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

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quaawaa powiedział(a):
94% of the top 100 highest-fertility counties voted for Trump:
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The lowest-fertility counties mostly voted for Harris:
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Correlation graph:
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Remember, the future belongs to those who show up for it.
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The vast majority of these counties are demographically White (excluding Rockland and Ocean counties where the population growth is only among Jews but considered white)
 
quaawaa powiedział(a):
94% of the top 100 highest-fertility counties voted for Trump:
Wyświetl załącznik 9195648
Wyświetl załącznik 9195652
Source (Archive)

The lowest-fertility counties mostly voted for Harris:
Wyświetl załącznik 9195649
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Source (Archive)

Correlation graph:
Wyświetl załącznik 9195662
Wyświetl załącznik 9195655
Source (Archive)

Remember, the future belongs to those who show up for it.
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The American White Fertility Rate is 1.54 or something but it doesn't tell the whole story. Red Whites have more kids and the main leftist recruitment tool, public schools are seen as gay and retarded by the ones having kids now.
 
Diana Moon Glampers powiedział(a):
Sorry I'm coming into all of this very late but you're calling that a hanging offense or whatever and fine, sure, is that what you think should have happened all the times liberals and/or Puerto Ricans did worse in the Capitol?
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I personally think all of this is very silly and wishing for the state to do anything to kill people is akin to bootlickery of the highest order. I'm just throwing someone's argument back at them there.

Like it's a fucking pool. I think there's more important things to worry about. Like starting a war without congress' approval (bipartisan past-time) or spending my tax money on shit like a new pool or a new ballroom or a new whatever. Also a bipartisan past-time
 
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Trump tells Europe that they'll be slapped with a 100% tariff if they try to extort money from American tech companies:
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This needs to apply to the British and all their speech laws. That is the reason the Euros are attempting any of this. Ofcom has been mostly unsuccessful in their extortion attempts, but they have been getting some concessions, notably hardware level restrictions set by the manufacturers.
 
Exegesis powiedział(a):
The odds are that Mamdani is gonna back down on this issue. Either that or he's gonna get hit with the fucking book in court.
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He has no ability or jurisdiction to stop ICE/CBP from rolling in and snatching illegals and sending them home. Any time a politician does this, they're just trying to score brownie points with their base.
 
mango_reseller powiedział(a):
I personally think all of this is very silly and wishing for the state to do anything to kill people is akin to bootlickery of the highest order. I'm just throwing someone's argument back at them there.

Like it's a fucking pool. I think there's more important things to worry about. Like starting a war without congress' approval (bipartisan past-time) or spending my tax money on shit like a new pool or a new ballroom or a new whatever. Also a bipartisan past-time
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So, how was the boomer ICE protest you attended? Make some new friends?
 
quaawaa powiedział(a):
Trump tells Europe that they'll be slapped with a 100% tariff if they try to extort money from American tech companies:
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I think the tariff retaliation is pretty ineffective overall but calling out this racket that the EU is getting increasingly comfortable with is warranted. The EU keeps pretending that they fine US companies for not adhering to their increasingly absurd bureaucracy and that this is about protecting EU users but it's all a show to collect billions of dollars in revenue that they can use to their own end. It was clever to disguise this as user protection early on but even some euros are realizing that this doesn't work as the EU has backed off of GDPR protections.

The EU and its usual members see rich US companies and think, "I want a cut." That's all it is. Without major changes, the EU will never be a tech powerhouse, they're realizing this quickly and don't know how to fix it. This month, the EU has decided it will use the Qwant French search engine as its default search engine in the office but there's nothing stopping the workers from using Google otherwise and Qwant is not known for being good, so of course this does nothing but make the EU run even less efficiently.
 
MetokurGroomedMe powiedział(a):
While I agree we should do more, minimum wage increases have been tried and tried and tried. Minimum wage increases simply increase the cost of goods by the same amount, usually making people end up paying MORE for things in the long run, and also it has serious knock-on effects for inflation. A realistic solution to me seems more like controlling the active cost of living through other means before you just 'give people more money' which landlords and grocery stores and every other company will just increase prices to compensate for, now that they KNOW people have more money.
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Day late for this but as someone who's also from PA I always feel weird about the min wage argument because NOBODY (other than people who work for tips) makes mininum wage in PA. Even the lowest level service workers make 12-15$ an hour.

The only person I know who does is my 16 year old cousin who delivers pizzas for a summer job, and thats because he gets tips! If he chose Mcdonalds or Sheetz instead he'd be getting 14$.

I feel like the only thing that would happen is those lower level workers would demand their wages be increased to compensate. My friends who are low level wagies basically use this argument for why they want it increased. (If Min wage is 12$ and not 7.25$ they have to raise my 13$ an hour pay!!!)

I dunno if this is maybe more of an issue in Western PA then East, but mostly the insane taxation and price hiking from companies is the problem around here and not the actual pay.
 
Aidan powiedział(a):
I think the tariff retaliation is pretty ineffective overall but calling out this racket that the EU is getting increasingly comfortable with is warranted. The EU keeps pretending that they fine US companies for not adhering to their increasingly absurd bureaucracy and that this is about protecting EU users but it's all a show to collect billions of dollars in revenue that they can use to their own end. It was clever to disguise this as user protection early on but even some euros are realizing that this doesn't work as the EU has backed off of GDPR protections.

The EU and its usual members see rich US companies and think, "I want a cut." That's all it is. Without major changes, the EU will never be a tech powerhouse, they're realizing this quickly and don't know how to fix it. This month, the EU has decided it will use the Qwant French search engine as its default search engine in the office but there's nothing stopping the workers from using Google otherwise and Qwant is not known for being good, so of course this does nothing but make the EU run even less efficiently.
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Need to remove the Marxist-Islamist governments of Europe.
 
Sammich powiedział(a):
Alex has been kicking the shit out of foreign ops for a week or so.
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I didn't talk about this because it's ultimately Twitter drama but the amount of bitching is insane.

Amit Segal, one of the top political consultants in israel put it plainly.

Without mincing words, top Israeli righwing journalist @amit_segal tells @dansenor on Call Me Back:

The best thing for Israelis to do is to "Shut the f**k up.
That's the best option for the Israelis.
Stop attacking Trump.
Stop attacking Vance.
Let the negotiations fail."
 
Mister Fister powiedział(a):
So, how was the boomer ICE protest you attended?
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Nice strawman, but since you mention ICE specifically, maybe you should be worried that the databases to log everyone protesting ICE can (and will) be used in the future to log anyone the communist democrats don't like either and label them domestic terrorists.

But I'm sure you believed that "this is all irrelevant because they would do it anyways", at which point I really just say I disagree and it will sadden me when you are blackbagged. I will say "if only he had been against this from the start" and weep a solitary tear.
 
mango_reseller powiedział(a):
Nice strawman, but since you mention ICE specifically, maybe you should be worried that the databases to log everyone protesting ICE can (and will) be used in the future to log anyone the communist democrats don't like either and label them domestic terrorists.

But I'm sure you believed that "this is all irrelevant because they would do it anyways", at which point I really just say I disagree and it will sadden me when you are blackbagged. I will say "if only he had been against this from the start" and weep a solitary tear.
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I completely agree, we should shit our pants and never do anything ever out of fear it might happen to us (it already was and is).
 
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