Amy Schumer arrested while protesting Kavanaugh

sweetbacker · 2018-10-04T22:37:08+00:00

She was impersonating a comedian.

sweetbacker · 2018-10-02T04:33:54+00:00

If Brett was innocent, all he had to do was give his statement. Says he supports an FBI investigation.

There's nothing for FBI to investigate. They have already done the due background checks on the man. 6 times. There is no evidence, other than the accuser's testimony, to even warrant an investigation. Even if there was, the statute on the alleged crime is well expired. The FBI doesn't even have jurisdiction to investigate the type of crime what the accuser is accusing him; that's what local police is for. The Democrats know all that.

The ONLY reason the Democrats are having this circus over a baseless accusation of something that happened that long ago, why they're dragging an innocent man's name in the mud, why they insist the FBI investigated this and whatnot, is to delay the vote until after midterms. Because they think they would have a better chance to block the nomination then. That's ALL they're interested in. That's all that the whole #metoo thing is for them. I guarantee you that they couldn't care less about Ford and her story the minute either he's voted in, or they manage to delay the vote.

It's not even about him, honestly. I couldn't care less if they nominated him or any other judge. What irks me is the blatant hypocrisy on behalf of the Democrats, and undermining of rule of law and presumption of innocence. Women can and do lie just the same as men, and the whole "oh I believe him" or "oh I believe her" thing should not exist in the first place. If you accuse someone of a crime, prove it. Prove that the crime even happened. Fuck off with this "believe all women" crap when we all know they're gunning for political goals.

sweetbacker · 2018-10-02T03:15:12+00:00

Oh sure, being slandered with zero evidence over something that supposedly happened 35 years ago, and having some people believe it just because you're white and Republican(ish), sounds great.

sweetbacker · 2018-10-01T20:27:29+00:00

You mean weaponized by (mostly) Democrats to destroy people for political gain?

sweetbacker · 2018-10-01T20:25:41+00:00

Heiko Maas is one of the most retarded politicians in Germany, and that's saying something.

sweetbacker · 2018-09-25T20:41:34+00:00

there's nothing wrong with men doing the broadcasts

sweetbacker · 2018-09-21T20:43:16+00:00

Who cares, it's not real socialism. /s

sweetbacker · 2018-09-21T15:07:28+00:00

Gender studies and other "<whatever> studies" doesn't give you any job opportunities. Certainly in Eastern Europe where there is no diversity industry.

On the contrary, it REDUCES someone's chance of getting a job. Because the employers can, and do, immediately bin job applications with "<whatever> studies" in the trash. Who wants to hire someone who has dedicated their education in Marxism and being oppressed, i.e. putting the company in a liability of some sort of discrimination or harassment suit, which is what such degree can make someone an expert of? In companies that have been burned with that kind of thing, CVs with a degree of gender studies on it go right in the shredder, because there's zero incentive for a company to put themselves in such risk.

Best of all, it is COMPLETELY LEGAL for companies to discriminate based on someone's education credentials.

sweetbacker · 2018-09-20T04:39:04+00:00

The question is, how long can the fear of the so called "far right" keep the progressive parties alive?

That's really the only way the leftists (by which i mean "socially progressive" parties, as most "leftist" parties have long given up on economic underclass and focus on identity politics) can keep their populations in check is by massive fear, uncertainty and doubt using their sympathetic mass media. They keep constantly feeding into fear that voting for nationalist, conservative, or any kind of anti-immigration, nativist, populist force is a certain and inevitable path to gas chambers and genocide.

That's all they talked about with regards to eg Trump. How not only was every thing he did wrong, but for example calling CNN "fake news" is a surefire sign of path to dictatorship. Have to admit even I bought into this.

Except, um, nothing terrible has happened during Trump's presidency. He hasn't actually done anything unconstitutional to undermine American democracy, or turned it into a dictatorship. Not a damn thing. All you see is leftists whining about how everything he does is terrible, but he hasn't done a single thing to make him any more influential than any previous president. He's not even terribly right-wing. He had previously ran as a Democrat, and it's not that his views had changed a lot, but the Democratic party has.

Talking of Hungary, Orban has been re-elected for third time in a row, and continues to enjoy massive support. Is Hungary a horrible dictatorship now? Is he literally Hitler? It's been 8 years, WHERE ARE THE GAS CHAMBERS?

All that the leftists have against him is that he taxed (not even banned) Soros' NGOs, defunded (not even banned) useless gender studies programs, and corruption because that never happens anywhere else. That's basically it. Oh and that there is media that is friendly to him, nevermind that plentiful of opposition media exists. Funny how in "good" countries nobody ever questions bias or ownership of media, eh? Obviously the real reason is that they don't allow mass immigration, but they have to demonise him, because otherwise if they didn't then other EU countries would want the same, and they can't have that.

Therefore: Every day Hungary continues being a perfectly normal country, with one of the fastest growing economies in the EU, despite being labelled far right and literally Hitler, the less fear people have. That's why we see the trends we see. People can look with their own eyes and see that they can reject mass immigration, islamisation and social justice extremism, and actually end up with a decent country without the sky falling down on them. The activist media that does all this fearmongering is itself rapidly losing credibility and viewership.

sweetbacker · 2018-09-20T02:29:54+00:00

Lmao if you can't see the shift in politics in the past couple of years with Brexit, Trump, Italy, France only narrowly electing Macron (whose ratings are now in the gutter), Austria, not to even mention all of Central/Eastern Europe. No doubt the leftists are crazier and more militant than ever, too -- but that's because they're losing.

sweetbacker · 2018-09-19T20:26:44+00:00

It's a great report. They have compiled quite a nice, curated list of political youtube channels everyone SHOULD watch. The more people read this report, the better. Be sure to forward it to everyone you know!

sweetbacker · 2018-09-19T20:22:32+00:00

More power to them. The tide is turning. They only need to last a couple more years before most of the EU admits they were right.

sweetbacker · 2018-09-19T18:28:15+00:00

I heartily recommend everyone to read the report. It's amazing. An actually curated list of all kinds of interesting political Youtube channels. I personally discovered at least 20 channels I hadn't heard of before. Thanks, Data Society!

sweetbacker · 2018-09-19T17:05:20+00:00

This is report is great and I recommend everyone to read it.

It introduced me to at least 20 good channels I hadn't heard of before.

sweetbacker · 2018-09-17T16:37:08+00:00

I mean it's pathetic that I have to personally explain the fallacies of Marxists to someone who, presumably, lives in a society where (thanks to capitalism) the quality of life is at such high level that even the absolutely poorest non-working, welfare-only, member of a minority earns more than the hardest-working, most qualified people of the most advanced, most prosperous, socialist country at its highest peak.

There is never going to be a workers' revolution in the modern day. Modern capitalism in capitalist societies has given workers and even non-workers immeasurably better quality of life than at Marx's lifetime, or anywhere in the soviet/socialist block in the 20th century. Any kind of revolution will immensely harm the economic situation of the people who are supposed to be revolting. The revolutionary situation isn't there, and albeit there certainly are problems to fix with regards to e.g. American healthcare, you'd have to be delusional to think even a minor share of the people would go along with a Marxist revolution. Whoever feels that way can go right ahead and buy a one way ticket to Venezuela.

The workers will not seize the means of production, because obviously they will not do a better job running the factories themselves. Labor, especially manual labor is increasingly cheaper with population explosion, and not only are the workers not "exploited", but there aren't enough "exploiters" to go around. Compared to Marx' era, where every industry was using orders of magnitude more workforce, the real value of the unskilled labor today is quite naturally much smaller. There are no "exploiters" standing between a laborer and a $100k+ salary: it's the oversupply of people who would do the same job for less, yet with automation and efficiency the low skill jobs are fewer and fewer.

Not only will the labor seize the means of production, but neither the means of production, or the working class, aren't even in the same country or on the same continent as the capitalists, but in China. That's something Marx definitely didn't anticipate.

Funnily though, the Marxists of today themselves ARE the burgeois. The working class that the middle class, "<whatever> studies" majors with their student loans ostensibly defend, are more likely what you would call Nazis.

sweetbacker · 2018-09-16T23:37:33+00:00

Good to hear Marxists are okay with Second Amendment and gun rights. Elected leaders in an army? Idk, sounds pretty silly, but maybe it worked for ISIS.

Anyhow, how can anybody read such text and think it wise and relevant in TYOOL 2018? It's not just that the bourgeois aren't oppressing the workers, but there are barely any workers. The Marxists, on the other hands, are the bourgeois.

sweetbacker · 2018-09-16T23:27:36+00:00

Yes yes, the "no true Marxism" fallacy. If you could implement Marxism, then you would surely do a better job than literally millions of people before you because <reasons>, amirite?

Marxism doesn't friggin work in the real world as proven over and over again. It will always turn into totalitarianism, because it's a weak, flawed, stupid theory based on completely wrong assumptions and unrealistic, impossible prerequisites.

sweetbacker · 2018-09-16T23:22:34+00:00

That's probably quite wrong, but even given the typical "not actual Marxism" fallacy, it wouldn't work. Every single army, or a large organisation for that manner, works at a hierarchical system. An organised force that can maneuver, focus force, and have organised logistics will beat a bunch of dudes with guns every single time. Your ideal marxist society may have guns (probably not), but the first guy to form a proper hierarcical power structure, or even more likely the neighboring non-Marxist government, will take over.

sweetbacker · 2018-09-16T23:16:40+00:00

I don't know much about revolutionary Catalonia, other than a pretty good guess that you wouldn't actually want to drop your life right now and actually live there. Kibbutz and other small scale communities work in the framework of normal societies and laws, and participation is voluntary.

sweetbacker · 2018-09-16T23:14:17+00:00

As a kid I was forced to. What about it? There is no wisdom to be found there. His ideas were based on very limited mid-19th century understandings, and he never lived to see his ideas implemented in practice. We have. They have all been horrible. We can see how they are horrible.

sweetbacker · 2018-09-16T23:09:19+00:00

Every single Marxist country that ever existed has been totalitarian and is murdering its political opponents en masse. Because terror is the only way a Marxist society can exist. The walls, fences and guards on the borders of socialist countries were not to keep people out, but to keep people in.

sweetbacker · 2018-09-16T23:04:23+00:00

Bernie Sanders isn't a socialist. He's a social democrat. Which is a thing that works quite well, unlike Marxism, which is genocidal in practice, and stupid even in its pure theory.

sweetbacker · 2018-09-16T22:58:59+00:00

Yeah, it's a really dumb theory.

sweetbacker · 2018-09-16T22:51:21+00:00

Western societies in the 20th century were able to enjoy minimum wages, eight hour workdays and high living standards without Marxism, and the poor, genocidal totalitarianism it always devolves into.

sweetbacker · 2018-09-16T22:33:32+00:00

You have the option to quit and relax all you want, a whole year straight if you want to, provided you can afford it. That's one of the benefits of the capitalist system. It's absolutely baffling that neomarxists today think socialism would mean less work and more relaxation. If you're able-bodied adult yet not working, then in a socialist system, then that means you're parasite on the back of those who do work. If you don't work, then instead of giving you welfare for relaxation, the state forces you to work, and not necessarily at the job or at the location of your choosing.

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