4B movement

Women self-identifying their value as sexual in nature

Still didn’t address any of my questions. No there there. You are bed wetting over nothing.

clueless reply

I understand it’s difficult to experience someone with a different opinion

Aileen Cannon operates within the confines of the law for a politically motivated prosecution

SHE’S CORRUPT!

Murdoch media

I don’t have cable.

hiking group

Only cool thing you’ve said

hurdur you’re dumb

I don’t care.

the insurrection never happened

You mean a poorly managed protest turned riot? This is a prime example of why people hate the news. Cities across the US were vandalized by “fiery but peaceful” Black Lives Matter protests but when a bunch of loons show up at the capital with flags and digital cameras for an afternoon it’s somehow a legitimate attempt to overthrow the most powerful government in the world. There were no fire fights there was no violence en masse. It was a bunch of useful idiots being useful idiots. All that being said he should have managed it better. HOWEVER there was never any shadow of a doubt that power would transition to the next President at any point. Anyone thinking a dude in a viking helmet was going to prevent Joe Biden from becoming President is an idiot.

Read about the Nazis. Learn about the mafia and how they operate.

Lmao. You are off your rocker. Why don’t you turn off your computer and touch grass instead of being a terminally online pearl clutcher? I know politics is corrupt. It’s been corrupt since it’s inception. Surprise the democrats are corrupt too. Look at everyone’s stock portfolios and the fact that they stay in government forever despite never having a real job.

While there are always dirty tricksters, what’s happening now is generational shift of power. Trump is a boomer but most of his backers are Silicon Valley Gen Xers and they want to change the political landscape. That means geriatric boomer policies and government bloat are going out the door in favor of more libertarian leaning policies. I’m not totally onboard with that approach but at least someone has an idea and they want to try it.

What we’re watching isn’t hysteria. It’s so obvious to anyone paying attention.

I’m paying attention, actually live in the United States, I disagree and so does the majority of America. Continue with your “sky is falling narrative” no one is listening to you anymore. It’s tiresome and you’re wrong.

Bookmark my comment.

Okay

That’s why everything is concepts of a plan, except the things that dictators generally do.

What does this even mean? Catch your breath man you sound like you’re hyperventilating.

It might shock you, but dictators and Nazis built up their power over years.

No way. You mean they didn’t just press the Nazi button?! Yeah investment over time is a prerequisite for ANY POLITICAL MOVEMENT. Trump was a joke in 2015 and now he has changed the political landscape by discrediting the establishment and bringing in outsiders. You may not like that. You may disagree with them but none of that is consequential. There is definitely a cult of personality but this go round it seems he actually has an administration that represents continuity beyond his next term.

They do things like encourage violence against their opponents and make jokes when they get attacked

The left does this all the time. Antifa, BLM, COVID gestapo etc etc. The left calls people they disagree with racists, fascists, nazis and thugs precisely so they can dehumanize them and justify writing them off completely. Guess what? Not only is that hypocritical it’s a failing strategy.

he’s definitely going to be happy to transfer power

Bookmarking so I can laugh at you when he does.

You also failed to tell me how he’s targeting gay people or who the corrupt judges are. Presumably because there’s no there there.

More hysteria. The reality is you are the one guilty of the brainwashing you accuse other people of. You’re watching boomer television and thinking that’s what Trump voters are watching when in reality it’s only 60+ year olds. Most voters have abandoned legacy media platforms because they are garbage.

Dehumanizing foreigners

We have an open border in the United States with near zero enforcement. If somebody crosses the border and is caught they are processed, given a court date and sent on their way. I’ve heard estimates as high as 25 million for illegal immigrants. That’s a high enough number where these people are visible in our society. Many of them are good people but even well meaning immigrants are a massive drain. Ironically leftists say they will do jobs Americans won’t do which is essentially admitting they are slave labor. Additionally they do create crime, heavily modify demographics, drive up home prices and cause issues by driving without insurance etc etc.

Trump didn’t make up a fairytale that doesn’t exist. He’s tapping into a very real frustration people have that Biden/Harris have completely ignored for the last four years. Is the cats and dogs thing hyperbolic? Sure but that’s Trump and I’m not here to defend the stupid stuff he says.

He’s targeting the LGBTI

How?

He’s targeting journalists

Journalists are scum bags and have been for a long time. They used to be working class people that reported the news. Now they are elitist nepo-babies that pedal narratives to manufacture consent. They’ve been gaslighting America ever since Trump came into the picture by telling people that what they are seeing with their own eyes isn’t real. (e.g. inflation is down even though it’s it’s not, the country isn’t demographically shifting because of massive immigration)

Regardless his “targeting journalists” is literally just insulting them by telling them they are bad at their job which they are. He also refuses to give press conferences which I think is hilarious.

replacing them with corrupt judges

Who are they and what makes them corrupt? The fact that they disagree with you on certain issues is insufficient.

He already promised it. Here’s a list: https://theconversation.com/trump-has-vowed-to-be-a-dictator-on-day-one-with-this-day-now-coming-what-exactly-will-he-do-243049

None of the executive orders in that article are illegal or unwelcome to his voters. (e.g. firing special counsel, mass deportation and eliminating Green New Deal BS) Regarding the most “egregious” EO around special counsel – Trump would have never faced the lawfare he is in the midst of if he wasn’t running for President so only his detractors see removing special counsel as something scary. Everyone else is happy to see it because the investigations (much like Mueller) were a failed attempt to dissuade voters from electing him.

Executive orders are used heavily by every president particularly in the last 25 years. You can go look up the number of executive orders Obama issued to inform yourself on that. “I’ll be a dictator on day one” was a joke and you are taking the brainwashed takes of hysterical left wing news to think he’s literally Hitler when he’s literally been President before and pre-covid life was uneventful during his term.

Why do you think people think Trump will fix pricing? It’s because of murdoch news networks. You’ll notice the same information parroted by a lot of Right wingers after Sky news mentions it.

He’s going with a tariff strategy which I honestly have reservations about. It goes against most economic strategies because it’s protectionist but he is correct in that that we are being taken advantage of by competitors like China and our trade deficits are materially impacting us. Kamala Harris wanted price controls which is an even more stupid idea.

If sky news didn’t exist or were more neutral, Trump would have been royally F**ked

Twitter won this election. SkyNews like CNN, MSNBC etc etc is obsolete. Everyone laughed at Eon when he bought Twitter because “he’ll never make money with it”. Twitter was heavily censored along with every other major website in 2020 which stymied discussions about COVID etc. Collaboration with the US government was clear in the documents that Musk released. Twitter is now the only major place on the internet where people can say literally anything they want and have a low chance of being censored. It’s more free than Lemmy. This makes leftists seethe because they want to control the narrative and don’t want people talking about things freely. ‘Racist’, ‘fascist’, ‘hitler’ blah blah blah. The left has been hyperbolically saying the sky is falling for too long and furthermore insulting normal people for taking issue with America transforming into an unaffordable, third world shithole. People have had enough and voted accordingly. You’re going to need to calm down and stop insulting normal people if you want to be taken you seriously. “Everyone who voted Trump is deranged and brainwashed” is a laughably low-tier emotional argument that doesn’t acknowledge all the ways the left has failed and found itself at this point.

If you ask anyone internationally, she was an absolutely awesome choice

Foreigners don’t understand American politics. Besides who cares what foreigners think when you are voting for a President? They just want someone that’s going to be easy for them to work with they aren’t thinking about what’s best for America.

She’s actually really clever. She’s a good choice for the role.

She wasn’t democratically selected, she was appointed so any talk about Trump being a “threat” to democracy is pretty funny. Also she lost.

Trump won by lying constantly and Murdoch Media blah blah blah

Trump won because the majority of the country is pissed off about expensive groceries and an open border.

America is fucked because the only thing he’ll deliver on is being a dictator day 1

Exactly what is he going to do that will make him a dictator day 1?

Keep this up and you’ll lose the next election too

Hmmm…

If you raise a family they can take care of you when you get old.

I wish there was a mobile app of the same quality as plexamp for jellyfin.

this whole debate comes down to a definition of when a fertilised egg becomes a live human

Why? People dont usually abort things that are dead and if it’s not human then there’s no need for an abortion. I reject the false equivalency objection that somehow a human embryo is not “human” the same way I reject that a toddler is somehow less human than an adult.

This “live human” stipulation is a pilpul fabrication meant to inject moral ambiguity. This allows abortion to be morally justified as an acceptable practice at least up until some arbitrary stage of development (even though it’s clear that pregnancy, barring complication, means a baby is on the way.)

You will never get consensus on your “live human” criteria. That is by design.

I posit instead that the crux of this debate comes down to the sanctity of life and personal responsibility. Calling me cruel for “denying care” is odd considering I’m arguing to prevent the termination of healthy pregnancies conceived with full consent and knowledge of the man and woman involved. A pregnancy isn’t a “risk ending badly” it’s a blessing and a responsibility (for both woman AND man).

To break it down simply – babies come from sex. More specifically they come from the product of sucessful egg-sperm fertilization (e.g. the early stage embryo and fetuses that are aborted by the millions each year) This occurs in the womb which is naturally equipped for this process. It’s pretty clear what is going on.

Determining termination based on some level of cognizance is an arbitrary standard and frankly one that opens the door for other judgements that are only limited by imagination, rhetoric and charisma.

At what point does this evolve into screening fetuses, altering genomes and treating early human development like some science experiment. Aldous Huxley, a eugenicist, explores this future in his novel Brave New World.

“Stage-of-development” is a flawed argument because it presupposes that some qualifications must be met before an embryo or fetus reaches a status of personhoood when in reality the "clump of cells " has all the genetic instructions it requires to proceed through all stages of development at conception. Entertaining the idea that it somehow matters less because it is smaller, less developed, dependent on the mother etc is the pilpul I was talking about. If it wasn’t a human then an abortion wouldn’t be necessary because a dog, bird or fish embryo would die immediately.

It is not like contraception (e.g. a condom). A gamete on it’s own will never develop into a human under any circumstances.

There can also be devastating psychological fallout from not getting an abortion, which would be why many people believe it should be a choice that the people involved get to make about themselves, rather than forcing it on them.

We are talking about people (man and woman) who decide to have sex and don’t want to deal with the logical, predictable outcome. No one is forcing them to do anything. They have created this situation for themselves. It’s that simple. The rest is just mental gymnastics for them not taking responsibility for their actions.

The only intellectually and morally honest argument for abortion is “I don’t care”.

Abortion should be legal in all cases

Respectfully I disagree. If one grants that abortion should be legal for rape/incest/LOTM (~1%) then it comes down to the other 99% which is what both sides actually care about. At this point the conversation shifts to personal liberty, bodily autonomy, stage-of-development or, in the case of Roe v. Wade, privacy. While there is some clever pilpul regarding ethics and/or the “dilemma” an unexpected pregnancy creates, in the overwhelming majority of cases the abortion decision comes down to convenience. Convenience meaning the prevention of struggle. Having to alter ones life or career to acommodate the needs of a(nother) child. It’s no secret that sex causes pregnancy however many people feel they shouldnt have to deal with the consequences (women AND men). Human life is the most precious thing on earth which means it needs to be treated with the utmost care from conception to repose.

Abortion creates a culture of death. Assisted suicides would almost certainly not be a thing if abortion wasn’t normalized first. It’s no surprise that abortion traces its modern roots to the eugenics movement.

Furthermore something that is rarely discussed is the psychological fallout from abortion. It can be devastating for both women and men.

A well deserved rtfm

The objection to Biden was his infirmity and obvious mental degradation. People were saying he had early onset dementia in 2019. Trump has neither of these issues. He can stand and talk for hours. He was shot and got back up. He’s healthy.

#suddenyarvinposts

Norm has wise words on this topic

Africa

The West has basically removed itself as a competitor to Russia ergo subsidizing the cost of building industry by simply leaving a void. It was so obvious that the sanctions were going to blow up in our face.

Also that the US has been at war for the past 20+ years and has very little to show for it’s efforts. People are war fatigued and want things sorted out at home because domestically things are terrible.

It’s great! It only makes 4-6 servings of rice at a time but I prefer that because it means there’s less leftovers