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It's an old article but it along with a few other things helped lead me to a political awakening, an epiphany if you will. https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-theories-of-american-politics-explained I posted it in another thread about health insurance. But this study was damning evidence, for me, that we live in any kind of fair system and I honestly don't see a way out of it. It explains so much, like US healthcare being universally agreed to be terrible by anyone aware of other countries who have single payer programs. Politicians don't care. The millionaire class likes it the way it is. As I said elsewhere in a thread about healthcare: Zoeb posted:It really is a terrible system but there are reasons it lingers. One of those reasons is that there is an entire, enormous industry and related supporting industries who's existence depends on this bad system. The health insurance industry are leeches. They market their product to companies as a way to reduce turn over and any attempt to nationalize or even provide a public option will be met with one of the biggest war chests of lobbying dollars and PR machine that exists short of the defense industry. During the Obama administration, "Obamacare" as the affordable care act was branded met with fierce opposition, not just from Republican elected but a PR machine that convinced regular people that a public option would mean "death panels." It led to dumb dumbs showing up at congressional townhalls with tricorn hats and assault rifles. I felt the same way about the suspicious and convenient death of Jeffrey Epstein. I have doubts that he killed himself by himself. Even now, his partner is on the hook for pimping underage girls to.... nobody in particular. None of his clients got in any meaningful trouble. Bill Gates got divorced. Prince Andrew got embarrassed but remains above the law. It is our most taboo crime and yet, nothing. I heard about him on Behind the Bastards, heard about his original sweetheart plea deal and I was like, drat I guess being a spy and human trafficker is no big deal. We're just going to let that slide. Nothing to see here. Zoeb has issued a correction as of 08:59 on Oct 18, 2023 |
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nancy pelosi has big cha chas
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When I was told electing a cheeto to the White House was bad. Uh excuse me I am a red blooded American and I love junk food!
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i was clicking on probes and permabans in the leper's colony and about half of them were for this forum. no idea what it's for
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Oct 18, 2023 12:22
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Yossarian-22 posted:nancy pelosi has big cha chas
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OP let Epstein be your entry into the underworld and go learn all about parapolitics
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civilization is actually not so civil
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graduating college at the start of the 08 crash, and then being unemployed and then working a barely above minimum-wage job. Before that, I was a good boy whose ideology was liberal with libertarian characteristics. I also hung out in D&D.
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:civilization is actually not so civil many people are calling it "evilization"
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after my facvorite series battlefield flopped with hardline i didn't have much else to do so i got into history and politrikkks
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the joker actually has some good points
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I have become a chud.
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cat botherer posted:graduating college at the start of the 08 crash, and then being unemployed and then working a barely above minimum-wage job. Same. My family pranked me so hard with that whole "go to college to get ahead stuff". hahahah Got me real good with that one hahahaha 
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Also, thanks to cspam I am now an unironic Trump supporter.
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I saw the hunt for red october in 4th grade and became incredibly interested in communism, under the assumption that it was just a bunch of hunky dudes living in close proximity to each other OP.
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a series of tiny crack pings from 2013 onwards that culminated in me abandoning D&D because it's full of shitlibs
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Obama's utter failures to accomplish anything despite complete control of the house/sentate and executive, and in fact his only achievement being the untold strengthening of an unauthorized domestic surveillance program and warcrime drone program destroyed my belief that democracy will ever be able to unfuck the world because we control nothing
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Im a sick bitch and I like freak sex lol (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Feels Villeneuve posted:I have become a chud.
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Why fund schools with Campbell's soup labels when you could just use tax money
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The good doctor Ron Paul has been a principled defender of justice, friendship and free trade over the years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obOLzwSn6sY "But I wouldn't wait for my generals I'm the commander-in-chief I make the decisions I tell the generals what to do. I would bring them home as quickly as possible and I'd get em out of Iraq as well. I wouldn't start a war in Libya. I'd quit bombing Yemen and I'd quit bombing Pakistan. I would start taking care of people here at home because we can save hundreds of billions. Our national security is not enhanced by our presence over there. We have no purpose there." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApuFPqop0Kw "I'm opposed to all sanctions unless there's a declared war. We've already spent 5 billion over the last 10 years trying to pick and choose the leadership of Ukraine. We participated in the overthrow of the Yanukovich government and this is when the recent stuff really stirred up. We've been involved too much and I take a non-interventionist foreign policy position. It is not our business. It doesn't serve anybodies interest. It is part of the same thing that led us into the disaster in the middle east so a lot of people died and a lot of money and a lot of money is spent and we're still suffering the consequences of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan there's the threat of the war in Syria. We don't need another threat." "I don't want to step back. I think the isolationists are now isolating Russia. I don't want to isolate Russia. I want to continue to trade. I love it the fact that Europeans buy gas and oil from them that means they're less likely to fight with them. I don't to isolate myself. I want trade. I want to trade with Cuba. I want go to Cuba." https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_s2qfdl2sis1z0lvw3.mp4 "I think people [in Crimea] has a right of self-determination. It's written into international law. It's a moral principle and of course if you believe in limited government everyone should have the right to minimize the government. There should be a right of succession. We love succession when we succeeded from Great Britain and we love succession when the Soviet Union broke up so why not have the breakup of these countries. I cannot understand how we can argue against an election. You know that to me sounds democratic." Jon Pod Van Damm has issued a correction as of 18:03 on Oct 18, 2023 |
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I like to make jokes about politics and hope that some day the mods open a forum where that is acceptable
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bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:I like to make jokes about politics and hope that some day the mods open a forum where that is acceptable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3jgPsGQSdQ some day we shall be free
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"political epiphanies" lol I just thought cspam was funnier than d&d
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Buck Wildman posted:"political epiphanies" lol I just thought cspam was funnier than d&d  bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:I like to make jokes about politics and hope that some day the mods open a forum where that is acceptable I want to shitpost about politics and read some clever one-liners from other posters but dnd is not that place. i don't give a gently caress about praxis or whatever
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When tyrannical Chinese communists were trying to minimise covid deaths out of lust for power, in contrast to our enlightened democratic societies which were courageous enough to make the hard but sensible choices to kill more people for economic growth
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Yossarian-22 posted:nancy pelosi has big cha chas
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i was born this way babe
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Unsure there was an exact moment (other than dealing with insurance after I turned 26, hoo boy), but I remember the moment that made me give up on voting for Hillary Clinton in the general was the second debate against Donald Trump where she discusses ISIS through a frame of, "there are three bad factors - Assad, Iran, and Russia." And it reminded me so much of the Axis of Evil speech that even the reluctant leanings I had for her disappeared. Not that interesting of a story, but it's what I got. That and Chapo Trap House and being disappointed about the baton begin passed to Hillary, someone who'd ran to Obama's right in 2008, to begin with. God she sucks.
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still waiting on mine. years in cspam and nothing yet
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i found christ op
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I saw a car, and immediately began exhibiting symptoms of psychopathy. I knew then that I had to post.
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my bony fealty posted:OP let Epstein be your entry into the underworld and go learn all about parapolitics you'll go insane, but that's the price of True Knowledge
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Zoeb posted:I have doubts that he killed himself by himself. anyways mine was LF and reading old Matt Taibbi rollingstone artices like prison, iraq war, bush TARP followed by Obama TARP 2. the way dems gave like a trillion bux to the elite was the final nail in electorialism and uttrer hated for dems forever.
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As a child I noticed that the cynical adults would often respond to obvious injustices with the phrase "Well what do you want to do? Burn everything down and start over?" And I thought..... Yeah, that sounds cool and fun, at the very least.
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Trump is the harm reduction candidate
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I was a 22 year old Airman in South Korea bossing around a 58 year old Ajoshi. I could give you a FF Asia explainer, but in short that is some pith helmet colonialism rear end poo poo. I come back to the imperial core and NOBODY and I mean nobody I knew got money for it. My hometown base is privatizing it's poo poo and loving around with New Airplane grift. BAH for any Joe isn't enough to buy property unless you do psychopathic grindset poo poo. Small time rear end empire, doesn't know how to keep and cultivate a praetorian class. Bonus Army is gonna happen again, keep loving around on everyone's paychecks. So I got out and followed my true calling, being a himbo in los angeles. My older sister stayed in and climbed high, to the highest our class of people can climb, directly below the president's office. She still can't buy a house like our illiterate immigrant factory working mama did. poo poo sux. Anyways goodnight
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KirbyKhan posted:I was a 22 year old Airman in South Korea bossing around a 58 year old Ajoshi. I could give you a FF Asia explainer, but in short that is some pith helmet colonialism rear end poo poo. I come back to the imperial core and NOBODY and I mean nobody I knew got money for it. My hometown base is privatizing it's poo poo and loving around with New Airplane grift. BAH for any Joe isn't enough to buy property unless you do psychopathic grindset poo poo. Small time rear end empire, doesn't know how to keep and cultivate a praetorian class. Bonus Army is gonna happen again, keep loving around on everyone's paychecks. So I got out and followed my true calling, being a himbo in los angeles. Seen so many guys go into the army, the thing that's supposed to pad out their resume for some killer jobs, only to come back and try to make it in a gas station or, worse case scenario, end up out on the street. Real bullshit, especially if we're pumping the defense budget with millions.
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