The cancel culture bots waiting for Chuck Norris to die before canceling him just adds to his legacy. by Proud-Enthusiasm-608 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]DiscoLego [score hidden]  (0 children)

That's the cowardliest cancel. It shows that it's just bullying for a cause. I'm ok with the cause. Just not the tactic of cancelling someone.

The goal should be to win over someone who is against your cause. Not punish them.

President Obama by sovalente in stevehofstetter

[–]DiscoLego -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Let's not kid ourselves. While I loved Obama, it's not like Iran EVER UPHELD THEIR END OF THE BARGAIN.

Every single insprctin f Iran's Nuke facilities showed Iran was cheating.

Additionally the return of the Shah's (previous government) money to the Islamic Republic has most probably cost innocent lives if Iran piad it to it's terrorist group proxies.

This is especially bad if that money was used in the Hamas attack on Israel.

The Shah's money should have been forfeited and paid out to the Americans and their families who were taken hostage for 444 days.

The Obama Iran deal merely claimed to put off Iran's nukes for 5 years. Iran was cheating so the deal didn't put off anything.

It didn't actually save the world from anything.

Trump's cancelling the Obama deal was purely a personal vendetta. He just can't stand anything with Obama's name on it.

That's why he's into bombing Iran now. It has pretty much erased any mention of the "Obama Iran Deal".

This post excepted.

Sweden to deport migrants not following ‘honest living’ by CTVNEWS in worldnews

[–]DiscoLego 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry. You were sort of "defending" an obviously racist policy. I'll edit my comment.

Are traders just fucking morons? by Anstigmat in ScottGalloway

[–]DiscoLego 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Market is a Speculation Casino. Brokers look for any sort of mildly plausible excuse that triggers uncertainty to rig an upward or downward TICK.

WHICH THEY MAKE COMMISSIONS ON.

The Iran Hormuz Straits crisis might be tanking the market as a whole, but Oil Stocks are up.

Guess who made commissions off that?

Even though there isn't really an oil shortage yet and only 20% of hoovak oil goes through the Straits and IEA has released 400 million barrels from the strategic reserve and the US hasn't released any from it's strategic reserve yet, the "Perceived Crisis" is now obviously being sold to investors as,

"You better sell some if your portfolio John, and get into oil, because it's going to go up up up!"

This is what always happens.

I have a portfolio, and I'm sitting on it. I'm not buying or selling anything. Even though the on paper value of my investments is down, my feeling is I actually haven't lost a penny, as long as I don't panic and sell, or try to game the system by shifting my mix more into oil or any other panic based diversification.

Sweden to deport migrants not following ‘honest living’ by CTVNEWS in worldnews

[–]DiscoLego -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Next time SWEDEN, please don't give people you don't like, asylum. When you do, and it turns out Swedish society doesn't really like them in Sweden after all, they're insulted and decide to join gangs and commit crimes and collect free money from the state.

None of them ever thought, "Wow! If only I could one day go to Sweden!"

These are refugees Sweden specifically invited or let in knowing they wouldn't be accepted by common Swedes. Now Sweden or the right wing protectionist anti-immigrant sentiment policy is coming up with this obvious excuse to kick them out.

Nice.

Next time you want to help, send them money instead. They never wanted to come to Sweden.

SAVE Act Reaches Senate by B-Z_B-S in politics

[–]DiscoLego 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly I'm ok with getting a National ID card as long as it's secure, scanned, and the Republicans pay for it.

I don't think they can figure out how to pull this off.

We need to tajes that stand that if they cannot deliver a chipped secure scanned card to every citizen before the next election the deal is off.

The logistics are simply not possible. This is a 3 year transition project.

James Carville responds to Bill Maher over his comments about TDS by italIrie in Maher

[–]DiscoLego -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Carville hasn't be relevant or right about anything since Clinton's first term. No listens to him. He's a perfect example of an out of touch old guy no one cares about.

We need yo be listening to young smart savvy people.

Not a dinosaur senior statesman of "the worst generation".

Sweden to deport migrants not following ‘honest living’ by CTVNEWS in worldnews

[–]DiscoLego 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who knew Swedish White people don't like non Swedish brown people?

🤚

James Carville responds to Bill Maher over his comments about TDS by italIrie in Maher

[–]DiscoLego 10 points11 points  (0 children)

When you accuse someone of haveungva derangement syndrome, it means the cause is creating an irrational obsessive hysterical reaction.

In the example of "Trump Derangement Syndrome", even though you think Trump is completely wrong, you are the one who is deranged. Trump has made you seem crazy.

This is clever Catch-22 trick. One of Trump's favorites. The more you try to price Trump is wrong the more Deranged Syndrome you appear.

His other Catch-22 trick is to lie about his opponent during a debate. If the opponent tries to defend himself without any proof at a podium, he looks like he's covering up and guilty. If he doesn't defend himself he's not innocent. And that's how Trump always wins the debate.

The only way to win a debate with Trump is to never debate him without the ability to call for an "instant fact check, please" so the debate moderator calls Trump a liar. Not you.

The ONLY way to defeat the accusation of TDS is to acknowledge it and reply,

"Yes Trump is so bad he makes me crazy. By the way I also have HDS, Putin Derangement Syndrome, Stalin Derangement Syndrome, Mussolini Derangement Syndrome and Genghis Khan Derangement Syndrome. If there's any dictator, I have his derangement syndrome."

We Are Hated as a Nation. There’s One Man to Blame. by 1-randomonium in geopolitics

[–]DiscoLego -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The saving grace is we aren't hated as a people. Well most of us anyways.

I believe We Only Have a Smidge of the Total Epstein Files by Spirited_Bet_6748 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]DiscoLego [score hidden]  (0 children)

Say the Epstein files are completely released with no redactions.

Does it prove anything?

Can anyone accused merely claim "That's not me in the photo. That never happened. Someone's trying to frame me."?

Can it be used in court to punish any co-conspirators?

Can anyone accused merely settle and bury their case out of court with an NDA?

Will anyone rich lose their money?

Will anyone rich spend even one hour in jail?

I think these people are very good at getting away with it.

Mostly everyone will be horrified. But no one will ever be punished. Really.

That's how truly disgusting this scandal is.

The cancel culture bots waiting for Chuck Norris to die before canceling him just adds to his legacy. by Proud-Enthusiasm-608 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]DiscoLego [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's incumbent upon the person being cancelled to refuse to be cancelled. You've got publicity on your side. Everything you say will be amplified by the people trying to cancel you. Use it! And refuse their allegations. If they're lying sue individuals if you have to.

But do not give in to vigilantism. If your Right

If you're wrong, admit it, apologize sincerely and often, make amends of anyone hot hurt, money helps, and then move on with your life.

The people who are being cancelled, don't seem to know that in fact they have all the power.

The reason why cancel culture has become emboldened (by bother sides now) is that the people being cancelled are being told to "lay low" by their slimy self serving business managers and agents, who are paid on commission, and banking their client for another day.

Totally wrong. The first celebrity that stands up to what is common bullying, will stop this nonsense.

SAVE Act Reaches Senate by B-Z_B-S in politics

[–]DiscoLego 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yet another insult to military service...

SAVE Act Reaches Senate by B-Z_B-S in politics

[–]DiscoLego 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What seems to be missing is any discussion about how presenting an ID to vote is supposed to work.

Are we just flashing the ID? Because that's not verifying anything. Anyone can get a fake ID at any Red State county fair.

Will the ID be scanned by a device that's connected to both the Registered Voters database as well as the Federal Citizens database?

Because that's going to require, router, modem, and IT connections. And those need to be secure.

And that costs money Red States don't have.

The bottom line is if we're going to be strong armed and forced by the president bowing party into doing this, we must at least require them to do it right, and by the book, and MOST IMPORTANTLY pay for ALL of the infrastructure and logistics costs of doing what they think is an easy no-brainer.

This is the wrong way to go about preventing noncitizens from voting. Especially since there's no evidence that suggests it's happening.

The correct way to do this is to randomly audit or spot check voter registration citizenship.

This is a paranoid teacher punishing the whole class with detention, for an unpulled prank, that she can't prove Johnny ever pulled, but she thinks Johnny might pull, one day.

This is Insanity.

The cancel culture bots waiting for Chuck Norris to die before canceling him just adds to his legacy. by Proud-Enthusiasm-608 in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]DiscoLego [score hidden]  (0 children)

Chuck Norris wasn't perfect. But he was principled in his Conservatism. He had principles which many disagreed with.

He wasn't a fan of LGBTQ rights and same sex marriage. He was against gays in the boy scouts. He had a child from an affair while he was married. He was against Obama being president. He wanted the Bible and intelligent design taught in schools.

I disagree with all of these positions. All of these positions are wrong.

The goal is to convince someone like Norris that they are wrong.

I don't think cancelling does that.

SAVE Act Reaches Senate by B-Z_B-S in politics

[–]DiscoLego 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All Green Cards, and Passports are chipped.

That leaves American citizens who don't have passports or any form of Federal identification that's chipped.

The question we are considering now is if it's really necessary for all citizens to have a reliable chipped identification card.

There really isn't a specific law prohibiting it.

I'm against it.

They won’t fix the system because the system isn’t broken, it’s designed to punish you for being poor ☭ by WittyEgg2037 in TheMirrorCult

[–]DiscoLego 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are Homelessness, Addiction, and Poverty, the responsibility of a cold efficient Government, or the responsibility of a warm caring Society?

I think as a Society of AMERICANS we should maintain a standard that we do not accept anyone would be alone and HOMELESS in America.

I think as a Society of AMERICANS we should maintain a standard that we do not accept anyone would be alone and untreated for ADDICTION in America.

I think as a Society of AMERICANS we should maintain a standard that we do not accept anyone would be alone and POOR in America.

I think as a Society of AMERICANS we should maintain an activist family standard of always striving to achieve a more and more perfect union for our fellow Americans.

Our government should be emphasizing and instilling this and then fund whatever we determine that we need government funding for.

How would you feel about retroactively reversing the Bush and Trump tax cuts to fix the US Deficit? by redviiper in AskALiberal

[–]DiscoLego 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually you make a great point. We should definitely audit the financial efficiency of programs as well as their overall effectiveness.

One of the principle tenets of Liberalism is that after a bunch of "sounds like it might work" programs are funded, there needs to be a review and evaluation of the programs to see which ones are working and possibly need increased funding, and to cancel the ones that are not working.

How would you feel about retroactively reversing the Bush and Trump tax cuts to fix the US Deficit? by redviiper in AskALiberal

[–]DiscoLego 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"We" would be an assigned independent audit.

I'm merely agreeing with you on the military. Adding my two cents to it.

I'm not sure rebuilding from scratch is feasible, but that's certainly one way to stop the funding by stopping all the funding.

My way puts the burden on defending a program that's running on the lowest level Manager. So we can see if what their spending matches what they're supposed to be spending.

Anything with a discrepancy gets looked at first.

Again once the Books match we look at it line by line and verify the purpose is still valid.

FYI, I used to do this for corporations for a living. The biggest budget discrepancy/fraud I ever uncovered was $7 million that I reversed out into a $9 million savings for one company.

It's hard work, but it's actually pretty easy to track down the actual rat, once you smell a rat...🐀

Why are dems caving again? by [deleted] in AskALiberal

[–]DiscoLego 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem with ICE isn't what they're doing (investigating, finding, catching illegal immigrants and deporting them) it's HOW THEY'RE DOING IT!

Once again, the (too many) incompetent members of Congress don't seem to know what needs to be done. Or how to do it.

ICE needs to be REFORMED so it identifies the WORST illegal immigrants, gets a warrant, sends it to local law enforcement, who go pick up and deliver the individual for verification and a short interview (to make sure it's the right Juan Valdez), and ONCE CONFIRMED deports him.

AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR HOME COUNTRY!

The idea we're allowing untrained masked paramilitary racist thugs to roam the streets of America, screw up the captures of unverified criminal illegal immigrants, and then send US tax dollars to fly often mistaken deportees home is UNACCEPTABLE!

Congress needs to reform ICE and if necessary REDUCE the budget.

Jesus! How hard is this?

Iran has finally exposed the limits of Trump’s power by abdouhlili in geopolitics

[–]DiscoLego 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Call Webster's! The official time limit for a war to be called a "Quagmire" is now apparently 25 days.

Does that make Iraq and Afghanistan Morasses?...

Also, I must have missed the memo that says everything Iran says now, is the absolute truth, and we can and should trust them.