US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

Destacado
General Trump Banner.png ​

Should be a wild four years.

Helpful links for those who need them:

Current members of the House of Representatives
https://www.house.gov/representatives

Current members of the Senate
https://www.senate.gov/senators/

Current members of the US Supreme Court
https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx

Members of the Trump Administration
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/
 
Última edición por un moderador:
Presiona para expandir...
Sailor Kim Jong Moon dijo:
This explains 99% of redditors.
Presiona para expandir...
What bothers me the most about modern writing is that it's becoming oddly streamlined. I write dogshit as a hobby, but at least it's my dogshit. There are people I know who go to great lengths to "improve" their writing and all it really does is make them write like other writers.
 
Hey Johnny Bravo dijo:
What bothers me the most about modern writing is that it's becoming oddly streamlined. I write dogshit as a hobby, but at least it's my dogshit. There are people I know who go to great lengths to "improve" their writing and all it really does is make them write like other writers.
Presiona para expandir...
Perhaps people are getting writing advice from the same places.
 
Since the Weathermen keep coming up, and since there are real parallels and connections between them and the current, ongoing leftist insurrection, I thought I'd post this.

These are a series of texts posted a few days ago by Eric Schmitt, Senator of Missouri, about the Weathermen and their legacy and continuing influence.

In one 18-month period in the early 1970s, there were 2,500 bombings on American soil—nearly 5 a day. Did you know that? Many Americans don't. These leftist terrorists who declared war on America went on to work at top law firms, nonprofits, and Ivy League universities.

The left-wing violence of the 1970s was horrific. The most infamous extremist group was the Weather Underground—which issued a "Declaration of War" against the U.S. government in 1970. They bombed the Pentagon. They bombed the State Department. They bombed the U.S. Capitol.

And then? Many of them simply...waltzed right back into mainstream liberal society. Worse, actually: They were given positions of power and prestige in the defining mainstream institutions. White-shoe law firms. Cushy book deals. Ivy League professorships. The whole nine yards.

Take Kathy Boudin—a Weather Underground terrorist who was sentenced to 20-years-to-life for her role in a 1981 Brink's truck robbery in New York, in which she helped her accomplices execute two policemen and a security guard in cold blood. She was granted parole in 2003. By 2013, Kathy Boudin was an adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Social Work—where she co-founded and co-directed the "Center for Justice"—and a scholar-in-residence at NYU Law School. Boudin died in 2022. Columbia memorialized her in glowing terms.

Her son, Chesa Boudin, was elected as the notoriously far-left District Attorney in San Francisco in 2019, backed by—surprise, surprise!—George Soros. Since Kathy was in jail, Boudin was adopted and raised by Weather Underground co-founders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

Bill Ayers played a leading role in planning and directing the Weather Underground attacks on the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and the State Department. Decades later, he told the New York Times: "I don't regret setting bombs.'' In fact, ''I feel we didn't do enough.''

Ayers became Professor of Education at University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2008, he was elected vice president for curriculum studies at the American Educational Research Association. In other words: This is the person who was training the teachers that teach our kids.

Oh, and guess whose political career was launched in Ayers' and Dohrn's house? The 44th president of the United States. Barack Obama’s first-ever campaign event—launching his 1995 State Senate run—was held in the living room of Ayers and Dohrn.

Bernardine Dohrn—herself another Weather Underground co-founder who oversaw the massive bombing campaigns and terrorist attacks—was hired by the elite law firm Sidley & Austin. Later, she was hired as a professor at Northwestern Law School—where she taught for over 20 years.

The examples go on and on. As I've said before, the radical Left of the 1960s-70s didn't disappear—they simply took over mainstream institutions: Academia, the media, the NGOs, etc. The radical Left didn't lose—they won, by becoming the mainstream itself.

Also, if you want to watch an in-depth exploration of the Weather Underground and other violent, revolutionary American groups that operated during the '70s, this is a great America's Untold Stories video to watch.

The Weather Underground were Bomb-wielding Radicals
maxresdefault.jpg
 
Última edición:
People don't want interesting fantasy and books that actually do something unique. They want paint by numbers slop. Just like the msm they consume. It doesn't challenge their thinking or ask them do any thinking really, and why would they seek that out in fiction?
Edit: this is what googleTM tells me this means so this is what it means
 
The black guy that took down a protestor yesterday in Chicago is being doxed and followed by ‘people’ in the Facebook Group “ICE Sighting Chicagoland”. This is the same page the woman who was shot after ramming ICE agents yesterday frequented. Her name is Marimar Martinez aka LA Maggie and she and an accomplice have been charged with felonies.
IMG_5848.jpeg IMG_5846.webp
 
Blewberry Nausea dijo:
The black guy that took down a protestor yesterday in Chicago is being doxed and followed by ‘people’ in the Facebook Group “ICE Sighting Chicagoland”. This is the same page the woman who was shot after ramming ICE agents yesterday frequented. Her name is Marimar Martinez aka LA Maggie and she and an accomplice have been charged with felonies.
Ver archivo adjunto 8002281Ver archivo adjunto 8002282
Presiona para expandir...
“I shot him in self defense, your honor. Look at this exhibit where I was threaded by a literal terrorist group.”

Damn lefties are fucking retarded, lol.
 
whoishomermynameis dijo:

Ver archivo adjunto 8002039

I removed the audio since it wasn't the original audio:

marimar.mp4

Ver archivo adjunto 8002042

Ver archivo adjunto 8002043 Ver archivo adjunto 8002044
Presiona para expandir...
I'm going to win my bet with @Delany's Donkey in no time.
Breadbassket dijo:
Perhaps people are getting writing advice from the same places.
Presiona para expandir...
A lot of the advice is the same. Some of it is useful because some people don't realize how they rely on certain crutches, or use overly flowery prose, or rely too heavily on adverbs. However, some of it removes personal flair from writing and "streamlines" how people write. You see a lot of this in professional communication because so many people now use AI, or Grammarly, or some similar service to write e-mails for them.

I'm not totally opposed to critical literacy as a tool because it's actually extremely useful when doing primary historical research. It's not completely useless. However, the problem with modern reading and writing is that people are not properly taught that this is a tool, not the end-all-be-all of reading, writing, research, and literature. Even before the recent lunacy that really took hold in the late 2000's, I saw people draw conclusions completely independent of a source by what I'd loosely call "critical theory deduction": they read the source and draw conclusions, criticisms, or whatever based entirely on a meta-analysis of the text. This might produce something interesting or it might sound like tinfoil hat shit, but not enough people are willing to put their foot down and say "that's fucking stupid." There's also a huge emphasis on deductive reasoning in modern education, which leads to a lot of black-or-white thinking.
 
Destacado
Debes iniciar sesión o registrarte para responder aquí.
Atrás
Top Abajo