The General Discussion Thread

Originally posted by Surtur
Any administration would be talking up these numbers. It would be stupid not to do so.

And since our MSM is full of grimey little weasels willing to lie about Trump...he needs all the help he can get.

Originally posted by Scribble
Didn't you used to have a Carl avatar? Or am I mismembering

Originally posted by Scribble
Yeah they're good numbers, but credit where credit is due, and I still see a lot of right wing pundits praising the figures while continuing to shit on the Obama administration. Plus you have all the left wingers basically unable to admit that Trump has done any good in any form. Partisan shit continues to blur people's perspectives.

Yes, like credit to the person who truly put those migrant children in cages.

Too funny, leftists never give Obama credit for all the terrible shit he did. That's not aimed at you, just the ones in this country.

Tomorrow Trump could cure cancer and the response would be "well what about aids?"

Didn't Fox do the same thing about Obama? I mean hell Trump himself did it with Obama, trying to smear him as non-American with all the birther shit. Imo even though the media should try its best to be impartial, Trump is basically reaping the shit he sowed those years ago, so I have no pity. Don't throw what you can't catch y'all

Originally posted by Bashar Teg

I ran into a blind dog today pun intended.

Originally posted by Scribble
Didn't Fox do the same thing about Obama? I mean hell Trump himself did it with Obama, trying to smear him as non-American with all the birther shit. Imo even though the media should try its best to be impartial, Trump is basically reaping the shit he sowed those years ago, so I have no pity. Don't throw what you can't catch y'all

Yes indeed, and FOX gets shit on all the time in the MSM as well though lol. That is the key difference. These other dickbags get away with it.

Conservatives f*ck up and careers can be destroyed. Liberals? Nah, just say sorry and move on.

Originally posted by Surtur
Yes, like credit to the person who truly put those migrant children in cages.

Too funny, leftists never give Obama credit for all the terrible shit he did. That's not aimed at you, just the ones in this country.

Tomorrow Trump could cure cancer and the response would be "well what about aids?"

Originally posted by Surtur
Yes indeed, and FOX gets shit on all the time in the MSM as well though lol. That is the key difference. These other dickbags get away with it.

Conservatives f*ck up and careers can be destroyed. Liberals? Nah, just say sorry and move on.

Setting off home soon, can't wait to sleep in my own bed tonight pained

Originally posted by Morning_Glory

I TOLD YOU YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO SPEAK TO THEM!!!

Originally posted by Scribble
Fox is a part of the MSM tho

Yes they are, and even some people who work at Fox shit on Fox while live on air at Fox.

And Fox was more fair on Trump than anyone and STILL ran more negative than positive stories lol. They did an actual study. It was 48/52. 48% positive. No other network came close.

When Fox is the most impartial on any subject we are all f*cked.

Originally posted by LordofBrooklyn
[B]I TOLD YOU YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO SPEAK TO THEM!!! [/B]

EDIT: Oops, I see it now.

Originally posted by Scribble
oh yeah, left wing Americans seem to paint Obama as some man god of politics without acknowledging all the bad shit he did. Same with Trumpers - I swear your country just has BPD and y'all are just splitting 24/7

Both sides do it but we do NOT see the same outrage directed at both. That is the problem.

Roseanne says something racist, apologizes, is fired.

Joy Reid works for MSNBC. Multiple homophobic posts from her past are uncovered. She lies and says she was hacked, lies and says the FBI is looking into it. No consequences. No liberals calling for advertisers to leave her. Now they uncover even more: her tweeting out anti semitic conspiracy theories from Alex Jones in the post. Her tweeting out images of John McCains head photoshopped onto the body of the Virgina Tech killer(school shooting that killed 33). She says sorry and...meh, nothing, we're moving on. The same company that fired Roseanne just rehired Keith Olbermann lol.

I don't want Joy Reid fired or Keith fired. But holy shit it just isn't the same. We don't see the same level of shit directed at both sides. Jeffrey Lord jokingly tweets out seig heil and is fired from CNN within hours. He was tweeting it at someone, essentially jokingly calling them a nazi. I repeat: leftists got mad over someone calling someone a nazi. Enjoying the twilight zone bro?

I know you don't live here so you can't see it, but it's just...lol, well, it's this type of shit that I fear will let Trump win again in 2020.

I shouldn't say you "can't" see it. You obviously could if someone informs you about all this, I just meant it's different to live here and be continually exposed to all this.

If you consume any popular cable news or non cable news channel that is not FOX you are bombarded with anti trump shit all the time.

The problem is that it's gone beyond politics. It's not about political, moral or ethical issues or frameworks, its about picking a side and defending that side with terminal integrity, regardless of what else is going on around it. It's pure tribalism, and that's why I refuse to pick a side any more, I don't want either side trying to claim my support while knowing that they would throw me to the dogs in a moment's notice if I step out of line. Which is a shame, because I'm very interested in and passionate about political, social and ethical issues, but there just isn't much platform for the moderates anymore.

Originally posted by Scribble
The problem is that it's gone beyond politics. It's not about political, moral or ethical issues or frameworks, its about picking a side and defending that side with terminal integrity, regardless of what else is going on around it. It's pure tribalism, and that's why I refuse to pick a side any more, I don't want either side trying to claim my support while knowing that they would throw me to the dogs in a moment's notice if I step out of line. Which is a shame, because I'm very interested in and passionate about political, social and ethical issues, but there just isn't much platform for the moderates anymore.

It is pure tribalism. I don't think it will have any chance of being solved until people at least apply shit to both sides equally.

The left won't change cuz they get away with it more. The right won't change cuz they are mad the left gets away with it more lol.

But the system is set up that you cannot go "I won't choose". A vote that doesn't go towards a democrat or republican is a wasted vote. This is a sad truth.

Well it was the right that used to get away with shit in America, and they definitely are the side that get away with shit over here. If its not one side, it's the other. Balance seems impossible for humans. I hold no hope.

Originally posted by Scribble
Well it was the right that used to get away with shit in America, and they definitely are the side that get away with shit over here. If its not one side, it's the other. Balance seems impossible for humans. I hold no hope.

The pendulum swings both ways. Just like what is offensive and what isn't.

Some of the younger millenials would be straight up suicidal during the 80s here lol. Or even the 70s, a tv show like "All In The Family" would have f*cking broken them.

You wanna know what I think