General News Thread

[2Bad]

It's probably going to be Macron.

[Elthanes]

enemy of all humans

Dehumanising the political enemy. Nice. Haven't seen that before

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It's probably going to be Macron.

Depends on whether Fillon stabilises or not

[RoydGolden]

I don't, shame that Republicans created a climate where there is no other option because they are, down to the last individual voter, vile, terrible people.

That's hell you're walking into.

I'm aware that the original article was referring (very accurately and pointedly) to Evangelical Christianity, but I feel the same basic point more-or-less applies here.

[2Bad]

Dehumanising

Republicans don't believe in climate change, it's a statement of fact that they thus threaten the species.

[Mcjon01]

I don't, shame that Republicans created a climate where there is no other option because they are, down to the last individual voter, vile, terrible people.

My dad's not evil, he just got brainwashed by Reaganomics back in the eighties and now he thinks the solution to every single economic, social, and environmental problem is tax cuts and deregulation. It's a little sad, really.

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How he can have that position, while simultaneously marveling at how much cleaner the air in Los Angeles is now than in his childhood every time I go to visit him, I don't know.

[asterism42]

It's probably going to be Macron.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39058386

[Spinach]

I don't, shame that Republicans created a climate where there is no other option because they are, down to the last individual voter, vile, terrible people.

It's completely fair because whatever supposed principles they have, they apparently aren't enough to support human rights or the planet itself. You either vote Democrat, or you're okay with the Republicans setting everything on fire.

The person who says "my conscience is clear, I didn't vote Trump!" then turns around to support Cruz again in 2018 is as much an enemy of all humans as the Trumpet.

We do have people here who voted Trump, posts like these may as well be (and are, honestly) personally calling them out by name. You get told not to do this so frequently, it's completely out of hand and far from kosher. It was only a few days ago that I3uster not only warned you about obviously antagonizing statements, but also that you're on thin ice.

You called a SA dude Russian names for some funny paid troll jokes so you're not exactly deescalating.

You haven't flamed him but you know you're on thin ice so why keep doing this?

Generally we cut some slack for ribbing if its in good sport which is fine but you're evidently just trying to antagonize another. I'm not even singling you out here because As needs to watch what he's saying too, but contrary to you he's not been repeatedly warned for overstepping the boundary.

I'm acting in your best interest if I tell you to stop doing this informally, but you can also just go down the path of trying to test the limits of what you can do and get banned.

Even if you're not outright explicitly flaming people, you can't just say whatever you want about whoever you want. These are attacks on the character of other users, and you've been repeatedly told to not go into insult territory, yet here you are, doing exactly that. It's hard to think of a reason NOT to give you a warning here. I'm giving you a two day temp and a public warning. Try to reevaluate your posting while you're on this short break, and remember that when you come back you're effectively on the last step from a permanently red name.

And for the record, henceforth if anyone's obviously baiting by arguing in this thread just to try and goad that ban, I'm going to temp them as well.

That means you, Bloble.

[Leftovers]

Which reminds me.

The ideal human being is fit, fucks a lot, brings home food, puts a roof over people's heads, makes a ton of kids, raises those kids grow up with their heads on straight so they can do everything the ideal human did but better, and makes sure those kids have kids themselves. The vast majority of people strive to be at least some approximation of that ideal, with minor variations between them.

But of course in every population, there are those failures who don't approach that ideal and don't manage to pass on their seed. Perhaps they weren't raised right, or suffer from a low sex drive, or have a number of other flaws and shortcomings that lower overall fitness and ensure they die alone.

A magnificent shitpost, but even with tongue firmly stuck in cheek, labelling non-heterosexuals as biological aberrations will net you a nice Public Warning.

[asterism42]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-39049670

Man commits suicide to avoid being deported

[SeiKeo]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/s...imes&smtyp=cur

Anyway, I know people have already seen this, but Trump's NASA is doing great work.

[Neir]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/s...imes&smtyp=cur

Anyway, I know people have already seen this, but Trump's NASA is doing great work.

you mean the agency trump hasn't gotten around to dismantling yet because space is a Chinese hoax?

[Mcjon01]

He stopped them from monitoring the earth so they could focus their resources on finding new earth-like environments to destroy.

[Neir]

He stopped them from monitoring the earth so they could focus their resources on finding new earth-like environments to destroy.

okay that's a good one, 8/10

[mAc Chaos]

My dad's not evil, he just got brainwashed by Reaganomics back in the eighties and now he thinks the solution to every single economic, social, and environmental problem is tax cuts and deregulation. It's a little sad, really.

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How he can have that position, while simultaneously marveling at how much cleaner the air in Los Angeles is now than in his childhood every time I go to visit him, I don't know.

It was worse? My friends who live in LA already tell me that the air is supposed to be terrible.

[Mcjon01]

It's not super great still just by virtue of being a giant-ass city, but apparently when he was growing up you couldn't even see the mountains in the distance on a clear day, the view would just sort of fade into a blank grayish haze.

[mAc Chaos]

It's still like that though lol

when i went anyway

[Mcjon01]

On bad days, sure.

Basically, the bad days now were the very best days back then. And on the bad days back then you couldn't even see building across the street. It's gotten a lot better over the last fifty years, and a big part of that was evil government regulations.

[Megas]

I still remember going there 11 years ago and wondering why there was a dome of smog over the entire city.

[Mattias]

At least it's not Beijing. Yet.

[just Beamu]

Give environmental deregulations a good 4 years, I'm sure they can get there if they try