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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[Oeselian Chad]

1500 rounds.

3,000 dollars.

Damn, where they getting 2 dollar 20mm at? Asking for a friend.

 

[George Lucas]

I still believe the option of "The internet is 18+ and if you allow your child access to the internet you are doing so at your and your child's own risk" is superior. You can make the same argument about other "harmful material" (political speech, slurs etc) that would similarly need regulation and some kind of system to verify age

This is the same ridiculous thinking that leads Americans to binge drinking because they become legal and never learned how to control their intake. You seriously can’t limit a teenager from exposure to the Internet and then suddenly expect him to maintain a level of self-control at age 18. Childhood is a time where you are allowed to make mistakes. Once you are an adult and you do something stupid on the Internet, your life is over.

Children should absolutely be exposed to the Internet at a young age and should be able to log on at the age of 13 or so on their own. They should already be well-versed in digital hygiene and maintaining opsec by the time they turn 18.

 

[Verpa Teutonica Ingens]

Damn, where they getting 2 dollar 20mm at? Asking for a friend.

China, meaning that it has Chinese quality in addition to Chinese pricing.

 

[Professor Donger]

dawg, listen to me. THEY WILL SEND 100,000 A WAVE when they send them, this is fucking china, they make the whole worlds electronics if they switch to war time production they could make a million of these a day.

There isent a CSG in the world that can make it back to friendly port with wave after wave of those things hitting it.

This also ignores things that can damage the places that launch these drones. Missile strikes, aircraft bombardment, special forces sabotage.

These things are also large, so air defense systems, our own drones, interceptors.

There are plenty of reliable ways to handle something like this. Pretending that these drones are somehow something the US Military, the literal king of logistics, hasn't planned for is not just folly it's straight up stupidity.

 

[starborn427614]

This is the same ridiculous thinking that leads Americans to binge drinking because they become legal and never learned how to control their intake. You seriously can’t limit a teenager from exposure to the Internet and then suddenly expect him to maintain a level of self-control at age 18. Childhood is a time where you are allowed to make mistakes. Once you are an adult and you do something stupid on the Internet, your life is over.

Children should absolutely be exposed to the Internet at a young age and should be able to log on at the age of 13 or so on their own. They should already be well-versed in digital hygiene and maintaining opsec by the time they turn 18.

Not to mention there's already plenty of options for parents to limit the extreme bits of the internet. At least until they feel their children are old enough to deal with it, anyway.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

This also ignores things that can damage the places that launch these drones. Missile strikes, aircraft bombardment, special forces sabotage.

These things are also large, so air defense systems, our own drones, interceptors.

There are plenty of reliable ways to handle something like this. Pretending that these drones are somehow something the US Military, the literal king of logistics, hasn't planned for is not just folly it's straight up stupidity.

I wonder if something like an AEGIS destroyer or nuclear powered carrier has the juice the jam the fuck out of a swarm of TEMU drones? They couldn't possibly have anything like that, the US has never heard of electronics warfare before.

 

[Professor Donger]

Not to mention there's already plenty of options for parents to limit the extreme bits of the internet. At least until they feel their children are old enough to deal with it, anyway.

Especially because most adults are computer literate. My dad's a boomer so he didn't know how to block pornographic content on the computer, but everyone that has grown up in the Internet age most likely knows how to block certain content and make sure their kids don't access it.

Hell you can call your ISP and have them so it for you

 

[Oeselian Chad]

dawg, listen to me. THEY WILL SEND 100,000 A WAVE when they send them, this is fucking china, they make the whole worlds electronics if they switch to war time production they could make a million of these a day.

Not after a flight of B2s knock out the Three Gorges Dam.

 

[Professor Donger]

Not after a flight of B2s knock out the Three Gorges Dam.

They'll have other more important shit to worry about when a good chunk of their country is drowning

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Allegedly, Texans have a hard time with South Asian scammers calling from Texas numbers.

I have a hard time not fedposting when the subject of scam and robocallers come up. I get 4 to 5 calls a day from these pukes spoofing local numbers and it needs to stop.

 

[Jace on ice]

I have a hard time not fedposting when the subject of scam and robocallers come up. I get 4 to 5 calls a day from these pukes spoofing local numbers and it needs to stop.

Answer with a comically racist Indian accent and say Saar a lot. I've gotten them to hang up doing this.

 

[Fuck Fags I'm A Homophobe]

They already can detect if you're LGBT by how you touch your phone, we're going to pretend they don't use digital phrenology to detect that users are underage?

I'm sorry WHAT?

 

[Krayt Dragon]

This is the same ridiculous thinking that leads Americans to binge drinking because they become legal and never learned how to control their intake.

I agree. You probably wanted to quote this part:

We need to expect more from our children, instead of locking away everything that could be potentially harmful to them and only unlocking it once they have reached the arbitrary age of xy years, like they will magically learn how to deal with those things due to crossing a certain age threshold.

My point is that this shouldn't be the responsibility of the government, but of parents. Kids watch scary movies, play violent video games or consume drugs and alcohol that they are not old enough for.

Back in the day, you learned good behavior by looking at what the other adults are doing. You were a silent observer. My parents were very good at teaching me the necessary skills to navigate the Internet, and I was exposed to porn very late in my childhood (relatively speaking) despite having internet access.

I am making the argument that the Internet should be 18+, and if youre an obvious child you should be banned from everything - if they are found out. Kids should not feel comfortable using voice chats. Kids should not feel comfortable giving their actual birth year on a website. That is the way to teach children proper digital hygiene... by letting them be silent observers.

And it should be the parents who decide if their child is ready for certain steps in their growth or not. If you decide that you can drink a beer with your 16 year old son, you should be able to. If you feel comfortable with removing the child protection locks on your 14 year old's devices, that is your decision. You're preparing him for the world, after all.

If pornography is bad for adults is another question, but it shouldn't be restricted for the sake of children, because they shouldn't even be a factor in that discussion. Making the internet a "child friendly space" is a mistake - and unnecessary.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Based, based, based, based.



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[Fuck Fags I'm A Homophobe]

On the topic of porn I was hooked up to my schools DC++ server and I had anime, I had movies, I had whole seasons of the simpsons. You know what everyone took from me?

Porn...and the classical music section of my mp3 folder.

Who did you put in the classical music section

 

[Thomas Talus]

I think about this a lot, but not in just a "leftist comedy" way but for all of modern comedy as a whole. It's harder than ever to write any funny comedy these days not because of censorship or anything, instead it's because reality around us is so insane that any fake humor people write up pales in comparison to the real deal. Reality being filmed 24/7 means people have more access to this insanity than ever.

This is not a new issue:

While Malcolm Muggeridge was the editor of Punch, it was announced that Khrushchev and Bulganin were coming to England. Muggeridge hit upon the idea of a mock itinerary, a lineup of the most ludicrous places the two paunchy pear-shaped little Soviet leaders could possibly be paraded through during the solemn process of a state visit. Shortly before press time, half the feature had to be scrapped. It coincided exactly with the official itinerary, just released, prompting Muggeridge to observe: We live in an age in which it is no longer possible to be funny. There is nothing you can imagine, no matter how ludicrous, that will not promptly be enacted before your very eyes, probably by someone well known.

Tom Wolfe, “Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast: A literary manifesto for the new social novel”, Harpers, 1989-11.

We no longer really have need for any satirical magazines or the likes because you would probably laugh more just reading normal news, although Babylon Bee is pretty funny most of the times you could easily mistake those fake headlines for a real one.

There's a running gag on twitter about how the Bee is genuinely prophetic, as its satirical headlines will often become reality within 6 months.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Answer with a comically racist Indian accent and say Saar a lot. I've gotten them to hang up doing this.

I did this sorta shit for years and it's tiresome at this point. I'm not young man anymore.

 

[Oeselian Chad]

This is the same ridiculous thinking that leads Americans to binge drinking because they become legal and never learned how to control their intake. You seriously can’t limit a teenager from exposure to the Internet and then suddenly expect him to maintain a level of self-control at age 18. Childhood is a time where you are allowed to make mistakes. Once you are an adult and you do something stupid on the Internet, your life is over.

Children should absolutely be exposed to the Internet at a young age and should be able to log on at the age of 13 or so on their own. They should already be well-versed in digital hygiene and maintaining opsec by the time they turn 18.

Based on my own experience I'd agree but really just no. Just cause we turned out fine, doesn't mean most people will. Specially nowadays where The Internet we grew up with is dead. Getting doxxed isn't an issue like it used to be, nobody cares anymore. The real issue nowadays is getting groomed on roblox and discord, or getting mindraped by shorts on chinese spyware, into wanting to castrate yourself. The internet isn't an all white safespace like it used to be, anymore.

 

[WelperHelper99]

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I dont think they go faster than 115 MPH, in russia they call this bad boy the Geran-2

That doesn't have proper targeting systems for anti ship warfare for one. Lmao says the 20mm.

 

[Betonhaus]

Does it look like Trump is quietly trying to peel off the Jewish hold over America?