2020 Election MEGAthread

[Danth]

Originally Posted by BlackBellamy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Three days later he's thrown out of car in front of his house and then he's thrown out of work because who can work with all those broken bones.

Communists, Fascists, and mobsters: Not much different, they all operate via rule-through-fear. What you describe above basically happened to my old man except it was the local racket he somehow ran afoul of after doing jobs for 'em for some 20-odd years. He disappeared for the better part of a month; eventually he was found in a rail yard in east Cleveland, robbed and beaten to a pulp. Hoodlums are bad enough, but when the State IS the hoodlum, things get real bad real quick.

Dad only ever talked to me about being in one shooting, where he and a brother of his shot another dude non-fatally just to make a point about leaving their sister alone. That was his advice to me when another dude was hanging around my then-girlfriend, "Do what you gotta do." At least the hoodlums usually had it coming when they got their end of it. Dad wouldn't ever say who busted him up--he was no rat--I can't recall him saying he didn't deserve it, either. Extremist governments-turned-thugs have a tendency, instead, to start killing off people whose main crime is that of merely existing.

Danth

[peterpal]

The funny thing is that people just want a social safety net and maybe free education. Even the fucking Fox polls showed that. These things are NOT radical ideas in the slightest.

People in this thread pretend they're Christians and Love Thy Neighbor but not when they're "poor losers".

[FatherSioux]

^ poor loser

[Jibartik]

I vouch for bb and vouch for all of you will come through on my promise of sneaking you out of the cattle cars.

[peterpal]

I think it's the "Us versus them" attitude that gets taught in America that's at fault at the root mixed with the American dream.
Become a millionaire at all costs, fuck over as many losers as possible. I win you lose. Wild west and everyone on it's own.

Pretend to have Christian values.

[douglas1999]

Originally Posted by peterpal [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The funny thing is that people just want a social safety net and maybe free education. Even the fucking Fox polls showed that. These things are NOT radical ideas in the slightest.

People in this thread pretend they're Christians and Love Thy Neighbor but not when they're "poor losers".

There are multiple social safety nets already in place. How do you pay for free education? How do you compensate those who have to actually carry it out? Just like free healthcare? There *is* currently very cheap education available, many community colleges are actually quite good. Again utopia will always sound better than whatever you currently have, because why wouldn't it? And of course things can be improved upon, but you need to put forward a specific, detailed plan for how to achieve them. Reciting sugary sounding 2 and three word phrases isn't really productive, it's just barely above saying "I prefer good things to bad things" as a mantra.

Far left regimes have historically, and even today in parts of the world, achieved "social equity" by killing people that dissent. They all started off as utopian idealists.

[Jibartik]

Once I randomly saw this interview with Putin where he said that the problem with the Soviet union was the people weren’t comfortable and all you really need the government to do is to make people comfortable and then the government can do whatever it wants.

I was like, oh crap, they’ve figured out how to make a perpetual-“just miserable enough”-machine that runs on people. We’re all doomed lol

[peterpal]

Again not speaking about Venezuela, just any western European country. Utopia I guess.

[BarnabusCollins]

Those that endure until the end will be given a crown of life. That's everybody.

[peterpal]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Once I randomly saw this interview with Putin

Apparently he's close to resigning because he might have Parkinson's. Of course he pushed a bill for legal immunity from prosecution for former presidents beforehand. Sounds like a Donny move