US Politics Megathread

[fightinfrenchman]

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Biden is running again, for his 2. term. 70% of dems do not want him to run.
Trump is running again - with 70 approval rates among GOP voters.

Which one do you think is more likely to win

Media and Bidens team seem to think he do not have to speak, not meet the press, not take any debate. They seem to think there is nobody running against him. That is false though, but as long as media shut up about the topic, it all becomes true. Another sad day in Democratic USA.

Who is running against Biden at the moment?

RF Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson. As if you did not know it.

They aren't real candidates

I can c that, tbh. Nobody can challenge an incumbent potus. But do you also acknowlegde that Carmela Harris is a loose cannon? There is a good chance that she will be president if Biden wins 2024

I wouldn't say loose cannon, more that I think she would be bad at running a campaign on her own. Biden should have picked Tammy @Vinyanyérë worth imo

[fightinfrenchman]

I also notice a lack of discussion regarding the blatant, outright and public corruption of the Supreme Court.

I can't say what I think about the Supreme Court publicly

[Dolan]

Americans truly are interesting people



What a way to go

[harcha]

please tell me it was a taser

[callentournies]

https://eddsa.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.n ... INT_10.pdf

read every line, because you can't not

[Dolan]

[Dolan]

[Cometk]

normal day in america

[iNcog]

Is that like, technically legal?

[Dolan]

rly innovative way of having fun

[iNcog]

I believe that is technically illegal.

[fightinfrenchman]

normal day in america

This would make me feel threatened and I've been reliably informed by various political commentators that when a stranger makes you uncomfortable you're allowed to kill them

[Challenger_Marco]

Damn this thread never gets old always up . USA should remove 2nd Amendment & we would have less shooting incidents.

[Challenger_Marco]

Americans truly are interesting people



What a way to go

Prolly got what she deserves . Do teachers in school teach any manners at all there or is that a job of a parent?

[Challenger_Marco]

normal day in america

Tell me honestly are you or any Americans living there afraid to go out? it's so scary to hear news of gun shootings happening at USA often on internet as it can happen anywhere.

[Cometk]

normal day in america

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Tell me honestly are you or any Americans living there afraid to go out? it's so scary to hear news of gun shootings happening at USA often on internet as it can happen anywhere.

i'm more afraid of getting covid tbh nonetheless i would avoid any place where there was open carry of firearms

[Dolan]

normal day in america

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Tell me honestly are you or any Americans living there afraid to go out? it's so scary to hear news of gun shootings happening at USA often on internet as it can happen anywhere.

i'm more afraid of getting covid tbh nonetheless i would avoid any place where there was open carry of firearms

it's not that big a deal, I think I had it and it went away in 3 days

[fightinfrenchman]

normal day in america

Tell me honestly are you or any Americans living there afraid to go out? it's so scary to hear news of gun shootings happening at USA often on internet as it can happen anywhere.

Most shootings in my area are targeted so I don't personally worry about it for myself. Although the threat of it does make me less likely to angrily honk at someone when driving in case they pull out a gun and "go nuts"

[fightinfrenchman]

This was incredibly difficult to read

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/i ... h-dorbert/

[Dolan]

This was incredibly difficult to read

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/i ... h-dorbert/

You're projecting a level of existential anguish that only becomes available once you develop full awareness, which the newborn lacks.
Awareness is a pain amplifier. The newborn is still a human blueprint reacting on autopilot

[harcha]

This was incredibly difficult to read

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/i ... h-dorbert/

You're projecting a level of existential anguish that only becomes available once you develop full awareness, which the newborn lacks.
Awareness is a pain amplifier. The newborn is still a human blueprint reacting on autopilot

You're programmed to do that. Maybe some of use have less empathy, but nevertheless...

Obviously the takeaway from this story isn't about what happened post-birth, but the fact that this whole situation is now mandated (and it wasn't so before).

[Dolan]

Sure it's a fucked up situation.
It is a super-edge case, though. A case in which a newborn turns out to be biologically nonviable, but the ultrasound failed to show anything. To make a point about the whole situation using an edge case is not the best way of arguing about this.
Maybe the bigger takeaway is how modern medicine fails to predict which foetuses are going to turn out too messed up to be allowed to be carried to term.
Flawed foetuses should definitely be aborted.

Nobody should have to live through this

[Dolan]

You're programmed to do that. Maybe some of use have less empathy, but nevertheless...

Not sure about that frankly. There were some studies on how African kids from some tribes react to emotion-inducing imagery and they mostly remained deadpan. The researchers were baffled how their idea of a "universal empathetic response" shaped by studies in the Anglophone West did not hold in Africa. I guess culture goes a long way and deeply enough to shape emotional reactions too. And the human responses we think are universal are not really, it's just a halo effect of living in a culture that spreads these ideas. A culture-shaped affective style.

[Goodspeed]

This was incredibly difficult to read

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/i ... h-dorbert/

You're projecting a level of existential anguish that only becomes available once you develop full awareness, which the newborn lacks.
Awareness is a pain amplifier. The newborn is still a human blueprint reacting on autopilot

What? The parents are quite aware and had to watch their newborn struggle to live and then die. That's why it's a sad story.

[fightinfrenchman]

This was incredibly difficult to read

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/i ... h-dorbert/

You're projecting

Do you really think that's the case