What are the odds of Trump getting reelected? [Also, French Cindi]

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baldwin's french was 

[Himu]

I saw that one in theaters!

[bork]

lol bork lives in the same city-state of millions of people as Nepenthe

Even worse- maybe the same county
 

[benjipwns]

I just don't want him to run into her car.

[Raist]

LOL you guys only figuring out now that Nepenthe is actually bork?


edit: oh shit oh fuck this isn't the members-only board. Sorry for blowing your cover borky :'(

[Rman]

bork lives in atlanta, right? traffic there is 

It sucks so bad and is only getting worse and worse every year.  Can't stand it.

Georgia also hampers ATL's mass transit efforts.

The US's car obsession is annoying.  Visiting foreign countries with decent metros is always a revelation for me. The US only really has NYC in this regard.

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atlanta's traffic system seems like it was purposely designed to be awful  LA has bad traffic because a billion people live there, atl is like someone wanted experience LA traffic with a much smaller population and designed around that 

[thisismyusername]

How the fuck did this thread go from


The odds of Trump winning again to

Cindi hates America

to Cindi is definitely going to move to France

to Cindi might move to Montreal instead

to Cindi is going to move to France and start a business

to Cindi is going to learn French via cartoons and comics

to Cindi will stick around for a while if Bernie wins

to Cindi is definitely moving to France to start a photojournalism career and heal race relations the world over via photography

[samir]

Cindy: Fluent in Japanese
Cindy: Only ever been to Mexico

 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/AgBioWorld/status/1231657700372684801

Last week I watched an ambulance desperately trying to get through the wall of cars on the highway and just barely making it through.

 'Murica

Germans have some experience in lining up alright 

[Himu]

Cindy: Fluent in Japanese
Cindy: Only ever been to Mexico

 

Never claimed to be fluent

One thing we can assess is that you're definitely not fluent in English.

[Raban]

The US is in her college sorority years. The too-drunk-to-know-the-difference-between-actual-rich-boys-and-their-sleazy-frat-brothers years, the thinking-about-her-future-but-might-as-well-get-all-the-freaky-sex-out-of-my-system years, the definitely-meets-the-definition-of-a-binge-drinker years, but she’s down that rabbit hole deep enough that there’s no way out until she hits rock bottom. In other words, the odds of Trump’s re-election are near 100%.

[samir]

Stupid American

You're gonna have a rough time in France 

[TVC15]

LOL you guys only figuring out now that Nepenthe is actually bork?


edit: oh shit oh fuck this isn't the members-only board. Sorry for blowing your cover borky :'(

I had my suspicions when I found out about the figurines and blow-up dolls.

[Pennywise]

https://twitter.com/AgBioWorld/status/1231657700372684801

Last week I watched an ambulance desperately trying to get through the wall of cars on the highway and just barely making it through.

 'Murica

Hardly works out like that everytime.
Even worse when it's close to the crashsite and all those cunts with their phones drive by slowly trying to film stuff.

[Himu]

Stupid American

You're gonna have a rough time in France 

For a non American you seem very American. With your selfish, cutting "got mine", "you're lower than me" type values. You'd fit in with the cesspit.

Your argument about language is frankly stupid. I have talked to many non Americans online over the years. Swedish people and Germans and Saudis who have barely even been to America yet spoke the language very well. Hell, take Duckroll. Dude is Singaporean and has better English than you. Yet to my knowledge has never lived in America beyond a visit.

Your ignorance is palpable and very American. By all means move to America. You'd fit in.

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the french don't give out enough likes!

[samir]

Stupid American

You're gonna have a rough time in France 

For a non American you seem very American. With your selfish, cutting "got mine", "you're lower than me" type values. You'd fit in with cesspit.

Your argument about language is frankly stupid. I have talked to many non Americans online over the years. Swedish people and Germans and Saudis who have barely even been to America yet spoke the language very well. Hell, take Duckroll. Dude is Singaporean and has better English than you. Yet to my knowledge has never lived in America beyond a visit.

Your ignorance is palpable and very American. By all means move to America. You'd fit in.

Yes because Japanese and English are completely comparable
 

You seem to have live a very sheltered life. Can't wait to read about you running around the streets of Marseille LARPing as Tintin.

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[benjipwns]

For a non American you seem very American. With your selfish, cutting "got mine", "you're lower than me" type values.

[benjipwns]

Your argument about language is frankly stupid. I have talked to many non Americans online over the years. Swedish people and Germans and Saudis who have barely even been to America yet spoke the language very well. Hell, take Duckroll. Dude is Singaporean and has better English than you. Yet to my knowledge has never lived in America beyond a visit.

Wait, what does visiting America have to do with speaking English? There's like fifty countries with it as the official language, it's still the primary international language, it's the secondary language for most of the globe due to the British Empire, etc.

[benjipwns]

Is that part of the Trump re-election platform because I'll increase my odds then.

[Himu]

The French aren't known for being selfish, judgmental assholes or anything

I am not talking about that kind of judgemental.

Right now my Facebook is full of people saying how it's too extreme to have universal healthcare while passing around fake calculators bemoaning how people are going to "steal" to get to basic care. That's America. The rugged individualism that expounds no virtue towards extending their neighbor so long as they got theirs.

America is a broken, selfish pit of a country. Flint proves it. BLM proves it. The fact they bailed out the rich during a great recession proved it. The endless wars. The endless excuses. The lack of progress. Trickle down. "Why should I pay a price for people that aren't alive?" Nothing gets done because money trumps all. It seeps into every facet of America. From our predisposition towards mediocrity and just "getting the job done" to the upper echelon of politics.

America is trash.

[Himu]

Your argument about language is frankly stupid. I have talked to many non Americans online over the years. Swedish people and Germans and Saudis who have barely even been to America yet spoke the language very well. Hell, take Duckroll. Dude is Singaporean and has better English than you. Yet to my knowledge has never lived in America beyond a visit.

Wait, what does visiting America have to do with speaking English? There's like fifty countries with it as the official language, it's still the primary international language, it's the secondary language for most of the globe due to the British Empire, etc.

It was just an example.

[Himu]

I'm a black trans person from Texas. I sure am privileged!!

Fuck you Trumpist.

[Himu]

Yeah this infects only boomers and isn't country wide lol

America blows

[Raist]

Cindi just wants some of that french cock action .

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Lol America is the most charitable country in the Western world

a bone to the dog is not charity 

[benjipwns]

America is a broken, selfish pit of a country. Flint proves it. BLM proves it. The fact they bailed out the rich during a great recession proved it. The endless wars. The endless excuses. The lack of progress. Trickle down. "Why should I pay a price for people that aren't alive?" Nothing gets done because money trumps all. It seeps into every facet of America. From our predisposition towards mediocrity and just "getting the job done" to the upper echelon of politics.

This is almost like every complaint about France I've heard from French people.

[Raist]

To be fair complaining is a national sport.

[Himu]

Lol America is the most charitable country in the Western world

And yet it's also a country where people need to do gofundmes to get medical care. And yet mainstream sentiment is,"we can't do that here."

In almost every case, Americans only care about themselves.

It infests itself from every layer of society. Which is precisely how we got to such a broken society to begin with.

I refuse to pretend my grievances with America aren't genuine and you can continue to defend it. You can also pretend my crticisims of America came out of nowhere. When anyone that has talked to me for any length of time - esch, Oscar, Exodus - knows that my anti-American sentiment has been bred for a long time. This is just me finally acting upon it.

[Himu]

Iran in the 70's.

Fuck America.

Funding despots like Suddam until they do something they don't like.

Fuck America.

CIA telling MLK to kill himself.

Fuck America.

People making gofundme's to get care.

Fuck America.

People being fired because of medical emergencies and other dubious reasons.

A state that posits police defend property and not the citizens.

Wanting to raise the minimum wage or make it livable? You shouldn't be working those jobs in the first place apparently.

America is so generous with charity that we make terrorist watch lists and kill innocent brown people for nothing but being Muslim.

You can "bububu Francois" all you want but frankly I don't give a shit.

StAY AnD ChANGe it YourrZeLf!



Nah. Fuck America.

[Himu]

[benjipwns]

stost promoting states rights based anarchic separatism instead of empathy-based one-nation conservatism like France

[bork]

Idk I went to Rome about 12 years ago and the traffic was wilder than anywhere I'd ever been to in the US, including driving through Atlanta and NYC. Perhaps influenced by how there apparently are no such things as traffic laws over there.

Taxi ride to the airport in Rome was the scariest ride I've ever been on.  My mom was freaking out the whole time- it was like something out of a sitcom.  Dude ignored all the traffic lights and just floored it. 

[benjipwns]

I've been told that, Germany/Nordic-excepted, east of the Alps all traffic laws are based on an internal formula instantly calculated using factors like eye contact and current speed

[BisMarckie]

Speaking of bad drivers, France is definitely in the top 3 of worst drivers in Europe

[Trurl]

72% if the nominee is Sanders

80%+ if it's anyone else

[Himu]

I would rank France about equally as bad as the US in terms of foreign policy. Vietnam, Algeria, the Suez crisis, Libya, the way it treats other members of the Eurozone... what they did to Thomas Sankara

nice little social democracy though. if you want a higher minimum wage and strong labor laws you could always consider CALIFORNIA

Unfortunately there's no perfect option here. Canada's history and present with Native Americans is especially heinous. As far as I'm concerned picking any Western country will not be free of imperialism as it is baked into their cultures. However, from what I see, they're still far better off than America.

[OnlyRegret]

I would rank France about equally as bad as the US in terms of foreign policy. Vietnam, Algeria, the Suez crisis, Libya, the way it treats other members of the Eurozone... what they did to Thomas Sankara

nice little social democracy though. if you want a higher minimum wage and strong labor laws you could always consider CALIFORNIA

Given, IIRC, France was important in annoying the British enough to ensure American independence and gifted them the penultimate American idol. Is France therefore not liable for every American sin and crime

[bork]

I would rank France about equally as bad as the US in terms of foreign policy. Vietnam, Algeria, the Suez crisis, Libya, the way it treats other members of the Eurozone... what they did to Thomas Sankara

nice little social democracy though. if you want a higher minimum wage and strong labor laws you could always consider CALIFORNIA

Unfortunately there's no perfect option here. Canada's history and present with Native Americans is especially heinous. As far as I'm concerned picking any Western country will not be free of imperialism as it is baked into their cultures. However, from what I see, they're still far better off than America.

I think it's great that you want to live abroad and highly recommend it, but I don't know if doing it to 'escape' the shit you don't like is going to work out very well. 

The naysayers in this thread are being ridiculous- if Cindi wants to go try living in another country, there's nothing wrong with it, it's not an 'impossible' thing to do, and it's not like she can't move back to the States anyway if she does it and doesn't like it.

[samir]

She should probably actually go abroad once in her life before deciding she wants to live in a different country.

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https://twitter.com/LeighStewy/status/1231679391777902594

[benjipwns]

I'm just being skeptical and pointing out that lots of the complaints are the same shit in France, which she has seemed to pick first and is trying to justify after. Just say you want to move to France because you want to move to France, whys it gotta be some kind of ideological revolt against a personal idea of "what America means"? Besides,

  LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT

[bork]

She should probably actually go abroad once in her life before deciding she wants to live in a different country.

Yes, absolutely- I went to Japan a couple of times and studied there for a month before I decided I wanted to go move there.  Also took classes all throughout college and it definitely helped to be able to get around and do things some of the other foreigners couldn't without assistance from English speakers. 

But visiting a country and living there are different experiences too.  You're most likely not going to experience the negatives when doing the former.

[Trent Dole]

That account and the site they work for are chuddy as fuck lol

[BisMarckie]

White lives don't matter, but the picture is of a brown guy from the Middle East

FACT CHECK: Judea before the Arab invasion was most likely populated by people who looked like modern day Greeks or southern Italians.

[samir]

She should probably actually go abroad once in her life before deciding she wants to live in a different country.

Yes, absolutely- I went to Japan a couple of times and studied there for a month before I decided I wanted to go move there.  Also took classes all throughout college and it definitely helped to be able to get around and do things some of the other foreigners couldn't without assistance from English speakers. 

But visiting a country and living there are different experiences too.  You're most likely not going to experience the negatives when doing the former.

Oh absolutely. Studying in Japan was an absolute blast. Working there, very different (not necessarily bad though).

[bork]

I'm just being skeptical and pointing out that lots of the complaints are the same shit in France, which she has seemed to pick first and is trying to justify after. Just say you want to move to France because you want to move to France, whys it gotta be some kind of ideological revolt against a personal idea of "what America means"? Besides,

  LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT

I'd stay the hell out of the cities and go live in some sleepy little town.  Shit, I miss living in my in-laws' hometown where "traffic" meant two cars on the road.
 

[benjipwns]

Cindi should travel and experience the real France, decimalize everything, live in the streets, set cars on fire, build barricades over trivial disputes, worship an elderly man who didn't actually do anything during the War, etc.

[benjipwns]

She wants to go to France, not Scotland.

[BisMarckie]

If I wanted to emigrate to another country in Europe it would be Switzerland.

I‘d live under the poverty line there though with my current salary.

[Himu]

She should probably actually go abroad once in her life before deciding she wants to live in a different country.

I like the assumption that I will move abroad before visiting when I have said I will be visiting before making a final decision.

But nope. Believe what you want.

[BisMarckie]

Scratch that, moving to Azerbaijan is my new goal. They basically lifted the entire German civil law, plus it‘s a crooked banana republic style dictatorship, so there is money to be made.

[Himu]

I would rank France about equally as bad as the US in terms of foreign policy. Vietnam, Algeria, the Suez crisis, Libya, the way it treats other members of the Eurozone... what they did to Thomas Sankara

nice little social democracy though. if you want a higher minimum wage and strong labor laws you could always consider CALIFORNIA

Unfortunately there's no perfect option here. Canada's history and present with Native Americans is especially heinous. As far as I'm concerned picking any Western country will not be free of imperialism as it is baked into their cultures. However, from what I see, they're still far better off than America.

I think it's great that you want to live abroad and highly recommend it, but I don't know if doing it to 'escape' the shit you don't like is going to work out very well. 

The naysayers in this thread are being ridiculous- if Cindi wants to go try living in another country, there's nothing wrong with it, it's not an 'impossible' thing to do, and it's not like she can't move back to the States anyway if she does it and doesn't like it.

It's not to escape. It's because I legitimately dislike America. I do not want to stay in the future and I think the reasons inhsve given should suffice. If people can move to Japan and be English teachers simply because they are weebs, my protest of America as a country should be treated with respect.

Let's be honest. Ex-pats are a thing. Stop treating like it's not a thing.

[benjipwns]

Scratch that, moving to Azerbaijan is my new goal. They basically lifted the entire German civil law, plus it‘s a crooked banana republic style dictatorship, so there is money to be made.

FACT CHECK: "Since the latest presidential elections, Ilham Aliyev’s rating and voter confidence has increased according to the survey result conducted by “Opinion Way” company in April 2019. His activities have been evaluated as “positive” by more than 85% of the respondents."

[Himu]

Yup. Leaving your home country is just a me thing. Who would have thought?!

[BisMarckie]

Scratch that, moving to Azerbaijan is my new goal. They basically lifted the entire German civil law, plus it‘s a crooked banana republic style dictatorship, so there is money to be made.

FACT CHECK: "Since the latest presidential elections, Ilham Aliyev’s rating and voter confidence has increased according to the survey result conducted by “Opinion Way” company in April 2019. His activities have been evaluated as “positive” by more than 85% of the respondents."

Kinda curious that the most qualified candidate turned out to be the son of the former president.

In 2012, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project called Ilham Aliyev the corruptor of the year.

ALL WINNERS
 2019: Joseph Muscat
 2018: Danske Bank
 2017: Rodrigo Duterte
 2016: Nicolás Maduro
 2015: Milo Djukanovic
 2014: Vladimir Putin
 2013: Romanian Parliament
 2012: Ilham Aliyev

In the 2019 Doing Business report, Azerbaijan climbed 32 spots in comparison with 2017 to rank 25th among 190 states this year, topping CIS counties

Take that Tajikistan!

[Himu]

Bork the naysayers are like that because they're American where people only know how to cut down. Like I said before, selfish. If my friend said they wanted to leave I'd be supportive. Crabs in a bucket: the country. The responses actually give me more reason to leave as it reminds how Americans are really like.

[benjipwns]

You know this thread was made with a faulty premise to begin with. The odds of Trump winning in 2016 were completely wrong and you can't trust them this time either.

Another failed Occam project, just like his eugenics plan.