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- dbloc3
- MAGA?FNP14
- Covid super spreader party?Krassy
- Antifa.palimpsest
- Waiting for MAGA traitors to show up.utopian
- Insane how one man can cause so much troubleFNP14
- 4 years of looking the other waysted
- https://www.qbn.com/…PhanLo
- Ramanisky23
Censored !!! while speaking to millions.
- the entire World can listen to her ... lolBennn
- Grandstanding to garner favor with domestic terrorists. Cute.FNP14
- Trump shot Irony on 5th AvenueRamanisky2
- this nutter, wore a mask with 'Molon Labe' - "Come and take it" - last night. So it's not surprising.dorf
- Get off the cross, we need the wood.DRIFTMONKEY
- gaslight obstruct projectkaiyohtee
- Fax_Benson0
Why are all those troops laying around on the floor?
In no way passing judgement - I'm sure they're the best of the best etc, but every pic or news report (in the UK) I've seen today has shown them literally curled up asleep on the floor. Really odd look - like they're just back from 3 weeks in the shit.
- would stand up for straight for 18 hours?
No. Neither them. They wait.Bennn - They're getting some rest. Big titted man babies with guns are coming to try and kill them in a few days. War is mostly waiting. Even civil war.PhanLo
- one army rule i learned when i served, whenever you can lay down and sleep do it.renderedred
- The party hasn't started yet.dbloc
- They're resting and at the ready. They do that a lot - troop ships, cargo planes, barracks overseas, etc.mg33
- would stand up for straight for 18 hours?
- Bennn-2
About the vote thats happening live right now.... They can change their vote and everyone can look at the result live
WTF is that system?
- change? that's not happeningmonospaced
- you advocate a system that isn't viewable live?monospaced
- imagine the election where we could see the results live while we voteBennn
- Secret ballot is fine (downright essential) for private citizen voting in elections.
Voting in a parliamentary setting by MPs is tracked live for transparencyContinuity - ... and accountability to the constituents.
The same thing happens in the HoC in Canada.Continuity - i seeBennn
- dbloc0
Tom Hanks to Host Biden, Harris Inaugural TV Special ‘Celebrating America’
https://www.rollingstone.com/pol…But, but, according to Qanon, he was executed a while back. This must be a clone then, right?
- Apparently he is a pedophilebainbridge
- Is he doing that to troll Q-Anon?PhanLo
- hanks new flick was pretty goodGuyFawkes
- nb4
"There's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it."
- Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, a couple years prior to being elected by republicans to US Congress
- This person collects a big salary to make decisions on your behalf! YIKESnb
- this lady can go eat a shit sandwichdorf
- LOL@ 'lady'.
She's a steaming pile, left on display on the platform of the London underground.Continuity - lol continuityfadein11
- This woman fell for this INSANE conspiracy theory to the point where she quoted it on TV... and now wants us to listen to her opinion on the constitution?!nb
- sted-2
bidenbot is on
- colin_s-8
lol $1400 checks from the democrats because you already got $600 of the proposed $2k
liberals are such fucking slimeballs
- Probably to compensate for the increased unemployment benefit that extends to September 2021. Which will go a lot further than a one time check IMHO.FNP14
- what were you expecting?dorf
- A steak and a blowjob.zarkonite
- Math!instrmntl
- LOL!oey_oey
- Slime balls because they want to give you the money Republicans refused to? You’re a fucking clown Colinmonospaced
- nb5
I’m not saying I support the Democrats but like are there ANY elected Democrats similar in ridiculousness to this Lauren Boebert? How about Marjorie Taylor Greene? Michelle Bachman?
These are (or were) elected officials at the highest levels of govt and they are fucking LOONY.
Republicans, are you not embarrassed by these people? Have you no self respect at all?
You think AOC is nuts because she was a bartender without political experience and is a loud person? Have you fucking listened to your fringe candidates? They’re saying things that sound like what you’d hear from certified insane people.
It’s bizarre. Are there Democrats like this? Like the dumb girl in high school who always got her way despite being pretty dumb and incapable of critical thought?
Blowing my mind.
- To the right, even talking about guns is so extreme it makes them shit their pants uncontrollably and scream communist socialism like they have tourettesmonospaced
- While they are happy to cough up taxes for a multi-billion dollar wall, the idea of that money going to health, pandemic or education is beyond loony.monospaced
- nb this is common in many countries for conservativesgrafician
- so as we on this forum would prefer to vote for AOC because she's like us, a percentage of the population will vote crazy conservatives because they're the samegrafician
- You will never vote for anyone in an American election though.monospaced
- AOC is like us ? your generalizing is as childish as it gets.neverscared
- AOC is like us ? your generalizing is as childish as it gets.neverscared
- Bro, AOC has never said anything even close to the insane conspiracy theories of Lauren Boebert. She’s taking about an elite satan-worshipping pedos !!!!nb
- grafician1
"Biden to propose bill to legalize 11 million undocumented immigrants
During his first days in office, President Biden will send a bill to Congress that would legalize 11 million immigrants without legal status."
- this looks like a simple way to win re-election, easy +11 million votes for biden 2024grafician
- Radscarabin
- I'm all for it...but why make this "top of list" for Biden's first days in office. This is just another divisive political hot button issue.utopian
- He has another 50 more importance issues to tackle during his first days in office. He is already started to lose the second term and hasn't even started yet.utopian
- why is this not in the 50 top issues? for sure to grant equal rights to people is a top issue? or it's not an issue because they are not us citizens?oey_oey
- it's 11 million people without rights!oey_oey
- That would be odd if it were a priority in the first days. They control, but they can't afford a single vote off, which, imho, this would be a huge deal.formed
- already becoming a legend.neverscared
- Reagan did it for 3M.wordssssss
- It’s gonna really piss of tens of millions of bigoted, conservative, morally compromised, nationalist cunts, that’s for sure.monospaced
- Legal status doesn’t mean you can vote, only a citizen can.dyspl
- where did you get this alternate headline using the word "legalize"? not the preferred parlance. no human being is 'illegal'sarahfailin
- He's proposing a path to citizenship.zarkonite
- Continuity3
Great write-up on the malignant turtle, here.
'Good Riddance, Leader McConnell'
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/…
(Use the Bypass Paywalls addon for Firefox)
- or hit page reload icon immediately followed by x in your chrome browser... The NY Times Paywall is probably the easiest to bypassjonny_quest_lives
- Ramanisky22
4 Years ago to the day.
- Didn't big Bazza make efforts to silence the press is much more sneaky ways?PhanLo
- Yeswordssssss
- colin_s-1
Something I've been thinking about is how the concept of government could fundamentally change now that the internet exists. Like, perhaps we need a world reset simply because authority as it is structured cannot coexist with information freely (and so it will either become authoritarian or collapse in chaos).
Like, we vote on things every day in our lives, right? From how good breakfast is to how the weather is... voting is just an external notification of having an opinion.
So just imagine an interface that is a constant in your life, perhaps within a passport-like document, that has a steady stream of voting measures, but about policy.
Any type of representative democracy basically means politicians are middlemen between the opinions of the people and the actions of state (ideally). The internet, also ideally, could cut out that middleman by way of like, 70% of their utility. Politicians could act only as the human managers of resource distribution and employment directives, while the direction of state and its resources could be decided on by the people.
We have this codified notion of a meritocracy in the United States, and various just, established notions of "how things are run" across the world. I don't know, I think that's why they want the internet to be a big fucking shopping mall, because it could be so much more than that.
The opportunity to re-think structures of society from the ground up with the internet as a utility is, to be honest, probably what humanity needs in order to actually survive. (Which obviously would be a world-altering realignment of power and , thus, will never happen. But it's fun to think about.)
- All this would accomplish would be to have free beer on tap from park drinking fountains and 1 day work weeks._niko
- I've done some speculative design around this concept of 'hyper democracy' (where everything is voted for or open to the communal opinion)BaskerviIle
- The problem is that you already have voters who are ill-informed and apathetic. More daily voting admin would push people into further apathy.BaskerviIle
- In theory we're supposed to vote in politicians who are willing to do the background reading, stay informed and make the right choices for usBaskerviIle
- We need to switch to blockchain votingscarabin
- Look into blockchain governance. It will eat authority, same way software ate the worldzaq
- you cannot have blockchain gov as it does not have an "undo" option if something goes wronggrafician
- also stop with this blockchain bullshit, already ffsakegrafician
- @colin_s you can only achieve success with this if all citizens are at the same level of understanding; as of today, they are still not.grafician
- also most ppl think facebook or google is the internet so, yeah...grafician
- @all , agreed, which is why it would have to likely be a complete reset, a post-near-extinction type of society after a severe event in human historycolin_s
- @grafician, how is the "undo" option helped you last 4 years? Perhaps you are not aware of what capabilities blockchain has besides trading?zaq
- If "undo" option bothers you in blockchain, I recommend you read up on Chainlink's oracles. Not everything needs to be done with "undo"zaq
- Like it or not, blockchain is here to stayzaq
- neverscared4
President Vladimir Putin crosses himself while bathing in icy water during a traditional Epiphany celebration as the temperature dropped to about -20 degrees outside Moscow
