US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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Prince Alexander said:
Same. They're nice (almost too nice) and they're not dumb, but it's almost like they were specifically taught/trained to parrot dumb shit, to their detriment. If you can break through to them, they're great. I just worry the wall gets thicker each generation. (arguably this could be argued across every generational divide, insert your favorite Socrates quote here).
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My company was all boomers and GenX. We had a revolving door of millennials for a while who never stuck around. Now we got few a Zoomers and its been very positive. For awhile I thought the company was going to be in trouble because we could just not get good help and the average age was like 60.
Anything tech and software related they pick right up like its second nature. Even our legacy systems which where built before they where even born. I give a general outline on how something works and they google, AI, or what ever and solve the problem on their own.

And then I deal with boomers who have to physically drive me out USB stick because a project file is to "big to email" and they just cant figure out how to share a file on our network.. And when I open the USB stick its just a shortcut to the file on their desktop back at the office.

I don't know about more "right wing" but the Z's are definitely more edgy and thick skinned when it comes to office banter. The gamer generation.
 
marvlouslie said:
What the fuck happened to personal responsibility and the responsibility of raising your own little hellspawn?
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Instant-access mobile internet. That's what happened.

People didn't suddenly just become lazy and retarded for no reason. Strictly monitoring and controlling everything your child consumes was a lot easier and less helicopter parent-y when the only thing people consumed was cable TV and PS1 games hooked up to the one TV sitting in the family living room.

"Just be a better parent dood" is a very lovely idea, but much like every utopian political systems ideals it falls apart when you introduce the human factor. Either everyone in society simultaneously agrees to make this change or it doesn't happen and things get worse.

My nothing ever happens stocks have never been higher on that front.
 
Fatpacks said:
Heads up, some Supreme Court decisions are coming tomorrow that will probably make or break Trump's entire second term
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"BREATHE, NIGGER, BREATHE! IT'S NOT OVER YET! IT'S NOT FUCKING OVER, YOU HEAR ME @Fatpacks?! YOU'RE GONNA WIN ONE DAY, YOU FUCKING HEAR ME?!"

"Sir, Trump is issuing a statement about birthright citizenship"

*pulse drops*

"GODDAMNIT, DON'T YOU FUCKING DIE ON ME! THE FAGS AND NIGGERS CAN STILL COME BACK FROM THIS! THAT COMMIE MUSLIM IN NEW YORK CAN STILL WIN! FUCKING HANG IN THERE!"

"There's incoming news about porn ID laws!"

*patient flatlines*

"SUNOFABITCH! YOU CAN'T DO THIS! WHAT ABOUT THE HULKSTER?! HE FUCKING NEEDS YOU! MOSSAD NEEDS YOU! YOU'VE GOT TO LIVE!"

"... sir, Bannon just recommended regime change in Israel"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"

@Fatpacks soul (leaving his body)
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Kiwifarms Pizza-Chuds (celebrating)
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The biggest mistake ever made by the White Man was the British pussying out on buck breaking Hinduism. After the Sepoy Rebellion they actively protected Hindooism and Islam from proselytizing activity. They should have hung every thakir they could get their hands on. It's a beastly religion and is the main thing to blame for the godless, civilization-less state of India. For all its faults, the post-Spanish world have at least a shred of Christendom in them to save them from going full Aztec.
 
Bindo said:
Yes, because no law has ever been inconsistently applied, in a draconian manner against a disfavored party.
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A satellite could fall on my house, but it also sends me internet and GPS. I'm not afraid of the satellite, just as I'm not afraid of this law.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
Because we aren't a porn site. We are a gossip forum. Until I see a law targeting Reddit, and thus, us, I'm not that shook up bro.
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WelperHelper99 said:
A satellite could fall on my house, but it also sends me internet and GPS. I'm not afraid of the satellite, just as I'm not afraid of this law.
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Ultimately be glad the current enemies of the site are fucking retarded because it wouldn't be particularly hard to convince a politician of either side to enforce the same thing on this site.
There is nothing remotely sympathetic about this site to the political class or any activist group.
 
Balanced Boomer said:
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"BREATHE, NIGGER, BREATHE! IT'S NOT OVER YET! IT'S NOT FUCKING OVER, YOU HEAR ME @Fatpacks?! YOU'RE GONNA WIN ONE DAY, YOU FUCKING HEAR ME?!"

"Sir, Trump is issuing a statement about birthright citizenship"

*pulse drops*

"GODDAMNIT, DON'T YOU FUCKING DIE ON ME! THE FAGS AND NIGGERS CAN STILL COME BACK FROM THIS! THAT COMMIE MUSLIM IN NEW YORK CAN STILL WIN! FUCKING HANG IN THERE!"

"There's incoming news about porn ID laws!"

*patient flatlines*

"SUNOFABITCH! YOU CAN'T DO THIS! WHAT ABOUT THE HULKSTER?! HE FUCKING NEEDS YOU! MOSSAD NEEDS YOU! YOU'VE GOT TO LIVE!"

"... sir, Bannon just recommended regime change in Israel"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"

@Fatpacks soul (leaving his body)
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Words to avoid the janny stick.
 
moocow said:
Or is journoscum training so effective that all humanity is scrubbed from its acolytes?
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Those things aren't even human. They make them in a lab out in Area 51. Ain't no human as worthless as a...my god forgive me for uttering this word...journalist.
 
Bindo said:
Yes, because no law has ever been inconsistently applied, in a draconian manner against a disfavored party.
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the government knows everything you do online, there is no escape. if It decides it wants to fuck you and everything else up it's going to do it regardless of if there's a law about you having to show ID to view an explicitly Pornographic site or not.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
This is your mind on porn. First they came for the porn. And I didn't speak up. Now they came for the Kiwi Fruit Fourm. It's ridiculous. And we would fight in court retard.
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Whenever the UK banned websites, they only ever banned specific domains. I would expect boomer congress to do the same.
Banned: Kiwifarms.su
New domain: kiwifarms.net/ch/tor/xyz/etcetera
Banned: "kiwifarms"
New domain: kiwifarm.su
Repeat forever.
If they say it's on ISPs to do it, they can be fickle too. VirginMedia banned sites as they were listed specifically, but BT would also ban derivatives. There's also a shared list all these providers have access to that automatically bans/filters out hyper-illegal shit and certain piracy sites, so if a similar list was created but specifically for sites that say no-no words and such things were illegalised, then the farms might be at risk, but I doubt such a thing would ever be made or implemented into law, never mind the 1st amendment it's just common sense.

Kiwifarms is so specific and harmless a website I can't imagine it appearing on anyone's radar for overly long. Like, harmless objectively speaking. There's no proliferation of CP or illegally acquired info, and harassment campaigns aren't organised to relentlessly badger and bully people offline and online, or encourage people with mental health problems to descend further into their insanity until they inevitably commit suicide...

They should ban reddit instead.
 
>IMPLYING said:
Whenever the UK banned websites, they only ever banned specific domains. I would expect boomer congress to do the same.
Banned: Kiwifarms.su
New domain: kiwifarms.net/ch/tor/xyz/etcetera
Banned: "kiwifarms"
New domain: kiwifarm.su
Repeat forever.
If they say it's on ISPs to do it, they can be fickle to. VirginMedia banned sites as they were listed specifically, but BT would also ban derivatives. There's also a shared list all these providers have access to that automatically bans/filters out hyper-illegal shit, so if a similar list was created but specifically for sites that say no-no words and such things were illegalised, then the farms might be at risk, but I doubt such a thing would ever be made or implemented into law, never mind the 1st amendment it's just common sense.

Kiwifarms is so specific and harmless a website I can't imagine it appearing on anyone's radar for overly long. Like, harmless objectively speaking. There's no proliferation of CP or illegally acquired info, and harassment campaigns aren't organised to relentlessly badger and bully people offline and online, or encourage people with mental health problems to descend further into their insanity until they inevitably commit suicide...

They should ban reddit instead.
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We have a porn ban in Utah. You type in certain sites like Pornhub, it's just on a list now needing ID verification. Like you said, by domain. It is the most basic bitch whitelist you've ever seen. They aren't even blocking the site.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
We have a porn ban in Utah. You type in certain sites like Pornhub, it's just on a list now needing ID verification. Like you said, by domain. It is the most basic bitch whitelist you've ever seen. They aren't even blocking the site.
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If they ever implemented ID verification for porn and such nationwide it'd likely be done at the ISP level. Sorry again to use my own country as precedent but it seems the easiest. In the UK our government began the process to make porn access ID mandatory but it was a non-starter because they began with "porn passes" as opposed to anything digital and it was laughed into abandonment. Where they got some success though was with mobile data providers, where adult websites are blocked (even includes shit like DeviantArt just in case) until you verify your age with them.

I imagine that would be preferable than having every porn site implement a similar ID system, since the company your proving you're an adult to already has your payment info so it's slightly less worrying than having to give it out to random websites online. Though I guess it takes responsibility out of the porn peddler's hands on whether minors are viewing their material or not.
 
I have a question about the recent SCOTUS rulings.

Didn't we literally just get a SCOTUS rulings vacating a judge's injunction and the guy instantly just said "actually it is still in full force"?

Exactly what is stopping random federal judges from just ignoring the recent universal injunction ruling just to gum up the world? What makes this different?
 
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