POG Politics Thread Version 3

Look at you, you understand the billionaire mindset!

Seriously. Government money is the easiest money to grift. Just have the right set of "principles" and they'll throw money at you.

I need to read up on the most recent UBI studies, I'm curious just how enormous the savings would be if you killed off the bureaucraies that exist for the purpose of subsidizing **** and just gave people money. It'll never happen for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is you're never going to get government job cuts on a large scale in the USA#1, but it's an interesting exercise.

yes obv... well.. probably not "just", but yeah that's obv a huge factor. either way though, it's always nice to find some common ground, even if it is not quite straight forward common ground

Engineers cheer!

RFK jr is incredibly good-looking for an old man. In great shape too. You know, for his age.

Is he a little kooky? I'm leaning yes. I mean he is a heroin addict, or was.

I used to do heroin, I still do, but I used to, too

that's a Mitch Hedberg joke if you're footnoting.

You might try writing your own material in the future.

One of these days I'm going to ask someone who knows to explain to me the encampment fetish that's all in vogue with the activist set.

It's an REI/Dicks Sporting Goods/Bass Pro Shops stock play!

I can only guess. it's more than just going to a protest, but less than taking up arms

so people who want to devote an in-between level of commitment opt for encampment.

it's also probably kinda fun sometimes. I mean probably feels good.

what makes waaaaaay less sense is why it bothers people so much

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also, a great place to park your food truck, or street vendor stuff, sell protest signs, etc

I mostly find it entertaining. "Hey, let's pretend we're fentanyl addicts! That'll change hearts and minds!"

One of these days one will last long enough to go full Lord of the Flies.

I knew their **** camping gear was good for something!

I'd totally be down for an encampment if it made sense tbh

Fetterman calls it "living in a pup tent for Hamas."

Fetterman has been a wild ride.

Every time Oliver mentions Palestine deaths he says like "38% of which are women and children" or whatever number. Is that sexist racist or both?

Also what's the trust factor in the truthiness of Palestine coverage compared to something like Syria or Ukraine?

How is that sexist or racist to quote a demographic statistic?

Truthiness running at about 0% regardless of location. It's ~all spin.

Presuming the implication is some lives are more important than others.

I think you could easily discern that on your own even if you don't buy it.

Can you think of no demographic statistics people may quote you would think are racist or sexist?

So, sexist in favor of women? I was trying to analyze for how it would be sexist towards women. I still don't get how it's racist tho, and I do see how quoting certain stats could be considered racist in certain context. One obvious one I see a lot is when people talk about police related crime perpetuated against black people, trolls like to bust out the statistic that most black men are murdered by other black men. Which I imagine is true, but in context it's being used to paint black people as hypocrites or dangerous

Ah ok, I didn't think your definition of sexist would be sexist!

Would only be racist if the stat is only brought up when it's Palestinian men whose lives don't matter but if it were like Spain or Greece or Ukraine or Israel news would just say "lots of people died".

I don't think this matters that much, but it's obviously an appeal to emotion. Oddly I think you could even say a really low number but if you phrased it like that people would think it's bad. 7.89% of deaths are women and children.

These campus things exploding are our Fort Sumter. It's happening.

I haven't even noticed them on the news or anywhere else

Two Boeing whistleblowers died mysteriously

lip cancer! Whistling is dangerous musicmaking.

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