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

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Should be a wild four years.

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pooterino dijo:
Affluent white women are too busy turning into whales to protect anything from the brown hordes.

Case in point: Lena Dunham, the leading feminist of the 2010s. Q - Where is she now?

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My my my, what a difference a decade can make.
(A - She's in several places, now. Because she's FAT. Get it? Even the photograph itself seems fatter.)

Reminder not to date/marry feminists because as soon as you settle down you're going to be washing the folds of some fatty so that she doesn't get skin infections.
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lena dunham isnt white
 
Breadbassket dijo:
United States District Judge Katherine Menendez (Biden appointee) ORDERS ICE and other federal agents not to retaliate, arrest, pull over, or use riot control munitions against observers and non-obstructing protesters during their surge in Minneapolis.
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It's nice of the dumb bitch to include a loophole.

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I'm pretty sure all the ICE arrests and after-action reports already call these idiots obstructive, and the videos keep backing them up. They literally don't have to change anything they're doing.

At some point an arrested moron will wind up in front of this judge screeching that they were NOT being obstructive, but I don't think even this judge gets to make that determination. It's a tactical call, and if some video comes out showing a borderline case, ICE can fall back on immunity anyway.
 
Thomas Talus dijo:
Don't forget that the whole reason we decided to overthrow Libya despite Qaddafi playing ball when it came to nuclear disarmament was that Hillary's buddy Sy Hersh had a financial arrangement with a group that wanted to be in charge of a post-Qaddafi government (which didn't end up happening).
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That wasn't the only reason. Hillary also needed to prove her CINC chops (she's just as hard-ass as the guys! seriously!) before her presidential run.
 
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sadrefrigerator dijo:
Chinese usually use traditional hanzi, which was too complicated to write all the time. So they simplified a lot of the more complicated characters.
Japanese uses the traditional characters for their language, and Taiwanese people also use the traditional Chinese.

There are a few telltale signs you can look for, for example 4 dots vs a line.
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Simplified Chinese was instituted during the cultural revolution for a number of reasons - one was the thought to increase literacy and another was that traditional was frowned upon as being too "educated" as during the cultural revolution, they were killing teachers and anyone else they considered too smart while they were instituting communism.

Off the top of my head the difference looks like - (traditional on left, simplified on right)

"This" 這 这
"Country"國 国

Personally, I hate simplified just because it's so retarded. When I got my Chinese degree I mostly ignored it although I can read a handful of it. Mostly because I wanted to read older and more traditional Chinese texts so I ignored simplified and focused on traditional. Learning simplified instead of traditional is like not knowing how to read cursive so you can't read older things like letters. I spent 4 years at Queens College and a year in Guangzhou University in order to get my degree so I mostly could just ignore simplified. Yeah, sometimes it can get dicey on the mainland but there's nothing in modern mainland worth reading anyway lol.
 
Yandex Captcha Solver dijo:
Imagine losing an eye for just $120k and some temporary ass-pats. Most of which will go to medical bills. Guess the lil pooner can try to get on welfare so she can protest all day and lose the other eye.
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"Please watch carefully! I can only do this trick one more time."
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Twix Eatr dijo:
[utter retardation]
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May you live a long life of never again having to interact with any woman ever.

Twix Eatr dijo:
They are just completely and utterly incapable of saying a "mean" thing unless everyone else is. It means you can't rely on them to be honest or tell the truth about certain issues until men have already decided for them, basically.
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Oh, golly, let me fix that!:

You are a puerile, imbecilic, self-centered asshole and creep lacking any comprehension of science, critical and rational analysis, or logic, or, indeed, anything outside of your own literal and figurative circle-jerk of a personal experience, and your wishful thinking.

Disclosure: This comment was not created in accordance or furtherance with, nor relying on, nor pursuant to, the decision of a man.
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But seriously, get a grip. That much hate and resentment will lead to an early death. One way or another.


Harvey Danger dijo:
It's nice of the dumb bitch to include a loophole.

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I'm pretty sure all the ICE arrests and after-action reports already call these idiots obstructive, and the videos keep backing them up. They literally don't have to change anything they're doing.

At some point an arrested moron will wind up in front of this judge screeching that they were NOT being obstructive, but I don't think even this judge gets to make that determination. It's a tactical call, and if some video comes out showing a borderline case, ICE can fall back on immunity anyway.
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Putting aside whether this judge would ever see anything in court, concepts like obstructive/ unobstructive are not tactical; a court or other legal process could, assuming something got beyond immunity and other hurdles, certainly determine whether x or y behavior met that meaning. This and similar are pretty fundamental to lawful protests forever.
 
Bogliacci dijo:
Not holding my breathe on Walz and Frey getting subpoenaed until there's an actual indictment.
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You can subpoena someone without indicting them. You can get a court order directing them to preserve all relevant evidence and they can be imprisoned for destroying or hiding it, all without an underlying charge against them.
 
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Getting ads for nicolas maduro. Trying to humanize this guy as a “family man” so was pol-pot.
Fuck, by this logic the Pennsylvania Graverobber could be cast as having “a killer Halloween display, or not playing into the rat race”

And this comes from a spanish speaking channel about current events. Could be one of those slopreel makers
But someone spanish you’d think they’d be more sympathetic to the people who got mowed down by an actual regime?
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I was a Teenage “JA”-man dijo:
Getting ads for nicolas maduro. Trying to humanize this guy as a “family man” so was pol-pot.
Fuck, by this logic the Pennsylvania Graverobber could be cast as having “a killer Halloween display, or not playing into the rat race”

And this comes from a spanish speaking channel about current events. Could be one of those slopreel makers
But someone spanish you’d think they’d be more sympathetic to the people who got mowed down by an actual regime?
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This is a good thing. It would be very easy to film some of these people protesting on behalf of a despotic drug kingpin and use that as fuel to ignite further ICE activity in blue spic-heavy states.
 
AnitaSarsleezian dijo:
Simplified Chinese was instituted during the cultural revolution for a number of reasons - one was the thought to increase literacy and another was that traditional was frowned upon as being too "educated" as during the cultural revolution, they were killing teachers and anyone else they considered too smart while they were instituting communism.

Off the top of my head the difference looks like - (traditional on left, simplified on right)

"This" 這 这
"Country"國 国

Personally, I hate simplified just because it's so retarded. When I got my Chinese degree I mostly ignored it although I can read a handful of it. Mostly because I wanted to read older and more traditional Chinese texts so I ignored simplified and focused on traditional. Learning simplified instead of traditional is like not knowing how to read cursive so you can't read older things like letters. I spent 4 years at Queens College and a year in Guangzhou University in order to get my degree so I mostly could just ignore simplified. Yeah, sometimes it can get dicey on the mainland but there's nothing in modern mainland worth reading anyway lol.
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Yeah, that's a huge part of it: making it so the Chinese people can't read their own classics.

And because, as you said, this took place during the Cultural Revolution, the same intelligencia whom could have done a reasonably good and logical job of reforming the characters were too busy getting murdered, so we end up with bizarre shit like 葉->叶. WTF is a mouth radical doing in the character for "leaf"? Did the tree and grass radicals make too much sense? Fucking commies.

Learn Trad first, always. If you need to learn Simp or Jap later, it's easy. I know all three very well, and the defects in Simp could fill a book.

And then there is the fun fact that there was even a second round of simplifications which was so poorly recieved, that the ruling commies actually gave into pressure and rescinded it!
 
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