***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[mister friendly]

the problem is adding highways, or highway lanes doesn't reduce congestion.

each lane added create more demand, which creates traffic.

only way to reduce congestion is more transit options, like light rail or bike lanes, ect

or congestion pricing to force people to use existing public transit.

What cities have great public transit? New York?

I’m sure there’s a few others in the NE?

 

[aepps20]

Explains how he was able to put paws on da Bear

 

[Wargames]

These mother ****ers don't know One goddamn LGBTQ+ person...strike that...they know PLENTY of them...AND LIKE THEM...BUT DON'T KNOW! Meanwhile most of us that grew up outside of HumpuhFrog Mississippi/Arkansas/Kansas/Montana/Missouri/Tennessee/Alabama/Indiana/Ohio have run into all sorts of people and KNOW there isn't a ******* thing wrong with them. If that makes me sound elite...**** it...give me some expensive wine and a rare cheese plate ...

This is it. If you look at it from the lense of what our Geo-political rivals want….Trump & the GOP are literally handling and destabilizing America on their behalf. They’ve already done it by discrediting media here, and SUCCESSFULLY creating “alternative facts”.

People thought Kellyane was joking or talking crazy when she said that. She meant it.

Putin, Xi, Netanyahu are literally getting everything on a silver platter. Stuff of history books. I still think the Snowden thing ties deeply. Because you keep seeing Tucker, Bannon etc banging that drum too.

Wait explain the Snowden part cause everything else I can see

 

[wavycrocket]

Wait explain the Snowden part cause everything else I can see

To keep it simple. Snowden is connected to Mike Flynn, Bannon, Greenwald, Thiel, Musk etc. He’s part of that orbit.

He did what is called a “limited hangout.” What he released, was largely already known by US citizens for decades. Black peoples have been screaming about the FBI/Govt illegal surveillance forever. Snowden gave Like 95% of the files to Greenwald (who promised to release them) only to archive and never release those. Snowden is now a Russian citizen, who only criticizes the Democratic Party in the Us.

He’s someone who’s regularly quoted on Twitter by Musk etc…..and the entire post left orbit + right wing reactionaries and trumpers are still caping for him. Tucker, Alex Jones, every single one of them.

I’ll leave a few of these here (they weren’t unwitting) :

The Silicon Valley tech bros played a long game…and they may have won



One of the most effective Psyops I’ve ever seen. And media/publications took their money, did PR and elevated them to the masses as forward thinkers. When in reality, they were just new age tech oligarchs. No different from the oil and gas tycoons etc from before. Same people who taught children the games of Monopoly and Tycoon as being aspirational.

Try rewatching the show Sillicon Valley, The Social Network movie, Snowden movie, or any of the hundreds talk shows and publications that these guys used to launder their image. Same thing.

They’re not unwitting

The Snowden Files Ten Years Later

Glenn Greenwald was heralded as a progressive hero for his reporting, but the reality is that he was always a terrible journalist.

thebanter.substack.com

The crazy part is, Trump specifically outlined all of this, many times out in the open. Like all of his crimes . Easy to see. Putin’s greatest achievement, was actually weakening its adversary. The US. And there is something remarkable about that.

I still know left wing people that look at dude as some sort of hero too.

Snowden, Assange, Greenwald etc etc really done did a number with that Limited Hangout they did.

The stuff of Spy novels for real. **** crazy. Only beginning to scratch the surface of how effective an oppression on the west that Putin has run.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

conservatives don't want medicare for all...but they want nationalized personal training??

 

[Mark Antony]

They're getting closer to justifying universal basic income under cruel conservative reasons. Maybe overweight transgender folks should protest it.

 

[mplsdunk]

@ the government giving you anything organic.

 

[rexanglorum]

conservatives don't want medicare for all...but they want nationalized personal training??

They're getting closer to justifying universal basic income under cruel conservative reasons. Maybe overweight transgender folks should protest it.

We need a voucher program to buy Alex Jones supplements.

No one gets healthier but Alex Jones gets back in his feet and the colloidal silver sector gets a huge boost.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

@ the government giving you anything organic.

the same party that wants to cut SNAP benefits to pay for a giant cut corporate tax cut

is gunna give people organic food and free personal trainer???


this is all so dumb.

 

[rexanglorum]

@ the government giving you anything organic.

Rappers in the 2040’s going to be talking about how they grew up on government quinoa and kale when they were younger.

Trump 2.0 gotta combine the subtle cruelty of the Reagan Era with modern right wing brain rot.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

The sad thing is Ozempic shaming seems really popular, this might be the normie view.

it feels like people would prefer fat people get diabetes and lose a foot

before they let em take a "shortcut"

 

[Wargames]

Idiots will agree with them

The sad thing is Ozempic shaming seems really popular, this might be the normie view.

it feels like people would prefer fat people get diabetes and lose a foot

before they let em take a "shortcut"

Like everything else with these people the cruelty is the point

 

[wavycrocket]

The sad thing is Ozempic shaming seems really popular, this might be the normie view.

it feels like people would prefer fat people get diabetes and lose a foot

before they let em take a "shortcut"

And now you understand ‘Merica

This is the same country where people literally rather die, than give black people equal rights . The same country that will refuse to eliminate student debt for their own children and next generation of Americans after them….because it’s a “hand out or shortcut”

That’s the American way.

 

[platonjk]

I think its more about not taking a medicine that a private company is profiting insanely off and giving them even MORE money.

The greatest thing the "eat the rich' left ever figured out was how to convince people they aren't for the ultra-rich.

 

[Belgium]

I’m not sure how much of an issue it is but over here there have been shortages of Ozempic for diabetics due to the rise in off-label prescriptions for rapid weight loss.

I think as long as a sufficient supply for the diabetics can be maintained, by all means go ahead and use ozempic to help reduce the harms of obesity

 

[mplsdunk]

 

[Belgium]

aepps20
Guess what Twitch username I just found in my digital trash...
Could this be a sign you may ascend to the patriot version of Hasan Piker?

 

[biggie62]

aepps20
Guess what Twitch username I just found in my digital trash...
Could this be a sign you may ascend to the patriot version of Hasan Piker?

Who wants to create a grifter/troll podcast

 

[frink85]

Aside from the obvious folks with T2DM needing it, obesity is real and if a drug helps then great especially for morbid obesity.

There is a problem with celebrities/influencers pushing it and folks who are slightly overweight or just looking to drop a few pounds paying $$$$ for it.

Hollywood’s new secret to losing weight is a diabetes injection

Elon Musk has admitted to using a diabetes drug for his recent weight loss.

nypost.com

Using Ozempic for 'Minor' Weight Loss: Fair or Foul?

Ozempic is already sometimes difficult to find. Now those who are using to drop a few pounds are making it harder for those who need it.

www.webmd.com

But a day at her local med spa – where she gets facials, Botox, and fillers – changed all that for the 28-year-old hairstylist who just wanted to lose 18 pounds.

During one of her visits, she noticed that the spa’s owner was thinner. When Raibick asked her how she did it, the owner explained that she was on semaglutide and talked Raibick through the process. Raibick was convinced. That same day, she got a prescription from a doctor at the spa and got her first shot.

“Are people going to think I’m crazy for doing this?” she recalls thinking.

At 5-foot-4, her starting weight before the drug was 158, which would put her in the overweight, but not obese, category based on body mass index (BMI). And she really just wanted to get down to 140 and stop there.

“It's not about the way people look, it's about health. If you’re a normal weight or even in an overweight category, but not showing signs of risk of having elevated cardiometabolic disease. … You don't need to be taking medications for weight loss,” she said. “This idea of using medications for aesthetic reasons is really more related to societal ills around how we value thinness above anything else. That's not the goal, and it's not safe.”

 

[Belgium]

Who wants to create a grifter/troll podcast

Tbh I kinda wanna see how much a right wing grifter would pay for it.
Twitch is abysmal for gaining engagement as a brand new streamer. With an "OG username" though, you can attract followers much more easily.
My personal Twitch account, which I don't name, has roughly 7k followers on Twitch simply from people checking out my profile due to the username, despite the fact I will never stream.

In the "OG marketplace", we refer to these kind of usernames as "Niche OGs", meaning they can fill a niche and attract people, followers, ... more easily simply off of the name. This can then eventually lead to monetizing it, if the account is run properly.

Because of the name "Conservative" and the right skillset, they could in theory become the de facto face of conservatism on Twitch. Literally.

I know I'm going off-topic again but just a reminder of how the "OG username" business works, since it is increasingly more tied to monetization and politics.
My IG @MarkRubio for example used to mock him for being Trump's lapdog but the Senator actually went to IG and got them to take my username away and give it to Rubio at some point.

Rule 1:
Every username of value on any given valuable platform is taken. Only exceptions are brand new things, like a fresh new brand or sports player no one could have accounted for

Rule 2:
OGs are valued in 2 different categories. The first is just to boast, look cool, or show it off as a valuable status symbol. The other kind are "Niche OGs", which can fullfil both roles but is generally meant for improving social media growth and eventual monetization.

Rule 3:
The overwhelming majority of buyers fall in the first category, they just want a cool unique name, maybe show off, ...
Only a relatively small minority buys the "Niche OGs", and these tend to be big spenders. Often involved in running one or more lucrative social media pages.


I once talked to a very wealthy Saudi Arabian buyer who expressed that he bought the instagram "G" and some other 1 character IG username for him and his brother (the IGs later got stolen via SIM-swap) because in his view, everyone around him in Dubai was already filthy rich. Everyone had or can buy the same cars, the mansions, the tigers, ... but only 1 man can have a specific 1 username. And of course, 1 character usernames are the epitome of rarity, as there can only be 26 + 9 at most if you exclude inactive or banned ones.
This was a very valuable conversation I'll probably never forget. Indeed, the shorter the usernames, the more likely you're gonna get interest from wealthy Arab buyers.
For this Saudi person it was his only way of flexing in a way that no one around him could match, despite all having insane wealth.

To bring us back to politics, remember Milo Yiannopolous? He is most definitely not the original owner of the twitter username Nero

 

[rolaholic]

 

[jshortt]

Greatest victory of all time. I've been saying it forever.

Pay a few influencers and set up some bot farms and they not only crippled US internationally but actually got an entire administration and half the country to more or less support their ambitions.

Even crazier cause all these boomers actually lived through the cold war and still completely flipped.

Propaganda is a hell of a drug.

This has been absolutely wild to witness. These old bastsrds that lived through the "better dead than red" era are actively siding with Russia in the war with Ukraine because they believe this nonsense they're being fed. Like what are we even doing here?

 

[LD7]

Suffering from Jan ‘25-29 is the only way for America to learn how utterly ridiculous Trump and his MAGA cult/dream is.

To make Canada and Mexico feel as if they’re no longer allies is a playground mistake. What happens to the bully when no one is afraid anymore and they lose the 1-2 friends they had left? We’ve all seen it, or experienced it.

I hope and pray that this country gets what it’s asking for, what it voted for, and what it deserves.

 

[dmbrhs]

So, Hunter doing crack means Biden needed to step down. RFK saying he did heroin, on top of his also crack use, deserves a cabinet position.

 

[rolaholic]