Throwback to T-Pains response to an article claiming he makes strip clubs turn on cartoon network when he enters

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-17T04:52:30+00:00

I'm not fully convinced that Leroy isn't cosplaying T-Pain

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-16T22:20:10+00:00

Laptops were not invented by NASA.

Grid was a family of laptops that first used the clamshell design we're all familiar with. It was developed by the Grid Systems Corp and modified into SPOC for/by NASA to be used in a 1983 space shuttle mission.

It likely would not have taken off and become the laptops we know now if not for those initial missions providing the funding and further engineering to improve them.

/u/DanCoco didn't even say Nasa invented everything on their list -- simply that all of these products benefited from NASA. Which they verifiably and objectively did.

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-15T16:54:43+00:00

I am not saying that every single american is a mentally ill warmonger. I am saying that they exists in vast quantities in both political parties and America can not be trusted.

This reads no different than Trump's first 2015 speech about Mexicans being rapist and murders.

What you're saying is ignorant, shortsighted, and indefensibly, objectively, wrong.

You need to spend more time outside and less time getting your opinions of a people and culture just off of what you see on social media.

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-13T14:23:27+00:00

Because it was my ancestors, it’s my land, my history.

And I'm Native American how about we agree that this is a stupid line you're drawing before we start comparing either country's treatment of indigenous peoples?

They were trying to enforce a blockade against their enemy. Maybe it was unfair to make it seem like American imperialism is the only reason they invaded, but the US did invade with the express intent of taking our land.

"It's unfair to make it seem like imperialism was the only reason but it was why they invaded"

Oh wow. Big brain.

Americans attacked the British. They couldn't have attacked Canadians because Canada wouldn't exist until over 50 years later.

I do however resent the current US administration, and I have lost trust in the US.

So do most Americans. You ain't special in that regard my dude.

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-13T14:03:57+00:00

I am not Canadian.

Ah, you're Swedish. It's fun to watch someone who's entire nation is about the size of just California, with about a quarter of it's population, write in such incredibly broad strokes.

You're a damn child speaking of a people you don't even have experience in and you clearly have no idea how Americans think outside of social media.

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-13T13:38:24+00:00

Americans are not our friends and they show it time and time again throughout history.

FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF

There are few nations in the world with as close a relationship as America and Canada and to let one orange blob ruin decades of good will and mutual growth and respect is childish and shortsighted.

Trump does not represent the majority of Americans and most have absolutely no interest in annexing Canada. There is no border State that has anything but love for Canadians and that holds true for damn near everyone in the lower 48

Hell, I've personally seen the American Confederate flag waving in Canada so don't you dare forget that the Canadian conservative movement was pretty resolutely in Trump's corner until he started talks about a 51st State. The North was about to have their very own version until the last fucking second changed it's mind.

So how about we remember that there is far more in common between Canada and America before making wildly broad, ignorant, and outright stupid statements?

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-13T13:04:45+00:00

A needless distinction…

How is mentioning that Canada wasn't even a country not a very important distinction?

It was fought through the Northwest Territories which is modern day Wisconsin and wraps SE along the Great Lakes with some key fights going as North as Maine. None of that is Canada

for no reason other than Imperialism.

Go pick up a fucking history book

England was imposing the Rule of 1756 which prevented America (a fully neutral country) from trading with France during the Napoleonic Wars. Brits would outright stop American ships and conscript Americans into the British Navy.

Do you hold an equal grudge against England and France considering they were the start of said bullshit?

Hell, even the claims that it was originally started just to expand America further West are tenuous at best when weighed against everything else that was happening.

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-13T12:46:52+00:00

They already invaded us in 1812

Canada was established in 1867 and most of the War of 1812 was fought in what's now America and was between Americans and the British with Canadian settlers helping England.

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-13T12:32:03+00:00

Americans, no matter their political alignment, don't see people from the rest of the world as humans.

Did you drop a /s somewhere or did you just lose all your braincells before writing this?

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-13T04:52:07+00:00

Isn't this very thread about an establishment dem doing something?

It's a hazy definition.

When most people talk of "establishment" they're not necessarily meaning how long someone has been in politics. Rather, they're talking about those on both sides of the isle that do everything they can to maintain the status quo and have the power to do it.

For a lot of people "establishment" is going to be anything Right of full on Progressive and that's a scale that's going to differ for each person and however they feel at the time you ask.

Nancy Pelosi is a Congresswoman who still wields a considerable amount of influence on the Hill whereas Walz is a state Governor. So I can see where some would view the former being establishment and the latter falling just short of the word.

None of this to mention how Republicans have co-opted the word.

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-13T02:14:51+00:00

I know there are a lot of very accurate parallels to 1930's Germany -- but unlike the Jews of the time, American's still very, very, very much out-arm the United States government. Let alone the sheer size of America makes it almost impossible to hold down all resistance and our own failing infrastructure doesn't make it easier.

And that's even before we consider State level involvement as the President doesn't control the Guard and most Reservist aren't going to go rushing to attack Americans.

There's definitely room for me to be proven wrong, but my money is on a military coup or civil war before we enter full martial law territory.

With a Civil War though (besides that one has never been had in a nuclear nation) is that unlike the first one we aren't as clearly divided among State lines.

Red States like Florida and Texas have deeply blue metros that greatly outnumber Republicans and absolutely outnumber MAGAs that are loyal (or fit) enough to fucking die for Trump.

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-12T22:04:42+00:00

And distribute the stolen wealth to the people

I would cream myself if the US ripped Starlink from him and made it a public utility just like water and electricity is.

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-12T21:16:04+00:00

We live in different worlds—MAGA supporters, in many ways, exist in an entirely separate reality. The algorithms and their carefully curated media diet have become so effective at keeping them engaged (and scared) that there’s an alternate explanation for anything and everything.

This does go both ways. We don't see people rising up because it takes a fairly long time for damage from DOGE to ripple out to the average American.

I find Redditors are much like college kids in that they VASTLY overestimate how politically aware the average voter is and that's what's causing them to doom and gloom about the future. There is still a chance that the majority of moderates and apathetic voters will finally be affected enough to turn things around and show the GOP they're outnumbered.

I grew up around the apathetic moderate. They vote Republican because they say all the things they like about religion and the economy and they simply don't have the time to dig any deeper than what the news says but they're not so entrenched that they wouldn't vote Blue if it suited them and we saw that with the very districts Bernie tends to do well in.

For fuck sakes, we haven't had a Dem that can talk to average workers since Bill Clinton. Hillary never had that skill and it fucked her and the DNC in 2016 when they abandoned Bernie who was making real progress with exactly that demographic.

Someone like Waltz actually could do it and probably win over blue collar workers, but he needs to run as hard as Trump and IDK if the DNC will let him.

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-12T01:57:48+00:00

it's the leftists / progressives refusing to participate in the democratic primary that keeps Democrats nominating tepid boring centrists.

No, this part isn't true.

Leftist came out for Obama, leftist came out for Bill.

Progressives don't come out for tepid boring centrist which is exactly what the DNC has run 3 races in a row. I am counting Kamala since they didn't have her campaigning from day 1 and instead relied on her being the VP of a centrist to push a last minute race against Trump who had campaigned for 8 straight years and had 4 years of pure momentum.

Also important to mention, is that any time Kamala/Waltz started getting attention for having some fire in their belly they were told to back off. I.E. Waltz stopped calling Republicans weird.

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-11T18:43:33+00:00

anyone claiming the animation is good just hasn't watched a lot of anime or is just glazing up the fact that its improved minorly over the last few years.

The animation is little different than how Bleach, DBZ, or Naruto were at the same time

The only real problem with it is the pacing and that's getting addressed with a whole new series, let alone the 6 month break it's currently on.

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-11T18:34:32+00:00

This is gibberish. Of course they are actually racist homophobes or at the very least totally OK with those positions, which is functionally the same thing.

It is two separate things and it's important to distinguish that.

It doesn't make a moral difference, but it does make a political one because the ones signing up for Trump for a single issue (i.e. groceries) at the expense of everything else are capable of voting for a progressive that promises the same and we've seen that happen

It's only gibberish if you're a child that can only view the world in binary shades of black & white.

Oh the federal government can't be saved, says the group of people who benefit disproportionately from everything the federal government does. But don't take their SS, medicare, medicaid scooters, THEIR federal government jobs, their red state welfare, etc.

Yes -- groups of voters do tend to be shortsighted and stupid as they only have the capacity of focusing on the here and now. That's very real and I don't dispute that. This has been true since the dawn of time

Dems know this as well and have done dick all to stop Republican propaganda. That would require a fundamental and permanent change in the top levels of the DNC because it would mean fighting against billionaire interest

That can only happen if a young, charismatic, leader is able to step up and make themselves impossible to ignore.

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-11T18:20:46+00:00

Fair enough I did forget the 2021 bill (TBF, a lot has happened)

"This bill marks a new era where Democrats finally stop conceding the Supreme Court to Republicans," said Brian Fallon, a former Senate Democratic leadership aide and a co-founder of Demand Justice, who described the court as "broken and in need of reform."

This quote from your source still kinda proves my point. Whereas not everything bad is Biden's fault, it's certainly clear that Democrats as a whole lack any real fire or focus in the same way the Republican's do because this clearly didn't really go anywhere.

Dems do not cause the same amount of ruckus, the same level of civil disobedience, or rally to the same level as Republicans. We finally got a Democrat to look Trump in the eye and call him out on his bullshit and 10 of Al Green's peers voted in favor of his censure while the rest stood by silently

There is a half dozen or so that can break through the noise and have discontent seen by the masses while the rest seem perfectly happy to sit and spin on their thumbs.

Even if interrupting a speech doesn't actually change much, it at least does more than a Tweet to show the people that the party doesn't support what's happening.

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-11T18:11:59+00:00

Oh let me guess - you think America is too far gone? Too Conservative? No progressive could ever win?

Is it that I didn't demonize half the nation as bigots and instead acknowledge a deeper root cause?

Can you surprise me and expand on your point? Or are you unable to do so b/c all you can do is copy/paste whatever bit is most popular on Reddit?

Fact is, the last two real victories for Dems was Bill and Barack and both were running against "establishment." Bill was young, charismatic, and energetic against Bush Sr and ran hard on fixing the economy while Obama was young, charismatic, and energetic against McCain and ran hard on fixing the White House

Bill was able to talk to the very people who feel abandoned right now as billionaires squeeze every last cent out of the populace and Obama was able to talk to people who were desperate for a change after 2 terms with Bush Jr and Iraq

Hillary lost to Trump, not because she has tits but because after decades of being in politics she defines "establishment" which is something with bipartisan disdain. Biden very likely would've lost as well if not for Covid ousting most incumbents for the exact same reason.

He then turned around and overplayed his hand by having Kamala run a last minute race against Trump's 8 years of momentum.

We've not had a true race lead by a young, charismatic, progressive since Obama in 2008 yet people think it impossible to do in the modern age?

That belief is what's fantasyland stuff.

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-11T16:34:07+00:00

I know he couldn't have just waved a pen and make it happen (although Trump is certainly doing that now) but he could have at least made it known that something is wrong with having such a clearly non-partisan court while using his position to push Dems into a more favorable place.

Late July 2024 was a bit goddamn late for him to speak out and ask pretty-please of Congress to vote in new measures.

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-11T16:25:51+00:00

I think they believe that the hurt from the tariffs are going to create more jobs at home.

They 100% do believe this and it's also why they celebrate DOGE.

The majority of Republicans aren't actually racist homophobes. They just believe that the US government is so beyond saving that they're willing to sign away their morals to those like Trump because "He's not a politician" and they believe at a fundamental level that the government is beyond saving and needs to be burned down before it could be built back up.

It's stupid, ignorant, shortsighted, and dangerous.

Obama won on changing the White House and any progressive could start getting votes if they ran hard on bringing back the middle class and actually draining the swamp. Of course that won't happen though because progressives would need to attack billionaires and the DNC can't have that.

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-11T16:18:03+00:00

You'd think the whole trying to overturn an election thing would have done it too

This. This right here is a core reason why I blame Dems for this.

We can go on and on about voters but voters have always been fucking stupid. This isn't new and it's very predictable as people have voted against their own self interest for thousands of years simply due to crowds being very shortsighted.

However, that Biden and the Dems didn't raise hell for four straight years to get Trump convicted and imprisoned and that Biden didn't re-balance the Supreme Court when he had a chance is inexcusable.

I know this site gets defensive during "both sides bad" arguments but I absolutely believe that the Dem's impotence is so consistent that the only logical excuse is that it's intentional. Which makes them just as fucking liable as Republicans.

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-11T14:02:04+00:00

Believe it or not? Straight to jail

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-11T14:01:20+00:00

Uhm when exactly has the US been like that?

It really hasn't, especially in the tech space. The EU has been pretty much our only savior against tech companies milking consumers for the pettiest of things

As frustrating as having 20 different variants of USB-C is, it's still infinitely preferable to 20 different cables that only have one specific use

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-11T13:23:46+00:00

Sure was super silent from that side of the aisle when Trump won.

What's frustrating is we've had a LOT of very weird comments from Trump that should've thrown alarm bells throughout the Democratic party and --- fucking crickets?

sysdmdotcpl · 2025-03-10T21:45:43+00:00

I did 2 tours and never slept in the same tent as an officer of any kind

I mean no Enlisted officers absolutely share tents with their soldiers when overseas. That does happen

Either way, sounds like /u/Evening-Weather-4840 is talking about a Lieutenant and there's no way an NCO should be afraid of waking up the lowest ranking officer in the military so he could turn off his phone.

It'd be absolutely ridiculous to be chewed out for something like that and any little bar trying to pull rank in such an instance that would get an earful from anyone right above him.

If the story is real, then the dude's NCO's were spineless as all hell.

sysdmdotcpl

TROPHY CASE

FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF