President Donald Trump

The one represents January 6th which was just a guided tour and not an attempt to overthrow the government. The 632 was made up to represent that democrats are bad.

Like this whole post is even 'don't take me seriously' followed by a plea to be taken seriously. It's baffling to me. I'm actually scratching my head

Karl is probably right about an obsession with food representing an unhealthy decadence.

Not that I don't like food, I do....but I can be ok with just rice, beans, eggs, and pancake mix.

What matters to you?

You don't even live here. Why would someone trolling for the lulz have strong opinions about what matters to people in other countries?

Its frustrating to me that you can internalize how bitcoin price is very important to you because, my assumption is, you have enough of it that you are relatively well off but short of what you would consider generationally wealthy and you want to be able to pass a life onto your children and their children that you didn't have growing up. Its a compelling thought, I can empathize with it, no issues.

But this is the same frame where most posters are coming from. I personally have moral quandaries about even having children. The world has changed so much in so many ways since I was a kid that its terrifying thinking about not only raising a kid in this social media ******ation but also what comes next.

Imagining my country as an authoritarian shithole is distressing. Surely you can understand that? I can legitimately contextualize most posts I have made on here in the last year to that one single sentence and you are telling me thats the wrong thing to care about. Its like trying to tell you that bitcoin is pointless. Maybe its pointless to someone who doesn't own Bitcoin, but its sure as **** not pointless to you

I came back here originally (since I quit poker long, long ago) because of 9/11 and moon landing disinformation being spread in various threads with nobody (competent) opposing it. One of my main missions is combating science denialism/disinformation. I left for several years ago because that kind of died out, and I was drawn back because of the covid thread here. That led me to the various political threads, and now the covid thread is gone. I don't really even want to be in these, except that science disinformation pops back up from time to time. I post my leftist views and make fun of the maga once in awhile, but truthfully my heart just isn't in it.

I sometimes forget this is even a poker forum. The only poker I've played in the last 15 years has been in a newish board game called

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/411567/the-gang

BoardGameGeek

The Gang

Not liking food is like not liking sleep or sex

Are you even a real person? How does that happen, who hurt you?

I like food

The need to link sources to support this is not apparent until someone actually questions it. I think most people who live in the US know that in the last 5 years riots and political violence events that are supported by dem politicians are 100s of times more common than those supported by rebup politicians.

I think we can bicker back and forth about a few dozens one way or the other on my dem figure, but that doesn't change the fact that dems are far more tolerant of political violence than repubs are.

i very much wonder what comes next. 5 years, 10 years....20 years from now.

i think AI/technology will probably take over. it's scary to think about. my eldest has last day of kindergarten today. the future is scary. i hope my kids are able to have kids someday, but i wouldn't say i'm overly optimistic on world (at least as we know it) for that.

in the present, try to have fun and build as good of a future for our family as i can.

i think the big beautiful bill is horrendous and the us has a massive spending problem. politicians can't help themselves. given that it is currently the reserve currency of the world, and has the most military might, what happens in the us has a major impact on the rest of the world, especially it's neighbor to the north, hence my interest for what happens in the us.

you're free to take my posts, and every other poster's posts, however you want.

my point was i've never made any post arguing that i'm super duper serial.

i don't think anyone else has either.

USA Patriot Act, Edward Snowden, Gitmo, extraordinary rendition mass NSA surveilance of its citizens, Unamerican Activities, internment of Japanese Americans- your country became authoritarian decades ago.

That's why your (constant) presence is out of place. Coordi has just told you in very plain English that he is coming from a place that is meant to be taken seriously and you just choose to ignore it. Other people likely are coming from similar places that you respond to with varying levels of unseriousness. You're a non-serious person constantly trying to butt into a conversation that you don't fit into

When I attempted to look up the figures, what I saw was that between the periods studied of the things I looked at, the right wing was far more likely to engage in political violence.

And I guess what this reply of yours is saying is that you don’t actually have a source that has compared violence between the left and the right.

Which would not even be comparing violence between Republicans and Democrats, because BLM was not an arm of the Democratic party and often actually protested the most strongly in Democratic-run cities against Democratic mayors and city councils.

I don’t know why you’re getting so snippy. You’re the one that said you have made zero serious posts, but then went into a criticism of tactics of other posters and their epistemic faults.

I’m just asking what the point of taking your posts seriously is if you don’t even stand by a single post you have made and say that none of them are serious? Do you think anyone wants to take seriously the criticism of a self-professed bad faith poster?

There's a difference "not serious" and "bad faith" imo

Ok sure. If I take your posts seriously and respond to it as if it’s serious, will you be able to fall back on the idea that you weren’t being serious or not? Because functionally if you can do, then I have no reason to treat you like a good faith person.

Country was always very violent, which is how it came to dominate the world.

Kinda depends if the post was serious or not.

If it was and I fall back on the idea that it wasn't serious, that's bad faith.

Fwiw I think there's a reading comprehension issue the past few posts. Pretty confident that hasn't happened, but happy to be fact checked.

Someone, coordi I think, said I made 1000 posts arguing my posts were serious.

I said I don't think I made any posts arguing my posts were serious.

I'd say most of my posts are representative of my thoughts, however fleshed out or not they may be.

Some are jokes (aka not so serial). Whether you find them funny or not, is either a me issue or a you issue. I'm not a standup comic, just an average joe.

The default form of reality is the social / political / rational.

When people find themselves in a losing position in this reality, the initial response is to summon enough effort to improve their position. In the political sphere, this might look like electoral victories, policy victories, etc.

The attuned person will eventually realize that, despite these wins, they are still in a losing position as there are oppressive forces of reality which transcend the shared social / political / rational reality.

There are two primary ways to cope with this realization: (1) give up or (2) live the lie of pretending the transcendent, oppressive reality can be overcome in the familiar, shared political reality. These two ways to cope overlap and the vast majority of people exist here.

The one who is actually playing to win against reality will transcend and enter into a deeper, larger context where they will find the ability to flip the power dynamic against reality.

Oh thank god, Craig is here

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-mari...

Fixed. Sentence was in wrong spot.

is this a cry for help to be taken seriously?

yeah nah