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Post by sj on Apr 21, 2024 18:32:16 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 21, 2024 18:43:53 GMT -5
Funny you posted this I almost did but busy day, I'm not home. Anyone who believes in "small government" or "limited government overreach" would never want homelessness criminalized. It was illegal to be homeless in the Soviet Union |
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Post by sj on Apr 22, 2024 9:41:59 GMT -5
Funny you posted this I almost did but busy day, I'm not home. Anyone who believes in "small government" or "limited government overreach" would never want homelessness criminalized. It was illegal to be homeless in the Soviet Union You'd think, under Communism, the state would make sure everyone has housing. On the flip side, this is proof we don't live in a true Democracy, because if people were allowed to vote on it, ppl would vote that $100 billion go to fixing this country's housing crisis. But it's nigh impossible because, truthfully, the people have zero say in it. |
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Post by sj on Apr 22, 2024 9:52:17 GMT -5
If you look at China's housing market, it's the polar opposite (despite their population far exceeding ours). They have a glut/excess of housing (at least, in their cities) and prices are crazy low. Oversupply halts construction though, so unemployment in construction goes up.
Our elites simply decided they want keep prices sky high and issue directives to halt construction because they see real estate as a investment vehicle (i.e. they want the value of their investments to continue to go up & up - the poor be damned).
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Post by sj on Apr 22, 2024 10:04:10 GMT -5
What's going to end up happening is more and more people will start to realize that the American dream is a sham and they'll leave the US for greener pastures.. not poor ppl necessarily, since they can't afford to be mobile. But younger ppl w/ skill & college educations and single middle-aged adults barely scrapping by (or, more likely, sinking into debt) on normal incomes.. because it really takes a couple (two middle-class incomes) to afford a decent house these days.
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 22, 2024 13:51:27 GMT -5
It's not hard to look back 4-5 years and recall events. The left made a huge push and mass protests across the country to "defund the police" in 2020, during the "mostly peaceful protests." And, as a result, many cities did defund the police. When Biden got in office, he griped at these cities' leaders to refund the police and they did (year over year), and thus crime stats improve. Amazing how funding the police reduces crime, I know. I think its a bit more complex then "give the cops money and crimes go down" If it IS that simple well then I think we just killed the whole concept of small government or libertarianism or "government as the nightwatchman" Just dump money into the cops and crime goes away. The issue with that line of thinking is it doesn't explain the 1 trillion dollars we have spent on the war on drugs and more people use drugs in the US then ever. |
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Post by sj on Apr 22, 2024 14:10:49 GMT -5
It's not hard to look back 4-5 years and recall events. The left made a huge push and mass protests across the country to "defund the police" in 2020, during the "mostly peaceful protests." And, as a result, many cities did defund the police. When Biden got in office, he griped at these cities' leaders to refund the police and they did (year over year), and thus crime stats improve. Amazing how funding the police reduces crime, I know. I think its a bit more complex then "give the cops money and crimes go down" If it IS that simple well then I think we just killed the whole concept of small government or libertarianism or "government as the nightwatchman" Just dump money into the cops and crime goes away. The issue with that line of thinking is it doesn't explain the 1 trillion dollars we have spent on the war on drugs and more people use drugs in the US then ever. When have I said I was for small government? This country has had law enforcement going back to the old west, so it's not like anybody's turning full-on commie by saying fund the police. I am against the massive deficit and trillions of debt.. a govt doesn't have to be tiny to balance its budget (it's a false equivalency to think ultra-high debt levels are required for a large govt).. is it any wonder more companies are offering discounts if you pay in crypto. If we devalue the $ too much, that's going to have repercussions at the highest levels (including government). Drugs are a unique problem - the majority of the production and distribution are overseas where our police and DEA have no jurisdiction. When our DEA intercepts a huge shipment, the producers just make more. The CCP is probably funding Fentenyl production, since the Chinese citizens are under constant surveillance, they can't take a dump without their govt knowing about it. We were talking about homicide rates in US cities, which is something we can affect directly by funding police. What's your magic formula for murder rates dropping? Everybody knows about the defund police shit and then subsequent refunding under Democrat PotUS - that's public knowledge.. but it's just coincidence to you. lol |
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Post by sj on Apr 22, 2024 18:11:21 GMT -5
The people who push for defunding police while simulaneously being anti-2A never made sense. Literally strip people of defenses against violent criminals.. You think you're buff and tough, can dodge bullets like Neo. Well, granny still needs her shotgun (to be on equal footing) or somebody to call (police) to take out uninvited trash.
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 22, 2024 22:19:59 GMT -5
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Post by sj on May 29, 2024 16:15:30 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on May 31, 2024 10:17:33 GMT -5
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Post by Cop on Jun 1, 2024 11:07:43 GMT -5
LOCK HIM UP!
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Post by sj on Jun 1, 2024 12:31:44 GMT -5
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Post by Coolverine on Jun 3, 2024 5:55:01 GMT -5
Came across a video earlier about Trump's Latino supporters, and in the comment section I saw far-left people saying all kinds of racist things, even calling them roaches and using emoji's of brown people to get around being flagged as hate speech. I thought Trump side were the racists?
I guess with politics, things just flip-flop so much that people forget themselves.
*edit* found the video again:
just look at the comments and sort by newest. edit - meh looks like some did get deleted but I still see a few.
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Post by sj on Jun 3, 2024 10:07:20 GMT -5
None of them care about us. Not the Trump side (Trump is RINO), Republicans, or Democrats. If they did, they would've fixed the homelessness crisis, among other things, years ago (just $100 billion of the support sent to Ukraine war alone would have completely solved homelessness in the US).
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Post by sj on Jun 3, 2024 10:14:04 GMT -5
Came across a video earlier about Trump's Latino supporters, and in the comment section I saw far-left people saying all kinds of racist things, even calling them roaches and using emoji's of brown people to get around being flagged as hate speech. I thought Trump side were the racists?
I guess with politics, things just flip-flop so much that people forget themselves.
*edit* found the video again:
just look at the comments and sort by newest. edit - meh looks like some did get deleted but I still see a few.
Even if everybody had the exact same color of skin, they'd hate each other for being too tall or short, too smart or dumb, being born in different region, having different accent, preferring the color orange over blue, the list goes on.. lol |
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Post by ForRealTho on Jun 3, 2024 10:46:22 GMT -5
Even if everybody had the exact same color of skin, they'd hate each other for being too tall or short, too smart or dumb, being born in different region, having different accent, preferring the color orange over blue, the list goes on.. lol This. Remember in the late 1800s with the Irish mass immigration to the US the "No Irish need apply" signs (side note, some "alt history" guy said those were a myth till I think a 16 year old girl went down to newspaper archives and found a No Irish Need Apply! ad in a New York newspaper in like 1880 or something). "Scientific Racism" used to be huge and some guy in London had all of these measurements of Irish peoples skulls "proving" they were the intellectual inferior of anyone in England. Today you would get laughed at saying someone Irish isn't actually white. |
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Post by sj on Jun 3, 2024 11:33:09 GMT -5
Even if everybody had the exact same color of skin, they'd hate each other for being too tall or short, too smart or dumb, being born in different region, having different accent, preferring the color orange over blue, the list goes on.. lol This. Remember in the late 1800s with the Irish mass immigration to the US the "No Irish need apply" signs (side note, some "alt history" guy said those were a myth till I think a 16 year old girl went down to newspaper archives and found a No Irish Need Apply! ad in a New York newspaper in like 1880 or something). "Scientific Racism" used to be huge and some guy in London had all of these measurements of Irish peoples skulls "proving" they were the intellectual inferior of anyone in England. Today you would get laughed at saying someone Irish isn't actually white. Humans are tribalistic by nature. It's why we "modern humans" first wiped out the other hominid species (Neanderthals, Denisovans, etc) before trying to wipe each other out. There's some debate how those species actually went extinct, but just look at how many wars are still going on in the world today and you know I'm right (that humans are at least partly to blame for their extinction). The Polish peoples faced the same sort (same-color) discrimination in Europe - they were considered (scientifically) inferior by Germans and other Europeans. In the Middle East, there are the Kurds (ppl with generally lighter skin than other Mid-easterners) who have been (and still are) discriminated against and massacred in several countries (Iraq, Turkey, etc). There's also the Armenian genocide, which occurred in Turkey. Armenians skin tone isn't darker than that of Turkish peoples. They're hated (by Turks) for their religious and cultural differences. Our western media shamefully wouldn't describe the slaughter of over a 1 million Armenians as genocide until 2004. It's no wonder because the US refused their pleas for rescue and it was the French who sent some ships to help them flee from persecution in Turkey. www.imdb.com/title/tt4776998/ |
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Post by sj on Jun 3, 2024 11:42:28 GMT -5
Remember that movie "The Gladiator" set in ancient Rome? References to "Barbarians" and "Barbarian hordes" was what ancient Romans called the people who we now know as Germans. i.e. Ancient Rome thought the Germans were dumb and inferior. "Barbar" was rooted in that they once thought German speech was subhuman gibberish.
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Post by Coolverine on Jun 3, 2024 22:43:30 GMT -5
Came across a video earlier about Trump's Latino supporters, and in the comment section I saw far-left people saying all kinds of racist things, even calling them roaches and using emoji's of brown people to get around being flagged as hate speech. I thought Trump side were the racists?
I guess with politics, things just flip-flop so much that people forget themselves.
*edit* found the video again:
just look at the comments and sort by newest. edit - meh looks like some did get deleted but I still see a few.
Even if everybody had the exact same color of skin, they'd hate each other for being too tall or short, too smart or dumb, being born in different region, having different accent, preferring the color orange over blue, the list goes on.. lol Reminds me of that episode of Rick and Morty where they found this planet that was pretty much identical to Earth and human civilization, except instead of humans it was populated by snakes and they were at the brink of war over race.
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Post by sj on Jun 4, 2024 10:19:51 GMT -5
Reminds me of that episode of Rick and Morty where they found this planet that was pretty much identical to Earth and human civilization, except instead of humans it was populated by snakes and they were at the brink of war over race.
Intelligent species wiping themselves out is one of the primary hypotheses for the Fermi Paradox in Cosmology. Intelligent alien life is rare because it causes its own extinction before it can reach out to the stars or communicate with life on other planets. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Jun 4, 2024 11:12:02 GMT -5
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Post by Cop on Jun 4, 2024 12:09:13 GMT -5
I don't know if civil war is coming, but I sure would, with her thin lips wrapped around my cawk *fapfapfap*
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Post by sj on Jun 4, 2024 13:57:58 GMT -5
Most people don't even care or think about Civil War. But then again, it'd only take something like 5-10% of the population (still millions of ppl) to start one.
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Post by sj on Jun 4, 2024 14:28:03 GMT -5
If they're really interested in preventing Civil War, they'd rebuild and protect our infrastructure in order to keep Civilization going and forestall Mad Max scenarios. This video is Tucker, yes. This one's apolitical though. Albiet, it's a serious problem that the mainstream doesn't talk about.. The topic is too technical and boring I guess, so ppl are just gonna let it slide until disaster befalls us. It's happened before. It'll happen again. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event |
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Post by Coolverine on Jun 4, 2024 21:40:16 GMT -5
If they (and by they I mean the people who really run the show) stand to gain from there being a civil war on American soil, they'll probably let it happen.
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Post by sj on Jun 4, 2024 22:17:35 GMT -5
If they (and by they I mean the people who really run the show) stand to gain from there being a civil war on American soil, they'll probably let it happen. imo, the #1 reason there's a race for AI is to reduce labor costs - i.e. replace human workers with machines. While that's being achieved, the globalist elites will continue to push for the masses to be herded together and locked-down in 15-minute cities. So when there's major catastrophes (power grid goes down, food & water shortages, deadly pandemics, etc), escape isn't so easy and more people can die en masse. Why do this? The elite prefer having exclusivity on all the goods things in life. In other words, they don't like to share. It's why the cost of things goes up & up and we can afford less & less (not just things, but travel to nice places). shhh, shh.  I know it sounds conspiratorial. But the thing is, some conspiracies are real and we already know that those running the show don't care, otherwise many problems would've been solved years ago. The US isn't resource scarce, so it's not a question of resources but rather political/elitist will (or lack of). |
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Post by Coolverine on Jun 5, 2024 3:06:58 GMT -5
Kinda change of subject, but here is something I found hilarious. Remember when Trump was trying to ban TikTok, and of course Biden was against it? Now Biden's the one trying to ban it and Trump now has an account on it. Damn flip-flopping politics I guess. Could also have to do with censorship, TikTok isn't one-sided with censorship the way youtube is.
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Post by sj on Jun 5, 2024 11:10:20 GMT -5
Kinda change of subject, but here is something I found hilarious. Remember when Trump was trying to ban TikTok, and of course Biden was against it? Now Biden's the one trying to ban it and Trump now has an account on it. Damn flip-flopping politics I guess. Could also have to do with censorship, TikTok isn't one-sided with censorship the way youtube is. That's something that irritates me as well. And their respective followers flop right alongside them, as if yesterday didn't happen. It's the sort of behavior that has some people referring to the majority of party followers as NPC's. |
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Post by sj on Jul 20, 2024 11:55:08 GMT -5
www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-affection-towards-hulk-hogan-at-rnc-sparks-mockery/ar-BB1qgIPfWhen you think about what the gay app Grindr's CEO said about the RNC being "Grindr's Superbowl," this act (between Trump and Hulk) might actually be intentional (in ways not so obvious at first glance). What I'm saying is, maybe it was low-key catering/entertainment for the gay Republican attendees & audience.  So more than just being cultish behavior, it's a clever way to appeal to gay voters to help Trump secure and maintain some of their votes.
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