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Hatfort replied to Jacob Morres's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Adults use capital letters in the first word of a sentence. That being said, if Jesus Christ was something, that would be an extreme leftist. Yeah, deal with it. -
Dance.
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Blue-orange. Definitely not green or yellow.
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According to the US legislation its first amendment? No.
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Hatfort replied to How to be wise's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
At this point in history and technology, we had to go through it. But it's not great, let's leave it at that. -
I may be wrong, I start with this statement, but here are some thoughts: Russia demanded Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, and the commitment of Ukraine not to join NATO or the EU in the early stages of the war. Ukraine and Zelenski refused. Now, not only Russia has conquered Crimea, Luhansk, and most of Donetsk, but also the major part of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. A considerable part of these regions are pro-Russians. Will Russia ever annex the whole of Ukraine? Of course not, that was the first scold, totally unsustainable. But the East? They are kind of making it already. Did Russia lose part of Jarkov in the North? Yes. But they didn't demand that territory in their peace agreement demand, so it's not a real loss. I think the USA blew the Baltic pipeline because they have economic interests in doing so. They don't care about potential peace agreements, which make them deplorable human beings. Europe's position is ridiculous, they seem to be completely sold to the US. They should aim for peace, as they depend on Russian energy. To sum up, I think Russia is winning its objectives, which never were the whole of Ukraine.
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Talking about fish.
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Yeah, man, that would be a totally fucked up thing to do. As social beings that we are, we respect and protect our infants, so I can't see something like that happening as it's normal. Maybe if it was some kind of Halloween joke, where everyone was aware of it, but even like that, I think it's too extreme and crazy to present a plate like that.
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Oh, I have one for this. Nah, seriously. I'm fine if lab-grown meat can be developed, it's going to be much more sustainable and avoid a lot of suffering and real torture that is happening right now. I'm not interested in this though, I'm just fine with plant-based alternatives and I think they are more healthy. Similar goes for milk, plant or seed-based ones taste just fine, you can drink and use them to cook in the same way as cow milk, but without having those poor animals with sucking machines implanted in their udders every day during their whole miserable life, until they don't produce enough and they are killed without a second thought. There's more to say, but I shut up now. Just another meme.
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This is true, as humans we eat too much meat, it's just not possible to raise so many individual animals in those ideal organic conditions, real free-range like in the pictures where you see happy animals in those numbers is impossible (what they really mean with the free-range label is BS, by the way). We never as species were too many and eating meat and dairy that frequently, the only way we can do it is with the factory farm systems, with what that means for the animals' wellbeing, for the ones concerned about that. Organic animals are less sustainable than factory farm ones, they take much more and produce almost the same. This huge number of animals need to eat, deforestation is mostly happening to grow plants to feed the animals we eat, not to grow the animals themselves. The amount of water a steak requires to get to be on your plate is crazy. Meat and dairy consumption is a big problem.
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Can I post some vegan memes? Please, just today!
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I'm gonna read this as she is like a teenager that wants to appear like a badass or something. She's probably a narcissist. But this is as close to promoting politically-motivated terrorism as you can get, with still holding some deniability, just because she wrote socialism and not socialists. Saying that this act was some kind of metaphorical way of communicating, I guess. I just think this shouldn't be treated as an acceptable way of engaging in politics. There is also some privilege going on here, I don't think other ethnic groups or even political movements could get away with something like this as it's nothing. She is not a nobody, she is a person with an important position. She is also a weapon owner.
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The problem of what Biden says is quite obvious, the other side of the coin. Palestine has the right to defend itself too. This mentality is harmful and we gotta start getting over it. We are, but Biden is old school, his position is not a surpisse. Now, I'm not gonna pretend the two sides are equally at fault, I don't believe that for a second. What the Netanyahu administration is doing is terrorism. Right now it seems that they've been escalating the conflict because it benefits them in the new government negotiations. Sad but true. People and children are dying for this shit. They just bombed a media building. That's peace and free speech, right? Yang fucked it up, that was funny. He is in a bad spot because he has had quite a progressive support history and they are not going to take that from him if he wants to lead them. Liberals won't trust him either though.
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I think addressing this topic in extreme terms like saving the planet is quite disingenuous. If as humans we reduce meat consumption, it will be good for the environment, the less we eat, the better. Why? Because meat production requires a lot of resources and land. When you eat a steak, you are also consuming all that the cow ate during all its life, the water that growing that feed was needed, the land to grow that feed, the costs of processing and transporting that to the animals, the medicines that those animals were given preventively. It's not about the methane, at least not only. It's a lot that's behind the meat and we are close to 8 billion human beings now. The problem will catch up with us if these 8 billion start eating meat at the rate of the developed world citizens. That won't happen because the planet can't sustain it. Now, can we fuck things up? Wait and see. Maybe I was wrong and the terms were correct, but you gotta change the won't for will.
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I watched the movie, sorry, guilty pleasure. I like dumb action movies. Presents a 17-year-old girl taught by her father using guns, who also intervenes at some point, as the saviors of a school kidnapping and shooting situation, in contrast to the school staff and police itself who are totally incompetent. If it was another action movie, fine by me, but I just cannot abstract from the real-world problem that exists, mostly in the USA. It's quite tactless, the very least. Just today we could see this loony congresswoman, Marjory Greene, following a real school shooting survivor, recording him, asking him questions, and telling him that she owns guns, what the fuck is wrong with her. Back to the movie, the kidnapers are four students, led by one, who broadcasts the entire thing because he basically wants to be famous, that's his motivation. Whatever. By the way, I don't think it's very common for school shooters to take hostages this way for long periods of time, normally they just go with their guns and munition, and do all the damage they can as fast as they can, then they are stopped or killed by the police, if they haven't killed themselves first. In that situation what you need is luck not to be in front of them when they start, run fast, and call the police, who have protocols and training to deal with this kind of shit. Well, if you had the chance to disarm a shooter somehow, then good for you, and it's not unwise, because he's gonna shoot you anyway, but it's not very realistic. If the message they want to send is that the solution is to have more people with access and training with guns, as the girl and her father, it's really dumb. Because what about the other side, the school shooters? In real life as well, they have easy access to firearms and that is why there is a problem in the first place. There needs to be more gun control, not only for school shootings but crime in general. In my defense, I like serious movies too, but I had to watch this shit myself. I wanted to dislike it more, but it was at least entertaining, sorry.
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Hatfort replied to Shane Hanlon's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Sometimes antiracism goes too far, I can agree on that, but not most of the time. The trend of being more concerned about antiracism than about racism feels wrong to me. -
Nancy Pelosi is willing to go forward with the impeachment if Pence doesn't make the move to remove Trump with the 25th amendment, which will probably be the case, as the president has only a few days left in office. Glad to hear she is all in with her intention to prosecute Trump. He went too far, his serious lies caused this and he encouraged the mob to act for him with the final intention to put him in office instead of Biden, the real winner of the election. As a side note, he said he would be there with them, but he totally abandoned them in the end. He sent them his love though, after perpetrating all those attacks on a democratic institution in which five people died, and they will have to face legal consequences for their actions now.
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This is awesome, Schwarzenegger can reach conservatives, one of their own that they admire with a piece of patriotic music in the back. The message was good, as he didn't skip pointing Trump as what he is and what he did. And he keeps the Conan sword!! I admire him too!!
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If someone would have stolen an election, I don't care which side, protests would have been in fact legit. The thing is, Biden won, there is no evidence of fraud and there is evidence that it has been a clean election. There is room for improvements, but votes were counted normally and the result was neat. No judge could accept any of his allegations or objections about the process as valid or significant to the results. If someone is trying to steal the election, that's Trump. He had nothing to back his position up, and there he is, claiming that he has won and that the election has been stolen from him. What he has done has been a threat to democracy, unprecedented in US history. His party members have not been up to the situation either, as many of the loud media propagandists, but this last was expected. The MAGA mob that attacked the Capitol should respond for their actions, protesting is one thing, entering by force an official democratic institution is another, and the clash caused victims. But the chain of responsibility clearly ends up at the very top, this wouldn't have happened if Trump had not insisted on a victory that never belonged to him. I never thought Trump had a chance to repeat as president, he didn't have the votes, no judge could accept his baseless claims, too much stretching for most media, and the military has not backed him either, which would have been a crazy last resort. He should be impeached or processed for this, the sooner, the better.
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They will say: What the fuck they were thinking when they elected this clown in 2016? The man wearing horns has been arrested. He proudly published his name on Twitter, he sees himself as a real patriot fighting for the rightful president. Some Republicans were shamelessly blaming Antifa for this, without providing any real evidence, what a surprise, and this guy was pointed as one of them. Of course, this wasn't done by Antifa, those are MAGA people 100%, this guy must have felt insulted, so he had to come out. The right has a problem now when they point the left as the violents against liberty or whatever they say. The problem is called January 6, 2021. There was more evidence before, but this is like the cherry on the top of the cake. A huge cherry.
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I expected Trump to be that irresponsible not to concede, but I didn't expect the overwhelming majority of Republican politicians to be so coward not to speak up and clearly say that his candidate lost and that there has not been any voter fraud in such a long time. What we've seen the other day is a consequence of that. A considerable part of Trump's followers truly believe that the election was stolen from them, they believe every word his leader tells them. In their head, they are saving democracy, although they really are doing the opposite, they are trying to put someone in office without winning an election. It's madness, it's a shame. Trump will be held responsible for this in history because he is. I don't know to what extent he could be legally held for this now.
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Capitalism has already rules, rules established by the politicians lobbied by the wealthiest companies. So we need other rules for it established by politicians lobbied by the people. Why? Because capitalism, as it is, is causing a lot of unnecessary suffering to so many people and is holding us back as societies towards development. Will we get perfection? No. but that doesn't mean we cannot aim for better horizons. People need to wake up and vote for more decent politicians, which is not that easy, as the media is owned by those same companies that will, directly and indirectly, send messages to prevent that. I'm not saying it is a conspiracy, they mostly believe their own bullshit.
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Hatfort replied to Sempiternity's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
I think Trump would totally go with it if he thought he had enough support. The military may be closer to him, but this is too much, it won't happen. It's so obvious Biden has won cleanly, Trump's claims of fraud are baseless and ridiculous. Biden is not that much a revolutionary figure either, if it was Sanders, we could be more worried. -
This has been a huge win towards a more conscious politics, not only for the USA, but also globally for the position and influence this country has in the world scale. You've fired Donald Trump and sent him and his supporters a message, that's not how you rule in a country that aims to lead the world, at least in the XXI century. Congrats to women for the first female vice president elect, it must mean a lot. Considering Biden's age, Kamala Harris may have to present herself on 2024, wait for it. Biden is not going to implement a lot of the policies many of us would like, and yet his election was the right one, the alternative was Trump. We can learn a lot from the last four years, it was painful, but not in vain. Biden will have to deal with a bunch of crazy MAGAs and it may get ugly with the COVID situation. But remember that Trump has shown his true colors last five days, he's not willing to accept democracy, which makes him an aspiring dictator, although he wouldn't call it like that, he would just declare the mailing votes ilegal and say he won, if he could. Aspirations that won't happen, as he won't have the support to fulfil them. It was a pleasure, see you next time!
