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>>2408223>title ix is next, nonna. the moids have been talking for years about having to defend themselves against "unfounded" sexual harassment and rape charges. they want women out of higher ed altogether. I bet if you looked in Project 2025 there would be a page number dedicated to this and everythingYes. Picrel (1) is from page 333, they sandwich it in between two paragraphs about trannies. If you don't know about the changes Biden made to Title IX it might sound like a good thing. But here's a good overview:
>Colleges and universities will now revert to the previous Title IX rule, which took effect in summer 2020 during the first Trump administration. Those regulations required colleges to hold live hearings with an opportunity for cross-examination to allow those accused of sexual misconduct to confront their accusers—a provision the Biden rules nixed. Additionally, the 2020 regulations defined sexual harassment more narrowly than the Biden Title IX rule. (2)Basically, universities would intimidate women who were sexually harassed/assaulted into silence. If a woman wants to report that she was raped then the "due process" in the Trump regulations means that her rapist gets to cross examine her in a live hearing. The Biden changes did away with this, and it did a lot more good for women too (3). All of this has already been reverted back to the Trump changes. They also specify on page 357 that there should be no public listing for schools that exempt themselves for Title IX, making it so that women trying to apply to colleges can't know if their college even follows Title IX.
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https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf2.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/student-aid-policy/2025/01/09/federal-judge-throws-out-bidens-title-ix-overhaul3.
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Sorry to be sappy but one of my favorite parts of being American is living in an extremely bio-diverse country. We have every climate. Corn, tomatoes, and potatoes all came from the Americas. Horses came from North America. From what I've seen, the US is actually doing alright as far as our endangered species go, but I fear it will get worse. People don't respect the land. America is obviously very young as a country but the land is old, the Appalachian Mountains are older than trees. Why not preserve the land you live on? I'll never understand.
No. 2409328
>>2274066Exactly. Continuously bringing up muh bathrooms over and over again while we're talking about a bona fide fascist rule rolling over the entire country purposefully aiming to suppress female rights is suspicious at best, making me wonder if the "radfems" doing this are slip and sliding through the tradfem pipeline and using the bathroom tranny debate as a diversion tactic or a muffler. Meaning that actually they want all the
other changes republican MAGAfags are driving for as well, not just the obliteration of troonery. Way too often the case is that when you scratch an ovarit poster, a conservative tradcath bleeds. I woke up to this fact a few years back once "gendercrit activists" started teaming up with right wing podcasters and it's only gotten more and more obvious.
No. 2409565
>>2407979I'm just going to say it. The severely retarded and mentally ill should not be allowed to vote. There is little to nothing high-functioning going on in this woman's brain, her body is literally struggling just to sustain itself through the abuse it's being put through. This isn't the same as a mostly functional, bright but disturbed woman with an ortho issue. This is an absolutely fried woman in her 30s with severe arrested development and blatant self-destructive tendencies. She can't even make her health great. Look into her dead, empty eyes. There are fish that look more sapient than this.
She should not be driving, she should not be in charge of her own food intake, she should not be voting.
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>Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe was arrested after speaking out at a city council meeting in California in which he compared Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters to N*zis.
wow looks like all these maga and right-wing freaks are not pro free speech after all….
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some cops in tuscon tried to arrest a butch lesbian for going to the women's restroom because they thought she was a man/trans….
https://www.tiktok.com/@she_luvv.kayy/video/7473250867127274783 No. 2410875
>>2410818moids are natural cowards. I doubt they would've confronted her if they actually thought she's a fellow moid.
Most videos I've seen of people confronting actual trannies have been women.
No. 2411268
>>2411257NTA but sorry
nonnie, once radfems started letting the conservathots in the radfemsphere just to sperg about trannies the radfems and right wingers venn diagram is a circle.
>actual radfems that are more likely to look butch or be more gnc themselves?Yeah, they're the ones who got bullied out of the community by all the "gendercrits" who felt uncomfortable by all these "troon eggs" around.
No. 2412427
>>2412108>2016-esque anti SJW cringe compilation>fascist rule>republicans teaming up with RussiaI've noticed that a lot of democrats and left-leaning people have this issue where they'd rather blame Russia instead of just admitting that the majority of Americans wanted this. This is democracy at work, it's not a sly trick from the East, it's literally just how democracy works. The republicans won this election because they appealed to more people than the democrats did and more people wanted a republican government than a democrat government. The reason why democrats didn't win isn't because of some Russian fascist conspiracy or because of voter fraud or anything, it's because they didn't run a good campaign, they didn't focus on issues that people cared about, and they cared more about virtue signalling than they did about winning. This anon
>>2411913 is correct in her assessment. Troons make up less than 1% of the population,
why are the democrats pandering to that 1% instead of working class people, or women, or racial minorities, literally any other group that has a bigger share in our population than 1%?
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He's so ugly, botched, and dead inside.
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I miss him. He was the last president worth a shit.
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>>2412668>How in the hell can you support that kind of an outcome?The ayrt never said that she supported anything.
>Russia viciously attacked a sovereign countryWhy should the USA involve itself in every war? What has Ukraine done for us recently, besides draining us and our allies of money and weaponry? Why should Americans care whether or not Ukraine remains independent or becomes an autonomous republic in the Russian Federation? The USA is going through enough trouble at home, it doesn't need to involve itself in "pointless" wars halfway across the globe. It's tiresome to pretend that being the global policeman is doing us any good.
No. 2412682
>>2412445>And forgot all the awful shit about Trump. They missed what felt normal. I really don't buy the average person who would vote for Trump would be ok with Elon or supporting Russia.NTA, but how does this even contradict what that anon said? Even if Trump’s approval rating drops, like it did at the end of his first term, he still got millions more votes than Kamala this time around. He won the democratic election, which means he has genuine support
though we can also recognize how having Musk buying him out helped secure the win. That’s still politics, unfortunately.
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>>2413204Must I post the Miku binder image? This is who Hamilton was aimed at.
No. 2413286
>>2413222No because you’re the only ones who sperg about this shit besides the britbongs (who barely post here anyways because they have lives and when they’re drunk/angry they only come on here to sperg about arabs which is always funny as fuck kek). Can’t even be a burgerfat and have a chill thread, that’s how I know this entire thing is a psyop
>>2413225>women respecting corps God shut the fuck up you big ass dork
No. 2413310
>>2413293you're so naive
nonny. they're going to be milked dry for resources.
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I think this is the true plan, I read it on someone else but it makes sense to me. The right, online or not was bothered about the "GREAT RESET" the depopulation of the planet, they said covid vaccine was it. I don't believe that but I do believe the plan makes sense and it's probably real based on companies and tech. Recognize some familiar places on the news by Donald here? Observe the overlap on two key points with the fires, CA (more predictable) and Maui (this is interesting)
The plan is, based on Trump's actions, realized or still active, Yarvin's doctrine, Elon's rhetoric, etc, etc. To depopulate the planet with the crisis of a crashing dollar, starving people (this is why you dump CA's water btw) mass unemployment, rioting, division, chaos, there's the plan DOGE/RAGE (RETIRE ALL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES)
The last aspect of the original plan to me reads as X, use fake news in X updated live to kill people in mass.
Use drones, use the chaos, martial law, rioting, economic depression (this is why Trump is being suicidal with tariffs, he wants the dollar gone, he wants people to fucking die, less targets by the end of it) and disease (this is why they won't do anything) to kill people. Because in their plan it matters not that people are going to be very angry, even across races and political sides past a certain point. They will be dead, you and me, are accounted already as dead. After this you rebuild unhindered by states or rights or whatever. Now you can freely research, experiment on people, advance whatever project they have going on. Socialism for the rich and tech. Extermination and slavery for the rest. This is why they bought Maui, the Great Reset's outwards phase.
They want all dead, USAID, farming, all of that. They want the most amount of people dead with the least effort at first. Then they enslave the rest, organ harvesting, breeding, mass experimentation (neuralink, immortality, cybertech, etc) with no guidelins or whatever. Labor for some. Farmland, that's why they want the farmland, you control the food people will be as automatons while the real AI and automation gets worked on. hard to rebel if you wont get food no matter if youre genociding your own people. The MAGA base is being played as the violent tool to prepare the tools and systems, anyone not hyper rich is going to die at best.
They want a planet for the rich, exterminism, go look it up. China's state might be the only force not fully agreeing with this plan, this why Russia and America are together now. Why the EU has been abandoned (they will return here, they want to control it to do the same extermination but they feel they can take it) China is the focus. The original plan or an adjacent one, Network states has either civil war or chinese takeover.(posted this in 3 threads)
No. 2413581
>>2413507This post here, I am telling you how you might die from it
>>2413476I've gathered more information, 5 years and I finally see the plan come through. I won't lie, I am nervous, I wasn't sure they would push for this to happen so soon, tells me the climate will do worse than expected. This was talked about, Gates was an early adopter. Both sides all along have been the same thing.
>>2413522There's nothing to be stopped, you can't stop a natural process. BILLIONS will die soon, and then billions more. Maybe dying will be the best outcome compared to the horrors of post cities.
Or maybe I am wrong, I hate to call 1984 but remember the proles? I think that awaits most survivors, an easily controlled people, food, porn, beer, no housing, pods and work, lots of manual (for the machines will do the thinking) work. You can't replace the worker and be cost efficient, you can starve someone and get them to do that work though.
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-final-despotismOr it could be this, the Unabomber mentioned the plan or the end point too, a society ruled by machines for machines, control due to the system, runaway system that will never stop. Sterility of civilization and the species.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/24/four-futures-life-after-capitalism-peter-frase-review-robotsCharles Koch, Elon Musk, Yarvin, Gates, Bezos, etc. are all planning to kill most so that only the rich and whatever fuckslaves, slaves, workers, etc. survive.
No. 2413608
>>2413599ntayrt but like what are we supposed to do? You present all these problems but you and the other tinfoils don't come together to figure out a solution to end division among the sheeple.
Anyways, they will have to be more subtle. Imagine engineered people like in brave new world. They will just kill the family and create us in labs. Maybe there will be a savage reservation where the untameables go.
No. 2413610
>>2413581Ignore them nonna, I think this stuff is really interesting and I think the reason why you're receiving aggression about it is because they're scared and the fact that there is so realistic solution to address this trajectory. At least not one that everyone could be om board with at this point.
Also why did everyone sperg out when I posted the Hamilton video? It was just a fun response to a meme.
No. 2413613
>>2413581When you say this,
>This was talked about, Gates was an early adopterWhat do you mean? An early adopter of what, a controlled apocalypse?
No. 2413623
>>2413608>>2413610There are 3 solutions to this problem, a fourth one that I don't know, look, if I am into this I am batshit. Like I am objectively right about the who, the what and the how, etc. but I am still insane and far too open minded, so fuck it I'll include the fourth one at the end.
The first one is the impossible, people, somehow come together and realize (before the last stage of the uhh revolution) that hey, those guys want to kill us and things are bad at this point but not final, say the military disobeys far too much the order kill people, the human spirit or whatever (I really dont hold a lot of optimism for this one because they have been good at division and now social media under their control scary, watch KASH he's your guy to fear when he gets to work on X)
The 2nd one is incompetence, that they fuck up the plan so bad (that's why they have bunkers in NZ and the cruise buying thing, long time away from land) in actual execution that the entire thing comes crashing though, I guess with this one they could rebuild but there fear was that the guard you trust will be the king, not you as an elite. This was the push for AI and automation on weapons btw.
Now for the next 2…
>>2413613Yeah! His vaccines, sterilization, buying farmland in Patagonia, etc. He was an early adopter. There are some camps of this thing, some I think prefer the humane genocide, others prefer overt genocide, others really get off on killing and raping people (your Epstein camp btw, there was this guy who did some backtracing, interesting dude online)
Did you know the original plan involved keeping one docile race? I think it was some sort of asian ethnicity, I don't remember which one, but yeah as your future workforce population other than some sets of breeding and slaves and whatever for the rest. It's not really a racist thing, it's just utalitarian, though I imagine now there's a proper nazi camp too.
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>>2413610>>2413623The other one is what the Unabomber tried, you avoid technological endpoint by avoiding society to even continue on that branch. I don't want to say it but that's like his entire thing was that. Maybe Luigi is a psyop to show some punishment.
The fourth one means that they're either right and "win" or right and lose.
The fourth one is batshit, but it makes sense when you remember you're talking about crazy people in the end, at least a decent half. You see, these guys believe in occultism, religion, rituals, astrology (and I do so too) so there's another in which you can see what they will do based on those branches. It doesn't matter to you that it's real (it is, it actually is I believe in it) but that someone believes it to be true, it influences thought, which causes action. All rituals then become patterns and motivations must be revealed. This is why they have to be so overt, the ones that are, Mars man, MARS = WAR, the goat thing, the bull thing, the why of the X obsession, the overtly christian luciferianism. They force an antichrist and whatever it entails, crypto, datasets based on social media, financial records (see why this was important) to create a digital arbiter of life, you die, you live based on data, whatever. Palantir heh, it's pretty obvious.
The atheist materialist camp doesn't believe in it, the religious and occultist camps do and they work together based on the bet that if one is right it doesn't really hinder the other. By forcing the hand of "god" through mass genocide, totalitarianism, if youre a materialist you still get to do all the horrible things and the other ones if right get to avoid their divine reckoning.
Faking and acting out the apocalypse to see if god is real, if it's real they hope that by doing this and acting out the solution too, they do Kapparot or the other thing to avoid the actual second coming. I know how this sounds but it's a possibility, if not, then it's over but I don't make the plans, I'm just telling you what they think, if they're wrong it turns out those things are real and they die, simple.
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>>2413581I just think influences in Russia, certain Middle Eastern countries and members of the US who can be bought and sold like cheap whores have in mind the desire to increase political instability in order to profit from weapons deals and bankrupted real estate markets. It doesn’t have to be something nearly as interesting as the rest of the population being turned into Soylent green or made into hybrid beings. I’m sure there’s some crazy scientist out there more than willing to try but you vastly overestimate their creativity. They can barely keep their companies together you rly think they can work together in this unified way. They’d prefer soldiers in the meanwhile until they can mass produce Boston dynamics dogs. Us dying is just a side effect to these monotonous ends. They’re bottomlessly greedy and needing of external validation in the form of a lifestyle lived in the lap of luxury. Black hole pits in the want for more. They don’t care what happens so long as they maintain their positions even at the cost of the entire world as we currently live it and conventionally have known it. And honestly this disease knows no borders. It just happens to proliferate within a certain income bracket. They’re like a zombie species. Amassed power should be looked at as a form of brain damage and actually there’s continuing research to support this
Also I’m not sure if you believe this but you seem the type. Bill Gates’ support in the vaccine (I’m assuming you mean for COVID) does not mean it causes mortal damage. But according to empirical research the first few mutations of COVID did. Not all individuals have a good reaction to mRNA vaccines it’s true (me being one I did better w Novavax) and COVID is not so severe anymore these days in terms of reducing brain volume that was my key concern but just cuz I had a bad reaction doesn’t mean the research should be scrubbed entirely. It should be improved upon. I wish you would pour all this time and energy into advancing in the sciences. You clearly have a curiosity to learn but come to incomplete conclusions due to not having all the data on hand something higher education could give you. I just wish this country gave any damn at all to educate its citizens. But that’s the whole problem imo
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>>2413214It's a cleansing. They want to destroy every single governmental branch and create their own to replace them. Like destroy FBI, create your own bureau of intelligence that serves your political needs and wants instead of being a bipartisan organization.
>>2413293>>2413327How on earth do you think privatizing national parks would protect them from being landscaped when it's the exact opposite? Picrel.
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He's literally so fucking ugly he should be ashamed of himself
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kek
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No. 2414680
>>2414463>the water warsthis is the biggest nothingburger. there is never going to be "water wars." we already have the technology to transform salt water into fresh water for human consumption or irrigation. no country will go to war over water because wars cost a lot more than building desalination plants.
>>2414317saying "elon musk is ugly" has nothing to do with american politics.
No. 2415059
>>2415054One word is misspelled because it was a typo. You have never had a typo? Trump lovers act like they care about politicsperging when in reality they just don't want anyone talking bad about their party. Troon talk is also political talk.
>>2415056I knew you'd say that because all you boring tradcaths want to do is talk about how much you love american trees in this thread. She's not the only one. Go make your man a sandwich now.
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>>2415076"Oh I just love the american trees, we need to protect nature. I'm gonna miss the parks."
"To0 bad our president is defunding all conservation programs"
"Stop talking about fucking politics"
It's the amerifag thread and you're not a farmhand. If you don't like people bringing up politics, ignore those posts. As long as it concerns America then it's permitted.
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discussion that began to take off in r/fednews and actually has a point- let the fed workers speak for themselves- but of course it was immediately nuked from orbit by the mods (Part 1)
No. 2415421
>>2415404Related but I honestly think the decay of support of LGB people is directly related to who people see speaking for them. With social media, you see all these freaks and degenerates claiming to speak for the community as a whole (and are often the loudest too) whereas I think most people, regardless of the issue, respond best to those who look and act like actual human beings instead of gendies. If you think back to gay rights movements in the mid-late 20th century, you'll see a deliberate choice to exclude drag queens, kinksters, and all other trash optics. Heck, NAMBLA wanted to march in pride parades or during protests and they were told to fuck off, regardless of if they were gay or not. If you want to sway your average Joe's mind, make them see your point of view, you have to curate your presence and present yourself as just another person they could see themselves interacting with on a day to day basis.
No. 2417009
>>2415238As a lesbian, the drag queen movement made it 100 times worse for us. Over eccentric gays or whatever, and i doubt you can tell a lesbian in the wild if you see them, but the over sexualized hyper sexual gays and drag queens are ruining it for the entire movement. Trannies included in all this. It's degenerate men that make our speech silent. If you go to a women's rights protests and see more men there, dressed up in heels, wigs and makeup, tf are you going to think? it's a joke. this is why we lost to trump
We never wanted to be normal. We just wanted to be left alone and have the same rights to marriage, not getting fired from a job for being gay, etc. Troonary and drag queen bullshit made it harder to be taken seriously because a lot of people can now equate gay = degens. Women (lesbians or bi) do not deserve this shit.
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Genuinely I think that the reason why we see so much rightoid retardation nowadays is because of the gamergate fiasco. It makes me so angry that all this shit started because moids got mad that women asked for less revealing video game outfits back in 2016, it's so stupid
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>>2417491>if you call this man attractive you are a pedophile Topkek, these zoomer newfags.
No. 2417561
>>2417093What
triggered gamergate was Anita Sarkeesian having sex with multiple journalists in exchange for good reviews. She was a lolcow and a scammer that made money by radicalizing young men that previously had no interest in politics. If she hadn't picked a fight with /v/, it's unlikely that Trump would have won the 2016 election.
That time period is a huge part of the history of LC. moot banned PT threads which would lead to the creation of LC and Ian's interest in LC was mintoring Shoe0nHead threads. Shoe0nHead herself became known as a cow for commentary on gamergate. So did other cows like Laurelai Bailey, Britney Venti, Destiny and Sargon.
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>>2417561>Brittany VentiWhat an odd rewrite of history.
Brittany started out as a Twitch troll that used to scream and pretend to get upset on camera. She self-posted her Twitch all over 4chan and particularly on r9k. She did not start out with commentary, although I'm sure she would like everyone to forget this most embarrassing part of her past.
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>>2417630>Brittany started out as a Twitch troll that used to scream and pretend to get upset on cameraThat was so fucking annoying. It's like picrel, forget her name I just typed "annoying youtuber" kek
No. 2417655
>>2417611It's true. Steve Bannon even admitted that Gamergate was his influence for Trump's 2016 campaign. It was the opening battle in the culture wars that have been raging ever since and set up what would come later. A significant impact of gamergate that is often missed, is that it was probably the first mass peaking on troons. This would go on to push GC and radfem thought into the wider internet.
Both Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn were pro-troon libfems that never cared about feminism, their intent was to profit from the outrage. I don't understand why anyone would bother defending them.
>>2417614You're right. My bad.
>>2417630I was referring to her gaining cow status. I don't remember her becoming a recognizable cow until she involved herself in politics. I might be wrong though, I never paid much attention to /r9k/ because it always seemed pathetic and it was over ten years ago.
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>>2417668Gamergate started in 2014 and I remember her being considered a cow on LC which also would have been around 2014-2016.
>>2417671I was on 4chan and LC at the time. Not remembering the exact details of an /r9k/ attention whore is hardly discrediting.
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Gamergate was a weird time to be terminally online. I think the biggest, lasting change is that suddenly a portion of the population that was uninvolved with politics suddenly cared because video games. Also in my attempt to find a pic of that girl mascot 4chan had I instead found picrel which gave me a chuckle.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13548565231190008 No. 2417732
>>2417093was gonna put this in 2020's predictions but since it's being discussed here I expect a reverse gamergate because of people in the shitlon/thiel crowd. everyone who was involved in gamergate is old now. and zoomers hate shitlon, they hate him alot. If they don't hate him they think he's a cornball. shitlon attaches himself to the culture of 4chinz in like 2013 (see: kekimus maximus or what fucking ever). Zoomers see that and think it's corny. They make fun of the 40 somethings on xitter who screech "THEY TUK OUR GAMEZ FROM US!!" because they're dorks. Zoomers will eventually get tired of the internet monopolization done by the autistic billionaires, i can already see it happening with the "soy right" shit. They hate artificial intelligence too. I expect zoomers to powerlevel who uses the internet the least or whatever, kind of a pendulum shift of the culture of the pandemic. Plus radical feminism is becoming mildly popular among girls online but they'll take a while to peak. If you want to look at what's actually going to happen to younger zoomers politically too, don't look at the cool kids. Look at what kind of subcultures form whether it be in real life or on the internet.
I expect younger zoomers (like 2006-2012) to be more lefty than their older counterparts. Especially the females. 2010 babies will be turning 15 this year. They literally grew up during the trump era, trump was still a thing during the biden era and you'll see alot of complaints of them being "tired of him". Alot of their parents have fallen into magatard culture too, lots of cultures within the youth tend to form on the basis of "what pisses mommy and daddy off the most". Gamergate is an interesting phenomenon to analyze but I honestly think alot of people overlook the pandemic as a cultural phenomenon, they really only look at the isolation aspect of it. It changed the game for good.
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>>2417732>be more leftykekkk well you almost had me there anon, god bless you
No. 2417756
>>2417747Yes, they do use it to cheat! That's exactly why I said not to look at the "cool kids". I said to expect powerscaling among them on whoever uses the least of it. Once it starts to bite back on them that's when I expect their hatred of it (as they mainly hate it culturally, artistically now) to legitimatize. I've already seen the powerscaling begin among college aged zoomers though "I am superior to you because I don't rely on AI" is a common rhetoric
>>2417737blah blah blah political pendulum blah blah blah
But seriously, you'd be surprised to see how uncool rightoidism is becoming among them. even the edgelords who are rightoids themselves. they don't like the figureheads
No. 2417773
>>2417766I do agree with this although I am a bit more optimistic considering other factors. But I'll use bsky as an example. I noticed alot of them would argue that they didn't want to use it because it wasn't "engaging" enough for them, or that it was too calm or whatever compared to xitter. despite claiming to hate shitlon. Many of them have xitter blue too to make a quick buck off of content. Alot of them also claim that tiktok is important for news?? which is absolutely retarded. They're absolutely addicted to social media. But like I said, I do think there's a large possibility of them snapping out of it once it bites them in the ass. I can see a few situations where they will snap out of it and they wont snap out of it, HOWEVER I'll probably samefag and sperg about that later considering this is a topic I am very interested in. However, one requirement that is needed for them to snap out of their social media addictions would be an organic cultural movement away from it, kind of like how there was with a movement
towards vine and musically. i agree with you though, i think they have a genuine dislike towards technocrats but are so addicted to social media that they can't put their money where their mouth is
No. 2417780
>>2417773NTA
>I noticed alot of them would argue that they didn't want to use it because it wasn't "engaging" enough for them, or that it was too calm or whatever compared to xitter.Technology Connections talks about this in this video, you can tell at parts he's clearly referencing how algorithms and the people who control them are using their influence to shape policy how they think it should be shaped. I feel like it really explains a lot about how and why the world and more specifically our country are the way they are today, hyper-polarized and hyper-retarded that is. I wanted to ask though,
>But like I said, I do think there's a large possibility of them snapping out of it once it bites them in the ass. I can see a few situations where they will snap out of it and they wont snap out of itPlease sperg to me because I need hopefuel on this. Full disclosure I'm a filthy zoomer and I don't know, some days I don't feel any optimism for people my age and younger abandoning our dopamine addicting platforms. Even people who are older (especially much older, like boomers and up) are addicted to social media. I'm basically the only person I know who uses forums like this, and I still browse way too much mainstream social media (reddit, youtube). It's rough out here
>>2417766I think if zoomers would just let go of the left-right paradigm then we could rise above retardation. Like if we could all just forget our bubbles of politics and become more discerning and do our own research then we wouldn't be so easily bought by fat autists like Elon Musk. As it stands, I'm not sure that will happen. Sometimes it feels like curiosity and critical thought, especially of the youth (being more malleable) is being intentionally degraded and destroyed
No. 2417805
>>2417619So men have no agency in where they place their attention.
“Stupid 14 year old Emmett till getting white people worked up” I only use this example because I can’t think of another
victim of an oppressor group but basically You are retarded.
No. 2418001
>>2417655Pinning Trump winning on Sarkeesian and Quinn is pure insanity and retarded revisionism when the main reason was actual fucking white supremacists entering the movement. If you want to pin Trump's victory on someone from the Gamergate era, you'd be better off pointing your finger at Milo Yiannopolous. He's still around and campaigning for Trump. He openly stated that he hated video games, saw them as slop for the feeble minded but was willing to milk the movement to make Breitbart more profitable. And even Sargon of Akkad, despite him being a huge fucking fat loser he still caused a lot of damage that he continues to do to this day with his cringe manosphere podcast.
Yet people always sperg about Zoe Quinn fucking game journalists and Anita Sarkeesian making shit videos about punching women in GTA when neither of them would've ever entered the mainstream consciousness if it wasn't for bona fide neonazis branding them as the antichrist for all white straight men and teaching them all about their strategies that would later become the alt right playbook such as doublespeak and gish galloping. It was about gaming journalism for a hot second in the very beginning when the movement was still a slapfight amongst nerds and hipsters, but it blew up in everyone's face when right wing grifters saw an opportunity and nobody ever fucking talks about that because even at the dawn of fascism people would still rather accuse "the left" of fucking up rather than resist the enemy of all of society. Source: I'm an oldfag who actually was there, keeping my finger on the pulse when it all happened.
No. 2418007
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>>2417630holy cringe. Idc if lolcow only has 5 users, i will never become a female 4chan user.
No. 2418008
>>2418001Samefag because I forgot to mention that Richard Spencer, an
ACTUAL NEO NAZI in every sense of the word as in an open ethnonationalist white supremacist, was a huge supporter of Gamergate. It feels so fucking petty to even in 2025 keep going on about how Anita ruined the western society with her feminism 101 videos when people like this were involved. Even some of the original prolific pro-Gamergate people left the movement when these nutjobs started flooding in because they saw the writing on the wall about the people co-opting the movement. If it hadn't been Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian, it would've been someone else.
No. 2418081
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>>2418001>>2418008>neither of them would've ever entered the mainstream consciousness if it wasn't for bona fide neonazis branding them as the antichristAYRT. I agree with you because that is exactly my point. Zoe Quinn going after 4chan was the catalyst for the radicalization of /v/. Previously gamers didn't want to be involved in politics and didn't care. Because of her places like /v/ became politically active and this opened the board to infiltration by /pol/. moot banned gamergate and tried to remove the more extreme elements from /pol/ but all this did was drive out these people to other sites such as reddit, twitter and 8ch, which further allowed them to spread their ideology. The whole situation attracted grifters on both sides like flies to shit, which then brought gamergate to mainstream attention.
No. 2418082
>>2418079Takes you two fucking seconds to google "haitians eating animals debunked". JD Vance literally admitted to making it up and those videos were of completely unrelated incidents of clearly mentally ill people doing stuff people cooked up on meth do.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj447j5711o>"If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do," he told CNN.That's HIS WORDS regarding the situation. Republicans just make up shit as they go and feel absolutely no remorse about it.
Like this is what will truly be the downfall of the west. Not woke shit. It's that people will believe every bombastic stupid claim no matter how fantastical it is with minimal fact checking because that would ruin the show for them, it's much more entertaining and stimulating to get offended and grab the pitchforks than calm down and check the sources. Social media needs to be destroyed for good.
No. 2418103
>>2418100>they come from a world where the news was never fakeWow this is even more naive
There was never such a world
No. 2418118
>>2417626Anita just pointed out
valid sexism and critiqued some games and men lost their minds. It was insane. They were all violent rapeapes about it. I still remember when they were putting up posters about Anita and gamergate during AX.
No. 2418143
>>24177562024 will probably be the last election zoomers even bother voting in at all. Yeah sure, Elon is starting to fall out of favor with the zoomer crowd but that will just lead to a sense of hopelessness when it comes to politics. At the end of the day, Trump won because the Democrat's messaging was even more retarded than his. They're not going to learn anything from this and they will continue to demand blind loyalty rather than even offer crumbs of policy change.
Once Trump is gone and the narratives of "fascism taking over the government" just magically disappear, voting numbers will dissolve. If Trump never ran in 2016 even that election would have shown a rapid fall off in voter turnout
No. 2418165
>>2418143Bleak, but I’m inclined to agree. I’m a zoomer myself, albeit in my mid twenties, and I feel like most political organizing is completely useless and zoomers don’t really understand the game of politics. For instance, I was briefly involved with Democratic Socialists of America, but I soon realized it was filled with social outcasts who need a forum to virtue signal in order to feel a sense of belonging that they otherwise would not have. Rather than organize in meaningful ways when an unelected billionaire is gutting our government’s regulatory capacity and purging political dissenters, DSA is hosting weekly happy hour socials for ghoulish trannies to discuss the Trans Genocide and being Excluded from Women’s Bathrooms because the general public now understands the Dems went too far with that BS and the lefties are too retarded to drop it. I now work in law, and I’ve realized the center-left gen X corporate attorneys actually do more to challenge Trump and Elon in court than any Marxist zoomer, and they have real results to show for it. I guess I’ve become disillusioned in our polarized politics. Extremism is harmful because as lefties go further left, rightoids will go further right, voting turnout will drop, and we’ll all be divided and easily controlled by our technocrat overlords.
No. 2418179
>>2418165>center-left gen X corporate attorneys actually do more to challenge Trump and Elon in court than any Marxist zoomer, and they have real results to show for it.Okay, you lost it here.
The judicial branch is by far the most cucked part of our government and they failed the hardest at combating Trump. A lot of the people getting fired from DOGE audits are lawyers for various agencies.
No. 2418180
>>2418165it's honestly insane to me how these far left trannies co-opted the entire democratic party. the right is also just very good at marketing and now dems are completely branded as this pro-tranny, child mutilation / pro-illegal immigration and open borders.
biden made is so easy for them though being a senile old man. didn't matter what the right said, it always sticks to the dems.
No. 2418197
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>>2418188NTA if you actually pay attention to what voters care about (sorry for the repost picrel) you’ll see far-left policies simply aren’t popular. If you want to win an election, you need to win the center/independent voters/swing states. That’s how politics work. When the Dems started pandering to trannies instead of using common sense, they alienated a lot of voters.
No. 2418214
>>2418197>When the Dems started pandering to tranniesNever happened so it couldn't be that.
>>2418199The "center-left" is out of touch because they are demanding people have loyalty for a regime that does absolutely fucking nothing for the average citizen rather than supporting even the mildest of reform. Trannies are an issue that primarily gets pushed by the private sector and the media. The dems are too pro-tranny, and that's shit but it's also a position they barely give thought to.
No. 2418226
>>2418221No I am not contradicting myself.
I agree that trannies should be opposed but the dems were not pandering to them, nor is that why they lost.
No. 2418235
>>2418197Looking at the chart, the top reason is inflation. The "center left" as you keep calling them blatantly denied that inflation was a problem while touting the economy was the "strongest it's ever been".
The far left wasn't doing that. It was CNN/NBC/Twitter liberals. Even Bernie Sanders (who used to be actually center-left) was calling out the Dems for pushing such retarded rhetoric.
No. 2418242
>>2418234Kamala’s campaign strategy didn’t involve talking about trannies nonstop because she knew it wouldn’t be popular. However, the Dems still pushed tons of trans legislation under Biden’s presidency, and Kamala was presenting herself as Biden 2.0. Even if this issue wasn’t a central issue on liberal news outlets, it
was on conservative outlets. It was the easiest thing in the world for conservative journalists to go “look at these libtards! They can’t even define a woman!” and make the whole party look stupid and out-of-touch. That’s why Trump’s populism has been successful.
>>2418235I agree that inflation was the biggest issue among voters as the chart says, so I’m not going to disagree there. But that doesn’t mean other issues aren’t relevant as well.
No. 2418251
>>2418197>That’s how politics work. A lot of these communist LARPers don't understand how politics work at all. There is no base to stand on for far left politics in this country. The only way that democrats can win an election is by taking a hard center-right stance while still pandering to the working class. The easiest way to do this is by taking harsher stances against illegal immigration.
The majority of Americans can't read above a 6th grade level; more than a third of Americans live pay check to pay check; for the past 100 years, there has never been a presidential election where more than 70% of eligible voters have cast their vote. A party that appeals to scholars and ideologues in ivory towers doesn't resonate with the majority of Americans, and that's why the democrats have such shit results.
No. 2418252
>>2418242If the democrats came out as anti-tranny while still pushing their retarded apologism for our failing regime they still would have lost.
My point stands no matter how you slice it. Liberals, not "leftists" are to blame for the dems losing.
No. 2418282
>>2418007I bailed on 4chan to stay here. I used to go there for the small boards (cooking, animals, some female friendly fandoms etc)
but no matter where I went on 4chan the site it was horrible. It was the worst of both worlds: Filled with men and you could get banned for talking shit about trannies.
No. 2418292
>>2418281I propose the American model:
You're correct. We have far too many people in America to enact some sort of universal ethical model of governance to ensure a strong middle class. So we have to start reducing the population. But obviously eugenics is cruel and harms women.
I believe we can drop the population almost in half if we just start killing men that aren't nice to women. Greedy men are inherently rude to women so if we kill them or terrorize them into respecting women they will have to set laws in place to help women out. Then later when we find out they bought an underage hooker in thailand we can give him the gas.
Sure, the population will still be high at the end of all that, but not nearly as high, and greedy people will have to choose between risking their lives engaging in their resource hoarding addiction or getting help for it.
No. 2418346
>>2418265I believe that this is what fucks the left over. All of these isms, like racism, sexism, so on and so forth, are weaponized against the working class. If our discussions are limited to arguing about the validity of racist or sexist ideals, and endlessly rehashing the same arguments to appeal to a new crop of people, we can never move on. We are stuck, and although we have rights that have been fought for by those who were victimized by the idpol psyop, the people who benefit from those rights are so foolish, so stupid, that they are easy to control.
>>2418268This is true. It's not necessarily as simple as "we need to be more literate" but when people are more literate, they feel more comfortable engaging in ideas that are outside of the norm or outside of what's fed to them in the news. They're able to conceive of more complex systems and come to deeper understandings about how their world works on the micro and macro level. But we have been systematically bred and raised to be dumber and dumber. And the stupidity does not just start and stop at book smarts and knowledge of complex systems, the stupidity, above all, stagnates emotional growth. That's why we have stupid old people who think that if they yell at the right person they'll get what they want. That's why people complain endlessly about systems they know nothing about. That's why people are so easy to manipulate - they are made to be agitated, and then they become addicted to the source of agitation and rely on it for information. It's sinister.
No. 2418348
>>2418290NTA, but it won't work because of culture. There are cultures within America, that have significant population, that do not value work ethic or contributing to the greater good. Even if they only make up ten percent of the population, when you add them to the number of people who are simply unable to pull their own weight (children/elderly/disabled), it creates a drag that is too great to overcome. 10% of population won't contribute due to culture (low estimate, it's probably closer to 15%), 22% is under 18 and shouldn't be expected to contribute, 2% are too disabled to contribute, and 17% are over 65 and either have reduced ability to contribute or physically unable to. This results in 51% of the population needing support and only 49% being able/willing to work.
So normal people look at the people not contributing or helping and think "Why does that guy get to purposely do nothing yet I have to go to work every day?" and it collapses the whole system because the only winning move is then either to cheat the system or not to play at all, leading to further imbalances.
No. 2418401
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>>2418365Russia, or more accurately the Russian government, are very significantly involved in all of this, and it's not only America that they're pulling this stuff in. Everyone knows that Dems are too pussy with their "we go high, they go low" crap to pull any counter measures even knowing what's going on. Also, i'd like to drop this resource because everyone thinks this started in 2016 because of "TDS" (hate that term getting thrown around anytime someone is rightfully alarmed about what the current admin is doing) when a whole playbook about Russia's aims was written in 1997:
>Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics No. 2418445
>>2418432You caught me! I'm actually a Russian working from Putingrad. The Russian government pays me 20 rubles a month to post Russian propaganda on lolcow.farm! You are so smart.
>>2418386The majority of bot farms are non-partisan. They care only about money. I can hire a bot farm right now based in a non-aligned country like Bangladesh to promote anything that I'd like. Democrats have access to much more funding than I do, so they could hire many more bot farms than I could to promote their party over the other. The democrats keep showing up to gun fights carrying only knives, and then they blame the voters for their losses.
No. 2418467
>>2418445Anon, those Russian botfarms are not some kind of a Chinese bot ring you pay a few bucks for and they just spam comment sections with nonsense. Jesus christ. They're hybrid warfare. The "Russian bot farms" aren't actually robots in the true sense of the word, but actual living people who are paid to infiltrate spaces with countless sock puppet accounts repeating the rhetoric they want as a coordinated attack. The money we're talking about that goes into these Kremlin troll farms is MASSIVE, they get paid really well for their work.
Now I genuinely don't know if you're baiting, or if you're sincerely just not familiar with the subject at all yet act with the confidence of a fool. As someone from a country that has also sustained high damage from Russian cyber warfare, it's not a simple glowie meme. I suggest starting from this article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency No. 2418489
>>2418467Yeah. So why can't the Democrats pay bot farms? Bot farms can be simplistic or advanced. If you've ever had experience in hiring them, you'd know this.
>As someone from a country that has also sustained high damage from Russian cyber warfareSo are you from America or are you just in this thread for shits and giggles?
>>2418482Believing that the Russian government has more control in America than the American government is silly.
No. 2418524
>>2418500I'm not trying to bait. I'm asking the question - if the Republicans benefit from foreign bot farms, what is stopping the Democrats from investing in foreign bot farms for their own benefit? I don't doubt that Russia tries to interfere in the internal politics of the USA, but I think that that interference is overstated and used as a convenient excuse by certain groups. The Democrats aren't underdogs. They have just as much power, influence, and funding as the Republicans do.
It feels like the Democratic party constantly try to point the finger at everyone else instead of analyzing their own shortcomings and trying to remedy them. Even if you look at this playbook here
>>2418401 you can see it was written in 1997. That's 28 years ago, and we've had Democratic presidents for more than half of those 28 years. Don't you think that in those 28 years, they should have came up with a better plan to combat potential Russian interference?
It's not the 90s anymore. The Democratic party needs to rethink their marketing strategies and hire people willing to be cut throat and unethical. They can't keep showing up to gunfights without guns.
>>2418509Nobody is trying to gaslight anyone. If you think having a discussion is a form of gaslighting, you are sheltered.
>>2418515Please buy X premium. I need more money for my ketamine. Plese.
No. 2418549
>>2418490you know what's funny right-wing women will watch right-wing men say the most downright psychopathic and inhumane things about women and little girls yet those right-wing women will still vote right-wing.
You are lying to yourself and to everyone around you if you really believe the reason western/1st world moids are leaning more right just because some edgy girls said KAM on twitter or tumblr years ago. The real reason is that they are not getting enough SEX nor landing a partner nor succeeding in education like they were able to decades ago, many boys don't care about studying nor are they able to get a girlfriend and nor are they able to get away with rape as easily as they were able to before metoo so this has caused these men to become very bitter at women because they are mad they cannot own women anymore, go on any right-wing redpill forum/community/video/individual and see their talking points, its all about how they want sex from women and how they want women to be submissive to them and do labor for them.
So no whatever bullshit you are spouting is not the reason, the reason is they can't find and abuse a bangmaid as easily anymore so now they want to destroy everything.
No. 2418551
>>2418543Seriously, they're still clapping their fins for attention. That sealion won't get any more mackerel from us.
So what's your opinion on Texas BBQ? Have you had it? Oh Mardi Gras is coming up, have you ever had king cake? I'm thinking about making some using a tangzhong milk break recipe!
No. 2418559
>>2418533>>2418543Fuck yeah based anons, those stupid libtards are mad they aren't become the meme unlike us and elon musk who are #memegang #bigballs #drug$. God bless US
No. 2418570
>>2418549Them not getting laid has NOTHING to do with women. Have you not SEEN the atrocious creatures that pickmes will cape for? Have you not SEEN the unconventional males thread???
Oppressing women will NOT save these fucking idiots. It wont give them their government mandated bangslave. These fuckers can't even get off their fucking computers let alone leave their house. They are addicted to being online and crying and whining. Incels are their own worst enemies. They cuck themselves. The only way to get those faggots laid is it ban them from looking at a screen for the rest of their lives. And even then most of them will fail anyways because they will get addicted to dirty mags or some shit.
No. 2418585
>>2418533I kind of agree with you but I wouldn’t word it the same way. I would say it like vast majority of Americans are selfish retards who refuse to read a book and are addicted to TikTok with no memory span to speak of and don’t care about anyone or anything beyond
> hehehoohoo clapback funni oop- time for my virtue signal sesh!Retards is the real reason we lost but democrats need to quit trying to be nice and just post the stupid ass TikTok compilations already. And use a K-pop idol as the mascot.
No. 2418595
>>2418563Calling out Russian interference in social media in order to sway public opinion isn't ignoring the failures of Democrats. What happened in this election is a multifaceted issue that isn't only the Democrats' fault. Even if the Democrats did everything right according to you, they'd still have lost because of the underhanded shit going on in the Republican party, its the sponsors, and the global stage. You vastly underestimate how utterly stupid the American public is and how they can be influenced by social media. Many have spent years stuck at home due to COVID and WFH and spend time scrolling apps that have been co-opted by bad-faith actors.
This is the last fish you'll get out of me. Go harass dolphins
No. 2418614
>>2418585We have a lot of retarded voters, yeah, but I really don't think that it's the voters' fault, if that makes sense. It's the party's responsibility to run a good campaign, if they don't run a good campaign then they won't win. I always vote Democrat, but it would be insincere of me to pretend that this campaign was anything but a massive failure. Absolving the party of any failures by saying "oh, it doesn't matter what they do because of Russia!" is stupid IMO.
>>2418346A lot of people overestimate how politically involved the average voter is. For a lot of voters, they don't vote for policy or anything, they vote for their party of choice because it's what everyone else around them is doing or because it's the party they've always voted for. The average Republican-voter has no idea about the far-right Twitter campaigns or the inner workings of the Elon Musk conspiracy. I've noticed that a lot of terminally online people have this idea that everyone else is just as terminally online as they are.
No. 2418619
>>2418585i understand what you mean and i do agree that democrats need to be more assertive and meaner if they want to win but i don't understand people like you who try to sweep, deflect or make it look like russians didn't interfere.
There was a article of a huge number of maga accounts getting exposed for doing identity fraud/theft and being traced to russia. That's a pretty big deal. Also during the whole sjw fiasco that started in 2016 there were some fake propaganda videos filmed for example there was this fake video filmed in russia that was created for the western audience which showed women harassing men on the train by throwing water on them and punishing them for manspreading, later the people who were involved in that video came out and said they were actors and that they were payed to be a part of that video. Russian governmental interference is a actual thing that's happening.
No. 2418640
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did this get posted? they're really finding new ways to dehumanize women everyday holy fuck
No. 2418655
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Vidrel is a real video that was displayed on hacked federal computers and television monitors. The person who did this is unknown(ai outside of containment)
No. 2418679
>>2418669>Nobody is saying that Russian interference is the reason why Trump won the election!>But you can't deny that Russian interference is the reason why Trump won the election!Read your words aloud before you post them.
>>2418675This might be hard to believe, but the majority of the population is not scrolling through Twitter for 8 hours a day and being exposed to all the far-right propaganda pieces on there.
No. 2418685
>>2418653Is this about the SAVE act? Iirc he bill has passed in the house
>>2418655Is this how we're going to get the government to ban ai? Kek
No. 2418714
>>2418685>the bill has passed in the houseWHAT?
>>2418696i remember that, it's crazy how everyone forgot about that. Conservatives did so many
sus things this election season (setting boxes in fire, bomb threats, conservative poll workers getting arrested for messing with ballots, unaccounted votes) it's like everyone has amnesia of october and november.
No. 2418785
>>2418440You actually need to calm down. If you're denying that people in power don't stoke hatred between sexes and races, classes and other things, you're extremely retarded.
I'm not saying anything other than politicians exacerbate and agitate our hatred towards each other. I'm not saying feminism needs to be watered down for men, you fucking retard.
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>>2418855>muy tristeI’m going to call ICE to have you removed from our thread. English only or back to the hispanola threads with you, stop harassing burgers.
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>>2418867Nta but there are burgers that speak spanish though?
No. 2418894
>>2418879America has no official language but nonnies who couldn't remember more than two words in another other language/pay attention for five minutes in HS cope and seethe when something unfamiliar comes up. Do French speaking nonnies REEE when someone says "le weekend"? Idts.
Don't tell them about words adopted from other languages into English before the thread really goes downhill.
No. 2418918
>>2418909Yeah, this. The right don’t hold their people to near the same standard that the left hold their people too. Remember all the leftists calling Kamala a cop or scrambling to find some other reason to harp on why she’s not a perfect candidate instead of just mobilizing around an imperfect one? Meanwhile, the right will accept literal rapists and pedophiles if it means they get to “
trigger the libs.”
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>>2418956
I don't remember where I first heard it but here
No. 2418996
>>2418978The news you clearly don’t read.
>>2418980If you hate America and “butterfaced American women” so much then why are you here? Because you know I’m right. Go back (to where you came from)
>>2418991I hope that orange fatty makes it official just to make these idiots cry
No. 2419000
>>2418982I wrote
>>2418980 but not the other two. Frankly it pisses me off when people talk shit about immigrants because I know so many immigrants who are just normal people and have done nothing that deserves the hatred and vitriol that people give them. Xenophobia is a disease of the mentally ill and retarded.
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>>2419021
>t.
Liar
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>swedish
>talking shit about americans
I told you this thread was being occupied by people who aren’t American kek, the amount of libshits in this thread crying about a country they don’t even live in feels very soydish indeed but I know Latin America is infected with so many of those types as well.
No. 2419051
>>2418987The dems need to be more small tent rather than big tent. They should actively excuse anyone that cucks out to woke scolding type shit. I know so many people that are otherwise left when it comes to social issues (abortion, gay people, weed, free college and healthcare) that just because they hate being told their racist over some small thing started turning to the right and either didn’t vote this election or voted for Trump but kept it quiet. It’s so retarded but it’s way more common than you’d think but these people I think could be won back over to the dem side. We really do need another moderate yet charismatic and kind of threatening LBJ type figure lol it does make me kek how much boomers hated Jimmy Carter because he dared to tell them to consume less electricity and water when he is such a milquetoast figure same with Biden the fact that either of these guys could spawn such hatred and contempt is just lolsy….
I did love last year when dems started calling maga weird for wearing ear bandages after the Trump assassination and the magats got so pearl clutchy and offended. They should have kept that up in a smart way maybe should have even called magats gay for worshipping another man so hard as if they’re Justin Bieber fans lol
No. 2419062
>>2419051They really should've called the maga women cheaters for wearing JD Vance sperm cups and the men either fags or cucks for doing the same. But actually keep up with it, not say it once and keep the woke-scold talking points.
You know, maybe we really do need an LBJ type of Dem so we can take the moids into war and cull the weak men
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>>2419021
>t.
Hetalia Sweden looks kind of like Hetalia America though so I guess you can stay
No. 2419074
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FOREIGNERS GET OUT!!!
No. 2419082
>>2419065Yes but not in Vietnam, which was LBJ's doing. They all had to fucking go unless they were truly that dysgenic or were faggy enough to cut their thumbs off to avoid the draft.
>>2419067I have a feeling it'll have to be a southern Democrat for that to happen. Is California's Newsome crazy enough to silence trannies?
No. 2419085
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The charges against the woman who was dragged out of a town hall by plainclothes scrotes have been dropped! The security company even lost their business license kek
No. 2419127
>>2419124Bruh
>literal swede posting hereJannies don’t give a fuck anymore kekkkk. I’ve been saying for months this thread is only active because the foreigners abandoned their threads and came here. It’s why all of those foreign threads suspiciously became quiet, hm
No. 2419148
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>>2419133jag önskar att de skulle diskutera Lana eller Texas oftare. min dröm i livet är att besöka Texas och se den härliga metropolen Dallas!
No. 2419369
>>2419175My family comes from Pennsylvania Dutch country and I find it so fascinating, it's a shame a lot of the local unique cultures are dying out since they're in more rural and small town areas that are getting drained. Folk art like hex signs are beautiful and interesting. Too bad most people either don't know about it or think it's basically just Dwight from the Office and write it all off.
I've learned a bit about Creole from visiting New Orleans (what a unique city) but don't know anything about Texas German… it'd be cool to hear from other amerinonnies about stuff like that.
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>>2419148jag har besökt Dallas och lyssnat på Veronica Maggios låt medan jag var där. jag rekommenderar det! det finns flera museer och en trevlig djurpark i Dallas också!
(förlåt om det finns misstag jag försöker lära mig svenska. jag kan bara hitta andra människor som pratar svenska i iowa och minnesota och inte där jag bor så jag får inte prata svenska ofta förutom till mig själv) No. 2419436
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Always amazes me how many people insist Trump's alpha when shit like this happens all the time. This is possibly the most pathetic beta photo of a president ever. Imagine being this useless and disregarded in front of your own cabinet lackeys. Utter and total cuckoldry. And he's being cucked by a nerdy little drug and surgery addicted illegal African immigrant of all things. Kek.
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Joann is the only decent craft store in my area. This fucking sucks.
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The official United States House Judiciary GOP twitter account has decided to use this whole Epstein Files event as an opportunity to make a rickroll joke
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>>2422200It’s really sad. There’s been talk in the mundane shit thread about how difficult it is to buy yarn and fabric online. So much of the experience is tactile, you really need to feel the product before you purchase it. JoAnn’s made some dumb business decisions recently but nothing that should have led them to completely closing up shop. So many areas are going to be without a craft store now with no real replacement, it sucks.
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Thoughts?
No. 2422827
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Nonnas be careful before moving to any of these cities and make sure your job is able to cover your expenses. In southern cities minimum wage can be as low as $7 and won’t have as many worker’s rights.
https://www.fox9.com/news/us-cities-most-people-financial-distress-2025-study.amp No. 2422833
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>>2422827>movingi live in one of them
No. 2422837
>>2422827sage for nitpick, but it's $7.25. Most of the larger cities will bump the lowest pay up to get people to apply at all, you don't normally see $7.25 outside of rural areas and smaller towns
However, pretty much all of the South is "at-will" meaning they can fire you for any reason. If it's not for documented reasons that justify your firing, make sure to file for unemployment (just because they can fire you doesn't mean they aren't required to pay unemployment - they have to if they can't justify your firing). Apply a second time if you are denied the first time.
No. 2422845
>>2422774A stupid point to make, because number two naturally springs from number one. When you have a shared cultural identity based on heritage and tradition, you already share ideals and have an innate sense of duty.
Meanwhile, a culture based only on number two is unstable and lasts only one to two generations at most.
No. 2422884
>>2422827Not surprised to see my city on that list. All the infrastructure construction projects are limping along years behind schedule because the labor force is fleeing back to Mexico for better opportunities for themselves and their kids. It's actually driving up retail/service wages because businesses can't rely on illegal immigrants to live with a boot on their necks anymore… but the Americans that live here either moved here to follow a tech job or grew up here and can barely read or write in the only language they speak, never show up on time, show up to work drunk, etc. It's common to see people living in a house with a gaping hole in the floor and a tarp over a missing window or broken roof they can't afford to fix because of their $2k+/mo car payment.
The crime rate is insane, shootings are so common they don't even make the English news (telemundo covers them though lol), the interstate gets backed up for miles every day just because someone's clapped out shit box suddenly gave up on them. I've met very few people here who have ever visited another state, and they mostly think lawlessness and shit infrastructure is normal for America kek. It's so bad that it's a relief to cross the border because even though Mexican drivers are super aggressive, the roads are better and I'm not having to swerve around car bumpers and blocks of concrete and furniture sitting in the middle of the highway all the time.
No. 2423006
>>2422991They are and they’re bunch of autistic gnomes who love to get on their high horse about everything
>>2422998So I guess nobody gives a damn that the America thread is being used by foreigners instead of the actual citizens
No. 2423017
>>2422774America isn't built on shared ideals or blood/soil.
It's built on force in service of an ideologically empty elite.
No. 2423080
>>2408733Does anyone have families that are incapable of having challenging conversations about what is going on in our country?? I cannot tell if this is normal or not. Me my mom and my sis all agree, we hate trump and maga. But when i try to tell my sister she might have to get a passport now or she wont be able to vote as a married woman i get no response. If I try to talk to my mom about having an escape plan, in case violence/ disappearances start getting real, she goes awol at the notion of fleeing our country. If I try to talk to her about going to her financial advisor and figure out how to channel her investments into things that can withstand massive economic instability… Im just saying its like hitting a wall lately. But I'm not expecting big action or decisions, just TALK about these things. To reach some kind of shared consensus on solutions, ideas, just brainwstorm scenarios that are increasingly likely..
Is anybody dealing with this shit lately?
No. 2423144
>>2423141*grift
*grift
Turning autocorrect back on was a mistake
No. 2423167
>>2423141>>2423165Me i dont have anything, but my mother has 300k riding out this "dooms day shit"
I'm not gonna just tell her to buckle up.
No. 2423173
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Also why does orange fascist insist on putting so much of that damn garbage on his face? How does someone that rich not get someone to fix his nigthmarishly blended makeup after all this time? How has this gone on so long i would genuinely like to know(wrong thread)
No. 2423177
>>2423141>This country survived worse leadership than TrumpYou do realize that
a.) The majority of people posting here did not live under these "worse" leaders and the people who did are dying off of old age, and
b.) People are so wrapped up in consumerism and convenience that the lifestyle of anyone under the age of 35 is vastly different compared to how people lived before the 1970s
No. 2423224
>>2423141very confused on the idea of tds, or that people here are being emotional and over-dramatic, and would like you or someone older than me
(i'm 25, not a baby but i didn't really pay attention to politics until i could vote in 2017) or otherwise more politically in tune to confirm that past presidents:
>gutted the government as trump is (firing millions of federal employees, planning on dismantling the department of education, down-sizing shit like medicaid and food stamps) >had a large, violent, racist and moidy cult e.g. maga and the heritage foundation >pardoned rapist serial killers like gallagher and called them "heroes" >had all the media under their control >had a sociopathic manchild with his dick in our treasury (same manchild who threw up a nazi salute twice? you're telling me people in us government have done that before on live television?) >put idiots like rfk jr. in charge of our nation's health i mean tell if i'm wrong but all this insistence that trump is a big nothingburger and we're all dumb and deranged for being worried or scared feels like crazy gaslighting. also
>This country survived worse leadership than Trumpmillions of people did not, have you forgotten covid?
No. 2423233
>>2423224COVID would have killed people regardless of who was president. It was a pandemic, it didn't care about a person's politics.
>i'm 25, not a babyKEK. Wait until you're 35 and then see what you think about 25 year olds.
>we're all dumb and deranged for being worried or scared Research countries that have actually undergone civil war and bloody conflict. Compare your life to someone your age in one of those countries. America has one of the best qualities of life in the world. One president isn't going to change that. It comes off as deranged as dumb because once you live long enough, you start seeing the same patterns. People were freaking out just as much with Dubya back then.
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>>2423004Yes, I feel like such a consumerist retard because of how much I wanted to buy shit earlier though. I managed to not buy my fatass coffee and snacks today. I wonder if this blackout will do anything substantial.
No. 2423255
>>2423248This is a cultural phenomenon and no matter who was in charge, it would have played out the exact same way as it did.
>>2423241It seems like you're blaming your personal problems on the government so you don't have to take responsibility for them. When I was 25, I had to coupon and go to the food bank. When I was 25, I couldn't afford to own a home and I had to rent with roommates. When I was 25, I couldn't afford to travel the globe and go to concerts every weekend. Most of my friends in my age group were in the same boat as I was, besides those with wealthy families. I didn't blame the government for my position in life. You have a really abnormal view of what life "should" be like and it's divorced from the reality of what life is actually like. A lot of working class youth, specifically Gen Z, are in denial about their economic class and that denial fucks them up and makes them bitter and jaded. You aren't going to change reality by denying it. You can only change yourself once you accept reality.
No. 2423256
>>2423224 I am only 2 years older than you.
The religious right was WAY more powerful in this country 20 years ago than they are now. The evangelicals (who notoriously beat their kids for not supporting Bush) were far and away more rabid and dangerous than the MAGA cult. Also, the invasion of the Middle East alone is a far worse decision than anything Trump did.
Also the pandemic is a great example to bring up because the entire government was showing laughable incompetence in response to covid. Trump was a retard about it, but nobody was going to be "save a million lives" intelligent about it. Biden sure as fuck wasn't.
No. 2423302
>>2423291Again, poverty doesn't mean low-income. The poverty rate right now is something like 12%, whereas anywhere from 35-45% of people are working class. I'm working class and I come from a low-income family. I was still able to move out of my parents' house at 20. I was still living independently and paying my way in the world even though I was working class. And now, even though I own a home, I'm still working class.
Meanwhile we have 25 year olds like
>>2423241 who are whining that they still live with their parents and that they can't afford food. If they can't afford food, why don't they go to a food bank? Is it because they think that the food bank is beneath them? If they want to live independently, why don't they? Is it because they want to live outside of their means in an area with high COL and they don't want roommates?
>>2423298Unfortunately, we don't live in a utopian paradise where poverty can be eliminated overnight. You live in a fantasy world if you think there is less opportunity in this country now than there was in the 1960s.
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>>2423351It is really not that difficult to grasp.
No. 2423387
>>2423282What did you do that threatened you with prison? Was it drugs? My brother was stupid and took the fall for a bunch of girls in his car who were carrying drugs, and the judge made him join the military.
In car anyone was wondering was the American justice system was like.
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>>2423381>In America, it's true.Except it isn't. Child labor rates are lower now than they were in the early 2000s, and they're lower now than they were in the 1960s.
No. 2423397
>>2423004Yes and my friends are too. My sister keeps asking me like "do restaurants count" yes "does Joanns count" yes kek
>>2423312Just don't pay
joking No. 2423440
>>2423388Statistics don't prove anything because anon said they're
loosening the restrictions. As in, in preparation to do more child labor, so obviously statistics wouldn't reflect this yet? especially one from 3 years ago
No. 2423553
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Loosely speaking of education, I wanna talk about this graph. Personally I think screen addiction (both in students and parents)is the main reason for the downfall.
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>>2423553Picrel. It started at the same time that social media outlets began switching from a timeline-based format to an algorithm-based one. Crazy that what would have been just a decently smart student in 2000 is now the smartest person in the room in 2025.
No. 2423591
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>>2423570I saw a small clip of this, this is humiliating. Trump is not built for this kind of shit AT ALL and I can't help but feel Kamala unironically would have done a better job and even charmed him. Tim Waltz would have probably made him laugh and lightened the mood. I feel sick.
>>2423585Rough neighbourhood KEK. omg i can't believe this retard is president. Makes me want to die.
No. 2423649
>>2423599>>2423630>>2423638Which oblast are you posting this from comrade? I agree! We should let Putin keep Ukraine and when he goes for Moldova, Poland and the Baltics he can have those too. I love the glistening strings of Putins cum that shine on Trumps chin. Delightful!
lol I miss the ip ban so much.
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I really feel like something bad's going to happen because so many people are losing their jobs in the US government and army. We already had one troon try to blow up a Tesla dealership so who knows what all the angry discharged military TIMs are going to do
No. 2423796
>>2423192The take that GWB is a worse president than Trump, which is debatable, is completely based on his first term. And idk if you realized this sweaty but it's a little different this time.
>>2423327No one thinks about how much we are a slave to the concept of credit reports when they are such a recent invention like basically as old as the functional internet or The Simpsons. I hate this country so much.
No. 2423808
since we're talking about opportunity of the decades. I actually miss the late 2000's. This is coming from a lesbian too. things actually felt hopeful back then. The late 2010's is when everything got fucked up.
>>2423325Discrimination against females is bad, there is no reason to give women less opportunity than males even if said thing they're being ostracized from isn't as important as anything else. one form of discrimination always leads to another form
No. 2423868
>>2423224I am an old hag and you're right and anyone who claims otherwise is coping.
>but but but W bad >>2423192Yes. And Trump is worse. Many of y'all young folks here still don't understand how and why W sucked so much. He didn't just wake up one day and decide to be the worst president ever. We got the 2008 financial crisis because of decades of lax regulations. The whole Trump schtick is we should go back to even less regulation. CFPB, the agency literally established in response to the 2008 financial crisis is being gutted right now. They're even going after the FDIC next! You know, the agency established in response to the Great Depression. Hurricane Katrina was bad because civic infrastructure failed. And here we are again, firing engineers who would be monitoring and repairing those structures while also firing people who monitor the weather itself too just for the hell of it. We got 9/11 because W disregarded Clinton's warning about rising tensions in the middle east and our domestic and foreign intelligence agencies sucked at communicating with each other. Trump obviously will never listen to whatever warning he received from Biden about threats facing the US. Musk is chainsawing at the intelligence agencies too, mass firings of new hires and any agent who even breathed near the Trump investigations. Further, Trump is also out there antagonizing literally every single country except Russia and Israel. Because it's not bad enough that middle easterners hate us, the Canadians and Ukrainians ought to be incentivized to consider terrorism too. Post 9/11, the media and most Americans, particularly conservatives, were positively frothing at the mouth a war. People who were against it were shouted down and silenced. Our media's even more captured by conservative interests and less critical. Modern conservatives are even less likely to go against whatever new dogma established by Trump.
Yes it's not as bad as the worst parts of W's administration
yet. But literally everything that lead us down those dark paths, Trump is repeating. And with even shittier people in the administration. Like Cheney sucked ass but at least he's American and had at least a tiny bit of vested interest in the country. Musk is dumber, more evil, and not even from here.
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Since we're all posting graphs now, here's another one
No. 2424633
>>2424616It's also not based in reality because that anon has no idea how bad things are in Europe.
The combined armies of the UK and all the countries of the EU is still smaller than the Russian army and none of these armies have enough equipment because it's already been sent to Ukraine. Europe can not replace the tanks, IFVs and artillery because it lacks the industrial capacity to do so. There's also no will to fight in Europe because no one wants to die for the elites that turned their countries into shit holes.
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Now two women have been dragged out of a town hall while Republicans cheer.
No. 2426112
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Is anyone else grossed out by the constant marijuana advertisements on US twitter now? I know myself and other nonnies have said this before but I do feel like making recreational marijuana legal was a mistake and has made our culture fatter, lazier, and stupider.
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sirhan sirhan was kind of cute.. wish you didnt get mindraped into killing RFK, king
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here we go
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Nature is healing
No. 2427079
>>2427062Not a single damn thing, and it's only March. I hate that we have to suffer through another few years of this shit. I hate it so much. I hope the dems come back spiteful and ready to win because their passive bullshit lost us this term.
Didn't he also humiliate the present of Ukraine recently by asking why he didnt wear a suit to their meeting? I am so embarrassed to be an American right now.
No. 2427514
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I’m so tired of the cost of living crisis. I want to live on my own away from my parents. I can’t do that because of the economy and it’s gonna never improve now because of Trump. I make 6000 dollars a month and I can’t afford to rent anywhere. It shouldn’t be this way. 6000 should be a good pay but I barely have 400 left after my living expenses. I try to stick to my budget but some months it’s hard. I’m so sick of living with my parents. My parents treat me unfairly and now they’re asking me to start paying them rent even though they never asked before. I don’t know why their generation is so selfish and expects their children to pay them for living at home. I want to get out of here because I can’t deal with living in this country anymore. I want to be free
No. 2427545
>>2427529You mean after taxes+health insurance+retirement+etc right? Otherwise you need to check your 24 cuz your federal withholding is way too high.
t. My gross income is less than 6k but ~5200 is what hits my bank account.
No. 2427546
>>242754524 -> w4
Not gonna delete and repost, takes for fucking ever to do that.
No. 2427563
>>2427554How is it my fault that the economy is the way it is? I've already cut down on so much of my expenses before I used to have only $100 left after my expenses but I've got a lot better and now I stick to my budget 100% every month. How am I supposed to live on my own when I have to spend almost 450 dollars on food per week?? Everything has gotten so much more expensive now it's impossible for anybody to move up in the world
>>2427555It goes towards food, transportation, travel, and living expenses. I dont spend unnecessarily the only thing that I sometimes over indulge in is my figurine collection but I still spend less than $200 on that per month
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Lmfao what the fuck
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>>2427563>>2427569Nona, be honest… Are you an elephant?
No. 2427572
>>2427564>>2427565It's not like this at all. I'll even post my monthly budget if anons here think that they know more about my finances then me
>>2427569How is it my fault that restaurants costs so much? Am I supposed to not eat just to live on my own?
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>>2427572Please post your monthly budget
No. 2427576
>>2427563>>2427572>foodYou don't need to order takeout/delivery everyday. Eating out is a luxury
>transportationDoesn't cost $4400 a month. Take public transportation or learn to drive
>travelIs a luxury. Why are you traveling and then complaining about money
>living expensesBuying random shit like figurines, clothes you don't need, subscription services, etc. doesn't count towards living expenses. Living expenses only cover basic things you need to survive. Thinks you NEED, not WANT.
I now think you're trolling kek. But if you're not, the economy isn't the reason why you're bad at managing your money.
No. 2427589
>>2427576I don't travel every month, I never said that. I put away money every month to fund my travel. I only go to sakura, momo, holiday matsuri, colossal, and dragon. I have to buy airfare and pay for hotels when I go to cons plus my food expenses and my cosplay too
>You don't need to order takeout/delivery everydayI dont eat out everyday. I cook my own meals once or twice a week. My mom cooks all the meals in our house but she doesnt respect my eating preferences and so I have to order out a lot so that I can eat food that I like. A lot of the time she's cooking in the kitchen when I want to cook, so I can't use it at the same time as her, so that's why I have to use DoorDash.
>Buying random shit like figurines, clothes you don't need, subscription services, etc. doesn't count towards living expensesI never said that. I only spend 100-200 per month usually on my figures and they have a lot of collectors value too so it's more of an investment not a purchase. I need to pay for certain subscriptions like Prime and Apple Music but those are negligible costs
>Transportation doesn't cost $4400 a month. Take public transportation or learn to driveI guess where you live Uber is a lot cheaper? I can't use the bus where I live because the closest stop is a 10 minute walk from my house and a lot of the year the weather is too bad to walk that far
No. 2427591
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>>2427589Nona I know you're trolling now but keep flexing on all us poor weeaboo beckies
>only goes to 6 cons a year>mom pays for all her groceries but nona is too autistic to eat vegetables so she orders fast food every day>my anime figures are an investment>10 minutes is too far to walk, can't ask obviously loving parents to transport herWtf do you do to earn 6k a month if you're like this?
No. 2427620
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>>2427591I do eat vegetables. I go to 5 cons a year not 6. I only do 6-8 cosplays a year. I work in programming so I work from home so the only time I need to take Uber anyway is to go out with my friends or to go to the nail salon. I don't ask my parents to drive me because they have jobs too, and that's why I don't understand why they want me to pay rent. It's not fair for me because it's their mortgage. I dont know why you are blaming me for stuff that I dont have control over. I know that I shouldn't be spending so much on figures but its my hobby and it helps my mental health and I don't spend more than $200 on them per month
>>2427574I dont know why everyone itt is trying to make me out to be a villain. There is a cost of living crisis in this country. I make $6000 before taxes a month I should be able to live my life style while living on my own in my own place
No. 2427650
>>2427589KEEEEEEK
>I only go to like six conventions>I spend all my money on anime figures but it's an investment!>My mom cooks but I buy delivery food because I'm a nitpicky childYou have no idea how good you have it nonna
No. 2427652
>>2427573I don't shop at Whole Foods, my mom and dad do all the grocery shopping. The whole reason why I have to order DoorDash so often is because if I ask them to pick me up something from the grocery store either they get the wrong brand or they forget.
>>2427643Its my hobby and I deserve to be able to engage with my hobby. Why do rich people think that poor people have to grind all day every day and aren't allowed to have fun with their hobbies?
>>2427645The "bit" is my fucking life you insensitive asshole. Why the fuck did this thread get filled with baiters and trolls and now we can't even discuss the cost of living crisis without fucking assholes talking down to you and making it seem like you're ungrateful and bad with money I fucking hate this place some times
No. 2427671
>>2427664If I was rich, then I'd be able to find a place to rent and move out finally. Im 29, Im probably older then you and I have way more experience with finances then you do. Why does everyone think that pulling yourself up by the boot straps works? Obviously theres a huge problem with the cost of living and the housing market and I cant fix those things
>>2427667But Im already saving for my next Japan trip. I dont think Id be able to save up for both things especially once I start having to give my parents $50 a month. I could cut down on DoorDash and only get it once a day if I ordered more food for lunch and then saved some food for dinner. I might cancel my Netflix subscription too because I already have Hulu Disney+ and Prime.
No. 2427676
>>2427668The thing that puzzles me is nonna keeps complaining about not being able to move out, while justifying her spending on figures, anime cons, COSPLAYS FOR EACH CONVENTION, and prefers to get an Uber instead of walking for ten minutes to get the bus. And she's a 29-year-old.
Just cutting all those expenses by half would make such a difference.
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I'm sure that anon is a troll and she thinks that people with low income are actually just bad with money, so she made up this ridiculous story. This whole thing is like the old avocado toast meme.
No. 2427690
>>2427663Everyone is making fun of you because you're coming off as an entitled, spoiled brat. I say this lovingly, nona. You make more than enough to live on your own, you just refuse to spend your money wisely. Everything you posted in
>>2427589 doesn't justify your finances.
Delete your doordash/ubereats/whatever accounts. If you can't eat what your mom makes, cook all of your meals. Make a budget for groceries, $100-$150/month is more than enough for one person. If you want, you could even combine groceries with your parents to reduce costs. Plan out your meals every week and stick with it. You don't need to pay for subscriptions. Learn to pirate. I'm not even going to touch on the cope that your figurines are an investment, or stupid shit like flying to six conventions a year.
>I can't use the bus because the closest stop is a 10 minute walkOh good heavens! A 10 minute walk! The horror! You're being ridiculous. 10 minutes is nothing and the weather isn't an excuse either. If you don't want to take the bus, learn to drive. You make thousands of dollars a month. You can use them to pay for driving lessons or have your parents teach you. The amount you make in a month is more than enough to buy a decent used car.
>>2427633>>2427663>I should be able to spend how I want to spend while having an apartment of my ownThat's not how it works, and that's not how it ever worked unless you're super rich. Even boomers, who lived in a golden age of prosperity, had to live frugally to afford their first homes. There is a cost of living crisis, but you make enough where you're cushioned financially from it. At this point, 'cost of living crisis' is just a buzzword you use to justify your poor financial decisions. Anyway, you should be glad your parents are charging you rent. Maybe you'll learn to manage your finances better now that you'll only be able to afford 5 cons a year, instead of 6.
>>2427681I'm 98% certain it's bait but I've also seen zoomers/zillenials that genuinely spend like OP and act like the economy is the reason why they can't move out
No. 2427694
>>2427679>Don't go on your Japan tripI only go once every 3 years. Its worth it for the cultural experience.
>eat what your parents buy youIts not that easy. They dont respect my eating preferences at all. For example for dinner last night my mom made chicken and corn on the cob but she used dark meat even though I only like white meat, so I still ate the corn but I door dashed Popeyes for the chicken
>Cancel all of your subscriptions to save moneyI spend less then $150 per month on subscriptions. Even if I cancelled all of them it wouldn't be enough to live on my own
>getting your license. Plus, some subscriptions are good to have like my UberX subscription saves me money on my UberEats and my rides, so if I cancelled I'd be spending a lot moreDriving school costs money and so does cars. Why are you pretending like its my fault that we're so car dependent? There should be better public transport options so I wouldnt have to use Uber so much
>>2427681>>2427684>>2427688Your all probably republicans so I dont give a crap. Sorry that you cant admit that Trump caused a cost of living crisis with his tariff plans and butchering our economy. Your probably the same ones that used to bait about how much you hated Kamala a few months back. Keep pretending like capitalism works when most of us dont even have enough to afford a 2 bedroom apartment. Whatever Im done posting here you people are all victimblamers and I dont give a crap enough to defend myself against republicans
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>>2427671Pretty sure this is bait, but I'll bite & give some blogging/perspective of how ridiculous this sounds to the rest of us in the working class. I am also 29. I take home around 1,600 a month. I work in the restaurant industry, I know it's not great money, but cooking & food is truly one of my biggest passions. I lived with my mom for a few years before recently moving in with my boyfriend. I still helped her with bills & was able to treat myself occasionally to what I prioritized, but saved over 20k in a few years. Currently, I have around $300-400 left over after food, rent, healthcare, cat supplies & gas. Those are my only monthly costs. I also live in a very HCOL area that is only rising. It is possible, I promise. You just have to be realistic & actually put in the work. Your parents asking for $50 a month is NOTHING. Learn to budget, there is no reason to be living a life of luxury if you can't build savings.
I'm also a pescatartian, so I understand food restrictions & healthy food being expensive, but be smart. I do save money on food from my job, but still. It's not as difficult as you're making it out to be.
No. 2427714
>>2427694>I only go once every 3 years. Its worth it for the cultural experience.No it isn't if you want to actually build a savings account. Skip the trip, save that money and build yourself enough savings to actually move out with.
>They dont respect my eating preferences at all.Too fucking bad. Are you allergic? If you're not, then suck it the fuck up buttercup. If you want to save money, this means making decisions between needs and wants. You don't NEED to order UberEats, you can eat your parents food if you're actually hungry. You WANT to eat Popeyes.
>I spend less then $150 per month on subscriptions. Even if I cancelled all of them it wouldn't be enough to live on my ownNot the point, that money that you would've otherwise spent on subscription, UberEatsX, etc. will add up to your savings overtime and allow you to grow a safety net and financial cushion that you can use to finance things that are more important like moving out or your own car. If you want to actually gain independence you have to make sacrifice and save what you can.
>Driving school costs money and so does cars. It does, but it's a necessary expense that can open the door to a world of possibilities. You might get a chance at a higher paying job that requires you to commute, and if you move out how will you be able to move around?
>There should be better public transport options so I wouldnt have to use Uber so muchOr you could take the fucking bus.
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>>2427694>you're all probably RepublicansKEK.
No. 2428045
>>2428037It's 2025. Russia and the USA should be friends now. Why not? Let Russia take Ukraine, let China take Taiwan, it's theirs to begin with anyway. Our job isn't to be the world police. Our job isn't to defend the rights of random territories across the globe. Let them figure out their own shit. We live in the new world, it's separated from all that old world bullshit by two huge oceans.
>bussyWho is using that word in 2025? Especially on lolcow? It's from 2015, let's leave it in the 2010s.
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>>2428045You know what anon… never mind. I'll let you be dumb in peace.
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>>2428052I agree with that nona. She explains things in a way I understand and tells it like it is. You are the anon who is dumb
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anyone with investments (in an IRA or otherwise): are you changing things up at all? if so, what? Are you temporarily moving stuff from an aggressive growth portfolio to something more stable?
I don't have that much in there bc I'm fighting in court to recoup the large amount my ex stole from my retirement (yes). This means I am very frustrated with the current stock market crash and worried it will go much lower. Currently invested in a general index fund.
I also wanted to share a link with you nonas. I spoke to a financial advisor from this service for about an hour:
https://www.savvyladies.org/It was completely free and the woman helped me with questions I had about this year's tax filing and some other questions. I think many nonas would benefit from a free chat with someone even if they aren't in the hell I'm in. You can apply online and briefly describe your questions (be very brief, I typed way too much & had to delete most of it). In a few days you get an email matching you with an advisor and she will set up a time with you. The session can be over the phone or via video conference. I guess you can choose email as well but idk if that's as good for something like this.
Anyway I appreciated this service a lot and it wasn't one of the first results when I was searching for help so I thought to share it here.
No. 2428175
>>2428123Thank you for the recommendation and advice! I'm so sorry about your pos ex. I love when there are legitimate resources for women.
I honestly don't know what I should do with my retirement, it's not super big or anything, but I've noticed that it's barely growing these days. It was doing much better last year and it does make me anxious. I was just thinking about putting more into it too, until I checked it again yesterday and noticed how pathetic it's looking.
No. 2428263
>>2428123I'm holding the stuff in my IRA (all index funds/ETFs) out of laziness with the expectation that the market will eventually rise over time again (if it doesn't then something has gone wrong enough where I won't be retiring lol). However, I liquidated my brokerage account when the deepseek news started gaining steam, though I'll be using that money for a downpayment.
The market will probably tank some more and perhaps remain sideways for another year or so before another bull run starts. However, if your time horizon is decades-long then it really doesn't matter that much- somebody who put 50k into index funds the day before the 1970's crash would have had more than enough money to retire on by 2010.
If I were to do something with my retirement money now, it would be:
>liquidate everything>wait for the market to go sideways>invest it all in index funds/ETFs after the market is stable for a while or there are early signs of recoveryTrying to time it so that you maximize your profit with this strategy isn't super important because, again, you're looking at a decades-long time horizon. Of course, I'm not a professional. I hope your ex gets attacked by a candiru.
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>>2428207>they've threatened nukes for 3 years nowIt's a threat Russia is fully capable of acting on.
>Russia is factually losing lmfaohttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/31/world/europe/russia-gains-ukraine-maps.htmlhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/8/russia-gained-4000sq-km-of-ukraine-in-2024-how-many-soldiers-did-it-lose>Russian forces gained 4,168 square kilometres (1,609 square miles) of Ukrainian land in 2024, according to geolocated evidence collected by the Washington, DC-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW).https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/01/27/amid-talk-of-a-ceasefire-ukraines-front-line-is-crumbling>The final battle for the small Donbas town of Velyka Novosilka dragged on for six days, though the outcome was obvious long before that. Things became critical early in the new year, when Russian troops took over villages immediately to its north-east and west, pinching the Ukrainian defenders on three sides.https://nypost.com/2024/06/22/world-news/russia-launches-massive-attack-on-ukraine-power-grid/>Russia’s renewed campaign against Ukrainian energy has resulted in frequent blackouts across the embattled nation.>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently claimed that Moscow destroyed half of the country’s electricity-generating capacity since late March.https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-launches-large-scale-missile-attack-ukraine-energy-facilities-kyiv-says-2024-12-13/>Russia hammered Ukrainian energy facilities in a massive aerial attack on Friday that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said was one of the largest yet on the ailing grid and evidence of why Kyiv needed more Western support before any peace with Russia.>Unspecified equipment at thermal power plants sustained serious damage, according to DTEK, Ukraine's biggest private power provider, which has been battered by the strikes since Russia's February 2022 invasion.https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/russian-bombardment-of-ukraines-power-grid-may-force-millions-to-flee/>For the next five months, waves of Russian missiles and drones struck Ukraine’s civilian energy infrastructure on an almost daily basis.>Ukraine has lost many of its most important thermal power plants and key hydroelectric plants. Major cities including Kharkiv and Odesa have experienced periodic blackouts and prolonged disruption to energy supplies. Experts believe it will take years to repair damaged facilities and replace equipment.https://responsiblestatecraft.org/russia-making-gains/>It seems as though the next goal for Russians in the Donbas is to take the strategic rail town, Pokrovsk, which would seriously inhibit Ukraine’s ability to resupply its forces in the region. Encirclement of this strategic city is likely as Ukraine has likely lost Selydove this week, a city which is only about 20 miles south of Pokrovsk.>Vincent Tourret, says that Ukraine is losing ground due to Russia’s use of powerful guided missiles, and Ukraine’s lack of fortifications in the region. According to Tourret, “Ukraine’s defenses are more and more battered, the terrain is more and more favorable for Russian offensives and, on top of that, the Russians have a better impact, the three factors combine to explain the increase in Russian gains.”>These losses, combined with reports that Ukrainian forces are overstretched, and the fact that North Korean soldiers are now present in the conflict do not bode well for Kyiv. Additionally, Ukraine is suffering from a lack of manpower, as well as low morale among its existing soldiers.Russia is winning the war, I don't see how anyone can deny this. It isn't about being pro-Putin, pro-Trump, pro-Ukraine or anything else. The longer the war continues, the worse the outcome will be for Ukraine.
No. 2428508
>>2427714I don't think cost-of-living chan is being a troll; I think she is quite used to coming from a family that took care of her needs and now she needs some lessons in adulthood.
I own a home. I was not able to save enough to purchase it until I was considerably older, and even then, I had the barest minimum. Lenders do not make it easy for single women to buy homes - all my married friends sailed through the process, even if they didn't have a lot of money, but, for me, getting a mortgage was absolutely awful. There were times when I really did not think it was going to happen for me.
If you want to own a home, you have to learn how to make sacrifices. I bought just enough home that I could afford, which means I don't live in the best neighborhood (although I am happy where I live). I use coupons at the supermarket, I buy a lot of groceries at Walmart and Aldi, and I rarely eat out; if I do, I use apps and get the cheapest options. Furniture is expensive so, aside from a few things like my sofa and bed, a lot of my furniture and home goods are secondhand or from discount stores. I need to do a lot of work in my house so I am basically taking the project room by room. Owning a home means you have to do projects long-term and you need to weigh whether or not something is worth updating, or whether you can live with it as-is.
I think a lot of people romanticize the idea of owning a home. Don't get me wrong, I love my home and the day I walked in and knew it was mine was one of the best days of my life. But you also have to learn how to sacrifice if that's what you really want. Aside from your mortagage and taxes, you have to cover all repairs, insurance, and maintenance. Sometimes you think you've done well and maintained everything, and then a disaster happens that you didn't expect and it's thousands of dollars out of your pocket. It takes a lot of hardship and sacrifice, and if you're single you don't have a spouse to help you pay for it, which means either asking Bank of Mom and Dad or taking out a loan.
I think any nonna wanting to buy a home needs to take a serious and honest look at her finances and ask herself what she is willing to sacrifice. I would not buy a home right now anyway, personally, but even if there is a market correction or you move to a place with a cheaper cost of living, owning a home is a long-term goal. Renting may be more expensive in the immediate future but it's also a way to teach yourself how to manage your life independently and learn to make the sacrifices necessary for home ownership.
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>>2428558>>2428566>having sacrificed 700-800,000 soldiersHere's the casualty figures from a pro-Ukraine source
https://en.zona.media/article/2025/02/24/losses>Today marks the third anniversary of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine—and three years of our ongoing quest to reveal the true cost of this war. We are counting Russian casualties using two methods: by meticulously collecting and verifying data on each individual Russian KIA serviceman in our database, which now exceeds 95,000 names, and by estimating a broader figure that we believe reflects the true number of dead—over 165,000 in total.
>not even including the north Koreans who were pulled out because all of them were dyinghttps://en.zona.media/article/2025/02/04/DPRK>South Korean intelligence claimed that the DPRK lost about 300 people killed and 2,700 wounded in the fighting. The total number of North Korean troops on Russian territory was estimated at 12,000.
>THE ONLY SOLUTION TO CREATE PEACE IS DEFEATThe west is incapable of defeating Russia and any attempt by the west to defeat Russia would not only fail, it would end in mutual nuclear annihilation.
No. 2428595
>>2428586>I wonder if so american dgaf If you're gonna use the Amerifag thread can you learn English better?
>>2428592Get some new material
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Happy Mardi Gras to nonnys who celebrate!
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As much as I adore the Alfred threadpic motif I’d love it if we had some fat JD Vance edit threadpics in the future
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>>2428873kek yes I agree, I was laughing at them all last night
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>>2428900Vance would probably feel so special if he came on lolcurr one day and found himself as one of the threadpics keekk
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>>2428914>>2428923You don’t need to be mean about it
nonny No. 2428964
>>2428263Thanks, nona, I am pretty sure I'll do the same. You're right, I guess I was overthinking it. I'm going to just have to wait for crypto to go back up as well. I don't have a lot in there, because I took profits on one altcoin earlier. But enough that I hope it goes back up (dw I only invested in major coins or real projects, no meme shit).
Thanks, I hope ny ex pays me a huge settlement and then something horrible happens to him. (Don't want to catch a ban here for alogging.) I can't wait to go public about it all, but I can't yet. The story is absolutely nuts and tbh I still fear for my life. The depth of evil in a man should not be underestimated.
No. 2428973
>>2428175thanks nona, I am happy the link helped someone. I wouldn't be shy if you or anyone else thinks a finances chat could be helpful.
I would definitely leave your money in your IRA, as another nona suggested. I am just considering whether to later invest it differently within the IRA, focusing on different blends (more European stocks, for instance - my index fund is heavy on US stocks). For right now I'll see if the market in general improves.
Of course, if anything drastic starts to happen (you never know these days), we need to get the money out. Don't forget it's there if Vance decided women can't have retirement funds or something.
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>>2429162Don't use "we" when you mean "you."
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Sorry if posted already
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Ron DeSantis being based?
>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that Andrew and Tristan Tate, the influencer brothers who face charges in Romania of human trafficking and sexual intercourse with a minor, were not welcome in the state.
>The brothers left Romania on a private flight and landed Thursday at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport after a travel ban was lifted. Andrew and Tristan Tate are dual citizens of the United States and the U.K.
>After landing in Florida, Andrew Tate gave brief remarks to the media.
>"We live in a democratic society where it’s innocent until proven guilty, and I think my brother and I are largely misunderstood. There’s a lot of opinions about us that go around on the internet. We’ve yet to be convicted of any crime in our lives ever. We have no criminal record anywhere on the planet," he said.
>McBride said in a separate statement that the Tate brothers had filed the defamation suit against those who had accused them of human trafficking. He said once prosecutors allowed the pair to leave the country, they did so legally.
>"Andrew and Tristan plan to return to Romania at the end of March to meet with the prosecutor before returning to the United States," the statement reads. "They feel secure in America for several reasons, the primary one being that Donald Trump is the President. As a result, they are excited to call America their home again."
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Just did taxes. Nigel and I made $55k gross last year, how is our federal tax bill $2.5k? That's over half a month of gross income. Fucking ludicrous. And that on top of all the local sales taxes being nearly 10%. What do I get for that? Roads that flood every time it rains, a sidewall puncture in a brand new tire from a massive pothole, stray dogs attacking my chickens, and unaffordable healthcare. Ugggghhhhhhhhh
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Found an new OP pic for you, Amerifats!
No. 2430428
>>2430397Nta but did you read any of her posts? She can't afford an apartment because she orders takeout everyday, flies to 5 cons a year, ubers everywhere instead of taking public transportation or learning how to drive, and spends her money on frivolous shit like Netflix/Disney+/Hulu/Prime and anime figurines. She spends 20k a year on takeout and 40.9k on "living expenses" and "miscellaneous expenses"
>>2427620 (whatever that means, considering she lives at home for free). Anyway I'm 99.9% sure she's a troll, because she was having a meltdown over her parents wanting to charge her
$50 a month in rent. Don't let a troll get you down
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I’m only mentioning this because of Doordash-chan from two days ago but to any retarded nonas, please contact your local Vocational Rehabilitation office before the DOE is shut down, they will pay for your tuition and books for school, driving lessons, etc if you have ADHD or anxiety or anything that is technically a disability. I never thought I would be able to drive but I just got my license a month ago
>>2429652He’s just trying to undermine Trump and start beef with him probably, he knows the personality transplant is never happening so he’d rather make sly digs that don’t matter
No. 2430765
>>2430566It’s no problem!! I didn’t even know they existed until I registered with disability services for my 2nd degree and the counselor at my college told me about VR, I think they avoid telling everyone about it because it’s easy to game the system and they don’t want people who aren’t in need to solicit their services
>>2430611It depends what state you’re in, for me personally I’m in FL and when I started receiving services you needed a referral but the “referral” could literally just be a self-referral IE you filling out the form they have on their website and then bringing it to your local office, they take a while to process it (when I started, they were switching to a new system so I waited 6 weeks, from what I’ve heard it’s supposed to be 3-4 weeks) and then contact you to schedule an intake appointment. If you aren’t diagnosed with anything, they have services that they can refer you do & they cover for testing, if you are diagnosed with anything you need it in a letter with a letterhead from your current psychiatrist/doctor/etc. That’s just how it works in FL though, my sister also receives services from VR but in a different county entirely and that’s how it worked for her too. IDK how useful this specifically will be for you if you’re in a different state
No. 2430958
>>2430765Are you joking
nonnie? I fought tooth and nail in my FL university despite having a full list of documented illnesses and they refused me over 4 separate hearings/appeals…Did I just need to go to a gov department after all? I've struggled for fucking nothing?
No. 2431020
>>2426851nta, i live in a state where its been integrated into the economy and isn’t seen as a big deal compared to how it was treated in the 00’s but, even as someone who’s smoked weed for several years..seeing advertisements for weed brands and watching pot smoking become normalized i can attest that it has been a net negative for our society.
> Americans being fat and "lazy" likely has more to do with our crap food system and plastic in everything than legal weed, use your head please.i cant speak for OP but two things can be true at once, anon. everybody being high on pot is just as unhealthy as everyone’s water being laced with plastic.
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>>2426112coming across billboards for dispensaries opening when i’m driving home and getting targeted ads for weed brands that are owned by aging comedians is the type of shit that made me realize just how pathetic weed smoking is and was whats influenced me to stop
No. 2431117
>>2430872Aww I hope it helps him too!! I think the way they handle driving lessons is that they’re partnered with specific local driving schools (the one I went through offered a specialized “defensive driving courses for individuals with disabilities” course, which was what i was assigned) and give them a voucher/waiver for you to get your allotted hours of lessons. Just make sure your brother knows to talk about how his disabilities causing his inability to drive are holding him back from gainful employment as vocational rehabilitation’s purpose is to rehabilitate one’s ability to have a sustained vocation
>>2430958unfortunately it seems like that may be the case…… did you go to a private school? I’ve gone to 2 different public community colleges and 1 public university and at one I got formal disability services (basic generic “extra time + extended due dates”) despite having no documentation (i wasn’t actually diagnosed yet and didn’t understand you aren’t supposed to just walk into a disability services office with no formal diagnosis) just because they took it at face value, and at the other two there was a very established and formalized disability service where you met with an advisor who exclusively worked with the disability services office and went over your medical paperwork and why you felt you needed services with you on a Zoom call and offered you a list of services you were eligible for based on symptoms you described. Granted all of these schools are in the Miami metropolitan area, so maybe it’s a regional thing?
No. 2431138
>>2431089ayrt, i’ve seen druggies sperging out in public and having mental breakdowns, screaming, crying, shitting and pissing on the ground. and even much like
>>2431127 said, normal people on drugs act very weird too. one time the cashier at the grocery store just stared at me instead of verbally telling me with words that something was free kek…i have no way of knowing if she was high but, occam’s razor says she likely was
No. 2431902
>>2431052yes!! i really miss crappy ditch weed. i miss picking out seeds and stems and saving them in a little container. i miss having a dealer. i miss "hehe look what i got guys, shitty weed to make us a little goofy"
now you will get turbo blasted from one hit and scared for your life.
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Based
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>>2432324Have we considered child labor? Kids love pick-your-own farms.
No. 2432834
>>2432728Let's start with Elon Musk and Melania Trump. They both lied on their paperwork to enter the country, which is the exact same "crime" almost every illegal immigrant commits when they overstay a
valid tourist visa. Until those two are deported, I don't want to hear a single thing from any magatard about illegal immigrants.
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google have bent the knee
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>>2432839>tfw putin dicksucker russian oligarch has anchor baby, traffics women, helped trump rig an election, evades sanctions, and still never ends up in prison himself
>New Jersey Resident Olga Shriki Arrested for Her Role in Facilitating Illicit Travel by Deripaska’s Girlfriend and in Real Estate Transactions>Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging OLEG VLADIMIROVICH DERIPASKA, a/k/a “Oleg Mukhamedshin,” and NATALIA MIKHAYLOVNA BARDAKOVA, a/k/a “Natalya Mikhaylovna Bardakova,” citizens of the Russian Federation (“Russia”), and OLGA SHRIKI, a New Jersey resident and naturalized U.S. Citizen, with conspiring to violate United States sanctions imposed on DERIPASKA and one of DERIPASKA’s corporate entities, “Basic Element.” >SHRIKI is further charged with obstruction of justice based on her deletion of electronic records relating to her participation in DERIPASKA’s sanctions evasion scheme following receipt of a Grand Jury subpoena requiring the production of those records. BARDAKOVA and is charged in one count with making false statements to agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. >Additionally, EKATERINA OLEGOVNA VORONINA, a/k/a “Ekaterina Lobanova,” is also charged with making false statements to agents of the Department of Homeland Security at the time of VORONINA’s attempted entry into the United States for the purpose of giving birth to DERIPASKA’s child. SHRIKI was arrested this morning. No. 2433869
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List of words Trump is trying to ban from federal documents. Thanks to every pseudo-gender critical soccer mom and homocon who voted for Trump because he “won’t erase women.” Teenage girls will bleed to death after being forced to carry their rapist’s child, but hey, at least you won’t have to put your pronoun signature in your email anymore. Hope it was worth it.
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>>2433869Samefag. More expansive list
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NYC is very strange..why does there need to be 4 whole foods within less than a mile of each other??
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>>2433231>>2433131No its ok nonnies they’re still celebrating Womens day but only women in STEM
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No. 2436592
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Did the whole Luigi thing make anyone else feel like revolution just isn't really possible in America? All that happened was that people turned him into white boy of the month, insurance companies didn't really suffer and they will continue fucking over people. I guess I'm hypocritical because I also haven't done anything, but I guess it's still just a bit disheartening. Everything stays the same.
No. 2437154
>>2436592I don't really know what revolution in America would look like, which is ironic because the country was founded on it. It feels like everything is so different in the modern world, once upon a time people went on strike and beat the shit out of scabs. There are a few obstacles to any sort of revolution imo and they're big. 1. Most people have not felt actual physical consequences yet and while a lot of people are talking about it on social media, well, it's just talk so far. In 2008 there was a massive recession and a lot of people were fucked over, at which point Republicans lost the mandate of heaven. Time will tell if the same thing will happen this cycle. 2. People are increasingly isolated, no one is socializing especially not in real life. What's crazy is that by torpedoing the main social medias through their retardation, Musk and Zuck may be the ones who "solve" this problem by getting us all off their teat. When people are isolated they can't empathize, they can't pool resources and intelligence, they can't compare each other's situations. If we all stay stuck at home on our devices, we'll never see that poor libs and poor cons have way more in common than we do with the rich, and that there are way more of us than there are of them. 3. Even if we were able to unite, the fucks who control the nation work tirelessly to divide us. I don't know about you but consensus was pretty clear in the few moments after the UHC shooting. Every single person in this country has been fucked over by health insurance. But then media dug their claws in and did what they do best, make it left vs right instead of America vs 1%, and sensationalize the whole thing into being about the "white boy of the month" so people would stop talking and stop commiserating about their common experiences with being disabled, maimed, tortured, and murdered by people like Brian Thompson. It was a goddamn circus, the perp walk was comical. All I can say is that we know at least ONE insurance CEO suffered, and we know that it's actually a huge chunk, one might even say the majority of people that are fed up with how we're treated. If I was being optimistic I would say sure it looks like baby steps, but it's a leap compared to where we once were. People have to learn how to walk before we learn how to run.
No. 2437319
>>2436592>revolution isn't really possible in AmericaYeah, no duh. The majority of people can't read above the 6th grade level. Writings by Marx are above the 6th grade level. Revolution depends on very specific material conditions. These material conditions are not yet present in the USA, and maybe they never will be. The living standard here is high, people have good jobs and good houses, people can afford to eat well and spend their money on luxuries, there's a level of liberty and freedom that many countries do not experience, and more. Americans aren't ready to suffer from war. We haven't had to suffer from war on our territory in over a century. Most people won't suffer for any cause. More importantly than all that is that a revolution depends on solidarity. There is
no solidarity in this country. Once you accept that, it becomes a lot easier to focus on actual things that matter instead of daydreaming about a glorious revolution that will never come.
Now that I'm in my 30s, I've realized that I don't have a responsibility to overthrow the government. I don't care what happens outside my county. I focus my efforts here, for the benefit of the people around me. I raise money for impoverished children, I run food drives, I knit hats and mittens for the homeless, I'm involved in municipal politics and I write letters to federal representatives, etc.. You say you don't do anything, so why dream of a revolution? Is it an excuse to do nothing? It's not difficult to engage with democracy and exercise your rights.
The whole pseudo-revolutionary mindset is so juvenile and immature. I remember being sucked up in that when I was in my late teens and early 20s. I think a lot of people were. There is not going to be a revolution in our country. There is not going to be a civil war. There is not going to be a coup d'état. The county is going to continue chugging along like it always has. That's a good thing. The doomer mindset needs to stop, it's not cute and it's not good for anything.
No. 2437390
>>2437385Okay, so what do you do then? What difference do you make?
Also, I said county, not country.
No. 2438052
>>2437987Giving mittens to homeless people in winter is "virtue signalling" now? Kekkkkk
>>2437991Me too lol it's throwing me back to freshmen year of college
No. 2438155
>>2438151Kekk I saw anons say you were up your own ass last night but I didn't jump in because I didn't want to start an infight. (And I was sleepy.)
But where does
>>2437996 think many of those spare mittens and hats are coming from? I promise you the average person isn't stopping by walmart and buying up 10 pairs of mittens to drop off at the homeless shelter at the end of their week. If you go to any charity organizing a mitten drive, the #1 ask is money, and the next best thing are handmade items.
Which you already know, kek. I think so many people make hats, it's very nice of you to make mittens, esp because I know a lot of knitters are afraid to make them since they seem so complex. May I ask what yarn you use?
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>>2437154>If I was being optimistic I would say sure it looks like baby steps, but it's a leap compared to where we once were. People have to learn how to walk before we learn how to run.This is a nice way to look at it actually. Maybe what we're seeing with Luigi is just the start.
Think social media has just made it so that nothing is taken seriously. Everything is a new meme. People can't do anything because they see everything as a joke and the new hot topic of the day. Plus, like you said, media divides us even further. Idk how these issues can be fixed, but it does make me sad. I haven't lost hope on Americans though.
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I cannot be the only nonny here to find this man irrevocably attractive. And yes, I do in fact hate myself.
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>The “iconic” BLM plaza
It was up for less than five years kek, I don’t think I’d go as far as calling that “iconic”
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>>2438365Kinda giving me Matthew Broderick as Cooter Burger in 30 Rock vibes
No. 2438420
>>2438146Yeah because elderly women who get priced out of homes and abandoned by their families or women who have experienced DV are degenerate shitbags that don't deserve to be able to wash their hands because oligarch billionaires want to gut the country.
>>2438155>But where does >>2437996 think many of those spare mittens and hats are coming from? I promise you the average person isn't stopping by walmart and buying up 10 pairs of mittens to drop off at the homeless shelter at the end of their weekLiterally nonprofits buy and receive donations like this all of the time. You're confirming that by referencing the most frequently requested items. Unless you're in a rural bumfuck nowhere area, there are plenty of places to get free resources like gloves and mittens. All of you have so little experience with the actual reality of being impoverished and want to pat yourself on the back for being morally righteous for
checks notes doing a hobby to make something that is mass produced and frequently donated already. Like ok Mckayleigh, congrats on saving the world.
No. 2438436
>>2438434Yeah, you're right. I think there's a big difference between the homeless and addicts that don't have homes, if that makes sense
>>2438433No I think regular Europeans do it too. I would if I was European anyway
No. 2438461
>>2438450Ntayrt but there's two views of addiction. The one usually favored by leftists is: "Addiction is a mental illness, it can be treated with adequate therapeutic intervention, and the addict is not to blame for their mental illness." The one usually favored by rightists is: "Addiction is a moral failing. Addiction can be beat through willpower. Addicts are to blame for their poor choices."
I think the more grounded view is a mix of both. There are some people that are suffering from addiction and if they're given the proper treatment and intervention, they can bounce back and beat it. For others, they actually love being addicted and they'll never stop. For example, some crackheads love crack. They love it more than life itself. They will always want to smoke crack, they will always be thinking of crack, because crack is their favorite thing in the world. They don't want to beat their addiction, they'll never want to beat it. For a lot of people with the former view, it's difficult to reconcile these types of addicts with their viewpoint. For the people with the latter view, these types of addicts strengthen their viewpoint.
We all live in a free country. If someone wants to kill themselves through addiction, they're free to do so. It only becomes a problem when their addiction begins to beget crime or social deviancy that impacts innocent bystanders.
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I literally said to my roomate an hour before the right screenshot “he's dropping the ‘and or a country‘ comment to set up a Ukrarine propaganda bit” and who could've guessed I was correct. He’s so fucking ugly and pathetic.
No. 2440145
>>2440126Because Mondays and Fridays are the most common days for people to have off, both from calling in and via their regular schedules. So Tuesday through Thursday just has the most amount of people working at the same time in general.
And then of course Saturdays and Sundays are the true "dead" days for the site, because those days have the most amount of people not working at the same time, so farmers are doing weekend activities or out with friends/family.
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>>2440100I'm one of the usual posters in this thread and college is kinda kicking my ass right now, so I haven't had time. Here's something funny I saw today, DEI for Elon kek. I'm surprised the Tesla boycott is having such an effect that they're having Trump blatantly advertise for them but I guess it actually makes sense. The more Teslas are vandalized and the brand reputation crashes, the more Tesla owners sell them off (and libs are more likely to own an EV in the first place), which is less sales for Elon when the company is already bleeding. I think Trump's whole "illegal boycott" dumbfuckery and trying to advertise to their base is really funny. I do not see cons buying EVs after decades of smearing them as soyboy cars and glorifying big ass trucks. You can't roll coal in a Cybertruck kek
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>>2440318Samefag this is what I'm referring to by "illegal boycott"
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WTF is going on in Tennessee. Hopefully this doesn't pass in the house over there, feel bad for Tennessee nonnas
>Doctors in Tennessee may soon be able to deny certain treatments over their personal beliefs.
>The "Medical Ethics Defense Act" passed the State Senate last week. It would give medical professionals and health care providers legal protection for refusing care or treatment that goes against their moral, ethical, or religious beliefs.
>Examples include a pharmacist who has a religious objection to filling prescriptions for birth control.
No. 2441008
>>2440962Isnt tennesee a red neck/hillbilly state? Doubt this will actually get passed but if it does theres gonna be a lot more openly anti-vaxxers
>>2440977I dont know if this helps nona but a poll thingy to impeach trump got 250k signs. i know that thats not enough to actually impeach a sitting president, so take it with a grain of salt
>>2436592People are more focused on protesting ICE and lgbt nonsense in the streets (which ultimately accomplishes nothing other than a few press headlines) than the disparity between the top 1% and the middle class. America is too lost to be saved.
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>>2441148The issue is that no one wants them after several notable chimpouts by muslim Palestinian diaspora. They're literally the cause of the Lebanese civil war from the 80s. They were expelled in the 90s from Kuwait because those retards supported Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, thinking Daddy Saddam would give them land and support for a new Palestine. A Palestinian nationalist assassinated the Jordanian king in the 50s. In the 70s a Palestinian assassinated the prime minister of Jordan in Egypt. Egypt was humiliated by this action.
All the muslim counties in MENA are all "We stand by Palestine~ Death to Israel~" But are extremely wary to take them in because of their penchant for assassinations and insurrections
No. 2443585
I just watched vidrel and wtf…nonnas, I'll admit that when this stuff was initially reported on I didn't quite understand the significance of the inspector generals being fired tbh I didn't know what they were but this shit is fucking nefarious. What the actual fuck is wrong with MAGAts. How could you even defend this? What's even worse is that I remember some liberals were downplaying this too, like Jon Stewart. Also, funnily enough, I just looked up the Wikipedia page for the Office of the Inspector General and it straight up says
>each office includes an inspector general (or IG) and employees charged with identifying, auditing, and investigating fraud, waste, abuse, embezzlement and mismanagement of any kind within the executive department.
>the first Office of Inspector General was established by act of Congress in 1976[1] under the Department of Health and Human Services to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare, Medicaid, and more than 100 other departmental programs
Meanwhile we're supposed to believe that retarded ass DOGE is necessary when there were people already overseeing that stuff
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Something good happened for once.
>Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says a bill that would criminalize AI-generated child pornography is an important step in keeping up with advances in technology and eliminating loopholes in the law.>Senate Bill 20 creates a new state felony offense for the possession or promotion of obscene visual material that appears to depict a child younger than 18 years old, regardless of whether the depiction is of an actual child, cartoon or animation, or an image created using AI or other computer software.This can potentially be the start of the ban on lolicon in the U.S.
https://abc7amarillo.com/news/local/senate-bill-would-criminalize-ai-generated-child-pornography No. 2443841
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It's just incomprehensible that this has been allowed to go on as long as it has. It isn't even a psyop, they really do placate Americans with high fructose and sugar + social media so you're too locked in to screens and tired/malnourished to feel anger.
>>2443836Take notes from the french. People are too afraid and the police brutality would result in a lot of death, though
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>>2443841>they really do placate Americans with high fructose and sugar + social media so you're too locked in to screens and tired/malnourished to feel anger. You're right, we should make America healthy again! Then, we should address the education problem.
>>2443836Kek the left has finally gotten exactly what you wanted, an oppressive rightwing government that openly states it's goals as antithetical to your worldview, and all you can do is deface teslas and cry on Bluesky. How do you start a revolution? Not by posting on lolcow, I can tell you that much!
No. 2444115
>>2443836I was thinking about how its probably better than Americans are complacent… if anything happened, they will declare martial law and really start aggressively passing horrible policy (more than now).
but I think about 18 months into this administration is about when things will really start popping off.
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There they go, repealing the will of the people again. Of course congress gets sick leave and makes way more than min wage but why would their filthy constituents ever get those same benefits. I want to say I hate living here but that would be a lie. I just hate our faggy representatives (and yes my rep is in green of course). I want to give him a call but I don't even know what I'd say other than cuss him out
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Well, looks like we don’t have to worry about him anymore!
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Living in the south sucks more and more everyday…..what the fuck
No. 2445676
>>2445664My guess: flordia?
I remember traveling down there and it was porning down raining for 30 minutes and then suddenly, clear skies. Dont know how you people live
No. 2447286
>>2446290With the cybertrucks the timeline works out so it's a little too late to claim to have "not known" about Elon's fuckery so idgaf about people vandalizing those.
Regular teslas I do feel bad for the drivers, though. Probably just some regular guy lol
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I feel like maryland has the best state flag. Its so hideous that it actually mogs in a smug way. the rest of the state flags are the same unrecognizable painting/stamp that was made in the 1800s over a navy blue background. maybe texas is second place because the simplified american flag with just one star is badass.
No. 2447432
>>2447412I always thought California's was funny. "Bears, and that's all you need to know."
Also Alabama's. "Don't come here."
No. 2447433
>>2447412I kind of like the commie feel of the Arizona state flag. Like it's under a soviet dictatorship.
New Mexico is cool too, and I like the fuck you nature of Hawaii proudly displaying the flag of America's enemy.
No. 2447442
>>2447436Didn't understand the assignment, tried to design pennant flag. Realized too late, had to turn in what they had.
(Personally, the New Mexico flag reminds me if like. Corporate Tex-Mex and southwest themed shopping centers.)
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>>2446290it honestly seems counterintuitive to me. elon's a nazi, yes, but we really don't need swastikas and nazi iconography being flaunted all over the states.
>>2447433arizona mentioned! kek, i love it for that reason too. all the state 48 shirts that a small business here sells are so funny.
No. 2447774
>>2447432KEK
>>2447433>I kind of like the commie feel of the Arizona state flag. Like it's under a soviet dictatorship.I kinda see it kek. When i imagine the average arizonian, i think of a laidback redneck with a heavy tan, so i guess the warm color palette fits
>nature of Hawaii proudly displaying the flag of America's enemy.Based
>>2447436>what the hell is going on with ohio?Apparently, It was designed to be worn as a cape. they were trying a bit too hard to be unique imo but still fits
>>2447458Based blue crab nona
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>>2447412Samefag, Also I would like to add that the worst US state flag is inarguably new york, one of the most traveled us states but nobody uses their flag since its so unremarkable. they could have done so much better & desperately need a redesign.
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Holy based texas
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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5198165-trump-biden-pardons-autopen/Very interesting stuff, any thoughts nonnies? I just bought a house and a ton of the paperwork was through Docusign, it says in the ToS that anyone else using it to sign your name is a crime. Was it really Dr Jill or Kamala signing everything? Remember how Biden's withdrawal from the race had a different signature from other White House document releases?
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>>2448191>>2449656I don't think it's going to effect anime, manga, or even hentai. This is an extension of existing obscenity laws to prevent defenses from people making AI generated deepfakes of existing or non-existing people. Since AI generations are technically not real they don't want them using "cartoon" as a defense. But drawings in general still have protections under obscenity laws if they don't look realistic. I wish they'd just ban AI altogether.
Anyway, I think this is all a smokescreen since the other bills passed along with this one were more about getting rid of anything gay or troonish in schools. And they're also trying to get rid of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department which would abolish protections of parks and wildlife preserves, so they can profit off the land and resources instead.
https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/bill-to-dissolve-texas-parks-and-wildlife-sparks-concern-among-nature-lovers No. 2450036
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>>2449517>Trump's people are trying to imply that Biden didn't know what he gave permission to sign because he was senileI mean, isn't that what Special Counsel Hur said during the documents investigation? That Biden was too old to testify on his own behalf? If Trump and his folks force Biden to testify that he granted permission to use the autopen, will he be able to defend himself?
No. 2450682
>>2450036He said nothing like that. He said that, sometimes, Biden appeared to him that he was a bit unfocused and had some issues recollecting specific dates. But, from the example Hur used, it seemed like Biden was using the date of the death of his son Beau to help him remember things that happened around that time. TBH if you've been through a huge trauma, it can be hard to remember things around that time. I lost three family members within a year and I have trouble remembering what else happened for years around that time and I'm less than half of Biden's age.
If they think Biden was senile while he was president, hold a hearing and interrogate him. Trump's been faking his medical records for years. All of this is another attempt by Trump to call attention away from his own cognitive decline, just like investigating Hunter and Ashley and all the Biden family drama was an attempt to call attention away from Trump's own loser, crooked spawn.
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Thoughts on the JFK assassination files released today?
https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk No. 2451671
>>2451065Everything was already released. Trump released some of it during his first term and then Biden released the rest. Same with the Epstein papers.
The real leak you should be waiting for is the second volume of Jack Smith's report. It actually can legally be released, but the DOJ has explicitly said they are not releasing it. Why? Because it details all of Trump's crimes with the classified documents he stole. Jack Smith said he had Trump dead to rights on RICO charges, enough to put him under a federal prison.