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

 

[BigJoey41X]

If they only sold sugarcane coke in the world's most profitable market the line wouldn't go up as fast. Won't you think of the heccin stonkineros?

Long story short, the United States doesn't make that much sugar domestically, so we import most of it, and since this is an imported commodity, expect tariffs increase prices, but corn is very abundant here, at some point some food scientists managed to figure out how to transform corn into this very sweet syrup turned out to be cheaper than sugar.

Is it good for you?, definitely not, but even if tomorrow we replaced every "added sugars" product with actual sugar, the obesity crisis would still be just as bad, the root problem is Americans just cant stop stuffing their fat fucking mouths with way too much sweetened foods.

Just avoid, or, at minimum, reduce eating so much processed stuff and eat more whole foods, I reckon this is the biggest reason why Americans are way fatter than Europeans.

 

[HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS]

I don't know if that will work though, Putin will just keep bombing the electrical system until Ukraine goes back to the stone age. And at that point, if Moscow, St. Petersburg or whatever has been hit, the Russians are just gonna keep going till TUD. Sounds like a bad plan, from a bunch of people who are totally unable to form a theory of mind for their opponents - fitting and scary at the same time.

Ukraine is already in stone age. They are living on gasoline generators. lmao.

 

[asr]

That shit's addictive, isn't it? Or is that just broscience sperging? If it is, you're going to see a whole lot of people freak out if it's "taken" from them. Imagine a bunch of Millenials and Zoomers going through HFCS/Sugar/Seed Oil withdrawal cause they can't get their goyslop, all while the press blames Trump/RFK for "ruining" food and "poisoning" America.

No it really is just that addictive, think about this this way; our ancestors didn't get nearly as much fructose as we do, and when they did get it it had fiber to offset it. The human body and it's metabolism hasn't changed in literally eons in an appreciable way for your average person other than shit like being able to have lactose tolerance. The body doesn't know that energy(calories) is basically limitless for it now so it seeks to reward you for being good and eating calorically dense things(fat/protein) or that're easy to immediately use (simple things like glucose/fructose/refined carbs, etc). After awhile the baseline reward doesn't cut it so you gotta escalate in multiple ways. From one angle you have the neurochem side for that good euphoric feeling, that baseline is higher now, another angle is the metabolic angle where you get these massive spikes in blood sugar, insulin resistance goes up and next thing you know you have type 2, are obese, have a non-alcoholic fatty liver and all the other comorbidities. The biochem is all there in terms of metabolic pathways and what we know about the mesolimbic dopaminergic pathway.
I voted for Trump, but hearing RFK speak at the DNC damn near brought me to tears, I never thought in my life we would have a politician who would openly speak about the metabolic issues we face as a nation, I'm a cynical bastard though and don't wanna get my hopes up that anything will change but that fucker RFK made me hopeful again and that makes me hate him just a little.

 

[quaawaa]

I reckon this is the biggest reason why Americans are way fatter than Europeans.

There’s not as much of a difference as you think, especially if you only compare the White populations.

 

[Hermiöne Granger]

Didn't Johnny Ramone of The Ramones publicly endorse Bush back in the day just to make leftist metal fans mald?

How are people still surprised when counter-culturalists embrace something counter-cultural when the dominant culture is left wing.
"NOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T GO AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT NOW NOOOOOOO"

Here is a interesting watch about John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols) -> From Punk to Trump

 

[LeChampion1992]

Maybe I'm just cynical, but do people actually think these guys are real?
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It feels like every time something politically spicy happens like a week later a ""new"" neo-nazi group of like 12 dudes shows up in front of cameras and then proceeds to do absolutely nothing.

Hmmm anyone ever notice how all the neo nazis all suspiciously look fit and have fitness standards similar to police and law enforcement.

 

[verissimus]

Lmao, I hope Trump reigns in their retardation before long.
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One word : ACTUALLY.

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

Long story short, the United States doesn't make that much sugar domestically, so we import most of it

The US produces 5% of the world's sugar. The US is one of the world's largest producers we just still consume more than we produce.

 

[BigJoey41X]

Hmmm anyone ever notice how all the neo nazis all suspiciously look fit and have fitness standards similar to police and law enforcement.

kek are you implying that Neo-Nazis are a bunch of lardasses?, wonder how true that is if someone can somehow make a demographic data out of that.

There’s not as much of a difference as you think, especially if you only compare the White populations.

I still doubt that, while its true that minorities, particularly Hispanic and Black, have higher obesity rates, this is more or less a class issue than a race one, as the obesity crisis disproportionately affects lower income peoples, who happen to be of course, have lower incomes on average.

 

[mlanguishi]

Hmmm anyone ever notice how all the neo nazis all suspiciously look fit and have fitness standards similar to police and law enforcement.

We missed this..

 

[BobbyBriggs69420]

Your tongue may be able to tell the difference between hfcs and cane sugar (mine can't) but either of those or agave syrup or honey or florida crystals etc etc are all types of sugar and are all horrible for you in any kind of quantity in ways that go beyond just simple excess calories. If we replaced all hfcs with cane sugar (even with a time machine backt to the 70s) people would stay just as fat unhealthy and dying. It's eating sugar in general that's the problem and that's what spiked up in the 80s, the fact that it was hfcs really didn't make a difernce to the consumer.

 

[Disc]

What I find mystifying is how TPTB fucked up the optics of January 6th. That should have been the death of the MAGA movement entirely, but everything changed when Tucker released the CCTV footage. The "Cathedral" (if I may steal Michael Malice's term) didn't even have to lie about the event. They could have called it a riot, used it against the "law and order" party, blamed Trump for the death of Ashli Babbitt, and called it a day. Now, because they lied and take themselves way too fucking seriously, January 6 is a fucking meme.

Words cannot describe how big of an own goal January 6th was.

Because what Jan 6th was, was a direct challenge to whether or not the incoming president was actually supposed to be the incoming president. And the democrats did everything in their power... to stop people asking that question.

What they didn't do, was prove that America was better off for having him as a president. That would have solved the problem far more effectively than locking up a bunch of protestors did, because even if you did think they were corrupt, getting the better outcome would have still made things work.

And there's another thing, as well. People tend to justify things in post, and the core conceit of democratic systems is that the general population will make the correct choice. If Biden won and shit got better, the answer would have been 'is it really worth arguing this point? He was the right choice.'

As it was, it instead became 'these people seem to spend a lot more time punishing the people who think they're illegitimate than helping anyone else'.

 

[lol cow supreme]

Counterpoint: if Coke used real sugar then it would taste better to a lot of people who would then be more willing to regularly drink it.

Ya'll can afford soda in this economy?

 

[BigJoey41X]

Words cannot describe how big of an own goal January 6th was.

Because what Jan 6th was, was a direct challenge to whether or not the incoming president was actually supposed to be the incoming president. And the democrats did everything in their power... to stop people asking that question.

What they didn't do, was prove that America was better off for having him as a president. That would have solved the problem far more effectively than locking up a bunch of protestors did, because even if you did think they were corrupt, getting the better outcome would have still made things work.

And there's another thing, as well. People tend to justify things in post, and the core conceit of democratic systems is that the general population will make the correct choice. If Biden won and shit got better, the answer would have been 'is it really worth arguing this point? He was the right choice.'

As it was, it instead became 'these people seem to spend a lot more time punishing the people who think they're illegitimate than helping anyone else'.

Oh stop this sanitizing bullshit on me, January 6th was one thing, and one thing only, a bunch of assmad faggots who tried to disrupt an election process all because their candidate lost and he told them go fuck with the government.

The entire MAGA movement shot themselves in the foot on that day, they were lucky that the democrats sucked so much at their job that the majority of Americans considered orange man as the better option, imagine how much stronger the red wave would have been if they DIDN'T have the moniker of "insurrectionist" on them.

 

[quaawaa]

Ya'll can afford soda in this economy?

You can get a 2 liter of house-brand soda for $1 in my area.

 

[DoomsdayElite]

We missed this..

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Jesus, what a crazy bitch.

 

[lamppost]

Btw, went to a big party with my family yesterday. We were invited by friends, and there were some people we didn't know.

I overheard a conversation taking place among some acquaintances and some people I had only just met. They were commiserating over the election. Some of the shit these people said was so damn snobby and out of touch ... I can't even. I didn't say anything because I didn't want to start a ruckus at someone else's party ... And I was chasing after my toddler, haha.

The thing I overheard that stood out to me: "Well, most of the people who voted for Trump are literally uneducated and don't have college degrees. They don't know any better, so I guess they have to learn eventually."

This. This is what leftists think of blue collar workers, lower income families who couldn't afford college, etc. They really do think of us as garbage and lesser lifeforms ... And this is all the while they claim to be the party of "love," "tolerance," and "empathy."

Yeah, the dude that skipped college to become a plumber who makes 6-figures a year is not as "enlightened" or as "educated" as the liberal arts college graduate who put themself in a 6-figure debt.

I'm sorry, but I can't get the "sniffing your own farts out of a wine glass" episode of South Park out of my head right now. Blows my mind how egotistical some people are.

My GF came into the house laughing the other night after our liberal neighbour (who "comes from education" - his own words) explained to her how all of these people (Trump voters) are just like Brexiters (we're bongs), "working jobs you wouldn't get out of bed for", before listing a load of jobs that ultimately have a wide range of pay depending on how eager the worker is to climb the ladder or branch out, the same as any other job, including his (accountant).

Another one was when he explained to her the vast cultural background of the food he eats. "Tonight I'm having a curry from India, last night I had an Italian pasta, tomorrow I will have a Turkish kebab..." I assume this was to justify us bringing in hoardes of 3rd world migrants to shit up working class estates.

He comes out with moronic shit like this all the time, to the point I'm not sure if he is genuinely dumb, or if he just thinks we are dumb and so assumes he can get away with stream of conscious rambling - we tend to just smile and nod so I assume it's the latter.

 

[Collections Agent]

The entire MAGA movement shot themselves in the foot on that day, they were lucky that the democrats sucked so much at their job that the majority of Americans considered orange man as the better option, imagine how much stronger the red wave would have been if they DIDN'T have the moniker of "insurrectionist" on them.

Hey remind me how America was founded again?

 

[Irene and 22 others]

Jesus, what a crazy bitch.

We not only turned the page, but we closed the book on one of the worst administrations in the country's history.

Time will not be kind to Biden or his legacy and hopefully it drags down the rest of the shadow puppeteers in the DNC down with it.

 

[babadook]

Like sure whatever you can get big deals on diglobinbussinate and god fuck knows what else but really what the actual fuck happened over thirty years that made it hunky fucking dory to our country to feed people what is at best only marginally better than china's faked meat and gutter oil when it comes to adulterated food products? The FDA was established on the cusp of the 1900s to keep pencil shavings out of pepper and chalk and boric acid out of milk and now we've been mandating that adulterated foods are the default and not the thing to be avoided in the first place.

Everything in the US is regulated by the dollar and by the lobbies, simple as. And old-school Republicans are absolutely complicit in this mindset