SE Hoya Containment Thread (aka Politics)
Welcome to the Official SE Politics Thread. The aim here is for high quality political discussion and debate. The concomitant aim here is for that high quality discussion and debate to NOT devolve into MAD posting, BAD posting, trolling, name-calling our community fracture.
We embark on this project hoping to encourage fair and thorough exchanges of views, and also fair and thorough advocacy for positions. We should learn a lot.
Rules
1. Posters are required to have 50 posts in SE over the last 365 days. This thread is not a proxy for the Politics forum, or an arena for goal-based issue advocacy from people we don't even know.
2. Pure devil's advocacy will not be tolerated unless it is identified by that poster as the aim of the particular post. There will be no run of the mill nitpickery for the sake of nitpickery.
3. This will be enforced loosely, but you are obligated to outline your basic position on whatever issue you're debating. We will not have loaded, gotcha-style internet-standard race to the bottom terrible posting in this thread. That does not mean you have to state every closely-held belief in every debate. You just can't hide the ball. "I'm not sure what my position is" is a completely valid position to hold.
4. Insults are out. You will not resort to that in this thread, because that will ruin this thread.
5. If you demonstrate an ongoing commitment to lowering the quality of discourse through incessant trolling or simply being really terrible, you'll be removed from this thread.
6. These are subject to significant revision as this thread develops.
There is a tradition in SE of better, fuller, funnier discussion of a really wide range of topics. Let's continue that here.
Jason Palmer is the smartest man in the room. "Runs" for President, focuses a lot of his time in American Samoa, beats Biden in the primary (total of 91 votes cast).
Dude literally got paid to hang out in paradise for half the year...
caught like 5 seconds of the immediate sotu reaction on cnn and one of the goofs criticized it as "a political speech", and, uhhhhh (???)
miss the good ol' days when the president would keep politics out of his annual state of the union address smdh
Biden crushed it so hard the haters tried to spin it that he was hopped up on something, but unfortunately for them that only makes Dark Brandon look cooler
i think the only person biden could beat in an election right now is his son
he rigged it out of power. you don't think he'll rig it in power?
caught like 5 seconds of the immediate sotu reaction on cnn and one of the goofs criticized it as "a political speech", and, uhhhhh (???)
miss the good ol' days when the president would keep politics out of his annual state of the union address smdh
Presidents don't unite anymore. Yet another thing Obama ruined.
How can we show we're not anti-woman after the overturn of Roe? I know, put her in the kitchen
Biden wasn't a better candidate than Killary. He had the advantage of Trump actually winning/sucking as well as not ignoring the rust belt
Ayo browser you’re a mouthbreathing dipshit if you happen to vanity search your name
Just fyi
Ayo browser you’re a mouthbreathing dipshit if you happen to vanity search your name
Just fyi
i'm voting browser because the alternative might could be worse!
#potentialharmreductionftw
#votegreenthendrinksomelean
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but honestly having skimmed a lil bit of that, he's not doing so bad (but feel free to catch me up, because i couldn't unpack it all)? question mark again, for emphasis
you'd have to pay me so much to mod politics on the internet, and here they do it for the love of the game, yikes. seems like an impossible job when 90% of the regs are mentally ill fascists who, to the extent that their brain works at all, operate wholly in bad faith. but it's a solid containment forum, i gotta say. otherwise that **** would prob spill everywhere...
In a nutshell I got a week off cuz one of the mouth-breathing regs (l0zen, don’t need him coming here) came up with all these ludicrous newsmax induced reasons why people are leaving california and while someone else was calling him out I just called him a ****ing moron out of exasperation
In response to my retort, ******** mod basically said ‘the truth is irrelevant, it’s on you if you’re mad’ and ‘don’t insult anyone’ which is a dichotomy I have zero patience for
I agree modding politics is a nonsense task that nobody should undertake. It’s one of those things that either you let everything fly or you let nothing fly. Picking and choosing just makes you a clown
Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted talk
He's free!
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freedom? yeah, right
Lol, RFK has Throw Rogan on his list of VP candidates.
huh, starting to think that he's an absolute assclown
Guys I’m beginning to think RFK isn’t a serious candidate
The ****ing permutations of this are enough to drive a non-ayahuasca user to drugs.
If it's Rogan, it probably hurts Trump more because duh.
If he picks ARod, there's a non-zero chance Biden loses WI when he otherwise wouldn't have
Arby's parent company stock up 30% in the past year, probably unrelated
There is absolutely no chance rodgers takes him up on this. It’ll be Ventura. To accept would basically be retiring from the nfl today to become a politician and no matter the god complex Karen has, not even he succumbs to that
More likely he declines and talks up RFK during his podcast punter segments
