Probably requires her own thread at this moment, lock/delete etc if someone else wins the nom

Think this merits its own thread...

Discuss my fellow 2+2ers..

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Yesterday, Dylan Mulvaney broke her silence: https://www.tiktok.com/@dylanmulvaney/vi....

For context, this is a trans influencer who built a 10 million strong following on TikTok. She took a brand deal with budweiser to post an ad on an instagram, and the anti-trans right went absolutely ballistic, calling for a boycott, condemning the company, and to some perhaps unknowable degree it influenced that

Been on holiday for a few weeks, surprised to find no general discussion of British politics so though I'd kick one off.

Tory leadership contest is quickly turning into farce. Trump has backed Boris, which should be reason enough for anyone with half a brain to exclude him.

Of the other candidates Rory Stewart looks the best of the outsiders. Surprised to see Cleverly and Javid not further up the betting, but not sure the Tory membership ar

So what's new?

I've noticed the Liberals are now ahead in all major polls and Trudeau hasn't even started to campaign yet...i'd be shocked if they lost the election now.

Just shows just how incompetent Conservatives are.

Here is what the preliminary take on the Ukraine thread disappearing is:

The site was hit with a massive spam attack where hundreds of spam threads were created. In the case where, for example, I see a single spam thread and delete it, that is called a soft delete, and mods can still see them but forum members cannot. Those deletion can be undone.

When a massive attack hits with hundreds of threads, an admin uses a different procedure where

I assume it's still acceptable to have a Trump thread in a Politics forum?

So this is an obvious lie - basically aimed at low-info Boomers like my religions aunts. I have two questions:

a) Is anyone here who supports Trump bothered by lies like this?

b) Does anyone know what he's even talking about here? Like is there some grain of truth that he's embellishing on bigly?

I think that the Gun control thread got lost when the old politics thread got moved.

1 The rest of the world looks at the US policy with slack jawed astonishment.
2. “Guns don’t kill people , people do” is identical to “Nuclear weapons don’t kill people, people do”
3. Using the idea that carrying guns can prevent the government oppressing you seems to ignore the fact that the US government controls the most effective killing machine in history

The last iteration of the moderation discussion thread was a complete disaster. Numerous attempts to keep it on topic failed, and it became a general discussion thread with almost no moderation related posts at all. And those that were posted were so buried in non-mod posts that it became a huge time drain on the mods to sort through them. Then, when off topic posts were deleted posters complained about that.

This led to the closing of the

Defend or criticize: "Torturing children and killing unborn babies are both bad things for people to do."

Mod Note: this was excised from the "higher education" thread.

I rarely start threads but I'll just say it here: the current Chinese regime is evil.

It's running concentration camps that amount to ethnic cleansing and systematic genocide.

Some articles on the mass detentions:

CNN goes to Xinjiang and sees the mass detention camps in plain sight, along with mass state surveillance
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/08/asia/uygh...

Bunch of others

In the current news climate we see that some figures and events tend to dominate the front-pages heavily. Still, there are important, interesting or just plain weird things happening out there and a group of people can find these better than one.

I thought I would test with a thread for linking general news articles about "other news" and discussion. Perhaps it goes into the abyss that is page 2 and beyond, but it is worth a try.

Some guideli

Mods - I hope this is OK, if not, move to LC or something.

Seems we've got a few chess players here, and some threads end up getting derailed arranging chess games. Figured maybe we could have a thread for it. So far, lagtight and I have played quite a few games, forumula72 and luckbox have expressed a wish to play, and a few other posters have taken an interest in passing. Post here to set up a game! We have been playing on chess.com so far

If the information being reported by the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal concerning Trump and Ukraine's President is substantially correct, Trump has (arguably) committed an impeachable offense. (Note that I stress the word "if".)

The tantalizing question: Just who is this "whistleblower" person? Isn't it interesting that John Bolton is either fired (or "resigns") as National Security Adviser one week - with Trump kicking him i

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This frickin' guy is publishing a "true crime political thriller" about the Chandra Levy murder and his involvement in the case. I find it fairly outrageous. I don't really know what to make of it. It smacks a bit like OJ's book, like a fool throwing himself back in the middle of it for some kind of perverse gratification.

He's titled it Actual Malice, getting on the bandwagon of attacking and accusing the press. That seems a classic misdir

https://hbr.org/1995/05/why-the-news-is-not-the-truth

Harvard Business Review

Why the News Is Not the Truth

I am not an american, but the way media/news work down here is basically the same. Also, despite the age of the article, feels like nothing really changed, other than adding other ways to deliver news (internet/social media).

Opinions? Ideas?

Almost no one here got this right in 2016.

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/41/po...

Submitting a map is good for extra credit, but is not a requirement.

Are you trying to blame inflation on trump or repubs? It seems like you are, but I think it is fairly common knowledge that inflation is too much money chasing too few goods and trump and repubs fought against most of the free money that still sloshes around the economy that dems wor

As an aside the way the sharks are now circling for Rogan, I find despicable but also template.

I think it is exactly why many on the right have learned you never apologize as that leads to a feeding frenzy, on the left to try and end you. It is what they call the left eating their own, and yes, Joe Rogan is a lefty even if you believe he is left who says wrong things and lacks polish.

In the very segment I am watching on CNN as i type this J