OT: American Politics

[Volcanologist]

I forget who it was, one of the old sensfans crowd maybe, but we had a gun control "debate" on here one time and the guy literally would not admit that guns are made to kill people. He could not admit that basic fundamental truth.

 

[zeke]

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

It was all over once Citizens United became law. Corporations are now people and money is speech. Politicians are no longer public servants but commodities that corporations buy and sell.

 

[worm]

bought and paid for

 

[zeke]

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

The WSJ should stick to stock picks. Their takes are atrocious for the most part.

 

[zeke]

The WSJ should stick to stock picks. Their takes are atrocious for the most part.

game recognizes game.

 

[zeke]

 

[Aberdeen]

I'm starting to think the biggest problem with the US is their damn constitution. What a mess of a document.

 

[hockeylover]

 

[hockeylover]

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

But according to Habsy, Florida is a paradise of freedom.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

To say nothing of Trump mocking veterans, which they've all conveniently forgotten about.

 

[Bleedsblue&white]

I think America might only have decades left...seriously.

At the least I expect we'll all be needing new maps sooner than that.
I just don't see how the States stay united.

What a clusterfuck that will be for us and the young'uns growing up through that mess.

 

[LeafGm]

I think America might only have decades left...seriously.

At the least I expect we'll all be needing new maps sooner than that.
I just don't see how the States stay united.

What a clusterfuck that will be for us and the young'uns growing up through that mess.

Decades?

You’re more optimistic than me.

 

[hockeylover]

I think America might only have decades left...seriously.

At the least I expect we'll all be needing new maps sooner than that.
I just don't see how the States stay united.

What a clusterfuck that will be for us and the young'uns growing up through that mess.

Yeah, I have all sorts of morbidly fascinating questions about how leaving such hugely important issues up to individual states will actually look in real life.

How can a state that has laws based on the idea any destruction of a fertilized egg is murder actually co-exist with a state next door that allows "murder"? Hard to see a way.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

I think America might only have decades left...seriously.

At the least I expect we'll all be needing new maps sooner than that.
I just don't see how the States stay united.

What a clusterfuck that will be for us and the young'uns growing up through that mess.

Look at the history of any of history's great empires (and the US, despite what it likes to think, fits the definition of an empire) they all last about 250 years. The US declared independence from Britain in 1776 so just do the math. They've only got about 4 years left before they collapse.

 

[MapleLeafBlueJayBoy]

 

[Bleedsblue&white]

Whoever wins the election, FRAUD has now become a thing, even though it's just the gop actually trying to steal the country.

You've got the SC potentially going all in on allowing a very small minority to dictate law...which of course means a massive amount of dissatisfied Americans, you have daily gun violence...and only a small minority seem willing to dictate any type of laws in that regard...and whatever the fuck is going on in Florida...which seems to be a dictator making laws as he goes along...

I don't have the time nor the desire to continue, there's too much.

 

[hockeylover]

Tucker Carlson went hard after Jugmeet on his show apparently and I'm really, really not liking this trend of the Joe Rogans and Tucker Carlsons, etc jumping in on Canadian politics.