POG Politics Thread Version 3
Come on in! Since Dustin is taking his ball and going home, it's time to start a new politics thread.
Idk what got me into Deleuze, reading him I guess
reading philosophy isn't learning it, it's doing it
writing philosophy is teaching it
Make America Safe Again is particularly funny given violent crime is the lowest its been since at least 1990. So to what past safety is it referring?
There is a whole semiotic chain just around the Again
That is actually the fascist part.
the entire acronym is socially damaging
Make - a verb signifying the forcible alteration of an otherwise unwilling entity
America - the entire Western hemisphere is formally American and jointly participates (at least aspirationally) in a conceptual break from the horrific legacies of its European progenitors, but the application here eliminates that unity and claims a superiority of title and vestiture in an ironic call back to the culture from which it is supposed to be constitutively distinct
Great - in application, despotically privileges a certain idea of greatness in derogation of democratic normativity
Again - nakedly regressive and dangerously denialist of the development of the socio-techno-economic landscape to which we are called to respond through political action
So what happened is, these two used to date when they were both men. Then they broke up with much animosity.Then ContraPoints transitioned and her videos took on a much more elaborate production style.Right after this, like right after, PhilosophyTube, who had never even been interested in transitioning before, also became a girl and changed her whole production approach to mat
i still can't tell if this a level or these are real people and i'm afraid to google search for fear it'll forever ruin my feed
i like my philosophers dead and german thank you very much
The US Supreme Court, which seems to still be in a partially independent branch of the federal government, has ruled Emperor Shitpants tariffs illegal.
They would have been stopped immediately in a functioning democracy. Even Kavanaugh was like so what r u gunna do now? You collected billions in illegal tariffs.
Total shitshow.
Also when I said semiotic chain I meant signifying chain my linguistics is rusty.
Joke my brain just made up:
I told my friend not to study linguistics but he was Saussure.
I don't have a choice here it just happens. I did choose to share it.
you know how all the billionaires and corporations always threaten to leave USA if taxes get too high. first of all lol. leave. like birdman says.
but also they might get prosecuted in other countries. good ol USA will never send a billionaire to prison, and corporations are free to rule our lives completely.
I hope no one itt is gullible enough to fall for mamdani's bs. he's just another in the long line of literally every single Democrat lying their ass off and betraying the people.
The US Supreme Court, which seems to still be in a partially independent branch of the federal government, has ruled Emperor Shitpants tariffs illegal.
They would have been stopped immediately in a functioning democracy. Even Kavanaugh was like so what r u gunna do now? You collected billions in illegal tariffs.
Total shitshow.
new fun word: "quotidian"
as in, the quotidian lesson of bourgeois politics in this country is:
"don't touch their money"
Mamdani, issues raising money for your social programs? Just shout: "10% Tariffs on everyone!"
Across the interior of the United States, agents of the federal government—masked, anonymous, armed with military weapons, operating from unmarked vehicles, acting without warrants of any kind—are seizing persons for civil immigration violations and imprisoning them without any semblance of due process.
The systematic character of this practice and its deliberate elimination of every structural feature that distinguishes constitutional authority from raw force place it beyond the reach of ordinary legal description.
It is an assault on the constitutional order.
Judge Joseph Goodwin, SDWV, 2026-02-19
"accountability is not a burden imposed on public officials as a matter of grace. It is the structural condition of their authority."
repeal sovereign immunity
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there's been hardly anything(relatively) to complain about in the trump regime lately:
courts said his 10% tarrifs are illegal, so he said he'd do 15%
another day without justice for Epstein horrors
put up that giant picture that mark posted
blew up like 4 fisherman with no judicial oversight
but like hardly anyone executed in the street. no govt overthrown, or presidents kidnapped and paraded through the streets.
but does look like he's about to step up his game by killing a lot of people in iran
President's get a pass with lots of terrible things so long as it isn't new stuff.
I don't really like Jasmine Crockett's position on the issues, but I respect her sass.
Mad sass good taste
Did y'all see they came out with a report what went wrong with Starliner and it was, management just made a call to send them up on known bad gear.
The NASA guy wrote a letter saying, basically, this type of management is incompatible with human life.
It's the Titan Submersible Method. **** it, we ball. And implode.
He's also stopped golfing.
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This man has the dumbest assassins in history. A succession of lone wolfs who bring one bullet and a satchel full of dreams.
look at that public servant's home... one of his homes.
obscene.
looks vulnerable to a protest of 100k people just marching in
thinking of the Jan 6 riots, and using Nazis as an example....
so imagine there was some group even more racist than Nazis, let's call them Uber Nazis.
and this group of Uber Nazis stormed the Nazi capitol because Nazis aren't racist enough. they are just breaking things and sitting at the desk of Goebbels smoking a cigar and being even more racist.
and then lib Germans are like "omg! that's disgusting! look how they are desecrating the capitol! that is a crime! arrest them! how dare they!"
and on Jan 6th, I was like "really? that's what your problem with them is? that they are not obeying this govt?"
