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

 

[Exterminatus]

The fuck does McDonalds have DEI programs for??

"Can you work a deep fat fryer?"
"What? Sir, I'm a huge nigger."
"You're hired!"

Because every corporation needs to adopt this ideology, every major business in the western world MUST BE ANTI-WHITE, especially in regard to shitting on white men. White males must be completely demoralized and deconstructed, whiteness is evil and toxic, and this is payback for all the perceived evils of whites.

It's Marxism at its core, which pushes the eternal struggle of haves and have nots. Even poor Appalachian whites are privileged in their mindset.

Interesting. Justin Trudeau also isn’t going, but Alberta premier Danielle Smith is.

Makes sense, Alberta is one of the provinces in the past that's had a stronger desire to break away from Canada, including some separatists that have expressed support for joining the United States.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

This has no relation to guns at all. If Ancient Rome had violent video games and a government propaganda apparatus like we do, then violent first person sword games where you stab Persians and Germanic tribals would be just as effective at desensitizing people to killing as Call of Duty is.

You don't think the Romans are desensitized and need help with killing? The Roman propaganda machine does nothing but promote military service and make their enemies subhuman.

What do you think is more desensitizing? Kingdom Come Deliverance or growing up in a society that throws parades for every major conquest as well as bringing in tons of slaves and for shits and giggles makes those slaves fight each other to the death?

 

[High-Fructose Corn Syrup]

So could watching news recaps of shootings in urban areas. So could watching horror movies. Your point?

No because you're not the one in control.

 

[just Reading a post]

First it was the Evangelicals and geriatric activists and politicians hating on video games for them being violent, satanic, pornographic, and causing school shootings and delinquency.

Then it came the feminists and journos hating on video games for them promoting misogyny, the male gaze, troonsphobia, homophobia, and racism.

The irony is that the second line used to hate and mock the first line for those takes back in 2006.
All the leftist journoscums used to mock the shit out of Jack Thompson and the religious right for hating video games and Harry Potter and Pokémon.
"No Jack video games do not make you shoot up your school, they make you want to rape women instead" was the biggest ideological whiplash i had seen at that time.

 

[TarragonRespecter]

He's not wrong.
Violent videos games desensitizes people.

I hate to hit you with reality but, yes, he is wrong. Even if it is making us desensitized (it's not. Society is just emasculating you) it's not the same as nor is it training you to kill people "mentally". 100 years ago you would have had to butcher your own food for meat desensitizing you to blood and taking a life. Are you saying butchering your food is training you "to kill people mentally".

 

[botrix_fan]

Sadly, he “intends to resign”, the fucking weasel.

That why I was suprised when the internet including streamers that should know better (like Kino Casino who have been following politics for years) started celebrating and pissing on his grave. Justin will be looking for ways to hold on and make a political comeback. The only good outcome imo would have been if somehow the election was called.

 

[Private Tag Reporter]

There is something about video games as a form of media and entertainment that always makes certain demographics of different generations cope and dilate over their existence and popularity, and I'm not really sure why, they will just constantly come up with new excuses to justify why they hate vidya.

Part of it is just video games being the newest form of media - before it was vidya, it was comics, and before comics (or contemporary), it was rock and roll, and before that it was talkies... and so on. It just so happens that video games have more or less settled down as the oldest "new" type of media, since VR is hilariously janky.

The other part of it is some new post-modern disease where people genuinely cannot tell fiction from reality. It's all the same with these types - bible thumpers, troons, users named "Save The Loli". They genuinely cannot seperate fiction from reality in their minds, so whatever fixation they develop they genuinely believe is their actual reality. And they use this genuine belief in fiction to justify comitting real-life harms (in this context justifying censoring video games, but in earlier contexts comitting whatever abuses on behalf of religion, or the current child genital mutilation fad in the name of transgenderism), because they have no grounding in reality or the actual harm they are ready and willing to commit in the name of their fictional realities.

In this case, this particular user seems to have adopted a fixation on fictional anime children. Do with that information what you will.

(Wait until they find out before we had violent video games and movies we had actual gladitorial combat sports back before Christ and a brief period in American history when the great sport was watching two brutes punch it out for millions of dollars and untreated brain bleeds).

 

[Patrick Not-Star]

Makes sense since she's going to be the governer of the US territory of Alberta

I went to a rodeo in Texas a few years ago and to my surprise there were quite a few Canadians in the show. All of them were from Alberta.

I think Alberta joining the Union would be good for the people living there. The U.S. government isn't as gay as Canada but it is still really gay. The big difference is that as a U.S. state Albert would have far more local control.

 

[GamerGateSurvivor]

There are some things you do where you just go to hell and this is one of them.

 

['Ole Dente]

transhumanist

I don’t really know why this is a bad word, honestly. I thought this was just about putting robot parts in people, I kinda like that idea. I would like a sweet robot arm.

 

[ZMOT]

If soy infused modern media puts Redditors in a worldview that makes them think Trump is Hitler, it isn't far fetched to think ZOG uses similar tools to manipulate less than genius young men to go die for Israel.

"making something look cool" is not an elaborate psyop, it means to sell product. fun fact, an army recruiter is gonna say enlisting is the fucking greatest thing ever, just as the hot-dog stand at the corner talking about his wieners.
now think about why they still have to do this, and this hard, after literal thousands of years of human society evolving. if any of that were true, all they had to do is run a little gayop and we would all be 100% niggercattle a long time ago.

me calling anyone believing that a retard is proof alone that this doesn't work.

He's not wrong.
Violent videos games desensitizes people.

yeah, no. fiction isn't reality and never will. some retards will be retarded, because that's just human nature, they don't need any fiction for that. it's also the reason vegans can eat meat in videogames.

funny story, had a mate of mate talking a big talk how much of a badass dude he was. ended up at a shooting range together, dude couldn't hit a target for like an hour because he was shaking so much. guess he should've played more cod than he already did...

 

[Northern Blockhead]

Tulsi Gabbard changes tone on surveillance powers she once sought to dismantle​

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to serve as director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, is voicing support for a key government surveillance authority she once sought to dismantle.

The shift comes amid lingering uncertainty about Gabbard’s path to confirmation despite her having spent the last several weeks meeting with senators on both sides of the aisle in an effort to win their support.

In a new statement to CNN on Friday, Gabbard said she will support FISA Section 702 — an intelligence gathering tool passed by Congress after September 11, 2001 — if confirmed as Trump’s spy chief, marking a dramatic shift from her previous attempts to repeal the same authority and comments raising deep concerns about domestic surveillance.

“Section 702, unlike other FISA authorities, is crucial for gathering foreign intelligence on non-U.S. persons abroad. This unique capability cannot be replicated and must be safeguarded to protect our nation while ensuring the civil liberties of Americans,” Gabbard said in the statement to CNN.

“My prior concerns about FISA were based on insufficient protections for civil liberties, particularly regarding the FBI’s misuse of warrantless search powers on American citizens. Significant FISA reforms have been enacted since my time in Congress to address these issues. If confirmed as DNI, I will uphold Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights while maintaining vital national security tools like Section 702 to ensure the safety and freedom of the American people,” she added.

Gabbard also met Friday with the current director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, according to a source familiar with the matter, who declined to provide additional details about what was discussed.

The meeting comes as Senate Republicans have been pushing to hold a confirmation hearing for Gabbard before Trump’s inauguration, but Democrats are resisting setting a date for next week as the Intelligence Committee has not yet received key paperwork on the nomination, including an FBI background check, two sources familiar with the matter previously told CNN.

Trump’s selection of Gabbard to run the Office of the Director of National Intelligence quickly drew scrutiny because of her relative inexperience in the intelligence community and her public adoption of positions on Syria and the war in Ukraine that many national security officials see as Russian propaganda.

But where she is perhaps most at odds with the agencies she may soon be tasked with leading is her distrust of broad government surveillance authorities and her support for those willing to expose some of the intelligence community’s most sensitive secrets.

Gabbard’s confirmation would make her the most markedly anti-surveillance official to lead the intelligence community in the post-9/11 era. Her previous animus toward what she has described as the “national security state and its warmongering friends,” hell-bent on using the Espionage Act and other tools to punish its enemies, has raised questions about whether she might seek to reshape the rules by which American intelligence agencies have been collecting, searching and using intelligence for decades.

In December 2020, shortly before she left Congress, Gabbard introduced legislation that would repeal the Patriot Act and Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Like her other legislative attempts on spying issues, it went nowhere.

But Gabbard’s disdain for government surveillance powers —  and her aggrieved sense that Americans have been lied to about those authorities — are among her most coherent and consistent national security positions, even as Gabbard has transformed from a Democratic congresswoman and presidential candidate to a potential Cabinet member in the new Trump administration.

In 2017, when Trump was challenging the credibility of the FBI’s investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia, Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer warned him: “You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”

Gabbard, then a Democrat, heard a “chilling message,” she wrote in her memoir: “The intelligence community and national security state are so supremely powerful and accountable to no one that even the president of the United States better not dare criticize them.”

Punchbowl was first to report Gabbard’s statement regarding FISA Section 702.

Huh. Guess Tulsi Gabbard isn't much of a maverick after all.

 

[mandatorylurk]

"Bless your heart, sweetie, you think you're going to continue to be a tough lil' rebel in a week, don't ya?"

 

[UnidentifiedFlyingOrchid]

Name me an example where Call of Duty tried to recruit its fanbase for the military.

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An Army team won the Call of Duty Bowl as services look online for new recruits

The Army won the biggest military esports tournament in the world, a hope for the service’s recruiting efforts as they try to meet more of Gen Z where they’re at: online gaming.

“This is, believe it or not, the world’s largest military esports competition,” said Dan Goldenberg, president of the endowment. “It’s international. It’s like the Army-Navy game for everyone.”

The contest was the fifth annual military-wide shootout held by The Call of Duty Endowment, a foundation funded by Activision Blizzard...

The goal of the Army’s esports teams is to grab the attention of young people who might become recruits, current and former service members said. With the Army’s recruitment overhaul, officials are looking to interact with young people where they are by investing in more online outreach.

“Where is the 17 to 34 audience?” said Christopher Jones, a retired Sergeant First Class, who was playfully referred to as the godfather of Army esports at the event. Jones helped establish the service’s esports team under Army Recruiting Command.

“Gaming is not the reason you enlist,” Jones said. “It’s the second, tertiary, whatever reason. Everybody has their priority reason of why they’re looking at the service but then when they find out, ‘oh, well, I also have a community within my community, like that sounds awesome.’”

The esports team reaches a younger demographic which generally isn’t familiar with Army marketing at all, said Sgt. Brendan Huffman, Army esports media director.

“The value esports provides in marketing is a touch point to the new demographic that [Recruiting Command] has not been the best at reaching out to, or Army marketing as a whole,” he said. “It’s their first time having a good first impression with anything to do with the military.”

 

[mlanguishi]

I really hate Reich. Midget is pining for a time when literal world-wide communism was on the march. This is the kind of talk that got Nazism going and we're lucky in the US to have avoided falling into either too much.

 

[John.Doe]

Bioshock Infinite is the most "Stereotypical Dumb Liberal" game ever made.

Let me see here....
Completely overhyped by the media and itself.
Over-promises and under-delivers on its core purpose.
Completely focused on shallow aesthetics.
Pretends to be deep and meaningful but lacks all nuance.
Uses cheap gimmicks to pad the play time.
Uses poorly constructed emotional ploys.
Ultimately the message is nihilistic fatalism where your only choice is to be a cuck and kill yourself.

Yep, that checks out.

 

[LiquidKid]

Bioshock infinite was seen as a deep intellectual game upon release. i only played it a year after it came out.

I remember it started the “pseudo-narrative dissonance” crap because “the story is deep but you spend so much time killing” which was annoying as fuck.
Not only that, it’s the game that finally made Troy Baker go from dude in obscure anime games to main character in every AAA game ever,

My biggest issue was how it ended up turning into a loop of walk into room - shoot out -walk into next room - shoot out over and over by the end. It was definitely a pretentious as fuck game, and even Yahtzee of all people called that out when the game launched

 

['Ole Dente]

I went to a rodeo in Texas a few years ago and to my surprise there were quite a few Canadians in the show. All of them were from Alberta.

I think Alberta joining the Union would be good for the people living there. The U.S. government isn't as gay as Canada but it is still really gay. The big difference is that as a U.S. state Albert would have far more local control.

Of all provincial territories, Alberta would be your best bet but it’s just not feasible.

We have a robust medicare system that’s federally funded. If we were made a state in your union, you’d either have to supplement the province to maintain it which creates a legal framework and set a precedent for other states to adopt the same system or you lose 85% of the population who rely on it to neighbouring provinces over a 5 year period and that’s the majority of its GDP lost in under a decade. Not even Trudeau could do that kind of damage.

We would have to take a vote on leaving and the U.S simply taking it or buying it is an act of war that won’t be tolerated. Say nothing of the dozens of countries who’d have our back on that, but consider that China and Russia very desperately would like to smash the United States and have no staging ground to do so and aren’t within striking distance for missiles. That can change quickly. There are more countries that love us and dislike yours than otherwise.

The whole idea is silly anyway, Trump’s just trying to upset Justin on his way out and project some strength. We’re buddies, man. We are united in our hatred of the pajeet.

 

[invisibult plus+]

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There are some things you do where you just go to hell and this is one of them.

Honestly, of course they'd do this. They cause problems, then profit from them. Never let a crisis go to waste.

 

[just Reading a post]

The Army won the biggest military esports tournament in the world, a hope for the service’s recruiting efforts as they try to meet more of Gen Z where they’re at: online gaming.

Okay i want to see how many people signed up for the meat grinder because of this event.

Because the Simpsons already poked fun at how out of touch and ineffective this sort of shit is.