US US Politics General 2 - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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Why not? The Union is an agreement between states and if the feds/other states are not upholding their end of the agreement, they should be allowed to leave.
Because the entire country would have balkanized and it wouldn't have been long until the old European empires showed back up to put their boots on our throats
 
You are fucking retarded. Abraham Lincoln took charge after Buchanan set the country on a collision course of destruction. He did the right thing, and the only wrong thing he did was taking a stop at that theater where a Democrat shot him.
If you're so smart you would've remembered he also fought and killed vampires! :geek:
 
Why not? The Union is an agreement between states and if the feds/other states are not upholding their end of the agreement, they should be allowed to leave.
It’s a complicated topic and I’m a little autistic about our mythical, sacred Union (with the first 48 states at least) but I don’t really think I need to elaborate on what others have already said. Obvious balkanization is the only result of such a scheme. If the federal government is extremely tyrannical and has completely disregarded the Constitution in every way, then that’s the only scenario where I would support it, and even then I’d prefer the overthrow of the tyrant in charge and his replacement by a democratically elected leader in a still united country rather than the separation of states into separate countries.
 
He's done the opposite. He's recognized a new tribe in a presidential act.... He's actually increased feather. I do not understand people freaking out over this other than to idk... Use natives as a scapegoat for increasing white guilt.

Once again. Shitlibs do not care.

Anyways here's to the Lumbee tribe and Trump recognizing them.

The Lumbees come from free coloreds who started claiming to be Indians after the end of slavery to differentiate themselves from freed slaves . They are mixed white/black, many of them have Gypsy blood, I guess some enterprising Jew exported a batch of Gypsy slaves to the Carolinas in the 1600s.

They are big Trump supporters that why this is happening.

I've heard many tribes don't care for them, see them as pretendians.
 
Because the entire country would have balkanized and it wouldn't have been long until the old European empires showed back up to put their boots on our throats
The old Empires are busy with their own shit in Europe, retaking America isn't high on their list, even if we do split in two. So give me a better reason why a state can't leave a contract if the other parties are not upholding their end of the deal?

It’s a complicated topic and I’m a little autistic about our mythical, sacred Union (with the first 48 states at least) but I don’t really think I need to elaborate on what others have already said. Obvious balkanization is the only result of such a scheme. If the federal government is extremely tyrannical and has completely disregarded the Constitution in every way, then that’s the only scenario where I would support it, and even then I’d prefer the overthrow of the tyrant in charge and his replacement by a democratically elected leader in a still united country rather than the separation of states into separate countries.
The framers took very careful consideration in balancing the needs of the states when building the country. If we need to overthrow the goverment then that's it, the US is dead. There is no rebuilding it as the states are too diverse culturally and economiclly to exist as a single union and will break off into smaller republics and confederacies of more like minded states.
 
Yeah let's take one of the most static, underwhelming, past-its-prime tech companies and give it control of zoomer recommendation algorithms. What could go wrong?
Oracle is still a major player and highly successful. They're enterprise focused. I agree it's not a good idea to just sell it off to the likes of Larry Ellison, who even looks like a classic Bond villain.
 
Who says we should ban weed because it smells bad? We should ban weed because it makes people less likely to partake in revolutionary activities. Amphetamines can stay though. Let's get those ADHD diagnoses and addy scripts rolling along the path to victory.
Weed also makes people antisocial. These giant cities in America feel so awkward and antisocial because half of the adults are high, waiting to get high, or sober and miserable. Have you ever been around your pothead friend when they aren't high? They are grumpy as fuck and burnt out.

I would love if we swapped Alberta with Hawaii, and make Hawaii a territory again. I understand Hawaii's geographic importance, it practically won us the Pacific Theater in WW2, but I fucking hate the uppity anti-American attitude Hawaiians have. Every time my friends or family visit in the past 5 years they have been met with glares and unfriendly encounters. The entire state hates white people because of the tourism industry and is outright racist to them. We should just strip their statehood. This would also get rid of every faggot judge there that eats pineapples and blocks Trump's actions. Win-Win.
 
I want to reply to so many posts. I can't fit 100 tons of effort/shit posting into a only 1 post. This will have to be a meta-analysis of an abridged version.

Kiwifarms attracts "effort-shitposters" who are effective at digging shit up and digging through it. Normies don't have the tolerance for that. Funnily, it requires a tolerance for disagreeableness to post here. A congregation of autismos with no 2 alike or conforming.

Fellow posters sift through the stream of news panning for nuggets of information (and amusement). Nuggets of information help fill in gaps in the bigger picture. Different people have differing ideas of what the bigger picture looks like.

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Sometimes it feels like the parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant; or maybe Plato's allegory of the Cave. There are arguments about what is or isn't:
the Elephant in the Room (((?)));
the Real McCoy (real, projected, or an illusion?);
a Red Herring (why are we talking about herrings?);
or a duck (does it quack like one?).

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If you handled that jumble of metaphores, you will benefit from watching Adam Curtis documentaries. I see Adam Curtis as an "effort-shitposter".
"If there has been a theme in Curtis's work ... it has been to look at how different elites have tried to impose an ideology on their times, and the tragicomic consequences of those attempts"—The Observer.
"People often accuse me of being a lefty. That's complete rubbish. If you look at The Century of the Self, what I'm arguing is something very close to a neoconservative position because I'm saying that, with the rise of individualism, you tend to get the corrosion of the other idea of social bonds and communal networks, because everyone is on their own."
"If you ask me what my politics are, I'm very much a creature of my time. I don't really have any. I change my mind over different issues, but I am much more fond of a libertarian view. I have a more libertarian tendency"
"I don't have a consistent set of politics and I always suspect people who do, but I'm progressive so I try and understand what went wrong with radicalism."
I recommend watching The Century of Self. If you find value, watch whichever of his works has a topic you find interesting.
How Freud's theories on the unconscious led to the development of public relations by his nephew Edward Bernays; the use of desire over need; and self-actualisation as a means of achieving economic growth and the political control of populations.
Most of his documentaries can be watched here (including Century of Self):

I look forward to reading another 100 pages. Something... Something... Plato's Blind Cave Elephants.
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Weed also makes people antisocial. These giant cities in America feel so awkward and antisocial because half of the adults are high, waiting to get high, or sober and miserable. Have you ever been around your pothead friend when they aren't high? They are grumpy as fuck and burnt out.
My experience is typically that it's super hard to get people to leave their homes to do things because of internet addiction. Can't comment on the weed. I will note that despite boomers claiming the contrary, basically nobody speaks to strangers in public like it's a white picket fence 1950's suburb.
 
I would love if we swapped Alberta with Hawaii, and make Hawaii a territory again. I understand Hawaii's geographic importance, it practically won us the Pacific Theater in WW2, but I fucking hate the uppity anti-American attitude Hawaiians have. Every time my friends or family visit in the past 5 years they have been met with glares and unfriendly encounters. The entire state hates white people because of the tourism industry and is outright racist to them. We should just strip their statehood. This would also get rid of every faggot judge there that eats pineapples and blocks Trump's actions. Win-Win.
The funny thing about Hawaii is that they bitch about tourists and white people but during the time period Hawaii had those fires and the tourists went home the locals bitched and moaned about the lack of business that was going on because there were no tourists. I think Hawaiians just like to be unhappy.
 
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