How does the World view America these days?

[cwmbrancity]

thread should be renamed "worst things about America"

 

Old Bay seasoning counters Trump, every fuckin time

[chenGOD]

“I follow Allah and I pledge allegiance to the Islamic State. That is the reason why I did what I did.”

 

Dummy tries to execute police officer in Philly - http://nyti.ms/1RdRolZ

 

 

 

Ms. Holliday told The Philadelphia Inquirer that Mr. Archer, the oldest of seven siblings, had suffered head injuries and had been hearing voices, and laughing and muttering to himself.

Natalie King, 68, who lives across the street from Mr. Archer’s Yeadon residence, said that she considered mental illness a more likely explanation than religious extremism. “He wasn’t what you would call radicalized or nothing like that,” she said.

thread should be renamed "worst things about America"

 

Old Bay seasoning counters Trump, every fuckin time

 

For some reason I read that as Old Spice seasoning.

[cwmbrancity]

you been sniffing n getting high on Giggsy's chest hair again Chen?

[Audioblysk]

I have made yet another batch of my famous gumbo. Consisting of a thick roux that I made a day ahead of time, duck, chicken, home-made andouille, tomato chunks and preserves I froze from the garden this fall, celery + onion + green pepper = cajun mirepoix, frozen okra from the garden this year, loads of spices, home made chicken stock, homegrown herbs and parsley, and the danky dank brown rice.

 

Serve with garlic bread and there is hope for America still. The hope exists in my gumbo. If trump wants some, I'm spiking it with a bunch of 'hope' LSD. COME GET SOME DIS HOPE.

 

[ambermonk]

I obviously don't like Trump, but if there were one of his sup-

 

I have made yet another batch of my famous gumbo. Consisting of a thick roux that I made a day ahead of time, duck, chicken, home-made andouille, tomato chunks and preserves I froze from the garden this fall, celery + onion + green pepper = cajun mirepoix, frozen okra from the garden this year, loads of spices, home made chicken stock, homegrown herbs and parsley, and the danky dank brown rice.

 

Serve with garlic bread and there is hope for America still. The hope exists in my gumbo. If trump wants some, I'm spiking it with a bunch of 'hope' LSD. COME GET SOME DIS HOPE.

 

OMG ...Want

[Nebraska]

Texas allows guns into state mental health hospitals

 

 

As of New Year's Day, licensed gun owners in Texas have been allowed to openly carry firearms into restaurants, shops, zoos and mental health hospitals.

 

Visitors to one of Texas' 10 state mental health hospitals will be allowed to openly carry weapons into the facilities, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. Employees and patients will still be barred from bringing in weapons. The hospitals this week pulled down signs banning guns at its facilities and posted new ones asking people to leave their firearms in their cars or conceal them from patients, said Carrie Williams, a state health department spokeswoman.

 

“While licensed visitors are legally permitted to carry on our hospital campuses, our patients are being actively treated for psychiatric conditions and generally it’s best not to expose them to weapons of any kind.,” Williams said in statement.

[chenGOD]

I have made yet another batch of my famous gumbo. Consisting of a thick roux that I made a day ahead of time, duck, chicken, home-made andouille, tomato chunks and preserves I froze from the garden this fall, celery + onion + green pepper = cajun mirepoix, frozen okra from the garden this year, loads of spices, home made chicken stock, homegrown herbs and parsley, and the danky dank brown rice.

 

Serve with garlic bread and there is hope for America still. The hope exists in my gumbo. If trump wants some, I'm spiking it with a bunch of 'hope' LSD. COME GET SOME DIS HOPE.

 

 

See?

AMERICA'S STILL GREAT!

[ambermonk]

there's such a pathetic insecurity to the whole open carry thing and gun culture in general. not sure if i can put it into words properly, but it's sort of like 'inside i feel like a fucking wuss so i carry my gun around visibly so others think i'm tough'. it's so sad.

That's right, real men go hand-to-hand.

 

Actually I used to own a .22 caliber rifle myself, but saw zero need to brandish it in public. And unless I intend to go hunting out in the wild, I have no need for another gun.

 

I understand Second Amendment rights and all, but that doesn't excuse one to act like a total clown about it.

[hello spiral]

https://youtu.be/FW6yK4fjrlE

 

https://storify.com/tinymediaempire/i-went-to-a-donald-trump-rally-and-saw-a-mean-wear

[auxien]

 

https://youtu.be/FW6yK4fjrlE

 

https://storify.com/tinymediaempire/i-went-to-a-donald-trump-rally-and-saw-a-mean-wear

 

 

Fucking Christ, that video, that article...

 

edit: Audioblysk that gumbo sounds delish.

Edited January 9, 2016 by auxien

[usagi]

“I follow Allah and I pledge allegiance to the Islamic State. That is the reason why I did what I did.”

 

Dummy tries to execute police officer in Philly - http://nyti.ms/1RdRolZ

 

to be fair, Allah's twitter is p fire.

 

I have made yet another batch of my famous gumbo. Consisting of a thick roux that I made a day ahead of time, duck, chicken, home-made andouille, tomato chunks and preserves I froze from the garden this fall, celery + onion + green pepper = cajun mirepoix, frozen okra from the garden this year, loads of spices, home made chicken stock, homegrown herbs and parsley, and the danky dank brown rice.

 

Serve with garlic bread and there is hope for America still. The hope exists in my gumbo. If trump wants some, I'm spiking it with a bunch of 'hope' LSD. COME GET SOME DIS HOPE.

 

 

this sounds retardedly good. I need this.

[goDel]

I'm still in the proces of watching the recent town hall meeting with obama and people supporting gun rights. It's a bit of a cringe experience as its obvious both sides of the argument having a pretty fucking tough time to have some kind of reasonable debate past the emotions. Although the intentions were good, i dont think obama was able to effectively reach across the isle. I really hope he learns from this (dont go into professorial mode when frustrated, thats just really stupid). It's obvious the gun rights people dont trust him, and with what ive seen in this town hall meeting its obvious things havent improved (but didnt get worse either, i believe). And solving the trust issue is basically obamas responsibility, imo. That comes with the job of being president.

 

In the end i believe that everyone can stand behind the idea that in order to protect kids, adults share a responsibility to create a safe environment. Not simply for their own children, but also for others. And i believe that even a majority of gun rights people agree some things need to be done to improve the current situation. But the biggest bottleneck is simply the lack of trust in obama. Moreso than some special interests putting clickbait bullshit into the either that obama is coming to take away peoples guns. If anyone is in the position to reach people, its the president. But he simply has to be more effective in doing so than he currently is.

[Dorian Mode]

 

 

We live in a time when you have to be polite, but if you look through all of history the leaders that actually accomplished anything, by far, were totally ruthless

 

I find this to be pretty interesting lately. We're taught about historical figures as if they were role models, but in order to buck the trends they had to be pretty savage and morally bankrupt some or maybe all of the time. Thomas Edison was a dick, Ben Franklin could be as well. I have no idea if Steve Jobs will be looked at in a similar way decades from now, but they'll probably fudge some inconvenient details. The ends justified the means for them.

 

Thomas Edison was indeed a dick, especially regarding his treatment toward Nikola Tesla, who was the REAL granddaddy of modern electricity. When they talked about how Edison was to credit for electricity in history class in school, I don't recall even one mention of Tesla in those textbooks. This is downright fraudulent.

 

I suppose I could tell the story in a nutshell, but some of you might already know. If not, Google can point you in the right direction.

 

EDIT: Holy shit, just realized today was the 73rd anniversary of Tesla's death.

 

I read about Edison and Tesla feud - IIRC, Edison was pushing DC while Tesla was for AC ... and to prove how dangerous alternating current was, Edison arranged a public electrocution of an elephant! a dick move, I'd say ...

[azatoth]

Edison was a bit of a prick, wasn't he?

Edited January 9, 2016 by azatoth

[Adieu]

i wont shirk the label social justice warrior. i think in this nuclear age progress is a necessity. people need to become reasonable and ethical or the world doesn't stand a chance. honestly it's clear to me that that's how it is. human rights and morality are not constructs of religion or philosophy, it is apparent to all of us that someone is that other person, and that is the kernel of morality. being able to sort out the particulars is another matter. philosophers and spiritualists, i believe, were wrong to seek an infallible source of morality. that is because it is up to the processing of the mind to sort out the nature of any given ethical choice, and those situations and choices can get quite hairy and unclear.

 

*inhale* so... yeah, fuck bigots in their callous asses. depriving a generalized group of their perceived dignity for your amusement is a selfish, twattish thing to do.

 

now, that said... comedy is a special thing. i've now made my beliefs clear, but: i think in comedy racism may get a pass, if done correctly. racism is actually quite common in standup comedy. joe rogan is actually remarkably clean in that respect.

 

i dont know how it works, im just saying. i dont have a problem with racism in comedy, even though i despise prejudice and similar behaviors. i think comedy has a way of pouring a healing energy on that particularly dangerous zone of human psychology.

 

i dont know what particular thing rogan said regarding pc culture. do you think he was protecting comedy?

 

no he was protecting himself from the blood thirsty fascist neo-liberal dumbass thought crime accusers who can go fuck themselves. they have no idea the damage they are doing because they are unintellectual fuck faces. the more you use law to restrict behavior the less free your society becomes and the ultimate conclusions will be collapse and violence as all those predatory douche knuckles take advantage of the tools you put before them. if you think that joe rogan is an enabler of persecution and bigotry you're actually full blown tumblr retarded.

 

Let's actually examine where the real problems lie and that is obviously with the agenda of the MSM and the political class. not a fucking comedian with a baller podcast.

 

We can all make fun of whomever the fuck we desire to for whatever reason we desire. everyone is included in that.

[YO303]

By the way rogan has changed his tune now cause i believe he is seeing the same things i see, he goes into this deep peaceful rants (i am aware he did before but im talking about something else that is similar, its hard to explain you just have to trust me its relevant and factual) that two years ago he would be making fun of, he is trying distance himself from all the bigotry that has been building around the anti-cencorship battle

 

Adieu, if there is a battle against censorship i want to side with rogan not with what has morphed into the alt-right (who was born amidst the battle of the comedians vs censorship)

Edited January 9, 2016 by Deer

[YO303]

A lot of good people are making the terrible mistake of siding with the alt-right just cause they whistle a similar tune to what the comedians were, this is dangerous

 

(i use the term alt-right cause i dont know another term for them)

Edited January 9, 2016 by Deer

[cwmbrancity]

god damn tree-hugging communist ;)

 

and, shocker, i see Trump is all over this 2nd Amendment bs being written in stone, even if amendment infers a previous constitutional alteration

 

from my humble experience there are far too many privileged white Americans happy being in the middle & upper tiers of the US pyramid to be getting all soft n socialist for this to work, Mesh

 

"why should my tax dollars pay for *x, y & z?"

 

- "errrrr cos of the collective interest?"

 

"fuck off you limp wristed Euro-pinko saving yer ass in multiple wars....."

 

the amount of times i heard this form of rhetoric from these demographics was metaphorically endless and, unfortunately, i think the dream of a cohesive left-wing agenda died with Henry Wallace getting fucked over by Truman (nevermind the later resurgence in the 60's)

 

[may be rude]

the 2nd amendment is 27 words and 2 of them are "well regulated"

[goDel]

You might be surprised how people might think them white fruitcakes in oregon are "well regulated". Having a white skin implies being well regulated. Hmmmffff

[Dorian Mode]

post modern indentity politics is seen as leftism while in truth it's a right wing "divida et impera" - strategy and ideology ... if there is a tranny or a left handed black lesbian on the board of directors of a multinationally exploitating company, that's supposed to be somehow a great achievement - job description is "community relations", meaning that the tranny or lesbian won't do anything there, their role is representational or ceremonial, they just sit there and the "community" should be happy that one their own is pulling big money .... business as usual goes on and inequality widens

 

there is a lot of talk about "communities" - and it's mostly bullshit, because these aren't any genuine communities but statistical aggregates ... wtf could be a "tranny community" ... wouldn't a tranny be happy instead if he/she/hir/hör/it is mistaken for a woman?

 

people are supposed to obsess over skin color and sexual habits, and forget their common economical interests ...

 

 

 

calling indebtity politics "cultural marxism" is like calling neoconservatism "cultural trotskyism"

[azatoth]

Why are you talking about transmissions on some board of directors?

[Dorian Mode]

as a non-American who doesn't speak English as first language, my thoughts might come out expressed badly ... but still, looking from outside, the PC and SJW stuff is a bit strange ... to say something about America is hard because everything would be one sided generalization or misleading, like saying "teh Canadians have one testicle on average"

Edited January 10, 2016 by Dorian Mode

[doublename]

 

Sean Penn interviewed El Chapo for Rolling Stone -

 

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/el-chapo-speaks-20160109

[Hugh Mughnus]

 

Sean Penn interviewed El Chapo for Rolling Stone -

 

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/el-chapo-speaks-20160109

I saw that. Authorities are saying the meeting helped lead to his arrest.

 

Doesn't that make Sean Penn a dead man? =/

 

Like, there's no way Chapo won't think it was a setup...

Edited January 10, 2016 by StephenG