Quote (Goomshill @ Apr 7 2022 10:35am)

When your side owns the college faculty, the internet forum moderators, the social media board of directors, the DNS operators, the hardware-locked app distribution, its easy to see how you could get locked into thinking you can keep escalating the strangehold up and up and cancel anyone and everyone. Then reality washes in and we find out that America doesn't run Mexico, Israel, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Japan, Turkey, etc. And we even lose our grip on our EU allies as they suckle on Russian gas and pull their punches. So sure, we get to ban a teenage piano virtuoso from performing in Canada for his egregious sin of being born in Russia. But inflation runs wild and I can't buy eggs, and we can't cancel that.

I was noting in another thread how all these crises are coming down simultaneously and parallel, some with shared root causes like covid, others brought on by that mismanagement. That worst case scenario that was so unthinkable might be right around the corner because each crisis we pile on accelerates all the others

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Apr 7 2022 01:20am)

The zero self awareness crew strikes again

Quote (Nibthebarb @ Apr 7 2022 03:54am)

Speaking of, I genuinely hope you know why you're so despised.

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Apr 7 2022 04:04am)

People hate the truth :)

Quote (Goomshill @ Apr 7 2022 12:10pm)

That's why they elected the man who said when you're rich and famous women will let you grab them by the pussy instead of the woman who ran under sniper fire in bosnia with a cloth or something

Quote (Goomshill @ Apr 7 2022 03:10am)

That's why they elected the man who said when you're rich and famous women will let you grab them by the pussy instead of the woman who ran under sniper fire in bosnia with a cloth or something

Quote (Goomshill @ Apr 7 2022 01:56am)

This level of international bribery scandal and personal sex scandal is far beyond anything normal mainstream politicians have. We "expect" to find out politicians have had their palms greased by some oil company with campaign donations in a quid pro quo, or that they're sleeping with an intern. We don't expect to find out they're funneling millions in bribes from corrupt Chinese and Russian businessmen and state operatives. We don't expect them to cover up child sex abuse or their family to be cavorting with crackwhore prostitutes in public. We certainly don't expect to find out the intersection of their scandals is profiteering off a conflict zone and having a direct negative impact on a major war and humanitarian disaster unfolding in front of us.

Normal meat and potatoes politicians try to cover up that they're spending $500 on a haircut and avoid appearing in a photo op with any named Mohammed. They don't get involved in the formative stages of wars that kill tens or hundreds of thousands of people while greasing their own pockets with millions in pilfered foreign bribe money. The reason our state senator had to resign from office is because he hover-handed over a sleeping woman's boobs in a joke photograph. Not because he bathed in the blood of children slaughtered in some shithole for his own selfish benefit

Quote (Mondain @ Apr 7 2022 02:26pm)

if oll joe boy can't raise his own kid, how will he raise the country.

Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ Apr 6 2022 11:35pm)

You guys are fundamentally misunderstanding this issue.

Biden's corruption is normal corruption. It's shit we expect from the system, and that for any Republican policitian it is actively defended by the exact people who are now criticizing it.

This isn't something you can point to and the average American says "Oh god that's terrible". You point at it and they say "Yeah, that's how it always works. This is standard" We know it's bad, everybody knows its bad, but the alternative is the exact same kind of bad, and often worse. So it doesn't really do much when you keep harping about Biden's son's business deals.

You'd be better off ignoring the laptop stuff because it's not out of the ordinary. The only people who really care are the ones desparately trying to score points because wealthy parents getting their kids off of drug crimes, helping their kids score business deals for personal benefit, etc. etc. is just bog standard at this point.