Stellula
4mo ago
For sure it's #1. One of his breakout movies was School of Rock, which made it pretty obvious that he dreams of being a rockstar. Tenacious D allowed him to live out that fantasy.
Stellula
4mo ago
If somebody said “well this is why we want stronger gun restrictions!” I’d sympathize with them (but disagree). I’ve even seen people wondering out loud if this would cause Trump to change his stance on gun control at all.
That’s all different than “I wish my political enemy had been assassinated…to protect democracy.”
Stellula
4mo ago
What is the correct position for somebody who is pro democracy but doesn’t think that people who disagree with him should be allowed to vote?
It’s just an incoherent question along the lines of “can god microwave a burrito so hot that even he cannot lift it?”
Stellula
4mo ago
The correct position is to realize that “Trump is trying to end democracy by getting more votes than his opponent by appealing to more voters by suggesting policies that provide material improvements to their lives and the lives of their children” is an absurd one.
Trump is not a “threat to democracy”. This is why there is no coherence to be found among the supporting or downstream arguments around that.
Stellula
4mo ago
Hold on a second. The attacker in that case had spent years and years living in a Berkeley polyamory cult doing drugs in a shitted out bus in somebody’s yard.
If he ended up schizophrenic and convinced he was helping Donald Trump somehow, it was basically a direct result of democratic politics, and is exactly the type of thing that “MAGA” is fighting against.
The reason people were critical of/making fun of the Pelosis was that this was their own schizophrenic chickens coming home to roost. I also didn’t see any sort of wishing that he had succeeded, just a lot of sort of “you eat what you grow” sort of things.
Stellula
4mo ago
Likely so that he could vote in the republican primary.
Party registration means essentially nothing at this point. I change my party affiliation almost every election season.
Stellula
4mo ago
This was one of the worst. I’m on mobile so wasnt able to add anything to my archives sadly.
Stellula
4mo ago
Somebody get going archiving these absurd CNN headlines about “popping sounds.”
Stellula
4mo ago
Well yes there is a difference. Some random person screaming “kill all white men” and an army of armed militants who have spent the last 3 years going door to door executing white men screaming “kill all white men” while they do it are very different things.
Stellula
4mo ago
Russia and China have already been exploiting Bidens mental and political state (related to each other) for the last 3 years. Trump is right that Putin almost certainly wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine if he had still been in office.
If Xi wants to do it, this is going yo be one of his best shots at it for a while. Not only because the leader of our military goes into sundown at 4:00pm, but because he has lost the support of his people.
Stellula
4mo ago
It’s really funny to me that the only reason that the 25th amendment is even in the popular discourse is because the left wouldn’t stop talking about using it to remove Trump.
The current situation with Biden is exactly why this exists. He seems incapable of doing the job.
Stellula
4mo ago
I will never ever ever forgive the people who got The Expanse character Alex killed off because the actor who played him had the audacity to sleep with some woman at a convention who was attracted to him.
Good. The more rapidly these people get woken up the better. Maybe we’ll get some good art out of it.
Stellula
4mo ago
Trump did not try to have Pence declare him the winner.
John Eastman may have suggested to Pence that he had the authority to do this (although as far as I can tell this is hearsay), but the plan was to have Pence reject some of the electoral slates, and force a debate within the house over the merits of the fraud claims.
It has been nearly FOUR YEARS since this happened. The evidence for this is well documented, and the plan has internal coherence.
Please just spend a few minutes reading about this and try to read it with the context that the people involved aren’t stupid, and their plan wasn’t lifted from a children’s cartoon.
Stellula
4mo ago
Biden is an extremely arrogant, compulsive liar. He probably does genuinely think that he is saving democracy, that he is the only person who can beat Trump, that he has some unique geopolitical insight, etc.
Here's a clip from 1988 where Biden is basically just making shit up about his academic credentials and achievements on the fly, as a way to make some guy at a campaign stop look stupid: https://youtube.com/watch?v=D1j0FS0Z6ho
Here's a list of a bunch of things he plagarized, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/trump-campaign-press-release-copy-that-joe-bidens-long-record-plagiarism
There's also the recent amtrack lie.
He's a narcissist. He thinks he's the smartest guy in the room, thinks he's playing some complex manipulation game, and just makes random shit up all the time. Funnily enough, this is exactly what his compatriots accuse Trump of.
Stellula
4mo ago
The actual evacuation of Congress during the process was another, and you can't possibly call that lawfare.
Trump had literally nothing to do with that.
Stellula
4mo ago
You can go both ways. My tax deductions are an attempt to topple the united states government by depriving them of necessary capital to fund the work they are doing.
Driving to the grocery store in my ICE vehicle is an attempt to melt the polar ice caps and flood the coastal cities and cause massive deaths.
Golf is me trying to kill all of the bald eagles by hitting them with golf balls.
etc.
Stellula
4mo ago
Donald Trump tried to seize power
Can we please stop with this? This type of claim is just absurdly bad faith.
Trump attempted to use some esoteric lawfare to force a debate about the merits of election interference claims.
Stellula
4mo ago
Here’s a clip of Joe Biden making the exact point Trump did last night regarding Roe V Wade: https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1806541264776565119
Stellula
4mo ago
I want people to also internalize that Biden has been at Camp David for the last week preparing for this. He has access to unlimited resources from the most powerful empire that has ever existed. Doctors, psychologists, linguists, actors (to pretend they’re Trump) etc.
These people know that if they lose this, they might lose power and some of them might end up in prison.
And THIS is what they were able to present us with.
Joe Biden is supposed to be the leader and chief executive of the country and commander in chief of our military, and he can’t muster the mental power to have a 90 minute discussion with preset questions, controlled microphones, timed responses, and friendly moderators. There are multiple substantial geopolitical crisis happening all over the world, and it’s his job to lead the team solving them.
This is a problem.
Stellula
5mo ago
Because you haven’t experienced it, you cannot understand the depth of purpose and meaning that children will give your life. Almost every parent is telling you that you’ll get it when the kids are here, and that it’s impossible to explain in words. They’re all saying that because it’s right.
I used to be really into the party/burning man scene and psychonauts would always explain that they couldn’t explain a DMT trip to me. It was just outside of anything I could understand and I would have to see it for myself.
Kids are like that. I can tell you it’s great, but I can’t really explain why. You have to see it yourself.
Stellula
5mo ago
Both of these things are irrelevant. I see my children as a physical manifestation of the love that my wife and I have for one another, as well as a sort of hopeful proclamation about the future.
Stellula
5mo ago
This one confuses me. His point seems entirely valid. The last line:
Who am I gonna believe? A rich professional involved with finance, or someone involved in treating sex disorders? Of course, the rich person. No one smart would work in a profession interested in helping people, that doesn't pay.
Seems a little like a non-sequitar. Is that the problem? Japan does produce absolutely bizarre pornography, and supposing that there is a link between this and fertility seems completely reasonable.
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Japan as a country seems particularly addicted to porn
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The porn that Japanese porn users tend to use is particularly detached from things which would (or even could, legally) happen in real life.
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This seems like it could have an effect on Japanese sexual mores
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Which seems like it could have an effect on fertility
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Japan has a notably low fertility rate
This seems absolutely reasonable, and to say it in a silly way seems completely reasonable in the Friday Fun Thread.
For many people (I imagine there is a large overlap with Bidens base) Covid is still as big of a deal as it was 3 years ago. They still post on social media about their Covid test results and have people respond about how they’re going to be okay and checking if they need anything etc. They still isolate themselves and talk about how they won’t go out until some number of negative tests etc.
I think Biden is going to use this as an excuse to drop out and still maintain some shred of dignity. To many of his voters, Covid was Trumps fault and I think to them this may play almost as something Trump is doing to Biden.
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