One Term Celebrity Politician - Episode XV - Ye's Running Mate

[Buffy]

Also, Johnson, Stein and McMullin combined for over 6.5M votes in 2016, while "other" got only 2.8M votes in 2020.

I voted for Johnson in 2016 because he most closely represented what I would want to see in government among all the options available that year. And there wasn't a chance in Hades I was voting for either Trump or Clinton.

[Zealot]

u guys just cain't help yourselves can you, it's like watching drug addicts in motion

When you argue and research for a living, it's intensely appealing to get an opportunity to do so with 0 stakes and no chance you'll be wrong.

[kuronosan]

Literally my job is to talk to addicts.

[Gredival]

When you argue and research for a living, it's intensely appealing to get an opportunity to do so with 0 stakes and no chance you'll be wrong.

To add to this, in addition to my legal training I have a student who is like Spicy, only his fascination is with resisting settler colonialism rather than capitalism.

He refuses to ever acknowledge the liberal international order could ever be good, or do anything good, because it's all based on the English stealing indigenous land.

So dealing with Spicy level stupidity is second nature to me at this point.

[Spicyryan]

Don't hear much about the hole in the ozone or acid rain much anymore do you?

Checkmate, atheists.

I have a student who is like Spicy , only good fascination is with resisting settler colonialism rather than capitalism. But he refuses to ever acknowledge the liberal international order could ever be good, or do anything good, because it's all based on stolen land.

So dealing with Spicy level stupidity is second nature to me.

I do appreciate just how deep your lack of humanity runs.

Yes, when you outsource greater violence, exploitation, misery, etc you can certainly raise your standard of living and enjoy the fruits at the expense of others. Your student just likely hasn't gone beyond the surface level Sarah McLachlan levels of "this is deeply malicious and deprives others of the societal virtues we claim to hold" to how that is just the nature of capitalism.

[6souls]

https://apnews.com/article/donald-tr...69a3f842a6700c

Woman jailed in Texas after threatening to kill a federal judge overseeing one of Trump's cases.

Abigail Jo Shry of Alvin, Texas, called the federal courthouse in Washington and left the threatening message — using a racist term for U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan — on Aug. 5, court records show.

In the call, Shry told the judge, who is overseeing the election conspiracy case against Trump, “You are in our sights, we want to kill you,” the documents said. Prosecutors allege Shry also said, “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you,” and she threatened to kill U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat running for mayor of Houston, according to court documents.

[Mertron]

is that just trump with a wig

[Gredival]

Checkmate, atheists.



I do appreciate just how deep your lack of humanity runs.

Yes, when you outsource greater violence, exploitation, misery, etc you can certainly raise your standard of living and enjoy the fruits at the expense of others. Your student just likely hasn't gone beyond the surface level Sarah McLachlan levels of "this is deeply malicious and deprives others of the societal virtues we claim to hold" to how that is just the nature of capitalism.

I do appreciate how much of a simpleton you are.

I have guided him through several graduate level papers and books on settler colonialism, like Tuck & Yang and Mitchell. I simply think that these scholars are wrong; decolonization is a ridiculous fantasy, settlerism is not an ontological structure, and redressing colonial violence by giving the land back is absurdly stupid.

I have also guided other students through advanced anti capitalist authors like Zizek and Bifo. I believe in incremental state reform because every alternative system, and every other method of reform, has empirically failed.

[Gredival]

Rorty predicted Trump in the nineties, down to predicting that his victory would be delivered by aggreieved populists and that leftists would let it happen because they would become obsessed with ideological purity.

Zizek and Mbembe comparatively had to eat crow.

[kuronosan]

Yes but have you tried thoughts and prayers yet? I hear they're worse than Stalin.

[Gredival]

Yes but have you tried thoughts and prayers yet? I hear they're worse than Stalin.

So they're really awesome?

[Zealot]

is that just trump with a wig

I'm looking at that picture and there is a 0% chance that woman is not related to Trump.

[thetruepandagod]

I'm looking at that picture and there is a 0% chance that woman is not related to Trump.

we are all children of Allah

[Koyangi]

I thought it was Abraham?

[Byrthnoth]

What if fetal alcohol syndrome but older

[Mertron]

https://apnews.com/article/donald-tr...69a3f842a6700c

Woman jailed in Texas after threatening to kill a federal judge overseeing one of Trump's cases.

https://twitter.com/ugarles/status/1...279035894?s=46

[Spicyryan]

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[Xno Kappa]

lol

[Athas]

Yeah, China would never bully other countries like Vietnam. They would never kick off a decade long conflict. That's why Vietnam normalized relations with China not America, don't you know.

[Krandor]

For all the simping he does, does Spicy realize modern day China is operating under a form of capitalism?