US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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The Secret Sauce powiedział(a):
One of the most radicalizing moments of my life was the first time I heard a YouTuber use the euphemism "unalive" where they meant to say "kill". The realization that the Internet was now FAR more sanitized and censored than mainstream family-friendly shows aired on national television inflicted catastrophic psychic damage that I will likely never recover from.
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The number of times I have been forced to listen to "sewerslide" and "corn" in reference to suicide and porn has to have caused some sort of long-term mental damage.
 
It's always so blackpilling to face the reality that the old Internet we all grew up no longer exists.... I hate the inevitable passage of time and the enshittification that follows

We went from fully uncensored COD MW lobbies to not being able to say "suicide" or "killed"
 
Chuckwagon powiedział(a):
The DC police union supports Trump's federalization, pretty much says that the supposed statistical drop in crime is bullshit (as anyone with eyes can already readily observe, for years on end). (Archive)
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I mean, if I was being cynical I would say ‘of course the police union who loves the idea of more power and more importantly money will support the President’s efforts to give them that power and money’.

Also Kash Patel was blitzed apparently I wonder what Elon and Pete got him hooked on
 
JosephStalin powiedział(a):
Was surprised to hear of the upcoming summit.

Tells me Putin is having major problems, doubt he would meet if everything were going hunky-dory. Am sure President Trump also guaranteed safety from the International Criminal Court. Putin is on their wanted list but we don't accept ICC jurisdiction.

Should be a very interesting meeting should it actually happen. Don't count out Zelensky showing up. Anything can happen.
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The timing of this summit and the recent Russian advances and Trump putting pressure on nations trading with Russia is hard to ignore.

Many will ignore it though.

Russia is still able to make gains in Ukraine but other countries are likely getting tired of this perpetual thorn in the side of global politics.
 
SaidNoOneEver powiedział(a):
That's not censorship so much as a demand from the advertisers who keep Youtube's lights on. I'm pretty sure these language rules only apply if you want to be monetized. Say whatever you want just don't expect a payment.
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corporations like yt/google have proven time and time again that they do not only respond to financial incentives (advertisers complaining) but also to political pressure (activists bitching at them) and, worst of all, that they themselves are infiltrated by activists who try to steer company policy to advance their political agenda and enforce their ideology.
remember that LFJ worked at google for quite some time.
remember what they did to james damore.
with that in mind, the idea that their 'content moderation' practices are purely the result of rational financial self interest is ridiculous.
 
Dragged Into Sunlight powiedział(a):
So fucking annoying seeing all my liberal friends calling the Big Balls attack a Reichstag Fire.

We have hundreds of videos of groups of black people jumping people. It's not some rare, unbelievable event.
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"attacked" by local youths recruited from the DC public school young republicans clubs.
 
Rimanah powiedział(a):
Her premise may be correct, but her conclusion certainly isn’t. If the problem is “American medical education is fucked,” the solution is “let’s unfuck it” not “let’s import millions of pajeets.” At most, the latter is a stopgap solution to fulfill demand while America implements the former.

But frankly, I strongly suspect that she’d be advocating for this even if American medical education was perfect.
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If someone agreed with her premise, but said, "'Let's import European (or any other nationality for that matter) doctors," she'd find a reason to scream about it. Deal with enough bullshit and it becomes obvious when someone is arguing from conclusions. If some person does happen to be a more recent immigrant than my own family or any other American that's nothing against them, but there is an expectation for them to put their new country first. If they are incapable of that, they can fuck right off. Why should any of us entertain the notions of someone who doesn't have our interests in mind?
 
Dragged Into Sunlight powiedział(a):
It's not some rare, unbelievable event.
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Look at it disassociated from Trump/MAGA/personal bias.

Do you think Governments use crises to manufacture consent to increase their power? Would your trust in what happened be the same if it involved someone ideologically opposed being victimized leading to federal action?
 
moocow powiedział(a):
Marriage is a personal covenant between two people and their preferred deity, sealed by an officiant of that religion under blessed/sanctified conditions (usually in/on a holy place, like a church or other sacred ground), ideally before friends and loved ones. It's not a transaction. Reducing it to that degrades and demeans the significance and sanctity of it.
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You don't need a marriage license issued by the state to do any of that. If you wish for the spouse to have the legal rights of a spouse however you need that piece of paper. I don't care which sky ghost you believe in I care about legal rights and basic contract law. Your sky ghost is irrelevant to that.

DumbDude43 powiedział(a):
with that in mind, the idea that their 'content moderation' practices are purely the result of rational financial self interest is ridiculous.
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Then let the market sort that out. Vote with your feet to Rumble or Bitchute. You would have a point if Youtube were a monopoly but they are not.
 
JosephStalin powiedział(a):
Was surprised to hear of the upcoming summit.

Tells me Putin is having major problems, doubt he would meet if everything were going hunky-dory. Am sure President Trump also guaranteed safety from the International Criminal Court. Putin is on their wanted list but we don't accept ICC jurisdiction.

Should be a very interesting meeting should it actually happen. Don't count out Zelensky showing up. Anything can happen.
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This is unfortunately (for the US) the opposite of what's actually happening. Putin is winning in Ukraine to a degree that not even the US can deny at this point, which means that this talk is going to boil down to one thing - has Trump got the deep state under control, or do they have control over him? Trump wants to end the war and gain some victories, the deep state wants the war to continue (for a variety of reasons). So far Trump's lost every single time his views have come into conflict with the deep state (remember his comments about how you'd have to be a stupid incompetent moron to ever attack Iran?), which means this talk is probably going to be a complete waste of time as America tells Russia to stop winning and give Ukraine/the US a bunch of time to recover and get their defences back in order for when the conflict starts again. The US doesn't have any more stick - India just told Trump to fuck off when he tried to make them take the anti-Russia sanctions seriously, and there isn't any more support the US can provide Ukraine without joining the war themselves (which ends in either a US loss or nuclear war). And while it might not be that visible from inside the US, the international community pays attention when the US does things like use negotiations or diplomatic meetings as a trick to cover up offensive military strikes - so there's absolutely zero credibility on the US front and the Russians are going to treat any promises or assurances as completely worthless.

My bet on the outcome of this meeting is that the US' demands are completely unacceptable to the Russians and so Russia will just continue to win on the battlefield until the US is forced to accept an even worse deal than the one the Russians were offering last year - or are offering now.
 
SaidNoOneEver powiedział(a):
Should Youtube be forced to allow porn? Their business, their rules. There are plenty of alternatives that have looser standards, like DLive for instance. But DLive doesn't have anywhere near the users or reach you say! Could there be a reason for that, like those looser standards?
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There's quite a fucking difference between uttering the word "kill" and showing a 10-man gangbang, don't you think? But yes, I would much prefer full-blown porn be allowed on the site than hear one more faggot dance around words which were spoken in my 3rd grade classroom with no repercussions.
That's beside the point you responded to, though. You told me that YouTube allows people to "say whatever you want, just don't expect payment". That's wrong. It's incorrect. False, untrue, bullshit, and erroneous. It is a highly restricted platform where you can be banned for any number of milquetoast remarks. Seems like you're trying to run away from your deranged bootlicking rather than just admitting that you were wrong or lying.
 
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Fishmalk Observer powiedział(a):
You can't fault them, can you imagine having to touch indians constantly ? Now those indian doctor fellas have to touch SICK indians. That without even going into the mutants the Gange produces. I'd fuckoff real fucking quick too
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India has tons of "doctor." Just get more Jeets to buy the paperwork. Oh, you mean credible doctors? They have those. They treat many patients by blowing holy smoke up their asses and they have many ancient texts that reveal what various animals piss is good for treating.

We don't need Hindu doctors in the Western world.

Go back home Indians, we'll take your property as the door hits your asses on thr way out!
 
Rick's Beef Wellington powiedział(a):
They were, it was called Domestic Partnerships. They were the same as marriage legally but the gays didn't want that because they're obsessed with Christianity and debasing it, same reason they took the rainbow as a symbol. They're antagonistic and when you give them what they want they say "no, not like that, you also have to ruin that thing that's important to you."

"Marriage is just a contract" is a sad worldview and the base cause of a lot of societal decline.
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Civil unions and domestic partnerships don't count because they're fucking worthless as far as easily ignored in a court of law with even a down syndrome water head baby arguing that they should be ignored.
 
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