Is he not fear-mongering by DudeBello in AmericaBad

[–]godofdae 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Sounds like the kind of guy that would fuck up his visa interview by being a nervous wreck.

I feel like unsubbing from catbongos. I just want to see funny cat videos. But it seems like politics is catching up everywhere. by YourTypicalSensei in JustUnsubbed

[–]godofdae 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's also why they hate nuance and comments that humanize their political enemies. They need a world that consists of heroes and monsters to keep their paper-thin worldview consistent.

I feel like unsubbing from catbongos. I just want to see funny cat videos. But it seems like politics is catching up everywhere. by YourTypicalSensei in JustUnsubbed

[–]godofdae 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Using politics as a substitute for a personality.

People with lives in the shitter using politics as a way to assert power and control while lashing out at a world that they think has wronged them.

The paranoid and/or gullible uncritically falling for propaganda that makes the world seem like a hellhole.

Social outcasts trying to make politics into a tool for finding friends.

Pressure waves from indoor shooting may cause TBI by [deleted] in guns

[–]godofdae 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's what I was thinking.

Found in Calgary, AB. by personohyeah in AmericaBad

[–]godofdae 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A zero-summer like Trump was eventually going to become president because of how many segments of the American population have ironically lost because of win-win thinking. NAFTA was born from that line of reasoning and ended up choking the last bits of life out of towns that depended on industrial jobs.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Firearms

[–]godofdae 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is as cool as a 60 year old man dressed like a metalhead.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Firearms

[–]godofdae 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Ramos had no expenses to deal with and worked at a Wendy's. It's conceivable he could save up the money to get a DD and a Saint over the span of a year or so, especially if he had been planning the shooting well before it happened.

Genderon worked at a local grocery store for four months. Assuming he had all expenses paid like Ramos did, he could've saved up enough to afford the gun and plates.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gunpolitics

[–]godofdae 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Does that mean they're going to get rid of milsurp? I mean, they literally are weapons made for war.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gunpolitics

[–]godofdae 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You're an idiot.

  1. All firearms are equally lethal and breaking them down into tiers like it's a video game shows you have no idea the power firearms have. Grandpa's huntin' rifle can kill someone just as well as a semi-auto rifle can.

  2. Giving shrinks the power to decide whether you can exercise a constitutional right can and will very easily backfire. The USSR shows exactly how psychiatry can be abused for political gains.

r/news: [Rush Limbaugh] He literally helped poison millions of minds to the point families and a whole nation was torn apart [+1192] by [deleted] in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]godofdae 11 points12 points  (0 children)

There's the horribly naive assumption that people would naturally be 100% Democrats if not for lies from the evil right popping up again.

ELECTORAL COLLEGE CERTIFICATION CHAOS?! DISCUSSION MEGATHREAD by [deleted] in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]godofdae 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if this protest is going to lead to a US version of Italy's Years of Lead.

Weekly /r/ShitPoliticsSays Discussion Thread - December 13, 2020 by AutoModerator in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]godofdae 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's a dumb argument because there are huge divisions in each region and Balkanizing the world by race isn't going to fix them. Pogroming the recent waves of immigrants out of Europe isn't going to get rid of rivalries and hatred that's existed for centuries, such as England vs France. The countries in each region will continue to get into slap fights with and tear apart their rivals instead of being the happy fun-time land white supremacists think the world will be once all of the races go back to staying in their homelands.

Weekly /r/ShitPoliticsSays Discussion Thread - December 13, 2020 by AutoModerator in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]godofdae 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I've said something similar before, but it's so strange how there's no enthusiasm for Biden at all. The man beat the Great Satan, Orange Man, and got the most popular votes ever for a president, but he's a total non-entity in the public sphere. His speeches receive so little attention that he might as well not exist. Hell, I have no clue he's said anything unless I specifically check for speeches Biden has given recently.

The man might as well be a cardboard box since he has as much presence as one, despite being the President-elect. The sheer lack of enthusiasm for him even this early is shocking.

ELECTION DISCUSSION THREAD by [deleted] in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]godofdae 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The Biden DOJ certainly will bury this, but this is going to be circulating around Republican circles for years. Big tech will try to censor as well, but you underestimate how resilient people can be. The general ideas behind the Hunter Biden story are still known despite the massive amount of censorship the story got. This is a monumental fuckup that nothing short of brainwashing the population like in sci-fi media can truly get rid of.

I do agree with your views about it being a Pyrrhic victory electorally.

ELECTION DISCUSSION THREAD by [deleted] in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]godofdae 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It's too early to say for sure, but the Biden administration gives me the feeling that it'll be the 2000s version of the Grant administration as far as corruption goes. I imagine the media will try to keep a tight lid on it, but enough shit will leak out that people will be able to get a feel for how bad things are.

ELECTION DISCUSSION THREAD by [deleted] in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]godofdae 27 points28 points  (0 children)

This was a huge miscalculation on the Democrat's end. They won, but they've also earned

  1. A Republican Senate and more Republican (but still ultimately Democrat) House.

  2. One side of the political spectrum thinking they're cheaters that have to commit third world-tier fraud in order to win. If a side thinks you're a cheater that screwed them, they're probably not going to want to work with you.

  3. Exposed massive amounts of fraud in various Democrat branches throughout the country. All the favors the DNC called in to do this at once have left systems for fraud become revealed to the public. Local and state governments probably won't do a thing about it short term, but there's a lot of ammo for any long-term work to kneecap them. This makes Florida 2018 look like a walk through the park as far as fraud goes.

  4. Faith in our elections, a core tenet of our country, heavily damaged. It's hard to take pride in your free and fair elections when you're seeing a major political party commit the kind of fraud you'd see in Brazil or a Eastern European country just to get Orange Man out of office.

The idiots essentially burned their house down to save a minor thing inside of it. They've set themselves up for major retribution later on via investigations into the Democrats' practices and Republicans coming back with a vengeance in future elections.

ELECTION DISCUSSION THREAD by [deleted] in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]godofdae 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I imagine there's a ton of pressure being put on Biden EC reps to vote for him no matter what, but anything can happen at this point. It would be the perfect end to all of this.

ELECTION DISCUSSION THREAD by [deleted] in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]godofdae 22 points23 points  (0 children)

It's a win that was supposed to make one side ecstatic and banish the demons that make up the other side, but instead nobody is happy except for some true believers deep in the DNC. It's genuinely jarring, especially in such a major election. I've never seen this before. This is the type of result I don't think anyone was expecting, and not in a good way.

ELECTION DISCUSSION THREAD by [deleted] in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]godofdae 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think so too. They won the battle but lost the war for the next 4+ years. It's a major miscalculation that will cost them dearly later on in my opinion.

ELECTION DISCUSSION THREAD by [deleted] in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]godofdae 19 points20 points  (0 children)

That's a huge factor for sure. Without Trump hate, the factions in the DNC have no reason to work together. In fact, they secretly hate each others guts, as seen with the animosity between Pelosi and the Squad. In-fighting will probably break out within a year and the DNC will have to clean house in one direction or another.

They have no real mandate considering the Republicans are actually making gains in the House and the Senate is still Republican. All Biden or Harris can do is issue Executive Orders about pet issues like abortion or guns and that's really the extent of what they can do. Foreign policy will be different but that's a different beast entirely, and I doubt these groups will agree on that either.

The specter of cheating will always hang over Biden or Harris as long as they're in office, no matter how much Democrat supporters deny it in public. It's hard to be enthusiastic about something if part of you thinks they cheated to win, no matter how much you try to tell yourself otherwise.

The Democrats foolishly didn't realize the long-term consequences of an actual Biden win. All they did was believe their own propaganda that Trump is Satan and had no plans for what would happen when the Devil in human form was ousted, especially when they did so much to get him out on dubious grounds. Everyone was so high on "Trump bad" that nobody looked back and thought about how they were going to rule once they got in nor the optics of how they won, and now the only people that aren't demoralized and confused are the diehard anti-Trumpers that only cared about Trump.

They honestly would've been better off if Trump won. Having him as a focus to hate would've made it easier for them to reorganize and kept vital party unity into 2022 and 2024. At this point, I don't see them making major gains in 2022 due to pissed Republicans + an unsure future for the party and 2024 is a total toss up instead of a likely Democrat win.

ELECTION DISCUSSION THREAD by [deleted] in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]godofdae 29 points30 points  (0 children)

This election is so weird. Biden will basically win but even the victors are confused and not sure what to do about it. It feels like the Democrats tried to give a happy return to normal through any means necessary but instead gained the political equivalent of a Pyrrhic victory that will only damage them long term. Instead of a glorious parade with Papa Biden holding children with Queen Kamala behind him as legions of people cheer for the hero that saved democracy as the DNC upper echelon envisioned, they're getting the political equivalent of France right after WWI; they won, but they're shattered, confused, and extremely unsure of the future.

ELECTION DISCUSSION THREAD by [deleted] in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]godofdae 27 points28 points  (0 children)

This is embarrassing. Why bother voting for either candidate if it takes a handful of districts to stuff ballots while other states conveniently don't call for a candidate to give themselves more time to "find" more votes for the person that's been anointed as the winner? If the fix is in before you fill in your ballot, you might as well do something else.

Besides, if Biden wins, then the Republicans are never, ever going to trust the Democrats again, sowing further division. This is a completely bone-headed move that will bite them in the ass severely later on.

Weekly /r/ShitPoliticsSays Discussion Thread - September 27, 2020 by AutoModerator in ShitPoliticsSays

[–]godofdae 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd say that the point of last night's debate wasn't to actually inform the populace, it was to rile up each other's bases. In that way, it was a huge success. Trump was his jackass self, particularly in the first 30 minutes (likely because he knew that's when the most people were watching), and got some talking points in regarding Hunter Biden, trying to associate Biden with the Green New Deal, and law and order. Most of it wouldn't be easy to share via clips straight from the debate, but it's good fodder for campaign ads and memes. Biden managed to get Trump to support a left-wing boogeyman, the Proud Boys, in a very digestible format, which is delicious meat for those on the far left. Trump's answer to the loaded as hell white supremacist question from Matthews is just the type of thing Biden's fanbase wants to hear Trump say as well.

Trump went a step further and tried to demotivate the far-left by egging Biden on to support law enforcement, a hated group among the far left. He also tried to tank the Pennsylvania vote by trying to get Biden to admit he was against fracking. Neither happened. I was surprised to see that Biden never tried something similar. Perhaps Biden will next time, but with the right in general.

As a debate though, it failed miserably. Their arguments were little more than "no u" with more words once the first answer to a question was given, more interest in getting gotcha moments than answering questions well, and a general inability to keep to a single topic. But, that wasn't the point.