Biden 2021 - A Mediocre Middle Ground

Off Topic Politics & World Issues
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I think you’re overthinking this a bit.

Marketing certainly comes into play, but people tend to follow trends of those they spend time with or look to as role models. I’m sure someone somewhere has measured rates of smoking and brand choice among every demographic you can imagine, but there’s long been an association between black people and menthols. There are many comedy bits on this you can find over the years.

I don’t think it is much different from what led me and my friends to drink MGD during the 90’s. It was our beer. End of the story. If someone tried to ban our specific type of beer, I’d have been pissed off.

Studies by the FDA have found that lager style of beer is particularly problematic due to it’s smooth, refreshing taste, cheap price and popularity among high school students. The FDA recommends a ban on the sale of lager.

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1567

Nope. Black people just love menthol. No one knows why.

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The only black smokers who don’t smoke menthol, smoke black n milds. Change my mind.

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1568

Fixed it for you

Don’t take this seriously, I’m joking. There’s a stereotype here regarding the quality of American beer. If I’m being honest I don’t like Budweiser, PBR etc. Then again I’m not a connoisseur or anything.

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1569

I like a can of Fosters every once in a while.

Here you go. Top entry in the Urban Dictionary.

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1570

Carlton draught, Victoria bitter (favorite) and Cooper’s extra stout aren’t bad either.

I’m not a big drinker, though a beer and a steak coupled together on occasion can be very rewarding.

Also, to my knowledge newport doesn’t exist in Australia. Hence my confusion/ignorance pertaining to the topic.

1571

Because you have no black people.

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1572

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1573

What exactly has been done? From what I heard they said they didn’t have comment on what that board does and that they think more should be done.

Has something specific been done in this regard other than saying they think more should be done? If not this seems pretty hysteria based and at the minimum no different than saying Trump wants to change libel laws and other verbal attacks on free speech with no specific actions done. Trump didn’t do a lot of things he said he wanted to do. He was lazy and full of bluster.

Also FWIW my Facebook is largely people expressing conservative opinions. That’s because most of my friends and coworkers and formers of both are conservative. And they aren’t getting banned. In fact getting banned on Facebook or Twitter is incredibly rare.

Also if the Biden administration has done something specific in regards to curbing free speech on these platforms and I’m not aware of it my apologies and I’m almost certain I’d be against it.

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That’s a really long list to cover for all platforms, but lets start with Facebook.

They banned a sitting President of The United States.

They banned Alex Jones and Milo Younopo-however you say it.

Sure your small-time conservative friends and I may just be banned for weeks or however long at a time, but this is only being applied one-way.

YouTube is much more nefarious from what I can see.

Steven Crowder has to retain a lawyer and (somewhat comedically) dance around all of the things YouTube says he can’t say or he will be banned. He’s also in litigation with Facebook, from what I understand.

Shadow-bans and de-monitization were another weapon used against You Tube’s own content creators as it moved away from being a shining beacon of American free expression to a top-down thought police. Algorithms conveniently bury conservative videos and conveniently promote leftist videos.

These companies have gone as far as they can to become open ideological partners with the Democrat party, as have most major media. They still have to operate within legal confines but they are as close to a Big Brother as you can get under that framework. Who knows how much longer the framework will hold?

If you can’t read that NBC story about the TX school board decision and pick up on exactly what I’m talking about, I’m not sure what else I can say. If you read a story like that and find good, accurate information and pick up on no deception, then I don’t know what to tell you. Enjoy your Pravda, I suppose.

My favorite made-in-the-USA website of all time, YouTube, is now in the business of deciding what sort of thoughts and opinions you should and shouldn’t be able to hear, and they happen to be rowing in the same direction as the Democrats and most establishment and social media.

That’s revolting to me as an American and as a human being with agency. The whole notion of information control and curation is just repugnant and insulting to me, especially when the Big Lie of systemic racism and the rest of that poison are what these companies amplify and put to the forefront.

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1575

I was asking about the Biden administration. Not the platforms. You posted a video and said we should all get chills and the video said they weren’t going to comment on what an independent board did and thought companies should do more to combat misinformation. So just to be clear the Biden administration hasn’t done anything different than the Trump administration did so far? Said some words? Used to be Trump Derangement Syndrome if people said I can’t believe a President or administration would call for this when it was pointed out as wrong. We weren’t supposed to care about words and all that.

If people are now on board with what Presidents talk about being a big deal I’m right there with them.

Why should a sitting President of the United States get to do whatever they want? Are social media sites supposed to let them do whatever they want? If the President got on T-Nation and violated terms and services is T-Nation allowed to take action? Or can they only take action against non Presidents?

Should YouTube have to show porn? Should they have to show all violent images? Can they simply say we offer a service and you can’t do this type of thing on it? Why can’t they be free to do that?

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1576

Perhaps you’re right. Perhaps everything is somehow better now that the scourge of Trump has been removed from the social media landscape.

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1577

I don’t believe I said that. Personally I wasn’t for him being banned, but I also don’t think he’s entitled to do whatever he wants without consequence either. Perhaps if he’d learned that lesson way earlier in life he’d still be President.

We should also be clear that no one is really being “silenced.” All sorts of message board and media exist more than any other time ever. What we’re really saying is we think people should be able to do whatever they want on the internet and sites should be forced to take it. That’s not how the website you’re on works. Chris can and will drop the banhammer.

I should be able to say horrific things and because Twitter is big they shouldn’t be able to say I violate their terms isn’t a strong answer to me. Not when the internet is massive.

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Now that you mention it, things sound great to me. I can’t see what I was even concerned about.

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I wasn’t commenting if you think things are great or not I was just wondering why a video that hardly said anything was meant to give us chills I guess. Especially in a post that said Trumps attacks on freedom of speech didn’t do anything. That’s why I was asking if Biden’s (not even his own but his press secretary) had done anything. It seems as if the answer right now is no correct?

I mean we just had four years on here of a lot of posters arguing that what the President said doesn’t matter. As I said I do think it matters so if people are back to it mattering I’m glad to agree with them.

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1580

When I think about this statement in combination with your non-wokeness and the current position of the sun in our time zone, it’s easy for me, as a woke individual, to determine what concerned you. I can find the racism(and lack of anti-racism) in any statement.

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One of these days your posts won’t be trolling gibberish I’m sure of it. Keep on trying. No one was discussing racism wokeness or anything of the sort. As usual the “all those people talk about is race” are constantly bringing it up when no one else is.

I asked what was concerning about the statement and what specifically Biden had done in regards to it. And that remains unanswered. It’s just more inconsistency of “if Trump attacks the first amendment with words it doesn’t matter, but if Biden does it’s chilling.”

Maybe it’s scary because Biden might actually do some of the things he says? He’s probably not going to be golfing and watching cable news nearly as much so maybe it’s chilling that he may actually back up the talk?

1582

Seems plant-based meat substitutes are not the only option on the menu, mealworms will also be an acceptable red meat substitute:

Get into micro-farming now

1583

I dont think he could swing a club without dying of old age.

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1584

If he’s still alive you just murdered him hahahaha

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1585

You do know he was also canceled by the Right?

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