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Discussion in 'Politics Forum' started by Melody Bot, Oct 20, 2024.

  1. Leftandleaving

    I will be okay. everything Supporter

    Unless Trump dies in office there is no chance
     
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  3. Jake Gyllenhaal

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  4. Calling Kamala a c*nt got flagged but calling the entirety of a US Territory garbage didn't?
     
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  5. TheGuyfkaFringeofLunacy

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    Or the racist black joke about watermelons?

    Which on other hand I find interesting is not getting as much media attention as the Puerto Rico one.
     
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  7. Halitosis Jones Oct 28, 2024
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    Halitosis Jones

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    I have kind of a halfcocked conspiracy theory in my brain that the Thiellites are going to orchestrate the shmashashinnation of Trump after he is elected and then install Vance as their guy that answers directly to them and their dystopian technoautocratic Dark Enlightenment agenda and nobody else.
     
  8. Leftandleaving

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  9. Leftandleaving

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  10. Blainer93

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  11. David87

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  12. Halitosis Jones

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    I remember reading awhile ago that many within that Peter Thiel umbrella of the new conservative intellectual movement want to replace the US government with what sounds like an AnCap Monarchy. Where the entire US federal government is privatised and the executives/shareholders of the conglomerated former organs of the federal bureaucracy vote amongst themselves to elect a CEO King to oversee the enterprise. Basically they want the exact system of corporate monarchism as the Ferengi Alliance/Grand Nagus from Star Trek: DS9 in real life.

    I am really afraid that is where we are eventually headed.
     
  13. Leftandleaving

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  14. Wharf Rat Oct 28, 2024
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    The Tech Baron Seeking to Purge San Francisco of “Blues” | The New Republic


    “What I’m really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” he said, after comparing his movement to those started by the biblical Abraham, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism), Theodor Herzl (“spiritual father” of the state of Israel), and Lee Kuan Yew (former authoritarian ruler of Singapore). Balaji then revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe clad in gray t-shirts. “And if you see another Gray on the street … you do the nod,” he said, during a four-hour talk on the Moment of Zen podcast. “You’re a fellow Gray.”

    The Grays’ shirts would feature “Bitcoin or Elon or other kinds of logos … Y Combinator is a good one for the city of San Francisco in particular.” Grays would also receive special ID cards providing access to exclusive, Gray-controlled sectors of the city. In addition, the Grays would make an alliance with the police department, funding weekly “policeman’s banquets” to win them over.

    “Grays should embrace the police, okay? All-in on the police,” said Srinivasan. “What does that mean? That’s, as I said, banquets. That means every policeman’s son, daughter, wife, cousin, you know, sibling, whatever, should get a job at a tech company in security.”

    In exchange for extra food and jobs, cops would pledge loyalty to the Grays. Srinivasan recommends asking officers a series of questions to ascertain their political leanings. For example: “Did you want to take the sign off of Elon’s building?”

    This refers to the August 2023 incident in which Elon Musk illegally installed a large flashing X logo atop Twitter headquarters, in violation of building safety codes. City inspectors forced him to remove it. This was the second time Musk had run afoul of the city in his desire to refurbish his headquarters: In July, police briefly halted his attempt to pry the “Twitter” signage from the building’s exterior. But in Balaji’s dystopia, he implies that officers loyal to the Grays would let Musk do as he pleases (democratically inclined officers, he suggests, can be paid to retire)
     
  15. Leftandleaving

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  16. Brother Beck

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    holy shit what the fuck
     
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    i think this election is definitely gonna have some wacky results where certain states that aren't usually close will be close and others that usually are close won't be
     
  19. chewbacca110

    "I'll chew on a dog!"

     
  20. Brother Beck

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    the only way this election gets called quickly and cleanly and without drawn out clusterfuckery is a trump landslide
     
  21. St. Nate

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  23. yeahrightdude

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    I don't know everything about this situation but what I've seen, its abundantly clear ADL is astroturfing the shit out of that dialog.
     
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  25. brothemighty

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    only huge pro of trump winning big is we can just fucking get this shit over with
     
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