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Welcome to /townhall/! This is an anonymous-only board for debates, dialectics, and discussions of a serious nature.

As the topics discussed on this board may deal with sensitive or controversial subject matter, we expect a higher standard of conduct than elsewhere on the site, and will enforce the board's rules with a greater degree of strictness. Inability or unwillingness to follow the rules will result in a /townhall/-only ban.

 No.3

1) All posts in a given thread must contribute constructively to the conversation, whether agreeing or disagreeing. Off-topic, contentless, inflammatory, or hostile posts will be deleted and result in a ban.

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 No.15407[Reply]

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>ANTIFA FLASE FLAG
>THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN
>WHAT ABOUT PORTLAND/MINNEAPOLIS!?
>IT WAS JUST A PROTEST

Trump supporters kill cops, get pardoned and say shit like this.

For those of you who do support him, what's it like living in that level of delusion? is it fun?
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 No.15443

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>>15418
Are you kidding me? Proud boys, neo nazis, clansmen, and other various Trump supporters have gotten away with aggravated assault and battery, gunning down peaceful protestors, and have the police suppressed under their thumb with threats of violence. All while the big buff cheeto puff claims that he'll pay for people's court fees and hand out pardons like candy.
I think it's about time you checked your privilege and your ignorance.

 No.15444

>>15441
something tells me you have weird opinions about vaccines and Cecil Rhodes, too

>>15443
see? this is the correct response

 No.15454

>>15444
I'm just getting so sick and tired of these proud boys mowing down people and getting away literal murder while peaceful protesting groups such as BLM get painted as a terrorist organization.


 No.15361[Reply]

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So... the Trump administration is just arresting its critics and charging them with crimes now in order to silence opposition... well... alright... then...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/lamonica-mciver-ras-baraka-alina-habba-ice-new-jersey-newark-rcna207842

Now watch and listen as the people who supposedly care so much about "freedom", "liberty", and "small government" lick the jackboot with shameless slobber...
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 No.15442

>>15433
Perhaps so.
But none the less, the charge is that, not 1st Amendment

 No.15448

>>15437
Oh you are just slavering over the boot leather, okay.

>>15442
obviously it is harder to prosecute speech, so opponents simply do not do that. There are very easy shortcuts to getting rid of political inconveniences

 No.15453

>>15448
I'm salivating on boot leather because you posted a story where your anime protagonist was actually the bad guy?


 No.15406[Reply]

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Seein a lot of nonsense around here that's either been roundly debunked or plainly invented by white upremacists to justify racial violence.

For those of you who do, could you explain to me how making yourselves angry about bullshit appeals to you?

 No.15440

Another thinly veiled "I hate white people thread."

Isn't outright racism against Da Rules?

 No.15450

>>15440
Did I say I hate white people? I don't think I did. Last I checked, I was white too.

 No.15452

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>>15450
Am I 'white'?

Be honest with me.


 No.15350[Reply]

The good 'ol boys love losing the family farm to own the libs
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 No.15446

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>>15445
Hey, I agree with a lot of that

 No.15447

>>15446
Unfortunately, it's the MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN era, so me and people like me are doomed to fail horribly. With there being no chance of anything becoming better.

It's going to be all racial identity politics (plus more) all of the time. Because of MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. You're not allowed to just be a nice person who treats everybody with compassion. No, that's weak/pussy/sissy/doormat/etc talk. You have to be obsessively political all of the time.

And if you don't like that, then Trump / the Trumpists will burn you like ants torched by a child with a magnifying glass.

I hope and pray to live to better times.

 No.15451

>>15447
>You're not allowed to just be a nice person who treats everybody with compassion.
I feel like a lot of opinions come from anecdotal experiences, (as with pretty much every 'era' of leadership and social change.) At my last job there were a shit ton of Maga trump supporters who came from various low income backgrounds. Typical thuggish ruggish bone types, and yet they seemed to find my personality pretty infectious. (Compliments, asking people how they're doing and genuinely giving a fuck, cracking jokes, ect.) I think a majority of that comes from the internet.


 No.15396[Reply]

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This song thumps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8nYdZw-7vE
Do you think youtube, Spotify, ect, ect are justified for trying to censor Kanye West's latest songs? Or is it just another example of overly sensitive people trying to push for censorship in art?
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 No.15415

>>15413
>>15414
I think that, in practical terms, the number of people actively searching for the song won't be that much in relative senses compared to the broad mass of people typing in other things.

At the same time, personally, I agree to the viewpoint that the stuff put out by Kanye shouldn't be suppressed.

It's justified to not advertise it or praise it (since that's making demands of people to go out of their way during their normal lives to do stuff), but it's not justified to go out and delete it as fervently as possible.

 No.15417

we get it OP, you love to virtue signal

 No.15432

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Do you think this music is harmful? Do you see people saying HH as a new form of slang? Like skibiddy or yolo?
>someone gets disappoint: "Damn. Heil H*tler"


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>>15426
It is a terrible bill because it cuts funding for nuclear power.


 No.15423[Reply]

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fellas, do you live in a free country if your government doesn't allow any legal recourse against imprisonment?

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2025/05/20/breaking-news/noem-falsely-claims-habeas-corpus-is-a-presidential-power/


 No.15338[Reply]

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Any of you have any religious backgrounds? Because I’m getting baptized as a Presbyterian today.
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>>15404
I believe they are talking about Christians who are not fundamentalists nor biblical literalists, a theology that developed in the early 1900s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fundamentals) as a reaction to scientific discoveries which contradicted a literal interpretation of the bible who feared that Christianity and the country would soon disappear without such a declaration.

Presbyterians, typically one of the "regular Christian" denominations, adapt their beliefs to the truths of science, seeing science itself as a creation of God and therefore accurate.

With the recent fusion of modern right-wing politics with the mass media as well as with Christian fundamentalists and biblical literalists, some non-Christians view any denomination of Christian as little different from such a person.

Generally-speaking, it is a polarization of how Christians are being increasingly generally viewed; such thought is not without merit -- it is backed up in (one of) Richard Dawkins' books (he mostly writes about biology), "The God Delusion," in which he argues that liberal Christians inadvertently provide cover for fundamentalist, biblical literalist Christians to better perform their misdeeds with impunity, as they use the same language when talking about Jesus and God, yet can mean very different things, and that they are not doing enough to differentiate themselves.

 No.15416

>>15412
how is that anything like being a muslim post 9/11


 No.15409[Reply]

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Have people into hard rock and heavy metal allowed using their phones to make the tunes themselves less enjoyable?


 No.15092[Reply]

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Should eurobeat be the new anthem of EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY? I feel like it can bring us all together
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 No.15123

I would love to make more eurobeat some day. Haven't got a professional studio, but it doesn't stop me from giving it a go in some less expensive software.

 No.15156

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I mean besides the obvious impact on the road safety on a global scale, people would simply follow the philosophy of.
>Make JDM meets, not war.

 No.15397

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Eurobeat and 80s remix songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z2ZyBt2Qcs


 No.15392[Reply]

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Looking back, what would you have done differently if you were in charge of these efforts during the last century?

 No.15393

I would've let the soviets win and saved a shitload of money.


 No.15287[Reply]

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The entirety of the right worldwide is centered around pissing people off at their own expense and literally nothing else matters to these scumbags. Any time they ask for a 'debate' they do so in order to fling shit they know is wrong and they don't care. Literally nothing matters beyond giving Trump power.
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 No.15381

>>15380
Thanks man. I've been trying ice. I'm gonna thug it out for today and if it doesn't get better I'm going in the morning

 No.15382

>>15381
No worries anon I hope you heal up well.

Oh...did we have a civil conversation in /townhall/
Shit I don't think we were supposed to do that.

Uhhhh.....You..uhhh...should have a good day.

FUCK

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>>15382
Impossible. The prophecy clearly states that if such an event were to happen, it could spell disaster for Ponyville. And I simple CAN NOT allow that to happen.. prepare yourself, for I shall strike you down, Gleaming Dragon!


 No.15355[Reply]

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How come the right's solution to everything is state violence?

 No.15359

>el salvador

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>>15355
All laws are ultimately backed by state violence and the threat thereof.


 No.15299[Reply]

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Now that the dust has settled, I'll just be the one to say it...

Trump isn't that bad
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 No.15331

>>15329
You want me to be nice to you?

 No.15334

>>15331
Not unless it were genuine. Though if I recall, it is apart of the rules to be cordial. Telling people to eat shit isn't exactly civil.

 No.15335

>>15320
I am perfectly fine with saying I have never given a shit about Canada in any meaningful capacity.
Just a general "What are those morons doing now", essentially.


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