Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@LN78 Maybe, but by the same argument so is hating a country and its people for something. If we can't be proud of a country's achievements then we can't hate them for it either.

@LN78 You'll hear no argument from me on that.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika All countries go through these government deadlocks etc. The MSM just have an obsession on any of the failings of the USA and UK. Belgium didn't have a government for months a few year back due to them being unable to form coalitions, wasn't covered all that much but nobody looked on them with shame.

Just one of those things, citizens aren't necessarily responsible for the workings and ineptitude of their elected officials.

@LN78 I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like to follow our politics from the outside. The world's largest superpower collectively losing its mind, or at the very least growing increasingly politically and socially unstable... it's embarrassing.

Although perhaps also inevitable. Every empire eventually suffers the same fate.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika In fairness, he was warning there was a contingent that was very opposed to him becoming Speaker. I put this fiasco mostly on McCarthy's shoulders: he doesn't have the votes, and should step down for the good of the party.

Not that I care. Aside from passing government funding bills/debt ceiling increases, which they'll use as leverage in terroristic negotiation tactics anyway, a GOP-led House is going to be an embarrassing waste of public resources and devote 100% of its energy to trolling the White House.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Pretty much par for the course this last decade. Although it keeps getting dumber and dumber. The Benghazi situation didn't require ten separate investigations (Republicans really wanted to find something that would properly hurt Obama, but there just wasn't much blood in that particular stone), but at least it was a real thing that happened. Once the House GOP regains its composure, how many meaningless investigations into Hunter Biden's laptop d*** pics are there going to be?

@LN78 Who didn't get beaten up by their older brother? If you didn't they weren't doing their job right.

It'd be really bad to have his as Speaker, since that'd put him second in the line of succession. Cue some QAnoners cooking up some hare-brained conspiracy to take out Biden and Kamala so that Annoying Orange can retake the throne. Wouldn't work, of course, but they'd probably hurt some random person in the process, or blow up the family dog, or who knows what else.

Sorry. First thing that immediately came to mind.

@LN78 He cultivated a very particular sort of counter-cultural image that definitely resonated with people growing up in my generation who re-discovered him via the internet once video sharing sites became more commonplace. I've grown more critical of his work as I've gotten older, but I still really appreciate his wry wit, comedic timing, and the way his routines blurred the line between comedy and philosophy.

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The funny thing is McCarthy has agreed to INSANE concessions to try and win these people over, and it's not helping. He actually agreed to the concession that anyone in either party could just force a vote of no confidence at any time, lmao.

@LN78 The reality is that a six year old could bring a gun to school and shoot a teacher every single day for the next year, and NOTHING would fundamentally be done to limit gun access in this country.

Murica!

Blame the Western culture for liking ultra violence from video games and movies.
Those stuffs are really really evil.

Nope.
Violence existed way before culture did.

@LN78
I still consider them as the root of all the crime.
They are really the evil stuffs.
I will not change my opinion.
It is what it is from my point of view.
Peoples can copy what things they saw / heard directly or indirectly.
It will become habit.
The only way to cut the demonic cycle by eliminate all those rated 18+ stuffs, completely annihilated.
Just no more exposure of those disgusting stuffs. They are not even entertainment.

@sorteddan
And a lot of Western peoples keep worshiping ultra violences as entertainment. WTH?!
They are almost everywhere, even on my handphone from the advertisement / commercials.
I'm very sick to see that disgusting culture.

@LN78
Well, good luck with your opinion but I will not change my statement. I blamed the rated 18+ stuffs can make peoples behave very bad.

Anti-matter, Western countries have FAR LESS violence and crime than most of the rest of the world. Even the United States, despite sky high gun ownership.

How do you explain this?

@GreatAuk
I'm not American, I'm Indonesian people but I keep hearing some of USA city have very high crime rate and it made me have negative reaction whenever I heard about gun shooting mass especially from school environment that slapped on my head "USA peoples only like to kill innocent peoples with guns because too much watching or playing rated 18+ shooting games to show off how badass they are".

@LN78
I have seen with my own eyes from some of my former students at primary school who have very bad behavior in the school because most of them get bad influence from their life, either get abused by family / relatives or copying what did they saw. The kids who behave bad mostly copying from what did they saw or experienced so I blamed the rated 18+ stuffs and ultra violences from rated 18+ stuffs could trigger them to become aggresive.
I still remembered when I was first time work at my new working place at primary school, there was a grade 6 student who got addicted by rated 18+ games and he didn't hesitate to say inappropriate things in front of me and the other teachers. How was that happened?
Blame to rated 18+ stuffs. He got brainwashed by those evil stuffs.
Also, blame the parents who didn't take care of their kids.