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Last posted Nov 18, 2024 at 04:46PM EST. Added Jan 01, 2017 at 06:26PM EST
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Sir Snakeboat wrote:

i'll state right now that i remember almost nothing about judas, but if it ends up pulling a bioshock infinite and takes place during a time where black people are prejudiced against and interracial relationships are considered anathema, then the posters would make sense, columbia was also pretty overt with its disdain for both

That would make sense if this poster wasn't an obvious propaganda poster put together by the government equivalent. The synopsis of the game is that "Computers control the entire society, including grooming the human residents to be model citizens and report on those that deviate from expected behavior.", which is clearly a riff on cancel culture, so I don't think its doing a riff on black supremacy, lol

Hunter Nightblood wrote:

Barring any surprises, the election is going to boil down to who wins Pennsylvania.

Actually, looking at the map and current polling, Harris needs to claim Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania if she wants to win.

Losing just one of those states means Trump wins.

Of particular note is that on 538, one particular highly rated pollster, AtlasIntel, has Trump ahead on every swing state, including Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Virtually everyone else has Harris winning Wisconsin and Michigan.

If AtlasIntel is accurate, you're looking at a 312-226 in favor of Trump.

Whoever wins the Rust Belt, wins the election. Damn…

https://twitter.com/MAGAResource/status/1853243657568297205

Trump supporting verified account posted a deepfake video of MLK

Might as well dig up his body and weekend at Bernie's him. Truly disgusting

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VeteranAdventureHobo wrote:

https://twitter.com/MAGAResource/status/1853243657568297205

Trump supporting verified account posted a deepfake video of MLK

Might as well dig up his body and weekend at Bernie's him. Truly disgusting

It's not the first time AI deepfakes have been used by Trump and his followers in this election cycle, in a more normal time period this wouldn't have been glossed over. I guess when violence is in the picture, more lying (even with technological aid) seems small in comparison.

Tomorrow's voting day for the Americans and the results will likely be known by the end of the week. Do most of you wait at home or go to bars/friend's/somewhere when awaiting election results? I'm for the latter for the ones I care about.

Well, I did my part and voted. I'm gonna prioritize my mental health and stay off social media and turn off the news until the results arrive. I don't have the mental fortitude to be constantly up-to-date on the latest campaign news and controversies.

Remember to vote and take care of yourselves. I'll see y'all at the end of the week.

Toasty wrote:

Well, I did my part and voted. I'm gonna prioritize my mental health and stay off social media and turn off the news until the results arrive. I don't have the mental fortitude to be constantly up-to-date on the latest campaign news and controversies.

Remember to vote and take care of yourselves. I'll see y'all at the end of the week.

That sounds like a good idea. Unfortunately for me, I work for Walmart--so the MAGA stuff is unavoidable. I wish that folks would keep that kind of stuff to themselves, as I would rather not know what their political views are outside of townhall meetings. I will make sure to vote on Election Day, though I am not looking forward to dealing with the "poll watchers" who will likely be armed.

VeteranAdventureHobo wrote:

https://twitter.com/MAGAResource/status/1853243657568297205

Trump supporting verified account posted a deepfake video of MLK

Might as well dig up his body and weekend at Bernie's him. Truly disgusting

OMFG, I felt like I was hallucinating.

Speaking about Bernie (although probably another one), having Bernie Sanders featured as one of the "oppressors" when he was arrested in the 1960's for attending a protest in SUPPORT of civil rights is WILD.

VeteranAdventureHobo wrote:

https://twitter.com/MAGAResource/status/1853243657568297205

Trump supporting verified account posted a deepfake video of MLK

Might as well dig up his body and weekend at Bernie's him. Truly disgusting

Most retarded shit I have ever seen. Even if MLK would be a Trump supporter, he would come back from the dead to punch the guy who runs account in the face.

I was in some Discord server and wrote me that this isn't against Trump, but against Biden.
Funny thing is that it was cheaper during Obama's presidency for some reason.
Seeing Trump working with imbeciles, I believe the cost will be bigger

It's interesting how almost every US election in last 30 years has ended up fairly close except for Clinton who won both because of Ross Perot and Obama who won his first one by a wide margin, do you think we will ever see blow outs again like with Reagan or is the country too polarized?

FatmanAss wrote:

https://x.com/SaintUsagi/status/1853354994415570945
What's with groceries again?
https://x.com/SkewedShiba/status/1853362799587573778
Someone pls explain. I ain't listening to furries

rantsonas never die.
they just get exposed as pedophiles.
furry rantsonas being heinous right-wingers is just one of those unexplained contradictions in pseudo-fascist thought. Like how many regressive streamers are femboy twinks

Happy doomscrolling day everyone

No!! wrote:

Gotta cope with the fact Trump is winning somehow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_shift_(politics)
Voting hasn’t even closed everywhere yet, man, at least save your doomerism until shit starts actually being counted.

No!! wrote:

sometimes things must die so that they can be reborn again in a less corrupt form…the thing dying this time is the USA

Even if Donald Trump wins, it's not the end of the United States. It takes more than one incompetent corrupt president to kill a country.

Pretty interesting illustration. From the author's viewpoint, tribalism is the source of tons of societal problems as it is related for desire to win and confirm their beliefs over a desire to find out more truth to make a world to be a better place.

However, by having tribalism equally at different levels somewhat keeps it in check. In the 1960s, the US had a lot of inter-party conflicts for both republicans and democrats. Meanwhile at international levels, the US was in conflict with the Second World countries. Both that helped to alleviate the conflict between the republicans and democrats.

However, as the time went on, the parties became less fractionalized, and of course the USSR collapsed, causing the tribalism between the two major parties to become more pronounced, as there was less distraction.

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As it turns out, I was right about Trump winning. Looks like Project 2025 is coming to pass with all 3 branches in Republican hands. I was hoping to be wrong, but I hate that I now need to worry about going to jail for my lewd drawings and having a harder time commuting with the incoming car-centric policies.

KoimanZX wrote:

As it turns out, I was right about Trump winning. Looks like Project 2025 is coming to pass with all 3 branches in Republican hands. I was hoping to be wrong, but I hate that I now need to worry about going to jail for my lewd drawings and having a harder time commuting with the incoming car-centric policies.

And not only that, but also FIREWALL! Did those imbeciles learn from CCP?

Well then, I guess that's that, bar some miracle. I suppose now we'll get to see first-hand how much of the fearmongering was true for the US. Before it all ends up being normalized or downplayed, my fears were of slashing of regulations (in both business, environmental), greater power and rise of oligarchs, policies targeting the LGBTQ & women's rights and breaking down (further) of separation of church and state. Basically, a lot of this was mentioned in Project 2025.

As well as in foreign affairs the sabotage of aid to Ukraine and meddling in Europe's politics and a possible trade war (or worse, we'll see if there actually will be geopolitical realignment). I'm not expecting aid at this point, I just hope there's no sabotage. The Trump administration seemed to thrive on having a new enemy of the week, so I guess we'll have to see who they're going for next (their media is normally a good indicator for that).

I hope I was wrong about the potential issues, genuinely. But, well, I think I said the same thing at some point in 2016.

KoimanZX wrote:

As it turns out, I was right about Trump winning. Looks like Project 2025 is coming to pass with all 3 branches in Republican hands. I was hoping to be wrong, but I hate that I now need to worry about going to jail for my lewd drawings and having a harder time commuting with the incoming car-centric policies.

You turned out to be Cassandra. I hope you don't mind if I say for everyone's sake, that this time you're wrong about Project 2025.

The Republicans do have all the levers of power, so the Democrats will effectively be useless (again). Ball's in the court of the American Right to prove everyone wrong, or right.

Toasty wrote:

Well, I did my part and voted. I'm gonna prioritize my mental health and stay off social media and turn off the news until the results arrive. I don't have the mental fortitude to be constantly up-to-date on the latest campaign news and controversies.

Remember to vote and take care of yourselves. I'll see y'all at the end of the week.

Welp.

Guys I'm fucking terrified. Project 2025 has a chance of happening now. I'm praying so hard to God that He will keep all His trans children safe. I lost my childhood home in 2020, I lost my father in 2022, and I might be about to lose my rights in 2025. I fucking hate this decade.

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Mistress Fortune wrote:

Guys I'm fucking terrified. Project 2025 has a chance of happening now. I'm praying so hard to God that He will keep all His trans children safe. I lost my childhood home in 2020, I lost my father in 2022, and I might be about to lose my rights in 2025. I fucking hate this decade.

I have 5 nieces. one of them just starting college.
My state narrowly avoided becoming an actual hazard last night. but national fuckery is coming

Mistress Fortune wrote:

Guys I'm fucking terrified. Project 2025 has a chance of happening now. I'm praying so hard to God that He will keep all His trans children safe. I lost my childhood home in 2020, I lost my father in 2022, and I might be about to lose my rights in 2025. I fucking hate this decade.

I hope Trump gains awareness and completely denies Project 2025. This shit has an idea to arrest anyone for a mild criticism of Israel and I find this dumb.

I deserve to criticize a country for destroying their own hospitals over terrorists occupying it.

Even worse, Donald Trump allowed Elon Musk to govern. Elon, as I remember, has ties with CCP (don't hate Chinese people, I just hate the government) and Trump opposes CCP.

This is why I didn't want Trump to win because he is just old and foolish.

While I can wish him a good luck, he needs to put things together and plan things properly otherwise he will become the next Joseph Stalin.

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Nah he wont project 2025 is happening, the best we can hope for is that it all collapses in itself and find ways to encourage the self destruction of Trump supporters…this people are very chaoric after all

No!! wrote:

Nah he wont project 2025 is happening, the best we can hope for is that it all collapses in itself and find ways to encourage the self destruction of Trump supporters…this people are very chaoric after all

Whoa there. Don't expect it to happen because how you want it to happen will backfire.

Sadly I can't say I didn't see this one coming.

Kamala is tied to what is seen as a failed administration. There was no way she was going to shake that off.

Here's the irony: To quote a Reuters article:
"Trump has proposed a 10% tariff on all U.S. imports and 60% on Chinese-made products, which if enacted would affect the whole economy by pushing consumer prices higher. The Tax Foundation, a non-partisan think tank, calculated Trump tariffs would hike taxes by $524 billion annually, shrink GDP by at least 0.8%, and cut employment by 684,000 full-time equivalent jobs potentially impacting retail workers, the largest private sector employer. He also suggested he might impose a 25% tariff on all imports from Mexico."

So unless his party can convince him that that's a stupid idea, look forward to that.

Oh, and Elon and RFK potentially having cabinet positions. Because why the fuck not.

Last edited Nov 06, 2024 at 09:53AM EST

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