***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[Methodical Management]

This kind of got lost in the shuffle last week, but if you're searching for pithy vignettes of late capitalist, American dystopia and the scenes of Houston water lines just aren't quite absurd enough for your tastes, look no further:

LA cops tried using Instagram's copyright filter to stop someone from filming them

Over the last several weeks, police in Beverly Hills have been caught on video seemingly trying to weaponize Instagram's copyright detection algorithms to get a prominent LA activist banned from the platform.

www.engadget.com

Only black people voted for Joe Biden. Those who didn’t vote for Biden either were not black and if you were black and did not vote for Joe Biden you ceased to be black.

So after the primaries, Rusty, you became white like me since you didn’t vote for Biden too. But luckily November came around and all of us voted for Biden so now we’re all black.

DWalk voted for Trump but says he now supports Biden so the jury is out in his status.

 

[had pants]

 

[had pants]

 

[blastercombo]

cedric you're so naughty

 

[had pants]

 

[frenchbreadbuilds]

 

[gry60]

I mean when your constituents are dumb as rocks for continuing to vote for you..... why even pretend to care.

When the going gets hard, run as far as you can while pointing your finger at as many people as you can.

I hope people don't think I'm exaggerating when I compare Republican officials' behavior with the president of Cameroon.

Cameroon’s president-for-life spends at least 15% of his time outside his country

Tell me more about these "private trips."

qz.com

President-for-life Paul Biya has been in power since 1982—35 years in total. But the 85-year-old spent less than 30 of those in Cameron itself, according to an investigation by the OCCRP, an anti-corruption NGO. In 2006 and 2009, Biya spent a third of the year abroad.

After combing through 35 years of reports in state newspapers, the OCCRP makes the “conservative estimate” that he’s spent at least 4.5 years in total on “private trips” and an extra year on official visits. That number could be much higher since archives of the Cameroon Tribune have gaps that “span several years,” the report says. It’s apparently unknown what he does on these trips, with rumors veering from shopping trips to hospital visits.

BTW the Cameroon Tribune is the state newspaper and the main government mouthpiece.

 

[frenchbreadbuilds]

When the going gets hard, run as far as you can while pointing your finger at as many people as you can.

to be served by people he doesn’t find dignified enough to allow to come to America and do the same work smh. Funny coming from a man with the last name Cruz.

 

[IATT]

 

[dmbrhs]

I can't speak to how often it snows in Texarkana (or any other part of Texas), but having lived in Seattle my entire life, I don't really consider snow plows to be a "basic public service". There are only 35 plows for a city of over 700,000 people, and they mostly just clear freeways and emergency routes. Thanks to a major storm in 2008, it was only in the last decade that they started clearing a handful of major surface streets (mostly downtown, where nobody lives). They do salt a lot of roads, but even that wasn't a thing until recently. Growing up, if it snowed, you were just stuck at home unless you had AWD.

 

[blastercombo]

Covid 19 is jealous of the success 6 inches of snow had.

 

[Brownstone]

Who cares, that's what they get for living in Texas

 

[Sharpshoeter13]

 

[blastercombo]

Yeah no. They’re all businesses

 

[Rootin4EverybodyBlack]

Who cares, that's what they get for living in Texas

How come almost everything you post is a direct contradiction of your screen name?

 

[gry60]

"Cold weather is a coastal, liberal, educated elite conspiracy to destroy the way of life of Texans"

 

[freeze]

Bye Rush Limbaugh you POS

 

[blastercombo]

Whats Limbaugh’s cancers favorite band?

 

[Sharpshoeter13]

And to think wifey and I were considering a move to Texas in the future...

Few inches of snow and frigid temperatures really BROKE Texas like that because their government can’t provide snowplows and instead focused on shaming renewable energy like it’s some voodoo? Damn.

 

[biggie62]

You got a state that probably can supply most of its state with solar power not taking advantage of it snd not pushing it. And now they are in complete failure. You love to see it.

 

[blastercombo]

You’d think smart people will see now that the energy providers literally can’t handle the needs of everyone and add on alternate methods of power.......



Question is


























will Texans risk the windmills turning them gay?

 

[IATT]

 

[Rootin4EverybodyBlack]

I can’t really make jokes about Texans suffering because I know the incompetent leadership that is in place which allowed this to happen is only there due to decades of voter suppression of Black and Latino communities.

However, I will say this is absolutely white folks fault...again.

 

[IATT]

 

[IATT]