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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | Mount St. USD is about to Blow Up

« on: October 14, 2021, 03:28:42 PM »

George Washington for president 2024

we already have a zombie president.

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Drama / Re: Is nicepoint master Mathew?

« on: October 12, 2021, 12:15:40 PM »

You caught my psy-op

Oops, forgot to quote this. lol.

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Off Topic / Re: best forum user

« on: October 12, 2021, 12:14:19 PM »

You already know who it is.

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | Mount St. USD is about to Blow Up

« on: October 12, 2021, 12:12:23 PM »

If only people had taken George Washington's advice against forming political parties way back in the late 1700s... Still the only president and likely the only president to never have been affiliated with a political party.

agreed

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Off Topic / Re: is it propaganda that is forcing me to hate china?

« on: October 12, 2021, 12:11:55 PM »

a lot of the state department propaganda topics around china are extremely cringe, it also emboldens a whole forgetton of xenophobia around asia as a whole

Examples showing it's xenophobia, but also, federal propaganda always is stuff tbh.

the chinese government has done a lot of bad things but some of the bad things they do are directly comparable to what western countries already do, which is why listening to washington post say that china is the new Riddler for befriending the taliban (in their mutual best interest) is just dumb and has no nuance. theres this extreme circlejerk online of mistranslated articles and "china bad" and it just heavily reminds me of cold war propaganda and the iraq war propaganda.

Yes, they're not the new Riddler for befriending the taliban. They're the new Riddler for having racially and religiously defined discrimination, as well as
literal concentration camps. Not to mention the deliberate manipulation of their currency to keep their wage slaves in place.

Certainly the west is guilty of enabling this bs, and even mirroring it. But it's controlled and caused by the same corporate interests that have allowed this to go
as far as it has in china. In fact, because of our insistence on deregulating our trade policies and degrading everything down to the dollar, we are enabling this bullstuff.

I've tried time and time again to convince people not to buy things made in china, but they always tell me one of three things:

1. If everyone else isn't going to do it, why should I?

2. The government should be fixing this.

3. I can't afford to do that.

1 is the mind trap we convince use to convince ourselves not to give up comfort. 2 is bullstuff, the government is causing this, they won't "fix it".
3. I'm sorry to hear that, but it's because of this system you can't afford anything but cheap made in china trash.

that being said, simping for xi going "i promise guys i promise ill make a communist utopia once we make a totalitarian enough state guys i promise" is also extremely cringe. you are very right to say that china is a hyper capitalist oligarchy

Those who push hard on Capitalism and those who push hard on Communism don't really hate eachother. They need eachother.
America once held a balance of values that would now be considered "hypocritical", and would seem to be somone trying to be both
Communist and Capitalist. When in reality, Untethered Capitalism and Full Swing Communism are basically the same outcome, with different steps.

Despite what any Capitalist/Communist says. America is NOT a capitalist country at it's core. It's a Democratic Republic. We're in a dangerous
Position because we keep begging for a silver bullet from the government to kill the evil bad things. But that's so childish, stupid and ignorant it
hurts. But people are desperate. They want things fixed, and they want it fixed yesterday. But that's just not realistic.

Nevertheless, someone comes along offering such a silver bullet, but it's almost certainly a scam. "Just remove all the Regulations"/"Just give
us the ability to redistribute the wealth" because it will "fix" everything.

Things are too broken for one simple idea to solve the problem. However, the first step on the road to healing is to excise all the establishment
and spineless politicians in every election. Incumbents must go.  Then we will eventually start seeing negotiable politicians.

Then, the best option is probably to redesign the electoral process, as first past the post is primitive and broken. Thankfully that can be done
on a state by state basis. The electoral college is going to need some reworking, like a ton. We have a floor limit for electoral votes per state, but
we almost certainly need a ceiling limit as well. The electoral vote is for the presidency, the president is supposed to represent the culmination of all
cultures in the US, not the 51 vs 49% majority. We see ourselves as a single nation, which technically we are. But we're more like a union of nations.
Hence the "united states". Congress is supposed to represent the raw majority, and the senate is supposed to be a mix of the two.

But if we were to have ranked choice electoral college voting for the presidency, we'd have to account for all votes nationwide, and it would certainly get messy.
Very messy.

its always good to do your own research and to directly talk to people in other countries when it comes to researching anything foreign policy-related. do not blindly trust anything the government says because thats how we got the post-911 hysteria about muslims and the war on terror. and im not talking about like right-wing billionaire-backed defectors or propagandists (like how steve bannon loves to pay random chinese people to "speak out" against the CCP by just making stuff up), just talk to real life people you trust.

Drugs, 9/11, Covid-19.

These all started from a reasonable perspective. And then they talked us out of more and more of our rights.

We can't carry large sums of cash legally anymore. We can't travel through airports without having our person
completely violated. And we can not even live our lives like we used to because of a reasonable issue.

"it's only temporary" is the biggest lie a government tells people.
Post 9/11 security measures weren't supposed to last. But here they are.

It was only supposed to be 15 days to slow the spread. And then it was only until we had a vaccine.

It's only more of your rights. And by the time it's popular to talk about how they stole your rights away, the next
right grabbing situation will be labelled "conspiratorial" and insane through association.

People who were talking about the issues regarding people's rights after 9/11 were commonly associated with 9/11 truthers.
Discredited for being crazy. But the Patriot act is still here. The goverment was spying on us, and likely still is.

It's why after the election, when I saw Qanon bs pop up clear out of nowhere, I knew something was up.

Genuine concerns get doused with the gasoline of Unrealistic Conspiracy theories, and they become discredited by association.

This happens to any position that is considered dangerous by the powers that be. It's an easy and basic tactic using modern strategies.

Divide and Conquer.


Mask and Vaccine mandates are commonly associated now with Anti-Vaxxers and Covid Deniers. When the concern is not in the Mask or the Vaccine, but the slippery slope of decreed mandates. But normal people will nolonger dare to publicly state their opinion, because they're afraid of being labelled a nut.

Being anti-war and against invading the middle east was associated with 9/11 truthers and terrorist sympathizers. The concern was wasting money in another hopeless war, all the while people's rights became slowly removed.

Remember when you could get on a plane without insane privacy invasion? Remember when you could go to public events without needing transparent bags, backpacks, purses, etc.

Soon it will be "Remember when you could go outside without 2 masks, a vaxx app and a constant fear of someone arbitrarily denying you entry, or worse?"

As it has become in Australia.

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Off Topic / Re: Hi yeah this is a message for my doordash driver

« on: October 10, 2021, 03:47:28 PM »

He's dashing past your door.

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | Mount St. USD is about to Blow Up

« on: October 08, 2021, 10:59:07 AM »

Mount St. USD is about to Blow Up and it's gonna be a fine swell day.

Song for Reference.

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Off Topic / Re: news bidens butts been wiped

« on: October 05, 2021, 01:55:19 PM »

he is clearly saying brainstorm

i agree

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Off Topic / Re: news bidens butts been wiped

« on: October 05, 2021, 11:52:26 AM »

I legit thought this was just a stuffpost.

The forget is happening.

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | US Archives mark Constitution as "Harmful"

« on: October 04, 2021, 05:42:10 AM »

An unfortunate thing is that voting third party is going to, at least temporarily, give all political power to the republican party, which in it's current state would immediately trash the institutions to make sure that no other party would ever gain sufficient relevance to challenge them.

The first past the post system forces a country to have a two party system. While the D'Hondt method has it's problems, it could be a better solution.

The first past the post system is ancient. It's certainly not the best option out there. But its what we have now. And the only way to change it is to vote through it. And neither of thenmain 2 political parties will vote against a system that favors them. But this post holds something interesting. Red areas are as afraid of turning blue as blue areas are of turning red. 

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | US Archives mark Constitution as "Harmful"

« on: October 03, 2021, 12:51:24 PM »

Populist right doesn't want to limit the power of corporations, the only things they seem to care about are culture war issues and conspiracy theories like Qanon, the big lie and antivaxx bullstuff.

The populist sides could have things in common if the right didn't abandon every stance they have on economics the moment Tucker Carlson says that the BLM wants to make white people feel guilty for their ancestors actions. And then they proceed to vote for republicans who ban any mentions of slavery and civil rights from school curriculum in hopes of banning "critical race theory".

The unfortunate thing is that the right doesn't care about big corporations and their policies in principle, only if it affects them negatively. (Not saying the left doesn't do this at all, but much less.)

No, that's exactly what I'm saying. The republicans frame that as populist right. But it's establishment right and blind normies that believe that stuff.

The hardline populists on left and right are increasingly being alienated by their respective parties. I've witnessed this firsthand from both sides as I've been on both sides.

It's easy to give into your fears and play into the establishment bullstuff, far too easy. Cultural Issues are the key to that. This is the wedge the establishment uses to keep us divided, and I know to most this is a "no duh" sentence for many, but the main takeaway is that it may seem obvious. But it's all too easy to fall for it if you're not extremely vigilant.

The Establishment and those who live in fear are the biggest issues we face right now.

The Establishment can not be reasoned with. Those who live in fear can be reasoned with, but it's so difficult to do so, most get frustrated and
take a quick and easy path. Those who do that, also play into the establishment's hands.

It's a long game, slow and full of frustrating moments. But giving into fear is easy, giving into anger is easy, and those who feel alienated are an easy target for those who offer a group to be a part of. And those alienated, become part of this growing issue.

The populist right has tried, time and again, to put people in office who would limit corporations like Amazon, Facebook, Google, Wal-mart, Comcast, and other major corporate titans that are increasingly killing local stores throughout rural America. But time, and time again. Republicans call them socialists and rinos. Then they use their overwhelming corporate resources to put a controllable politician in place or force them to become controllable.

The populist left has tried time and again to put people in office who would start dealing with big pharma, taxing the proper people effectively. But time after time, Democrats call them bigots, tribals, and fascists. They use their overwhelming corporate resources to put a controllable politician in office, or to force them to become controllable.


We as voters, take what we can get, and try to vote down the ladder until we start having reasonable people in office. I saw that with Annoying Orange. But Annoying Orange became yet another establishment tool. Biden was an establishment tool throughout the primaries.

I know nearly every american agrees they hate their own political party and the opposition party because they feel as though they're more or less the same party.

But the overwhelming fear that is at the root of our current issue. Is the fear of the other.

Vote independent locally, and stop focusing on the federal. Once we see a growth of independent politicians taking over local offices, it will grow.

But too many want to have a silver bullet situation where President Nobody of the independent party suddenly gets 538 electoral votes and blows out both major parties. That's just never going to happen right now. People need to feel secure in voting outside of their own parties. Otherwise they will vote in fear out of a "lesser of two evils."

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | US Archives mark Constitution as "Harmful"

« on: October 03, 2021, 09:44:12 AM »

When people wake up and realize "we're actually national socialist germany now" it'll be way too late.
The only way to stop an authoritarian takeover is to stop it early.

It's not too late to stand up now. I understand, for many it would be crossing party lines.
But after what happened in NYC it should be obvious that the Establishment doesn't care
about right or left. The only reason they sided with the Left is because the Left empowered
them. It was in the hope they could alter the establishment and make it more like them.
However, time and again, the left became the establishment when given any political office.
As it had happened time and again when those on the right had done the same.

This is divide and conquer. The Populist Left and Right have so much in common, yet the
establishment uses what we disagree on to divide us. I recognize we have genuine disagreements.
But there is a time when those disagreements need to be put aside, and that time is now.

To those on the Left that see the right as evil, are you aware the Populist Right hates corporations as much as you?
To those on the Right, are you aware that the Populist Left wants to even the playing field between corporations
and locally owned businesses? And to you both, are you aware the establishment on each other's side are
Intentionally using the opposite's worst fears to make you ignore that.
Democrats tell the Right, they're socialist and these are socialist policies.
Republicans tell the Left, they're nationalist, and these are nationalist policies.
When in reality they are neither.

When the Right says they want to restrict major corporations, the Republicans claim to be nationalist and Democrats say's they're fascists.
When the Left says they want to even the playing field, the Democrats say they're socialists and Republicans say they're communists.

They're using fear of the other to keep us from pushing truly effective policies from either side.

Then behind our backs, they slowly rip away our rights, as they have ever since 9/11 and no doubt before that.

If we do not stand together today, we will be subjugated together tomorrow.

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Off Topic / Re: United States Politics Thread | Joe Biden's Awakening [Not News]

« on: September 23, 2021, 03:23:08 PM »

ill stop obsessing over it when someone actually examines the leak and explains its contents to me in a way that isn't passive aggressive

besides, idk how yall aren't obsessing over it. its been a wild ride. you could be calling the house majority leaders personal cellphone literally right now if you wanted to. i did and he called me back but it forgeted me up to see him do that so i didnt pick up

The reality is, this will nolonger change or effect the election.

The media deliberately covered this up, but it's too late to make people aware for the presidential election.

Please, refocus on preparing for 2022. This helps no one. 

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Off Topic / Re: [NEWS] : BAD BATCH OF KETCHUP LINKED TO A NUMBER OF DEATHS IN FLORIDA

« on: September 22, 2021, 10:05:47 PM »

Y'all have your ketchup with or without ice?

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Off Topic / Re: What Actually Happens If Soldier Disobeys an Order?

« on: September 22, 2021, 10:02:57 PM »

Then

Teams have been autobalanced.