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

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

I still do, occasionally. I see "In this house, we believe..." signs more often. It just... doesn't seem like there's a point. To show where you stand on certain things? To get people who think like you to come to you?

The point is the feeling people get when they convince themselves that their sticker or sign is a passive-aggressive poke in the eye to the other "side". It's that feeling of pleasure derived from them riding around in their shitbox car or sitting in their tarpaper shack and thinking to themselves "Take a good long look at it, CHUDs!

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

still do, occasionally. I see "In this house, we believe..." signs more often. It just... doesn't seem like there's a point. To show where you stand on certain things? To get people who think like you to come to you? Maybe I understand it less because I make a point to not powerlevel IRL.

Because that's all their political opinions ever were. If Cheeto Benito mobilized his fascist army tomorrow to take over the Oval Office, was successful and immediately reinstituted negro slavery, how many people would pick up a gun and go fight him? How many would continue paying taxes but express their displeasure with lawn signs? How many would just complain on Reddit?

 

[George Lucas]

Without Captain Planet we would not have got this absolute unit of a TV show:

 

[Jade Philosophies]

That's because they've been taken over by the cult of progress, and progress means you always have to be pushing towards less bigotry, more acceptance, because that's how you keep the donations and power coming make the world a better place. They literally can't define an end to their crusade. Everyone MUST be racist, forever, without any possibility to redemption or innocence because the alternative means there's an endpoint to reach, and that goes against the idea of progress. Eternal, never ending, constant progress towards a nebulous, never defined goal of "more leftward."

And when the rest of us finally get tired of constantly being told we need to allow more batshit shit -- "people can't help being attracted to children so it's an immutable characteristic and thus it's bigotry to discriminate against them," "it takes a community so parental rights are absurd," "blacks are eternal victims and thus it's racist to arrest or put them on trial, even if they do break laws. Don't we owe them for slavery?" -- the snapback, the pushback, the collective rest of culture telling them to fuck off will only prove that yes, you see, the world IS a bigoted horrible place, therefore, we need to restart work on progress. Only harder. More progress. Forever.

Continuous Revolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_Revolution_Theory

The Continuous Revolution Theory is rooted in Mao's thoughts regarding the nature of contradiction. He argues that, since contradictions within society between revolutionary and reactionary elements can be expected to continue for a long time, it is necessary to work continuously toward the progressive fulfillment of the revolutionary program. As Mao has written:

"Every difference in men's concepts should be regarded as reflecting an objective contradiction. Objective contradictions are in subjective thinking, and this process constitutes the contradictory movement of concepts, pushes forward the development of thought, and ceaselessly solves problems in man's thinking."

These themes are, first, that contradiction or conflict in a society is ubiquitous and permanent and that this condition applies just as surely to a society in the process of socialist transformation as it does to a bourgeois or feudal society.

 

[DocAwe]

I dunno, I'm not really feeling the whole "proud cat ladies" thing.

Like, sure you can try to own it. But it seems like people who have sex with manakins trying to own that. Being proud of your embarrassing label and "embracing it" doesn't make you less of an embarrassment.

When I hear the phrases cat lady, cat/dog mom, child free zone, ect all I hear is insufferable woman.

 

[Not A Bunny]

At this point, I don't believe that the media does any longer, at least not as much as it did in the past.

I'm only halfway convinced.

There's no reason for anyone with anyone exposure to polls or even the 24-hour news cycle not to understand that they can be fact-checked within minutes or less. Yet somehow they still think they can straight-faced say whatever they want (Kamala's "values haven't changed", etc.)

They are terribly convinced they can control the alternatives, though. The whole thing with PewDiePie could have been a nothingburger, but I view him blowing up as a "Nazi sympathizer" as a warning sign to all alternative media: stay in your lane with the conspiracy theorists and the various quackery, or we'll destroy you. It's why "culture critics" get branded "alt-right": any alternative opinions or viewpoints are going to lead you, the viewer, down a rabbit hole of extremism. So, best to turn back and accept what your betters provide you.

 

[Jaimas]

I cannot believe you people have been talking about Captain Planet and no one has brought up the episode where a villain tries to make money by time traveling to WW2 and then sell a nuke to HITLER.

This actually happened.

I can't find it on youtube but here is a link to some nigga's google drive upload of it.

Highlights:

- Nuke is made out of stolen russian nuclear material

- Villain has a literal auction with a bunch of dictators from WW2 somewhere in south France (feat. totally not Franco and absolutely not Mussolini)

- HULK HOGAN STYLE HANDLEBAR MUSTACHE HITLER

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You left out the best part - the ending.

At the end, Doctor Blight's notes on the new bomb got left behind when the Planeteers went back to their own time with her.

An allied soldier picks them up and goes: "Huh. I'd better get this to the lab boys."

TL;DR: The Planeteers are canonically the reason Japan got nuked.

 

[Jade Philosophies]

Remember one of the highlights at the DNC being the speech by the parents of one of the Israeli-American hostages held by Hamas? Well the IDF just found their son Hersh Goldberg-Polin among six dead hostages in a Gazan tunnel, reportedly executed and abandoned by Hamas just a couple of days prior.
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Either he's adopted or you have the wrong photo. The man in the photo is Arab (or possibly Pakistani) and the parents aren't.

 

[Historical Strelkov]

I dunno, I'm not really feeling the whole "proud cat ladies" thing.

Like, sure you can try to own it. But it seems like people who have sex with manakins trying to own that. Being proud of your embarrassing label and "embracing it" doesn't make you less of an embarrassment.

The left promotes embarassing things to change what is considered normal.
That is why they promote "pride".
Social shame is the mechanism that defeats pride. That is also why they employ struggle session techniques.
It's quite clear that the mechanism to destroy these people is by their own methodology.
Therefore making them call themselves cat ladies is an effective tactic. More should be done this way.
The best way to fight the abnormal then, would be to make people own up to their own tactics and identity.
All they can do is call JD Vance "weird" which puts the onus of meaning on the person using the term.
"Weird" could be anything. "Cat Lady" is very vivid. The imagination comes instantaneously.

 

[Fartificial Insmelligence]

Caught an ad on my break with Kacklin’ Kamala talking about how we need to “put aside the politics of the past”… so the new angle to tacitly admit that everything we thought they were doing, they were indeed doing… but it’s in the past you bigot, get over it!

 

[HTTP Error 404]

You seriously don't hate them enough. They rate it mostly false because CA already prohibits voter ID at the polls.




A new California bill won’t eliminate voter ID at polling places
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By Sofia Ahmed
2024-08-30

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And yet, somehow, the right still hasn't gotten around to making their own version of Snopes/PolitiFact that people can link to to fact check and debunk lefty bullshit like this.

It's been 10 years or more since the left learned the "credibility sink" trick and they still haven't even tried to counter it other than to cope and sneed at the damned things.

(Credibility Sink: 1000 blue check idiots claiming experts confirm X is not as persuasive as 1000 blue check idiots pointing to Y website claiming experts confirm X. By pretending website Y -- Snopes, Politifact, etc -- is credible, they can use that website to push any amount of propaganda and lies they want, and the sunk credibility benefits them.)

 

[Jade Philosophies]

God, you people are cringe. Truly and honestly.

I usually put up with the dumbass abortion LARPing, but I had to help a friend that needed help, because the parents were full on weed addicts that offered it to their kids at five years old. Like, full on bags of the stuff.

And yeah, it's an anecdote from a stranger on the internet. But you know people like this, especially the ones we talk about. Ethan Ralph, Nick Rekeita, Birdie's parents. You are gonna tell these people to just 'play three blind mice' through someone's life, and just let whoever had to go through that fend for themselves at the end?

Stop talking like you are selling an online course and grow some fucking sense.

Don't have children because... Nick Rekieta!

Maybe just maybe, they killed him because the IDF was not leaving the Gaza strip and showed not sign of wanting to negotiate a white peace. Thus the continuance of his life seemed useless to them. Have you ever thought of it like that Biden?

They probably killed him after seeing his parents at the DNC just to give a big fuck you to the US Democrat government.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

And yet, somehow, the right still hasn't gotten around to making their own version of Snopes/PolitiFact that people can link to to fact check and debunk lefty bullshit like this.

It's been 10 years or more since the left learned the "credibility sink" trick and they still haven't even tried to counter it other than to cope and sneed at the damned things.

(Credibility Sink: 1000 blue check idiots claiming experts confirm X is not as persuasive as 1000 blue check idiots pointing to Y website claiming experts confirm X. By pretending website Y -- Snopes, Politifact, etc -- is credible, they can use that website to push any amount of propaganda and lies they want, and the sunk credibility benefits them.)

Might be because it is really annoying and requires a lot of work for little reward. Not to mention we all know how things are (D)ifferent meaning right wing fact checkers would quickly find themselves swamped in lawsuits and deplataformed.

 

[invisibult plus+]

The left promotes embarassing things to change what is considered normal.
That is why they promote "pride".
Social shame is the mechanism that defeats pride. That is also why they employ struggle session techniques.
It's quite clear that the mechanism to destroy these people is by their own methodology.
Therefore making them call themselves cat ladies is an effective tactic. More should be done this way.
The best way to fight the abnormal then, would be to make people own up to their own tactics and identity.
All they can do is call JD Vance "weird" which puts the onus of meaning on the person using the term.
"Weird" could be anything. "Cat Lady" is very vivid. The imagination comes instantaneously.

Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.

That said, Trump and Vance are both really good at taking the left’s strengths and using it against them. Guess it’s something that comes with experience.

 

[pwnest injun]

The same people who bitched about Trump going golfing are of course quiet as the grave on the fact Biden has been MIA for months at a time this year.

Biden has spent over 40% of his presidency on vacation, I believe.

 

[Historical Strelkov]

Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.

That said, Trump and Vance are both really good at taking the left’s strengths and using it against them. Guess it’s something that comes with experience.

The struggle session is a humiliation ritual.
It's a dichotomy. On one side there is pride, on the other shame. To shame someone they must feel humiliated.
To make someone proud you make them feel like they should not be ashamed of themselves, but in fact be praised.
The point is that the state controls what you're proud of and what you're ashamed of.
They praise and humiliate to manipulate peoples behaviors.
By doing this they control what is normal and thus the government justifies itself and its costs by protecting the safety and sanctity of what is normal, which of course is whatever is suitable for their agenda.
Here the purpose of shame and pride is to invert the moral values of our society, and disarm the population of all their weapons and mechanisms of recourse.
A middle aged, converted catholic, former marine working for government to support his family is "weird"?
They haven't achieved the level of linguistic control required to make a pro-palestine, anti-islamaphobic, communist transgender, blue haired landwhale living on government assistance because of their PTSD from transphobia, "normal" enough to call Vance "weird".

 

[The Nothingness]

You left out the best part - the ending.

At the end, Doctor Blight's notes on the new bomb got left behind when the Planeteers went back to their own time with her.

An allied soldier picks them up and goes: "Huh. I'd better get this to the lab boys."

TL;DR: The Planeteers are canonically the reason Japan got nuked.

Sounds like an early version of the man (Oppenheimer and company) taking credit for a woman's work thing that has been prevalent in recent years.

 

[Cnidarian]

And yet, somehow, the right still hasn't gotten around to making their own version of Snopes/PolitiFact that people can link to to fact check and debunk lefty bullshit like this.

You mean Twixxer?

 

[Michael Wade]

You can see the exact moment his facial expression goes to "oh shit".

Walz has never been good at hiding his facial expressions.

I cannot believe you people have been talking about Captain Planet and no one has brought up the episode where a villain tries to make money by time traveling to WW2 and then sell a nuke to HITLER.

This actually happened.

I can't find it on youtube but here is a link to some nigga's google drive upload of it.

Highlights:

- Nuke is made out of stolen russian nuclear material

- Villain has a literal auction with a bunch of dictators from WW2 somewhere in south France (feat. totally not Franco and absolutely not Mussolini)

- HULK HOGAN STYLE HANDLEBAR MUSTACHE HITLER

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Also Captain planet moans in pain like a bitch the moment he sees Hitler and feels his evil

 

[Necrosan]

And yet, somehow, the right still hasn't gotten around to making their own version of Snopes/PolitiFact that people can link to to fact check and debunk lefty bullshit like this.

It's been 10 years or more since the left learned the "credibility sink" trick and they still haven't even tried to counter it other than to cope and sneed at the damned things.

(Credibility Sink: 1000 blue check idiots claiming experts confirm X is not as persuasive as 1000 blue check idiots pointing to Y website claiming experts confirm X. By pretending website Y -- Snopes, Politifact, etc -- is credible, they can use that website to push any amount of propaganda and lies they want, and the sunk credibility benefits them.)

There is a huge retardation problem worldwide. People no longer think critically, they are just fed headlines en masse. Every MSM will either cite/reference eachother or use the same pool of dubious sources. The lies can easily proven wrong by anyone who takes a minute to check them, problem is that no one does. That takes time and people just want to keep scrolling, being fed more slop on their phones in the process.

(Relevant bit at 24:02) I do believe RFK Jr. when he says that we humans are hardwired into tribalism and social media algorithms play into this, they'll feed you what you want to see to keep you on the site. It polarizes the population and it's basically what has caused things like TDS and TES.

Creating alternatives to sites like Snopes doesn't help, you really need to purge this way of thinking that we have today from the population and teach them how to think for themselves again or, at the very least, be skeptical of what they read. Everyone should be their own factchecker.