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[mainiac]

Is it perhaps a little premature to be talking about dynasties when neither candidate has actually been nominated, let alone elected?

[smjjames]

The fuck? Reported!

[smjjames]

The fuck? Reported!

It's just a shock image poster who could only find one image to post. Stick on your ignore list, report, and wait for Toady to do the rest.

I already have.

[Helgoland]

I really don't get the gif in the middle. Porn, sure, gore, that's a given - but why that gif?

[karhell]

I really don't get the gif in the middle. Porn, sure, gore, that's a given - but why that gif?

I am NOT unspoilering the whole thing to check, but it sounds like arson, murder and jaywalking

[Zangi]

Its a safeforwork 'NO' gif in the middle there.
As for why?  Well, it probably indicates a transition from the porno to the gore...

(I like how we have several ongoing discussions about this in a few threads.)

[RedKing]

So...in actual US political news:

• House GOP looks to be folding on the DHS shutdown threat, will vote to approve short-term funding and punt this down the road.
• FCC approves new net neutrality rules

[mainiac]

Between this and the agreement in Europe it's like we are in some bizarro universe where politicians actually do their goddamn jobs.

[Rez]

I'm not sure giving the government more control over the internet is a good thing.

We, the citizens, want the DHS to be running?  In any case, most democrats and republicans agree that the secret police need to be funded; remember that this is proxy war for immigration.

I'm in favor of amnesty, but we need to secure that border if we aren't going to try to rebuild Mexico.   It's absurd how little we support Mexico's security and economy.  Is it an exaggeration to call Mexico a failed state?   ISIS makes everything look moderate, but there are cartels just as hardened to death and violence.

If we want to not be world police, we have to let overseas powers handle matters overseas.  There's plenty of foreign policy to be done outside Europe and Near Asia.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

For the last time, the FCC measure isn't increasing government control over the internet. It's the FCC informing themselves how they will regulate the business practices of ISP corporations, which have become increasingly malignant over the past decade. This is a measure to maintain the status quo, which has been degrading.

[mainiac]

In other news the practice of special interest groups spreading misinformation is alive and well.

[Bauglir]

In other news the practice of special interest groups spreading misinformation is alive and well.

They have been fairly competent at convincing people that net neutrality is a bad thing, it's true.

In actually other news, I've been tricked into taking a Constitutional Law course, and through reading the cases I've hashed out what I think to be a fairly good model of US government, but I think it could be bettered and wouldn't mind some feedback or elaboration. Here we go:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The US Government is divided into three separate branches, each of which has a variety of checks and balances for the other. These branches are:

The Legislative, which (as you know) is Latin for "World's Least Sober Programming Student"
The Executive, naturally meaning "World's Most Powerful Processor by Horsepower"
and the Judicial, which, literally translated, means "Nine Randomly Selected Compilers or Interpreters"

I'm pretty sure Scalia represents Malbolge, but I'm not quite sure on most of the rest.

[mainiac]

Perhaps world's least sober group brainstorming session?  Something indicating group effort.

[Rez]

The EFF are a pretty vile special interest group, after all.

[Lord Shonus]

The purpose of the net neutrality decision was to keep Comcast and the like from doing things like "Hey, Netflix. That sure is a nice business model you have there.  Would be a shame if anything were to happen to it."; not to mention the massive potential for censorship (which Google is getting bad about) and political manipulation that was becoming a real threat. The FCC having the power to stop that is an unambiguously good thing, and only the corrupt or the gullible have any reason to think otherwise.