Random Politics Thread

[The Cat]

Yeah, that letter tracks the view I developed of it over the years. You're just comparing anxiety responses to a baseline but you cannot determine why the person is anxious -- and there are those who don't even exhibit anxiety while still being guilty as hell.

But you can use it as a tool to interrogate someone, depending on their view of it.

Same thing with pliers.

 

[Totenkindly]

Same thing with pliers.

And hell, dude -- you don't even have to go to tech school to learn how to use those!

(now you've got me thinking about "Bound")

 

[Mind Maverick]

Same thing with pliers.

Eh, humans 101.

 

[The Cat]

Eh, humans 101.

neat, they could use 4's for interrogation too....

 

[Mind Maverick]

Yeah, that letter tracks the view I developed of it over the years. You're just comparing anxiety responses to a baseline but you cannot determine why the person is anxious -- and there are those who don't even exhibit anxiety while still being guilty as hell.

But you can use it as a tool to interrogate someone, depending on their view of it.

Meanwhile, Dr. Dickwad ruins innocent peoples' lives with claims that the polygraph is basically as accurate as a paternity test. Breaks up families, friends, etc. Selfish morosis.

God, I regret it even more than I already did that I had to overhear that show while my roommate was watching it.

 

[Lark]

Really wish there was a way I could get the Amazon AI to stop recommending Jordan Peterson, white supremacist and american fascist self-publishing to me.

The so called alt right truly ruin every single thing they come into contact with. Seriously.

 

[ceecee]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-touts-falconers-benghazi-blood-sacrifice-conspiracy-theory

President Donald Trump backed a budding conspiracy theory on Tuesday that four Americans were killed in the 2012 Benghazi attack to cover up the blood-sacrifice of Navy SEALs and the “fact” that Osama Bin Laden is still alive, marking what is perhaps the president’s strangest brush yet with far-right conspiracy theories.

Trump’s promotion of the new Benghazi conspiracy theory, which is fast gaining traction on the far right, came in the form of a retweet of a QAnon believer pushing the claim. The president’s backing helped push the tweet about Benghazi above 14,000 retweets.

Trump and Biden are exactly the same, I can't decide who to vote for....

 

[The Cat]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-touts-falconers-benghazi-blood-sacrifice-conspiracy-theory



Trump and Biden are exactly the same, I can't decide who to vote for....

 

[ceecee]

Robert Lighthizer Blew Up 60 Years of Trade Policy. Nobody Knows What Happens Next. — ProPublica

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Mike Gravel - Wikipedia

Neat. I actually voted for Gravel in the primaries in 2008.

 

[Virtual ghost]

Arctic sea ice is at record low for this part of the year.

What isn't really that odd if we consider above average temperature of the sea around the ice cap. Which disrupt normal freezing in Autumn.

 

[Burning Paradigm]

Hungary broke EU law by forcing out university, says European Court - BBC News

Fidesz gonna Fidesz. Orban gonna Orban.

 

[Lark]

These days I think some kind of socialist matriarchy would be best.

Rule by Fidelia.

And vice-chairwoman Ceecee.

 

[ceecee]

The China Ambassador’s Son Who Got Rich in Trump’s Swamp

Eric Branstad was close with Trump and had joined Mercury just three months earlier, after a stint advising Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. He had a checkered past, marred by killing two people in a car crash when he was a teenager, and had made money off his relationships with his father and Trump. In his home state of Iowa, his activities would spark comparisons to Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

Good article, if you want some reality in regards to the swamp Trump supporters still claim he's draining .

 

[Jaguar]

Is Feinstein losing it or what?

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

Ew

 

[Jaguar]

So Mac Isaac and Rudy Giuliani are partners in crime? Figures.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Ever notice how when you get a right-winger to let loose (I've decided to stop calling them conservatives, because they aren't), what comes out is inevitably insane conspiracy gibberish born out of a bullshit persecution complex?

My first encounter with this was decades ago when a guy on another forum was moaning about how liberals were intolerant of him, and then let out a rant about how liberalism is evil and they want to teach kindergartners how to use condoms and ban Christianity.

Another guy joined in about the intolerance of the left, and then almost immediately said "liberalism is destroying America".

And they expect me to believe they're the analytical, rational, logical ones? Logical people don't go on rants full of gibberish.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Originally there were 6 justices on the supreme court. The number 9 is mentioned nowhere in the Constitution, although it does crop up on the Beatles White Album quite a bit.

 

[Jaguar]

Ever notice how when you get a right-winger to let loose (I've decided to stop calling them conservatives, because they aren't), what comes out is inevitably insane conspiracy gibberish born out of a bullshit persecution complex?

I have to agree with that. You won't see Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska vomiting crazy shit like that out of his mouth.

Sen. Ben Sasse unloads on Trump in call with constituents: ''A TV-obsessed narcissistic individual'' | Fox News