Fight Club, but the protagonist and Tyler Durden are two different people, rather than being different headmates of one plural system.

Weird that so much more of them see China as an enemy compared to Democrats, and that the number of Democrats who see China as an enemy is also declining.

Also your graph cuts off at 2020 lol.

Meanwhile, here on planet Earth:

Yes, actually, I did. I remain convinced that your source is correct and that it was 6-7, not 20-30.

Your homework.

As most, if not all, trials will be carried out in absentia, the budget will focus on IT tools and save the expenses related to building and maintaining prisons.

10000 IQ strat unlocked: Saving money on building prisons by trying people you can’t apprehend.

So, continuing the successful policy the US has followed for the past 40+ years.

Mk ultra sounds pretty smart. And it is. If stimulants could reduce your risk of death would you not use them?

I have no idea how these sentences are connected.

There is no van of cops following you at all times.

No one said there was?

Bro, it doesn’t matter how many times you say something. What matters is what the fucking source says. It’s like you think if you just say something loudly and confidently enough, that somehow makes it true. It’s ridiculous.

This is what multiple sources (including the ones I posted) actually say.

That’s just an outright lie. I saw the source, you saw the source, I don’t know who you possibly think is going to fall for that. Nobody else is reading this far into a pointless argument in a 4 day old thread (apparently one person did, hi, upvoter) Like, literally:

Who am I going to believe? You, or my own eyes?

God damn, no wonder kids are so fucking stupid nowadays. Nobody can get you people to read.

Buddy, I understand you’re just trying to copy what I said, but you have absolutely no leg to stand on here. The screenshot is literally right there like a smoking gun. If you’re not trolling and aware that you’re spewing bullshit, you have to be the most ignorant person on the planet.

But you know what? Fine. I looked into it and here’s my source saying it’s 6-7 years.

You’ve proven it to my satisfaction too! I’m using your own source, which literally says, word for word, that the wait time was 6-7 years! Nowhere have you presented any evidence it was remotely close to 20-30!

I’m not surprised that you’ve “proven it to your own satisfaction,” given that your standards of evidence are random Quora users and Russian state media you don’t even realize is Russian state media! And even they say you’re wrong! Literally the only standard you’re applying is, “What makes the USSR look bad” or “What lets me win this argument.”

I really don’t know what you’re getting out of this. You are not going to convince me that when it says, “the average wait time was 6-7 years” it actually meant 20-30. You’re not going to convince me that 6-7 is basically the same as 20-30. You’re not going to get me to do your homework for you. Your source says 6-7, not 20-30 so that’s what I’m going with. This is incredibly straightforward.

I legitimately can’t tell if you’re just trolling me or if you’re legitimately unable to understand this. Just find a schoolbus in the morning, and get on it. You need more help than I could ever provide.

Yeah, they don’t really mind being seen as evil or cruel, they relish it and brag about it. They are, of course, evil and cruel, but they’re also ignorant and shortsighted. If you can’t laugh at them sawing off the branch they’re sitting on, while jerking off about how butthurt the libs will be that they totally owned that tree, I just don’t know what to tell you.

Buddy, the burden of proof is on the person making the claim. I’m not going to do your homework for you.

And you can talk all you want about how I “don’t care about the truth,” no amount of posturing will change the objective fact that 7 is less than 20. I’m the only one here basing my beliefs in anything factual.

Technically, that was with Germany, but a similar idea.

Don’t get it right too soon or people will call you a conspiracy theorist.

Remember, we don’t do that stuff anymore, it’s totally crazy to suggest that’s even a possibility. Wait 20 years, it’ll come out that we did, in fact, still do that stuff - but only back then. But by then we’ll have stopped and it’ll be totally crazy to suggest that’s even a possibility. Until you wait another 20 years.

No one has ever accused me of not posting walls of texts before 🤣

I think you’re right about it being about a specific thread though.

Funny you say that, guess what happened after the war, when they were captured by the Americans?

Total immunity for all their war crimes, in exchange for their research. Apart from a handful who had vivisected American pilots, anyway, but the ones who experimented on Chinese victims got off scot free.

The US would go on to employ chemical and biological warfare extensively in Korea shortly after, as well as in Vietnam.

Saying this from a German instance is certainly a choice.

No, we know the US government is stalking us more from the Snowden leaks than what’s listed here.

But also, “absurd but promising ideas” is whitewashing this stuff to a truly ridiculous degree. This stuff wasn’t like, “We think psychic powers might exist so we’ll test if people can tell what card I’m holding.” We’re talking about intentionally infecting black men with syphilis to use as guinea pigs. Was that “an absurd but promising idea?”

How about Donald Ewen Cameron, who was paid by the CIA to pose as a legitimate doctor and abduct Canadian citizens who came in with everyday symptoms like headaches, and he’d put them in months-long comas and electrocute them and inject LSD and do God knows what else to them because he burned his research notes?

That’s only the tip of the iceberg. You might as well say that Josef Mengele just let his curiosity get a little bit out of hand.

The way I see it, there’s an ever-widening gap between what is considered permissible or possible within the existing system, and what actually needs to happen to avert collapse. How much the DNC is willing to allow and what messaging a candidate goes with may matter just as much as who the candidate is.

Note that as a commie I expect most politicians to be self-serving opportunists and I’m skeptical that it’s at all possible to bridge the gap between what’s possible in the system and what needs to happen. But tactically speaking, they need to find someone who will at least promise to try to do good things rather than just maintaining the status quo.

And if Trump gets the outrageous military budget he wants, I’m not sure I’m going to envy whoever inherits the debt crisis. They need to call out military spending as the source of the problem and strongly condemn the Iran War. What we absolutely don’t need is someone doing austerity policies and trying to balance the budget by cutting social spending even further, which I expect to be the DNC’s agenda, and it’d be the fastest way to lose what should be a layup.

Sure, and that’s valid, I’m just not sure who that white male version of AOC would actually be.

I think people put to much weight on two data points. Relevant XKCD.