Politics Thread!

[F-ZeroOne]

According to Tangerine Nightmare, the only guardrail against A.I. is a "smart President".

Anyone know where we can get one of those then?

[SuperMappy]

According to Tangerine Nightmare, the only guardrail against A.I. is a "smart President".

Anyone know where we can get one of those then?

As long as we vote for people with one foot in the grave nothing will change.

[F-ZeroOne]

Prediction time - when he gets hammered in the mid-terms, Trump will blame it all on the Supreme Court not allowing him to screw with mail-in voting.

[Little stoned kiwi]

He'll throw a tantrum. Procedure will be manipulated, bent, and broken to slow any handover of power. I'm not sure how much it will matter unless the senate gets a 2/3 majority to override the president, who has the choice to sign or veto anything into law without it (afaik about the US system). He does everything through executive orders that are challenged through the legal system if they don't comply with law - often slowly when there isn't a quick decision in his favor.
The main issue will be budgeting as that's done through congress. If the Democrats have control of the house and/or senate there will be government shutdowns that the Democrats will be blamed for as things escalate to dangerous levels.

[KlaxonCow]

Basically, under NATO, there always was a security deal where America could station military bases in Greenland and gain America's military protection.

Denmark and Greenland exploited the fact that Trump is a moron, and re-heated the same deal they already had, presented it as a new deal, and he bought it.

Well played.

[F-ZeroOne]

Paging the ghost of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding (aka Baron Dowding of Bentley Priory, aka Gorings Nightmare):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxvgdl5npl86o

[SuperMappy]

I just voted early today in the general election, and for the very first time I voted Democratic for the House, Senate, and Attorney General. My family has always been conservative, but we were more of the reasonable, live-and-let-live kind of conservatives. We believe a woman has the right to choose, and we don't automatically hate someone because of their race, nationality, religion, or beliefs. Our basic attitude has always been, “It's your life; you do what you want, as long as you're not hurting anyone else.” I've also become increasingly opposed to tariffs because I believe they can raise costs for consumers. Recent events involving tariff refunds have reinforced that concern: eligible businesses have received billions of dollars in refunds for certain tariffs, while consumers generally don't receive those refunds directly.

The only thing we might be right of center on his being tougher on crime and punishment.

I'm looking forward to more impeachment hearings.

[F-ZeroOne]

Because the US is doing great at public executions just now:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmy0r96xygx6o

[skab]

I just voted early today in the general election, and for the very first time I voted Democratic for the House, Senate, and Attorney General. My family has always been conservative, but we were more of the reasonable, live-and-let-live kind of conservatives.

Well done! Nothing wrong with being a sensible conservative, but the Republicans aren't a conservative party anymore, and haven't been for a while now. That's one of the problems of FPTP, most of the times you end up with a two-party system, and all granularity is lost. Even worse, the loudest part of every party determines the direction of the whole party, and the GOP right now has a nasty, stupid and terribly loud subset. If you vote Republican just because you consider yourself a conservative and always voted Republican, you're not supporting a conservative agenda, you're just empowering a fascist regime.

[skab]

I just voted early today in the general election, and for the very first time I voted Democratic for the House, Senate, and Attorney General. My family has always been conservative, but we were more of the reasonable, live-and-let-live kind of conservatives.

Well done! Nothing wrong with being a sensible conservative, but the Republicans aren't a conservative party anymore, and haven't been for a while now. That's one of the problems of FPTP, most of the times you end up with a two-party system, and all granularity is lost. Even worse, the loudest part of every party determines the direction of the whole party, and the GOP right now has a nasty, stupid and terribly loud subset. If you vote Republican just because you consider yourself a conservative and always voted Republican, you're not supporting a conservative agenda, you're just empowering a fascist regime.

[SuperMappy]

[Little stoned kiwi]

The only thing funnier than politicians using anti-establishment sentiment to get into government, becoming the target of that anti-establishment sentiment, is when they succeed in eroding the establishment so the anti-establishment crowd blame the government for not doing enough for them.
Well, it would be funny if these anti-establishment idiots didn't cause so much widespread harm to others.

[F-ZeroOne]

I was going to joke about how Trumps new press secretary effectively called The Daily Mail WOKE NONSENSE! but I wasn't fast enough!:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck0j3z1q6pwgt

[KlaxonCow]

Certainly an exaggeration, at the very least. Maybe even complete bollocks.

But did Zelenskyy really temporarily fix the Internet by blowing up a Russian data centre? And is it true that MAGA, the AfD and other right-wing activity dropped off a cliff, because it's actually all coming from Russian bots?



Who knows? I certainly don't.

[Little stoned kiwi]

Certainly an exaggeration, at the very least. Maybe even complete bollocks.

Most likely.

Governments, corporations, political parties, and individuals across the entire spectrum are spreading misinformation and disinformation on such a large scale that a few data-centres being taken out wouldn't touch the sides of it.