Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Meanlucario
Some facts just aren’t enough to change peoples opinion about certain things.

Though you’re still supposed to address them in proper debating.

@Zincy
It got worse. The Guy’s on a ventilator, he can’t speak, arm and liver are damaged too.

I remember hearing that someone in this thread said that suburbs are always full of racists (I’m too lazy to look for the post). I feel like that’s more correlation than causation, and at worst the neighborhoods being racist before they add a suburb.

It’s less suburbs are filled with racists and more suburbs were made directly because of racism

Create affordable houses, only let well off white people get loans to purchase them (with the oh-so-coincidental-we-swear knock on effect of whites getting a leg up on generational wealth while non-whites get no handicap), zone off stores from the area necessitating the ownership of a vehicle instead of using public transportation, etc.

@Dustcan
I see.

I need some eye wash before I start looking at him seriously. Something about an affidavit is all I got from this person.

You know, I never got the chance to talk about this. This is why you don’t fall for any of Silicon Valley Tech Bro bullshit, especially from egotistical billionaire.

Fox News continues to be my favorite comedy channel ever.

With Tucker Carlson still MIA due to, and I quote from people supposedly close to him, him “shitting himself scared” over Alex Jones’ texts on top of the rest of the big name hosts trying to keep their heads down as much as possible the rest of the peanut gallery is running ragged trying to craft a cohesive narrative for the raid on Mar-A-Lago.

Among the recent things they’re throwing at the wall to see what sticks is trying to say to the effect of “C’mon. C’mon. We all know there’s no way he knew what was in those documents. There’s no way he would carry them himself.”

And I’m all for it. I love when the alt-reich has run out of excuses and are just admitting their god-king is too fat, lazy and honest to God stupid to be a criminal.

It’s great.

I live in a suburb and there are plenty of minorities living here.

In case it matters, I live in New Jersey.

Oh and on top of nuclear secrets it turns out Trump stole the payroll documents for our spies.

The extent to which this traitor is undermining our country just never ends.

@Dustcan
Trump: we don’t need spies, That why I’m gonna take away their money.

Me:Why are you doing this to our country.

@igotnopicks
Because he wants their money instead.

Tulsi Gabbard is filling in for Tucker Carlson.

Oh boy.

Makes sense. They’re both Russian assets.

Oh boy here we go again.
There was a report of an armed intruder outside the school, sending it into lockdown. Parents tried to get in to get their children and 2 got tased and a 3rd arrested because they were carrying concealed. Ultimately they never found the suspect or confirmed he had a gun.
Arresting the one carrying is somewhat understandable since they were on school property. But the 2 that were tased? Yeaaah that’s not going to help the image of police any.

@lonewolf
Guess they pulled a Uvalde Police

Conservatives losing their shit because fake-Americana restaurant Cracker Barrel added some plant based options is the perfect encapsulation of how weak, thin skinned, and pathetic these little sissy snowflakes are.

@Zincy
So plant-base alternatives are “un-American” now? First their God-King is revealed to be the traitor everyone else knew he was and now their favorite restaurant added alternatives to their menu to draw in more customers.

@Zincy
@Background Pony #83FA
Salman Rushdie is now off the ventilator and can talk again.

@Meanlucario
And the world probably wonder so many Americans are overweight and lazy, as well as depressed.

@NitroFury
Personally, I’d eat more alternatives if they actually tasted good. If they made a meat substitute that tasted and felt like actual meat, I’d eat it (assuming it was edible and wouldn’t harm/kill me).

I found this map that looks interesting

This is a map of the US Housing Affordability by counties.

@Meanlucario
It taste fine, i’m used to crap that’s worst, but it’s kinda silly to think people need fake meat to be a vegetarian. We’re not obligate carnivores.

Still you got to work pretty hard to stay healthy without meat these days, the benefits of meat cannot easily be approximated.

When someone makes meat substitute that actually feels like meat I’m going to have a hard time believing it.

@NitroFury
America obesity has some exceptional factors. I think refined sugar, too much highly processed food, alcohol and prescription drugs are the biggest culprits. It’s mostly about the logistics of feeding people, and treating their diseases.

Sugar is the cheapest energy source, so isolated sugar is added to everything. A problem with soda is that it was designed as an energy drink, and slowly became a replacement for water. The speed in which a foods sugar enters the body is known as a glycemic index, the index for soda is extremely high.

Highly processed foods strip out the micronutrients our bodies need to effectively process, store and release energy. You need to eat some foods that haven’t been heat treated in your diet.

The thing about prescription drugs, is that almost anything you do to the body can result in depression and loss of energy. Then there is mood drugs in particular, like monoamide oxidize inhibitors that disrupt your bodies ability to maintain blood sugar, this is why psych meds are known to make people fat. You mess with any energy system in the body, and it can lead to reduced brain function and reduced physical activity.

Alcohol triggers the release of insulin. People also consume a lot of extra carbs on top of the alcohol in various drinks.

My one actual political take: Capitalism intentionally feeds people the wrong food and administers ineffective treatment for profit

Several major rivers in Europe are at risk of drying out entirely, and almost every river west of Russia has seen incredible declines. This has led to many lakes and ponds that rely on those rivers to also dry out. In areas where rain is happening, dry, caked ground is leading to devastating flash floods.

Same thing is happening in large swaths of the US, along with major declines in our pollinator species, which threatens the backbone of our national food chain.

I have no qualms about calling climate change deniers the dumbest, most worthless humans on the planet. Those inbred hicks are so amazingly blind, at this point I cannot tell if it is mere stupidty or mental sickness. It makes me question how a human can be this utterly inept. At what point is your brain power so low that it starts affecting the autonomic systems? If they get any dumber their hearts won’t know how to pump blood anymore.

@NitroFury
It’s somewhat similar to the population density map, but there are differences too. I wonder if most of it can be explained by combining the population density map with an income map?