American Politics XII: We Can Do Bad All By Ourselves

[Prima Scriptura]

10 year term limit?

keep it as is, throw the republicans out

Yeah, that is hard when you have a country as polarized our country is, and the fact that we hate each other. Republicans are here to stay

[American Legionaries]

Even if true, so?

not only am i not the cookware, your shitty authoritarian party's doing what i literally said it has done

"Your shitty authoritarian party" Says the guy advocating murder and totalitarian rule.

You'd be funny, if only you could tone down the irony a tad.

[Umeria]

keep it as is, throw the republicans out

Yeah, that is hard when you have a country as polarized our country is, and the fact that we hate each other. Republicans are here to stay

The country is only "polarized" on inconsqeuential culture war issues that the powerful have conditioned us to believe are important. On the issues that matter the overwhelming majority of Americans agree. We also don't hate each other, we translate our instinctual hatred of the elite into hatred of an abstract supporter of what we believe to be that elite.

That being said, simply throwing the conservative justices out of the court is impossible for other reasons.

[American Legionaries]

Yeah, that is hard when you have a country as polarized our country is, and the fact that we hate each other. Republicans are here to stay

The country is only "polarized" on inconsqeuential culture war issues that the powerful have conditioned us to believe are important. On the issues that matter the overwhelming majority of Americans agree. We also don't hate each other, we translate our instinctual hatred of the elite into hatred of an abstract supporter of what we believe to be that elite.

That being said, simply throwing the conservative justices out of the court is impossible for other reasons.

I would consider prison or death to be somewhat consequential.

[Moscareinas]

not only am i not the cookware, your shitty authoritarian party's doing what i literally said it has done

"Your shitty authoritarian party" Says the guy advocating murder and totalitarian rule.

You'd be funny, if only you could tone down the irony a tad.

you guys put trump in power
you guys did everything you could to fuck the us and the world up
you guys sozzled up to fucking authoritarians
you guys thwarted measures to get on top of this pandemic
you guys attempted a fucking insurrection just to ensure trump stays in power
you guys killed a million people (so far!) and kept this pandemic alive (so far!)
you guys persecute gays, burn books, want women pregnant or else, chase out migrants, and favor authoritarian invasions

and i'm the villain? the pot? the entire bloody cookware? THE AUTHORITARIAN? ME??? WHEN YOU MOTHERFUCKERS KEEP DRIVING NAILS INTO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY JUST SO YOU CAN MISRULE???

THE FUCK??????

[Shrillland]

Before the Mods come after you for that, might I suggest calming down a bit?

Edit: I wasn't saying I'd send the Mods after you or anything, I just don't want to see posters removed if possible.

[American Legionaries]

"Your shitty authoritarian party" Says the guy advocating murder and totalitarian rule.

You'd be funny, if only you could tone down the irony a tad.

you guys put trump in power
you guys did everything you could to fuck the us and the world up
you guys sozzled up to fucking authoritarians
you guys thwarted measures to get on top of this pandemic
you guys attempted a fucking insurrection just to ensure trump stays in power
you guys killed a million people (so far!) and kept this pandemic alive (so far!)
you guys persecute gays, burn books, want women pregnant or else, chase out migrants, and favor authoritarian invasions

and i'm the villain? the pot? the entire bloody cookware? THE AUTHORITARIAN? ME??? WHEN YOU MOTHERFUCKERS KEEP DRIVING NAILS INTO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY JUST SO YOU CAN MISRULE???

THE FUCK??????

I wouldn't say you're the villain, you're more like the hype man who sings the echo in Gaston's song.

[Necroghastia]

not only am i not the cookware, your shitty authoritarian party's doing what i literally said it has done

"Your shitty authoritarian party" Says the guy advocating murder and totalitarian rule.

You'd be funny, if only you could tone down the irony a tad.

lol literally where

[Prima Scriptura]

Yeah, that is hard when you have a country as polarized our country is, and the fact that we hate each other. Republicans are here to stay

The country is only "polarized" on inconsqeuential culture war issues that the powerful have conditioned us to believe are important. On the issues that matter the overwhelming majority of Americans agree. We also don't hate each other, we translate our instinctual hatred of the elite into hatred of an abstract supporter of what we believe to be that elite.

That being said, simply throwing the conservative justices out of the court is impossible for other reasons.

Those cultural issues are important to many Americans, including myself

[Ors Might]

"Your shitty authoritarian party" Says the guy advocating murder and totalitarian rule.

You'd be funny, if only you could tone down the irony a tad.

you guys put trump in power
you guys did everything you could to fuck the us and the world up
you guys sozzled up to fucking authoritarians
you guys thwarted measures to get on top of this pandemic
you guys attempted a fucking insurrection just to ensure trump stays in power
you guys killed a million people (so far!) and kept this pandemic alive (so far!)
you guys persecute gays, burn books, want women pregnant or else, chase out migrants, and favor authoritarian invasions

and i'm the villain? the pot? the entire bloody cookware? THE AUTHORITARIAN? ME??? WHEN YOU MOTHERFUCKERS KEEP DRIVING NAILS INTO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY JUST SO YOU CAN MISRULE???

THE FUCK??????

Maybe you should take a step away from this site for a moment and collect yourself. It isn't good to be stressing yourself like this.

[Umeria]

The country is only "polarized" on inconsqeuential culture war issues that the powerful have conditioned us to believe are important. On the issues that matter the overwhelming majority of Americans agree. We also don't hate each other, we translate our instinctual hatred of the elite into hatred of an abstract supporter of what we believe to be that elite.

That being said, simply throwing the conservative justices out of the court is impossible for other reasons.

I would consider prison or death to be somewhat consequential.

The overwhelming majority of Americans support ending the drug war & the mass imprisoment it causes. Not the case with the death penalty however support for it has been going down.

Those cultural issues are important to many Americans, including myself

But that doesn't imply polarization or hatred, just an artificial partisanship resulting from those cultural issues despite the fact that on most other issues people agree.

[Moscareinas]

you guys put trump in power
you guys did everything you could to fuck the us and the world up
you guys sozzled up to fucking authoritarians
you guys thwarted measures to get on top of this pandemic
you guys attempted a fucking insurrection just to ensure trump stays in power
you guys killed a million people (so far!) and kept this pandemic alive (so far!)
you guys persecute gays, burn books, want women pregnant or else, chase out migrants, and favor authoritarian invasions

and i'm the villain? the pot? the entire bloody cookware? THE AUTHORITARIAN? ME??? WHEN YOU MOTHERFUCKERS KEEP DRIVING NAILS INTO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY JUST SO YOU CAN MISRULE???

THE FUCK??????

Maybe you should take a step away from this site for a moment and collect yourself. It isn't good to be stressing yourself like this.

much good it would do me to step away, or step outside and touch grass, or whatever

this world is awash with authoritarians and it is vastly all the worse for it

[Cannot think of a name]

"Your shitty authoritarian party" Says the guy advocating murder and totalitarian rule.

You'd be funny, if only you could tone down the irony a tad.

you guys put trump in power
you guys did everything you could to fuck the us and the world up
you guys sozzled up to fucking authoritarians
you guys thwarted measures to get on top of this pandemic
you guys attempted a fucking insurrection just to ensure trump stays in power
you guys killed a million people (so far!) and kept this pandemic alive (so far!)
you guys persecute gays, burn books, want women pregnant or else, chase out migrants, and favor authoritarian invasions

Dude, no one takes his shit seriously, his one liners and obtuse arguments are designed to evoke this then they fan themselves to get over the vapors. No need to catch a warning over it.

[Umeria]

you guys put trump in power
you guys did everything you could to fuck the us and the world up

Both of these are also true for the Democrats.

[Ors Might]

Maybe you should take a step away from this site for a moment and collect yourself. It isn't good to be stressing yourself like this.

much good it would do me to step away, or step outside and touch grass, or whatever

this world is awash with authoritarians and it is vastly all the worse for it

No sense in catching a warning over what's essentially an ideological dispute, yeah? People with disagreeable opinions will still be around to debate and argue with when you're calm and collected, friend.

[Antipatros]

Fed's Mester: Need "several months" of inflation moving down to call the peak

Context: The yoy consumer price growth change was 8.3% in April, down from 8.5% in March. Mester (President of the Cleveland Fed) wants to see that continue to decrease before the Fed concludes that inflation is peaking.

I'm somewhat skeptical that inflation has peaked myself. Inflation is being driven strongly by supply-side factors and I don't see those going away any time soon.

[American Legionaries]

I would consider prison or death to be somewhat consequential.

The overwhelming majority of Americans support ending the drug war & the mass imprisoment it causes. Not the case with the death penalty however support for it has been going down.

Those cultural issues are important to many Americans, including myself

But that doesn't imply polarization or hatred, just an artificial partisanship resulting from those cultural issues despite the fact that on most other issues people agree.

The overwhelming majority of Americans may support ending the drug war, but that's not happening, nor is it an effective end to these cultural conflicts if it did.

[Prima Scriptura]

The overwhelming majority of Americans support ending the drug war & the mass imprisoment it causes. Not the case with the death penalty however support for it has been going down.


But that doesn't imply polarization or hatred, just an artificial partisanship resulting from those cultural issues despite the fact that on most other issues people agree.

The overwhelming majority of Americans may support ending the drug war, but that's not happening, nor is it an effective end to these cultural conflicts if it did.

It would save law enforcement time and money to stop arresting people for simple possession. I’m along order to have a guy but I want police to go after people that commit crimes that involve a victim

[San Lumen]

https://thehill.com/news/state-watch/34 ... us-search/

Delaware university to file civil rights complaint over lacrosse team’s bus search

[Umeria]

The overwhelming majority of Americans support ending the drug war & the mass imprisoment it causes. Not the case with the death penalty however support for it has been going down.

The overwhelming majority of Americans may support ending the drug war, but that's not happening, nor is it an effective end to these cultural conflicts if it did.

True on both counts unfortunately. I wish the government was effective and uncorrupted enough to actually take care of these things.

[Prima Scriptura]

The overwhelming majority of Americans may support ending the drug war, but that's not happening, nor is it an effective end to these cultural conflicts if it did.

True on both counts unfortunately. I wish the government was effective and uncorrupted enough to actually take care of these things.

That requires electing pragmatists. Unfortunately, not enough Americans don’t care or view pragmatism as being weak. That feeling is on both the left and the right.

[Sordhau]

you guys put trump in power
you guys did everything you could to fuck the us and the world up
you guys sozzled up to fucking authoritarians
you guys [...] and favor authoritarian invasions

Tbqh the Dems share partial blame for the first and have done the other three themselves so...

[Umeria]

True on both counts unfortunately. I wish the government was effective and uncorrupted enough to actually take care of these things.

That requires electing pragmatists. Unfortunately, not enough Americans don’t care or view pragmatism as being weak. That feeling is on both the left and the right.

There is also a very big difference between a politican who says they're pragmatic and one who is actually pragmatic.

[American Legionaries]

True on both counts unfortunately. I wish the government was effective and uncorrupted enough to actually take care of these things.

That requires electing pragmatists. Unfortunately, not enough Americans don’t care or view pragmatism as being weak. That feeling is on both the left and the right.

Pragmatic actions aren't mutually exclusive to idealist beliefs.

[Prima Scriptura]

That requires electing pragmatists. Unfortunately, not enough Americans don’t care or view pragmatism as being weak. That feeling is on both the left and the right.

Pragmatic actions aren't mutually exclusive to idealist beliefs.

I respectfully but strongly disagree. Chasing the ideal can cause more harm than good. We Americans have to realize that we can’t get 100% of what we want a 100% of the time. We are a liberal democracy, we are going to have different viewpoints on what the ideal society is.