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Should be a wild four years.

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Current members of the House of Representatives
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Current members of the Senate
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Members of the Trump Administration
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"But what's the price of eggs still, huh? CHECKMATE NAZI CHUD"
Dude, these people are delusional. I mean, check out this fucking retard saying how a 4k-a-month studio apartment that is trashed by drug-addict niggers on the daily is the height of a utopia. I'm pretty sure Orange Man could cure cancer, end the Ukraine war, lower the price of eggs eventually, and... if I dare to dream... make video games great again, yet Reddit would still bitch about it.

It's like they want to live in subpar bug hives while getting guilt-tripped about the buttsex trannies being denied access to kids or yelled at by thots not being able to get abortion access as easy because they were too lazy to tell their man to put on a condom. It's mind-boggling.
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You remember swine flu? I'm surprised we didn't come of age through multiple COVIDs, back when people had the sense to just accept they were being hysterical.

The only reason why they're trying to sensationalize a lot of these viruses is the fact that COVID worked, and they're looking for the next one to scare the shit out of the public with. The problem is, it isn't working anymore, and they're literally desperate to have something else happen.
 
Sabine Hossenfelder is a gigaclickbait drama and doomerist channel for with a "authoritative scientist" veneer and is actively despised by people with science background.

Even environmentalist liberal scientists hate Sabine Hossenfelder videos. They go so far as to call her "a bad faith science communicator". :story: She peddles weird bullshit to be as sensational as possible, and she contorts data and theories to reach the most clickbait able video titles and talking points.

Something something development in string theory (even though modern physicists fucking despise string theory). Could there be multiple universes (could sonichu be real in the next universe over)? Could dark matter help us escape earth and colonize space? And remember: Giff scientists funding, lest the worurld be destroyed!11!!1 😱😱😱

Youtube very agressively pushes Sabine to the front page.
all you need to do is watch her content to know that's not true. libtards hate her because she's constantly pulling the rug out from under their science-based grifts, especially lately. people like dave farina have absolute libfits over her most milquetoast opinions.

But you aren't going to find better software development practices in the government than you find in private practice.
i can't just find another government that works better. i can do that with private companies, in theory. the government needs to be both held to a higher standard, and have that higher standard enforced on them without them being able to stop it, because as we have seen every time, that does not work.
 
I think that NYU lady just wanted to sleep with him. A lot of co-eds get involved in social life just to find a man and have babies, especially the kind who would be into trad life like a college Republican. Hell, I think most women still go to college because it’ll be the best chance of meeting a doctor/lawyer/engineer husband in your whole life if you’re not the sharpest tack on the wall.
 
I can't get the NYT article directly, but there's enough here to get the jist of the article.

“I’m a straight white dude and recent college grad who has very progressive beliefs and is looking for a committed partner who, in time, can equitably raise a family with me,” the anonymous author said, adding specifically, “I want to prioritize dating women of color.”

“Despite my well-meaning antiracist principles, is this preference (as friends have suggested) wrong, insensitive or somehow itself racist?” they asked the New York Times’ supposed “ethicist.” “I am dedicated to educating myself on issues of racism, sexism and other forms of kyriarchy while also learning from marginalized people. For me, principles lead the way to attractions.”

Rather than rationally explain how fetishizing antiracism is a bizarre and unhealthy strategy to prove someone’s devotion to identity politics, the New York Times’ advice “ethicist” characterized the approach as “impressive.”

“You’d be using your erotic ecumenism to level up. Where your shallower classmates have hookups, your dates would be teach-ins. ‘Do the work,’ the slogan urges, and you’re rolling up your sleeves,” wrote Kwame Anthony Appiah. “Your devotion to self-improvement is impressive. Like a dish of quinoa and kale that you may once have forced down and now actively enjoy, a woman of color could, you think, raise your game, supplying something like antiracist roughage.”

Lost it at the use of antiracist roughage.
 
In her defense, if you actually watch those videos, every single time she's saying "it won't work, it won't answer shit, this is stupid, and most likely a grift to get the investor's money before the gig is up".

That's why they hate her. She's constantly calling attention to how useless (by design) a lot of current research is.
That and she's sometimes mildly rude to trannies.
I used to appreciate Sabine until I stumbled across her music videos by accident. It's hard to come back from this:


 
“You’d be using your erotic ecumenism to level up. Where your shallower classmates have hookups, your dates would be teach-ins. ‘Do the work,’ the slogan urges, and you’re rolling up your sleeves,” wrote Kwame Anthony Appiah. “Your devotion to self-improvement is impressive. Like a dish of quinoa and kale that you may once have forced down and now actively enjoy, a woman of color could, you think, raise your game, supplying something like antiracist roughage.”
the eye of argon is better-written than this drivel, holy fuck.
 
the eye of argon is better-written than this drivel, holy fuck.
Fun Fact: Everyone expresses racial biases when hooked to a machine they can't hide it from. Such as one that measures stress response. We need to make a machine that can prove these people have been secretly racist this whole time. That's WORSE than being openly racist.
 
Hey at least the author of that was 16 when he made it, s there is some excuse for its shittiness
I dunno why everyone bashes it. Eye of Argon rules - It has a burly barbarian who killers niggers and fucks ho's and kills more niggers. Also, he is really buff and cool. It's way better than some shitty ass book like The 5AM Club where you see an Indian man write about the faggiest characters in the faggiest way on earth.
 
So, I will have a probably unpopular opinion.

I want Trump to be able to run for a third term. I want him to keep running until he either dies in office e or resigns mid-term because he feels he has done enough. This would provide ample time to secure MAGA as an ongoing movement -and- allow his successor a while in office to prove themselves while also creating an incumbent advantage.
i think trump is setting up vance to be the next president.
MF is the most well spoken politician i've heard yet, similar to trump, it seems like he doesn't need a prompter and can just make a 15-minute speech just bouncing off of ideas and notions he noted beforehand, similarly to our border czar, he easily pulls up examples and counterarguments on the fly.

Right now, all he needs is to be emboldened and feel less kind in his talks, but i think that 4 years of trump administration will do exactly that.

He's crazy good, between him only being 40, those A10 eyes and natural eyeshadow, he's an incredible approachable guy, and the recent speeches he had, showing his capacity, makes me certain that if he runs in 2028, he WILL win.

Because his temper and character makes him look reasonable to some dems aswell, who only hate trump because he doesn't cushion his words and is abrasive, they're the kind of people that no matter how right you are and no matter the good you've done, they'll hate you because you appear as mean. The kind of retard that prefers if someone says something attrociously vile but says all of that like a wounded deer with the sad violins in the background.
The kind of retard that watch marvel movies and get emotional because the scene's tone told them to, regardless of how contradictive the scene is, where they'd start crying if they saw the shrek movie but the audio got replaced with "in the arms of an angel".
 
Some people just don't care about participation in social activities and just do their job (School work in this instance) and go home. That's an anathema to some.
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I am one who doesn't like work stuff socialising, but this is taking it a few too notches up. This snowflake better have a good excuse, like 3 clowns erupted from the cake and raped him, not that at 10 he didn't get a Sonic cake, just a Spiderman cake and it ruined his life lol.
 
I think that NYU lady just wanted to sleep with him. A lot of co-eds get involved in social life just to find a man and have babies, especially the kind who would be into trad life like a college Republican. Hell, I think most women still go to college because it’ll be the best chance of meeting a doctor/lawyer/engineer husband in your whole life if you’re not the sharpest tack on the wall.
president of the nyu college republican is more of a resume builder and the group is likely full of even dumber social losers. if youre a connected republican in nyu youre joining some skull and bones homo society than college republicans.

she's also rather ugly which is par for the course for clubs like this.
 
German bands like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream were pioneers in electronic music, so i guess "being emotionless robots that understand how machines think" is the main one
Germany has birthed some of the best and brightest philosophers, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Kant, Hegel, and Nacho. Some of the best musicians as well, Bach, Beethoven, and my favorite, Wagner. I seen a snarky comment about movies, and how england had produced great film. They haven't though, you'd struggle to name one director outside of maybe guy ritchie (lol) Germany had Fritz lange, and still has great names like Fassbinder, Herzog and wenders. Don't get me started on actresses, none bigger than marlene dietrich.
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I thought it was shitposting at first because of how wrong it was, lol.
 
I am one who doesn't like work stuff socialising, but this is taking it a few too notches up. This snowflake better have a good excuse, like 3 clowns erupted from the cake and raped him, not that at 10 he didn't get a Sonic cake, just a Spiderman cake and it ruined his life lol.
$450,000 seems like a good enough excuse for me.
 
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the Wake County DEI faggot @Breadbassket posted about earlier in the thread got BTFO by Musk himself
The local newspaper said criticism is Anti-Semitic. But use scare quotes for Libs of TikTok (who is also Jewish). They use capital "B" black and lower case "w" White. You don't hate journalists enough
Here's Elon's response to him https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1890605361813397797
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https://archive.ph/1uvHi
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
Wake school board member gets threats and antisemitic insults for supporting DEI

By T. Keung Hui Updated February 15, 2025 10:09 AM

Wake County school board member Sam Hershey defended DEI during Tuesday’s board meeting, accusing critics of being losers and racists who want to support "mediocre white men." By Wake County Schools

A Wake County school board member is receiving threats and antisemitic insults after national coverage of his speech accusing DEI critics of being racists and “mediocre white men.”

School board member Sam Hershey said at the Feb. 4 board meeting that “mediocre white men” have been hired for 250 years solely due to their skin color and that critics say “DEI hire” in place of using a racial slur against Black people.

Fox News aired a story Thursday asking if Hershey would be reprimanded by the school district.

Libs of TikTok, which has been labeled as extremist by the Southern Poverty Law Center, accused Hershey of making a “racist rant” in a post on Friday on X, previously called Twitter. The post went viral, drawing more than 150,000 views and 1,300 reposts in its first two hours.

“I regret that this story is taking attention away from our schools and that it’s taking attention away from the potential devastating impact that cutting federal funding would have on public schools across this country if that were to happen,” Hershey said in a statement Friday to The News & Observer.

“Where we are as a country when it comes to education is not the fault of one party or the other (both have been in power over the last two decades) and the only way we improve academic outcomes across the country is to be working together. If we decide to do that in a meaningful way, we can give all of our students the opportunity to succeed.”

Musk: Hershey in for ‘a rude awakening’

Hershey, 47, was first elected to the school board in 2022. He was re-elected with 69% of the vote in November to represent a district that includes much of central Raleigh.

The board is officially non-partisan but Hershey is a registered Democrat. The board that oversees North Carolina’s largest school district has a 7-2 Democratic majority.

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Wake County school board member Sam Hershey defended DEI during Tuesday’s board meeting, accusing critics of being losers and racists who want to support “mediocre white men.” His comments are making waves on social media. Wake County Schools

Hershey made his speech in response to President Donald Trump signing executive orders removing DEI policies and staff from federal agencies and threatening to withhold federal funding from schools that promote “discriminatory equity ideology.”

On Friday, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency announced that the U.S. Department of Education has notified all 50 state education agencies they have 14 days to remove DEI programming in all public schools. or face loss of federal funding.

Musk also personally weighed in on Hershey’s remarks, saying Friday night in a post on X that “he is in for a rude awakening.”

“I’ve heard people say DEI is racist,” Hershey said during board comments on Feb. 4. “If that’s what you believe, you know nothing about diversity, equity and inclusion and you know nothing about racism, and that speaks to you as a human being.”

Hershey, who described himself in the speech as a “slightly better than mediocre white guy,” also called DEI critics “losers.”

“This Wake County school board member Sam Hershey said what needs to be said about DEI,” the left-leaning Red Wine & Blue said Thursday in a post on Facebook. “We need more people speaking up like this at our school board meetings!”

Antisemitic attacks on Hershey

The national conservative spotlight has now turned on Hershey.

“Look at me making Fox News,” Hershey said Thursday in a post on BlueSky. “So far it’s mostly just insults with a couple of threats. Good times.”

A number of the insults have been antisemitic.

One X user called Hershey an antisemitic and profane name and said people should slap him and described his nose using a Jewish stereotype.

Multiple X users questioned Hershey calling himself white.

Hershey says he honors the traditions of his family, which include both a Jewish and Christian heritage. A 2021 Pew Research Center poll found that 92% of Jewish Americans identify themselves as white.

Some threats were not specifically antisemitic but mentioned eliminating Hershey. A common refrain from conservative critics is Hershey should be removed from the school board for his remarks.

No plans to reprimand Hershey

Fox News said it was unable to reach Wake school administrators to ask if “any reprimand or other action was being considered because of his remarks.”

School board chair Chris Heagarty told The N&O on Friday that there are no plans to reprimand Hershey. “We don’t have a policy or a practice regarding that,” Heagarty said in an interview. “It would be breaking new ground. One thing board members could do is adopt a code of conduct or board expectations, but we’d need to do that through board action.”

Heagarty echoed Hershey’s comments that the attention on the remarks has distracted people away from issues such as potential federal education funding cuts. Wake school board members have expressed concerns about how Trump is planning to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.

“Mr Hershey is passionate about his beliefs and has a 1st Amendment right to express them,” Heagarty said. “But I regret how this has distracted us from urgent issues facing our public schools.”

In his statement, Hershey said he wants to move past the controversy over his remarks. “As I move past this news cycle, that I have no desire to be a part of again, I will be focused on what our schools need to succeed,” Hershey said. “Things like needing to pay teachers more, which will help fill vacancies with highly qualified people, additional funding in special education and AIG and needing the federal government to step up when it comes to feeding our students a nutritious breakfast and lunch if we are serious about making America healthy again.

“These are just a few items, and as I said, if we decide to work together as a country, we can dramatically improve academic outcomes for all students, and that is the ultimate goal in education.”

Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article300326924.html#storylink=cpy
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T. Keung Hui
The News & Observer
T. Keung Hui has covered K-12 education for the News & Observer since 1999, helping parents, students, school employees and the community understand the vital role education plays in North Carolina. His primary focus is Wake County, but he also covers statewide education issues.

Oh and here is the guys Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/samhershey.bsky.social | https://archive.ph/o3KBs

Saw him literally do this meme
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