General News Thread

[Bloble]

Hey Bloble if you voted as an illegal immigrant who would you vote for?

I'd spoil that ballot all night long, baby.

[Rafflesiac]

I thought Nerds were crunchy lumps of sugar best enjoyed on really long Twizzlers.

[2Bad]

I'd spoil that ballot all night long, baby.

By writing about non-existent refugee numbers on it?

[Neir]

I thought Nerds were crunchy lumps of sugar best enjoyed on really long Twizzlers.

twizzlers?

are you thinking of Nerds Ropes?

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By writing about non-existent refugee numbers on it?

tbf that's literally what the president of the US does

[Megas]

"Local man not participating in thread pops in to talk about how he thinks the thread is bad"

I mean, unless the new subject of the thread is Bloble's opinions on stuff then I don't really see a benefit to continuing the conversation.

[Seika]

Look, you're doing a radio programme in The Year of the Common Era 2017. You're a bloody nerd, mate.

[2Bad]

tbf that's literally what the president of the US does

And Bloble is in full support of him, but also his own PM whose policies are the opposite in every way. He's never been terribly clear on the reason for any of this.

Maybe, JUST MAYBE, because there isn't a good one.

[Mcjon01]

Look, you're doing a radio programme in The Year of the Common Era 2017. You're a bloody nerd, mate.

He's actually where our president gets his news.

[Neir]

i would support trudeau even if i disagreed with him

i mean have you seen that man DAMN

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He's actually where our president gets his news.

>implying he doesn't make shit up entirely

[Rafflesiac]

twizzlers?

are you thinking of Nerds Ropes?

Yes, but they're both sticky sweet red strings of sugar

[Laserman]

i would support trudeau even if i disagreed with him

i mean have you seen that man DAMN

Spoiler:

[2Bad]

if you look into his eyes you are almost lost in the sheer hatred of electoral reform

[2Bad]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/20/politi...ach/index.html

Trump mouthpiece takes stance that his resort visits make him accessible to "regular Americans"

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And of course on the note of stupid Trump women

[Megas]

And Bloble is in full support of him, but also his own PM whose policies are the opposite in every way. He's never been terribly clear on the reason for any of this.

Maybe, JUST MAYBE, because there isn't a good one.

I mean, I don't think Bloble's platform is anything secret, I think.

He doesn't like the established political players. Which isn't really evil, heck my brother thinks like this pretty often.

I just think a non-established player would need to actually surround himself by established players that aren't malevolent to actually draft legislation to enact the change he envisions.

This requires balancing your political capital and your connection to the everyman, which would be ridiculously difficult unless you have enough experience in enough different areas to be flexible.

The problem is that said experience usually would require that you either have studied policy or have a very good eye for the right people to help, in other words, Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau were/are anomalies and not the norm.

The second problem is that when you have a lot at stake (supreme court and impending doom in the form of a president literally propping himself up on a racist platform), you don't get the luxury of shitting the ballot as the other option literally means that the liberties people have could be rolled back. This isn't a "lol it couldn't happen, we're a modern society" as the US isn't that old and has come pretty close to tearing itself apart at a point in that short history over not wanting to give rights to some people.

Also, always choosing an outsider makes it very difficult for any presidential plans that take more than 8 years to be fully executed to be carried out.

[2Bad]

I mean, I don't think Bloble's platform is anything secret, I think.

Bloble's actual platform is that he doesn't have one beyond what the funny twitter eggs tell him he has. If he did have one, he could have expressed it properly in the numerous chances he was given to do something beyond post statistics that we then immediately proved false. He's pro-immigration! But he supports attacking immigrants. He loves refugees! He just opposes taking them in (and has no idea how many are taken in). He's very liberal! He just happens to think Americans are better off under Trump. He's safe (he thinks) behind his nice, safe, sane government and relishes the suffering our new government tries to inflict on us and also the rest of the planet.

You could call that an attack, I call it an entirely fair response to a guy who has been given ample opportunity to engage honestly and repeatedly, demonstrably refused to do so. He made some arguments, the logical flaws were called out, and he dismissed the arguments. It's fair to accuse him of, at best, trolling.

[Frostyvale]

http://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/sto...-varningsskott

Google translate this. Riot in Rinkeby.

Edit: I am incapable of reading.

[Mcjon01]

http://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/sto...-varningsskott

Google translate this. Riot in Stockholm.

Guess you're right, then, better kill all the refugees just to be safe.

[Frostyvale]

Guess you're right, then, better kill all the refugees just to be safe.

Who said anything about refugees? There's no identification in the article.

It might be Nazis.

[2Bad]

That'll teach you to assume things based on the blatantly obvious context in which they are expressed Mcjon

[Frostyvale]

• Rioting and plundering in Rinkeby, the police have fired warning shots
• The police who were supposed to apprehend the wanted men were exposed to stones being thrown at them and were forced to fire off warning shots.
• Multiple cars have ben set a flame, shops are being plundered. Police and fire department establish a breaking point.
• Hundreds of police are sent of to the migrant populated suburbs. "We will make sure that order is set back in place"

Lars Byström Stockholms police - "The event began at 20:18, where the police arrested a man by the train station in Rinkeby. Then a dozen people appear and start throwing rocks at the police. The police feel threatened and fire off a warning shot. A police gets hit in the arm by a rock and his condition is uncertain"

• The worries have continued throughout the night and are classed as violence against officials and violent rioting. At 21:50 the police announce that at least one car has started to burn.
• Pictures from the place show that multiple cars are engulfed in flames. Stockholm fire department don't want to answer questions regarding the extent of the fire.
• At 22:20 another violent riot arises when 30-40 people go to attack against the police including rock throwing. No one should've been harmed during the riot.
• A large police force of hundred men have been reported standing by in Rinkeby and are ready to respond to any events.

Well alright, so maybe it was migrants. Maaaaybe. It's still not for certain.

Migrants =/= refugees ok?