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The majority of US health spending is already socialized with the support of Republicans, between Medicare, Medicaid, and the health benefits provided to the armed services, veterans, and government employees. Many Republicans oppose oil subsidies, which are actually lower in the US per capita than they are in the EU. Republicans do believe in intervention by the state to improve poor communities, just through different means than government managed ghettos and welfare dependence. I don't know about the free movement part, you'd have to be more specific, because the US allows freer movement into, out of, and around the country than basically anywhere on earth, with lots of Republican support. If there are Republicans pushing back against green cards (outside of a specific issue like Chinese student visas), they're a weird fringe. Republicans aren't what you think we are.
Lmao, America's largest healthcare provider is GoFundMe.
But also, you have to understand, most of your positions are conservative from an American perspective. Even the abortion debate, Roe v. Wade is the long established status quo, so in real terms (rather than trying to neatly split ideologies on party lines) I'm the progressive and you're the conservative.
Regressive is different than progressive
 

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Shit this just gets more fucking mental as it goes on


(It's the braveheart speech with modifications btw)

For reference, actor best known for playing Jesus and main character in Person of Interest...


Also the protag in upcoming film that may very well be qanon baiting, but also about a very controversial real figure Tim Ballard...

Awww, I liked Jim on Person of Interest.
 

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To all the Karens in my wealthy school district. I didn't vote out of spite. You can have your fancy school funding when kids near downtown can too. Now go back to watching Fox News, and being a nimby to affordable housing. In fact, out of spite, I should vote no increasing my school district's funding next time.
 

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Get ya sociology notebooks prepared for this'n
These imbeciles will literally believe anything if it reinforces their worldview of some shadowy conspiracy "keeping them down". I guess the idea that JFK has been in hiding all these decades and has chosen now to reappear in order to support Trump is easier to accept than the idea that all the problems in their lives come from their own faults and failings.
 

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These imbeciles will literally believe anything if it reinforces their worldview of some shadowy conspiracy "keeping them down". I guess the idea that JFK has been in hiding all these decades and has chosen now to reappear in order to support Trump is easier to accept than the idea that all the problems in their lives come from their own faults and failings.
They're certainly idiots but I don't think their problems need to stem from their own faults and failings. America seems a pretty frightening country to live in. It seems a society that's actively out to get you if you get below a certain wealth level which in turn can have a chain effect that keeps people trapped in misery. Poverty for example can be bad for your health and considering the American health care system is completely barbaric having bad health in turn can be disastrous for your prospect of gaining and keeping your wealth. Part of why the American public seems so uniquely willing to radicalize might be because there's such a large amount of problems that completely ruin people without those people having a chance to effect anything that's happening to them. And of course the tragedy is that these people then end up supporting candidates like Trump who sustain these problems plaguing them rather than candidates who are interested in addressing these problems.
 

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Source: Wapo

Democrats fail, and fall on their face.

Soon to be double fail.

 

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Lmao, America's largest healthcare provider is GoFundMe.
Considering that half of all bankruptcies in America are for medical bills, you realise thats probably why medical expenses are so big in America. In effect, these bankruptcies are just a tax on everyone else using US heath care in a very ineffecient manner
 

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Considering that half of all bankruptcies in America are for medical bills, you realise thats probably why medical expenses are so big in America. In effect, these bankruptcies are just a tax on everyone else using US heath care in a very ineffecient manner
The prices are that high because they are allowed to be that high.
 

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Joe Rogan calls Australia a dystopian police state over a comedy skit


For reference, The Gruen Transfer is a long running show that critiques advertising in general. Weekly they mock up ads on a particular theme for comedic effects. It's a very insightful show.

Anyway, all I can say is: if this is what dystopian is, then I don't need utopia
 

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Impeachment was the golden chance. Twice. Or just oust him from the party completely. For a more informal punishment the Republicans can state that Trump doesn't represent any of them and that they want nothing to do with him. And when McConnell ''condemned'' Trump he did so in the context of the impeachment.

And no. When a president commits a crime they very much aren't subject to criminal prosecution. That's kind of the big weakness in the American system. Impeachment is a political rather than a judicial process which was how Trump escaped the consequences of his actions.
He wasn't president anymore for the second impeachment. The first impeachment was complete bs.
Stop right there. The degree of medical support for at least a third of the population (nearly all poor, but fuck them, eh?) was comprehensively inadequate. It was not in a meaningful sense socialised healthcare, it was "we picked a few people to save from the worst shit" that came nowhere near close to what I would envisage as socially just; the principle not being that people have a right to health to make the best of themselves, but that they need to be lucky and successful enough to merit health.
You don't need to be lucky or successful have healthcare in the US. You are less likely to be denied here care than most places with socialized medicine. You just might have a bill at the end, of which there are tons of programs to help you manage.
You mean remarkably ineffective means that are indistinguishable from neglect. The USA has just about the lowest social mobility in the Western world for a reason.
First, it doesn't, you're just wrong, unless you are defining "Western world" is a completely bizarre way so as to exclude half of Europe and all of the rest of the Americas.

Second, social mobility is a relative measure, that says nothing about the individual's ability to improve their life, only shows changes relative to others. The ability for well off people to lose everything contributes equally to social mobility as people gaining wealth at the bottom.
The fact that you're resorting to this sort of sophistry is de facto admitting that you don't have a case here.

Let's put it this way: reality is the final arbiter. So if you're defining conservatives in a way that doesn't relate to the actuality of what everyone understands as conservatism, that's your problem more than everyone else's.
It's not resorting to anything. It's the truth, and you know it. It's genuinely ridiculous that the position calling for change is considered conservative, and the position defending the status quo inherited from centuries old English common law is considered progressive. If my options are to either use words differently than other people or use them in ways that make no sense at all, I'm gonna be different. But even more, my usage, that you consider unrelated to other people's usage, is the original usage. The pro-life movement in America literally came about during the Progressive Era, alongside similar progressive movements like Prohibition. That the idea of progress has been coopted to mean exclusively hedonism is a shame.
 

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He wasn't president anymore for the second impeachment. The first impeachment was complete bs.
But the impeachment was about what he had done as president. And it really wasn't. Unless we have to assume that either Trump didn't realize that Biden was his political opponent and that him canceling aid Ukraine needed to survive moments before making the call was a very quirky coincidence. And ultimately even the cronies who refused to impeach him admitted the accusations against Trump were true.
 
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An oldie, but a goodie. (Wtf, a couple of months feels like eons ago.Time has slown to a glacial drip brushing against a precipice of suspended animation)




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Awww, I liked Jim on Person of Interest.
Yeah, that's the consensus from most that know of his work I see despite not having seen the show...the passion of the Christ seems to really only appeal to a subset of kinky christians. It does sound somewhat interesting, but having already heard of Jim's shenanigans on set, it feels a bit more difficult to go in without thinking of how much effort went into editing out his baffling behaviour. In case reference is desired...


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Travis Touchdown, the Crownless King.

Ahhhhhhh, wow, I definitely played the game on Wii but have no memory of anything that happened there lol!
 
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, wow, I definitely played the game on Wii but have no memory of anything that happened there
I don't remember if you have a Switch or not, but all the No More Heroes games are available on that console. Plus, the first and second game are getting ported to PC. So you at least have some options to play them, if you wish.
 
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An oldie, but a goodie. (Wtf, a couple of months feels like eons ago.Time has slown to a glacial drip brushing against a precipice of suspended animation)




Further unrelenting insanity, apologies






I see a whole bunch of religious figures that need their tax exempt status stripped. Also am I missing something or did Shane Vaughn claim that America was founded by Jews? That's...not usually where these folks go.
 

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I see a whole bunch of religious figures that need their tax exempt status stripped. Also am I missing something or did Shane Vaughn claim that America was founded by Jews? That's...not usually where these folks go.
They draw a thick line between "Israelites" and "Jews". Mostly because they see Israel's expansion as a requirement for the Rapture (which, of course, isn't actually in the Bible).
 

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I don't remember if you have a or not, but all the No More Heroes games are available on that console. Plus, the first and second game are getting ported to PC. So you at least have some options to play them, if you wish.
You, umm, slightly left out what console you were referring to. For anyone reading, it's the Switch. All NMH titles are available on it, including the original 2, Travis Strikes Again and NMH3.
 

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You, umm, slightly left out what console you were referring to. For anyone reading, it's the Switch. All NMH titles are available on it, including the original 2, Travis Strikes Again and NMH3.
I don't know what is up with my phone. I clearly typed "switch" in at the time and for some reason it decided to delete it. I just fixed it.