How does the World view America these days?

matt walsh draws his battle plans to win (back?) the cultural war. entire video is amazing but i queued it up where he begins talking strategy (knowledge of the art of war not required)

  On 4/8/2023 at 12:42 AM, prdctvsm said:

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cool. just like china. 

  On 3/30/2023 at 5:09 PM, ignatius said:

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seen here: man with no right arm insists on right to bear arms

Nah those types of people have always/will always exist.  We are just more privy to their stupidity cuz they're prob orders of magnitude more likely to post their stupidity on stupid social media.

Republicans are boycotting Budweiser beer. Hell has officially frozen over.

  On 4/8/2023 at 12:55 PM, randomsummer said:

Nah those types of people have always/will always exist.  We are just more privy to their stupidity cuz they're prob orders of magnitude more likely to post their stupidity on stupid social media.

You're right. Social media has given everyone and their uncle - and dumb celebrities - a voice.

By the way, has TikTok been banned in the US yet?

  On 4/8/2023 at 2:34 PM, Squee said:

By the way, has TikTok been banned in the US yet?

No, unfortunately.

  On 4/8/2023 at 2:34 PM, Squee said:

You're right. Social media has given everyone and their uncle - and dumb celebrities - a voice.

  On 4/8/2023 at 12:42 AM, prdctvsm said:

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I just read this as "77% of young Americans who are obese, mentally ill, on drugs, and have more problems, are about to join the military"

  On 4/9/2023 at 5:55 AM, Nebraska said:

 

 

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i'm positive clarence thomas has a porn hub account. he's been obsessed with porn forever.  stories of his porn addiction go way back. apparently, he'd come into work on mondays and talk about the porn he watched over the weekend and give reviews of specific scenes with descriptions.  and i think i've posted this many times.. but when he was younger, in his apartment, he had pinups everywhere and his coffee table was a stack of porno mags.. like 2ft high by 4ft wide. we know this because women who he somehow managed to talk into going on dates would see his apartment and be weirded the fuck out.  the anita hill hearings go into some of the comments he made that at the time seemed unreal and super weird but we know now were only the tip of the iceberg and he'd been making those weird comments to women in the office, wherever he worked, for years. 

  On 4/9/2023 at 9:04 AM, prdctvsm said:

 

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the entire west coast and many cities in america are like this. portland has this in a lot of places. it dominates the enws and political discussions since no one really has an answer for what to do because politicians are idiots, mostly. 

  On 4/9/2023 at 1:54 PM, ignatius said:

i'm positive clarence thomas has a porn hub account. he's been obsessed with porn forever.  stories of his porn addiction go way back. apparently, he'd come into work on mondays and talk about the porn he watched over the weekend and give reviews of specific scenes with descriptions.  and i think i've posted this many times.. but when he was younger, in his apartment, he had pinups everywhere and his coffee table was a stack of porno mags.. like 2ft high by 4ft wide. we know this because women who he somehow managed to talk into going on dates would see his apartment and be weirded the fuck out.  the anita hill hearings go into some of the comments he made that at the time seemed unreal and super weird but we know now were only the tip of the iceberg and he'd been making those weird comments to women in the office, wherever he worked, for years. 

the entire west coast and many cities in america are like this. portland has this in a lot of places. it dominates the enws and political discussions since no one really has an answer for what to do because politicians are idiots, mostly. 

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A friend lives in San Francisco, and it's just as bad there

Vacant Homes vs. Homelessness In the U.S. - United Way NCA

can't just open up the homes to the homeless, i guess? because of greed? i understand it's a much more complex problem than that, but the solution shouldn't be too far from that.

  On 4/9/2023 at 4:29 PM, auxien said:

can't just open up the himes to the homeless, i guess? because of greed? i understand it's a much more complex problem than that, but the solution shouldn't be too far from that.

Keeping vacant housing empty supports the artificial scarcity keeping housing prices as they are (high)

 same thing going on here in austraya )):: 

  On 4/9/2023 at 3:28 PM, Rubin Farr said:

A friend lives in San Francisco, and it's just as bad there

yeah.. been bad there for a long long time. portland became SF in some ways.. but SF had this shit going on for like 20 years. my friend left in the 90s because he got tired fo stepping over homeless people outside the front door to his place (tiny studio) every time i he went to the laundromat.  went there w/a GF a few times in the late 90s and my GF was traumatized when a teenager.. couldn't have been more than 14.. was so high and wobbled then threw up and fell over in the gutter right next to us when waiting for the bus. she was from a small Florida town so wasn't used to it even though we'd been living in san diego a while already.

  On 4/9/2023 at 5:10 PM, milkface said:

Keeping vacant housing empty supports the artificial scarcity keeping housing prices as they are (high)

true, but i'm not sure that's the main reason. i'm not a historian of this subject specifically nor in general, but my understanding was that until the 70s or so homeless persons weren't specifically looked down upon or 'corralled' in the ways they have been in the last 30-40 years in many cities. (speaking of America specifically, that's the only place i have a general sense of)

to me it seems clear that this a societal subjugation of a 'lower' class of persons. the middle class need people that it's okay to look down upon, and the homeless population's regularly shifting population.

idk i'm too drunk to speak intelligently on shit i ain't know about so stopping now

  On 4/9/2023 at 4:29 PM, auxien said:

can't just open up the homes to the homeless, i guess? because of greed? i understand it's a much more complex problem than that, but the solution shouldn't be too far from that.

By and large, the homeless you see are not homeless solely for lack of a home.  The overwhelming majority are homeless because of addiction, mental health issues, or both.  Give them a house without fixing the underlying issues, and it's likely that they'll lose the house and end up back on the street.

Some portion could probably make it off the street with sufficient social / medical programs and support, and perhaps family support.  Note that on average, the USA sucks ass at those things; ergo, this is what you get.  America is just ideologically ill-equipped to deal with the underlying causes of homelessness.

  On 4/10/2023 at 4:31 PM, randomsummer said:

By and large, the homeless you see are not homeless solely for lack of a home.  The overwhelming majority are homeless because of addiction, mental health issues, or both.  Give them a house without fixing the underlying issues, and it's likely that they'll lose the house and end up back on the street.

yeah....i just assume everyone reading here knows as much. 

  On 4/10/2023 at 4:31 PM, randomsummer said:

Some portion could probably make it off the street with sufficient social / medical programs and support, and perhaps family support.  Note that on average, the USA sucks ass at those things; ergo, this is what you get.  America is just ideologically ill-equipped to deal with the underlying causes of homelessness.

i would think with sufficient social and medical programs and family help, yeah, the vast majority of homeless could be brought out of that situation. it happens regularly as is, but obviously not enough. USA definitely sucks at this sort of stuff, i'm just kinda wondering out loud how much of that is new-ish, and with the purpose of class subjugation. since it's not always been like this, i would think some number of things have changed to cause it...maybe these changes were not malicious, but the continuation and growth of harmful policies are still evil. 

  On 4/10/2023 at 3:07 AM, auxien said:

to me it seems clear that this a societal subjugation of a 'lower' class of persons. the middle class need people that it's okay to look down upon, and the homeless population's regularly shifting population.

i was meaning to say '...the homeless population's regularly shifting people provides a perfect target for this, without the racism almost always associated with anti-immigration subjugation, which is more of the same'

"she blinds everybody with her super high beams, she's a squirrel squashing deer smacking driving machine" has been living rent free in my head for 25 years. still hear it when i see unnecessarily huge SUVs on the road