***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[cosmiccoffee9]

This should be mailed to the folks at the Supreme Court

I feel like they might get the message soon.

Group offers up to $250 for SCOTUS justices sightings after Kavanaugh protest

Prior to Roe being overturned, the federal government warned of a potential surge in political violence.

www.axios.com

What they're saying: "DC Service Industry Workers... If you see Kavanaugh, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Coney Barrett or Roberts DM us with the details!," ShutDownDC said in a tweet.

• "We'll Venmo you $50 for a confirmed sighting and $200 if they're still there 30 mins after your message."

 

[gry60]

Transgender Butler County man says group beat him up over restroom use

The man wants criminal charges filed against his alleged assaulters.

www.fox19.com

Beaten for using the bathroom that corresponds to his sex.

It's almost like the moral panic about trans people is about protecting a particular, narrow understanding of the world and mankind.

 

[gry60]

Thread:

 

[dacomeup]

Transgender Butler County man says group beat him up over restroom use

The man wants criminal charges filed against his alleged assaulters.

www.fox19.com

Beaten for using the bathroom that corresponds to his sex.

It's almost like the moral panic about trans people is about protecting a particular, narrow understanding of the world and mankind.

This happening in Butler County is so unsurprising

 

[IATT]

 

[gry60]

This thread:

Moonie leader 'crowned' in Senate

Republicans and Democrats attend cult blessing ceremony.

www.theguardian.com

Weird, weird **** has been going on in this country:

 

[dacomeup]

Mayor Pete floats every time he’s on Fox News

 

[dinyc3st]

When reality starts to kick in

 

[Belgium]

When reality starts to kick in

Now watch this interview be
"I don't recall"
"I plead the 5th"
"I have no recollection of that"

Which, to be fair, should be his answers to relevant questions if he has a decent lawyer.

 

[TooOlfForThisIsh]

Mayor Pete floats every time he’s on Fox News

Before I’d ever heard the word Psaki, I thought Pete would make an amazing press secretary

 

[dacomeup]

Before I’d ever heard the word Psaki, I thought Pete would make an amazing press secretary

Aspirations on his end are too big for that

 

[RustyShackleford]

Doubt Pete will ever be President but I wish Pete was from Wisconsin because I think he would be able to get Ron Johnson out of the paint

 

[Belgium]

one of my closest colleagues is in the Ghent area. She never seemed to hold those views, but she’s also been working on global teams with Americans for a while. Shes indifferent but always tells me her father really hates the Germans. He says it’s in their blood to want to take over the world. She usually makes comments about the Dutch if anything.

I’d describe our relationship with the Netherlands as more of a friendly rivalry, just banter.
I work in the Ghent area as well but live quite a while outside of the Ghent area
I held those views on Americans as well when I was young but through gaming I interacted and became good friends with many Americans. And I matured over the years of course.
Fun fact, gaming (specifically Halo 3) is actually how I found NT, by referral from an NT’er I met via Halo.

 

[IATT]

 

[IATT]

 

[cragmatic]

I’d describe our relationship with the Netherlands as more of a friendly rivalry, just banter.
I work in the Ghent area as well but live quite a while outside of the Ghent area
I held those views on Americans as well when I was young but through gaming I interacted and became good friends with many Americans. And I matured over the years of course.
Fun fact, gaming (specifically Halo 3) is actually how I found NT, by referral from an NT’er I met via Halo.

Random, but I used to play Dark Souls 2 online with this kid from Portugal. Blew my mind when he told me he taught himself English by watching American TV with subtitles.

 

[IATT]

 

[Wargames]

To put things into perspective the US lost a little over 7,000 servicemen in the 15 plus years we were fighting a war in Afghanistan AND Iraq. Even if you didn’t think we were a horrible country in the past who could deny we are becoming a horrible country now?

Literally the NRA use to make gathering this information illegal.

 

[dragicon]

To put things into perspective the US lost a little over 7,000 servicemen in the 15 plus years we were fighting a war in Afghanistan AND Iraq. Even if you didn’t think we were a horrible country in the past who could deny we are becoming a horrible country now?

What were the other 52,000 deaths? Suicides?

 

[Wargames]

What were the other 52,000 deaths? Suicides?

Mostly yes and rest are accidents

“Two different demographic groups bear the brunt of escalating gun violence and are most likely to die of a gunshot wound in America: young Black men and older White men.

White men are six times as likely to die by suicide as other Americans. Black men are 17 times as likely to be killed with a gun fired by someone else.”

 

[Belgium]

 

[Belgium]

Random, but I used to play Dark Souls 2 online with this kid from Portugal. Blew my mind when he told me he taught himself English by watching American TV with subtitles.

That’s how I taught myself too. By the 4th and especially 5th grade I could type and speak fairly fluent English, good enough to be invited to a UK Unreal Tournament ‘99 clan
We only started getting English class by the 8th grade but by then I was already well past what we’d learn in highschool.

I’m not even good at languages in general, we started French class from 4th grade and I never managed anything more than just barely passable. Hell even my Latin grades were better the one year I took Latin in the 7th grade. My German was slightly better than my French but not by much.

I mainly learned my initial basic English from pokemon, dragonball, yugioh (the cards, we dubbed the show) and gundam wing

 

[biggie62]

When I moved to the US and went right into 1st grade, I attest me speaking fluently for my age by the end of the school year more so to all the watching of cartoons and PBS along with playing video games games than school itself. They took me out of ESL classes after half a year while I had classmates that were there in those classes through 8th grade in some cases which I never understood.

 

[Belgium]

When I moved to the US and went right into 1st grade, I attest me speaking fluently for my age by the end of the school year more so to all the watching of cartoons and PBS along with playing video games games than school itself. They took me out of ESL classes after half a year while I had classmates that were there in those classes through 8th grade in some cases which I never understood.

I think Pokemon the video game was probably the biggest key to becoming fluent at such a young age while being bang average at other languages. Remember, when we little kids got our hands on Pokemon games over here in elementary school, it's not like there was a Dutch version. The tv show was dubbed so we could use that for some degree of assistance but either way we had to slowly figure out our way through a game with many many terms in an unknown language.

Looking back at the age my friends and I got our first pokemon game at, I always find it remarkable how we were all able to relatively quickly overcome that language barrier on our own or through combining our efforts. I happened to have the most advanced English knowledge but literally everyone else I played pokemon with also quickly picked up the relevant vocabulary.
I think just about any kid can do it, provided they start off young enough. I can't think of a better game that's suitable for kids and has a very wide vocabulary that they can figure out on their own.

 

[dwalk31]