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  1. Not saying Trump isn't making appeals to violence and all, but those blood bath comments do appear to be to hyperbolic and metaphorical language about China vs the US in the auto market. Not clear if the "no more elections" is about China or something domestic, and I'm sure there is a dogwhistle element to it, but at least read the entire article LR linked.
  2. I'm gonna apologize in advance for even sharing this and cursing you all for being exposed to it, but the prime number talk has put it in my mind all afternoon. This involves a guy trying to use prime numbers get beg for sex. *Apparently this became an important point that was argued about by the entire barroom after several of the women the guy had attempted to seduce began chatting about the way the math would work out.
  3. Well, yes. I suppose there's more of a case to be made for the aspects of it that Liff mentioned, but I'm not convinced that my designation of something as brainrot is sufficient for it to be banned, particularly when it's the only thing of its kind targeted. The security concerns are a separate conversation and concern, but yes, the brainrot aspect of this conversation absolutely has Satanic panic, Tipper Gore coming for you vibes.
  4. Yeah, that's awful. Nothing that horrific, but my little brother is 17 and it's been a nightmare trying to get him to unlearn a bunch of the shit pouring out of the right wing toxic masculinity Andrew Tate aligned crowd that he's come across through gaming and gaming discord. I'd be negligent if I didn't point out though, that it's tiktok that's being targeted by the ban. Not any of the apps or services mentioned in the linked Wapo piece.
  5. I think tiktok rots brains, and I know the Dems are never going to do anything but scorn the under 30 vote, but fucking hell, if Biden is equivocating on let's just say, a very lopsided violent conflict because he doesn't want to lose votes, why the fuck are they coming after tiktok in an election year? Edit: and by that "they" in the last sentence, I mean any Dems or part of the administration that thinks a bill banning tiktok would be something Biden should sign.
  6. Thank you for saying the quiet part out loud that the pundit class never wants to talk about.
  7. How do we do the second part? Congress can't get 60 senate votes for anything other than beefing up the Pentagon. Were probably never going to have another constitutional amendment. What's the actual plan? Getting rid of first past the post might help. How does that realistically happen?
  8. This is all true. Im interested in hearing, after the election I guess, how we are going to ever have an election that's any different? Because what seems like it's going to happen is, best case scenario, the Dems get the presidency and both houses (lol) and spend 8 months making very minor tweaks to one or two of the many escalating problems. They'll slow the growth of increasing medical costs, but not actually be able to reduce them. Or they'll get some kind of temporary tax cut for people who have 2 or more kids, make $48-49k a year or less than $6 or more than $390000, but its only good for two years and you have to reapply every 4 months. They'll try to make a national law legalizing abortion but it's going to fail because we really need The New Joe Manchin Punching Bag to get elected next time around They're going to talk about wanting to do more, but there's going to be some obstacles, a Parliamentarian or the Exchequer of Doom or the Whitehouse Sewer Gorgon or some such shit, and all the establishment Dem legislators are going to wring their hands and get real emotional about how they just wish the people in charge could do something. And then in two years one of the houses is going to flip and nothing's going to happen except giving the Pentagon more money than they ask for and a new campaign. And then someone is going to say "damn, I wish we could get out of this cycle." And they're going to be told to shut up until after the next election, and that they're entitled and they should be grateful for what they have, or that if they abstain from voting or vote [third] party they are effectively cannibalizing orphans. Yes, this is a dramatic and hyperbolic description. But let's be honest, the Dems and their biggest supporters have absolutely no fucking clue on how to fix this shit cycle*. It's a race to the bottom, and we're going to be having this same conversation every single time. Edit:* in fact they have an active interest in not fixing it.
  9. That actually depends quite a bit on where you vote.
  10. Huh. I wonder what the hivemind here would think about that. What does it mean to be a pro Israel Dem voter,? Im pro Israel in that I support their right to exist. If you want to take that cynical view, do your really think that Dem voters who are more pro Israel are going to vote for the guy who has no problem criminalizing abortion, putting the Bible in schools, etc? As far as saying "genocide", my bad if I missed some directive from the mods? I'm happy to keep the conversation within whatever boundaries are set.
  11. Have Schumer introduce a bill to make all material support to Israel contingent on a ceasefire, or have Biden invite Tlaib and Bowman etc I to the WH to address concerns. Use the Minnesota and Michigan primary "uncommitteds" as evidence that Biden needs to move on this or risk losing votes. Has he done this behind the scenes? Maybe, but I doubt it. There's a lot of room between the status quo and actually cutting aid. I'm not seeing much attempt to explore it. Edit: if the issue actually comes down to a cynical "what costs the most votes" and it's a coin toss, why not err on the side of not supporting genocide?
  12. Yeah, I think it was probably the most efficient way to get some of Paul's interiority into the film, always an issue with adaptations where the source material is so weighted with a main character's internal thoughts.
  13. Support for Israel is popular, so is support for a ceasefire.
  14. I'm gonna go ahead and say there isn't any responsibility on you there, but agree to disagree I suppose.
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