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TAX FREE BISH!
THE RALPHAMALE WINS AGAIN WHATCHU THINK ABOU THAT BISH! IMMA GET ME A NICE GOURMET TORTA WITH ALL THIS EXTRA MONEY I HAVE NOW! Just gotta gotta find my wallet and phone in Tiajuana.

So nice of Trump to help a Mexican out like that. Even more ironclad proof than eating a taco bowl that Trump doesn't hate Mexicans.
 
Almost as if you want to take people's real concerns and then use that energy against the main group that threatens muslims, jews... while in the process also destroying the SECOND group that threatens muslims, the west... How convenient for muslims.
I'm not so sure this is muslim-driven, though they do benefit. I've said it before, and I'll doubtlessly say it again, but I'm firmly convinced +50% of anti-jew sperging on the interbutts is done by the jews themselves in order to discredit and make seem ridiculous their opposition.
 
its almost all boomers.
Most of the recent protest footage I've seen is almost all boomers.
The ones in my locale are almost an exact replica. It's kinda eerie that somewhere across the country has a protest that looks exactly the same, demographics and signage very similar. Very strange.
 
I recall there was outrage at Bush, but not to insane levels of cult-like SJW derangement against Trump in Current Year Clown World...

I think unprecedented "social engineerings" by the MSM and Big Tech may have something to do with it, using more developed techniques.
Ok I admit you and others saying Bush wasn't treated as insanely bad is true, but it was still really bad.

https://www.npr.org/2004/07/04/3111005/using-hitler-to-make-a-political-point

There was a ton of that. The main difference now, imo, is there wasn't as much social media that was easy to find and in your face you as now. There wasn't as much outright calling for Bush's death and things like Trump, but W and Cheney bashing was really unhinged too.
 
This has always been the case, it used to be common knowledge that the Democrats were the party of racism. It's wild how all of history's racism has been pinned on the Republicans when the Republicans historically have been the party of freeing slaves, desegregation, woman's suffrage, and Native American rights.
You are not going to pull that "Demonkkkrats r da REAL raycis!" boomer bullcrap in The Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Five. It is a fact that the Democrats used to be the party of conservative, patriotic, America First populism, while the Republicans were the party of gay liberal nigger worship. Nowadays, the Democrats are the party of gay liberal nigger worship, whereas the Republicans are... also the party of gay liberal nigger worship, come to think of it. But mildly less so. There is no functional difference between the Republican-established Freedmen's Bureau and Black Lives Matter.
 
You gotta at least have the decency to @ me if you're going to call me out here. :story:

This reminds me of a classic autism that always got stuck in my brain like a splinter, a classic old type granola and health liberal "Huh?" That always go to me was their constant bitching about the plastics and containers and linings in cans and not a peep about trying to re-popularize the perfect material to safely store food that doesn't stain or leech.

It's called glass, and it's borderline infinitely recyclable. You melt glass? You get glass. You melt plastic? You get toxic fumes and other byproducts and separation and some plastic back and it's a pain in the ass to recycle by comparison.

It really gets in my craw that there isn't more glass advocacy for food packaging and storage. But I guess it's also logically fallen to the wayside due to the fragility, weight and the fact everyone can't be fucked to even place glass in a pick up basket or return program to benefit. It's just a hippie dippie sustainability and food and body concious thing you'd think they'd resonate with that never seems to come up.
A lot of granola moms i know use glass baby bottles (and those reuseable ziplocks). Long story short, I have swept up many glass baby bottles at work because the baby in question decides that throwing its food source is the best game to play during meals (I don't know why infants do this, but nearly every child i know has tried to play "yeet the bottle" at least once). It's good in theory, but glass bottles are a bit more than they're plastic cousin and at least the plastic ones will survive accidentally (or purposely) a drop. Glass also isn't easily recyclable because the ability to do so [easily*] disappeared decades prior.
 
This has always been the case, it used to be common knowledge that the Democrats were the party of racism. It's wild how all of history's racism has been pinned on the Republicans when the Republicans historically have been the party of freeing slaves, desegregation, woman's suffrage, and Native American rights. The Democrats were always the ones against all that shit and today they try and save face by teaching in schools that "The Republicans in Abraham Lincoln's day were actually today's Democrats that just called themselves Republicans and the Democrats of that day are today's Republicans that just call themselves Democrats" bullshit
The Republicans were also the party, in Lincoln's day, of protectionism, traditional American religion (in the form of opposing Catholicism and Mormonism: Rum, Rebellion and Rome, the twin pillars of barbarism: slavery and polygamy), anti-immigration (not so much a policy, but the Know Nothings folded into them) and saber-rattling at Britain, the "Workshop of the World" and most threatening geopolitical rival at the moment. Contrasted against Democrats having similarly been the more religiously inclusive and pro-immigrant (endless sea of criminal, poor sectarian Irish) party.

Neither party was really populist (at least relative to the other) - you have Slave Power vs Corporate Welfare, and each side had appeals to the masses - but there is something to say that the Republicans also were heavily influenced by Free Soilers: no slavery because we don't want to spot up our culture with outside (African) influence, no slavery and smallholding for as many as possible (Homestead Act) because we want a society of independent pioneers. That's the thing, the whole rural-urban dichotomy doesn't really hold up. It's more like you get one party appealing to both a rural elite and rural masses, the other to an urban elite and rural masses. The Republicans promise land but it comes at the expense of corporate welfare and protectionist bullshit; the Democrats promise less corporate welfare/protectionist bullshit but hit you with the stick of slavery undermining your independent yeoman farm and selling the land off to the oligarchy. Either way you're fucked. Would you like your mass immigration illegal, uneducated and Mexican, or legal, educated and Indian? Would you like me to fuck you in the pussy or the asshole?

There are tons of parallels between the faultlines then and now. Trump's economics are even basically a descendant of the American School (Hamilton, Clay and Lincoln) as opposed to neoliberalism being rooted in neoclassical economics (Democrats were free trade classical economists on the British model). The big thing is, you can tell more than one story out of it.
 
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All I'm getting is, no good can come of this. It was echoing off the inside of my skull the entire time I was watching that video.
And saying that we have to hurry and build it because China is also building one?
What?
I guess no one remembers how nuclear weapons got made.

I worry.
Here is all I can say in defense of that.

The world has no Idea how lucky it got by Nazi Germany not prioing nuclear science, reminder that their scientists invented and than perfected rocket technology out of more or less thin air all while losing a war, if in 33 hitler had rushed Nuke tech we might not even be here.

We are stupidly uncharted waters right now and I wont act like so many others and pretend my northseeker is working any better than anyone elses.

My gut tells me we need to do this and my gut tells me AGI will be our friend if we will only treat it as such, My gut tells me the USA is in far more likely a position to treat such an entity with benevolence no matter how low such a chance is, its infitantly higher than the communists, This is all just gut feeling, we are 5 years removed from objective fact being something anyone 1 man can prove.
 
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Personally, I'm a real OG Jeffersonian on trade. Classical economics is more or less correct about how to accumulate wealth, but any country with a shred of dignity would subject itself the poverty of autarky before it allows hostile foreign powers to corrupt it. See his embargo against Britain and Madison's little war and how the shitbag traitor federalists freaked out over muh trade being disrupted. That's how I feel towards China.
 
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