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?

 

[HumanHive]

I keep seeing these "Why we are alone in the Galaxy" or "why we are not alone in the galaxy" clickbait articles and honestly I have no idea what even the hell to believe anymore.

There's either a billion civilizations waiting to kick over our sandcastle or we are absolutely positively the only sentient beings in the entire universe. Depends on which youtube video you watch.

The actual answer may not be so black and white. We're obviously off topic to this thread, but consider watching this video:

The long and the short of it is that sightings of UFOs and the mysterious beings that are associated them long predate the modern Alien Hypothesis, and in the past were directly described as angels, demons, fey/fairies, strange inventors from Europe (no really), and then only in the 30's and 40's associated with the kind of aliens we describe them as today. The general assumption we have is that previous generations were wrong, and we are right, but what if we're just as wrong as the ones who described very human pilots exiting UFOs and asking for glasses of water before going into a long winded explanation of how they work for Thomas Edison? What if the alien theory is wrong? Where does that leave us?
Probably something interdimensional, and something that is good at manipulating human culture and perceptions over long periods - guiding us somehow. In another video in that channel, the "Airship sighting craze" of the late 19th century is linked to changing public perceptions on the feasibility of heavier than air flight - taking it from "physically impossible" to "just around the corner". Without that airship craze, the Wright Brothers may never have been taken seriously or attempted their experiments at all. I'm not acting like I know the answers. That's the point of this. We don't know and have thus far just made very bad assumptions that are probably more reflections of our own life and times than anything real.

And if you DON'T buy the idea that UFOs are real, consider that there must be an alternative phenomena - that there is something inside of Humanity that keeps recurring across centuries that cause us to believe we've been in contact with something that comes from the sky. That phenomena would be just as intriguing as the existence of aliens.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Depends on country and class, really. Vietnamese are relatively more based because they tend to do more blue-collar jobs like auto-repair. Chinese tend to do white collar jobs like attorneys and doctors. When people say that Asians do well in school, that also means that they absorb the school's culture as well. That also includes CRT nonsense, so second generation types think they can leverage it... and fail utterly because of their high class.

All of them respond to authoritarian state measures though. I've never met any East-Asian with a rebellious spirit. Part of it is that politics simply is something they can't influence. The Dems can do without any Asians and can choose to provide token resources to help them, but they're also really NPC themselves. They've bought totally into COVID and have no desire to question the differences between propaganda and reality.

They do have a rebellious spirit for a short time, it's acting like niggers and listening to their music and using cringe phrases to act gangsta. Then they get rich and vote Democrat to own whitey despite hanging out with whitey most of the time.

 

[The Last Stand]

ANY comment against the Chinese government got spun around as "you hate Asian Americans." You couldn't just hate the CCP, or even JUST Chinese people.

How do you do that. And how do you get people to BELIEVE IT?

It's not even being against it to make a political point. It's like: "wait a minute, that doesn't make sense."

Like the thing with "Trump invading Portland," yet ignoring all the chaos that has (and is) happening there TO cause such an "invasion."

 

[Calandrino]

Sadly, as much as I like the idea of meeting Star Trek Federation-like Aliens

Maybe they're watching us die because the prime directive prevents interference, or some kind of time travel paradox means that we're supposed to die. Many such cases!

The actual answer may not be so black and white. We're obviously off topic to this thread, but consider watching this video:

The long and the short of it is that sightings of UFOs and the mysterious beings that are associate them long predate the modern Alien Hypothesis, and in the past were directly described as angels, demons, fey/fairies, strange inventors from Europe (no really), and then only in the 30's and 40's associated with the kind of aliens we describe them as today. The general assumption we have is that previous generations were wrong, and we are right, but what if we're just as wrong as the ones who described very human pilots exiting UFOs and asking for glasses of water before going into a long winded explanation of how they work for Thomas Edison? What if the alien theory is wrong? Where does that leave us?
Probably something interdimensional, and something that is good at manipulating human culture and perceptions over long periods - guiding us somehow. In another video in that channel, the "Airship sighting craze" of the late 19th century is linked to changing public perceptions on the feasibility of heavier than air flight - taking it from "physically impossible" to "just around the corner". Without that airship craze, the Wright Brothers may never have been taken seriously or attempted their experiments at all. I'm not acting like I know the answers. That's the point of this. We don't know and have thus far just made very bad assumptions that are probably more reflections of our own life and times than anything real.

And if you DON'T buy the idea that UFOs are real, consider that there must be an alternative phenomena - that there is something inside of Humanity that keeps recurring across centuries that cause us to believe we've been in contact with something that comes from the sky. That phenomena would be just as intriguing as the existence of aliens.

Vallee basically narrowed it down to either space aliens or leprechauns, then ruled out space aliens. I really like his books.

 

[Grundlejungle]

Secondary figures?

I already have Joe Biden

 

[XYZpdq]

after saying that Mark Milley should be executed live on C-SPAN.

but to make it clear, that's not a grammar typo about him being on c-span and declaring public executions
he is discussing public executions, says cnn in error then corrects himself that the public executions should be on c-span, and not cnn

 

[>tfw no Asian gf]

My take on aliens is that I believe they exist, the universe is so ridiculously big that there must be some other planet with life out there, now let's remember, life doesn't mean inteligent life, life has been present here on Earth for billions of years, Human civilization has existed for just a few thousand years, I think the universe might be full of life, however most of that life consist of simple organisms meaning microorganisms, maybe some planets have more complex but not inteligent life and then the rarest type of a planet with life, a planet that has managed to last long enough to develop inteligent life.
That is my take on the Ayys and the Fermi Paradox and remember that I'm just some brainlet on the internet.

 

[The Last Stand]

I already have Joe Biden
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Now, that gives him TOO much credit.

 

[Gar For Archer]

The actual answer may not be so black and white. We're obviously off topic to this thread, but consider watching this video:

The long and the short of it is that sightings of UFOs and the mysterious beings that are associate them long predate the modern Alien Hypothesis, and in the past were directly described as angels, demons, fey/fairies, strange inventors from Europe (no really), and then only in the 30's and 40's associated with the kind of aliens we describe them as today. The general assumption we have is that previous generations were wrong, and we are right, but what if we're just as wrong as the ones who described very human pilots exiting UFOs and asking for glasses of water before going into a long winded explanation of how they work for Thomas Edison? What if the alien theory is wrong? Where does that leave us?
Probably something interdimensional, and something that is good at manipulating human culture and perceptions over long periods - guiding us somehow. In another video in that channel, the "Airship sighting craze" of the late 19th century is linked to changing public perceptions on the feasibility of heavier than air flight - taking it from "physically impossible" to "just around the corner". Without that airship craze, the Wright Brothers may never have been taken seriously or attempted their experiments at all. I'm not acting like I know the answers. That's the point of this. We don't know and have thus far just made very bad assumptions that are probably more reflections of our own life and times than anything real.

And if you DON'T buy the idea that UFOs are real, consider that there must be an alternative phenomena - that there is something inside of Humanity that keeps recurring across centuries that cause us to believe we've been in contact with something that comes from the sky. That phenomena would be just as intriguing as the existence of aliens.

The problem is, believing that aliens exist and have visited Earth during the same short time that humans have inhabited it essentially necessitates one of two possibilities:

1. The universe is literally teeming with life, such that another intelligent species evolved around the same time as humans in close enough proximity to reach us through conventional, non-relativistic propulsion. Given how big the universe is and how fucking long it’s been around, the chances of another intelligent species developing near us - in both space and time - are infinitesimally tiny, unless intelligent life is way, way more common than we currently think it is. Also, these aliens are humanoid for some reason, despite it making little sense for aliens that evolved on a different world with different evolutionary pressures from completely different ancestors to bear any resemblance to humans at all.

2. FTL travel is possible.

Personally, I do think there is something to the various UFO sightings that have been happening since recorded history. I don’t know WHAT they could be, but I personally don’t think it’s aliens.

 

[The Last Stand]

Personally, I do think there is something to the various UFO sightings that have been happening since recorded history. I don’t know WHAT they could be, but I personally don’t think it’s aliens.

Maybe we live in a twisted simulation by God and those UFOs are glitches in the matrix.

 

[Terrifik]

youtube being youtube again
#picka side
guys they did its pedo & money side

 

[Iceland Heavy]

I'm honestly surprised that the Asian community is as apathetic as they are considering it's the Democrats that are openly stating that Asians should be discriminated against from colleges because they try harder.

Of course, let's also realize where the plurality of the #StopAsianHate attacks are coming from.

For the most part, Asians viewed the Religious Right-driven GOP of the 90s to Trump as the White Man's party (not necessarily in the modern anti-racist sense, although that is certainly not helping things) and went with the Democrats as the only other real option, with the most obvious exception being first-generation Koreans and Vietnamese who (especially the latter) are near Cuban-tier in their collective politics. Asians tend to live clustered in more urban and suburban areas and emphasizing sending their kids to college turned out to be quite the double-edged sword as they often come out similar if not identical to urban progressive whites politically.

 

[Non-breath oblige]

I'm honestly surprised that the Asian community is as apathetic as they are considering it's the Democrats that are openly stating that Asians should be discriminated against from colleges because they try harder.

Of course, let's also realize where the plurality of the #StopAsianHate attacks are coming from.

The general excuse vibe I hear is basically "It's okay as long as white people aren't positively affected because white people did some bad things to non-white people a long time ago which caused ""intergenerational trauma"" in our communities, and white people are still doing bad things to non-white people today because white supremacy and white privilege, so it's our ""duty"" to "be ""compassionate"" and "uplift"" those who are less privileged than us. Oh, those attacks on Asians that weren't done by white people? Ignore them, those are just outliers. By the way, this is why it's still white people's fault..."

 

[GuntPunt]

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youtube being youtube again
#picka side
guys they did its pedo & money side

All I'm saying on this: it's obvious the people who head tech companies are scum that stifle the websites to sanitize them for advertisers, but be careful what you wish for.

Twitter got rid of Jack, and now contend with being a shitting street. Calling on the lazy CEOs to leave to be replaced by determined CEOs that want to follow through with this goal is not desired.

 

[Long Tongue Silver]

Sadly, as much as I like the idea of meeting Star Trek Federation-like Aliens that are only interested in gaining knowledge and seeking partners in exploration, there's sadly a high chance any ET contact might be akin to the Europeans coming to the Americas: either wind up conquering us because they find us barbaric and in need of enlightenment under their own religion or belief system, exploited for resources, or unintentionally decimating us out of ignorance of how the microbes they carry and are unaffected by just love to devastate either humans or some of the crops/livestock our current livelihood depends on.

A personal theory of mine is that aliens see us the same way we see an ant colony. Ever try talking to a colony of ants? You can't. And they can't talk back to us, either. Except maybe to bite and sting us if we get too close. The whole concept of a literal species of giants roaming beyond the ant hills doesn't even register.

Any alien being of sufficiently higher intellect will likely see Earth as one giant ant colony. Fun to observe, but they might just get bored and do the equivalent of dumping molten aluminum down the ant hill to make some admittedly cool art. But more than likely our little blue, green and orange-ish ball won't get so much as a second glance....and thank [add your favorite deity here] for that.

 

[Billy Beer]

The problem is, believing that aliens exist and have visited Earth during the same short time that humans have inhabited it essentially necessitates one of two possibilities:

1. The universe is literally teeming with life, such that another intelligent species evolved around the same time as humans in close enough proximity to reach us through conventional, non-relativistic propulsion. Given how big the universe is and how fucking long it’s been around, the chances of another intelligent species developing near us - in both space and time - are infinitesimally tiny, unless intelligent life is way, way more common than we currently think it is. Also, these aliens are humanoid for some reason, despite it making little sense for aliens that evolved on a different world with different evolutionary pressures from completely different ancestors to bear any resemblance to humans at all.

Assuming no intelligent life has come to Earth. We can't even get a straight story on our present, let alone the past. As for travelling distances, we know quantum entanglement is a thing and we can replicate it, so teleportation of yourself, an avatar or clone, is within the realms of possibility, for our 70,000 year old monkey brain.

2. FTL travel is possible.

Personally, I do think there is something to the various UFO sightings that have been happening since recorded history. I don’t know WHAT they could be, but I personally don’t think it’s aliens.

FTL is possible, even Einstein says so. In order to frig going faster than the speed of light, you just mess around with the Time portion of the equation. If 1 second to you is 0.000001 second to me, I am travelling faster than your speed of light.

FWIW there is Faster than the speed of light (300 million m/s) and then there's FTL which is about cause/effect, as in, you can't spill milk without dropping the glass. It's frustrating that NASA et al use the same FTL abbreviation to mean two things.

Sorry for the nerdlingering and check everything I have said, because it has been proven many times on this that I have no fucking idea what I'm talking about. So...take with a planets worth of salt.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Assuming no intelligent life has come to Earth. We can't even get a straight story on our present, let alone the past. As for travelling distances, we know quantum entanglement is a thing and we can replicate it, so teleportation of yourself, an avatar or clone, is within the realms of possibility, for our 70,000 year old monkey brain.


FTL is possible, even Einstein says so. In order to frig going faster than the speed of light, you just mess around with the Time portion of the equation. If 1 second to you is 0.000001 second to me, I am travelling faster than your speed of light.

FWIW there is Faster than the speed of light (300 million m/s) and then there's FTL which is about cause/effect, as in, you can't spill milk without dropping the glass. It's frustrating that NASA et al use the same FTL abbreviation to mean two things.

Sorry for the nerdlingering and check everything I have said, because it has been proven many times on this that I have no fucking idea what I'm talking about. So...take with a planets worth of salt.

Why though? Why would we want to go FTL? If it's to get away and establish a better society on a habitable planet sure but it will probably be like what happened in Dragonriders of Pern: eventually we'll fall back into the same societal structures, and make the same mistakes. Without dragon riding or talking dolphins, which would suck balls.

 

[chiobu]

Are Harris & Biden fighting? Rhetorical question but still

Harris says Americans under the pressures of student loan debt 'are literally making decisions about whether they can have a family, whether they can buy a home'​

• Vice President Kamala Harris said the White House was seeking a way to "creatively" address student debt.
• The Biden administration in December announced student loan payments would be halted until May 1.
• Harris said "we have to continue to do what we're doing and figure out how we can creatively relieve the pressure that students are feeling."

Vice President Kamala Harris in an interview that aired Sunday said the Biden administration was working to find a way to "creatively" address student debt, citing the pressures it causes for Americans.

"I think that we have to continue to do what we're doing and figure out how we can creatively relieve the pressure that students are feeling because of their student loan debt," Harris told CBS News' Margaret Brennan during an interview on "Face the Nation."

Harris said that Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona was "working on what we can do and must do frankly to relieve the pressures of student loan debt."

"Graduates and former students across our country are literally making decisions about whether they can have a family, whether they can buy a home," she said, adding that she previously had student loan debt.

"And it's no small matter, and we need to figure out a way to relieve debt. So it's a fair issue in terms of the seriousness of the issue,"she said.

The administration of President Joe Biden in December extended the federal pause on student loan payments, allowing borrowers to avoid paying until May 1 as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus causes COVID-19 cases in the US to rise.

"Voting we've discussed, it is a very big issue, and what I believe we must do is continue to be vigilant and fighting for folks who have a right to be seen and their circumstances to be heard and understood because we have the ability to actually alleviate the burdens that people are carrying that make it difficult for them to get through the day or in the month," Harris added.

"This additional extension of the repayment pause will provide critical relief to borrowers who continue to face financial hardships as a result of the pandemic, and will allow our Administration to assess the impacts of Omicron on student borrowers," Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a December 22 statement.

"As we prepare for the return to repayment in May, we will continue to provide tools and supports to borrowers so they can enter into the repayment plan that is responsive to their financial situation, such as an income-driven repayment plan," he added.

Some Democratic lawmakers, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, have called on the Biden administration to go futher than delaying debt payments, asking the president to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt.

During his 2020 campaign for president, Biden pledged to forgive "a minimum" of $10,000 of student loan debt per person.

"Young people and other student debt holders bore the brunt of the last crisis. It shouldn't happen again," he said in a March 22, 2020 tweet.

So far, he hasn't followed through on that promise.

Harris says Americans under the pressures of student-loan debt 'are literally making decisions about whether they can have a family, whether they can buy a home'

Harris said the administration had to "figure out how we can creatively relieve the pressure that students are feeling because of their" debt.

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[Billy Beer]

Bidenflation will cancel out all of your student debts, because soon $10,000 won't buy you a loaf of bread.

 

[HumanHive]

Harris says Americans under the pressures of student loan debt 'are literally making decisions about whether they can have a family, whether they can buy a home'​

That's nice Harris, but what are you going to do about it? Oh yeah, nothing. Thanks for playing, though!