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Topic: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes

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bayareabadger

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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #46424 on: July 05, 2025, 10:16:33 PM »
Not surprising.  Internet people are dumbasses.  Not us of course.


Obviously speaks to my taste in who to follow, but I’ve appreciated the range of folks I’ve seen telling those folks to eat shit. 

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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #46425 on: July 05, 2025, 10:28:53 PM »
Obviously speaks to my taste in who to follow, but I’ve appreciated the range of folks I’ve seen telling those folks to eat shit.
Same, but the number of main stream folks who tell Chicago kids to eat shit because their parents voted to defund the police, and Texas kids to eat shit because their parents voted to defund the NOAA makes me question whether there is any coming back

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Re: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes
« Reply #46426 on: July 05, 2025, 11:06:05 PM »
Assholes taking pleasure in the pain of others so they can "get over" on the other side, is one of the worst and most insidious aspects of bullshit identity politics.

Fuck every single one of those dipshits-- they ARE the problem.  

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Elon Musk says he's created his own political party - the 'America Party'
A day after Donald Trump signed into law his sweeping tax cut and spending bill, which Musk had repeatedly attacked, the billionaire Tesla boss says he is forming the 'America Party'.

Elon Musk says he has created a new political party - the America Party - after asking his followers if he should do so in an online poll.

It follows his public falling out with Republican President Donald Trump.

On Friday, the tech billionaire had asked his followers on X whether a new US political party should be created.

On Saturday evening he wrote on the same platform: "By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!

"When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy.
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I don’t think anyone in the danger path of those floods fully comprehended and understood the level of danger they were in. Some of those places hadn’t flooded since 1987, and I think some had never flooded to that level since it was settled in the 1800’s. 

So very tragic. 

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NOAA was a bloated organization filled with political hacks. Trust me. We're not losing any meaningful data or prediction ability.
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Assholes taking pleasure in the pain of others so they can "get over" on the other side, is one of the worst and most insidious aspects of bullshit identity politics.
We all see this often on social media, it's one of the "interesting" aspects of seeing opinions shared.  Folks can't seem to stay silent or say "That sounds fine.", many feel a need to run a topic down.  I see this around here on local sites, any time something that looks pretty nice locally is posted, folks feel a need to say something akin to "Just another place for thugs to rob, rape, and kill people."  Said sayers generally don't live here at all.

I think we all experienced this in grammar school, by running another student down, some felt they were establishing their own superiority.

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As for NOAA cuts, I have not noticed any change in weather predictions or information around here.  But I have seen folks blaming the cuts for causing the deaths in the floods.


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There was a lot of redundancy between FEMA, NOAA and the NWS.
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It's just so strange that out in the general public you wouldn't hardly ever discuss political stuff.  MAYBE, maybe at family gatherings, or with a close group of friends (sorta like we have here at CFB51!).  But out in the GP, never.  What was the old saying?  Never discuss politics, religion, and (I forget the third one).  Somewhere along the way we've discarded this for social media and the internet.  Why do people seem so keen to tell you their point of view, and how badly you're wrong, and blah blah.  

Seriously, why not just keep your fucking mouth shut and keep your political diatribes to yourself?  (Not talking to anyone on here, obviously.  Just the numerous internet trolls).  

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Rep. Andy Harris:

"One of the members from my delegation in Maryland talked about a 4-year-old losing Medicaid," he said. "There is no way a 4-year-old is going to lose Medicaid.

"The bottom line is: If you're an adult and you are part of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion and you choose not to work, yeah, you're not going to get the Medicaid benefit. You are going to have to find a different way to get your health insurance coverage. You probably go to Obamacare, but you're not going to get it free under Medicaid."

Further, illegal immigrants who receive Medicaid won't get that anymore, because "hard-working Americans are not going to be paying the freight," he said. 


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Cincydawg

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Anonymity.  Hiding behind a computer screen.

I have avoided social events in this building because fairly often someone present will feel a need to "weigh in".  


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Sad how every time we defund things recklessly, from the police to the NOAA, people die.

Almost like we shouldnt just blindly vote to defund.  But that doesnt fit on a bumper sticker

Does gaslighting fit on a bumper sticker?

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I'd like to understand any link between funding cuts and flood deaths in Texas.  

 

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