The Gaming Den

It's very funny that you felt like including an unrelated quote just because you wanted to insert a lie that Biden said about how Israel is beloved around the world. Yes, when the president of the United States repeatedly says American Jews are not safe if Israel doesn't exist that's a threat. Appar...

Biden went on Seth Meyers to threaten all american jews that if they dont' support Israel's genocide of the Palestinians that he's going to gencocide them (like the last time he said this a couple months ago). I can't tell if he's never met a Jew who didn't work as a prison guard in Israeli murder f...

Slightly broadening the scope of this thread to include NJ politics. NJ is having many conventions, which are often secret ballot and pre decide the primary before the primary and before the people of NJ get a say. This is the normal practice because as I discussed before, possibly in another thread...

Special Feat:

Sighted: A Possessor Item gains the Sight Extra Ability. This is just because that one is so much weaker, not really appropriate for others.

The nyt reports that the biden admin is contemplating an executive order that orders the cbp to just deport all asylum seekers without a hearing. You know, the super illegal thing that is 100% illegal under international law that does bind the US and also US law that biden was begging the gop to cha...

Cannot stress enough how much democratic presidents saying "the immigrant hordes are invading" turns people like deaddm into those people who need to be marginalized vs how much the democratic politicians saying "these people are absurd monsters" marginalizes them and reduces the...

The United States has both one of the most flexible policies for granting citizenship and the most tolerant of immigration/absorption into society. Those are good things worth celebrating. This is absolutely dumb as shit and not even close to true. There are limits to how many people can move to th...

Yeah I was going to make a joke about how people born in another country and moved here at the age of two are "lifelong immigrants" in deaddm's categories, but it sure seems like your average white person who's parents came here 200 years ago is more of an immigrant then your average Mexic...

The official position of the governor of NY is that genocides are good and everyone should do genocides:

And its definitely cool and democratic to have some sort of first and second class citizen thing going on, especially one based on literal variable birth rights. Its not like even a fascist parody like "Service guarantees citizenship" is actually more equitable and progressive than that. ...

Is anyone arguing that Canada needs to change their immigration policy? For reference, they accept 465,000 immigrants per year. Yes, obviously. Canada should accept far more migrants then it does. Obviously. Ultimately, if 'the government' enforces laws that are deeply opposed to the society's conv...

People naturalize pretty quickly, so we'd never get to 15% of people in the US being unnaturalized (idk if that's the right term for it) immigrants. In the US context, naturalization is when they become US citizens, which takes at least a decade and often never no matter what they want. But yes, in...

Notice that dead has completely adopted every psychotic trump talking point from 2016. Apparently not wanting a bunch of border agents doing murders on the border and having asylum hearings for asylum seekers instead of what Joe biden now wants, millions more border agents and deporting people witho...

Historically, about 40% of Americans have felt that there is too much immigration, 25% felt that there should be more, and the remaining 35% feel that it's about right. If immigration increases, the 40% that feel it is too much will continue to feel it is too much; the 35% that feel it is 'about ri...

It is absolutely baffling how many democratic consultants and politicians are convinced from the bottom of their hearts that "Republicans have always been right about this issue for 50 years everything you've ever heard a republican say was correct, and everything you've ever heard a Democrat s...

Senate democrats have just launched an add campaign that is literally just about how evil brown invaders must be stopped.

Oh, tough restrictions on AR-15s are the answer then? Well that's the thing, congress can't pass a restriction on AR 15s because at the founding there was a rich history and tradition of people walking around with AR 15s. So that quote is the democratic representative in NY (who is polling way to c...

This is what Joe Biden has done to democrats. This is a quote from the NY03 special election:

Kaelik, you're crazy. I have stated repeatedly that direct payments during the pandemic were amazing tools for helping lift people (particularly children) out of poverty. You also repeatedly have stated that you think the years of 2020 to 2022 were bad, and that 2023 is the first good year, and onl...

And this seems relevant: The wealth of Americans between the ages of 18 to 39 has jumped by 80% since 2019, compared with a 10% increase for those between 40 to 54 and 30% for people over 55, according to a new analysis from the Federal Bank of New York. Wow, since 2019! So I'm assuming all that be...

Making this the 2024 election thread: Supreme Court oral argument on the Colorado election ballot case. It's fucking bad. Might get a 9-0 refusal to rule on insurrection that says that if trump did an insurrection he has to be on the ballot we do the whole election and then congress just puts biden ...

I don't think most people expect that every year will be a real increase in spending power - most people seem to expect a raise that more-or-less keeps up with inflation unless they change jobs or get promoted. I think most people EXPECT that they will get a raise half of inflation in bad inflation...

Want to bet that the number of people with more disposable income in 2023 wasn't 60% vs 40% with less in a year where 14 million people were kicked off medicare who had it in 2022? Then you could see how biden allowed people to start being kicked off medicaid in April, and 2 million had been kicked...

One might wonder what the response would be if the arguments deemed good enough to justify the attack on Gaza were inverted. Suppose national newspapers were to argue that because the government of Israel has ordered hideous atrocities, as it certainly has, Israeli officials should be killed at any...

Want to bet that the number of people with more disposable income in 2023 wasn't 60% vs 40% with less in a year where 14 million people were kicked off medicare who had it in 2022? I wouldn't care to take any bets with you if you're unwilling to define your terms. The data I find says that 65 milli...