Random political thought thread.

[Virtual ghost]

Famed zoologist jailed for sexually abusing dozens of dogs

Police found weapons, sex toys and the remains of decomposing puppies at his property.

Saying that the dude had issues is evidently an understatement.

 

[The Cat]

I hate to be the one to say it, but his career prospects have just gone to the dogs.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

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You'll be over before it even notices.

It's the small miracles to be thankful for.

 

[The Cat]

 

[Virtual ghost]

German voters have high hopes for Kamala Harris


Germans would have solved this pretty quickly.

Harris 77%
Trump 10%



That is 67 point gap.

 

[Red Herring]

German voters have high hopes for Kamala Harris


Germans would have solved this pretty quickly.

Harris 77%
Trump 10%



That is 67 point gap.

Germans would have voted Dems with a similarly large majority ever since George W. Bush (maybe longer but that's when I first saw numbers like that).

Edit: Actually, most surveys of the last two decades show Germans preferring Dems over Reps by roughly 9:1 (in the presidentials). Sometimes 70-80 Dem, 10-20 neither, but rarely more than 10% for the Rep candidate. At least in this century.

2. Edit: I googled and found results fitting this pattern going backwards in time till 2000. No numbers before that. I was only a teenager when Clinton ran for reelection in 1996 (actually, that's the year I lived in the US) but remember people in Germany overall liking and preferring Clinton.

 

[Virtual ghost]

Germans would have voted Dems with a similarly large majority ever since George W. Bush (maybe longer but that's when I first saw numbers like that).

Edit: Actually, most surveys of the last two decades show Germans preferring Dems over Reps by roughly 9:1 (in the presidentials). Sometimes 70-80 Dem, 10-20 neither, but rarely more than 10% for the Rep candidate. At least in this century.

2. Edit: I googled and found results fitting this pattern going backwards in time till 2000. No numbers before that. I was only a teenager when Clinton ran for reelection in 1996 (actually, that's the year I lived in the US) but remember people in Germany overall liking and preferring Clinton.

I am pretty sure the same goes for almost all of Europe. The Republicans are simply pushing stuff that in Europe fell out of the loop about 100 years ago. In the case that people know details it is possible that difference could be even larger. Even democrats are free market extremists by European standards but they at least have various elements with which you can work when it comes to economy. Plus not denying science and basic human rights are a clear plus.

 

[ygolo]

It is quite possible to be both pro-Union and pro-small business. Having to choose between the two is a false dichotomy.

Explain why it is a false dichotomy to be forced to choose between being...

The notion that one must choose between being pro-union and pro-small business is a false dichotomy because it oversimplifies the complex and multifaceted...

www.perplexity.ai

 

[The Cat]

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Health insurance in this country really is a racket. If you think taxes are theft....

 

[The Cat]

Health insurance in this country really is a racket. If you think taxes are theft....

Say now Tom, that's dangerous thinking, you'd best stick to your work.

 

[Virtual ghost]

Health insurance in this country really is a racket. If you think taxes are theft....

In a sense this is why market doesn't really work when it comes to healthcare. Since seller evidently has upper hand on the buyer (what it shouldn't have towards basic market theory). While the fact that buyer can't even follow what is going on in detail only makes it worse.

 

[The Cat]

All the small things.​

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

It was the year 2000/2001 and a teacher was showing footage of this experiment to us. This one kid completely missed the point, and thought the people participating in the study should have done as they were told and as they were being paid to do, and couldn't believe that anyone else would think differently. We were all too young to vote, but guess who he wanted to win and was extremely vocal about it?

(I liked Gore for many different reasons, two of which were the environmental angle and that he would rant about the tax cuts for the 1%.
I would have been more excited to vote for Gore in 2000 than Kerry in 2004.)

I suppose my experience with this kid was my "intro to politics" in a sense. Apart from that, this kid gave me the creeps, but I also wonder if maybe I was too hard on him, and I wonder if I just made him worse.

Maybe if I'd been nice to him and tried to be his friend, he'd be different?

Footage:

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

As a Kamala supporter, I feel vindicated after 8 years. I remember criticisms that I didn’t want to support Hillary just because she was a woman. No, she was a boring, uninspiring candidate who clinched her party’s nomination through chicanery, trying to appeal to the center, and who happened to be a woman.

 

[Kingu Kurimuzon]

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All the small things.​

This guy set the tone of making fun of opponent in the most immature ways. Can’t handle it happening to himself. Classic thin skin bully

 

[The Cat]

This guy set the tone of making fun of opponent in the most immature ways. Can’t handle it happening to himself. Classic thin skin bully

Yeah his whole vibe is just the spoiled rich baby who never bothered to learn to use pull ups because someone was always willing to wipe his ass.

 

[The Cat]

Cue sad trombone.
Personally with respect to the chap who made the video I found it more interesting that they said veterans need to stick together and not diminish other veterans, then they proceeded to do the thing they said shouldnt be done.
Way more disrespectful than forgetting the name of the place.​

 

[Virtual ghost]

Sweden reports first case of more dangerous mpox virus outside Africa

 

[The Cat]