You are likely scanning my profile and history because I said something in a tone that made you feel funny or angry. This is called being reactionary. You can overcome it.
You’re going to see a timid pushback against the administration right now.
Why are they doing this? Is are they finally standing up with consistent values on at least this one idea? Are they making a firm stand that the constitution is beyond partisan politics? I don’t know… it may be something else.
For conservatives, words don’t have meanings anymore.
They never really did, I think what allowed them to start breaking through out of that prison of social pressure was when we all stopped socializing and connecting. They started finding they could get a form of social support in atomized realms, while the rest of us just said “let them stay over there, we can’t ban them all, at least there they’re contained.”
I really want to ask them back in those early days when they were debating banning forums and subreddits related to sexism and racism, if they think “containment” is different from “empowerment” now.
I really don’t get our country.
“We found this nation to welcome the world’s masses, anyone seeking freedom and democracy, we will create the jewel of the world everyone will want to be part of!”
“Wait no, we meant like… some of you, sometimes. We’re good now, yeah, there’s tons of space left and land that we ahem own now, but we like it kinda empty so we can film truck commercials in the mountains.”
Yep, that’s another survival tactic, it served us well when we were roaming and searching for places we could live and eat. Not so much now when we all are supposed to have our own wants and futures and we can get packaged meat at the local grocery store.
The trick is going to always be for our species to figure out ways to get people to use these survival impulses in ways that help us as a community. And I don’t know how we’re going to do that at all. Fear and anger are much stronger emotions than charity and compassion for strangers who look or talk different than us.
They’re proving over and over again they don’t have control over much, if they did we wouldn’t have seen so many leftists, dems and open socialists take lead of cities and states last cycle. They tried too.
The problem for them that both they and us often forget about is that the USA isn’t one big country like Iran or Venezuela that can have their entire election system rigged by one small group. USA is 50 individual states. Remember, “State” basically means “nation.”
We have 50 individual nations with their own security, their own election systems, their own laws and rules. It takes a MASSIVE effort to go everywhere in this landscape, and even if they had the balls to risk something that big, they don’t have the manpower.
Not saying it’s impossible for them to fuck it all up, they will absolutely try. But I don’t think their success rate is nearly as high as they want you to think it is. They want you say “What good is it” and throw your hands up. They did more to suggest that they’re going to cheat than actual cheating because they want people to feel powerless. We’re not powerless, we still have 50 different nations with different agendas and people.
Ah, another angry gamer dude with xenophobia, they’re made in factories now.
A huge factor in my change from my conservative upbringing was when I escaped the family cult compound and got my first job working in a warehouse with a lot of illegal hires. I learned spanish, I had my lunch sabotaged with chili peppers, I got in insulation-foam swordfights with guys my age who were here in the US working 12 hours a day to support their families and start new lives.
I made friends, I learned spanish, I laughed and cried with my fellow humans from far away places.
My boss was a right-wing narcissist who enjoyed torturing these folks with withheld pay and criminal working conditions, and would sometimes call immigration services himself as punishment. I remember coming to work and people I knew were suddenly gone.
edit: the final straw was watching innocent people die in a war the US started for made-up reasons. (This one was Iraq, the second one.) Not just the civilians that were getting blown to pieces by ooh-rah US power while FOX news cheered on, but also I had friends who went to that war and came back in bags, or couldn’t deal with the things they saw and ended their own lives. The lack of compassion from the right was outright evil. This isn’t the first dance we’ve had with evil in the US. I’ve been falling further and further to the left ever since.
It really depends on how successful the midterms are at flushing out the establishment Dems in power in house and senate, they are sweating right now because the last wave of local elections REALLY ran against the mainstream grain. Dems have been pushing back on electing open socialists and reformists running under the DNC brand, and instead of successfully squashing these runs down, they failed across the board at stopping grassroots movements.
If Midterms flip the legislative branch significantly AND Trump can’t finish his term, we may see a wild swing back in the other direction.
The Democrats are just a container, they’re only as strong in obstruction to change as their oldest old-money liches like Schumer and other withered old husks who’ve had their seats and committee positions for like, 3,000 years.
You seem reactionary as fuck, I don’t think I’m going to waste my time today. Consider taking a walk, take in the cold, fresh air and enjoy being alive instead of seeking out things to hate people for.
It’s just curious to me we tolerate an unwillingness to “integrate” when it’s someone with the same skin color and accent broadly, but spewing hate and making problems for others and starting trouble, that’s just “expected in any large population” but as soon as someone is an asshole from another country, suddenly immigration is a huge problem we all need to address and we need to lock down borders and start marching armed death squads through the streets.
I’ve been around the world several times and spent a lot of time with immigrants of all colors and walks of life, and this may shock you, but everyone has their share of assholes. But if you’re looking for them and expecting them, you will find far more than if you learn to be fucking chill around people who are different from you. You might even learn something.
I both love and hate asking this question to anti-immigration chuds.
100% of the time, the first answer is “Well it wouldn’t be legal, we need laws to keep people out.”
And then you go “Okay but what if they DID legalize it, would you be accepting or not?”
And then it’s 45 minutes of arguing with someone about what a “hypothetical” is and what it means to imagine something, because they don’t actually have an answer, the choices are to say they will oppose the system and oppose the government or that they would be fine if the law changed, either way makes them look bad by their own flimsy values, so they will stick to spinning around the definitions of words and what’s “real” or not.
It’s all racism, all the way down, everywhere people are moving across our imaginary lines on the dirt.
Lots of people are deeply, childishly afraid of being surrounded by people who look and talk different, and that teeny, undeveloped personality flaw has had catastrophic consequences on our whole species, leading to some of the worst atrocities humans have ever committed.
And as the climate changes and weather becomes more extreme, crops will be harder to raise, clean water will be harder to find, and more and more people are going to move further towards milder climates and more developed nations out of desperation. I shudder to imagine how we’re going to treat these people broadly.
The chances of him facing actual charges after Trump dies is actually very high.
When the administration shatters and everyone is scrambling to shift blame knowing their free-pass to immunity has disappeared, they will desperately need some high-level cabinet member to point at, and this may come as a shock to everyone… but Stephen Miller is not very likeable.
Everyone hates this guy, he is as cringe and annoying in real life as he is on camera, everyone says it. The only reason he’s there is because he learned who he can wormtongue to climb in power, and found the ultimate cursed husk to puppeteer in Trump. They will delight in throwing his gangly limbs under the bus.
Upside down in a suspended coffin.
On a more practical “where can I buy a gun” level, https://www.gunbroker.com/ is basically ebay for guns, serves the whole USA, and has been very reliable for me over the years. The catch is the guns are not mailed directly to buyers, a local gun store acts as middleman to receive and you go pick up from there. Saves a lot of time and money if you know what you’re looking for.
For knowing the law in your state about you can and can’t own and carry, start here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_by_state
vast majority of people who believe in RFK also believe being an addict is reprehensible.
While true, they’re also the segment of the population most impacted by the opioid epidemic.
There is no logistical consistency in the conservative mind, we have to stop trying to make square pegs fit into something that doesn’t even have holes. These folks go with how they feel, and they adore having a health and human services leader who gives them validation for believing in magic water, essential oil and avoidance of scarrrrryyyy needles and vaccines. That’s ALL they care about, nothing in his background would change that. NOTHING.
No no, you don’t get it, there are roaming packs of dyed-haired leftists and leeessssbians sneaking around the ICE barracks and waiting for them to fall asleep and not pull the covers over their bodies entirely.
If your hand slips below the sheets, it’s fair game for the purple-haired, lying ICE-finger eaters!
Remember Americans, when the ICE agent has his bare fingers down your throat, you lay there and take/suck on it like a patriotic American.
Trump is an east-coast elite real-estate lich, he doesn’t give a shit about guns at all. He’s always just paid people to carry them for him. Literally, he’s the consummate cartoon fatcat. That’s why he has zero qualms saying over and over he wants to take them or restrict them, he’s not a constitution thumping conservative, he’s just an old parody.