2024 ELECTION THREAD

Hyperfocusing on one irrelevant subset of your reaction to expressed opinion, like "not being friends with you" had absolutely nothing even tangentially related to the core point I was making in our last discussion. That's not good faith. That's scurrying away like a cockroach from a RAID can. I had you pegged as precisely this type from the first post I read from you, and you've done nothing but strengthen my conviction ever since.

He's smart enough, but like the others, he doesn't care and just wants to protect his worldview.

Wtf, I just re-read this 3 times and it makes absolutely no sense. Plus, I didn't scurry away, I was the last one to respond in that discussion. I wasn't "hyperfocusing" (lol) on anything, I was responding to the words you were writing. If what you meant wasn't what you wrote, learn to write better. What are you actually even talking about?

I think if you care about random graffiti from some unknown, you have very little going on in your life. You can, of course, care about whatever you want. But caring about things you can't control and won't ever be able to control is highly indicative of emotional problems and a misalignment of priorities.

If you pointed out some paint on a rock to some random, normal person on the street as evidence of widespread and problematic racism, they'd think you were nuts.

I've got plenty of room to talk. The 2020 election was suspicious as hell. The 2024 election wasn't suspicious in the slightest. It was a cut and dried landslide without any middle of the night ballot dumps and other dodgy shenanigans needed.

Yes guys, be sure to align your priorities. I've just put "log into a random forum to explain to posters there that caring about the stuff they care about means they have very little going on in their lives" as top of my list.

Why are you still campaigning for the 2020 election bro? The election is over for 4 years. Your guy is in the white house. The absolute hypocrisy and snowflakeness of you people.

You know something, you're right. This is a waste of my time. Enjoy your hugbox.

You are implying that no one should care about any of the things I mentioned. Is that in fact your view?

not sure if the term "barbarian" had the same connotation then as it does now.

My understanding is that the Romans considered anyone who didn't speak Latin or Greek to be barbarians.

are you now connecting this back to the tweet you just posted? it’s not like after you lose an election all your opinions on the candidate you voted against change.

just look at the 2004 or 2000 election. We still hated Bush after losing those elections. Why would you think it would be different for Trump? That is so stupid even you shouldn’t fall for it.

Oh, that's a shame. I thought we were just starting to get along.

You are in favor of eliminating all rules related to fraudulent commercial speech? This is another wild, wild take. Imagine that we meet at a party. I tell you that I run a amall, private investment fund that focuses on emerging markets. I represent to you that the fund has earned average annualized returns of 16% per annum for the last five years. I provide you with what appears to be audited financial statements that confirm the fund's performance. We have several more conversations and you eventually agree to invest $100K.

In fact, the financial statements are all forgeries (albeit convincing, well-done forgeries), and I am running a Ponzi scheme.

All good?

what you fail to see is that khmer rouge and aryan nation were indeed on the ballot and very clearly labeled and that's why i didn't vote for the two biggest options

Dude, can you stop stealing all my original money making ideas please? And if it's Luciom, you'll have to take it down to 8.7%, 16 and he'll get suspicious, under 8 he won't consider it worth his while, 10 is too round, and who makes up a number like 8.7 anyway? Know your audience.

No. It was meant as an example of what TDS does to people. It makes them so unhinged that they lose any sort of perspective.

I know I go on a lot about TDS but it is a genuine phenomenon. One that I find quite fascinating. And one that I believe will be studied as a genuine mental illness at some stage in the future.

Plus it's funny as hell.

Let's not forget that writing off all criticisms of Trump to some imagined mental disease lets you off the hook for having to think about what everyone is actually saying. You are the equivalent of a small child who puts his fingers in his ears and goes "LA LA LA can't hear you".

Having an opinion on things outside your control is not indicative of emotional problems, lmao.

I guess I will never know if you are upset at me for stating the fact that there was racism before trump got elected, belittled how important rocks are or because I said I feel sorry for people like you who are so intolerant of other people.

I took a geology class once. I will paint a rock in your honor.

this is a false version of the history

once the settlers reached critical mass where they had overwhelming majority populations and military strength vs the indians they did indeed do a lot of terrible things to the indians

however, until the settlers reached a point of dominance, they were always under constant threat of attack and raiding

life in america as a settler was extremely dangerous before they were able to eradicate the indians - we tend to gloss over that early period where the indians had the advantage and focus more on the later period

for example, if you ask google ai, it'll tell you only 1% of pioneers were killed by indians - which despite being a staggeringly high number already - is not remotely true because it's hiding the pure horror of early pioneer life by aggregating in large settled populations in places where the thread had already been dealt with

for example, every single town in new england has been attacked in an indian raid at least once - think about that, many of them were attacked multiple times as well - but not a single town in new england escaped attack so nowhere was safe

and we're not talking small raids either, at one point the city of providence was attacked and burned down entirely in a raid and a huge swath of the population was killed or taken in as slaves as well

this stuff is all very difficult to find but it happened, you need to dig deeply because we tend to have a fascination of guilt over the terrible things we did and ignore the fact that we did that because it was viewed as the only option to make life possible

this is reason why we never interbred with the natives the same way it happened in central and south america - because instead of integrating with the settlers, they were killing them until the settlers finally wiped them out and quarantined the rest who'd put down their arms and agreed to move to jails we politely called reservations

i say this as someone who is good friends with two natives and i agree it was terrible to paint over that rock with columbus stuff - just want to point out that it's very important to correctly frame the terrible things we did as acts of a defensive war not acts of hateful malice

my guy, you literally think you won an election that you lost. if political opinions can be studied as mental illness it would be your political opinions.

you realize there are people on your side that don’t believe in dinosaurs and think the world is 6000 years old? that vaccines are a new world order chemical weapon that is causing sudden death syndrome? is that less embarrassing or deranged than believing a story that was printed in the New York Times?

Caveat emptor

Wait, are the same people that were reposting Trump's claims of fraud in Pennsylvania and how the military and law enforcement were on their way (!!!) now saying there was nothing suspicious about this election?

you can't make this stuff up