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Most of what looks like political disagreement is simply Democrats not understanding how the real world works.

They don’t understand bank loans or the difference between cash and physical assets. We learned that this month.

They don’t understand that money makes both news and science mostly fake.

They don’t understand how DEI is a supply problem not a demand problem.

They don’t understand how free speech works, or the point of it all.

They think the experts are telling the truth.

They don’t understand the degree to which their opinions are the result of intentional brainwashing.

They don’t understand that teachers unions have destroyed education and that school choice is the only viable solution.

They don’t understand the necessity of nuclear power.

They think the temperature of the planet can be accurately measured.

They think unlimited empathy for immigrants can work out well.

They think there are too many humans in the world, not too few.

They think the national debt is not a big issue.

They think releasing criminals from jail improves the lives of some communities.

They think removing guns from citizens does not create a risk of government abuse.

They think crimes not proven in court didn’t happen.

They think their kids are looking at Trump as a potential role model.

They think there is no big risk from TikTok compared to American-controlled social media.

They don’t know why half of their own kids are suddenly LGBTQ, against all odds.

I could go on. But it’s obvious why life experience turns liberals into conservatives.

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1770865762288152585

UkraineIsTotallyFucked says

I could go on. But it’s obvious why life experience turns liberals into conservatives.

^^^ @Patrick had one helluva those life experiences.

The phrase "A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by Reality" sure has LITERAL meaning for him.

I wasn't actually mugged. My first day in SF ever I just walked up Market Street and didn't know that it gets pretty sketchy going past the Tenderloin. A black fellow walked up to me in a not-friendly way and said "How bout some change, snowflake?" I just kept going. Similar things happened repeatedly over my years working in SF, but no one actually mugged me even though it seemed likely at times. Life in Chicago was like that too.

Once in Seattle a similar looking black guy pulled out a large knife in front of me, but he didn't say anything. Again I just kept walking and he didn't chase me, but it could have been rather bad.

Then there was the time I saw one black guy shooting at another one on the highway outside Detroit, in front of the car I was riding in. It was an interesting cross-cultural experience. The two guys in front were Pakistani, one of them a co-worker of mine. The Japanese wife of the other Paki was in the back with my wife and I. My wife and I knew to duck. The two Pakis were unfazed. One of them said "Small caliber weapon, not a problem." His Japanese wife asked if a bullet could go through a car window.

marcus says

Quigley says

I reallly really really don't get why the Jews are so fucking triggered by Trump

Could it be tendencies toward objectivity and above average intelligence ?

It's quite obvious to me at this point the more educated a person is, the more easily brainwashed they are. I think Jewish people tend to have a higher level of education, but that doesn't make them more intelligent. I saw much of my education as nothing more than "this will make them give up on this bullshit". I spent 1/2 semester learning to analyze an amplifier that had infinite output impedance - a circuit that was very fast as being a multiplier for a signal, but was so weak it couldn't drive anything (in theory - but not in reality, but couldn't drive much of anything). It was used for a short time on CRT televisions in the 1970's for the scan line, and nothing else.

Was that a good use of 8 weeks?

But I trusted my professors.

Disturbing your composure by asking for money or spare change IS a mugging, just mugging lite. Anything with intimidation, even virtue signaling or relying on appeal to compassion or empathy to manipulate, is a mugging. Force and physical threat is just an escalation.

Ceffer says

Disturbing your composure by asking for money or spare change IS a mugging, just mugging lite. Anything with intimidation, even virtue signaling or relying on appeal to compassion or empathy to manipulate, is a mugging. Force and physical threat is just an escalation.

I disagree, by your definition, begging is a mugging.

I have had several homeless people ask me for money, and instead of giving them money, I asked them what they wanted the money for, one guy said for food, so I took him to a restaurant and gave him a nice meal. He had a dog with him though, and I'm a sucker for dogs.

Most recent examples of mass TDS:

Anyone who backed the Scamdemic - "You're KILLING GRAMMA!!"
Anyone backing Ukraine money laundering scam/blames Russia instead of US government for US problems...
Anyone backing Israel Holocaust of Palestinians

The liberal obsession with Trump may have started this, but the above three examples have elevated TDS to a whole new level.

NuttBoxer says

Most recent examples of mass TDS:

Anyone who backed the Scamdemic - "You're KILLING GRAMMA!!"
Anyone backing Ukraine money laundering scam/blames Russia instead of US government for US problems...
Anyone backing Israel Holocaust of Palestinians

The liberal obsession with Trump may have started this, but the above three examples have elevated TDS to a whole new level.

The Ukraine/Russia situation and the middle east conflict are far more complex and nuanced than the scamdemic, toxxines or TDS where the facts are on one side. Not comparable imo

mell says

The Ukraine/Russia situation and the middle east conflict are far more complex and nuanced than the scamdemic, toxxines or TDS where the facts are on one side. Not comparable imo.

Actually, they are pretty simple:

When it comes to Ukraine Russia you are correct. But I'm not talking about the events, I'm talking about the observers who take false dichotomy positions in an attempt to paint everyone as either for or against them. These same people always believe themselves to be on the moral high road, despite justifying terrible atrocities against other humans, and callously turning a blind eye to them. And this radicalized position constantly causes them to be in conflict with facts, which is where the TDS sets in.

So when you look at it that way, the similarities are eerie.

The Gaza Holocaust is not nuanced if you are willing to objectively examine independent sources, human rights organization reports, and most importantly, Israeli government sources, and those of Jews living in Israel, and across the world. There's nothing "nuanced" about exterminating an entire population...

NuttBoxer says

The Gaza Holocaust is not nuanced if you are willing to objectively examine independent sources, human rights organization reports, and most importantly, Israeli government sources, and those of Jews living in Israel, and across the world. There's nothing "nuanced" about exterminating an entire population...

The people supporting Israel will deny it's happening and when it's over they will either deny it happened, or will make some lame ass excuse as to why it was justifiable.

And selfishly I want them to face reality, because I know from history that once you go down this slippery slope, it's just a matter of time before the holocaust machine is turned on you.

NuttBoxer says

And selfishly I want them to face reality, because I know from history that once you go down this slippery slope, it's just a matter of time before the holocaust machine is turned on you.

Yeah, I know. The Patriot Act was turned against the entire US population, propaganda has been turned against the US population, it's just a matter of time before the Federal government starts to drone strike the US population. People never learn to the point I don't consider most of them people.

This is bs. A holocaust requires the systemic eradication of a race or group of people. There are over 2MM Palestinians living in Israel, almost 25% of the total population. It's language like this trivializing real genocides/holocaust. Similar to calling a very conservative person a nazi.

mell says

This is bs. A holocaust requires the systemic eradication of a race or group of people.

That's what it requires? Well, the systematic eradication of Jewish people didn't happen in WWII, so I guess that whole thing is a myth, and Jews should just the fuck up about it.

richwicks says

mell says

This is bs. A holocaust requires the systemic eradication of a race or group of people.

That's what it requires? Well, the systematic eradication of Jewish people didn't happen in WWII, so I guess that whole thing is a myth, and Jews should just the fuck up about it.

I agree that the holocaust has been exaggerated in numbers and abused. But the treatment of the Palestinians by Israel doesn't compare to that of the Jews by the Nazis imo.

mell says

I agree that the holocaust has been exaggerated in numbers and abused. But the treatment of the Palestinians by Israel doesn't compare to that of the Jews by the Nazis imo.

It's just more drawn out, that's all.

A holocaust is the extinction of not only the gene line, but a culture. The US had a holocaust against the native Americans. The Palestinians are being destroyed "they weren't even ever a country, they were never a people" - well, they were never a country per se, but that region has been around for centuries and they are a distinct people.

Zionists ARE engaging in genocide and have been for over 75 years. "It was a land without a people for a people without a land", yeah, except it was populated. It WAS a major food producer at one point.

All this shit going on is because of 10 million assholes, all this garbage. If Israel wasn't fucking there, we'd probably not even bother with the Middle East at all.

Rant was put in proper thread.

mell says

This is bs. A holocaust requires the systemic eradication of a race or group of people. There are over 2MM Palestinians living in Israel, almost 25% of the total population. It's language like this trivializing real genocides/holocaust. Similar to calling a very conservative person a nazi.

Per the dictionary, definition 3b:
"a mass slaughter of people"

Sounds apt to me. You do recognize holocaust's outside WWII right? Such as Holdomor? Maybe you should spend some more time researching this atrocity, using independent media, you seem to un-informed about the extent of what's being done in Gaza, and the West Bank.

NuttBoxer says

Per the dictionary, definition 3b:
"a mass slaughter of people"

OK then, that's what's going on in Gaza now...

NuttBoxer says

Sounds apt to me. You do recognize holocaust's outside WWII right? Such as Holdomor?

Of course. The Armenian genocide, the Native American genocide, there was even one against the Filipinos. There's many others. There have been COMPLETE exterminations. Where are the Druids today?

Zionists flip their shit when you point out other holocausts have happened, and they're carrying one out now. "Never again" means JUST FOR THEM, now. Fuck them. Their movement has lived their course, that needs to end. Zionists are just the KKK for Jewish people. They're racist assholes.

NuttBoxer says

Maybe you should spend some more time researching this atrocity, using independent media, you seem to un-informed about the extent of what's being done in Gaza, and the West Bank.

HAHAHA. There's nothing complicated about this, and I'm not uniformed, and I'm not ignorant, and I'm not a coward.

Holodomor was a bunch of asshole stupid communists that were forcibly destroying farmers to "collectivize" farmland, and this lead to a mass starvation. It killed plenty of Ukrainians, and probably more Russians. It's hard to tell, because the USSR was closed, and we didn't have good information on what happened. The USSR is dead and Russia embraced capitalism, they are RIFE with corruption, but they're cleaning that up, while the US has a fucking crackhead shithead "working" for Burisma and selling "art" for 1/2 million dollars who is the son of the "prezdident". We're the USSR now. We are so fucking corrupt.

FORTUNATELY, our STUPID government, has demonstrated extreme incompetence in the "Professional Managerial Class" with this covid "pandemic", and MAYBE the dumb fucking semi-human brutes I live among, MIGHT push back on whatever dumb fucking bullshit they're going to come up with next because "experts" have entirely discredited themselves.

Rant has taken a peculiar turn and has been directed against someone with the same position as the Ranter.

At least the rant is in the correct thread.

Misc says

Rant has taken a peculiar turn and has been directed against someone with the same position as the Ranter.

At least the rant is in the correct thread.

Complain as much as you like.

Point out my error in logic, reasoning, or knowledge. Perhaps I am wrong. Demonstrate it.

The error is ranting against someone who holds the same position as you.

Your entire rant has become foolish.

https://slaynews.com/entertainment/robert-de-niro-compares-trump-hitler-guy-monster/

TDS sufferer De Niro compares Trump to Hitler with zero indication of how the two might be similar in any way. Then Elon replies:

https://slaynews.com/news/elon-musk-slams-robert-de-niro-comparing-trump-hitler-makes-no-sense/

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/friday-funnies-word-salad

There are people who fantasize that Trump will destroy them. Like literally shaking in their boots.

One wonders why Trump did no such thing…not anything remotely close…in his first four year term.

Must be the same idiots that believe Covid is super deadly.

What I do know is that not one person has been able to factually explain how Trump is a fascist. Not one person has been able to factually explain how Trump incited an insurrection.

For the fascist part see the Scamdemic.

If you don't understand who wants to control the world, how little time they have left, and how desperate they are, none of this will make sense to you.

https://x.com/stevenvoiceover/status/1799507059022397826



This explains a lot of female TDS.

@MisdemeanorRebel

Are you still with us? You have not posted for a while.

Onvacation says

MisdemeanorRebel

Are you still with us? You have not posted for a while.

Has miraculously transformed into AmericanKulak (to create a zig zag skip trace identity path?).

Ceffer says

Onvacation says

MisdemeanorRebel

Are you still with us? You have not posted for a while.

Has miraculously transformed into AmericanKulak (to create a zig zag skip trace identity path?).

AmericanKulak and MisdemeanorRebel are the same person!

Been working and fishing alternately!