The All Things Political Topic - What's Going On...?

[Gfted1]

^You dont even want to look at tuna too closely. All that mercury can potentially booger up your reproduction.

[Lexx]

Not sure about that. The EU is extremely anal about such things, so I kind of have a hart time imagining that stuff like this would really slip through here like that (someone prove me wrong).

Edited Tuesday at 12:59 PM by Lexx

[majestic]

Canned tuna isn't so bad as ironically the cheaper tuna variants used for canning are less contaminated - probably should not stuff your face with thuna sashimi every day though. Don't see anyone making a case for tuna being a superfood (if anything influences would probably try to pawn you some omega 3 supplements).

If you don't know, matcha is made by grinding tencha leaves that you're then consuming along with the tea. Now, as long as you buy high quality matcha tea and keep your consumption below three grams per day that should not be an issue. Cheap Chiniese knockoffs might even contain some fun pesticides as a bonus though.  Spooning it into your breakfast bowl because some influencer told you it cures every disease on the planet? Yeah, probably not that bright of an idea. Not to mention expensive. 

To reiterate my main point, this is a case of cultural apporpriation that actually causes detrimental effects, with Japanese people complaining that Americans and Europeans buy up their matcha, leaving them with not enough for their ceremonies where making matcha is well beyond consuming the latest silly superfood hype. Unlike wearing dreads or wearing traditional Chinese garb as an American, where no one but the Twatteria cared. Well, and Fridays for Future, a youth protest movement complaining about the hairdo of people. WhenI was young, that used to be the favorite past time of old people. 

Just found it funny. Where are the sh*tstorms and cancellations?  

[Malcador]

 

 

[rjshae]

Technically, the US hasn't declared war since World War II, so we haven't really lost anything. These have all been Presidential actions, and unless Congress formally declares war you can't expect the full backing of the country or its economy. Hence the supposed lack of "victories". It has nothing to do with the name change.

I shudder to think what would happen if little Trump takes the US into another (non-internal) conflict.

[Hurlshort]

Does South Korea know we lost the Korean war? 

[Gorth]

5 hours ago, Hurlshort said:

Does South Korea know we lost the Korean war? 

You can’t really lose a war if it’s still ongoing, can you?

[Sarex]

Another round of protests in France. Starting to turn violent, as they usually do in France.

[uuuhhii]

france will do anything other than tax the rich

while still posture around as great power of europe after finally losing their west africa colony

[Bartimaeus]

Charlie Kirk assassinated by some white guy in his 60s while giving a speech at Utah Valley University. Boy, our country sure is in an interesting place right now, isn't it?

Utah just passed a "open carry at colleges is legal" law earlier this year, too...

"Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment"

Hey, as long as it's not you or your kids, I guess so, right? Well...one of those rare cases where some right wing piece of **** got the chance to actually practice what he preached, so good on him.

Edited 18 hours ago by Bartimaeus

[Malcador]

Is he actually dead ?  Granted I saw the video of the bullet hitting him and based on that blood flow, is likely. 

 

[uuuhhii]

who was that again

they couldn't find a better target than this

hardly worthy sequel of luigi

[Bartimaeus]

As someone who had an active Democratic lawmaker in my state get assassinated (and with a nearly successful attempt on another) earlier this year with barely a media peep while I now have to hear right-wing conspiracy theories from brain-impaired troglodytes in real life about how the shooter was actually under orders from Governor Tim Walz because he'd been appointed to some 60-member work/labor recommendations board back in 2011...

...

...I'm guessing this will be a little more of a stir-up than those assassinations.

Edited 17 hours ago by Bartimaeus

[Malcador]

Ah yeah, he's dead.

[Lexx]

So sad. Thoughts and prayers.

 

[Bartimaeus]

People shouldn't die for their beliefs. But I also think people's automatic response to schoolchildren getting murdered on the regular ideally shouldn't be saying absolutely psychotic **** like   i t ' s    s o m e t h i n g    w e ' r e    j u s t    g o i n g    t o    h a v e    t o    a c c e p t    b e c a u s e    f r e e    a c c e s s    t o    g u n s    f o r    a l l    a l w a y s    n o    m a t t e r    w h a t. . .  especially if it's not actually your friends or family that are the ones being sacrificed by and for this mad, sick country. Like, talk about being hoisted by your own petard in a nasty fit of cosmic vengeance. The only country where this happens, and we've tried almost nothing to prevent it, and the little we have tried has been stupid and misguided, and it's all only going to get worse - especially as people are increasingly impoverished, isolated, radicalized, and deranged.

Increasingly, I think the U.S. might well be facing something its own version of Ireland's The Troubles over the next decade or two... It's not going to be pretty.

Edited 12 hours ago by Bartimaeus

[ShadySands]

School shooting today in my kid's district too

[Pidesco]

If you want clarity on what to think of this, Charlie Kirk got you covered. 

 

https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-its-worth-have-cost-unfortunately-some-gun-deaths-every-single-year-so-we

[rjshae]

Charlie who? Well my sympathies for his family.

The radical right live in their own alternate version of reality, so I'm not expecting much reliable information about this event from them. Hopefully the legal investigation is more productive.

[BruceVC]

The Charlie Kirk killing is really unfortunate and sad , he had 2 young kids and its yet another example of the rampant gun violence in the US and how some extremists on the left and right believe the best solution if you disagree with someone politically  is to kill them

I watched several of his Campus debates and as usual with this type of commentator I agreed and disagreed with him on different topics 

But he was very good at engaging with young people and lots of young  people on both sides of the political aisle use to debate him

It will interesting to see who shot him when  he is caught because it could be  an extremist  from any one of several groups because Kirk would have angered several different groups of people that could include 

• anti-Israel group
• pro-Palestinian group
• BLM group
• Radical Left group 
• Neo-Nazi group
• Mentally unbalanced person 

 

 

[Lexx]

I really hate those campus debates. You beat a student in some bait political topic? Wow, good job! And then they placate it all over the internet to show how their ideology is superior while cutting out all the scenes that make them look bad. Already hated wife-beater Steven Crowder back when he did it. Those people do nothing but rile up people and I have no sympathy whatsoever left for them.

Edited 6 hours ago by Lexx

[BruceVC]

2 hours ago, Pidesco said:

If you want clarity on what to think of this, Charlie Kirk got you covered. 

 

https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-its-worth-have-cost-unfortunately-some-gun-deaths-every-single-year-so-we

Yes he did believe that, its not as insensitive as you suggesting and he clarified this on several occasions and he had ideas around how to reduce gun violence 

But he fundamentally believed in the  2nd Amendment

Millions of Americans do and its unfortunate we conflate the rampant gun violence and its causes  in the US with the right to bear arms 

 

 

[BruceVC]

3 minutes ago, Lexx said:

I really hate those campus debates. You beat a student in some bait political topic? Wow, good job! And then they placate it all over the internet to show how their ideology is superior while cutting out all the scenes that make them look bad. Already hated wife-beater Steven Crowder back when he did it. Those people do nothing but rile up people and I have no sympathy whatsoever left for them.

Yet dozens of students use to come out to debate him?

I think its much better to encourage debate like this than to shut it down 

 

The YT titles are often sensationalized and stupid, " Kirk OWNS\Destroys Liberal\Woke student " but I use to ignore that and just listen to the debate 

He never use to "destroy " anyone, he made his points and then the students use to agree or disagree 

 

 

[Lexx]

5 minutes ago, BruceVC said:

Yet dozens of students use to come out to debate him?

They are stupid and don't know better. It's mostly just bad faith arguments anyways, or who shouts over the other louder. At least that's what I remember from Crowder back in the days. Not feeling the mood to look into that again.

[BruceVC]

2 minutes ago, Lexx said:

They are stupid and don't know better. It's mostly just bad faith arguments anyways, or who shouts over the other louder. At least that's what I remember from Crowder back in the days. Not feeling the mood to look into that again.

I dont know if they are stupid because he provided a platform and medium where students could engage on issues

I cant recall many  people shouting in the videos, people disagreed with him and then they debated certain points. The ones I watched were almost always the same, students asked him questions on his views and he clarified why he believed what he believed 

He was always calm and he use to listen but he generally made the same counter arguments on the issues that were raised 

Here is just one example, like I said I didnt watch hundreds of his debates but this is a good example of the nature of how he engaged and his belief in freedom of speech . Its only 15 minutes, the female student he is engaging is really well informed, disagrees with him and yet really enjoys the debate. This is the type of debate Kirk created and its lacking in most of our societies. Its not about who " won " or " lost ", both of them made good points  (and again ignore the YT title, the actual debate is much more nuanced than that )