#us poltiics

[itscoldinwonderland]

The scariest thing to acknowledge is that anyone can be radicalized. Liberal, conservative, leftist, communist, capitalist, socialist, it doesn't matter. You can be radicalized into faciaim. No matter how much you believe you are against faciaim. It can be alluring. And that's a really scary thought. It's easy to point to the opposition and say"they are the facist, I would never". But that is a fault. The idea that you could never be a fascist is facism propaganda. Facism feeds in the undereducated. Faciaim feeds on hatred. That's why it's so important not to generalize. To acknowledge that any moment, anyone "on your side" can become a victim of facism. Including yourself.

Be deligent. Don't generalize. Accept people whete they are and you might actually find allies...

[sidewalk-scrawls]

"Trump has been charged with four counts: conspiracy to defraud the United States "by using dishonesty, fraud and deceit to obstruct the nation’s process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election"; conspiracy to impede the Jan. 6 congressional proceeding; a conspiracy against the right to vote and to have that vote counted; and obstruction of, and attempt to obstruct and impede, the certification of the electoral vote."

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[photo-roulette-wheel]

Fargate II is coming

🇺🇸lore dump for the US version🇺🇸

🇨🇦lore dump for the Canada version🇨🇦

[satanic1313]

oh censorship oh censorship

how I love your red pen so

writing over me and everything

You say is offensive or derogatory

from the woke left to the stuffy right

To the Bible and Betty white

Your community guidelines and trigger warnings

Make my brain hurt

because why buy a squirt gun when words are just as deadly

O censorship why are you so amazing

Oh right your not you just put a bag over our heads and said don't worry your pretty little head

Thinking hurts so we the self righteous left and right will do all your thinking instead

[fantasticwolfpenguin]

Ireland publicly disowning genocide Biden isn’t enough, I need the COLLAPSE OF THE US MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

[david-box]

Comment here before Jan. 19th https://mha.ohio.gov/about-us/rules-and-regulations/rules/draft-rules/gender-transition-care

The new rules ban transition surgery for minors (???) and require physicians offering HRT to work with an endo, a psych, a "medical ethicist" (????????) and give a plan on how detransition would work Just In Case I guess and the patient has to go to therapy for 6 months for anyone under 21 years old. lol. This is after the governor vetoed a bill that would boot trans kids from sports, surgery, and HRT unless they're intersex because fuck you, that's why

[the-owl-tree]

the fact that we finally had a chance for a political murder mystery story and the writers threw it away for more christianity. i feel so deeply violent now when i think bout how excited i was after reading the first book of asc

It's kind of interesting how a lot of the issues were set up in the first half and I'd written them off as issues and not like. focal points of the plot. One thing that's been eating at me is how the narrative is taking on the One Bad Apple approach with Splashtail

"They'll change back" LIKE WHAT?????? IS THAT HOW THIS WORKS NOW. It's such a telling line when it comes to the writing team's ideology, it's not that RiverClan's xenophobic pride has opened them up to a leader that uses those fears to gain power, it's that Splashtail is a nasty little man who OHKO's no take backs his own deputy and loooooveees murder. I was kind of baffled by this decision then I remembered it's literally how they described TigerClan, with Tigerstar being the nasty little man who corrupted the poor wittle RiverClan cats in executing half-clan cats. Let's not examine the underlying ideology in Clan society that might have lead to it!

I don't think WC has anything really that interesting to say political wise and the more i think about it trying another political story, the more gnawing off my toes becomes appealing. I agree that ASC started off on a way more grounded tone that was appealing and that definitely was thrown out the window with little to no warning.

They just dropped the ball real hard. It's rough.

[punkass-diogenes]

Reminder that when you talk about Zionism with regard to the state of Israel, you are talking specifically about political Zionism. Although the two have more or less become synonymous in the modern age, there have historically been and still are other forms of Jewish Zionism that the numerous very valid critiques of political Zionism do not (necessarily) apply to, and many of them preceded political Zionism.

[circleandsquarecomic]

Circle Does Something. Just... Something

[smashing-yng-man]

There's 435 members of the House, 100 members of the Senate, and 535 members of Congress that you hardly ever hear about. On top of that, the United States is $19 trillion in debt and Congress recently sent $40 billion to Ukraine to aid them in their war against Russia.

I can sincerely promise you that Biden, nor any other president, doesn't control the gas or food prices.

[oatbugs]

flabbergasted???

[mourning-again-in-america]

which civilization had the greatest metallurgical skill/knowledge? which civilization had the best metallurgy? which civilization had the best geological potential for metallurgical prowess?

[arcane--knowledge]

americans act like the us is the protagonist of the world

[olomaya]

My Sims are getting political! After so many months, I'm going back to finish up my Politics/Community Activist mod. This is actually what my Student Council mod is based on (it's basically a baby version of the Poltiics mod.) My current Sim, Arie Wang (I forgot where I downloaded this sim from but she's lovely and perfect for this storyline I'm playing out!) is in the Community Organizer career which is an Active career (like Firefighter or Stylist) and right now is working hard to push a new law in that will increase University scholarships and grants for all students.

Arie is a member of the New Earth party, one of the 4 political parties I created. New Earthers are all about the environment and focus on pushing forward environmental policies but as a mom, education is something that Arie cares about so she's been out there trying to encourage people to vote and hoping to sway voters before election day.

Different political parties have issues that they are either strong in favor of or against. If a party is against the policy, it's near impossible to sway them to vote for it so it's best to target people who are neutral and could vote either way.

I'm happy with how this customized ITF layout is coming out though I still need to make more tweaks and edits and also figure out why the active Sim's photo isn't showing (as below). Maybe also changing the title (Local Political Scanner??)

After probably doing about 40 fundraising cold calls she finally got someone to donate money. And boy did they! She's at the point in her career though when she doesn't need to be doing calls so I'm going to have her get some volunteers to do the grunt work so she can focus on making friends in City Hall to build further influence.

Once a ballot measure is put up for vote, you have 5 days to campaign before voting day. Arie has been hitting the streets every day to canvas for votes, doing campaign calls and also raising money for the party to pay for advertising (TV, radio, online, print) which is the most effective way to sway voters.

Yesterday, I added in a VFX to show when a Sim has been successfully influenced either for or against the ballot measure in question and in testing it out, I saw that Arie has actually been campaigning AGAINST the measure this whole time! Oops!

I clearly messed up with a bool somewhere but at least the influence system is working as intended.

With 7 hours until the Election period begins, and all the time and money I've spent on campaign ads, it looks like I've just accidentally doomed my town to expensive education until I can repeal the law. The Free Llamas are not going to be happy.

Also, shout out to Stable Diffusion which I used to create the Political Party Icons. I'm obsessed with this tool and loved how they turned out.

[redstonedust]

everyone and their mom knows this but it really blows my mind that the leftist status quo in us politics rn seems to be "you need to suck it up and vote for the guy currently aiding a genocide, or youre basically indirectly voting for the radical authoritarian whos on trial for multiple crimes" like jesus christ, these are the options? what kind of fucked up trolly problem poltiical system is this????

[roadhogsbigbelly]

genuinely the only reason to even bring up obesity when talking about american imperilism is if you haven't grown pass the "attractiveness equals morality" stage of poltiics, when not only are zionists using their "supposed progressiveness" to justify genocide but also the fact that their female soldiers are soooooo much prettier than the civilians they're murdering. give me a fucking break.