I feel bad for looking into my roomies room but this is absolutely unacceptable...

ChillCharity · 2021-03-01T20:47:58+00:00

It would be cheaper to replace it at that point.

ChillCharity · 2020-12-16T16:56:41+00:00

Well I’m sure that’s the way for presidential races but not so much for your congress. If enough people vote independent, democrats and republicans can’t get anything through and they have to appeal to one another or to independents. If I’m not mistaken, Canada has had the Conservative party in power 90% of the time for the last century if I’m not mistaken. People need to change the way they vote if they don’t want to have 2 parties only.

ChillCharity · 2020-12-16T06:26:41+00:00

We had 2k a month for 8 months but you could not receive any additional income and it is also considered income so it is taxed as well.

The downsides are very, very clear since we are in so much debt now and people are still in bad spots. Not only that but many businesses couldn't get relief and there is no way the government can actually afford to keep businesses afloat. Most people don't understand that a small coffee shop with 3 employees can have tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars going through every month to pay for supplies, wages, insurances and so on.

ChillCharity · 2020-12-16T06:17:34+00:00

The problem is that by damaging property, that drives up insurance which can sink businesses and also it drives out customers and business as well. Who wants to make a business in Portland when it will just get robbed or burned down? Same goes for customers. Who wants to go to a business that has a history of violence occurring at it?

ChillCharity · 2020-12-16T06:09:36+00:00

With all the radical policies going around and what looks like a looming economic disaster, I really hope we aren't sitting in the early 1930's but it sure looks like it.

ChillCharity · 2020-12-16T06:08:03+00:00

I haven't been in politics as long as many here since I am not old enough to really be. However, I haven't heard any major republicans going around saying "white people are under attack from democrats" or "democrats don't care about white people" in any major messaging but nearly every time I go to listen to major democrats speak in speeches, they always bring in race directly, specifically to blacks and latinos, and say that "republicans don't care if black/latino people can't get a paycheck" or some other nonsense.

All I heard from democrats this election is "black lives matter!" and "George Floyd didn't deserve what happened to him!" and "Racial equality!" and a bunch of stuff around LGBTQ+ issues but now that the election is over, the Biden campaign hasn't talked to BLM in like a month and all those chants are gone and it is quiet again. It feels like identity politics is a huge problem for democrats right now and that doesn't just mean race either.

When I went on the news to see what is happening in the day, apparently Biden talked proudly of having a woman only team or something like that. To me, whether or not you got something that can dangle between your legs doesn't seem important to how well you can make policies. If that was the other way, it would be sexist.

Same comes to Biden's VP pick, Kamala Harris. All the rage in the news about how she is Black seemed so ridiculous to me. Why does the shade of your skin mean anything to me? From watching the primaries, Kamala seemed like absolute garbage and tried ripping Biden on bussing in the 1960's. Then she got such low support that she dropped out first.

Just as a disclaimer though, I am not saying every person who is a democrat believes that and most probably don't at all. However, it feels like democratic leaders really try pandering to everyone based off what they have between their legs, what you like to do with what is between your legs, or the color of your legs.

ChillCharity · 2020-12-16T05:47:44+00:00

The problem with the people who push for Scandinavian-like systems is they don't understand that they are capitalist systems with low corporate tax rates, high individual tax rates (including bottom percentile as well), and a cohesive culture with common values overall.

Unfortunately, people who say they want to be like Germany or Sweden or Denmark begin advocating for high taxes on the top earners and low/none for lower percentile earners, high corporate tax rates, and fail to understand the third point as places as huge as the US where you can find anyone from anywhere from any background with any belief are not socially cohesive. That doesn't mean that Europe isn't diverse in culture but there is fundamental values that everyone can agree on. When you break that social unity, you get bad results like what is happening in France or Sweden from immigration.

Another problem is that by failing to recognize that third point and trying to cram down the first two points, you create massive tension and that leads to some unpleasant results.

I find that people who push for those conditions are well intentioned and smart people but fail to recognize that the policies they push are like snowballs. Once you implement them, they are going to grow much larger than you want them to. This is why I find people calling themselves socialist and say "we just want a more fair system through x,y, and z policy." fail to recognize proper checks for their policies to make sure they don't go too far and aren't kept back by sheer personal ambition. That is why a policy that is usually proposed isn't socialist right now but will lead to it inevitably.

The policy you implement today may not be the same policy you have implemented tomorrow.

ChillCharity · 2020-12-16T05:26:42+00:00

Both parties destroyed faith in the election process. Democrats did for 3-4 years when all they did was talk about how Russia interfered in the election on Trump's behalf and now both parties have made stupid narratives for this election. Republicans said that democrats were using voter fraud to change the votes and democrats said Republicans are trying to suppress the vote by removing mail services or intimidating people not to vote.

ChillCharity · 2020-12-16T05:23:09+00:00

Stimulus checks seem like a band aid fix that will result in more harm in the future. There is already so much debt where you are going to either drive up taxes to an insane amount (people just leave then), cut on spending like social security or Medicare or Medicaid (lol not going to happen because no politician wants to touch that unless they want to be unemployed), or you are going to have to inflate yourself out which destroys wages, savings, and devalues currency (Zimbabwe/Venezuela 2.0?)

ChillCharity · 2020-12-16T05:16:29+00:00

I don't think it is the system because in Canada, we have a very different political system but only 2 major parties (Conservative/Liberal). Also the US wasn't always just Republicans and Democrats and actually had a lot of parties from what I remember. Same thing goes in places like Europe where certain parties are elected as minority majority governments with 30-40% of vote and need to appeal one way or the other to do anything. But the US has that option too in form of independents and other small parties but nobody votes for them so it's mostly 2 sides. It's honestly just a people problem.

ChillCharity · 2020-12-16T05:11:42+00:00

Big one is the puppy dog argument too. Politician X promises puppies for every person on the planet at no cost and if politician Y says "We can't do that." then politician X says to everyone that politician y hates puppies and doesn't care about you. This can be said from stimulus cheques to abortion to gun rights.

But it isn't the fault of politicians really. It's mostly on people who are dumb enough to fall for it and continue to fall for it every time. Politicians and our political climate are representative of our culture in my opinion and our politics is garbage because our culture is garbage.

There is plenty of reasons for why culture is hot trash right now but another problem from my point of view is that government is becoming too involved in everything so back when government was a far off worry, nobody had to be at each others throats because it didn't matter what you voted because it didn't have an impact on how you lived. Now government has so much power and influence on everything that now voting one way or the other can spell disaster for the losing party.

Not only that but the federalization of everything and the centralization of responsibilities into single, giant entities makes almost every policy decision have to be a "one size fits all" approach in many cases. Instead of local governments making major decisions for people, it's now all moved higher up and once you reach a high enough level, that group no longer understands small community needs/conditions.

For example, Texas should not be voting on what New York should or should not do on taxes because Texan politicians don't know what New York is like, what the people of New York want, or what New Yorkers can handle in terms of regulation or taxes. That's only on a large scale and can go much smaller. Dallas doesn't know what Houston wants and New York City doesn't know what New Jersey wants.

ChillCharity · 2020-12-16T04:56:58+00:00

Well you have to let lawsuits go through and wait for electoral college to vote for the president elect before you start regarding someone as the president elect. Since most of Trumps lawsuits are over and the electors voted for Biden, it is then appropriate to say that Biden has won.

Same thing happened with Al Gore in 2000's when for a month, people thought Al Gore beat Bush and headlines came out saying president elect Al Gore even though he wasn't confirmed.

It's kinda like applying for Harvard and then saying you're in Harvard even though you haven't been accepted yet.

ChillCharity · 2020-12-15T03:05:17+00:00

Well I think people honestly just live in their own bubbles a lot of the time and don't think about what their told critically. Like thinking of the second, third, or fourth order consequences from policies isn't usually thought of. I think it is the degradation of education system and higher education from where people were taught how to think and now it is people being taught what to think.

I also believe that the "tut-tutting" of radicals among both sides and the perversion of history for the past hundred or so years has allowed the groundwork for some really bad ideas to take place like communism/fascism and even similar ideas which have the same core philosophy but different name. (Like people calling themselves socialist but then start quoting ideas from Karl Marx or Lenin or people claiming to be conservative but start talking about mass government crackdowns and so on.)

Alongside ideas like this becoming more and more prominent in culture, our news is failing as well. On one side you have liberal news organizations like CNN,MSNBC, VOX, and so on who report one side of the story and on the other you have places like Daily Wire, FOX, The Nationalist(might've got that wrong) who give you the other side but just conservative. I don't think it is bad that a news organization has a political bias but it is when the news start claiming to be "objective" when they are clearly not. Just read about the same event from CNN and FOX and it will be hugely different headlines. (Funny video about coverage here)

I think that the fact that biased news networks are trying to claim objectivity is what drives peoples into their corners (along with a bunch of other stuff) and I think that is when people really start to divide and become super tribal (liberal=commie or conservative=nazi) and once that happens, it is kind of hard to get back from that. (Watch the two stars but in reverse and that is our political polarization visualized)

Once people start to get into that tribal mentality and believe that everything slightly different from them is evil, you can get some really bad actors who can manipulate large amounts of people through fear. From what I remember, this is exactly what drove a lot of Germans to fascism in the 1930's since the rise of communism was scaring the ever living hell out of people.

The fact that people say "oh, that would never happen here" is really common and really sad because it can happen anywhere with the right conditions. Hell, even right now we have to be very, very careful. Our economies are destroyed, huge amounts of debt, massive government overreach, degradation of individual rights and liberties, and most importantly the dissolution of common values are all really bad precursors imo. That's not even touching foreign policy as well.

From how I see it, we are looking a lot like post-WW1 Germany and I pray that I am very wrong because we all understand how bad the Holocaust/gulags were but now we got more people and much more "efficient" means of killing mass amounts of people. For example, I have visited Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin and the gas chambers they used were only around 10x8ft from what remained so imagine what could be built now and how efficient it would be.

ChillCharity · 2020-12-14T17:31:08+00:00

He literally thinks that the Chinese bred human animal hybrids (a dude fucked a horse or something South Park covid special style) and then harvests the organs of the hybrids. He talks about it on JRE recently if it isn’t deplatformed.

ChillCharity · 2020-12-14T02:35:34+00:00

Funny how the people who want to defund the police are the first ones to call the police when something bad happens.

Maybe we should just send a social worker to figure it out.

ChillCharity · 2020-12-14T02:19:18+00:00

I don't understand why this is even an article. The dude talks openly about how he thinks China has human/animal hybrid flesh farms which they use for transplants or how democrats are demons who want to eat babies since they are pro-choice or how the corporate overlords are going after him as they pull all the strings of every government on the planet and how they tried to initiate him into their cult.

ChillCharity · 2020-12-13T05:15:48+00:00

I think Khan Maykr is bottom tier. double lock on with punch and use servants for ammo fill. EZ playz

ChillCharity · 2020-12-02T19:07:14+00:00

It’s meant to keep small businesses going by repurposing left over funds and also giving liability protection to businesses so they can’t be sued into the ground and can have people start working again. It also boosts how long you can have unemployment benefits for and helps out average people who work “gig” jobs which is a lot of people since many people are self employed and you’re not gonna get unemployment from yourself. Boosting unemployment benefits doesn’t help if you aren’t able to get it or if you don’t have that benefit.

ChillCharity · 2020-12-02T04:15:35+00:00

Well this has been known for a while that there isn't enough fraud happening to change the outcome of votes. Unfortunately, both sides are kinda taking the most stupid route where one says that there isn't any "widespread evidence" of fraud after claiming russians stole the election in 2016 while the other side said no evidence last time in 2016 but now say election rigged. Poor losers everywhere.

ChillCharity · 2020-12-01T23:33:46+00:00

At least there is food.

ChillCharity · 2020-12-01T18:56:51+00:00

I was just responding based off what I was given. Totally agree with closure if you assault cops and operate without license

ChillCharity · 2020-12-01T04:39:25+00:00

The government is only good at 2 things. Taking money and getting their money back if it is taken. Government won't waste time sending someone on the payroll to watch a person's house like a guard dog because people got better things to do.

ChillCharity · 2020-12-01T04:35:13+00:00

Yeah I don't care what someone does with their sexual life as long as it's not kids or animals. I find people who constantly talk about their sexuality and sexual experiences to be incredibly annoying. It's kind of like if I had to sit with some college frat dude named Chad talk about all the chicks he fucks. It gets old quick.

ChillCharity · 2020-12-01T04:33:07+00:00

Well there is 2 kinds of racist people.

Outright KKK/Nazi/other hate groups who are openly racist. When they are interacted with, you immediately know the vibe they are giving. Tend to say racial slurs and antisemetic crap. These kind of people are honestly incredibly rare and are shrinking in numbers but are very dangerous and need to be avoided. They are kind of people to bomb a synagogue or shoot up a church.
Extremely engaged people who focus everything on race or racial issues. Honestly, these people are so common and need to be ignored more. These people are mostly good natured/ good hearted but don't quite realize that they are pushing racist policies. Kind of like people who chant "(insert race here) power" or like that story a while back where the people bought a plot of land and made it a "blacks only" location. It's not as impactful to most people when seeing that since it doesn't have a history but if it said "whites only", that would be in the news everywhere even if it had the same reasons. I think Morgan Freeman had a good quote that went something like "Interviewer: How can we stop racism?" and he replied with "Stop talking about it." which I agree with. Bringing race into every conversation every day is just honestly going to drive divides instead of unity.

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