You know what, you’re totally right. There’s plenty of other accurate single-word descriptions that could be used to add some more variety:

Shortsighted, dogmatist, sociopath, mysognist, bootlicker, Neanderthal, degenerate, cultist, egotistical, simpleton, supremacist, etc.

Look at the commenter’s profile. It’s a waste of time asking, you’re only going to get back right-wing talking points or misinformation.

You are absolutely correct, but I was trying to avoid being inflammatory and giving an easy strawman when explaining why Trump’s concentration camps are within the realm of possibility.

Concentration camps might be a bit hyperbolic, but that was actually a fairly accurate description of how private prisons manage to make a profit.

Except for a handful of states that passed legislation to prevent it, the 13th amendment makes an exception allowing involuntarily servitude as the punishment for committing crimes. If they manage to create a kangaroo court designed to be a revolving door of convictions for “illegal immigrants”, they absolutely could keep people effectively locked up as slaves for a while.

The turnout of Democratic voters was lower than previous elections. There are too many variables at play to claim anything definitively, but it’s safe to assume that the number of voters who abstained due to the issue was more than zero.

If a conclusion is going to be drawn about whether the whole genocide topic had a tangible effect on the outcome, it’s important to consider those as well as the protest votes.

Skibidibackrooms?

I think. I’m probably too old to understand what gen alpha will consider childhood nostalgia.

I’m inclined to agree. If an entity is wasting hundreds of millions on a couple of consultants, the problem isn’t the consultants. It’s the people who decided that was a perfectly acceptable expense. If the DNC willingly takes on that debt, they’re not any better.

Or lack thereof, after the cost of living skyrockets.

2 months, at most.

Cis gender affirming care for kids isn’t banned.

In some places, people get away with sending their kids to conversion therapy to provide sexuality affirming “care”. Conservatives aren’t bitching about that now, are they?

Hypocrites.

Goodbye, go be vile elsewhere please.

After reaching the whole exchange between you two, Twitter seems like the correct cesspool to be emigrating to.

Birds of a fascist feather flock together.

What this type of knowledge brings to the debate?

An actual understanding of what you’re arguing against? You feel that it’s too easy for minors to get gender-affirming surgery, yet you actually know nothing of the process.

If you’re not willing to learn about what you’re arguing against, you’re acting in bad faith.

if this question is in good faith

When it comes to arguing against access to gender-affirming healthcare for trans individuals, it’s never in good faith.

Nope…

But you are still completely rejecting the idea that the fetus has any right to exist.

There’s plenty of existing philosophical arguments over this that you can find online, but the idea that a fetus has a right to exist is not mutually exclusive with the idea that a woman has the right to bodily autonomy.

A fetus can have the right to exist, and a woman can have the right to refuse to provide nutrients for an unwanted fetus. If the latter precludes the former, the former precludes the latter—leading to an impasse. As a compromise, most of society has deemed “fetuses” rights do not supersede that of their mothers’ until a certain point where they gain personhood, such as when they have a heartbeat (which is the medical requirement for being alive).

You’re welcome to believe that the rights of a fetus unconditionally supersede that of the mother, but you would need to make a very convincing argument to not come across as being unsupportive of women’s rights.

They really just want more poverty-stricken and uneducated voters. That’s their core demographic: people easy to manipulate into believing they will fix all the issues created by their past policies.

Nah, the only thing they’ll be shedding is body cams.

You’re putting far too much faith in the voters at this point.

Depending on how the cost of living situation goes, Trump is either going to take credit for improvements set in motion before his 2024 term, or he’s going to astronomically tank it and blame it on the previous administration. No matter which happens, he will frame it to make himself look better than the Democrats while the MAGA crowd eats it up.

I’m a sucker for punishment and have been reading some of it. Here’s a tiny sampling of Reddit: