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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[mold]

gonna throw this in here: the question of how much weaponized psychosexual abuse material to tolerate in return for liberty and free speech is one issue and it is extremely legitimately difficult to make this call.

what should not be difficult however is solving the situation where in the US, children have far too much access to the internet where that material is, but it is difficult because our culture is toxic for families.

there is a reason the political discouse is 99% about kids and porn and barely a peep about everything else bad about internet access and kids, and it should be obvious but in case it's not: there are very powerful corporate and government interests who want a screen in every kid's face as many hours of the day as possible. they want the access to attention for advertising purposes and they also want the flowing fountain of educational tax dollars.

porn and free speech is an ideal political issue for careerist politicans because it's not solveable and endlessly generative of upsetting shit under our current legal framework (like abortion before dobbs). actual functional political action: removing screens from k-5. bans on phones at school. return to neighborhood schools. public health campaigns about the importance of free play coupled with legislation clarifying children's freedom to be outside unsupervised. there's a bunch of stuff without touching the third rail of mothers working outside the home.

The majority of families can be trusted to parent appropriately in this area if society at large isn't actively undermining their ability to do so.

 

[Lian Xing]

but it is difficult because our culture is toxic for families.

Only very recently is this the case.

 

[YarrBlueballs]

there is a reason the political discouse is 99% about kids and porn and barely a peep about everything else bad about internet access and kids

Someone posted earlier about the connection between porn and social media, and honestly of the two aspects social media is by far the most dangerous part of life in developed countries. Can there even be broad scale porn addictions without the social aspect? Isn't the whole psychology behind ethots, vtubers, discord channels, reddit, ect, being the social aspect is an inherent binding agent in positively encouraging such behavior?

Hell, this circles back to the tranny issue where trannies have to use social media, it's an inherent necessity in continuing conventionally antisocial behavior without being burnt out.

Social media is the gate to evil, to hyper socialization into areas of humanity that real world interactions severely discourage, and porn sickness is a symptom of this. We can't just deal with porn and expect the issues to go away, this social cancer will just continue to grow anyways.

I am forever thankful my parents kept me strictly off of social media as a kid, and I'm finding this is probably the biggest identifier between good vs bad parents. The wonders of growing up with a dedicated computer room in the house versus iphones is the lack of privacy to end up somewhere doing something you shouldn't. All I did was play Battlefront 2 and KOTOR. Best childhood.

 

[mold]

Only very recently is this the case.

sure, but since nobody has a time machine this is the situation we're in

 

[Glowing In The Streets]

Isn't this just another form of chilaquiles? Or is it different because it's bread and not tortillas?

Mexicans have their own version of migas using fried tortillas instead of bread. migas and chilaquiles are very similar though, migas usually have an egg
Find another term niggas

 

[mold]

I am forever thankful my parents kept me strictly off of social media as a kid, and I'm finding this is probably the biggest identifier between good vs bad parents.

it's not a good/bad binary. keeping your kid off social media until their brain is baked enough for it is extremely good super awesome parenting. you cannot expect everyone to do that.

like I said on the aella thread, everyone is responsible for personal hygeine, but if your city stops running the sewers, do you trust everyone around you to dig good latrines? your own personal latrine digging skills aren't going to save you.

this is a fundamental piece of the cultural toxicity towards families in the US. mainstream normie culture expects your kid to have social media. mainstream normie culture also tells you that your job as a parent is to personally resist mainstream normie culture.

a big part of the reason this insanity goes mostly unchallenged is that women fall for it. most mothers I know believe they are personally responsible for simultaneously protecting their kids from and preparing their kids for participation in a system they are constantly being told is fucked up but also necessary. men getting more involved in handson day to day parenting is ameliorating the situation some because men aren't neurotic and anxious and conscientious like women are.

I don't mean to be riding your ass about this, it's just that this attitude is devastating for fixing the problem. I think most of you are young men and you really dont' get how much internalized selfhatred and selfblame your typical american mother has over this shit. and it makes me angry and sad because they are beating themselves up over stuff that is being done to them on purpose.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

All I did was play Battlefront 2 and KOTOR. Best childhood.

>Battlefront 2
>childhood
>2017 was 8 years ago
W-whoa, mama...

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

He refused to meet with some clownish activist who wanted to drag him into a room and shout at him for sound bytes for the democrats to use against him, and Massie just told him to fuck off.

Interesting way to talk about a prison reform bill that the activist was involved with and that would have affected massies constituents

Upon being told to fuck off the activist immediately started playing the Jewish Crocodile Tears card. "Buh buh buh, I'm one of god's chosen, you can't tell me no, you're a goyim! Oi vey, its annoda shoah!"

Retards like you resort to caricature because you have no argument for this. I know theory of mind is hard for you people but try to think of it like this

Jerry Nadler or whatever Jewish congressman is caught following pages on Twitter that advocate that Christians are inferior people who should be genocided. He refuses to meet with anyone Christian, even for bills that have nothing to do with religion and directly affect people in his district. He refuses to meet with Christian clergy who minister to his constituents.

How would you feel in that case?

 

[BullfrogBill]

>Battlefront 2
>childhood
>2017 was 8 years ago
W-whoa, mama...

You think that's bad, wait until you learn that 2005 was 20 years ago.

 

[ThisIsGonnaBeGood]

Prescription drug prices are about to crash like they were China's economy.

Source | Archive

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

Netanyahu states that Israel needs to stop accepting US aid

Speaking today before the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Netanyahu stated, “We will have to wean ourselves off American security assistance.”

He drew a comparison between the current security aid—approximately 4 billion shekels—and the civilian aid he canceled in the 1990s: “I said then that this, alongside our economic policy, will bring Israel to growth, and you will see the Tel Aviv skyline today.”

 

[quaawaa]

Prescription drug prices are about to crash like they were China's economy.

Source | Archive

Campaign Contributions can do wonders, but not with me, and not with the Republican Party.

Hear that @Catch The Rainbow? You don't have to be worried about Qatar buying influence with their jet gift.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

You think that's bad, wait until you learn that 2005 was 20 years ago.

You Could Have It So Much Better was such a great album.

 

[Potatoherder]

Prescription drug prices are about to crash like they were China's economy.
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He directly called out big pharma for the BS too. Setting it at the lowest price set in any country will risk massive legal issues if they fuck about too. Countries can just choose to ignore patents and allow generics straight away.

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

Hear that @Catch The Rainbow? You don't have to be worried about Qatar buying influence with their jet gift.

A gift to the president of the United States is not a campaign contribution. It's also not reassuring that his point man in the middle east has heavy real estate investments in qatar

 

[X Prime]

Prescription drug prices are about to crash like they were China's economy.
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I can't wait to see the judge who tries to strike down this one.

 

[quaawaa]

A gift to the president of the United States is not a campaign contribution. It's also not reassuring that his point man in the middle east has heavy real estate investments in qatar

It's a gift to the Air Force and the National Archives and Records Administration, not Trump.

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

It's a gift to the Air Force and the National Archives and Records Administration, not Trump.

But it's going straight to his Presidential Library right after his term. My point stands, still not a campaign contribution

 

[AnitaSarsleezian]

Personally I like the idea of just treating paid pornography as what it is, prostitution. If some people with weird fetishes want to still record themselves and trade it fine but if money exchanges hands for it treat it as a sex crime. That right there would dry up most of the porn market.

What's hilarious is that throughout the "golden age" of porn from the 70s to early 80s, it was literally treated as such by authorities. Plenty of interviews with golden age porn stars talk about the endless harassment by police. How many times sets were raided, or they spent nights in jail, or were dragged into court cases. How set locations were kept secret, many only finding out hours before shooting where they were actually filming. They would book spaces and abandon them at the last minute. It started to become common to film at private spaces instead of sets, and much further away. LA porn films went from being shot in warehouses and sound stages to instead being filmed at a friend's apartment in San Francisco hours away. All to stay ahead of police and detectives who were constantly trying to bust porn film sets for prostitution.

Meanwhile back then it was a lot less like prostitution and more like an actual film when you had film costs, equipment rentals, development costs, editing costs, sound costs, costumes, a script, a soundtrack written by a dedicated composer (some porn music actually broke into mainstream and won awards), crew costs, etc.

Nowadays over half the porn on pornhub is some dude paying a "porn chick" to come over his house and do nothing but give him a blowjob while he films it with a gopro stuck to his forehead, which literally is prostitution but with a digital camera involved and police have never been more disinterested. Strange times.

 

[Back me up!]

He directly called out big pharma for the BS too. Setting it at the lowest price set in any country will risk massive legal issues if they fuck about too. Countries can just choose to ignore patents and allow generics straight away.

So between the China Trade Deal and this just how much craziness are we looking at the market Monday morning?