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Tl Dr.

Anyway it does make sense in the sense that this has happened several times before, virtually every time countries fall to an extreme right fascism, the liberal moderates do a pitiful job being a slight inconvenience to the people who would literally have them dead in a camp without even thinking about it twice, mostly because they themselves are too corrupt and stupid in a time of extreme income inequality.

People think history never goes backward, but that's not the case. The Fascists have literally already attempted a violent coup. They're going to do it again and again until they succeed, and at that point you had better get your LGBTQ friends to Canada.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/5/2/AAbsMXAADQlQ.png
Why do I have you tagged as dead to tick bite?

I won't be shamed out of it as a normie/whitey Mayo is top tier. This is anti-mayonnaise propaganda. A burger with american cheese, ketchup, bacon, ketchup and buns grilled with butter is as good as food gets. I'm tempted to poke fun at the food other races eat but I don't want anyone to take it too seriously.

Do I put it in everything? No, just my sushi, hamburgers, chicken/tuna/egg salad.

Muscles posted...

This topic made my laugh, I was at a bonfire tonight with coworkers who were mostly Hispanic and they were talking about how they like mayo on everything

Based and red-pilled hispanic coworkers you've got.

I'll be here till this board dies. Going down with the ship.

If people really dislike Biden they should be more specific so we can actually talk about it.

This gets the point across that someone doesn't don't like him.

Judgmenl posted...

The scariest people are those who act like they understand technology but don't actually work with technology (usually those on the business / management side of it).

Every startup in 2020

The smart contracts will allow us to pay for bitcoin insurance, which will bail us out when the army of bots constantly removing money from the system empty your bank account, just $100 every month, you can trust it will do exactly what it says it will do until the developer who left the back door in there takes out the liquidity pool.

There were people who caught it early on but those guys were FUD.

But look, I found this great new cryptocurrency, I am very bullish about this one.
https://stripe.com/docs

Their white paper includes;

• A flat 3.5% gas fee on every transaction (this helps the developers keep working on their services, much cheaper than most for the sheer traffic it can handle)
• They don't even have access to their own liquidity pool, which means they can't rug you! They don't even need to dox themselves because they are legally obliged to so what they say they are going to do.
• Their cryptocurrency has a constant rate of inflation that guarantees it stays in circulation, a built-in anti-whale measure. It loses 2% of its value every year!
• A cryptocurrency first, a stable coin tied to real-world applications that actually serve a purpose, the interest rates of loans!
• A green impact, almost 10,000 times more efficient than any other cryptocurrency!
• Has moved in a stable, predictable way since Richard Nixon was forced to mandate it back in 1968 to prevent the world economy from collapsing!
• Automatically interchangeable with any other crypto on the planet, the bridges and liquidity pools are global and have physical institutions bound by real laws!
• Nazis hate it, and used this system as an excuse to exterminate Jews, which ties perfectly into the ignorance of anti-social people who want to go back to using commodity money, currency based solely on what swing traders, who treat your bank account like a gambling game, feel like doing!

Can't wait to invest!

adjl posted...

Pretty much. Does crypto have the potential to take some control of the country's finances away from the big banks? Yes. Is it going to prevent money (and therefore power) from concentrating in the hands of a small number of people that are wealthy enough to manipulate the system into making them even wealthier? No. Money naturally concentrates, regardless of the nature of the currency. Shaking up the currency just changes which ultra-wealthy hands it ends up in, and really, there are very few meaningful differences between the sort of people that treat our economy like an idle game.

Worse yet, crypto just started off with a late-stage Capitalism built right into it by design. Because there's nothing else to it, it's just a grotesque display of everything wrong with the free-est of markets.

I am reminded of the fleeble game (or whatever it was called) where people in third world countries made money just by playing a game. Crazy that, why don't they just remove the game and stop wasting their time, then? Maybe they wouldn't be able to hide their "scholarship" scams if they did that.

IronBornCorps posted...

Decentralization is inevitable.

That's a terrifying thought. It's all just code for privatization. You think it matters who hosts it? It's all private money controlled by a handful of rich people with no laws or oversight.

*When a Conservative tries to attack fat people as a group because they mistake them for marginalized undesirables and then realizes most of the people in the country are fat*

https://www.google.com/search?q=jordan+peterson+quits+twitter

I mean yeah I think she's unattractive as well because she's fat but I keep it to myself and generally respect people who do find her attractive

You know it's weird Fox news, I thought I saw that there was a shooting from someone indoctrinated into some "great replacement theory", whatever that is. Oh wait, your boy Tucker made that one prevelant.

Can't remember the last shooting from someone who just wanted to be "the doom guy irl lol". If people like Doom that much, they tend to not want to die/go to jail and would rather just play it.

IronBornCorps posted...

I think the hyper capitalism argument is funny too, with a DAO and a global distributed wallet, we could easily accomplish a socialist Utopia. It so just happened to play out as venture capitalists saw the economic potential, and created their own ecosystem using the tech. Innovation has no political agenda.

Are you talking Safemoon, the coin we were all feverishly attached to, that was going to distribute 5% to all other holders while burning the other 5%, or any one of the endless farming tokens, which ended up "magically" decreasing in value at the exact same rate they returned APR?

Both of those completely tanked because
A) You simply can't just make money by doing nothing.
B) The developers got horny for the liquidity pool, they were morons who couldn't even code, they just copied and pasted everything they ever made, code made by developers who just wanted a quick buck
C) There was absolutely nothing to prevent the top 1% from owning 99.9% of all the money, because it's somehow even worse than real life in that regard. They then just wait for fresh blood to come in to take literally everyone else's money while we all get to pretend to look at the line going up. Why do you think every single crypto graph looks like the same exact thing? The first guys in are just waiting to cash out, every time.

And that third point is true for every single cryptocurrency, it's why every single one of them is a scam. We all only serve the purpose of being the idiot of being the one to have our money taken from the 3rd guy to buy bitcoin because they are all deflationary.

Also there's a suspicious correlation between the increasing amount of people smoking weed and conspiracy theorists... I'm not saying lock pot smokers up like we used to, but also if your friend is smoking every day that's really not helping. It's a confusing enough world when you're thinking at full capacity.

My friend recently had a mental breakdown and he claimed I brought him back, convinced him he needed help because I just sat down with him and let him explain the whole thing.

Can't say I'm an expert, but I was very focused on accepting and staying on their level while giving pushback on certain things, keeping it humorous, then they showed me the same courtesy. I was like 50/50 "yeah I guess that makes sense" and "I can prove that one's not true". Obviously I know I'm 100% right but if I present myself that way I'll get shut out for not understanding them.

I think by genuinely trying to understand they might relate to and understand your confusion, feeling some of the confusion that they themselves are missing vicariously, which can lead them to some realization that something's not right.

Anyway thank fucking god it's crashing, can you imagine the dystopia of a fully privatized economy? We were insane to think that would work. Fucking Elon Musk was an evil genius to try to promote it.

Yeah I'm on the boat with the crypto doomerism as well

They'd rather create mini-ponzis over and over again than a stable currency, they cling to economic models that are the equivalent of free energy machines, something cool could have been made but turns out 99% of people don't value their own integrity over the sweet ass of $100 million, and if they do their team members don't

I wish crypto people would get one absolute concrete fact through their fucking skulls, but it's too late now, because anyone reasonable now hates it... if a currency is any good, it's not going to exist to make you money! You are going to use it to enable other people to purchase a real product... that is not another currency! To let others hold value in countries where they couldn't otherwise.

But god damn did they make me respect how fiat currencies keep modern society afloat.

I could tell a lot of stories about crypto because I have found myself deep in the mess, being a paid crypto developer and all. Like the time I was going to work with someone to make an NFT, and the only input they had was "the holders will recieve a portion of the funds for every person that buys into it. You see, it's kind of shaped like a pyramid, the whole thing, but it's really a revolutionary new system, and it's beautiful." I haven't done anything evil like that, I have my lines I won't cross. But I've seen ways to steal and become rich and passed them up, because at the end of the day I'm an engineer and I really only care about making things that make sense, lest I just sit somewhere and starve to death.

Anyway, one of my good friends, while I was hard at work trying to make an NFT that wasn't a shit scam, literally just came up to me and told me he didn't want to put too much effort into it, and just wanted to copy and paste a PNG of someone elses NFT image, as well as someone else's code. I never talked to them again. It's all a shit scam. The only justice is that anyone involved will pay for an expensive education in how the world works when you listen to your billionaire overlords.

Revelation34 posted...

No.

Man of "women were created by god" or man of "reasonable", pick one.

This comic is implying that I have to pick one.

Lokarin posted...

Ice is water, and ice can be wet - therefor water can be wet

But liquids that aren't water can make ice wet. Also, H2O isn't the only "wet", any normal matter can generally be a liquid that can make something else wet.

So the scientific community agrees that water isn't wet, great. So the water is wet when it's halfway melted?

Think they only define it for its utility, and there's no utility to defining a liquid as wet, since it's always used to describe the surface of a solid.

The funniest part is that it actually made the term "birthing woman" seem reasonable.

TomNook posted...

How will you know who to vote for if you don't have an ad campaign funded by big corporations? Will you listen to the hundreds of thousands who try to be president? Alternatively, a self made rich person could afford to fund their own campaign and reach your attention.

In my perfect world we would do all voting through a website on specific issues and replace the need for a lot of politicians. So there would be a guy with 100 followers Vs 100,000 followers, that makes your choice easier.

There come complications with that but mainly yeah keeping trust fund kids from buying success is a huge challenge in all governments and it's rarely successful.

I think what helps is keeping the issues very specific. "Legalize weed" is going to sell more than "vote Joe Biden", obviously the same way with gun regulations. You can run a financed campaign against weed, but it makes it harder when you spread them out. Also, who knows if X politician will even do what you want and legalize weed? It's like a 50/50 shot.

Based muscles, though.

I Googled it and found a bunch of articles explaining how it's not a grounded conspiracy.

How am I supposed to believe that again? I have no idea the logistics of the food industry, how often things catch on fire regularly.

Right-wingers: Authoritarian left
Also right-wingers: You may not talk about homosexuality in schools or have abortions

Jesserae posted...

Except it doesn't have to be bread, you can make a pizza, a cinnamon scroll, pasta ect.
Over time it will have a heart, a brain, a soul, from the moment of conception it is going to be a human.
How can you say it's not a living thing? that's so fucking stupid it's actually unbelievable.

"Every sperm is sacred"

Dude you are dumber than a rock.

Jesus is canonically god, pretty sure he could blink and destroy the universe.

Boring answer for boring powers tbh, like asking of one punch man could beat x

ArmoredCore55 posted...

Still have no plan on getting the vaccine. I dont think its making that much of a difference, IMO.

So you don't pay attention to any statistics at all, ok... nice opinion

ParanoidObsessive posted...

But when all people do is make outraged topics about stuff on the Internet without doing anything more to actually follow through or live up to their convictions in any meaningful way, the world still goes off the rails, but the ride down just gets much more annoying for everyone else.

Being an Internet slacktivist who whines about political issues on a board where most people already agree with you just kind of borders on emotional masturbation. Sure, it makes you feel better, but what exactly have you accomplished?

That's ok, I like to follow up. And in all honesty, no offense, it sounds more like you just don't like the fact that people are talking about it because you vote Republican.

But I don't really have the time to join physical group meetups, not many people do, and last time I went to "debate" on Stormfront a nazi who looked like Santa doxxed me (very open-minded and logical people). If Potd agrees, good, they should, it actually helps prevents disingenuous people from spreading the idea to moderates that this is actually about the 10% of third-trimester abortions where the baby is ripped to itty bitty shreds in a very sad way and not just about controlling women and trying to keep them in their Christian culture where an organism with no nervous system is treated like a human being because "souls" and "God". Yeah, I think I can kind of help with that.

Guess I could go elsewhere, but eh, I have fun. :/ Here we talk about anything and that's pretty much why I come here. Say I start a YouTube channel, if I really wanted it to work out, I'd have to put a lot of time and research into making it because I wouldn't want to slip up and have to apologize. Leftist YouTube is really not as easy as it looks, I think in my current state a Nazi could throw a bogus statistic at me and just totally throw me off unless I literally spent all my time learning everything they talk about, which I can't do because I work 2 jobs, one of which is a software engineering job that literally attacks my brain. I would have to do a shitload of research. All Sargon has to do is skim headlines and rant.

Anyway if it wasn't for YouTube comment section arguments I would literally still be pro-life, thank fucking god for people who get their hands dirty. Now, those people flipped a vote. The guy who convinced me is not voting once, but 3 times. +1 from him, +1 for me not voting Republican, and +1 for me voting (Progressive Democrat and then Democrat as a fallback). Good on him. It was under a Family Guy video clip.

Judgmenl posted...

Oh look another moral panic thread.

Really though, if it wasn't for people being annoying and shining light on dismal topics then the world would just go off the rails. It's going to take a lot of talking to fix this mess. Yeah, convincing people on the internet a huge deal, because they go and talk to someone else. You think that is more or less effective than going outside and protesting?

Because they want to go after contraception next, and people should be ready to get really pissed off.

"Libel and inciting violence"

Let's see... every single thing he's said has been traced back to something made up on the internet, and the result of that was him sending an angry mob to the capitol and told them that Democracy was literally under attack, which is terrorism if done on purpose, and yeah if he did it a little better he could have just turned America Fascist right then and there.

He's probably the worst president we've ever had. So if he evades all legal consequences like always, then people think that something has to be done.

Greenfox111 posted...

I apologize, that was needlessly hostile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLWpTy5VkrU

Also fucking christ I'm sorry that image is so huge lmao.

Wait...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/7/AAbsMXAADNHT.jpg

Someone ITT blocked me and thought I wouldn't notice.

Honestly, I have been thinking of this and I do think there should be a dedicated group committed to identifying how dogma spreads and how to prevent it in a scientific analysis sort of way, which could then go and put forward open source industry standard recommendation algorithms to social media groups. That's more open than "the government does it", though.

My vision of that would basically entail "what amount of random content needs to be injected into social media recommendations to mathematically prevent echo chambers while allowing as much customer retention as possible". Tl Dr an anti-algorithm algorithm.

In case I wasn't clear I think the root of the problem is that social media algorithms create feedback loops and echo chambers that give rise to more reality-detached ideas because their main driving force is customer retention. They use machine learning to hone it to a point, they don't even know what it's doing. For all they know the AI could be intentionally radicalizing people.

Brittany looking good at 40

Waffle_Roffle posted...

Also, here it is for any doubting authoritarian loving liberals:

I'm a socialist. Only liberals would lap this shit up. But yes, I have heard about the charity-built structure set up in Africa being an issue.

Even then I don't remember liberals asking for a department of truth, not to abstain them of fault because there are definitely liberals who will accept this, this feels like a bipartisan DC brainworm idea much like the NSA.

And yes every politician in the government is currently playing a "who can be the most hated" game.

Now I want to know what people constitute as a "narrative and propaganda"

If it's anything to do with vaccines then really we all have you to blame.

Jen0125 posted...

The one I posted? I didn't get a pay wall issue and I don't have a sub.

Just Google it? You have the internet at your disposal.

Alright then I'm only asking anyone who feels like answering. Question still stands.

captpackrat posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XhxUT9vWCg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fh1CIupVXU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGfkPCZYfFw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xUEi7Sd9bE

I am actually just now discovering a lot of music from the 80s/90s that I really like because you posted this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSKrC7dGcY

What does it do? Your article is paywalled.

"It's ok to dislike popular things" support group

Dark Souls combat is ok but I also don't care for it. But for other people it's like crack apparently. Probably put 50 hours into souls games overall.

Sounds like Master of Puppets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7blkui3nQc

Both of the intros.

MICHALECOLE posted...

I think Id go to the old one

I'd go to the gay one to feed my ego

Plus, the other one might just be the old gay man beach.

That was a pretty tasteless joke, fair, next, see you in a week argo

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Sounds like you just need a better group. Or less shitty friends.

Yeah actually you're right they were really shitty friends and I did. That's a pretty nasty thing to say, but I say they're your words. What I like to do is obsess over a game of Civ for 18 hours, not play poker smoke weed and talk about... idk I think they talked about all the cool drugs they were doing a lot. I don't think any one of them had an attention span that could keep them engaged with any meaningful thought.

I mostly just play games with my brothers these days.

That kid was probably a pedophile, what a hypocrite.

DeSantis2024 posted...

Ive never played a full game of dungeons and dragons but have always wanted to. Maybe one day.

It's pretty boring unless you like the idea of sitting around with your friends doing nothing 95% of the time. In that case, you're probably just better off playing a video game you both like.

The group I played with took it very seriously (role-playing level) and it was so boring I fell asleep on them.

These days we have computers and everyone can move around at once.

Judgmenl posted...

Rent free lmao.
What a delusional take.

Not really, but we decided to move on instead of trying to storm the capitol. (That would have been pretty stupid, right?)

It probably inspired Trump when he saw it and thought "they're making all this shit up so should we".

I don't know who this guy parodying me is but ok, he just keeps saying reasonable things in a very... uh, interesting way lol. I'm sure in their head they think it's crazy talk.

If you think Jeff fucking Bezos is a communist working with Biden and AOC raise your hand