Board 8 > Politics Containment Topic 127: Jay Cullen and Berke Bates

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Eternal youth isn't the same as immortality.
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Mortality rates in developed countries are probably only like 1% due to violent causes.

And the technology that can grant us eternal youth can also fix most of the hereditary diseases like cancer.
So population growth is a concern. But I think it puts the cart before the horse because people die of old age every day. While it sounds obvious or silly to be concerned by that, it's really no less "natural" and ok than any other reason to die.
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MenuWars posted...

Ugly's also exactly right, see it's easy to look at it as black and white, nazis are bad, get rid of the nazis, but how do you know someone's a nazi and a bad person, just because they showed up to something you disagree with that's associated?

The "and a bad person" part is irrelevant. Don't use violence on people for being shitty. Use violence on them if they are Nazis.

And I kinda feel like we've been through this. If you are unsure that they're a Nazi, or if they aren't broadcasting their Nazi views publicly, you shouldn't attack them. If they are waving the Nazi flag and spouting off about the Jews in public, now you're officially a Nazi.
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pjbasis posted...

So what does the politics people think about humans acquiring eternal youth?

This is actually an important topic now with the ability to change our DNA at will coming in the near future.

All for it. I'll do it.

It's weird, I've accepted that death could come at any second and am at peace with it, but I also just want to see how it all plays out.

I want to live forever just out of curiosity. If you promised me a week on God's Wikipedia after I die but before my existence ceases, then I wouldn't care about living forever.
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eternal life sounds terrifying to me. i'd like to live for 1000 years or so, though.
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Eternal life as a corporeal being is a nightmare. That said, if I could be a consciousness that observes the universe as it plays out, I would sign up in an instant simply because it would eventually sate my curiosity as to what actually happens at the end of time.
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I'd just settle for a pill that gives me motivation and confidence.
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News for June 2017:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11nN5YaUP04RvVV3bVMlqzBWzn-M1z5m9YI14in01eP8/edit?usp=drivesdk

Fun to see all the disrespect given to Democrats before they shut Republicans out in July over health care with Politico headlines like "White House orders agencies to ignore Democrats? oversight requests" and campaign emails like "Democrats have absolutely NOTHING to offer our country."

Also, governors agree to the Paris Agreement when Donald won't, Scalise is shot and there's conflicting information on whether Donald visited him in the hospital, attempts are made to weaken Russian sanctions, six people resign from the HIV/AIDS council, 198,000,000 voters have their information exposed to the public while a little later the voter roll data from all fifty states is requested, Jeff Sessions continues being called out with how many times he met Russians, Kansas needs more Mexicans, we see proof of huge declines in US confidence, and the month ends with the Bleeding Brzezinski drama.

As always, please tell me what I missed.
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"Hey HaRRicH, how can I see all the news you kept of Donald Trump as President in the first half of 2017?"


January: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G2lYbMxUiHjaKHGiuY4f8wVgS1xnbrCLLRT-sivSJcQ/edit?usp=drivesdk

February: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kAJk_nx0sPczIqZiOCQUaI4TmSgJ0v9Z_OsOjAAiPIk/edit?usp=drivesdk

March: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T-5TVfVEt-0iGtkNn5uSo_oU_zl-weDzLyFvMRZV4uo/edit?usp=drivesdk

April: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FfxV1aaR9aGjPSgfjIxVNlvGm5ExUMSJkVkLS5EZ79w/edit?usp=drivesdk

May: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10AIUL63p_B0LmIstRrpcb_75giS6IKJutxHQzZTW5Yk/edit?usp=drivesdk

June: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11nN5YaUP04RvVV3bVMlqzBWzn-M1z5m9YI14in01eP8/edit?usp=drivesdk
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I think it's pretty cool that you're doing all of this.
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Thank you! Saving the links is easy, but catching up on the formatting takes me days here lately and I'm still about seven weeks behind. It's nice in a way so I stay reminded of recent history that feels so old but really wasn't that long ago.


For example, this came out this time last month:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/team-trump-used-obamacare-money-to-run-ads-against-it

That feels like FOREVER AGO though, even though spending Obamacare money for attack ads against Obamacare is a big deal.
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Oh god I went and looked at some Ben Garrison comics to see if he did anything during these past few weeks post-Obamacare repeal failure.

I did not want to see Steve Bannon as a fucking Kraken.
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TheRock1525 posted...

Oh god I went and looked at some Ben Garrison comics to see if he did anything during these past few weeks post-Obamacare repeal failure.

I did not want to see Steve Bannon as a fucking Kraken.

Well now I do
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Can we go back to witty topic titles and not super creepy and uncomfortable in memoria please
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Dark Young Link posted...

I think it's pretty deranged that you're doing all of this.

FTFY
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"I demand a formal apology."
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Can we go back to witty topic titles and not super creepy and uncomfortable in memoria please

I'm sorry that your "conservative agenda" that you care so deeply about is pushed by people who thrive off killing innocent people.
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I'm actually with seph on this one though.
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Reg posted...

Nelson_Mandela posted...

Can we go back to witty topic titles and not super creepy and uncomfortable in memoria please

I'm sorry that your "conservative agenda" that you care so deeply about is pushed by people who thrive off killing innocent people.

me too
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not sure what's so creepy and uncomfortable about the topic title? yeah, next one should be something different, but having this one for one topic is fine.
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yeah, jokes are better than names of random people we don't know
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I'd rather have the uncomfortable memorials because you're supposed to be uncomfortable with people getting killed by nazi terrorists.
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Dark Young Link posted...

I think it's pretty deranged that you're doing all of this.

FTFY

I wouldn't spoiler insults. >_>
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

not sure what's so creepy and uncomfortable about the topic title? yeah, next one should be something different, but having this one for one topic is fine.

It's creepy because that was the third "dedication" topic for a tragic event, and this is a video game contest message board generally populated by very funny and smart (albeit insane) people.
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BowserCuffs posted...

I'd rather have the uncomfortable memorials because you're supposed to be uncomfortable with people getting killed by nazi terrorists.

And a video game contest board is meant to be an escape from that shit. Even in this dumb topic.
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it was the first one for these people in particular, though.

maybe we were overdoing it a bit with these topic titles but maybe not, given how much we're still talking about charlottesville.
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

it was the first one for these people in particular, though.

maybe we were overdoing it a bit with these topic titles but maybe not, given how much we're still talking about charlottesville.

It sets a weird, dumb precedent
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

And a video game contest board is meant to be an escape from that shit. Even in this dumb topic.

lol wtf is this? if these topics are supposed to be escapism from terrible shit we might as well stop doing them.
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Not sure why I am getting worked up about this. I thought the first Heather one was sweet, because Jakyl linked to a gofundme. Now it just seems like the TCs are patting their backs for being good, emotional guys.
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Not sure why I am getting worked up about this. I thought the first Heather one was sweet, because Jakyl linked to a gofundme. Now it just seems like the TCs are patting their backs for being good, emotional guys.

it's not TCs plural, I'm pretty sure it was Inviso every time after the first.
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I mean in fairness Seph? Here's some of the topics on the front page right now(Excluding this one).


A Game of Thrones discussion topic.
A Wrestling topic.
A topic discussing the morality of punching a Nazi vs being a Nazi
A topic about Big Brother/Survivor
A topic about Major League Baseball
A topic about Jerry Lewis being dead (RIP)
A topic for people to talk about their depression
and a bunch of meme topics alongside with topics about actual video games.

This is more a social board than a video game board.
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I also vote for a return to puns
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That said returning to jokes should be fine. The whole mess in Charlottesville has ended(right?), and we've already done a memorial topic on the people who died.
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i mean, there's a reason we decided to (mostly) contain all the politics discussion in one topic. this board is supposed to be a place where you don't get bombarded with real life political shit.

it kind of defeats the purpose when we can't talk about real life political shit in this topic though >_>
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we're not talking about the in of the topic

we're talking about the face of the topic
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FFDragon posted...

we're not talking about the in of the topic

we're talking about the face of the topic

bingo
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sephy said "in this dumb topic."
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One for Heather with the crowd funding site was great. The insistence of a second topic was nice given the moment. Three topics was too much. This topic afterward for the officers is nice. I won't want a topic title for every victim ever, but a well-meaning one here and there is okay.

Beats the likes of Purple Sock anyway (hey Machete!).
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We already had a return to puns.

I just didn't get to make this topic.
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FFDragon posted...

we're not talking about the in of the topic

we're talking about the face of the topic

There are other topic titles that make me uncomfortable on this board.

I just go "bleh" and then move on.
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I think we can move on from memoriums, but not for Seph's dumbass reasoning.

A) This is not a video game message board, and none of the other topic titles fell in line with that either.

B) We are not here to cater to his supposed escapism. This is a politics topic, literally nothing on this board should be more anti-escapism.

That being said, I'm probably going to unplug from politics for awhile, myself, because the stress isn't helping me.

This also means unplugging from other social media, too.
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Sometimes unplugging is for the best. God knows I've needed to at times.
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can't wait till we hit 500 so we can stop this dumb argument over topic names

holy shit
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It's escapism for Seph until he thinks McConnell or Gorsuch are about to get a sweet victory.
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Just a few more...
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Also...
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Still waiting on that Neo-Nazi explanation, Wang.
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It ends.
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