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Post by slaytan on Apr 29, 2022 4:39:27 GMT -5
Elon will be taking Twitter. He will be buying all my shares that I got for $40 @ $54.20 Not gonna be a dick about how many shares I bought. Just know that no one in the world got rich betting against Elon. The pendulum is slowing and is about to swing back. LMAO! The problem is that the left always wins in the end. They never STFU and go away in humiliation. They respond to defeat by getting angrier, more energized, and obsessed with revenge. They scheme and get more devious. All my predictions are coming true No one ever got rich betting against Elon -true, but I’m considering sinking all my money into shorting twitter stock.
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Post by boboplata on Apr 29, 2022 20:08:47 GMT -5
The problem is that the left always wins in the end. They never STFU and go away in humiliation. They respond to defeat by getting angrier, more energized, and obsessed with revenge. They scheme and get more devious. All my predictions are coming true No one ever got rich betting against Elon -true, but I’m considering sinking all my money into shorting twitter stock. When shit hits the fan, aren't glad you're on the side of the overwhelmingly armed masses?
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Post by slaytan on Apr 30, 2022 4:29:31 GMT -5
The problem is that the left always wins in the end. They never STFU and go away in humiliation. They respond to defeat by getting angrier, more energized, and obsessed with revenge. They scheme and get more devious. All my predictions are coming true No one ever got rich betting against Elon -true, but I’m considering sinking all my money into shorting twitter stock. When shit hits the fan, aren't glad you're on the side of the overwhelmingly armed masses? We don’t have predator drones. We don’t have Bradleys, Tanks, helos, Gunships, bombers, howitzers, cruise missiles, comms, psyops, spies, oil reserves, banks, or the ability to coordinate. The left has trillions of dollars of all that and more. No I don’t feel so safe that our comrades have 3 Glocks and an AR 15 in the closet with 500 rounds
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Post by boboplata on Apr 30, 2022 8:34:10 GMT -5
When shit hits the fan, aren't glad you're on the side of the overwhelmingly armed masses? We don’t have predator drones. We don’t have Bradleys, Tanks, helos, Gunships, bombers, howitzers, cruise missiles, comms, psyops, spies, oil reserves, banks, or the ability to coordinate. The left has trillions of dollars of all that and more. No I don’t feel so safe that our comrades have 3 Glocks and an AR 15 in the closet with 500 rounds Would be hilarious if Xi and Putin provides the resistance.
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Post by Fasthands25 on Apr 30, 2022 23:04:30 GMT -5
When shit hits the fan, aren't glad you're on the side of the overwhelmingly armed masses? We don’t have predator drones. We don’t have Bradleys, Tanks, helos, Gunships, bombers, howitzers, cruise missiles, comms, psyops, spies, oil reserves, banks, or the ability to coordinate. The left has trillions of dollars of all that and more. No I don’t feel so safe that our comrades have 3 Glocks and an AR 15 in the closet with 500 rounds Well I have a bat. I think I'll be fine.
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Post by ghostoftc on May 5, 2022 8:24:18 GMT -5
This is where Garth and I disagree. I don't believe the left has the necessary cohesion required to maintain a military force.
And which one is it bro? Will we be facing off against people who could have played the role Arnold played in Commando or are we going to be facing off against a bunch of pussyhat wearing beta males who list their pronouns on Twitter and don't know how to shoot a squirt gun?
Yes they will have all of those toys that you mentioned. But they've had those toys at their disposal during each of the conflicts they have been in over the last 20 years. Some of those conflicts have taken decades. But they will lose one third of their leadership and as much of their Fighting Force if not more. And the section of the fighting force that they will be losing is the actually effective 1. They will be on our side.
If a civil war were to break out right now in the United States it would literally be the end of the world. China would collapse. Nobody left to run the global economy. World resets in a very significant way and life as you know it is never coming back.
I still don't think anything like that is going to happen. At least not yet. If the Red Wave hits a dam of fraud in November, then we can talk.
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Post by slaytan on May 5, 2022 19:28:45 GMT -5
This is where Garth and I disagree. I don't believe the left has the necessary cohesion required to maintain a military force. And which one is it bro? Will we be facing off against people who could have played the role Arnold played in Commando or are we going to be facing off against a bunch of pussyhat wearing beta males who list their pronouns on Twitter and don't know how to shoot a squirt gun? The braver, smarter, tougher, more dedicated and more honorable soldiers have a decidedly losing record in wars. That stuff is simply not an advantage worth mentioning What “mosque” can we expect the pussyhat gunships to respect? Those wars took 20 years because they were not wars of conquest or extermination, which would have taken months if not weeks. I think you overestimate our military. They will lose 1/3 of their people, but only 1/3 of those would join the rebels, and 0/3 would bring anything of value. Great, so a tank sergeant will join our side. He won’t bring his tank. He’ll be as useful as any other civilian. Chopper/ gunship pilots, same thing. The only thing that will differentiate them from Cletus the deer hunter is that they’ll be more acutely aware of and more horrified at the weaponry marshalled against them. Many if not most will serve the gender fluid brigade just out of self preservation What does the left have in it’s favor? All power. Not greater power, but all of it. The propaganda would be turned up to 100. People the world over would be literally made to believe that we are boiling brown babies alive and making lampshades out of them. Wide eyed young men the world over would sign on to “make the world safe from the greatest evil the world has ever seen.” Just as good men accepted fighting for the Soviet Union, which they knew to be evil, to fight what they thought was much worse, Canadian, English, German, French, etc etc etc etc etc soldiers will fight for the pussyhats
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Post by ghostoftc on May 6, 2022 11:54:28 GMT -5
So a Civil War in this country leads the Lesser countries to send troops here so that we can kill them too?
That's a tough sale. Who's going to coordinate that effort? The UN?
I don't think it goes the way you are envisioning. This military that you think is going to wipe us out has been incapable of accomplishing that same task against populations who are not even armed.
There would be zero cohesion left in the military if a civil war were to break out. The military is actually a non-issue in that situation. Too much desertion and too many breaks in the chain of command.
The means to spread propaganda would also be shattered. No more internet. No more Network TV. No more radio due to the certain destruction their ground-based transmission operations would experience.
All in all the Civil War would accomplish nothing good for the United States. Or the world.
And the truth of the matter now is that Conquest does not occur on battlefields. Corporations are more powerful than some countries. The approach that China is taking in attempting to buy the world rather than conquering it leaves them with something to actually run and control if they are successful whereas the military approach leaves the victors with a worthless pile of rubble to clean up.
But, I have been on this roller coaster enough to know that we can go around and round and round and round and round and round and round and round for years without ever agreeing on any solid outcome. I do not think that a Civil War in this country goes the way that you think it does. I believe that the people with the guns and the big groups of friends who also have guns will end up running small territories in a post-apocalyptic world if a civil war were to occur. The left would be shattered and so would the right.
And I just don't see it happening.
I am now going to try to watch the film 2000 Mules.
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Post by slaytan on May 6, 2022 19:55:19 GMT -5
So a Civil War in this country leads the Lesser countries to send troops here so that we can kill them too? That's a tough sale. Who's going to coordinate that effort? The UN? I don't think it goes the way you are envisioning. This military that you think is going to wipe us out has been incapable of accomplishing that same task against populations who are not even armed. There would be zero cohesion left in the military if a civil war were to break out. The military is actually a non-issue in that situation. Too much desertion and too many breaks in the chain of command. The means to spread propaganda would also be shattered. No more internet. No more Network TV. No more radio due to the certain destruction their ground-based transmission operations would experience. All in all the Civil War would accomplish nothing good for the United States. Or the world. And the truth of the matter now is that Conquest does not occur on battlefields. Corporations are more powerful than some countries. The approach that China is taking in attempting to buy the world rather than conquering it leaves them with something to actually run and control if they are successful whereas the military approach leaves the victors with a worthless pile of rubble to clean up. But, I have been on this roller coaster enough to know that we can go around and round and round and round and round and round and round and round for years without ever agreeing on any solid outcome. I do not think that a Civil War in this country goes the way that you think it does. I believe that the people with the guns and the big groups of friends who also have guns will end up running small territories in a post-apocalyptic world if a civil war were to occur. The left would be shattered and so would the right. And I just don't see it happening. I am now going to try to watch the film 2000 Mules. What I put in bold is the point I’ve been making for decades. It’s why pussy hats beat corn fed, tough-as-nails Army Rangers. Wars have seldom been won on the battlefield, as Son Tsu said BC What would American civil war look like? No national organization is possible for the right. There would be small, isolated contingents of local construction workers occupying a few local buildings. And dying
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Post by ghostoftc on May 8, 2022 10:25:18 GMT -5
So you're agreeing? The power the left wield over the farm boys is not physical, it's societal pressure they can direct with their Central News Networks.
That power evaporates like rubbing alcohol when you spark the catalyst that blows up society and disables their real source of power.
Neither side has the juice to maintain cohesion if the states stop being United.
But the right has a vastly stronger bond. Truth. Justice. Freedom. That's the part the media always ignores. Those principles Slaygarth. They unite people from entirely different walks of life infinitely more than intersectionality ever could. Those principles can be universal so much easier because they are personally more impactful than the plight of others.
And that first principle. Truth. That's the strongest one. The right sees it. The left manufactures it.
This is why no one here can likely name their friends who voted for Biden and skipped the "Trump vaccines". It's practically a universal truth no one speaks!
The Trump supporters are "in a cult".
Pandemic hits.
Trump, the "cult leader" implements Project Warp Speed.
Trump supporters: "Um. No long term studies?"
Trump haters: "I WiLl NoT TaKe ThE DrUmPH VaCcInE!"
Left steals the election. Vax formulas do not change.
Trump haters: "i WiLl HaPpIlY tAkE ThE BiDeN VaCcInE!"
Trump supporters: "Yeah I skipped that experiment."
Cultists ALWAYS drink the Kool-Aid. Doesn't matter who mixed it.
Andrew may be the only one in the whole country who voted for Biden and skipped the jab. But I doubt it. I bet he got his Rna therapy.
Tldnr:
The left sycophants will, without fail, flock to power. When the voices in the boxes of radio computer and tv silence themselves, the (urbanite) sheep will only have actual strong men to follow.
Yeah, the nation will be over.
But.
The ones who find a way to survive and create peace will have lives based in the three uniting principles. The ones who see those principles as oppressive will learn their value or starve.
I'm fine with them starving. They trusted authority outside morality because they never learned the correct form of either.
And they've got you thinking they're stronger than you and the people who'd stand with you.
Unfortunate. Their power vanishes if the grid collapses. The power of the right lies in principles. No electric propaganda machines required.
The folks in charge of the left know their foot soldiers are pliable and soft. And they know they can't win a physical fight.
That's why I'm not that concerned that they're losing the fight for the culture. Look around.
They're losing ground daily. And the bear they've been poking through a cage is about to have his cage lock broken.
Smart, strong people will survive because their tribe never fractured into splinters. If you don't think this nation has millions and millions of that kind of person in it, you aren't looking very hard.
They're everywhere. But they're quiet.
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Post by slaytan on May 8, 2022 14:45:36 GMT -5
^good stuff, as always, but I think chaos in America creates a power vacuum which would be exploited
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Post by boboplata on May 9, 2022 5:48:16 GMT -5
And now, for something completely different:
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Post by boboplata on May 9, 2022 7:11:34 GMT -5
Also, anyone willing to sponsor me a work visa?
Will work for all those farms you've won on mma bettings.
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Post by ghostoftc on May 9, 2022 13:42:38 GMT -5
And now, for something completely different: I've dated a couple actresses. One famous and one never famous. They're all nuts. It can't be good for anyone's mental health to constantly be getting paid to pretend to be fictional characters. Seems to seriously blur their reality. There's no such thing as a healthy Hollywood relationship. Hope the rest of the planet wakes the fuck up to that truth. Same culture that lead Kris Jenner to get her daughter's contrived and really sub par sex tape released by Vivid so she could take over where Paris Hilton left off. Literally pimped her own daughter out. That entire existence is trash.
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Post by ghostoftc on May 17, 2022 18:03:01 GMT -5
^good stuff, as always, but I think chaos in America creates a power vacuum which would be exploited It definitely creates a power vacuum. But in the event of a Civil War the cohesion required to have any one entity regain power at a national level would probably require a second war. I think the collapse of the federal government that would obviously start the Civil War would create power vacuums that would be filled by local Authority figures. Who those authorities are is anyone's guess. Most likely it would be Whoever has the most power as in: Firepower. But, I really don't think that's going to happen. Watching everything transpire with elon's attempted purchase of Twitter has given me a lot of optimism. Someone is going to get nailed for fraud before this whole thing is over. And I have a funny feeling that it is going to be Executives at Twitter who are going to be facing some serious consequences. Lying and misleading investors is a federal crime that carries heavy sanctions from the SEC and potential jail time. When you tell investors that only 5% of your user base are artificial users or fake accounts and then it turns out that the number is closer to 45 or 50%... Couple that with the videos that just came out from (undefeated in court) project veritas' honey pot scheme that nailed Twitter's culture as communist, things are getting fucking interesting. Twitter has been the epicenter for the culture War for the last eight years. The amount of shit that has gone on in the corridors of power within that company has got to be astronomical. And it's all coming down because my favorite billionaire put his money where his mouth is. He's also voting Republican for the first time in his life this year. And I don't care if it seems like I'm a fanboy. I am a blatant fanboy. Communism is a horrible bulshit idea that is pushed by grifters and scamsters and power-hungry douchebags. The fact that it has proliferated so prominently throughout the world is indicative of weak men being a majority. This country has a lot of weak men. But I think it has just enough properly educated non weak men to make sure communism never takes root in this country. It might start gaining a foothold here there but it seems like when that happens, the foot gets stepped on and the people who created that foothold lose their power. November can't get here soon enough.
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Post by MMAJim on May 18, 2022 13:43:09 GMT -5
Speaking of November, what is your confidence level in a red wave? I don't really dig into anything this far out but it is it too much optimism to expect a House and Senate to go towards red? (disclaimer: I know elections are fake and there is a global uniparty in control; just wondering how the script will look in November)
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Post by floater on May 18, 2022 17:20:40 GMT -5
I'm wondering if all the abortion stuff getting so much media attention will cause a lot of people (in the center) to vote Democrat?
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Post by slaytan on May 19, 2022 4:54:35 GMT -5
I'm wondering if all the abortion stuff getting so much media attention will cause a lot of people (in the center) to vote Democrat? Some, but it also gives the media a narrative to run with if the dumbocrats steal it. “See? People were upset about Roe!” But I don’t think the dumbs are going to cheat much this year. They may, but I think they’re going to “lay low” on cheating in case they need to steal it again from Trump, and are counting on all their double agents (the Romneys, Cheneys, Flakes, etc) running as republicans to make any red wave an illusion -like it always is. Voters: “Yaaay, red wave!” Republican controlled congref: solidify Ministry of Truth, further degrade voting integrity, open doors wider for illegal immigrants and drugs media: “republican congress to blame for energy policy, food shortages, crime!!” 2024: Biden breaks another record in votes, handily re elected
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Post by ghostoftc on May 19, 2022 8:42:26 GMT -5
The Ministry of Truth has already been disbanded.
I'm gonna point out the same thing I've pointed out to my friends who have a similar age/perspective as Lord Slaygarth.
The parties aren't static monoliths. They do change but people don't notice.
Take AOC as a perfect example. The guy she primaried and replaced was second in line behind Pelosi in terms of power within the party. Her arrival via eating such a big fish signaled the shift further into the socialist left for the dems.
Bernie was on track to be their nominee. Biden was all the old guard had to counter it. And the "counter" was to run Biden on Bernie's platform. The faces at the top didn't change. Hence: few see any changes. The faces stay the same. The policy they push is what's changed.
1980 "Racial Jungle" Biden's 2022 press secretary is a black lesbian FFS.
A politician saying they "evolved" is just a veiled way to say they shifted position due to the lack of princple they built their career on. Play it up as enlightened thinking rather than the wishy-washy morals of the power hungry.
Trump was a similar shifting force in the GOP as AOC was in the Dems. He signaled a desire for nationalism and populism that was palpable and not served by any already in the GOP.
Point being that both parties moved further apart ideologically. To think we're about to get more of the same in November doesn't line up with what's been happening to both parties. They're both struggling to figure out their new identity. The primaries are fleshing those out.
Trump is something like 68-1 in his primary endorsements so far. Turnout in the Texas R primaries is up 27% from 2018 while the D's are only up 4% in the same time.
He's endorsing "America First" candidates, and they're winning. A lot of new blood is en route to DC. The exact opposite of the Neo-Cons who'd back a Ministry of Truth resurgence.
And then the table is set for him in 2024 to not just take back the presidency but arrive to a Congress with a majority in place that was elected on his platform and agenda.
So buck up, Buttercup. This red wave is gonna be quite a ride.
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Post by ghostoftc on May 19, 2022 8:54:07 GMT -5
Speaking of November, what is your confidence level in a red wave? I don't really dig into anything this far out but it is it too much optimism to expect a House and Senate to go towards red? (disclaimer: I know elections are fake and there is a global uniparty in control; just wondering how the script will look in November) No way is it too much optimism. Might feel like it in Minnesota though. Probably feels pretty weird over there in the Midwest's leftist stronghold right now. House and Senate are lined up to flip. I'm not positive on the number of retiring Dems but last check it was over 20. I bet it's closer to 30 now. The Senate is pretty much tied right now so it won't take much. The House is practically guaranteed to go R.
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Post by slaytan on May 19, 2022 14:12:43 GMT -5
Speaking of November, what is your confidence level in a red wave? I don't really dig into anything this far out but it is it too much optimism to expect a House and Senate to go towards red? (disclaimer: I know elections are fake and there is a global uniparty in control; just wondering how the script will look in November) No way is it too much optimism. Might feel like it in Minnesota though. Probably feels pretty weird over there in the Midwest's leftist stronghold right now. House and Senate are lined up to flip. I'm not positive on the number of retiring Dems but last check it was over 20. I bet it's closer to 30 now. The Senate is pretty much tied right now so it won't take much. The House is practically guaranteed to go R. Every time I get optimistic about politics, I go pessimistic at the eleventh hour and my pessimism proves right. Except 2016. I was optimistic about Trump’s chances, felt 100% certain he would win, but knew it was likely that the dems would steal it with no one the wiser (my belief is that she cheated, hard, but Trump stomped her so bad that he overcame it). Any of my hardcore fans (lol) would remember me saying so in 2016 “I have no doubt Trump will win, but no confidence he’ll be elected). In 2020, I called it totally. Democrats to steal election. BRB, gonna search the forum and quote myself
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Post by slaytan on May 19, 2022 14:35:28 GMT -5
So my buddy who was dead wrong in 08, 12, and 16 says Trump is going to steamroll Biden/Harris. I think he may be wrong again. Trump won by very few points in 2016, in a very few states, vs an overconfident Hillary who didn’t even visit or spend money in some of them. Black participation was low in 2016. It promises to be higher in 20 Hillary had zero charisma, and neither did Kaine. Kamala is, to me, very transparently nasty, but I do realize that she comes off impressive to schmucks. The global deep state has succeeded in creating bad news The demographic change that the left alternates between gloating over and calling a lunatic theory is 4 years further down the road The dumbocrats can brazenly cheat and get away with it. I guess I was singing the “dems are going to steal it” line a lot louder in real life. As they celebrated Trump’s impending victory, I told friends that the dems were going to steal it and invoked the terms “brazen,” “smash and grab/ daylight robbery.” I tried to bet money on it
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Post by MMAJim on May 23, 2022 13:46:39 GMT -5
I'm wondering if all the abortion stuff getting so much media attention will cause a lot of people (in the center) to vote Democrat? I realize Bill Maher operates as an entertainer and for his own interests. I thought as a very Pro-Choice guy, he was recently surprised to find out that the wonderfully progressive European countries are far more restrictive on abortion outside of the first trimester or so. Recent polls so a strong majority of people are against things like 3rd term abortions, partial birth abortions, etc. Leftists still seem to be ringing the bell for completely unrestricted abortion up to and partially through the birth canal. That might not be the winner they thought it was.
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Post by MMAJim on May 23, 2022 13:55:28 GMT -5
No way is it too much optimism. Might feel like it in Minnesota though. Probably feels pretty weird over there in the Midwest's leftist stronghold right now. House and Senate are lined up to flip. I'm not positive on the number of retiring Dems but last check it was over 20. I bet it's closer to 30 now. The Senate is pretty much tied right now so it won't take much. The House is practically guaranteed to go R. Every time I get optimistic about politics, I go pessimistic at the eleventh hour and my pessimism proves right. Except 2016. I was optimistic about Trump’s chances, felt 100% certain he would win, but knew it was likely that the dems would steal it with no one the wiser (my belief is that she cheated, hard, but Trump stomped her so bad that he overcame it). Any of my hardcore fans (lol) would remember me saying so in 2016 “I have no doubt Trump will win, but no confidence he’ll be elected). In 2020, I called it totally. Democrats to steal election. BRB, gonna search the forum and quote myself It is definitely a weird scenario in a lot of the Midwest. Based on the way most people (all races and sexes included) live and their likely actual beliefs, more are conservative on most topics. However, MSM and popular media are still strong for a lot of people. Maybe 10%, which is actually a large number, are actually digging deeper than the CNN version of reality, but a lot of Midwest-nice people with a solid middle-class-ish lifestyle still just ingest MSM and Social Media Bots and call it good. A lot of people still just avoiding logical thought processes.
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Post by boboplata on May 27, 2022 8:02:47 GMT -5
Cigarette free since 2017 but our gubmint slapped us with flavor ban on vape products. They want us to keep smoking cancer sticks because Philip Morris told them too.
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Post by cybergod on May 30, 2022 16:06:59 GMT -5
www.c-span.org/video/?4747307/user-clip-sen-graham-asks-military-tribunalsLindsey Graham, during Judge Kavanaugh's SC confirmation hearings, had some interesting questions about civilians being tried in military courts. The answer is YES. They can be. Now, why in the world would such a topic come up? Oh yeah, the new GitMo Courthouse in Cuba is still under construction, with no interruptions or delays.... BTW, the video above has been deleted! Truly shocking, I know. But it can be found on www.therx.com, in the Political Forum, on page 5 of the thread entitled "LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO...DEVOLUTION."
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Post by ghostoftc on Jun 1, 2022 13:56:58 GMT -5
So. That Campbell Soup kid looking motherfuker up in Canada that is apparently their prime minister has decided to freeze handgun sales.
This is both scary and hilarious. It's scary because it's straight up totalitarian bullshit. It's hilarious because there's like four hundred million handguns just to the south of that country.
Has Canada successfully eliminated the drug importation business? Do the cartels not have legitimate businesses set up in Canada already? First answer is no and the second answer is yes. Therefore, Campbell Soup kid may have just created the largest black market for handguns in the world.
I mean, I've never been a fan of the Canadian government. And I've spent years on this board hearing from Canadiens how fantastic their government is. I wonder if they still feel the same way now? Because if they do, they're frogs in the slow boiling water.
It would be actually great if in 2024 Trump wins and then 2025 we just Annex Canada. "You are now a territory. You pay taxes but you have no say. Seems like that's what you wanted anyway."
But, I guess the bright side is that we could see this as an opportunity to call all of those leftist dip shitz on their Bluff. You want to get rid of guns in this country? Take a look at that Utopia up north! No guns up there. Get your ass up there right now! You said you were going to go 5 years ago and you never did. Now's your chance to be true to your word.
Oh? What? You mean magnanimous Canada in all of their socialist Glory are not going to actually let you move to their country? Holyshit! That is racist, right? Right?
Oh wait. It's only racist when the United States doesn't want people moving in haphazardly. My bad. Forgot about the rules for thee and not for me bullshit.
I think it'll be pretty funny if Barack O'Jiden tries to get rid of 9mm bullets. Talk about a new black market.
I don't know what the fuck the Democrats you're thinking with all this gun control shit. They really think that people are going to take the thousands of dollars worth of self-defense equipment that they've purchased over the years and just turn it in because they trust the government? That's like backwards thinking. People who bought those guns did so because they don't trust the government to protect them in the first place. Why the fuck would they give their guns to the government? I'm sure some Dumbfoundead dip shitz are going to have solutely do it but the fact of the matter is the overwhelming majority or just going to laugh and be like come fucking get them.
After Sandy Hook Connecticut tried to ban a ton of semi-automatic weapons. It just failed miserably because law enforcement said they were not going to go put their People In Harm's Way to collecting guns from people who hadn't broken any laws.
The whole left-wing agenda is a bunch of unattainable goals. Climate change. Can't be stopped by the government. Universal abortion. States rights issue and the Supreme Court knows it. Gun control. Talk about pie-in-the-sky? There are more than 700 million guns in this country. You are never going to eliminate them. So rather than attempting that, the logical step with regards to school shootings is to Simply harden schools and make them impossible targets.
The town I live in rebuilt its Elementary School a couple of years after Columbine. Before my first kid started his first year the school had the parents come for a tour. That place is a fortress. You have to be buzzed in. Exiting a side door during the day sets off the fire alarm. Every 15 feet in the hallways there are bulletproof barriers that can be Unleashed from the wall in the event there is an active shooter. The shooter would literally be trapped, gassed, and then wake up in prison.
The glass on the first floor is one way so you cannot see into the school. It was built with the reverse castle doctrine concept that they use for prisons. And while the metaphor that school is prison is probably kind of accurate, the truth is those kids need to be safe while they are there.
Granted, I live in a state that has never had a school shooting. And we are constitutional carry up here as well so the violent crime rate is usually either the best or within the top five in the country every year. Democrats don't want to admit that hard targets are not things lazy criminals look for. They don't want to admit that when you go constitutional carry anyone could have a gun which makes everyone a hard target.
Overall I'm still pretty optimistic that the Democrats get absolutely fucking steamrolled in November. But, I think I'm realistic enough now to realize that that is likely because of our economic situation and a lot less to do with all of the social bulshit causes the Democrats are pushing. Our economy is taking repeated Mike Tyson uppercuts and I think that is going to be the big driving force.
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Post by ghostoftc on Jun 10, 2022 8:19:18 GMT -5
So I started thinking about way back in the day. I'm talking more than 20 years ago.
Tito Ortiz was a thing. His website was one of the first fighter pages to have a message board. And I was on that board.
Overtime I eventually became a moderator. I literally had the ability to delete posts or edit posts. If you said something fucking retarded I could go in and make it even more retarded.
And if you think I didn't do that you're fucking crazy. I was a teenager with an axe to grind with everything.
People would get amazingly pissed off to find their words had been twisted or changed or just straight-up deleted. The power was addicting.
And that was just me as a douchebag late teenager early twenties type person. No political ideology driving me at all. No belief that I was actually working towards some kind of esoteric greater good. Nope. Just a punk ass teenager that someone gave us authority to.
Got me thinking about the people who were in a similar situation on the various social media sites. The level of power that these dinks have is too significant for politically-driven skin suits.
And their level of fuckary got so bad that the richest man in the world actually tries to step in and buy the platform. I can't fucking wait for this deal to go through. Heads are going to roll and I want to be there to watch the role of cross the floor. These are the motherfuckers that have been manipulating everything from behind the scenes. From Zuckerberg to that little faget Dorsey. It is so pathetically obvious what the agenda is now.
And I have to say, even as a parent, dead children do not pull on my heartstrings to the point where I'm going to make the irrational choice to hand over my guns.
And isn't it kind of funny how the only things the left seem to push these days all have emotional price tags? Every fucking issue these idiots put forward is designed to make you feel bad. It's designed to make you feel like something isn't your fault and you need to fall in line with their bulshit in order to correct your own mistakes. The problem is is that there are some of us out here in the country who are smarter than anyone that has ever been in politics. We're not going to fall for your stupid bullshit. We know the difference between a logical decision versus an emotional choice.
Which is exactly why we aren't their target audience. Instead they go after people too stupid to see through their bullshit. Children and fat white women who ate their feelings for the last 20 years and have run out of space so they are spilling their feelings out on the rest of the world.
Baphs posted the other thread got me thinking about how United States is like the Flagship of the whole damn planet and we have allowed pathetic ideas and weak individuals to take the Forefront. No surprise to me that the Communists bulshit is emanating from urban areas as well. You're never going to see an AOC elected in a rural area.
I really hate to wish the summer away because it's truly the best time of the year in the area I live in. But God damn it. Make it November tomorrow.
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Post by MMAJim on Jun 14, 2022 10:56:58 GMT -5
I think there are legions of goofs that effortlessly rationalize immoral acts, especially in tech areas. Whether it is ideological teachers, algorithm tweakers, or mid range government employees, they retain a righteousness that they have absolute belief in. Obviously this has and can happen on either end of the political spectrum or for any ideology. Right now tech platforms, voting machines, etc amplify their reach. I still believe it is a minority of people with oversized ability to influence data and/or perception of data. I'm not as optimistic about the mid-term elections and I believe the course correction has to maintain it's vigor through 2024 elections and really through 2028 to be successful. My optimism lies in some belief that Facebook/Twitter/MSM have been exposed enough that their impact on perception will continue to wain. Counterpoint - there are a lot of idiots out there. I think it can be hard for above average intellect types (allow me to include myself in that category) to really understand how shallow the thought process is for many people though.
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Post by da prez on Jun 16, 2022 15:34:07 GMT -5
Everybody cares about everything till the new iPhone comes out, then their life is all about that.
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