US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[BubbleButt]

For a substance that is supposedly non-addictive, pot lovers sure have a hard time not smoking it for a day or two.

I've also heard several people unironically proclaim out loud that drug testing for work should be illegal because it is an infringement of rights. Damn shawty is it really too much to ask for you to not operate machinery doped up? I don't like the idea of a nurse sticking a needle in me after hotboxing in the car before work.

The mental gymnastics of stoners.

Right, the substance may not have compounds that are addictive like nicotine, but fuck you if you don't think the euphoria from inhaling and absorbing THC isn't addictive to a society that by and large suffers from acute depression and malaise

 

[In Memoriam]

For literally no reason whatsoever, Amazon recommended Grandma's White Dirt of Georgia today, so I think you're right.

Wait wait wait. I can’t just let this one pass by. Read the reviews - this is literal dirt and people (women) are buying and eating it and discussing the fucking flavor and mouth feel? Who are these people and do they have a thread yet?!

On topic - thanks Biden you make bitches eat dirt (based?)

 

[Homegrown Homophobia]

I keep hearing "not addictive" and "not a gateway drug" but lived experience says so much otherwise. Every single person I graduated HS with that is now in jail or a certified junkie started out with weed in junior high. I don't have many but all of my junkie relatives did. Weed put an otherwise normal classmate into special ed because he stopped caring.

Maybe try not living around fucking human trash? That sounds like your problem not ganja itself.

My lived experience is I grew up in a middle upper class area and know plenty of college educated people with careers who smoke pot. I know plenty of retards who let alcohol ruin their life though but somehow booze always gets ignored since it's socially acceptable.

I type this while I'm letting sun block set and smoking some weed before I go do a 8-9 mile trail run. Stoned running is something everyone should try once in their life.

 

[Netizennameless]

I keep hearing "not addictive" and "not a gateway drug" but lived experience says so much otherwise. Every single person I graduated HS with that is now in jail or a certified junkie started out with weed in junior high. I don't have many but all of my junkie relatives did. Weed put an otherwise normal classmate into special ed because he stopped caring.

It's not a gateway drug. The type of person who would shoot heroin or snort cocaine would also smoke weed. There is no evidence smoking weed leads to harder drugs. They also all drank water, but that doesn't mean drinking water causes harder drug use.



Basically, 118 million people (1/3rd the population) have smoked weed in their lifetimes. The next most popular drug, cocaine, has only been tried by 38 million people (little over a tenth). LSD, 25 million. it gets lower from there. Most people who try marijuana never move onto anything harder.

https://cfah.org/drug-use-addiction-statistics/

https://archive.ph/zeev0

 

[The Last Stand]

Weed is definitely psychologically addictive

Anyway growth recession means a recession where the productive potential of the economy is actually good, the recession is sharp but short and clears out the dead wood, and the growth after the recession is very strong

This happened multiple times in the US and Europe in the second half of the 19th century

What they mean now is Powell wishing in one hand and shitting in the other, and asking us to believe the wishing hand is gonna fill up faster

I don't consider Marijuana addictive. I've taken medical marijuana and stopped a couple years ago. I don't feel the need to smoke it.

 

[The Ugly One]

Weed is definitely psychologically addictive

Anyway growth recession means a recession where the productive potential of the economy is actually good, the recession is sharp but short and clears out the dead wood, and the growth after the recession is very strong

This happened multiple times in the US and Europe in the second half of the 19th century

What they mean now is Powell wishing in one hand and shitting in the other, and asking us to believe the wishing hand is gonna fill up faster

You really have just two choices after printing this much money:

1) Rapid inflation in which the middle class's savings and incomes get wiped out, but the bankers do well because they're first in line for new money
2) Recession in which the middle class's jobs get wiped out, but the bankers do well because they get bailed out.

This process of the federal government alternating between giving bankers cheap loans and outright free money is what Republicans mean when they say, "the free market."

 

[Woe-B-Gon (TM)]

So if I call a tranny by their deadname, they only lose their minds because deep down they know it's true?

 

[Kermit Jizz]

For a substance that is supposedly non-addictive, pot lovers sure have a hard time not smoking it for a day or two.

I've also heard several people unironically proclaim out loud that drug testing for work should be illegal because it is an infringement of rights. Damn shawty is it really too much to ask for you to not operate machinery doped up? I don't like the idea of a nurse sticking a needle in me after hotboxing in the car before work.

The mental gymnastics of stoners.

Drug testing for work is gay because it detects whether you've smoked in the last several weeks. It's not like a breathalyzer that tells whether you're drunk on the job. Your job has no business if you smoked outside of work just the same as they have no right to know if you've been drinking off hours.

I agree that weed is definitely addictive and most stoners are faggots though. They're basically the vegans of the drug world.

I keep hearing "not addictive" and "not a gateway drug" but lived experience says so much otherwise. Every single person I graduated HS with that is now in jail or a certified junkie started out with weed in junior high. I don't have many but all of my junkie relatives did. Weed put an otherwise normal classmate into special ed because he stopped caring.

I think the issue with your peers was that they started smoking in their development years. Not even factoring in how that impacts a developing mind, imagine the environment of a kid who has access to weed in the 8th grade. They were fucked from the start.

You really have just two choices after printing this much money:

1) Rapid inflation in which the middle class's savings and incomes get wiped out, but the bankers do well because they're first in line for new money
2) Recession in which the middle class's jobs get wiped out, but the bankers do well because they get bailed out.

I'm a bit of a economic brainlet, how does printing money lead to number 2? I thought it was exclusively number 1.

 

[mandatorylurk]

You can just see the ripple of Never Trump -> Never Desantis -> Never Trump-supported-candidates


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This is the same writer/faggot who bitches constantly about being Never Trump and how El Naranja is a phony. Williamson also wants the republican working class to starve and die in the midwest.

For all his bluster that "phony" Trump did what your cocksucking tough guy GOPe senators couldn't/wouldn't do for years.

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

According to Bloomberg, the glowies are allegedly planning to sit on any charges for Trump until after the midterms, but could seek them under seal before them.

I'm not sure if they're hedging their bets or planning another Fortified election.

I do kinda want to see them toss a charge at Trump right before the election starts to kick off. I want to see if the Trump supporters will actually do a "summer of love" or will they bitch and moan but in the end do nothing.

As much as I hate to say it I feel it will be the latter much tweets, many angry blogs but in the end they'll stand by and let the Dem's jail an opposing political candidate without much opposition.

 

[Meat Target]

I'm a bit of a economic brainlet, how does printing money lead to number 2? I thought it was exclusively number 1.

To bring down inflation, central banks need to raise interest rates to discourage borrowing money. This slows down economic activity.

And we've had almost a decade of rates near zero. So it'll be slowing down the economy by veering off the road entirely and hoping it doesn't hit any stationary objects.

 

[LaxerBRO]

Biden Speaking on banning tactical rifles:

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

not allowing it would be a violation of the dormant commerce clause.

All Comiefornia would have to do is refuse new registrations for ICE vehicles. They already limit pre-tier 4 trucks to 1000 miles a year. CARB limits pre-tier 4 off-road vehicles to 150? hours. This is why for years, good older equipment was getting shipped out of the state. Mostly to South America and Africa because it cheaper to put it on a ship than truck it out of that hellhole.

 

[BONE_Buddy]

You can just see the ripple of Never Trump -> Never Desantis -> Never Trump-supported-candidates

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This is the same writer/faggot who bitches constantly about being Never Trump and how El Naranja is a phony. Williamson also wants the republican working class to starve and die in the midwest.

For all his bluster that "phony" Trump did what your cocksucking tough guy GOPe senators couldn't/wouldn't do for years.

You are truly a man of culture, Michael Malice and Tho Bishop are both people who have better than average opinions on Twitter. Not that it is a hard bar to beat.

 

[BubbleButt]

I thought the letter N was hate speech now

 

[AnitaSarsleezian]

Drug testing for work is gay because it detects whether you've smoked in the last several weeks. It's not like a breathalyzer that tells whether you're drunk on the job. Your job has no business if you smoked outside of work just the same as they have no right to know if you've been drinking off hours.

Yet regardless, that does happen as well with drinking. I have a friend who was a bus driver for the MTA in NYC. He also sold wine part time as a second job. He went to a wine tasting on his day off to represent his wine company, was walking home afterward through Brooklyn and ended up getting into a fist fight with a cyclist going the wrong way in a bike lane who crashed into him knocking him over. The police showed up and the police report stated that he had alcohol on his breath (they didn't even test him, if I recall) and when he showed up for his bus driver job the next day he was called into the office and told a demerit was being put on his record because the police report ended up back at the MTA. He was told he was in trouble for drinking on his day off and was told that to keep his job he'd have to attend some kind of MTA paid for alcoholism classes. He told them to fuck off and went to selling wine full time.

He said, "I'm not gonna look over my shoulder on my days off just to keep my bus driver job". He hated it anyway because he said that black people rarely paid the fare and he was told by the MTA that when a black person doesn't pay he isn't to confront them. Just leave it alone. (Mostly for the driver's own safety, not some privileged shit like reperayshuns or anything like that)

Anyway, the bottom line is, don't think that drinking on your day off can't end up reported to your job.

 

[BULLY HUNTER_77]

I don’t entirely disagree with the “win, fuck ethics” bit at this point. It’s ultimately what Trump represents when you think about it. The other side is so far gone at this point that bothering to hold to standards when dealing with them is innately dangerous.

You don’t treat a rabid dog like a rational actor. You end the thing as soon as is expedient for your own sake, everyone else’s sake, and the poor thing’s sake

Bruh. That’s Nick Fuentes and Ethan Ralph logic. You’re nothing if you don’t have principles that can’t be compromised. It’s what separates men from the troons and the grifters.

In addition, if you’re only convinced by an argument that helps you win, there’s nothing worse for optics than hypocrisy. You want people outside the circle of sycophants that will support your side no matter what to join the cause. This includes disillusioned leftists. This is the sort of thinking that wins the battle but loses the war.

 

[The Last Stand]

Biden Speaking on banning tactical rifles:

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What was he trying to imply with that comment? That you need a military to take down his administration?

 

[MrJokerRager]

Biden Speaking on banning tactical rifles:

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Well they are also targeting financial means of buying guns as well.

You can just see the ripple of Never Trump -> Never Desantis -> Never Trump-supported-candidates

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This is the same writer/faggot who bitches constantly about being Never Trump and how El Naranja is a phony. Williamson also wants the republican working class to starve and die in the midwest.

For all his bluster that "phony" Trump did what your cocksucking tough guy GOPe senators couldn't/wouldn't do for years.

Mainstream Conservatives have to be some variation of this.



Vote for liberals and flee to liberal dinner parties.

 

[Kermit Jizz]

Bruh. That’s Nick Fuentes and Ethan Ralph logic. You’re nothing if you don’t have principles that can’t be compromised. It’s what separates men from the troons and the grifters.

In addition, if you’re only convinced by an argument that helps you win, there’s nothing worse for optics than hypocrisy. You want people outside the circle of sycophants that will support your side no matter what to join the cause. This includes disillusioned leftists. This is the sort of thinking that wins the battle but loses the war.

There's a middle ground that doesn't tip fully into lolcow logic. Morals and ethics are for your in group, you don't give them to people who literally want you, specifically you personally, dead for no discernable reason. It's not that you disregard your principles, but you reserve them for people who also consider you a moral entity. People who regard you as ontologically evil cannot be reasoned with and to try is to your own detriment.

Also your ethics don't mean shit when your entire side is dead or enslaved, so there's that too.