Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Imagine if Obama called the White House "a dump"

Kale posted:

I still firmly believe that the /pol/ and R/The_Donald thing is just a bunch of bandwagon teenagers who may not even all be of majority to vote anyway blowing off steam about the whole PC thing they seem upset about from having to go to school or University and listen to all the time and thinking their part of some counterculture movement that's pushing back against it with Donald Trump as their champion. They don't seem to understand the policy of it or how it ACTUALLY affect them, they just see it as "libtards" they hate from school getting "BTFO" and I never attributed the movement much steam. Without anything to actually rally around anymore and with teenagers being fickle in their interests they'd move onto something else stupid to shitpost about within a year or two regardless.

There's nothing to shitpost right now, nobody is getting "BTFO" besides Trump himself at this rate. The post election boom in his anti-PC rhetoric (which is what these teens latched onto, not the policy itself they can't even begin to comprehend, the fact it was so anti-PC and establishment which any idiot could be aware of) seemingly being validated is long over now that he's getting stymied at seemingly ever turn and his actual popularity polling among the real population that matters is abysmal.

It's possible that they might have all just collectively looked up from their shitposting finally to see that Trump just got his rear end handed to him all last week and arguably all last month and that he isn't talking about getting those "SJW's" and immigrants out of the country so much anymore. What's all this talk about Healthcare, a Russian investigation that keeps expanding, tax reform and a transgender ban that might have gotten them going again because it pisses off the "SJW's" but got ignored by the Joint Chiefs of Staff because twitter isn't part of the real chain of command? They don't get it anymore and that lovely thing called reality eventually has to sink in a bit when there's clearly no "winning"....like in the slightest.

That said I think the hardcore MAGA people are for real. That 25-35% of the adult GOP base people talked about and that's the scary thing, not the dumbass teens on 4chan and reddit, the Breitbarters and Fox News consuming types.

Montasque posted:

Let me introduce you to... /pol/ moms...

Koalas March posted:

This is a good post. I agree.

Anyway, I apologize to everyone if I am communicating my thoughts/ideas/opinions inefficiently. I just started a new medication and it's making me quite scatterbrained and therefore ineloquent! I am trying my best.

Ague Proof posted:

Seen Bush Sr lately?

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/892497170754097152

Spaced God posted:

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/892538640789901312

Mantis42 posted:

Jesus this discussion is making me remember that Trump gets to eulogize a lot of American figures in the next 4 years.

boner confessor posted:

ahh another beautiful morning. better make some coffee and breakfast before work

*turns on coffee maker, firmware updates block usage for ten minutes*

*turns on toaster, display reads "u have been punked by -=cYbEr_g03Th_69=-"*

Mantis42 posted:

Jesus this discussion is making me remember that Trump gets to eulogize a lot of American figures in the next 4 years.

Koalas March posted:

Prester Jane posted:

/pol/ is no longer exclusively the realm of angsty teenagers, its social cache is starting to grow far beyond that.

Giggy posted:

I hate reddit and never visit /pol/. Are the views there as abhorrent as the donald? What's the ideological slant?

JeffersonClay posted:

FYI Jimmy Carter was a trash president that was to the right of Bill Clinton on pretty much every issue save foreign policy. Let him build houses.

Fitzy Fitz posted:

Is this guy trolling or is he really this stupid?

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

/pol/ compares unfavorably to Stormfront.

EDIT: Like, seriously, the biggest difference between 4chan and Stormfront is that on 4chan they let you say 'friend of the family'.
/pol/ is absolutely the worst of the 'mainstream' Trumpstaffel bastions. Some of it, yes, is edgy teenagers being edgy teenagers, but a lot of it isn't. And as the last few years and this election, sociology, and TT have shown us - you can only pretend to be a Nazi for so long before you actually start to be a Nazi.

Giggy posted:

That's disappointing but not a surprise. To be fair, wasn't D&D once a conservative bastion but shifted? Maybe, one day, it could happen there (I doubt it).

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

/pol/ compares unfavorably to Stormfront.

EDIT: Like, seriously, the biggest difference between 4chan and Stormfront is that on 4chan they let you say 'friend of the family'.
/pol/ is absolutely the worst of the 'mainstream' Trumpstaffel bastions. Some of it, yes, is edgy teenagers being edgy teenagers, but a lot of it isn't. And as the last few years and this election, sociology, and TT have shown us - you can only pretend to be a Nazi for so long before you actually start to be a Nazi.

Giggy posted:

That's disappointing but not a surprise. To be fair, wasn't D&D once a conservative bastion but shifted? Maybe, one day, it could happen there (I doubt it).

skylined! posted:

he's earned every loving minute

AbsolutelySane posted:

I don't think you can equate the North Korean army with the Iraqi Army circa ~2000, though. They are a much more professional and disciplined force than the Iraqis, many of whom took off when the shooting started. Iraq was/is a very different place with a lot more tribal division than the DPRK. They'll fight a lot harder if invaded.

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

What's really fun/soul-crushing is that I understand 8chan was created/populated by pedophiles and racists so odious not even 4chan could tolerate them. And that masterchan is to 8chan what 8chan is to 4chan. And, of course, the fact that 4chan was basically a cancerous outgrowth of this site.

It's dens of creepy pedos and monstrous racists all the way down.

Giggy posted:

That's disappointing but not a surprise. To be fair, wasn't D&D once a conservative bastion but shifted? Maybe, one day, it could happen there (I doubt it).

Pakled posted:

I don't think D&D has ever really been a conservative bastion, but from what old-timers say, this place had more of a typical internet libertarian bent until the McCain toxx thread in 2008 wiped them all out and cleared the way for all the leftists.

There Bias Two posted:

So what does that make us? I'm sure there's more than a little overlap between what remains of SA and 4chan.

Koalas March posted:

The SA forums has never been perfect w/r/t race, but we've always had less out and proud neonazis. Although there are a few subs were some people slip by with "ironic" racism, but that was a lot bigger problem in the past. We have a bigger problem with dogwhistles and stereotypes atm imo.

That said, if you want to see how racist this forum could be check out the Trayvon Martin or Mike Brown threads in the archives.

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

What's really fun/soul-crushing is that I understand 8chan was created/populated by pedophiles and racists so odious not even 4chan could tolerate them. And that masterchan is to 8chan what 8chan is to 4chan. And, of course, the fact that 4chan was basically a cancerous outgrowth of this site.

It's dens of creepy pedos and monstrous racists all the way down.

Classtoise posted:

The sad part is /pol/ is a lot like /b/; they pretended to be the bottom of the barrel garbage bags of human beings as a joke to get laughs at pretending to be so miserable and stupid.

Then the REAL nazis showed up, nodded at their posts, and the people joking think they've found friends who ironically post stupid loving memes and the Nazis think they're surrounded by like minded individuals.

It's like the blind leading the blind, only instead of blind it's loving idiots.

Hollismason posted:

Jimmy Carter purposefully went into a nuclear reactor that was melting down, then later in life because that wasn't enough he became the most powerful man in the world, then he said gently caress all that and built houses for the poor, then in his 90s he beat brain cancer.


Don't talk bad about Jimmy Carter when the best thing you've probably done in your life is remembering to wipe your rear end 50% of the time when you take a poo poo.

TheGreasyStrangler posted:

It's not possible to call somebody a good person without having a guy barge in, push his glasses up his nose, and say "WELL AKSHULLLY...."

Hollismason posted:

How charismatic is Duval? I know that's bizarre but I think Democrats need someone who's going to be charismatic and really get out the vote.

vaginite posted:

We would automatically win a war with NK. The problem with the Vietnam war is that we never actually attacked the government or its territory in North Vietnam. We tried to win a body count war in the south, which we inevitably soured on. If we went in and destroyed the government and infrastructure that enabled the VC we would have won it easily. We refrained from doing that out of fear of provoking the USSR.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

I suspect I know the answer, but does Deval Patrick have any progressive positions or is he bog standard Democrat?