PhazonLink posted:

lol if DeSantis found a death note and gets caught because he keeps using the default kill. christ atleast do it like Russia and just always do something with windows.

Tibalt posted:

The interest rate hikes are going reduce buyers' ability to afford housing, I'm not arguing against that. I'm arguing that a fundamental change in the market has occurred and anyone expecting prices to drop back to pre-2019 levels or what prices would have been without the pandemic are going to be disappointed. It'll slow the trend, but interest rate hikes alone aren't going to reverse it. Either we collective accept high housing costs, or governments have to take proactive measures to deal with it.

BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:

and yet the DOJ has indicated that they wont prosecute. Maybe they have access to information of which you are unaware.

Patience, young padawan, all will be revealed in time

evilweasel posted:

Tiny Timbs posted:

Isn't Russia the country where its people are described as resoundingly politically apathetic? I don't see how you can claim that Americans are the ones with no comprehension of basic politics, even when you're not comparing them to Russia. Americans are extremely active in their political systems at every level.

Tiny Timbs posted:

That’s just kind of a nonsense-sounding standard that doesn’t seem like it would apply to very many people on earth at all.

bird food bathtub posted:

Really, really important to note that the only reason Alex Jones is getting hosed up by the courts is because he refused to play the game. Further, he refused to even let his lawyers play the game.

Plenty of lovely horrible people will do what AJ did, and worse, and if they keep their loud mouthed hateful bigot poo poo to just the public realm while letting scumbag lawyers lie the right lies and maintain kayfabe about us being a functional society they'll skate by just fine.

Jones is getting hosed up because he broke decorum so hard the system was forced to do something. He ended up with a default judgement for just not doing anything, at all, for years. It would have been trivial to play along and let the parents get single digit percentages of this judgement, then keep shilling boner pills for hundreds of millions of profit.

Victar posted:

I get that we, the US, want what's best for us. A Haiti overrun by gangs that rape, murder, and extort is not good for us.

What makes me think that US intervention will turn out better this time?

We're not violating Haiti's sovereignty. We've been asked through official channels to intervene.

We'll have at least some support from the people currently being raped, murdered, extorted, and terrorized by gangs.

And yes, I do have a flicker of optimism left that the US can learn from its past mistakes. Sometimes, we can learn. Not all of the time.

Yes, I do have a flicker of hope that President Biden is not completely incompetent. He did end the war in Afghanistan, even if it was ended in a sloppy way and with a war crime (the drone bombing of an aid worker and his family) that was never prosecuted. I'm convinced that Biden doesn't want to keep troops in Haiti any longer than necessary.

Kalit posted:

Got a source for this claim regarding current day Haiti?

Jaxyon posted:

Just absolutely LOL that a fracking vote took down a Tory government when the same vote probably wouldn't even get Democrat support here.

Tibalt posted:

There's been some accusations that TikTok's parent company used the app to track specific American individuals, but I don't know how serious/credible it is.

selec posted:

No, I’m saying racism and racists beliefs are completely orthagonal to the material realities.

Nobody’s opinion about Jewish people moves an iota from this story, because it’s not a story about Jewish culture or life, it’s a story about insular, controlling groups.

Nobody ever worries the nearly identical stories you could write (and sometimes are written) about denim skirt cults or Mormon offshoots would damage the image of those groups, because we all know who the in-group is, and those people, however odd, are in it.

Racists don’t actually look at the stats first and become racist, they look at the stats later to try and make astrology fit the measurements.

TaintedBalance posted:

Imagine admitting this.

Edit: In all fairness, DnD busts out some banger megaposts or threads that aim to try and rectify this information, but it is in our nature to poo poo post and destroy even the most noble of attempts. It does not help that a lot of this poo poo appears very arbitrary (which it is) without a lot of context and awareness around this poo poo, and we have failed as a democracy in properly educating our populace and building a society in which the time to participate in and be an active part of politics is at a level that can support a true democracy. The materialist reality of capitalism does not allow for this because it could interfere with profits.

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:

the problem is that 95% of all security is based on getting people to realize that, succeed or fail, their lives are going to be ruined. when someone has decided they don't care about that, stopping them becomes orders of magnitude more difficult. 'they don't let you post your two-hour screed about superhero movies to the internet in prison' solves the problem for pretty much everyone in this guy's cohort, but for whatever reason, he was built different.

behold, the rarely-seen application of the 'skin in the game' saying to the powerful. politicians under functioning political systems consider creating a bunch of desperate, angry, politically activated people dangerous not because of what it does to the state- it can absorb quite a few assassinations with no meaningful changes- but because they personally do not want to have to worry about dodging bullets on a daily basis. you can't stop people like this from launching attacks. you can only try to stop them from coming to be in the first place.

not a great sign for the future, not gonna lie

nine-gear crow posted:

A judge and/or jury decided it was, but given the US Justice System's long rear end history of whiffing cases involving black people, it's literally a "well, what do YOU think?" matter. There was enough legitimate evidence in both direction and it was a hard call to make because both Smollett and the Chicago PD as an entity were equally massive lying pieces of poo poo.

nine-gear crow posted:

It was a watershed case for chuds being able to discredit legitimate hate crimes because the victim was a dirty scumbag himself, like how they used Amber Heard to destroy the Me Too movement and how they're going to use Helena Taylor and the ongoing fallout from the Bayonetta 3 pay dispute debacle to smother any further pushes for fair compensation for video game voice over work (and fair treatment of people in the video game industry across the board while we're at it).

davecrazy posted:

I'm legitimately sorry I asked.

It really ghouish of the right to try and equate a targeted attempted political assassination with an alleged attack that may or may not of been staged.

virtualboyCOLOR posted:

This is the exact type of thinking I’m talking about.

Jaxyon, in my opinion, is more on the side of caring about the end results because of their stance that one should never hand it to the CPD (and gave great reasons as to why).

Honestly I find the quote above to be odd because it reads more like someone who is in favor of the CPD. If that isn’t the intent, then please clarify.

MadDogMike posted:

Hell, I'm not sure Twitter will even be worth $3 million by the end, unless I'm underestimating how many chuds will jump onboard the train wreck.

the_steve posted:

Probably no small amount of ego too. He probably figures that once Elon has hosed things up badly enough that the Un-Blue Checked masses will demand a return to Twitter Classic and he'll be able to get ownership back for a fraction of what he was paid along with a wave of goodwill.

Max posted:

Jack is currently the CEO of Block (formerly Square), so he's really not hurting for money, he probably didn't see selling his stock off as something he had to do.

idiotsavant posted:

I don’t think Tesla and Twitter are big enough to do it on their own but if Musk somehow triggers a hosed up failure cascade by destroying Twitter and wrecking Tesla as a result, lol

Old Kentucky Shark posted:

Yeah, being one of Trump's toadies involves an endless cycle of personal humiliation and abject debasement in order to stay inside the inner circle.

It's poison to someone who's trying to build a strong national profile.

FishBulbia posted:

All trump had to do was say it was a chinese bioweapon and chuds would still be walking around in p100 full face respirators

BiggerBoat posted:

Are you talking about talk radio? Because this is not remotely close to being true. They loving love the dude and one guy I caught today was actually ragging on DOnald for loving this Red Wave up for the GOP, much to my suprise.

Truth. Trump said it because everything has to be about him, plain and simple. No one else, especially another MAGA weirdo, is permitted to be popular or well like without his permission and anyone who is is because of him or something he said/did.

Mizaq posted:

I wonder if Twitter will last long enough for them to get around to selling red check marks.

Clarste posted:

I think we just all need to collectively stop entertaining this illusion that rich people have some sort of baseline level of competency or business sense and acknowledge the fact that once you're rich enough it's actually harder to lose money than it is to gain it.

Charlz Guybon posted:

I thought he was thinking of retiring. Is he going to run again?

Sodomy Hussein posted:

CBP is an infamously lovely organization to the extent that Trump and his people recognized they could weaponize it for dirty tricks, because it often attracts people chuddy enough that they are eager to become brownshirts and secret police: https://www.yahoo.com/news/operation-whistle-pig-inside-the-secret-cbp-unit-with-no-rules-that-investigates-americans-100000147.html

I would say it actually exceeds how lovely cops can be because cops from everything I can gather are held to higher standards. Let that sink in.

It's not great when the union is openly chuddy on social media. The whole thing is also protected from reform by being firmly planted in the middle of a political nerve center in America.