***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[cubanref]

Feel bad for the Russians though that are just getting sent out to die

How much are Russian soldiers being paid to fight Putin's war?

Last summer, the Russian government raised military salaries by 10.5% to try to entice people to sign up.

www.forcesnews.com

From my understanding, the majority going to Ukraine right now are not being forced and are getting paid.

 

[IATT]

 

[mplsdunk]

How much are Russian soldiers being paid to fight Putin's war?

Last summer, the Russian government raised military salaries by 10.5% to try to entice people to sign up.

www.forcesnews.com

From my understanding, the majority going to Ukraine right now are not being forced and are getting paid.

I figured he was just throwing everyone out there like he was in the beginning, guess not. I'm watching it now.

I knew he had contractors out there but I didn't know it was all voluntary now. thanks

 

[Wargames]

The sin of empathy? Isn’t the golden rule…. Empathy? The Good Samaritan is empathy with sympathy? So many false Christian’s out there trying to judge others.

 

[mplsdunk]

damn, so after watching that vid he really has no reason to end the war. it's propping up their whole economy and the oligarchs are paying for it.

 

[IATT]

Anyone with a brain gotta know how this going play out

Same goes for whenever they get around to whatever trans laws they end up passing (remember all the things that got said about Serena when she was beating up on sharapova and the other white girls)

 

[cubanref]

damn, so after watching that vid he really has no reason to end the war. it's propping up their whole economy and the oligarchs are paying for it.

As of right now he has no reason to end it but things change so who knows what happens in the next few months. Maybe those oligarchs get tired of losing money and turn on him I enjoy the different perspectives from the channel about game theory and politics. Good stuff IMO.

 

[mplsdunk]

then the middle class and combat veterans turn on him too.

yeah it, that vid was solid.

 

[kdawg]

We’ve got a crazy storm here today. We don’t get much extreme weather but for the first time in my memory we’ve got the top level warning and the government is advising everyone to stay home - schools are shut and most stores are too.

The local anti-vaxxers are going nuts - apparently nowhere else in the world does this and it’s just the government trying to control us.

 

[freeze]

The sin of empathy? Isn’t the golden rule…. Empathy? The Good Samaritan is empathy with sympathy? So many false Christian’s out there trying to judge others.

And he's saying you need to hate appropriately lmaoooo. Nowhere in the Bible does it tell you to hate others, but instead love them as God loves you .

These trumpets are some of the dumbest people on earth. And they have a voice.

 

[freeze]

 

[IATT]

 

[freeze]

Imagine having this much hate in you. Petty Wap

 

[whoisthisguy]

And this is why ppl are turning away from Christianity because of bs like this!

Can’t believe ppl fall for this ish too! God gave a brain to know from right & wrong, but I know these fake Christians will choose to hate.

 

[rolaholic]

 

[atlsfinest]

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Obama the goat.
The progressive campaign to smear him and minimize his presidency was bad.

 

[mister friendly]

the truth hurts unfortunately

How can Canada not be influenced by the US?

Trump is talking about tariffs that will affect Canadian economy.

Half of your media sources are American, when I lived there, it didn’t seem like there was much of difference between the 2 countries.

 

[biggie62]

And he's saying you need to hate appropriately lmaoooo. Nowhere in the Bible does it tell you to hate others, but instead love them as God loves you .

These trumpets are some of the dumbest people on earth. And they have a voice.

That’s because non of them actually read the Bible. They get their religious information from evangelical pastors who sway the material a certain way.

Certain Catholic priests do the same thing to people. Until I went to HS and listened to a Jesuit homily did I realize just how much and how it changed the tone of the messaging.

 

[TooOlfForThisIsh]

Obama the goat.
The progressive campaign to smear him and minimize his presidency was bad.

Did the cut off the part where he talked about mass raids and deportation? Kids in cages? Because that’s what the left has mostly objected to.

Or did I miss the part where the official Democratic platform started advocating for mass amnesty?

I guess, what evidence do you have that the Democratic party -and not some blue haired TikToker or brocaster- departed from this approach to a pathway to citizenship for long-time residents - which is what this clip is about?

None of that has been the focus of the immigration debate over the last decade. The crisis was created by Congress not funding the mandate of our refugee laws. The only solutions for this are to ignore the laws, like Trump did, or to adequately fund the mechanisms for processing refugees, like Biden did until Trump broke the deal.

Refugees aside, any serious conversation on immigration must begin with the economic root causes. Addressing the lack of opportunities in foreign countries is beyond the immediate scope of the American government, but it can do something about the insatiable demand for exploitable labor within American industry. Any conversation that does not begin with the economic fact that all immigration to the United States is enabled and predicated on our labor markets is deeply unserious. Obama, like all of his predecessors was too afraid of the consequences of doing exactly that.

 

[TooOlfForThisIsh]

That’s because non of them actually read the Bible. They get their religious information from evangelical pastors who sway the material a certain way.

Certain Catholic priests do the same thing to people. Until I went to HS and listened to a Jesuit homily did I realize just how much and how it changed the tone of the messaging.

The Jesuits are probably the most redeemable part of the Catholic Church.

That or their fashion sense.

The embrace of 21st century post-dispensationalist prosperity theology by mainstream, non-evangelical, Republican is super scary to me. As a former manager once told me, “Fear the religious: you can justify any evil once you think God is on your side.”

 

[WASHED KING]

The sin of empathy? Isn’t the golden rule…. Empathy? The Good Samaritan is empathy with sympathy? So many false Christian’s out there trying to judge others.

The right has bastardized Christianity as a tool to spew their bigotry behind the guise of religion.

When I tell people I grew up in the church now I always have to include the disclaimer I'm black, I went a black church and we don't do those weird hate and shaming things white Christians in the news who are always the loudest voices be doing.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

How can Canada not be influenced by the US?

Trump is talking about tariffs that will affect Canadian economy.

Half of your media sources are American, when I lived there, it didn’t seem like there was much of difference between the 2 countries.

It can't not be influenced. as a result Canada tends to just copy whatever America does but on like 2 year delay.

 

[sfc415]

Like biggie62 I went to a Catholic Jesuit high school, and that’s probably the only time I didn’t hate being in a Christian environment as an atheist.

We had a monthly mass and had to take one semester of religion class in our first year, but other than that, there was zero judgement or conversion attempts on non religious people.

99% of anything related to religion was them trying to mold the students into good people regardless of belief (which doesn’t work on a student population of rich snobby white kids, but that’s besides the point).

Our monthly mass was basically “Be responsible, respect people of all backgrounds, help poor people” etc. which are universal concepts. All the optional student retreats involved going to countries all over the world to help the locals, regardless of what the dominant religion in those countries was.

Even in our religion class, we were basically told “you don’t have to take these stories literally. No one knows for sure what happened thousands of years ago, but you can learn the lessons of the stories and still learn about evolution and science. Just be a good person”

It was a stark contrast to what I’ve dealt with in real life when dealing with Christians in general

 

[WASHED KING]

Growing up in the rural south everyone in church had something going on, kids out of wedlock, substance abuse, a few arrests and it was a small town so everyone knew everyone.

Throwing stones from a glass house would've been an understatement. I didn't meet weird Christians until undergrad and we had this "pastor" who would come on campus periodically and tell us we were going to hell.