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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Eh, that kind of runs into an inherent contradiction.
How are your politics not informed by your religion?
And how is your religion not informed by your politics?
At one point, one is informed by your sense of right.
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Dude. I don't follow any religion.
edited 3rd May '18 7:49:39 PM by RAlexa21th
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Or something like that, even if it's not "Religion", in the formal sense of the word.
I mean, you can see all sorts of pseudo-religious behaviors at a Trump rally, even. Religion is a lot of ways, reflective of humanity, and it makes sense that these type of behaviors would be inherent in other things as well.
edited 3rd May '18 7:55:07 PM by megaeliz
Yeah, not at all where I was going with that.
Mind you, my definition of religion is a bit broader than most people's as I define it as a series of traditions or philosophies which a person holds about the nature of the world.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
All of the Arts and humanities are much more intertwined and messy than most people think.
There are certain behaviors and ideas, that are "religious" in nature, even when unattached from an Traditional religion as such, and having an understanding of how they manifest in a religious context, can help us understand some of the wider sociological forces that drive humanity.
And anyway, the fact that it's a current issue, seems like a good reason to talk about it as any.
edited 3rd May '18 8:20:33 PM by megaeliz
anyway, to bring it back to something more relevant to the current day, apparently Russian Trolls helped create a hysteria over a US Military exercise in Texas in 2015.
Apparently, Russian Trolls and Alt-Right Conspiracy Theorists spread the idea that a Military Training Operation, Jade Helm, was actually a Conspiracy by the Obama administration, to round up political dissidents, and ultimately ended up with the Texas governor sending the Texas National Guard to oversee it.
And in 2015, the NY Times Magazine also reported several other similar incidents, although it was overlooked at the time, which I've already put here
edited 3rd May '18 8:21:21 PM by megaeliz
This is only tangentially related to politics, but what does this thread think of David Pakman?
From what I've seen, I'm kinda conflicted. On one hand, he has some pretty good videos debunking the Republican "socialism has never worked" narrative and deconstructing "classical liberalism"... but on the other hand, he's done a bunch of these useless debates in the past and made a video called "CRINGE: Girl Implodes Trying to Explain How to Pay for Free College" or something where he samples three minutes of a Fox Business interview, seemingly for extra views. I was feeling pretty positive towards him before that, now I'm not really sure.
On the religious left remember that there are actually two religious lefts, the religious left that are socially right wing due to their faith but vote left for other reason (often race based) and the religious left that are socially left wing due to their faith (the churches that sued to bring in gay marriage). The second group is even smaller than the first and I’d argue is the only proper way to win the faith argument against the religious right.
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They tend to play off each other, I think. Like how the insanity that is Q Anon, was started by American Conspiracy Theorists, but was quickly picked up and promoted by Russians.
According to the indictment, two of the defendants visited Texas in June 26, 2014, and other co-conspirator visited Atlanta in approximately November 26, 2014 through November 30, 2014. The first incident happened September 11th 2014, and was focused in Louisiana, and the second and third incidents happened on December 13, and were focused on Atlanta.
I'm not trying to take the blame off the conspiracy theorists that helped it spread, I'm just saying it makes sense.
edited 3rd May '18 9:03:27 PM by megaeliz
Concerning David Packman...
I'm wary of anyone who takes donations in cryptocurrencies as opposed to real money.
edited 3rd May '18 8:49:57 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedI'm just going to point out that the Separation of Church and State refers just to keeping the Church and the State out of each other's official affairs, and that controlling/screening individuals and their life experience and what influences their political opinions is not the point, and also literally impossible. Yes, our politics are often influenced by our faith, but the local pastor isn't also the mayor of the town or in an official position to advise the mayor, and so on.
Obviously this doesn't stop said pastor from having a political opinion and encouraging his congregation to vote a particular way, or a politician from talking about their faith. But this works for both Republicans and Democrats and in any case I'm not sure how we're supposed to limit that without possibly stepping all over the First Amendment.
Actually, Churches and Pastors are not allowed to endorse or oppose Political Candidates and Politicians to their Congregation, or else they lose their Tax Exempt Status (via the Johnson Amendment
). Even though Trump wants to remove this Amendment in the Tax Code (which would also allow Churches to publicly endorse and fund Politicians), it is still the law of the land.
So, apparently Rudy and Trump are drafting statements, including the Daniels 180, without consulting the rest of the legal team.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/03/politics/rudy-giuliani-donald-trump-legal-team-disarray/index.html
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.What did I just watch? The West Virgina Coal Mining Barron that's running for Senate as a Republican in West Virginia just made a ad, really you should just watch it.
edited 3rd May '18 9:34:17 PM by megaeliz
Why is he even complaining about Mc Connell. He's running as a Republican in West Virginia.
edited 3rd May '18 9:42:23 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised

The Christian Right is a a movement unto itself.
edited 3rd May '18 7:39:39 PM by megaeliz