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

 

[Mike Sneedsby]

Morality does not need to be blanket statements of black and white. Arguably, a good moral system cannot be.

For example, on the intervention issue: a person may say “I’m opposed to all intervention, ever, no matter what.”
But if you give them the hypothetical of “a war is going on between two powers with WMDs. The US can intervene, if it does it is guaranteed to win. If it doesn’t, the powers are guaranteed to use the WMDs, and wipe out human life.”
all the sudden the question gets more complicated, and universal maxims break down.

This is an issue that many other moral systems based on universal rules or maxims face. A good example is Kant’s categorical imperative. It says, among other things, you can never lie. But then you say “You’re sheltering a person from their abusive spouse, who just tried to kill them. The spouse comes to your door with an axe and asks if you’ve seen their spouse. Do you lie?” and the system begins to breakdown. Same thing with Utilitarianism and the Utility monster.

A robust moral system must address the edge cases and gray zones of human existence, and this will require exceptions to otherwise general rules. Otherwise it allows for farcical results.

A functional moral system requires some black and white rules, or at least clear guiding principles (e.g. virtues), otherwise the system is too nebulous to provide guidance in quotidian situations much less the retarded scenarios ethicists come up with.

Traditionally we had a few ideas that work well when harmonized, not differentiated, like the idea of (divine) moral law that properly admitted of no exceptions, (e.g. thou shalt not murder), imitation of a moral exemplar (e.g. Jesus), and norming principles (love thy neighbor as thyself).

As ethics became less about providing a functional moral compass and more fantasizing about how one wishes the universe worked, ethics lost its practical use, often designedly so.

Today ethicists argue whether morality is any more meaningful than finding something distasteful, like putting ketchup on steak and argue endless variations of the trolley problem, without addressing that in their system it is immaterial from the switchman's perspective whether he knows which way he's moving the tracks.

 

[STARS158]

Her belief that it's normal and respectable to be a vulgar whore is ethnically coded too

I didn't think biological factors could affect psychological makeup that much, but it seems to pan out

 

[CaddestSlown]

Her belief that it's normal and respectable to be a vulgar whore is ethnically coded too, in a way. If this backstory is true, mom could easily be some New York Jew's faildaughter:






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I want off this ride.

The ride never ends.

All things considered, this is pretty mild. Degenerate, but not as bad as it could be when compared to... other sorts. At least he's honest and sticks to his own values. Any gay off the plantation is an okay one in my book, it shows the ability to think for one's self to some degree. Plus it has the added benefit of making NPCs seethe and sneed because he broke conditioning. I encourage more do the same. It's very liberating.

 

[Gorillion others]

Basing your political views and who to vote for on your favourite celebrity's opinions is even more retarded than celebrity worshipping itself. That said, Trump & Vance should have totally been using this version of their campaign image the past couple of weeks:

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They have college courses of her, for fuck's sake. I think it's more for show, but people are notoriously stupid. They make old style religion look sane.

 

[northstar747]

Any gay off the plantation is an okay one in my book, it shows the ability to think for one's self to some degree.

Well it might not have been his fault he got molested

 

[Gorillion others]

The ride never ends.

All things considered, this is pretty mild. Degenerate, but not as bad as it could be when compared to... other sorts. At least he's honest and sticks to his own values. Any gay off the plantation is an okay one in my book, it shows the ability to think for one's self to some degree. Plus it has the added benefit of making NPCs seethe and sneed because he broke conditioning. I encourage more do the same. It's very liberating.

He's not the worst, believe me. If a gay man can keep it strictly to adults and they both consent to it, then there's no harm. It's when they start to reach into truly forbidden territory is when it becomes a problem. Same if the guy was straight.

 

[Allanon]

They have college courses of her, for fuck's sake. I think it's more for show, but people are notoriously stupid. They make old style religion look sane.

Swifties are sane and normal compared to Beatlemaniacs. Perhaps we as a society are improving.

 

[Gorillion others]

Swifties are sane and normal compared to Beatlemaniacs. Perhaps we as a society are improving.

Save for the fact that the audiences back then were often paid to scream.

 

[Allanon]

Save for the fact that the audiences back then were often paid to scream.

Haha, no. That is not what made Beatlemaniacs insane. Them screaming so loud that you could not hear the singing was but a small part of Beatlemania.

Also the claim that Beatles fans were paid to scream is an old urban myth. The Beatles themselves disliked the screaming.

 

[Michael Wade]

Basing your political views and who to vote for on your favourite celebrity's opinions is even more retarded than celebrity worshipping itself. That said, Trump & Vance should have totally been using this version of their campaign image the past couple of weeks:

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JD pool and the Trumpverine

 

[AnotherPleb]

They pressure her INCREDIBLY hard each election year. She told them to piss off in 2016 but I believe there was some kind of scandal that damaged her brand in 2020 and she's reluctantly gone along with it ever since.

The DNC must have grabbed the rights to her discography.

 

[STARS158]

Swifties are sane and normal compared to Beatlemaniacs. Perhaps we as a society are improving.

Theres been the rumors going around Taylor Swift is actually the granddaughter of the Satanist Antov LaVey

 

[Gorillion others]

Theres been the rumors going around Taylor Swift is actually the granddaughter of the Satanist Antov LaVey

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If Trudope can be Castro junior, then this isn't necessarily "out there" of a theory.

 

[CaddestSlown]

Theres been the rumors going around Taylor Swift is actually the granddaughter of the Satanist Antov LaVey

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This would be fucking wild. I really hope this is true, the conspiracy theories that would be born from this would be dank as hell.

 

[STARS158]

This would be fucking wild. I really hope this is true, the conspiracy theories that would be born from this would be dank as hell.

It's also because of some peculiar things noticed during her concerts and videos, which if you look at her market, selling love stories about boys to teen girls, seems unusual.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Can we talk about Minnesota for a bit? At least California has nice weather. Washington and Oregon is beautiful and cool in the summer. New York City has good food, entertainment, and jewelry. New England has fall colors and seafood. Colorado has beer I guess?

Minnesota is up there with New Mexico as being a completely failed state because I have no reason to go there when not only is it about as cold as Russia, it’s a full on liberal nanny state full of a combination of insane ninnies and poor black people.

Is there a single positive thing about Minnesota?

I would say the movie Fargo, but that entire culture died to Somalians.

 

[Allanon]

It's also because of some peculiar things noticed during her concerts and videos, which if you look at her market, selling love stories about boys to teen girls, seems unusual.

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I mean if we're going down that rabbit hole, Taylor Swift is far from the only one doing weird stuff. The music industry seems to be full of witchcraft and satanic imagery. If that's true and not just people overreacting and reaching, Taylor being the granddaughter of LaVey would be very fitting.

 

[Fungible penis]

I'm fine for the pro Hamas, anti civilization left to be purged through laundered sheckels. Keep it up.

 

[CaddestSlown]

It's also because of some peculiar things noticed during her concerts and videos, which if you look at her market, selling love stories about boys to teen girls, seems unusual.

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I love a good conspiracy theory, they're fun. I'd say don't always equate artistry to outright satanism. Sometimes, people are just weird / shizo as fuck.

BUUUUUUT.

That second one is very Hocus Pocus-y. Witchcrafty on purpose. Was this during Spooky Month, by any chance? I don't want to derail too hard, it's still technically on topic, seeing as Taylor Swift will be used as a political prop, soon.

 

[STARS158]

I mean if we're going down that rabbit hole, Taylor Swift is far from the only one doing weird stuff. The music industry seems to be full of witchcraft and satanic imagery. If that's true and not just people overreacting and reaching, Taylor being the granddaughter of LaVey would be very fitting.

I'd say don't always equate artistry to outright satanism. Sometimes, people are just weird / shizo as fuck.

BUUUUUUT.

That second one is very Hocus Pocus-y. Witchcrafty on purpose. Was this during Spooky Month, by any chance? I don't want to derail too hard, it's still technically on topic, seeing as Taylor Swift will be used as a political prop, soon.

Yes, but who are the owners of all these record labels? I don't even need to say now do I?