OT: US Election

[SpaceMonkey]

What’s your beef with JP?

JBP is great if you actually need to be told to tidy your room and wash your balls.

 

[JJ]

Out of interest, how do you define the radical left?

More extremely than most describe the hard right

Sadd and Peterson are hardly grifters, they are good academics with the courage to express their views which are different to many in academia. It’s called academic and free speech…. The grifters are usually those running for office

there are other very liberal academics such as Jerry Coyne who have strongly criticised the left in recent times, not to mention Flynn in NZ before his passing…. He left the US on the McCarthy era, and then late in his career was silenced because data didn’t fit with the leftist narrative

 

[JJ]

This is one of the biggest myths floating around, the university system in the US is not radical left, it's not even centre left dominated (especially not in a rest of the western world spectrum).

I’m guessing you work in a Uni? I do too, and disagree with what you’re saying there, but there is variance around places, and in some a semblance of change

 

[SpaceMonkey]

More extremely than most describe the hard right

Sadd and Peterson are hardly grifters, they are good academics with the courage to express their views which are different to many in academia. It’s called academic and free speech…. The grifters are usually those running for office

there are other very liberal academics such as Jerry Coyne who have strongly criticised the left in recent times, not to mention Flynn in NZ before his passing…. He left the US on the McCarthy era, and then Kate in his career was silenced because data didn’t fit with the leftist narrative

I studied under Flynn at Otago - good bloke. Bit of a root rat though, he was knobbing a student at one point, haha

 

[Meth]

I’ve got to say, this result does make the 2020 result seem more suspicious. I’m not a conspiracist, but it is hard to believe all those people who turned up to vote for Biden just didn’t show up this time around. Then again, maybe I just haven’t got my head wrapped around the scale of the USA

As a disclaimer, I haven't looked into it with any sort of scrutiny.

 

[Meth]

In any event, this definitely reeks of the Democrats losing, more than the Republicans winning. They are a shit show.

 

[Meth]

I think left v right is an outdated paradigm, in the US at least. It’s now establishment v anti establishment? Or maybe establishment v populist?

Of course, Trump isn’t a real populist, but he plays one and, bizarrely, seems to have done so convincingly.

 

[Meth]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...utperform-biden-in-a-single-state/ar-AA1tC0nl

something is definitely off

 

[Meth]

One more comment to make is 5 in a row.

A lot of blame must sit on Biden's shoulders. As I said, Harris and the Democrats are also culpable for trying to pull one over the voters' eyes.

Also, this election shows that nobody really cares what celebrities and the establishment media think any more.