Being indoctrinated at university and having to unlearn what you've learned is definitely a thing.

Nah, not with this kind of stuff

Trying to understand events as the result of the actions of demons is categorically a waste of time. I don't see what I'd gain doing the thought experiment.

Damn. That was a test to see if I'm seen only as someone who categorically "both sides" everything. I guess I've acquired that reputation so strongly that even if I both sides believing in demons I'm taken seriously.

Nonetheless maybe there's an episode of Ripley's believe it or not that you need to consider before jumping to conclusions.

Maybe there's a demon you need to exorcise before jumping to conclusions.

Maybe there's a demon that needs to jump on you before concluding you need to exorcise it.

Maybe there's an exercise to demonize before concluding you need to jump to it.

ah, perfect

After watching Trump speak in Mississippi, I have to say that I think he has a real chance to win again in 2020. Based on the overwhelmingly negative reaction I've heard from Democratic voters in real life to this speech, it's clear to me just how out of touch they are with how much Trump is resonating with conservative voters.

it's hard to resonate with people who believe a bunch of wrong things. like no offense to conservatives, but trump is effective because he just says unbridled **** and some people like that. it's not complicated.

it's also hard when a good deal of trump voters literally believe clinton is a satanist, or any of the qanon stuff. like, seriously. how do you "resonate" with these kinds of people? well, i do know, because a friend of mine who used to be a professed libertarian now no longer claims to be conservative, but claims to be centrist and have liberal sympathies after lots of talks with me. what it takes is long, philosophically and scientifically astute observations and viewpoints of the world which help create a cohesive way of understanding american politics.



Basically, yeah. Sorry, lol. Part of it is on me, since I had spent dinner that evening politely engaging in conspiracy theory talk, so my brain was primed to not read information sarcastically.

really tho we should be more concerned about what will happen after the next economic collapse. will these conservative voters feel entitled to "take back their property" from "mexican leeches" to give back jobs to "true americans", now that dehumanizing them to a serious degree is more normalized in extremely conservative circles? i'm being serious here, just how far will these people go with race-based violence if things get dire?

also, offense to people in mississippi, if that state broke off and glided into the gulf we wouldn't intervene.

things I’ve heard one American or another say about every single state.

idk how you guys are still a country.

I hope Colorado rockets off out of the stratosphere, granola eating hippies. And your airport sucks too.

denver international does suck lol

idk, the state thing is just a meme i think. what, don't you crap on the losers from BC?

yeah but Canada is barely a country. We don’t even have internal free trade.

Yeah but you have Drake tho.

This ad is old, but the only thing I can think when I see ads like this is "I'd love to read gender studies/critical theory people write an essay on this". Actually, I'd like to hear a gender studies person give a critical speech about this ad, on stage, at an NRA convention.

There's so much funny **** at the surface level of gun culture. And to see how that would go down would make my year. Sacha Baron Cohen: we need you to do this.

Seriously though, is the primary market for assault rifles men who hide feelings of emasculation?

Alberta. Haven't you been paying attention?

The rest of Canada hates Alberta today. When the boomers retire, I don’t think they’ll have the luxury.

no

is alberta actually that bad tho?

It could be better.

so you would indeed be upset if it broke off and floated away

would be a difficult thing for a landlocked province to do

yeah, I think he's going to get reëlected. It's kind of remarkable how consistently liberals underestimate him. It's as if after three years they still haven't realized that's *the* reason why he still has the upper hand.

That's a key reason why some corners of the left are better attuned to reality than liberals are, imo.

Also I live there. I’m not sure Alberta ceasing to exist would do much to fix the toxic Ontario conservatism that’s infected the province, it would only eliminate some of the gullible rurals who’ve fallen for it.

It's not any worse than ads for pickup trucks, power tools, men's denim pants, or motorcycles. But guns r bad so everyone picks on that ad.

It's a big dumb stereotype, but as with most stereotypes, there's basis in reality. Most people I've seen at gun shows look like normal, ordinary people. In fact, most gun owners dislike the stupid, hyper-masculine military wannabe types. They call them "tacticool" or "mall ninjas" and are not representative of the whole.

And anyway, the AR15 and it's variants are by no means a big tough guy gun. Your 200 year old shotgun is way more difficult to shoot and control than a fancy modern "assault weapon." Your grandpa's old crappy hunting rifle kicks harder and weighs more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAA8l8STBAM (I guess her "man card" is reissued)

All of us, if we are of reflective habit, like and admire men whose fundamental beliefs differ radically from our own. But when a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or count himself lost. … All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Source: Frederich Nietzche An admirer of Friedrich Nietzsche

polling really killed politics

Means testing excludes the impossible, even when it's actually possible.

54% of Republicans think Kavanaugh should be confirmed even if he actually is a rapist.

Yup definitely a bunch of people with sincere and deeply held principles! Definitely not a party of rape goblins! Nothing to see here!

*donald trump loses the next election, flips out and launches the entire American thermonuclear arsenal against its own cities*

“My god”

*a single tear rolls down the cheek of an average totally normal Republican voter overlooking the destruction*

“Look at all of those owned libs”

*shockwave instantly fries the Republican to a crisp, then blows away in the wind*

Actually, it was if Ford's accusations were true which of course included attempted rape and not rape.

Called it before, calling it again: Trump is going to deploy some federal agents to "crack down on illegals voting", by which he will mean harass swing state voters in blue districts.