

 

[Gar For Archer]

If you'd have told someone 500 years ago that people would cross the non-flat Earth in barn sized metal bird like machines running on liquefied corpse substance, everyone being able and reading the entirety of all human knowledge off of a plate powered by tiny thunder bolts, using said plate to communicate with everyone across the world and freely calling their King a faggot, you'd have sounded cray cray.
Who knows what the future will bring.

Knowledge isn’t just about learning what’s possible, but also about learning the limitations of what we’re reasonably sure are impossible. The more we know about the world, the more weight a “yeah, we’re pretty sure that’s impossible” holds. And yeah, as it is, FTL travel is generally agreed upon to be literally impossible since it breaks causality. Not that it even matters, since an object with significant mass getting up to any meaningful fraction of light speed will be a big enough challenge in and of itself.

In the past, people easily believed in tales of dragons and other monsters. Today, we know that hexapod vertebrates are evolutionarily impossible, so we can confidently say that dragons and other four-legged, winged creatures will never be discovered in the future. Knowledge means knowledge of possibilities, but also knowledge of boundaries and limitations. Lightspeed certainly seems to be one of those limitations that will most likely never be broken.

 

[>tfw no Asian gf]

I think space colonization will look like it does in the Expanse, with the solar system settled but with mankind starting to suffer from ever increasing division thanks to politics and the very real effects of speciation due to all the people living in the asteroid colonies.
Or maybe not, who knows, all that matters is that the Expanse is a really good show, I highly recommend it.

 

[MirrorNoir]

A nuclear catastrophe maybe, Chernobyl part 2 American boogalo.

More like an Earthquake. We are LONG LONG LONG overdue another major Earthquake and one that destroys most if not all of San Francisco or Los Angeles and which Biden 100% botches the response to it would be on par with Chernobyl if only for the number of lefties that would red-pill and the way it would do severe damage to the DNC power base if the Californian Sodom or Gomorrah fell and ended up like New Orleans or Detroit in terms of being decimated beyond any hope of being fixed.

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

Guys I'm starting to think Youngkin might pull it off in VA.

https://twitter.com/zhizhierbuzhier/status/1451918862803419141

Between this, the Fairfax Dems trying to sue USPS, and Fairfax Country getting sued for not verifying the last 4 digital of social on mail in ballots the mail in scheme is looking to fall apart.

There’s no way Youngkin is going to be allowed to “win”. It is what it is. The rigging may become more obvious as the years go by but it’s not going away. Even if Youngkin DOES somehow manage to score an upset “win” over the The Man, His propagandists will declare Youngkin’s election to be “illegitimate” due to “isms” and will obstruct Youngkin for his entire term and then use the fact that Youngkin got nothing done for his entire term against him in his next election.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

Knowledge isn’t just about learning what’s possible, but also about learning the limitations of what we’re reasonably sure are impossible. The more we know about the world, the more weight a “yeah, we’re pretty sure that’s impossible” holds. And yeah, as it is, FTL travel is generally agreed upon to be literally impossible since it breaks causality. Not that it even matters, since an object with significant mass getting up to any meaningful fraction of light speed will be a big enough challenge in and of itself.

In the past, people easily believed in tales of dragons and other monsters. Today, we know that hexapod vertebrates are evolutionarily impossible, so we can confidently say that dragons and other four-legged, winged creatures will never be discovered in the future. Knowledge means knowledge of possibilities, but also knowledge of boundaries and limitations. Lightspeed certainly seems to be one of those limitations that will most likely never be broken.

You really like your definitive definitions.
In my experience it's a defeatist attitude.

 

[Only A Retard Sometimes]

Nahhhh. Colonies might not be worth it, but there is a TON of high value minerals floating around in rocks out there that would make it worth it to go up, grab some shit, and then bring it back down.

The sad part is the we could probably pull it off if the US had invested more into Project Orion but that was only a dream that could be alive during the 50s.

8 astronauts and 100 tons of cargo to mars in 175 days with Orion propulsion. Or just 44 years to alpha centauri at 10% light speed. Project Orion was epic and was just thrown away.

 

[HumanHive]

I get the point you're making here but comparing colonizing the sahara/arctic to the moon/mars is hilarious. It's like the difference in difficulty between moving a mountain of sand from one place to another with a teaspoon vs a pair of tweezers on the end of a 20 ft arm that has 10 seconds of input lag and if you fuck up a little bit everybody dies a swift, horrible death.

My point was that it takes countless laborers; something a handful of billionaires can’t achieve by themselves.

 

[celebrityskin]

Lets Go Brandon bad

Decapitated Trump Head good

Kathy Griffin has lost it. I wish Joan Rivers was still alive to give her a shake.

 

[Gar For Archer]

You really like your definitive definitions.
In my experience it's a defeatist attitude.

Unless you, personally, are a scientist working at the cutting edge of technology, dreaming big doesn’t mean jack shit. Either FTL is confirmed possible by people way smarter than any of us, or it isn’t. Plebs conflating Star Trek with real life because they don’t understand enough about physics to understand why FTL is almost certainly impossible ain’t gonna speed up their progress.