/townhall/ - Townhall

>>14828
>>14827
It would be nicer to find the politician has been talking shit for all of his campaign for once.

But a lot of shit has been flung.

i'm locking this thread, as i don't think this meets the standards of townhall, low as they are. i do invite the OP to rephrase this thread though, and repost it for discussion.

>>14830
oops! that's me, by the way, sorry!

>>14720
Their government is trash and one of the biggest groups of people to suffer from that are the chinese people themselves. That's what happens when you get into the whole fucked up communism thing. It typically ends with people rising to power and forming dictatorships and military states.

>>14728
It's been eight fucking decades since Hitler, the Nazis, and the Holocaust.

A horrendously evil dictatorship exterminating the lives of countless innocent people, including children, due to psychotic militarism by those in charge? Why can't everybody of all political stripes view this as an immoral thing? Why can't everybody with a conscience want it stopped?

Why is humanity made up of such walking, talking shitbags, with no empathy?

I especially don't get why people on the right-wing side of the ideological spectrum don't like the idea of going up against the CCP: shouldn't you dudes really fucking hate communists? Like what would make them attractive to you in the slightest? Isn't it as easy as hating, say, alien rapist monsters from horror movies or something?

Why does literally anybody on Earth sincerely like the CCP... it's like rooting for AIDS... or for mosquitoes...

>>14756
It wasn't that bad

>>14609
You said that gay people's rights don't matter because gun rights are more important (which is also annoying as hell because it's assuming that gay people don't own firearms in America, which is factually incorrect).

>>14610
>You said that gay people's rights don't matter because gun rights are more important
You're hallucinating, I never said anything like that!  Where did I even talk about gay rights at all?

Is it all ogre for Kamala?

>>14645

they are using it as an example to promote the idea that government agencies are too big and have too much power, even though we don't have all the details on the reasons behind the happenings of this case.

if you want to go into deep psychology, of which hardly any of the hypothetical "mainly conservatives" would be aware, the squirrel represents a holy figure, perhaps even jesus christ themself - innocent and without blame, bringing happiness to all.

the nys dec represents the nonbelievers who put jesus to death.

so, the hypothetical conservatives are mad about the innocent squirrel (jesus) being killed, which may be ironic in some cases....

in addition, the name, "pnut," has connotations with peanut butter sandwiches, which many people associate with innocence and childhood.

further complicating matters, pnut was rescued, or "saved" by a loving family - only to have had nonbelievers (in their minds) stop them.

regardless of the psychology and emotional reactions behind it, however, the system failed the squirrel (and raccoon), as the department acted like automatons and didn't take into consideration the circumstances surrounding pnut's domicile. the department should have shown more care and consideration of the situation as soon as they found out they were a youtube rescue pet of 7 years (if they even asked). rip pnut.

>>14647
I am curious what kind of reasoning you think could exist that justified all this.
We know what happened. We know what they said they were there for.
Are you suggesting they were lying, using a false pretense to go in?

>>14648

Perhaps I wasn't too clear, as I was entertaining viewpoints from both sides.

Unless new information comes out (or there is info I'm not aware of (haven't really been keeping up with the story)) there is currently no excuse for what happened. The NYS DEC shouldn't have rushed into things and should have allowed for the owner to provide an explanation before taking the animal. The ideal conversation might have gone something like this:

DEC: *knock knock*
Squirrel Owner: "Hello?"
DEC: "Hey, we received some suspect complaints coming from people about a wild squirrel with rabies being here, so we wanted to see if it was true."
Squirrel Owner: "Oh, yes, that is my squirrel. He is a famous YouTuber." *shows video* I rescued him and have had him for 7 years. No, he doesn't have rabies."
DEC: "Oh, OK. Those complaints must have been internet trolls, then, lol."
Squirrel Owner: "Yeah, lol. It happens all the time."
DEC: "Do you have a license for your squirrel?"
Squirrel Owner: "No, sorry. I don't."
DEC: "OK, well just get a license by next month. Have a nice day."
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Irrelevant.  The licensing deals made by the "Russians" have nothing to do with the content being generated.  If you make a video, and a "Russian" pays for it after the fact, that doesn't retroactively make the video Russian disinformation.  idiot.

>>14612
Suppose an Iranian company took random internet commentators from America, Canada, and Mexico and got them in contact with the government of Iran such that what those random guys would've said organically about the Holocaust supposedly not happening, the Iranian economy supposedly booming, and terrorist attacks killing Jews across the Middle East supposedly being morally justified... all suddenly became boosted by a huge amount of effort and gained a lot of steam throughout social media.

Would that be "Iranian disinformation" and "Iranian propaganda"? Retroactively?

I can honestly see both sides a bit. On the one hand, people in the West organically think such things. On the other hand, an evil dictatorship bent on killing lots of people is actively using huge amounts of money to push specific political claims that those Western citizens parrot. I'm inclined to take the latter position.

>>14586
Considering the level of propaganda regurgitated by the mainstream western media, I'm not so convinced.
Though then again, what you're saying here applies to them tenfold anyways.

It seems to me the Russians would benefit from truth at this stage, that simply runs counter to the current establishment propaganda we've got.

>>14624
I'm going to say that I'm (initially) feeling glad about this.

It appears that she's one of the British politicians of the Winston Churchill type who is pro-democracy, pro-NATO, pro-Anglo-American-alliance, pro-free-trade, pro-rule-of-law, pro-Israeli, and pro-Ukrainian, and pro-multilateralism.

There's this and this:

> https://www.gov.uk/government/news/faith-minister-joins-london-church-leaders-to-show-support-for-ukrainians

> https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-827230

And in a time in which hatred of women and hatred of black people as well as hatred of immigrants are all, alas, relatively common problems given the state of global affairs (although, of course, it's far better in places such as the U.K. and the U.S. than in someplace such as Saudi Arabia)... it's truly a magnificent moment of social and cultural progress to see somebody like her achieve success regardless of her specific opinions.

And as somebody who's not a fan of the 'fuck NATO, fuck Israelis, fuck Ukrainians, fuck free trade, fuck democracy, etc' political tribes in the U.K. and the U.S., I confess to having a gigantic sense of satisfaction to seeing them lose and lose hard.

Looking at her and then looking at Donald Trump is like... looking at a marble statue of a Greek goddess and then at a large pile of musky horse manure vaguely in the shape of a person.

No an American. hough I have grown up ith going around singing on New Year's or Three King's day.
An nowadays, I do hand out treats for Halloween.

I prefer o hand out gummies from these kg tubs they have a stores.

Groceries have become pricier for sure. Halloween candy usually goes between 10 to 25 euros per kilogram.

But groceries are like boiling frogs nowaays. Like, nothing seems outrageously expensive, but he total tab does grow month by month.

>>14623
>"Groceries have become pricier for sure."
Yeah. And candies are getting more expensive either in tandem with everything else or maybe some of them just aren't worth it anymore. Of course, yeah, this depends on what specific snack that you want to get. You're making a lot of sense.

>>14591

unfortunately, the only candidate running

I'm voting against the scatterbrained Communist who can't answer a single question in a straightforward manner.

>>14611
It bothers me a lot that that description doesn't narrow it down.