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HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

lets see how low it can go

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BitcoinRockefeller
May 11, 2003

God gave me my money.

Hair Elf

HallelujahLee posted:

lets see how low it can go

Turns out saying Biden canceled student loans over and over didn't convince the people who's bills started back up.

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

BitcoinRockefeller posted:

Turns out saying Biden canceled student loans over and over didn't convince the people who's bills started back up.

looking forward to the post tik-tok ban ones

Abner Assington
Mar 13, 2005

For I am a sinner in the hands of an angry god. Bloody Mary, full of vodka, blessed are you among cocktails. Pray for me now, at the hour of my death, which I hope is soon.

Amen.

Nichael posted:

well done joe

we did it joe

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle
lol Biden being that far behind trump with people under 35 is hilarious since young voters typically prefer democrats by like +20%

Coolness Averted
Feb 20, 2007

oh don't worry, I can't smell asparagus piss, it's in my DNA

GO HOGG WILD!
🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗
actually young people don't vote so it's not a big deal they all hate biden
the party throwing all of its weight behind the corpse president surely won't have any lasting repercussions on future elections

papersack
Jul 27, 2003

Lustful Man Hugs posted:

Do they not realize that Trump leading by two points is a disaster?

Biden always looks like the sun is shining his eyes but we all know he's sun downing.

SixteenShells
Sep 30, 2021
the majority of tiktok users are 30 or older, it's not all teens there

ClassActionFursuit
Mar 15, 2006

To me what's wild is just the open contempt for the people they in theory represent, be it Tik Tok users or people opposed to genocide. You'd have to have a humiliation fetish to support these people. The craziest part to me is that the more marginalized the group, the more open they are about making GBS threads on them and the more fervently that group clings to them.

I think it was this thread that had the story of the Maryland state legislator telling a trans person on Twitter that no, we're not going to vote on a bill that guarantees your human rights because despite having an 80% majority in both houses and the governor's mansion we don't want to be seen actively supporting you. I think about that story often because it tells you everything you need to know about the democrats.

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021

Platystemon posted:

How do you do, fellow kids?



you are supposed to take the analyses of people like this seriously btw. Turning into hysterical blubber every four years.

Megamissen
Jul 19, 2022

any post can be a kannapost
if you want it to be

ex post facho posted:

this is the original image, way more contemptuous



pakistan only being on the R track lol

F_Shit_Fitzgerald
Feb 2, 2017



ClassActionFursuit posted:

To me what's wild is just the open contempt for the people they in theory represent, be it Tik Tok users or people opposed to genocide. You'd have to have a humiliation fetish to support these people. The craziest part to me is that the more marginalized the group, the more open they are about making GBS threads on them and the more fervently that group clings to them.

I think it was this thread that had the story of the Maryland state legislator telling a trans person on Twitter that no, we're not going to vote on a bill that guarantees your human rights because despite having an 80% majority in both houses and the governor's mansion we don't want to be seen actively supporting you. I think about that story often because it tells you everything you need to know about the democrats.

The contempt is the comfort they feel because they think that these marginalized people have no choice and will come crawling to vote for their asses. I hope they're wrong, and they may be this time.

Ruzihm
Aug 11, 2010

Group up and push mid, proletariat!


If someone ever says to you "its a trolley problem dumbass, just make the choice that does the least immediate harm", you are obligated to inform them that they actively have the choice right now to kill themselves or a random stranger and donate their heart, lungs, kidneys, liver to save the lives of around 7 people.

People seem to really like the simplicity of the trolley problem but then forget that it's only part of a philosophical argument which criticizes act utilitarianism.

v oh that's interesting, thank you for sharing

Ruzihm has issued a correction as of 15:43 on Mar 14, 2024

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
The "original" trolley problem began by positing the idea of a judge framing an innocent person to assuage an angry mob, thus preventing further bloodshed. This had to give way to the trolley problem as we know it because the original scenario is too intimate and politically fraught.

Liberals love the idea of pulling a switch to kill a stranger somewhere else and feeling good about it, it's called voting.

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

Ruzihm posted:

If someone ever says to you "its a trolley problem dumbass, just make the choice that does the least immediate harm", you are obligated to inform them that they actively have the choice right now to kill themselves or a random stranger and donate their heart, lungs, kidneys, liver to save the lives of around 7 people.

People seem to really like the simplicity of the trolley problem but then forget that it's only part of a philosophical argument which criticizes act utilitarianism.

yeah it's very funny that the original meme is implicitly stating "look, just sacrifice Palestine, ok?"

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
I think I'm going to give myself a mental break from thinking that I have to have a counterargument to "Arab Americans should vote for the guy killing their families because the other candidate will kill them more enthusiastically." I have enough faith in ordinary human beings to trust that this "logic" is repugnant without me meditating in the 36th chamber coming up with rhetorical counters.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

SixteenShells posted:

the majority of tiktok users are 30 or older, it's not all teens there

Yeah people are overlooking the extremely large bored middle aged white lady Tik Tok demographic.

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
the period of time when a social media app is hip and only young people are using it is going to continue to get shorter and shorter as everyone becomes connected to the internet 24/7. it's a force of nature. young people come in, make something seem cool, old people want to be cool and come in too, young people go look for something new. it's like the tides.

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Thoguh posted:

Yeah people are overlooking the extremely large bored middle aged white lady Tik Tok demographic.

I like the extremely large bored middle age white lady who comments on people making terrible food

Ruzihm
Aug 11, 2010

Group up and push mid, proletariat!


based goes in, mid comes out, you can't explain that

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

the period of time when a social media app is hip and only young people are using it is going to continue to get shorter and shorter as everyone becomes connected to the internet 24/7. it's a force of nature. young people come in, make something seem cool, old people want to be cool and come in too, young people go look for something new. it's like the tides.

I suspect people actually stick with the app they used as teens. They just get older and then the new teens are the ones launching a new social media that's now the cool app.

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

PostNouveau posted:

I suspect people actually stick with the app they used as teens. They just get older and then the new teens are the ones launching a new social media that's now the cool app.

yes that is why I said "young people" in general, because as people age, they are no longer considered young

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

yes that is why I said "young people" in general, because as people age, they are no longer considered young

Hogwash.

OH MY BAD
Feb 5, 2024

by Pragmatica

Ruzihm posted:

based goes in, mid comes out, you can't explain that

adorno predicted this

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


ClassActionFursuit posted:

To me what's wild is just the open contempt for the people they in theory represent, be it Tik Tok users or people opposed to genocide. You'd have to have a humiliation fetish to support these people. The craziest part to me is that the more marginalized the group, the more open they are about making GBS threads on them and the more fervently that group clings to them.

I think it was this thread that had the story of the Maryland state legislator telling a trans person on Twitter that no, we're not going to vote on a bill that guarantees your human rights because despite having an 80% majority in both houses and the governor's mansion we don't want to be seen actively supporting you. I think about that story often because it tells you everything you need to know about the democrats.

You'd have to have a Hamilton fetish to support these people.

ex post facho
Oct 25, 2007
gently caress off

never vote for a Democrat again

https://twitter.com/comrade_sweezy/status/1767987391761879205

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005
i hope a whole generation of american's first political memory is the democrats taking away tiktok (inshallah)

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005
a winner.


a winner.

Parakeet vs. Phone
Nov 6, 2009

Delta-Wye posted:

i hope a whole generation of american's first political memory is the democrats taking away tiktok (inshallah)

This is way too embarrassing to admit, but a part of my awful libertarian turn for the first year or so of college (I got better once I started talking to actual libertarians and learning poo poo) was probably at least partially influenced by the Democrats/Hillary going so hard against video games. I really bought into anger at the "nanny state." Going to be interesting if that ends up taking root. Hopefully it'll be funny.

F_Shit_Fitzgerald
Feb 2, 2017



ex post facho posted:

never vote for a Democrat again

Wasn't planning to.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

PostNouveau posted:

I suspect people actually stick with the app they used as teens. They just get older and then the new teens are the ones launching a new social media that's now the cool app.

Yeah, we got used to people moving on from social media only because platforms keep on self-destructing regularly.

Parakeet vs. Phone posted:

This is way too embarrassing to admit, but a part of my awful libertarian turn for the first year or so of college (I got better once I started talking to actual libertarians and learning poo poo) was probably at least partially influenced by the Democrats/Hillary going so hard against video games. I really bought into anger at the "nanny state." Going to be interesting if that ends up taking root. Hopefully it'll be funny.

I've said before that the Dems really got hurt by the Tipper Gore alliance, and in hindsight it really showed their priorities.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

papersack posted:

I haven't heard a peep from the Blue Texas! crowd this cycle. They know there's not a chance in hell.

There’s one place with enough idiots to sustain that narrative.

Imgur.

https://imgur.com/gallery/bLb8tUO posted:

Texas is barely a red state anymore. Vote.org !!



#Politics #BlueTexas in 2024

Texas is far more a purple state than anyone wants to admit. TEXAS CAN BE BLUE!

TeenageArchipelago
Jul 23, 2013


Ghost Leviathan posted:

Yeah, we got used to people moving on from social media only because platforms keep on self-destructing regularly.

I've said before that the Dems really got hurt by the Tipper Gore alliance, and in hindsight it really showed their priorities.

We still do occasionally get platforms self destructing, but it's mostly sites that areat least 50% porn banning porn

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

TeenageArchipelago posted:

We still do occasionally get platforms self destructing, but it's mostly sites that areat least 50% porn banning porn

I never said it stopped.

ProperGanderPusher
Jan 13, 2012




Delta-Wye posted:

i hope a whole generation of american's first political memory is the democrats taking away tiktok (inshallah)

There’s more than a few X’ers who’s first memory is Tipper Gore and Joe Lieberman trying to take away their vidya games and heavy metal, and that generation has voted accordingly.

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



yeah but the dems probably made up for it by winning over all of the culture war evangelicals right???

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!

Delta-Wye posted:

a winner.

a winner.
So she's closing in on the Dianne Feinstein stage of just not knowing where she is, right?

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

Tiktok is a cesspit, so the Dems managed to do one good thing this admin.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

super sweet best pal posted:

Tiktok is a cesspit, so the Dems managed to do one good thing this admin.

no op i dont think its good to ban the only app allowing actual anti-genocide discourse especially since its being done precisely for awful reasons

and since the law allows them to ban any app they dislike

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Uncle Boogeyman
Jul 22, 2007

super sweet best pal posted:

Tiktok is a cesspit, so the Dems managed to do one good thing this admin.

you'll notice they didn't ban twitter or facebook both of which are unmistakably worse lol

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