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

 

[LeChampion1992]

How do these people still not know that
1-there is no such thing as an assault rifle
2-the gun was not taken across state lines
3-it wasn’t a crime to go across state lines
4-be wasn’t there to shoot at protestors
5-it was a riot not a protest

Like, it’s amazing how this was all proven in a court of law that millions watched live, and yet then still cling on to the narrative

You have to understand in their worldview they're on the right side of history they have literally manufactured or misremembered events in history via internet telephone to only trust the narrative.
You have to understand the leftists right now legitimately believe that there are roaming bands of right wing aholes ready to kill brown people and queer people.
They live on a fantasy that is fed by internet misinformation right now.

Communists always lie

Agreed, but then again the sad part is true believer's do actually believe in things.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Libertarianism works better as an impulse than as a formal philosophy.

also worth remembering that the much more rational "pot smoking independent contractors" style libertarians of "love me guns, love me drugs, `ate taxes, `ate feds, simple as" have leaned more into the mainline GOP from Tea Party onward, which is a part of how the libertarian party went from just crazy to pants-crappingly batshit nuts

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

also worth remembering that the much more rational "pot smoking independent contractors" style libertarians of "love me guns, love me drugs, `ate taxes, `ate feds, simple as" have leaned more into the mainline GOP from Tea Party onward, which is a part of how the libertarian party went from just crazy to pants-crappingly batshit nuts

Or they delved into anarchism and let the globohomo flow through them.

 

[Your Girlfriend's Dad]

I know someone in US government. They each have an efficiency score. This employee's score says that he does the work of 1.75 people. Dude gets all his stuff done and accurately.

The office head is demanding that he slow down and is threatening him with punishment for working too fast.

You tell me. I don't know.

This is a real threat. I've known it to happen.

This is the "Don't rock the boat. " mindset.

When you have shitty coworkers who don't do their fucking jobs, anybody who is competent is a threat. You will raise the high water line and wash them away with your competence.

These people are a fucking cancer. I'm currently working at an ambulance service like this. It is vastly easier than other services I've worked at and somehow the people complain like it's the worst job they've ever had. They're in for a rude awakening if management ever wakes up.

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

When you have shitty coworkers who don't do their fucking jobs, anybody who is competent is a threat. You will raise the high water line and wash them away with your competence.

These people are a fucking cancer. I'm currently working at an ambulance service like this. It is vastly easier than other services I've worked at and somehow the people complain like it's the worst job they've ever had. They're in for a rude awakening if management ever wakes up.

You've described the last 40 years of my professional life very well. How'd you dox me, kiddo?

 

[invisibult plus+]

NEW: Obama says Republicans are the ones who rig elections and weaponize the justice system while speaking at a "Democracy Forum." The comment was so outrageous that Obama could barely get the words out of his mouth. "One side tries to stack the deck and lock in [very long pause]..." "A permanent grip on power, either by actively suppressing votes or politicizing the armed forces or using the judiciary criminal justice system to go after opponents."

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King never cry.

Womp womp Obama. Shameless bastard. Serves you right for thinking you can hire the most incompetent people to work under you and still keep your Thousand Year Reich.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

Texas court ordered FDA to produce more documents about the vaccines by June 30th, 2025

 

[Betonhaus]

I seen the crypto talk, and I know a lot of people are so of lost on it, and why it's such a good thing. The blockchain is the interesting and most useful part. I'll try to explain it as simply as I can, and how I think it might be the best tech of the past 25 years. The blockchain is just a online ledger, you can verify anything on it, and it keeps a record of being verified. It's unhackable, and cannot be faked. Bitcoin is just a pile of virtual money, and it's only worth what people think it is. The value of it isn't really the inherent value, it's the idea it exists outside of the federal reserve, or really outside of any banking regulation. That's why the people that hate it, do hate it. But, the value is the blockchain. We could use it for elections, we could use it for anything we want to have transparency on.

I figured one of the best uses would be video game licenses. Developers would issue a blockchain license to their games on purchase, and users could trade or sell licenses between themselves - at the prices they choose. Granted the only way that will happen is if Valve builds the infrastructure and makes it mandatory.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

I figured one of the best uses would be video game licenses. Developers would issue a blockchain license to their games on purchase, and users could trade or sell licenses between themselves - at the prices they choose. Granted the only way that will happen is if Valve builds the infrastructure and makes it mandatory.

Not even Valve would do that.

Remember, Valve had a system for trading/gifting games that was simple and easy. They removed it.

Even Valve wants you to buy games at the price they set.

 

[Sammich]

I figured one of the best uses would be video game licenses. Developers would issue a blockchain license to their games on purchase, and users could trade or sell licenses between themselves - at the prices they choose. Granted the only way that will happen is if Valve builds the infrastructure and makes it mandatory.

That's one of the reasons I think it going to be one of the best inventions/tech of the past 25 years. It's just so useful and wide reaching. I remember watching ColdFusion do a video on it years ago and just watching mouth agape. it's a 7 year old video, so i don't think it needs to be archived, but if anyone wants to take a deeper look here you go. I'm not a very good explainer, in fact i'm pretty much retarded.

 

[Gondolindrim]

This account couldn't glow more if it tried

 

[Terrifik]

Jurry Spine being taken out to give a assured Manslaughter charge.

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1865139396569186738

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

That's one of the reasons I think it going to be one of the best inventions/tech of the past 25 years. It's just so useful and wide reaching

To touch on some of this more, and to add onto my prior comments and the license discussion - Blockchain is an incredibly useful, and flexible tool, in a low/no-trust environment. However, its huge, major flaw is that while the chain itself is more or less trustworthy at scale (There's concentration attacks and such but they're susceptible to being incredibly obvious) the services connecting to it are only as trustworthy as the creators.

In the license example, there's nothing preventing a digital storefront and downloader service from being wallet linked to license tokens instead of current floating accounts - However, the token itself is only an entry on the ledger, the game itself is somewhere else. If that storefront decides to not honor tokens, blacklist wallets, etc, then there's nothing that anyone can do about it in the blockchain ecosystem. So outside of all the external talk about them wanting control and not wanting to use the chain, the fact is the chain itself doesn't offer the benefits people are ascribing to it. This applies to software licenses, tickets to events, tokens and NFT's, anything who's concept of ownership is registered on the chain, but the actual good is stored elsewhere.

Its not really feasible to store large goods on the chain, due to the nature of cryptography. Not to mention, anything you write to the chain is publicly exposed, so anything stored on-chain is defacto free to the world, there's no controls to reading it, and it can't realistically be removed.

So while Crypto as a currency works as the ownership of the token itself is the thing of value, and the transfer of the token is the protected service in the chain, Crypto as an asset registry is still susceptible to all the external services using it as a source of truth to be honest themselves. Even if someone published an ironclad, open source, publicly transacted service that distributed files based on blockchain ownership, if that service ever shuts down, its all gone again. For this to really work, you'd need it to be working in a high trust social environment, which isn't where we are at right now.

 

[CEO of Gay]

Holy Shit - this is the plot of the movie The Producers. Get all the investment you can knowing you've a guaranteed flop on your hands and you'll never be asked to deliver. Just filter away all the investment money as fast as you can.

Except where this plot and the plot of The Producers diverge is that the thing intended to be a flop for money laundering purposes was an accidental runaway success.

 

[merrybrandybuck]

Wait is it true that Milley called China behind Trump's back and said he would ignore any orders that would threaten them? If true this seems like something that far surpasses a federal court and deserves a military tribunal

 

[Anasûrimbor Kellhus]

Wait is it true that Milley called China behind Trump's back and said he would ignore any orders that would threaten them? If true this seems like something that far surpasses a federal court and deserves a military tribunal

yes, that and also lying about pulling troops out of syria when trump ordered it.

 

[Quarterback Rex Grossman]

Wait is it true that Milley called China behind Trump's back and said he would ignore any orders that would threaten them? If true this seems like something that far surpasses a federal court and deserves a military tribunal

And nothing will happen to him. Trump never punishes anyone and the RINO machine is already calling for him not to behave like the Dems did and seek retribution. Turn the other cheek, Mr. President! Be meek and show the world we're not like them!

 

[Buttigieg2020]

Another one bites the dust.



Gigantic Bush ally who stabbed Ken Paxton in the back loses speakership.

 

[Quarterback Rex Grossman]

Another one bites the dust.

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Gigantic Bush ally who stabbed Ken Paxton in the back loses speakership.

I only respect one Dade.

 

[Betonhaus]

Not even Valve would do that.

Remember, Valve had a system for trading/gifting games that was simple and easy. They removed it.

Even Valve wants you to buy games at the price they set.

I never said that Valve will, just that they are the only ones with enough pull to make other developers use it. Maybe governments can enforce it.

In the license example, there's nothing preventing a digital storefront and downloader service from being wallet linked to license tokens instead of current floating accounts - However, the token itself is only an entry on the ledger, the game itself is somewhere else. If that storefront decides to not honor tokens, blacklist wallets, etc, then there's nothing that anyone can do about it in the blockchain ecosystem. So outside of all the external talk about them wanting control and not wanting to use the chain, the fact is the chain itself doesn't offer the benefits people are ascribing to it. This applies to software licenses, tickets to events, tokens and NFT's, anything who's concept of ownership is registered on the chain, but the actual good is stored elsewhere.

I would've figured it would be more like the game is DRM locked/encrypted so that only your private key can be used to play it. In this setup you could theoretically play it offline, but there would need to be a way to ensure that your private key isn't shared so that anyone can play the game - such as blacklisting stolen keys and ensuring that all previous copies are destroyed when ownership is transferred.

Nintendo could probably pull it off - private keys are embedded in the console's firmware and transferring a game requires local connection or a Nintendo server to perform the transfer, and the console can ensure that any local downloads are destroyed or unplayable. PC would require a TPM chip and online connection.