The Politics Megathread

[BestBoy]

200 years is still kinda long. I was reading about modular nuclear reactors several weeks back. Seems like a cool idea.

 

[CyanHide]

@M0NST3R I don’t drink, so I’m not sure, but I think that’s true

Also, I love how I agree with two viewpoints on the immigration issue in that poll. While I am an immigrant myself and do think foreigners should be able to enter and live in the country via legal means, I do also believe that a massive surge of immigrants is bad for many reasons

I will forever never truly understand my political stance

 

[immortalartisan]

@2SpiritCherokeePrincess I’m gonna empathize this thanks to new technology and fuel recycling we can now a days use nearly all viable fission mataril and nuclear waste can be safely disposed of and safely stored unlike the carbon from coal and oil plants. I’m going to empathize this how dangerous nuclear power is directly related to how much money is spreant on nuclear power and if you choose newer and much more safe style of nuclear plants.

 

[Tamerlane]

SOCIALISM BAD! proclaim people who love the police, firefighters, military, driving on roads & various other benefits they may not be aware of.

Socialism is NOT social programs. That’s a common misconception.

No matter how much social programs you have or state-funded/subsidized, if you still operate on a market economy in which the workers do not own the means of production, then you’re still in a capitalist system.

Not to mention that there’s a world of difference between making sure that certain things that are needed by everyone for society to benefit like Police or the Military in order for society to function and making EVERYTHING run by the government

I can’t imagine anyone who has ever visited a DMV would want ALL OF SOCIETY to run that way

It reminds me of someone I met while seeking employment years ago (true story):

Nice decade old meme format there.

It would not surprise me if 2spirit is actually 37 and wants to seem “hip with the kids.”

 

[M0NST3R]

@BestBoy You are right, 200 years is still a long time, but that's a lot more manageable than 10,000 so I am really excited about that development. The key question that I haven't dug into is how much and what type of radiation the 200 year waste puts off.

 

[EzWeeb]

@CyanHide Dems absolutely love flooding the country with immigrants, Juan couldn't give less of a shit about American culture so he's just going to vote for the party that gives him more benefits. Fucking neocuckservitives saying shit like "I'm fine with immigration as long as it's legal!" Like your culture is being washed away with a tide of immigrants and you're advocating for it without even realizing.

 

[wowfucktron]

@ezweeb
You can’t vote against immigration anymore if you’re a Senator. It gets you labeled the big bad scary R word, especially if your a white male Republican senator. Big business will also bribe you to keep importing cheap labor for big business.

When your populace isn’t reproducing due to a shit economy, you need to import poor people who are going to reproduce regardless of “proper economic timing.”

Americans are too stuck up to do manual labor, even when all of the decently paying desk jobs are disappearing due to automation and AI. Young Americans are also garbage when it comes to their own money nowadays

A lot of this stems from young adults not realizing that you aren’t supposed to be wealthy at a young age and keeping up with all the new toys and gadgets is a terrible way to plan your wealth.

Here’s an example:
Kevin from San Francisco, California won’t fix a toilet unless he gets all sorts of unrealistic demands. Kevin will continue to waste his life believing he needs a college degree. He’ll take on massive debt and chose a degree with zero employment opportunities. Kevin will then blow his $15/hr paycheck earned at Walmart on games, drugs and service apps. He will then go on Reddit and Twitter and complain about not having enough money and how this is all capitalism’s fault.
Kevin fails to see who caused all of his problems.

Juan from San José, Costs Rica will happily fix your toilet for $10 an hour simply because it’s more than he’d make back home. Juan won’t waste his money on stupid shit because he’s used to eating “low quality” food. Juan knows he can’t afford certain things with how much he’s earning. He knows all of his stupid decisions are his own fault and no one else’s.
Juan knows hard work doesn’t always pay off, Juan knows things could be so much worse, Juan knows money isn’t a toy and chasing useless highs is pointless.

Be like my totally Rich Homie, Juan.

 

[EzWeeb]

@wowfucktron America's culture has been fucked, reamed and creamed so hard it's made Metamorphosis look like a slice of life romance. How the fuck did we get here.

 

[Halo]

America's culture has been fucked, reamed and creamed so hard it's made Metamorphosis look like a slice of life romance

True.

Fellow Caucasians and Africans, it's time for us to gtfu.

 

[EzWeeb]

@Halo that picture reminds me a bit of Friberg's paintings.

 

[wowfucktron]

@ezweeb

How the fuck did we get here.

The average American's standard of living being too high and completely unsustainable.

 

[M0NST3R]

The average American's standard of living being too high and completely unsustainable.

This upsets me but I can't bring myself to disagree with it.

 

[Tamerlane]

@Halo

Don't give 2SpiritCherokeePrincess ideas. or she'll start enslaving black people again and trying to genocide the White Man.

 

[wowfucktron]

@tamerlane
brb off to molest Queen Elizabeth. The Marley Tribe needs to be stopped.

 

[Halo]

or she'll start enslaving black people again and trying to genocide the White Man.

Nice association fallacy, Timur.

 

[wowfucktron]

@halo

NOOOOOOO!!!! You don't understand, @halo. It's bad when they do it, but its good when we do it.

In all seriousness, I assume he was memeing.

 

[immortalartisan]

@wowfucktron there’s a small problem. We’ve already automated manual labor all that’s left is desk jobs which are also being automated. If a job isn’t enough for a stable and none subsistence existence it shouldn’t be a job. Creatives are directly proportional to the number of nonmcreatives due to its popularity based pay so we can’t all just become artists. Capitalism is starting to be out paced by tech we’re reaching the point out technology can’t be used with our current culture. Also what bloody American culture? It’s not called the nation of immigrants for nothing.

 

[Halo]

@wowfucktron I desire more immaculate memes from our paragon of logic.

 

[wowfucktron]

@immortalartisan
There are some jobs you can't automate.
Therapists, Nurses, Engineers, Automaton Techs, Teachers, and Caretakers to name a few.

The problem is that there won't be enough jobs to keep everyone employed and not everyone has the disposition for the people skills jobs. Thats where a lot of the "fear" or concern comes from. There's also the problem of "Oh shit, you need to dish out some serious cash to get a degree for most of these jobs AND to get licensed by the state."

Also what bloody American culture?

'murican culture is all about not being a whiny bitch and telling your gubmint to get bent.

@halo
Humor is subjective..blah blah blah.
The most logical and pragmatic of people are usually the least funny, ex. Germans.

 

[immortalartisan]

@wowfucktron did you even read what I wrote? Also those can also be automated in time maybe not this decade but the next. I’m saying the same thing we can’t as a society automate to this degree and not switch over to a system where one doesn’t need to work.

murican culture is all about not being a whiny bitch and telling your gubmint to get bent.

I have a perfect model for that it’s called a colony sim called rim world. Everyone doesn’t follow any government and everyone either become a hat or a harden veteran able to kill 20 people.