She's not wrong. You're never going to fix a culture like that in a couple years. That's going to take many generations to fix. Firefighters (and cops) really aren't normal people. The shit so many of them say and believe is so far removed from reality, it's like what the frick are you talking about? Also, in an unrelated note, I think giving free, cushy jobs to people who were in the military where the military job is nothing like the civil position is a very weird policy and needs to be reevaluated.

Apparently being a firefighter is a cushy job

Shoutout to @ResneedingSyndrome for the request.

When I was 13, Sean Chiplock (@SeanChiplock) aka @VAsonicmega attempted to groom a 15 year old trans boy. That person was my friend. But he left the internet, so the only person left to tell the story is me. 🧵

— Rina (@awryval) July 1, 2024

Glossary

Sonicmega is Sean Chiplock is Pommy. voice actor in BotW, Persona 5, genshit and a thousand other things

"Glip" refers to Glitchedpuppet, an insane furry artist who also hates Pommy. Also fricks dogs (yes, really, long thread)

Skype is a millennial-era piece of software that was purchased for billions of dollars by Microsoft and subsequently murdered

9/11 centrist who only thinks one of the towers was a controlled demolition

— flesh simulator (@fleshsimulator) June 30, 2024

lol, 9/11

Lotta egged centrist takes too

To be fair, it could also just be that both candidates look like they just saw a cloak and scythe.

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would be very funny if one of them gave the other covid and they both kicked the bucket before the election

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I've been thinking that too but for both of them.

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The only good news here is that the rot at the center of US misleadership has now been revealed for all the world to see.

There is also, of course, a lot of exactly what you'd expect from ZCC:

My guess is we'll never hear if he actually tests positive. Someone helping with the campaign views discussing Covid as an economic and therefore political liability, so they feed him lots of Paxlovid prophylactically behind the scenes and pretend everything is fine to the public. When Biden was sick he received more than twice (10 days worth of) the amount of Paxlovid that we did despite the potential side effects for liver of taking it that long. We also know that when Trump got it, he had access to non-standard treatment at the time as well(I believe it was monoclonal antibody-bodies but I can't remember). And I think when Biden's wife got Covid there's no way he wasn't exposed, my guess is they have Paxlovid readily available at all times. If he actually gets sick he will magically disappear from news coverage for a few weeks until he's feeling 100%.

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They're both terrible, but at least one of them isn't a convicted felon.

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I think they're about to make it illegal to think about consequences.

It might lead to demanding action to avoid consequences

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It's just a regular summer cold. /s

Shame on him for continuing to ignore and downplay covid. At this point I highly doubt he is the one governing the country.

Reading Rdrama, it's become pretty clear that this dump is a rightoid circlejerk that's blind to what's actually happening in America, and I want to just spread the knowledge .

The first thing to handle: Am I biased? No - I'm a European () that's neurodivergentally into American Presidential Politics, especially the Cold War era (Franklin Roosevelt to H.W Bush), and I'd wager I know more about every era then most Americans here. Not saying that to brag, it's just autism.

So the next thing to handle - the state of the race. Which Dementia Daddy is winning? It started of with Trump fricking destroying Slumbering Joseph, who has been facing declining approval ratings ever since the fall of Kabul ( America hates to see an anti-war president). This is despite the fact that America does not like Trump. This is simply a fact, Americans have never liked Trump. He didn't win the popular vote against Hillary Clinton, herself massively unpopular, or Joe Biden.

Let's compare starting approvals. Gallup gives W. Bush 57% approval at the start of his term, which skyrockets to 91% by 9/11 and ends at 28% when he leaves office. Obama starts with 68%, getting a lowest approval rating of 42%. Even Sleepy Joe started with 55%. Donald Trump ? He started with 45% approval. That would peak at 49%, and would average at 41%. Please, I implore you to forget that you're a rightoid and accept a basic fact - Trump is not personally liked by Americans. They think he's a loudmouth butthole who's attitude is unfit for office, and during his term 59% of the public didn't like him. So, a Sleepy Joe sweep, right?

Biden started popular enough. He was basically an Obama third term, and Obama was massively popular. He was very old, the pic above is a newspaper reporting Nixon being re-elected while Biden unseats an incumbent, which was a concern, but people generally liked him.

That would change fairly swiftly. Inflation from the Covid spending , under Trump lmao, caught up with America and inflation became rampant. Joe Biden had been elected on a promise of being a boring cracker who could let people forget about politics for a while, an elder statesman who would handle everything. He was already being blamed for the economy, but then there was the pull-out. Despite it being awesome, America finally stops wasting money on that shithole, Americans were horrified by the images it produced. His approval ratings sank like a rock and disapproval ratings soared.

The "Joe Biden is too old to lead" stuff went from a Republican talking point to basically accepted fact. The public was promised a boring statesman they could forget about it, and they're seeing global chaos and inflation - which has gotten back to decent rates, but since the only way prices will go down is through a recession, no one thinks it has. I mean yeah you have dipshit shooters like Will Stancil, but that's about it. So, Drumpf sweep right?

Yes and no. Despite Biden's massive unpopularity, the Red Wave promised for 2022 was barely a red drizzle - the Trump Republicans were so massively unpopular, the Democrats managed to narrowly expand a Senate majority, unseated 3 incumbent governors and Republicans only got 9 seats from the 435 seats up for election in 2022. The public hated Joe Biden, but the Democrats weren't unpopular. However, that doesn't change the fact that Joe Biden is unpopular.

Turns out deplatforming works, hooray! With Trump, he became less of a man and more of an idea. Yeah, Trump was an butthole - but prices were low and the world was at peace. (Incidentally, ask anyone who thinks this how exactly Trump will do this again and watch them not answer you.) America has always loved it's Dirty Harrys and Dr. Houses - take no shit buttholes who get results. Trump, away from the spotlight and with Biden viewed with contempt, was poised to crush Biden. That was until;

Some rightoids have tried to spin this, arguing the public doesn't care that Trump paid hush money to his mistress. They're on the right line of thinking, but they're overestimating the public's knowledge. They don't know what Trump did, and they don't care. Trump went from butthole they don't like to Convicted Criminal(tm) - a massive step up. They have faith in the institutions, they think whatever the verdict is, it's fair, and while they could hold their nose to vote for the butthole that made prices low, they can't do it for a Convicted Criminal(tm).

Biden's popularity hasn't change. They still think he's a senile idiot that shouldn't be in office - but he's not a Convicted Criminal(tm). For contrast, NeoCon-Nikki Haley has pulled anything from 4% to 13% over Joe Biden. While the highest results were obvious bullshit, the pattern is there. If Biden didn't have to run against Trump, he would get his butt paddled.

So, two massively unpopular old men are running against each other. One is a criminal nobody has ever liked, the other is a senile r-slur. Who wins?

Frick knows mate. Trump leads in some key swing states, like Arizona and Michigan, but his sheer unpopularity following the conviction has led to these being narrow leads. Worse still, the Biden Campaign has about $100 million more then the Trump Campaign, so some targeted ads could ruin Trump. If I had to goomble, and I do , I would put money on Biden winning. The warchest advantage will be the difference maker, but I wouldn't be surprised if Trump won.

Personally, I'm rooting for Biden winning while losing the popular vote . I think the Rightoid outrage after 2016 would be funny.

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!eurochads

@ObamaBinLaden

@Freak-Off

At this point we're gonna need a required civics competency exam for both voters and candidates if this unapologetic stupidity doesn't stop.

That's racist

Propaganda works, and we're drowning in it. Unfortunately the good guys don't use it, because they tend to find mass social manipulation with crude psychosocial engineering techniques kinda immoral. So the most effective propaganda is largely produced by our enemies, foreign and domestic.

What we do is not propaganda chud! We're just teaching you how to be a decent human being

more than that, I feel like the sportification of politics has caused some people to just blindly select the "trump good biden bad" option in these polls, no matter what the prompt is.

He says this with zero hints of irony

Not sure where you're from, partner, but in the USA, some people pronounce Fascism kinda funny like…That may help explain the headline a bit.

The party of the working class

The irony is the one who said he'd be a dictator "only on day one" is none other than Trump, not Biden, facts. The mainstream media doesn't realize Trump will shut down the "lugenpresse" if he gets re-elected within a year of his second term, watch.

Burger dramatards you must go and vote for Trump now

Some people believe that the government is ran by a deep state cabal and the only way to fix things and to restore democracy is to let Trump rule as a dictator so he can clean house and purge all of the rogue elements.

Once again, no hints of irony

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” -- George Carlin

Words of wisdom, weirdly… but this seems to be ignorance of a new order. Can so many really not know any better?

So close and yet so far

Nate Silver the Fivethirtyeight dude has Trump most likely to win the election at the moment based on all the poll data. He's not trying to make it a close race to increase revenue. People need to realise that Trump has a better or equal chance of winning than Biden right now.

Fivethirtyeight is an aggregate site, and they haven't gotten an election right since 2012.

Not true they gave trump a much much higher chance of winning than anyone else, they also predicted the Biden win.

What was that question about choosing to live in ignorance again?

😈Satan could show up to America and claim he's the real victim and he's the one trying to save democracy and people will vote for him over Jesus.

Odd, I don't remember chuds claiming that Satan is the real hero of the Bible

The 2012 election was the last election with decent candidates. The fact that you have to choose between a corrupt fascist billionaire and an 81 year old war monger tells you everything you need to know about the state of American democracy. Please travel a lot more. It doesn't have to be like that. Mobilize, educate yourselves. A better system is possible. Look beyond American politics and understand that you've been living in a nationalist regime with neoliberal policies disguised as a democracy.

>please travel a lot more

This is such a bougie 'advice', just take time off work and spend all your savings to travel the world until you agree with me

In 1950, 5 years after the end of World War II, there was a nationwide survey in Germany that asked if Adolf Hitler was good for Germany. Remember that almost every German town got blasted to smithereens, and at the end of the war, 70 year old men and 10-year-old boys were guarding most cities. An astonishing 25% of the German people said that Adolf was good for Germany. Those same people are the ones that you are referring to in these "surveys" that think that drumpf would be good for the US.

This has nothing to do with Trump but it allows me to mention him and Hitler in the same paragraph so get worried already and vote for my side

That's right folks, tonight, for the first time this election cycle, Former President and Current Felon DONALD J TRUMP will face off in a battle of wits against Current President and Dementia Patient JOESPH BIDEN. There will be GAFFS . There will be LAUGHS . There will be ZINGERS . There will be DINGERS . And, Lord Willing, by the end of the debate we'll all know who we're voting for.

I will try my ABSOLUTE HARDEST to get a STREAM rolling, but I might be late. !jannies, if I am not able to, could one of you start it?

It starts tonight at 9:00PM Eastern Time. Eurocucks are, as always, NOT INVITED.

be there......... OR DIE!!!

TL:DR because I'm not copy pasting that wall of text, slutty 16 year old hooks up with a guy from work without so much as dating him, gets knocked up, kitty foots around until she can't get an abortion and is mad her parents are "making" her give up the child.

I m reading about the parents forcing her to do that and that. What about the fact that she forced this situation on them? They did not ask for this. She is still a minor and their responsibility. If this was in the early stages i would opt for abortion but at this stage it is cruel and bound to leave marks on her soul that she will carry to her end. Not sure how they will react when the baby is really born. It is a different thing imagining the baby and seeing it for real. They may have a change of heart. But in the end raising a child holds a million responsibilities and at their age i imagine it would be like climbing the highest mountain. As someone in their 50s with 2 kids i can see them dreaming of a better more quiet life after their daughter is an adult and with the child this is impossible. A really shitty situation for everyone and even more for the unborn child. Hope everything turns out for the best for everyone.

Downvote of course, because how dare you expect anyone to care about what they're putting their parents thru?

What the frick? What she did to them? Give your head a shake. She's a child. And what they are coercing her to do is illegal in most places for good reason.

She's a dumb slut who got knocked up and was scared to just get an abortion. And illegal? lmao if she wants to keep it she can get a job, marry the father and raise the child herself, but oh wait she doesn't want to do that because she doesn't like the father and doesn't want to work.

Time for OOP to go to church and to tell the good people there that her parents want to give away her baby.

!nooticers Notice how these people have no understand of the religion they claim to hate? No church would have an issue with this. If anything they'd suggest childless couples who might want the baby.

>? I know keeping the baby is not a good option for her, but it's horrible the way her parents have taken all autonomy away from her.

Naw, giving her autonomy is what got them here.

I have a feeling she doesn't want her child to have a mother because she's so traumatized from the way her own mother has treated her. I hope she at least picks a gay or lesbian couple to spite her parents.

What a c*nt. Her parents want what's best for her and she should spite them for it?

Did they take away autonomy from OOP or did they simply go "we aren't helping you raise a baby so either you are on your own or adoption"? OOP even admits she doesn't want to keep the baby and she could have gotten an abortion by herself before even telling her parents she was pregnant. It seems that OOP is just trying to shift the blame from herself and make her parents the villains of her life when everything is the result of her own actions, with typical Reddit eating the "evil parents" narrative up as per usual.

Yup reddit is made up of children who hate mum and dad for maing them go to bed on time

Punishing somebody by taking away their baby right after they've given birth is like some kind of dystopian horror movie bullshit. No love like Christian love, right?

It's not a punishment, it's the natural consequences of her actions. She can take the kid and leave. Or she can give it up and keep living off mom and dad.

The baby they were forced to give birth to at that. Her parents are awful.

What? She could've gotten an abortion but waited too long. Again on her.

And this is one of the many reasons why I think the US sucks. It's like a 3rd world country.

"Dumb slut is dumb, amerikka to blame"

I hate to say it without knowing more about OP's specific situation & stance on abortion- if she's ok with it, if it's even legal, if her parents are the problem- but a lot of this comes off as her being far too fussy about the consequences of her (and the guy's) lack of caution and not thinking further.

She isn't ready to be a parent, she doesn't want to be a parent, the dude isn't ready and doesn't want to be a parent, her parents don't want to be grandparents, I guess the guy's parents don't want to be grandparents, but yet she's waffling on & on about adoption as though she's being made to offer the darn fetus as a sacrifice to Lord Imhotep.

Wahhh it's so hard thinking about giving up this baby and to whom, this baby I don't fricking even want.

Bruh.

Entirely right

The problem was that he was over prepared. He should've had three days of prep and only had notes with the bullet points.

He did not need to be talking about the stats. Nobody cares about those. Hammer the broader points. And he looked pretty good at the debate watch party, if that Biden had shown up he would've won it

It shouldn't be possible for a presidential candidate to be over prepared my guy. You should be able to fire hose him information and he should be able to catalogue all of it and determine exactly when best to use it.

You're talking about him like he's a special needs kid.

Doesn't... that apply both ways?

I legitimately saw a guy with a soft voice and occasionally weak responses.

The entire internet's telling me I saw someone else.

Bro. I'm a huge Biden Stan. My guy lost track of what he was saying so many times. The bar was so low and he didn't come close to it. He genuinely was unable to name the pieces of policy he passed as a response to questions. Yeah he had a few good retorts and lines here and there, but overall it was so disappointing. Still voting Joe of course but I mean cmon.

I've reiterated what I literally saw with my eyes. If you think you can convince me I saw something else, I refer you to the OP.

Dude this isn't healthy. Like you've got to take break from whatever circles you are in because it's frankly a bit embarrassing to think he was coherent.

You're getting swept up in a cult like defense of a politician.

You're currently trying to convince someone that what he literally saw isn't what he saw. I'm glad you think I'm not healthy, but I think you've got bigger problems to worry about.

You're going to frick over this country. Enjoy Trump part 2 because you can't open your eyes and think objectively.

I guess our education system has let you down. I'm sorry. We need media literacy education.

Caliente

I manage a few people, some older men. I have noticed that when they speak, people listen. Gush. Thank you soooo much for your time. When I speak, they just expect it. Doing my job. Obviously.

One of the guys is new, not that good tbh, he's getting there. He says wrong things very confidently, in that way. And I find when I try to (diplomatically) correct the position, I'm disbelieved. I have to actually convince them that he's the wrong one.

This never happens with the women I manage (although the women are rarely Confident But Wrong).

I am worried it's becoming a fixation of mine and I might start overreacting. I can't change the world or this frustrating baked in sexism but how do I handle it?

Charismatic dude captures everyone's attention despite her attempts to passive aggressively diplomatically tell people how wrong he is.

Welcome to patriarchy.

Youre right and I have been in the game too long and am too cynical. But you are absolutely right. Mediocre men still get promoted far faster than stellar women. Because patriarchy.

We must stop the patriarchy from making men so socially competent.

I have never stopped to think of this before, but you are right. When I look back, the people I have known who were just incompetent or inadequate at their jobs, were all men. I've haven't known a single women who was as bad as any of these men. All these men had no insight into their own inadequacy, with most of them being full of bluster and they also loved criticising others behind their backs.

Yes the idea that women are "the bitchy ones" is bullshit ime

hate how women always get labelled as the bitchy ones. Let's make a thread to b-word about it.

I'm not known for diplomatically correcting a subordinate, male or female. I simply say it how it is. I found being blunt and direct (communicate like a man) gets me the respect.

The rare foid who discovers that not communicating via vague, indirect, ambiguous hints actually gets shit done.

I keep worrying that respecting men is evolved into us (like how toddlers respect the voices of men more). But I guess we can reason our way out of stuff.

That worrying moment when your inner chud starts to make sense

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/us/politics/biden-debate-anxious-democrats.html

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— Anti-Fascist Turtle (@TheAntifaTurtle) June 29, 2024

!anticommunists

Even other random commie content creators make fun of it

The r/frickcars type leftoids arent happy either

The firebombing Walmart guy mocks the slacktivism as well

Unsuprisingly furries showed complete and utter domination, and none of the competition even came close Another !furries dubski

30k in MBUX has been awarded to @Sner the GOAT (even though he's an eagle).

Previous thread : https://rdrama.net/post/279099/best-gay-art-voting-the-marseybeach

Shouldn't have split it in two but that was a hangover from an earlier idea