US 2024 Presidential Election

Agema

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If it really is a gift to Libertarians, it makes sense. Behind all that "freedom, small state, no red tape" rhetoric were always quite a number of people who mostly had issues with particular restrictions like e.g. age of consent. It is not a majority but it is enough that Libertarian projects and communities get into related scandals or internal quarrels about it time and time again.
The thing about libertarians is that they are not just individualists, they overwhelmingly tend to be egoists. This means they can be extraordinarily fuzzy on problems that restrict and harm other people. So, child porn might at some moral level be bad, but at a practical level if it's not making their personal life worse, then shrugs all round.
 

Casual Shinji

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I wish I could turn off the doomscrolling part of my brain. It's only been 2 days and I'm already utterly fucking exhausted.

I may have to banish every political youtube channel on my home page, otherwise I'm going to have a fucking heart attack within 6 months.
 

Dirty Hipsters

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I'm not convinced Hitler's saluting in that video, either: it could be a "cut" gesture, but it lacks the context and words to clearly identify what it is.
Or the podium just gets in the way of the straight arm, both for Musk and Hitler.

Once he turned around and saluted the flag he did so with his arm out straight:

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But no, please keep telling me that isn't a clear Nazi salute.
 

XsjadoBlayde

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I wish I could turn off the doomscrolling part of my brain. It's only been 2 days and I'm already utterly fucking exhausted.

I may have to banish every political youtube channel on my home page, otherwise I'm going to have a fucking heart attack within 6 months.
Understandable, had to do that over election period. There's a lot of entertainment out there to get lost in at least, it's just finding what combinations of escapism works best with your tastes. Also trip hop lol.
 

Casual Shinji

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Apparently Michael Bloomberg is covering (or partly covering) the States contribution to the Paris Agreement now that Trump pulled out. All billionaires can continue to fuck off, but I'll take what little good I can right now.
 
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Does it really matter?
It has zero chance of going anywhere. It is however a useful way to find out which third-rate plodder wants some attention from their orange daddy.
Got to admire their foresight though. The proposed wording would prevent Obama from running again, but not Trump.
 
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Cicada 5

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There is no such thing as the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1965, the thing they are worried about being struck is a Lyndon Johnson executive order, and every bit of that poison that gets removed from our society is a victory.
And how, pray tell, is this a victory?
 

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Cuz the dude's a christian nationalist, so everything that strips rights away from minorities and women is a victory to him.
He seems to just hate LBJ in general. One can easily justify such a stance due to his many, many, many moral failings, but since tstorm supports Trump it’s clear moral failings aren’t exactly a dealbreaker for him. Thus one is tempted to assume its his civil right record that sours tstorm so much on him.