America was already largely prosperous, but it wasn’t the sole superpower. I am not sure if that was a worth it exchange(if it was an exchange)

Also my understanding is that as of now it may not be arson

That’s not what they did, they rejected people acting as if the cause is certain

Neither is particularly likely, but it being a random accident is about as likely as you actually being the person who did it.

No? This is an insane argument.

I found a random statistic online that a home has a 1 in 413 chance of a fire in a given year, lets round up to 1 in 1000. It may be not exactly right, but within an order of magnitude. Trump criticized this judge, any time within about a month would get people saying this- so lets say the stats are there is a 1 in 12,000 chance of any particular person’s house burning down within a month of when Trump criticizes them. But Trump doesn’t criticize just 1 person a year, lets lowball estimate he criticizes 100 people a year. So that’s a 100 in 12,000 or 1 in 120 chance that in any particular year someone Trump criticizes house will burn down within a “suspicious” amount of time. That is nowhere near impossibly low, and now if you add in all the other unlikely but bad things that could happen to them- it happening sometimes is increasingly likely.

Now compare that with the one person writing this comment of the lowball estimate of 100 million people in America who could commit arson(again assuming it was arson).

No its not? Fires happen all the time, Trump criticizes a lot of people. When you have a lot of opportunities for a relatively unlikely event it increases a lot in probability. Nobody is saying it wasn’t arson, just saying we don’t know.

I agree, but that also seems to be agreein with their claim

Saying you don’t know is not dismissing.

No?

Regardless of how people feel about the federal government, they seem to still see legitimacy in their local governments, and are increasingly using those local governments as vehicles for negotiation.

Yes this is a massive boon. Finally the first faltering of the trend started in the 40s towards massive federalization.

Yeah, the 60s had more violence and tensions than now. A civil war requires actually distinct combatants engaged in combat. That doesn’t exist as of now.

Tbf, the US government has a long history of accusing peaceful citizens of being terrorists. Both parties love to do that.

High income in New York is definitely above 1% globally, and likely even nearing 1% nationally

Well the rich it seems did vote for Mamdani

You lost. That flag don’t fly.

This is a really bad argument that people use. Plenty good causes have lost.

The issue with the Confederacy is that it was a really bad cause, fighting for the enslavement of millions for generations.

Have you been to America? Plenty of leftists around the country fly American flags.

Usually when people have flags it’s for fairly innocuous stuff. Poland has a kind of ridiculous law criminalizing the desecration of a flag of any country.

This is pointless

I agree, I don’t think that a lack of current understanding proves the existence of god in any way. But them drawing the wrong conclusion doesn’t mean that they aren’t right about there being a lack of current understanding.

Yeah, I’m not trying to say its black and white, I’m just saying its not as devoid of nuance as I feel like they’re presenting it.

Constant purity testing, and invalidating everything someone says because you disagree on a couple issues 💀