***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[rexanglorum]

Italian Americans got to give up on Columbus. One Hundred years ago, Catholics were kind of treated like PoC and that changed after the Second World War and Columbus statues were a symbol of that. But Catholic/Italian equality with WASPs only meant that they became white (which speaks to how fluid whiteness really is). Columbus was a monster and BIPoC have every right to rip down his statues.

I am a descendant of both the early English and Spanish colonizers and both were evil, they committed atrocities on par with the Nazis. If BIPoC want to decolonize statues of John Smith and/or Portola, go right ahead. I would even understand if they rip down statues of Yankee abolitionist though I wish they would reconsider that.

 

[rexanglorum]

A lot of elected Democrats are like DWalk, complicit with a right wing agenda but willing to performatively regret that agenda whenever the human costs cannot be ignored.

 

[Methodical Management]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-marshals-told-to-prepare-to-help-protect-monuments-nationwide-as-trump-targets-people-who-vandalize-structures-during-protests/2020/06/24/08588004-b67d-11ea-a8da-693df3d7674a_story.html

 

[rolaholic]

Almost as if catastrophically bungling the handling of a global pandemic, threatening citizens protesting for civil rights with military force, attacking and demonizing any and all groups outside of your primary base along with ceaseless and remorseless corruption aren't winning strategies in an election year...

 

[equality]

I don't trust a god damn poll until November is over. Hell I'm not even believing elections are happening until after November. This is where I am with political cynicism

 

[rolaholic]

I don't trust a god damn poll until November is over. Hell I'm not even believing elections are happening until after November. This is where I am with political cynicism

I usually don't either but the trends in all those states that he won in '16 are not looking good at all for him...

He's literally done nothing to expand his base and has done everything in his power to turn off any potential gains by preaching exclusively to his own diminishing choir while alienating every single other demographic.

Getting to the point where I don't think Joe needs to even say a single word from now until November and I'd still believe these trends would hold strictly off the strength of 45's 'strategy' of self-destruction/sabotage

 

[dathirstisreal]

I don't trust a god damn poll until November is over. Hell I'm not even believing elections are happening until after November. This is where I am with political cynicism

i'm not believing polls till we see this clown out of office.

 

[GoldzNTreez]

Say goodbye to secure data.

Ik ik

I totally get where you're coming from, king. We have a president who literally is a reality TV show host who enjoys disregarding expertise, particularly when it is most needed. However, Idiocracy is based on an ideology of neoliberalism as well as general misanthropy and eugenics.

Who is smart? In Idiocracy and in much of our society, smart people are those who enjoy formal academic achievement and who make lots of money. Both are mostly functions of social power. Parental resources divided by number of siblings. If getting good grades and having money is the a barometer of who is smart then Donald Trump is smart.

The degree to which we deviated from a real and imagined mid 20th century defined by dignity and democracy for the average person and descended into dehumanization, crassness and oligarchy is a function of material changes in our society and not a failure of the bourgeoisie to breed and an excess of breeding among the working class.

If we want to avoid a further slide into a world defined by inhumanity and unchecked and arrogant leadership, embrace the inherent worth in your fellow man. Believe that everyone, no matter their profession, station in life or degree of eloquence is just as worthy as the next man. From that belief, develop a praxis that turns those beliefs into public policy. In time, the blessings of plenty and leisure will fall on everyone and we will both reject sophomoric tyrants and we will also see even the humblest and meanest of man enjoy what we now consider to be high culture.

If we decide that some people are good and worthy and some are bad and unworthy, we will live in a world of Idiocracy with the key difference being that we will not last, as a species, for 500 more years. If we divide ourselves up, we will be lucky to make it five more decades.

5?? No way

 

[BaltimoreLove]

i wouldnt count trump up depending on how the second stimulous bill does it could shake things up...

 

[IATT]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-marshals-told-to-prepare-to-help-protect-monuments-nationwide-as-trump-targets-people-who-vandalize-structures-during-protests/2020/06/24/08588004-b67d-11ea-a8da-693df3d7674a_story.html

 

[BaltimoreLove]

'out

 

[IATT]

more lies on a black man dwalk31

 

[IATT]

 

[hipstermike]

Opinion | Can We Call Trump a Killer? (Published 2020)

There is no way to remove his culpability in the neglectful handling of the coronavirus.

www.nytimes.com

 

[equality]

I swear to god I can actually see agent orange say to himself "we're so great we break all records"

 

[rolaholic]

Pretty cool to see in VA of all places

 

[IATT]

Ay southern black American expert dwalk31 we need your thoughts

 

[DLF]

Pretty cool to see in VA of all places

First muslim? But what about Obama?

 

[aepps20]

First muslim? But what about Obama?

Obummer was a Muslim so this is clout chasing but that's all Libbies do.

 

[rolaholic]

First muslim? But what about Obama?

 

[DLF]

Yes it worked!!!

 

[rolaholic]

Yes it worked!!!

All these grey market aepps20 's coming out of the woodwork recently has been funny to see

 

[DLF]

All these grey market aepps20 's coming out of the woodwork recently has been funny to see

i aint a grey market aepps20 . Im the Obama, basement ultra fake knockoff version of him. I don't even belong in the same sentence as the godfather. Put some respek on his name.

 

[aepps20]

All these grey market aepps20 's coming out of the woodwork recently has been funny to see

#4COALSMEN is a movement. LIBS ARE DUN.

 

[rolaholic]