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Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#325751: Sep 1st 2020 at 12:02:15 PM

[up][up] Maybe you should take a little break from the news, then. Go do something to put your mind off things a bit.

Hope shines brightest in the darkest times
Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#325752: Sep 1st 2020 at 12:13:04 PM

Maybe you should refrain from joking about Biden from here on out,eh?

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#325753: Sep 1st 2020 at 12:38:03 PM

I know its an obvious question, but what the fuck has Trump here done aside from encouraging his cult to shoot paintballs & chemical gas at people?

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
ShinyCottonCandy Everyone's friend Malamar from Lumiose City (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Everyone's friend Malamar
#325754: Sep 1st 2020 at 12:39:24 PM

[up]I think he may have helped businesses get better at exploiting workers.

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ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#325755: Sep 1st 2020 at 12:50:18 PM

Yeah, Trump's "mini-strokes" tweet was definitely a Suspiciously Specific Denial, as noted on The Hill, because: "The president's denial raised eyebrows, as the book from New York Times correspondent Michael Schmidt did not specifically state that Trump had suffered from a series of small strokes... Schmidt reported in his new book that Pence was told to be on standby to assume presidential powers last November in the event the president had to be anesthetized during a previously unscheduled visit to Walter Reed Medical Center."

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#325756: Sep 1st 2020 at 1:42:35 PM

Well here's an odd one - 52 black franchisees of McDonalds (read: owners of a few of the stores) are filing a racial discrimination suit against the fast-food giant, claiming that they were directed to high-cost, low-profit stores in (in my estimation) a complicated version of redlining.

A federal lawsuit filed in Illinois alleges that the fast-food chain steered Black franchisees toward certain neighborhoods where sales are lower while costs are higher, leaving them with less money and yet higher scrutiny from corporate headquarters. The franchisees, who ran a total of more than 200 restaurants in the past decade, are seeking up to $1 billion in damages.

Location is key for a fast-food restaurant, and African-American franchisees have long spoken out about higher costs associated with security and insurance as well as upkeep of stores sold to them in poor condition. A report by Business Insider in December showed a ballooning gap between the average cash flow of Black franchisees versus others in the Mc Donald's system.

"Mc Donald's knew or should have known that these differential revenue and operating costs of Black-operated franchises as compared to White-operated franchises are not random or due to poor management," the lawsuit said. "These differences are statistically significant and are the result of the historical racial bias and barriers built into the Mc Donald's franchise system."

Mc Donald's rejected the allegations, saying they "fly in the face of everything we stand for as an organization."

"Not only do we categorically deny the allegations that these franchisees were unable to succeed because of any form of discrimination by Mc Donald's," the company said in Tuesday's statement, "we are confident that the facts will show how committed we are to the diversity and equal opportunity of the Mc Donald's System, including across our franchisees, suppliers and employees."

Edited by ironballs16 on Sep 1st 2020 at 4:49:32 AM

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#325757: Sep 1st 2020 at 1:57:26 PM

It begins. Got a postcard in the mail saying the radical left has taken over the Democratic party and controlling Biden, so vote Trump.

Into the shredder it goes.

Edited by speedyboris on Sep 1st 2020 at 1:59:31 AM

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#325758: Sep 1st 2020 at 1:59:29 PM

I'd be tempted to reply back saying "you say that like it's a bad thing".

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#325759: Sep 1st 2020 at 2:05:11 PM

If you reply to spam you'll wake up to mountain of paper

trust me it happened

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#325760: Sep 1st 2020 at 2:07:55 PM

I remember once seeing it suggested that when you get junk mail you fill the prepaid return envelopes with heavy items to force them to pay more.

[down] While said far left considers it an insult.

Edited by sgamer82 on Sep 1st 2020 at 2:13:14 AM

devak They call me.... Prophet Since: Jul, 2019 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
They call me.... Prophet
#325761: Sep 1st 2020 at 2:11:17 PM

[up]x4 From what i read on the more leftist part of twitter, their reaction is basically "Stop making biden look so good".

Personally i find it hilarious that career centrist Biden gets accused of being in the pocket of some mythical far left.

Edited by devak on Sep 1st 2020 at 11:11:33 AM

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#325762: Sep 1st 2020 at 2:15:12 PM

Well, Biden's reputation as a moderate centrist is so deeply ingrained that Republicans probably thought they couldn't break it. Besides, it's the party of QAnon now, they are predisposed towards seeing conspiracies and (wo)men behind curtains.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#325763: Sep 1st 2020 at 2:16:35 PM

The BBC just did a segment on that conspiracy theory that Biden is a paedophile because he owned the island next to Epstein's island. The BBC did state that it's a QAnon conspiracy, and debunk it as a false story. The segment was about disinformation in the US election.

Edited by Wyldchyld on Sep 1st 2020 at 10:17:59 AM

If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#325764: Sep 1st 2020 at 2:17:15 PM

And considering what the right is especially at their worst, I would not mind a takeover by the left.

Like I'm fucking Cuban. Why would I vote for the organization that thinks so lowly of me that they consolidate my ethnicity with a bunch of other unrelated ones?

Edited by slimcoder on Sep 1st 2020 at 2:17:27 AM

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#325765: Sep 1st 2020 at 2:17:35 PM

Going to try to step away from this thread for a bit and/or make sure to be civil if I post. Apologies again.

But I think that mailer kind of relates to the interview I linked to. It's more explicit in the interview than in the mailer, but it makes more sense if you understand "Biden is controlled by the far-left" as an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Ditto Qanon.

Beside that aspect, I think it's basically an attempt to address the contradictions between "Biden has dementia", "Biden is an out-of-touch racist", and "Biden is anti-fa". The "solution" is that Biden is an incompetent puppet of the far left.

Edit - Kind of funny in a sick way that in between my posting, there is a post about attempts to connect Biden to the Qanon conspiracy theory.

Edited by Hodor2 on Sep 1st 2020 at 4:18:35 AM

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#325766: Sep 1st 2020 at 2:18:37 PM

This is aimed at Republican leaning Independents.

But it probably won't work on Bide, guy is defined by being the affable moderate. If Trump was against Sanders, Warren or even a ticket with Harris on top, it might work better.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#325767: Sep 1st 2020 at 2:22:10 PM

Biden even made a crack about it at his speech last night.

"Do I look to you like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters? Really?"

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#325768: Sep 1st 2020 at 2:23:13 PM

Someone is going to twist those words now just because he said them

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HailMuffins Since: May, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#325769: Sep 1st 2020 at 2:23:35 PM

but what the fuck has Trump here done aside from encouraging his cult to shoot paintballs & chemical gas at people?

Locked kids in cages on the border, wasted millions on a wall that's somehow less effective than what was there before, abandoned the US' Kurd allies to be genocided by Turkey, nearly did the same with South Korea, moved the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem therefore giving the illegal occupation of the territory legitimacy, pushed back decades worth of GSM rights, blocked legal immegrants from entering the country more than once, am I forgetting anything?

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#325770: Sep 1st 2020 at 2:24:57 PM

> am I forgetting anything?

Started a trade with China

Assassinated an Iranian general

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devak They call me.... Prophet Since: Jul, 2019 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
They call me.... Prophet
#325771: Sep 1st 2020 at 2:25:14 PM

It's a pretty transparent attempt to make Biden into some boogeyman for the evil totally real evil socialism and the scary BLM and whatnot. It's the standard rhetoric of calling anyone left of them "far left" and "socialist". If Trump ran against George W Bush they'd call him a socialist.

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#325772: Sep 1st 2020 at 2:25:23 PM

Like shit my parents brought me here to get away the rat hole that is Cuba because its under a dictatorship. Why would I vote for another Castro?

Really what annoys me is that my Republican uncle and apparently a lot of Cubans support Trump despite him being exactly what makes Cuba so awful.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
HailMuffins Since: May, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#325773: Sep 1st 2020 at 2:26:13 PM

[up][up][up]Oh, and before I forget, he's almost certainly a pedophile.

The "almost" is there for legal reasons.

Edited by HailMuffins on Sep 1st 2020 at 6:26:34 AM

Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#325774: Sep 1st 2020 at 2:26:52 PM

I guess I should acknowledge that while I very much don't subscribe to the "Trump is playing 4D chess" theory, there might be a benefit of the accusations in terms of getting Biden to make comments that turn off Leftists.

Edited by Hodor2 on Sep 1st 2020 at 4:32:08 AM

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#325775: Sep 1st 2020 at 2:37:57 PM

"Really what annoys me is that my Republican uncle and apparently a lot of Cubans support Trump despite him being exactly what makes Cuba so awful."

I'm reminded of the moment I realized what was different about me and my uncle when we denounced mass murdering Communist dictators. I didn't like them because they were mass murdering dictators, he didn't like them because they were Communist.


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