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***Official Political Discussion Thread***
- Thread in 'General' Thread starter Started by rico x hood,
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Yeah that has nothing to do with tolerance. What a weird point he was trying to make.
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His maga hats and trump bibles are made in China
Somehow someway those grifts will be exempt for obvious reasons.
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This is probably why those GOP folks were telling 45 that Gaetz is cooked...
He belongs in prison, not anywhere near the head of the DOJ
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Slide 6 lmfao
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It was as funny as “horny jail” for a vile sexual predatorRelax it's a joke.
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I didn’t miss the sarcasm, I just find you wholly unfunny.
we all miss sarcasm on the internet dude, its okay.
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definitely using the royal “we” here
elpablo21
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I love yall for still believing something is going to happen to these republican wackos. If you're white and one of them, nothing happens. The black freaky nudeafrica dude in North Carolina got canned, but people have been saying for years Gaetz is gonna get got. Just like Trump. And yet, nothing ever happens. They always get away.
It's just a blatant, in your face, bright shining unmistakable two systems of justice going on. I mean we've all seen the Chappelle skit, but I don't think any of us thought it would extend to literal child abuse.
It has.
It's just a blatant, in your face, bright shining unmistakable two systems of justice going on. I mean we've all seen the Chappelle skit, but I don't think any of us thought it would extend to literal child abuse.
It has.
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I got that guy on ignore because at some point I stopped caring what they said. But regardless that is a whole lot of tricking.DON'T YOU DARE LAUGH. THIS IS VILE. get himtrappedintime !
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FYI he’s not a member of Congress. Can’t kick him out when he left. And with people like Stroke Victim Fetterman saying they’ll vote for him I highly doubt he’s disqualified either.
Air Champa
formerly champa
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Lots of Biden judges being confirmed before he leaves is a small victory I'll take.
The new ethics czar is going to be mighty busy, assuming nothing happens to him.
The new ethics czar is going to be mighty busy, assuming nothing happens to him.
Its funny cause I'm sure you think this is some big gotcha, facts dont care about your feelings moment when in reality it almost perfectly captures the point that so many people have been trying to make.
Its obvious you dont actually work with or use data in any meaningful way other than trying to use it to win internet debates because you'd understand that outside of very small, controlled environments, "hard" data isnt THE answer you seem to think it is. What it actually is is a piece of the much larger puzzle and a useful tool to try and help understand whats going on. To try and distill something as large, complex, and multifaceted as US politics and the American experience into "hard" data is laughable.
And its not anecdotal evidence when everyone is telling you the same exact thing. All these demographics you love to talk about, the working class, college educated whites, MAGAs, conservatives, liberals, leftists, latino males, etc. These are the people we talk to, work with, we see how they act at the store, we talk sports and politics with them, our kids play together, etc. We interact with and live with all the stuff you love to talk about and everyone is telling you what its really like and how complex it is and all you can say is "nah nah you're wrong, look at the data"
You remind me of the new age basketball stat nerds. The guys that love to talk about someone like Kobe and endlessly point to his efficiency ratings or usage numbers to try and prove that he wasnt as good as people think meanwhile the people that actually watched him, played against him, and coached him all agree on his standing.
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osh kosh bosh
On the subject of the Democratic Party and trans people,
I don’t think you’re a transphobe. I think our disagree stems from very different estimations of two things:
1.) The number of swing voters that exist, who would swing from red to blue if Democrats simply decided to say that they are against trans women in women’s sports.
2.) How effectively Democrats can distance themselves from woke culture, at least in the eyes of voters who view EVERYTHING from Hollywood, HR departments, artists, academics, lesbian grocery co-opts, land acknowledgments, any woman with a nose ring, white guys with dreadlocks, coffee houses that play “the revolution will not be televised,” libraries that do pride month, vegan food pop ups, young women at a marketing agency in Australia making a goofy video, etc. through the lens of US partisan politics.
My contention is that group 1 exists but is very small and statistically insignificant as far as deciding elections go. The second group are a large plurality but not the majority, thank goodness.
The data that I’ve seen thus far, hasn’t indicated that there’s a decisive bloc who’d have given Harris the requisite votes to win if she had been more forceful in disagreeing with trans women playing girl’s sports or in disagreeing with other activists or causes.
There’s more data to come and perhaps your contention will be proven true. But thus far, I’m not seeing it. What I’ve seen from the data, thus far, has been Trump being able to turn out his base and Democratic turnout, for a variety of reasons, faltering, at least on the top of the ballot.
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Read the room. That should have been a DM.
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I have critiques of Friedman and his pencil video.
1.) Walmart and Amazon have shown that with enough computing power, central planning is very possible and can be more efficient than markets.
2.) Chile was pioneering this type of super computing in back in the 1970’s. The left wing government that developed those computers was overthrown by a right-wing coup. The rightists destroyed the computer. Some of Friedman’s former students were part of that coup.
3.) All of these far flung market activities are undergirded by governments providing infrastructure, property rights, legal dispute services, and sufficient regulatory power to make insurance and complex financial markets possible. Without insurance and financial markets, this type of global commerce, especially global commerce done at scale, would be impossible.
However, Friedman would at least understand that if making pencils affordable takes this much global coordination, colonizing Mars would involve far more. It would also involve having a live and let live social and political attitude, something that Musk fails to understand.
