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RadiRoot
Feb 3, 2007

das hipster posted:

This is elder abuse

not enough

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Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/RepRoKhanna/status/1780640652633440597

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000



Ultra Carp

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:

through a wacky mix-up they are each given the other's chemical stack before debate, leading to a Biden whose flesh is visibly falling off the bone attempting to debate a Trump whose eyeballs have both exploded

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000



Ultra Carp

Assuming they havent already I think they should make bernie's corpse into a chuck-e-cheese style animatronic so he can keep supporting democrats forever

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

Gripweed posted:

There's been guys getting signatures to put RFK on the ballot at my local Target for a few days now

He turned down the offer to join the libertarian ticket but I guess he's already made the ballot in a handful of states anyway.

I'm sure a ton of dem shadow pacs will be funding ballot challenges to dump him, though--and a few of them will succeed, but (bizarrely) he's the main threat to the 2 other guys, and could end up throwing the election to the House.

I want to see democrats storming the capitol next january to claim the presidency for biden in order to save democracy.

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

actually, with winner-take-all for the electoral college I guess rfk can't throw the election to the house, bc I can't see him winning any state.

still fun to think about libs storming the capitol, tho.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
i don't think social media posts can storm a physical location

sullat
Jan 9, 2012

Yeah my kids get free lunch from an expanded Department of Agriculture program. It used to be that you had to apply for it but now (thanks Trump) if the overall income level at your school is low enough everyone there gets free lunch and breakfast.

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005


a subsequent tweet said the cops were getting to use lrad, a tool I'm sure they're gearing up to use in chicago during the convention.

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

comedyblissoption posted:

can someone exlpain the olds realignment to me it hurts my brain :psyduck:

it's inexplicable but it's real

Scarabrae
Oct 7, 2002

das hipster posted:

This is elder abuse

I’ll allow it

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

comedyblissoption posted:

can someone exlpain the olds realignment to me it hurts my brain :psyduck:

younger people are identifying more with donald trump, the younger candidate

Scarabrae
Oct 7, 2002

I know I’m saying gently caress it lets just burn it down already

PhilippAchtel
May 31, 2011

Shageletic posted:

I'm of the mind that "Genocide Joe" is just a convenient way to peel away voters.

Do you see any candidate who would have committed US troops to lie-down to protect hospitals or stop Israeli bulldozers?

Do you see this current conflict in any way but inevitable given the politics of the region over the last 20 years?

There is no protest vote. There are people looking to peel away voters using very specific language and framing, and there are the people who follow that Pied Piper song, never thinking beyond the end of their noses.

https://twitter.com/Claud9_/status/1721913837169877088

PhilippAchtel
May 31, 2011

Lock him up!

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
drat, she wants to arrest every single member of congress? i wish to subscribe to her newsletter.

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

i don't think social media posts can storm a physical location

imagine :champ: & hoarse whisperer & brooklyn dad & jo from jerz & PIG NEWS & crazy-eyes canadian lady & victor shi & the rest of them busting the doors & putting their feet up on mike johnson's desk. :allears:

PhilippAchtel
May 31, 2011

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

drat, she wants to arrest every single member of congress? i wish to subscribe to her newsletter.

Sorry, newsletters are a SAlt thing. PSL only has guns.

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

la riva made the IL ballot in 2020 so I'm hoping de la cruz is on it this year.

if not, I'll vote stein.

Lpzie
Nov 20, 2006

im voting Trump

das hipster
Mar 7, 2005


Scarabrae posted:

I’ll allow it

Oh, I assure I meant that as a positive statement. Not so much "Oh no this is elder abuse" but rather "hell yes, this is elder abuse!"

das hipster
Mar 7, 2005


Qoute is not edit, but Biden is a crypt ghoul

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000



Ultra Carp

Willa Rogers posted:

a subsequent tweet said the cops were getting to use lrad, a tool I'm sure they're gearing up to use in chicago during the convention.

:krad:

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


Joementum posted:

i mean, this is just sensible military strategic advice :hmmyes:

https://x.com/me_observer_/status/1780758214985830526?s=46

he sounds so god drat awful.

what sucks is they just give him the super drugs when he has to do extended live appearances, so we don't even get to see the president poo poo himself.

Nichael has issued a correction as of 07:54 on Apr 18, 2024

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:

through a wacky mix-up they are each given the other's chemical stack before debate, leading to a Biden whose flesh is visibly falling off the bone attempting to debate a Trump whose eyeballs have both exploded

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
they have long had access to highly advanced diapers that allow these doddering wastes to publicly poo poo themselves with no one the wiser. gerontocracy has its perks.

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


Lpzie posted:

im voting Trump

ah i see you're voting for the socialist party

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


is the imgur front page more reddit than reddit?

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000



Ultra Carp
The libs finally did it. They read* another book

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


Vim Fuego posted:

The libs finally did it. They read* another book

they didn't read it

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000



Ultra Carp
*watched the tv show of

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


Vim Fuego posted:

*watched the tv show of

they watched a meme of it

Lin-Manuel Turtle
Jul 12, 2023

[HAMILTON]
Eliza…


I’ve never felt so—






My life is gon’ be fine cuz Eliza’s in it.

[ELIZA]
I do I do I do I do!


I do I do I do I do!

PoontifexMacksimus
Feb 14, 2012

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

This loving pollyanna, "best we can know" thing is something I've picked up on when dragooned into policy conferences, and it seems to be to be an outgrowth of Rawl's "veil of ignorance", am I on the right track?

Whenever a liberal I disagree with can't pull rank on me, or make claims to rationality, fait accompli, or whatever bullshit is just an expression of hegemony, they defend their position with "who can say?". That's particularly loving galling when you're talking about government policy, and you're supposed to know, which means you're supposed to investigate cause and effect, rather than just saying "You know, some people thing this is good. Some people think this is bad. Both are valid. Namaste."

That loving smug superiority by pretending to be above having a position, which means just supporting status quo, is like every upper middle class Canadians' favourite trick to use when arguing with their kids. "These people you think you're in a competition for resources for? That you want to contest political control over society with? Have you ever considered that they believe they're doing the right thing too. You just have to agree to disagree."

Christ.

The one who made that Tweet blames Barthes (and to be fair to the Ukraine-and-Taiwan-flag-haver "death of the author" is some very annoying poo poo to always have to wade through):

https://twitter.com/RadCentrism/status/1731784634902384656?t=r28lukKFEfdpaMIjOIHTjA&s=19

https://twitter.com/RadCentrism/status/1361013688728125441?t=M8_nR8EzZqzO65kY1eObjQ&s=19

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/GoodVibePolitik/status/1780759099786887185?t=CaIJJWXpSbOPdgmI1OhgAg&s=19

Asproigerosis
Mar 13, 2013

insufferable

They couldn't make the meeting with the president because they got too much Havana syndrome rays from partying the night before.

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

shades of ibm?
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1780856309979508860

DJJIB-DJDCT
Feb 1, 2024

PoontifexMacksimus posted:

The one who made that Tweet blames Barthes (and to be fair to the Ukraine-and-Taiwan-flag-haver "death of the author" is some very annoying poo poo to always have to wade through):

https://twitter.com/RadCentrism/status/1731784634902384656?t=r28lukKFEfdpaMIjOIHTjA&s=19

https://twitter.com/RadCentrism/status/1361013688728125441?t=M8_nR8EzZqzO65kY1eObjQ&s=19

I was just at a conference where someone presented a paper on spiritual care in hospitals, and said he was surprised that the hospitals' policies adhere to the written doctrine of their faiths, the argument being that we have to take people just as seriously when they believe in idiosyncratic volkish woo woo because they had an incomplete catechesis, as opposed to providing care their faith proscribes.

My opinion was that if someone is an Anglican, and we're taking their spiritual care seriously, we have to adhere to the Anglican Church, and not someone who has confused their yoga practice with the actual doctrine of their faith. I don't like the Book of Concord, but if we're taking the metaphysical perspective that spiritual care matters, we need to be thorough in its administration. A physician does not prescribe what the patient thinks they need, he provides them with the correct medication, in consultation with a pharmacist. So, I said, cuius regio, eius religio. Whatever religion you claim to profess, will be taken seriously, and thoroughly, and you ought to receive the best, and that means most correct, as we've accepted the premise that your soul is on the line, spiritual care possible.

This led to a whole thing about respecting people's beliefs, but again, if people believe they are Anglican, and believe they are dying, or otherwise need to work through the spiritual care team, then to take their belief seriously, it needs to be engaged with as a serious ideology and practice, and correctly, so that they receive the unction of the sick - not (just) allowing their relatives to all hold hands in a circle or whatever, because that's Anglicanism as they understand it. Cuius regio, eius religio, the Ottomans figured this out with the Millet. To incorporate religious practice and the law, the state needs a system to work though.

My argument was, it's more respectful of their beliefs to take those beliefs more seriously, and administer care more correctly, than the patient themselves understands. The only rebuttal I got was, "well what about their feelings?", "Different people believe different things", "you have to agree to disagree" etc etc. I don't want you to think I was taking a stance "theology doesn't care about your feelings". I think I'm going out of the way to honour people's feelings here. I'm genuinely confused about why it's better to condescend to people by humouring them, rather than actually doing the best we can to engage with their belief system.

Okay, while apply that to discussing any political issue with a liberal. Am I supposed to care how they think or feel the economy works, or am I supposed to discuss the economy in material terms, which means rejecting their priors and anecdotes, and cutesy stories, and half understood talking points? If they want to discuss the economy, isn't it important to establish that we're thoroughly describing a real system of resources and labour, which is guided by political and ideological decisions rather than something that is just-so?

"Gosh, who can say how the economy works? I guess we each have our own perspectives." is useless to actually describing, and so discussing, the socioeconomic system of a nation. We can say, and what we say can be disputed. If we're treating these as descriptions of reality, or informed by reality, they need to be challenged. I realize in the context of dinner parties I've had to be more flexible. I don't like it, but my wife says being relentless is my "best and worst quality", which is awfully kind of her to say, but doesn't resolve the issue.

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

Willa Rogers posted:

it's inexplicable but it's real



lmao

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spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

she's got my vote

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