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- Comment on PRESIDENCY, SENATE, HOUSE, AND POPULAR VOTE!!!!! 1 week ago:
It’s like they took all the wrong lessons from their parents who made them eat their vegetables and yelled at them for dressing inappropriately. And the “Bible-thumping fire-and-brimstone preachers.” And Vance’s silly “childless cat ladies” comment.
If they were pushed away by zealotry, what makes them think it would appeal to anyone else?
- Comment on USA: guns are a way of life (analysis) 1 week ago:
We have a saying here: “When seconds count, the police are minutes away.”
- Comment on PRESIDENCY, SENATE, HOUSE, AND POPULAR VOTE!!!!! 1 week ago:
And everyone frothing at the mouth to insult anyone who isn’t a die-hard, propaganda-spreading communist has only themselves and their childish behavior to thank for this.
- Comment on Biden thinks Trump voters are trash. 2 weeks ago:
If a man had one of his arms cut off but kept the other one, you’d still call him an amputee. Similarly, if your guns are taken away from you by force, you have been disarmed. There are different degrees to this - I would argue that people who live in blue states are generally more disarmed than people living in red states - but that doesn’t change the fact that a disarmament has taken place.
Your analogy would be more like asking if a man who put his arm inside his shirt could be called an amputee.
- Comment on Is it okay to take drugs to make yourself a better person? Does it make a difference if "better" is mental or if it's physical? 2 weeks ago:
Don’t take non-OTC drugs without consulting a physician first. You could really screw yourself up with some of them, the hard stuff especially. The potential ups of doing them aren’t worth the likely losses.
People who take aspirin or ibuprofen take it for a specific purpose, and when they no longer need it, they stop. With things like steroids, heroin, cocaine, and Adderall (if they don’t have specific conditions like ADHD), people frequently end up chasing a horizon that only gets further away the harder they run to catch it. It’s a miserable existence and it causes them, and often their friends and loved ones, endless pain.
You deserve the best from yourself. That includes self-care. You’re more than your flaws and disorders, whatever they may be. Don’t make those an excuse to wreck yourself in pursuit of a goal that probably isn’t real.
- Comment on The Harris Campaign Manipulates Reddit To Control The Platform 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Biden thinks Trump voters are trash. 2 weeks ago:
Are you in favor of killing a victim because they were assaulted or raped? That’s even worse. Worse still is killing someone who had no involvement in the process at all - namely, the person conceived in the rape.
- Comment on Biden thinks Trump voters are trash. 2 weeks ago:
So we’re both in agreement that the whole quest for assault weapons bans is a smoke screen to take away people’s civil liberties. Good.
Back to abortion: We already have six states and DC without any restrictions whatsoever on abortion. All of the existing permissions, besides health of the mother, are utterly arbitrary. It’s a human being at every stage of development from the moment of conception and should be respected as such. And yes, human lives have precedent over the comfort of people who invited them to enter through consensual sex. We obviously should take strong measures to protect their lives, but that doesn’t mean the baby can be killed at any moment for the sake of convenience. In cases where they didn’t consent to sex, it still doesn’t make sense to kill them. That’s giving the wrong person the death penalty.
“Independent survival” can be interpreted in a variety of ways. Extremely uncharitably, it could mean anyone living in their parents’ house, disabled people, children, and anyone who generally depends on the structure of society to survive. If that’s the argument, we need to define the threshold of dependence and justify it. Even pretty narrowly, it could excuse infanticide.
We already legally require parents to provide for their children, or give them to people who can. Requiring women to not kill their babies in the womb is a logical extension of this. Once the baby is born, it can be given to someone more capable of caring for it.
If the baby has no chance of survival, as was the case of a woman who died of sepsis, that’s a much more reasonable time to permit abortion. Better, though, are measures taken to try and save the baby’s and the woman’s lives. A premature delivery, for example, wouldn’t be outright killing it, but it would have saved the life of the mother.
- Comment on Biden thinks Trump voters are trash. 2 weeks ago:
No, I wouldn’t call that disarmament. If someone else took away his assault rifle by force (or threat of force), that’s disarmament. As is legally preventing someone from acquiring an assault rifle. Felons are disarmed, for example. The Supreme Court affirms that people have the right to keep and bear personal arms, and also that the government doesn’t have the right to eliminate that right without serious historical precedent. Funnily enough, New York State tried justifying their concealed carry legislation by citing bigoted laws from our “Anglo-American tradition.”
- Comment on Biden thinks Trump voters are trash. 2 weeks ago:
Thank you.
So what is an “assault-style rifle” and how is banning them not disarmament? If banning them wouldn’t significantly affect firearm deaths, then why are Kamala Harris and the majority of the Democratic Party pushing for it?
On the topic of abortion, less than 8% of reported abortions happened past the first trimester. They also generally don’t happen for medical reasons. And fair point about the third trimester thing. However, given the number of states that have very little or even no restrictions on abortion, it’s likely to me that they’ll push for the same nationwide.
- Comment on Biden thinks Trump voters are trash. 2 weeks ago:
If it’s propaganda, you should be able to easily disprove it. You’re here insulting me for apparently no basis, so you must have the time and energy to provide sources that dispute these claims, right?
- Comment on Biden thinks Trump voters are trash. 2 weeks ago:
Can you explain how I’m wrong?
- Comment on An Honest Assessment of Kamala Harris' Policy Platform 2 weeks ago:
“Rumpelstiltskin” is a German fairy tale about a miller’s daughter who is forced to give her firstborn child to a mysterious gnome-like man in exchange for his ability to spin straw into gold
This guy sounds like quite an odd economist. I’m not sure I would trust his opinions. But if that’s all you want to say, then I guess that’s that.
- Comment on An Honest Assessment of Kamala Harris' Policy Platform 2 weeks ago:
Just throwing a name out there couldn’t hurt. Your favorite system, your favorite economist, that kind of thing? If you don’t want an argument, then that’s fine, but you’re keeping me from some real saucy forbidden knowledge here.
- Comment on An Honest Assessment of Kamala Harris' Policy Platform 2 weeks ago:
I take it you can tell me what system better works with macroeconomics and, thus, why I shouldn’t listen to this guy?
- Comment on An Honest Assessment of Kamala Harris' Policy Platform 2 weeks ago:
Alright, so you’ll come in, insult him, and dip out because you can’t actually argue against what he’s saying?
- Comment on An Honest Assessment of Kamala Harris' Policy Platform 2 weeks ago:
Can you explain how his arguments against Kamala’s policies are incorrect?
- Comment on Biden thinks Trump voters are trash. 2 weeks ago:
Kamala Harris supports an assault weapons ban. First of all, most firearm deaths are done with handguns rather than rifles - 59% vs. 3%. Second, I’ve yet to hear a definition of “assault weapon” that isn’t completely arbitrary. Third, there is very little evidence that the previous assault weapons ban actually reduced firearm deaths.
Also, Kamala Harris wants to “restore the protections of Roe v. Wade,” which would essentially allow abortions up to the point of birth for any/no reason. Abortion is, in the vast majority of cases, the killing of an innocent human being - the fetus/baby. That is, it’s murder of an exceptionally vulnerable person.
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- Comment on New York City is paying for migrants to leave, and Illinois is one of the top destinations 2 weeks ago:
I really don’t like how migrants are being treated like the ball in a shell game, but at long as the border is as open as it is and resources are as scarce as they are, what else can be done?
Besides, these cities have called themselves “sanctuary cities” for years. They should either own up to that title and embrace their new residents, or stop calling themselves that and start cooperating with ICE.
Either way, we need to tighten up the border. Inviting people to America and then shuffling them around indefinitely like this benefits literally nobody. That goes double with the fact that we already have millions of homeless who aren’t receiving the same level of assistance that the migrants are. That’s not an indictment of the migrants, but of the government.
- Comment on What's your favorite conservative podcast? 2 weeks ago:
Almost all pplitical podcasts revolve around waxing philosophical over currently-relevant issues from one particular perspective. If you’re interested in propagandizing yourself, pretty much anything in like the top 10 on Spotify will do.
But if you actually care about knowing what’s going on and why people think what they think, you’ll have to actually read articles to see what they’re saying. Talking to a range of people is also quite good. Lemmy is particularly useful for getting a far left perspective of things, for whatever that’s worth.
Welcome, by the way!
- Comment on Biden thinks Trump voters are trash. 2 weeks ago:
I’d call wanting to disarm an entire populace and arbitrarily kill babies pretty tyrannical, but that wouldn’t mean we should kill people who advocate such things.
- Comment on What's the point of a long-distance friendship? 2 weeks ago:
The majority of my friends are online. The internet has connected me with people who broaden my horizons, help me learn interesting and important things, and grow as a person. You don’t need to know someone in-person for that to happen anymore. IRL friendships will always be better, all other things being equal, but they’re not the only solution.
- Comment on 7 days to die is no longer Early Access, but still looks like this 3 weeks ago:
7 Days to Die has a terrible problem with the devs not knowing what they want to do with the game. All they know is that the players are doing it wrong.
- Comment on The Biden Administration has authorized the use of lethal force by the military against American citizens. 3 weeks ago:
What assets which are equipped to kill civilians and accessible to DoD intelligence would be described in any way other than “soldiers”? The difference seems like semantics to me. And we have the Third Amendment, which has been used to justify the military not interfering in the affairs of the civilian population. Providing intelligence to law enforcement is one thing, but sending men to kill people is a huge escalation.
- The Biden Administration has authorized the use of lethal force by the military against American citizens.www.esd.whs.mil ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to conservative@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Trump appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast for nearly three hours: Here are the top moments 3 weeks ago:
Okay. That’s one thing he did on that list. Now how about the rest?
- Comment on Trump appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast for nearly three hours: Here are the top moments 3 weeks ago:
I mean, clearly 350 wasn’t an appropriate number. Especially not unarmed soldiers who are basically functioning as glorified police.
Every soldier I’ve seen discussing the presidents has said they’d take Trump over Biden. And why didn’t these generals sound the alarm about Trump’s apparent passion for Hitler during the last election?
- Comment on Trump appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast for nearly three hours: Here are the top moments 3 weeks ago:
- Yes, but if he wanted so badly to keep power, I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t have shown up.
- People don’t laugh when the police/military come enforcing it.
- If he’s a dictator, what does he care? He could have used the National Guard, by the way. No such restriction on them.
- Do you really want to call protecting Congress “a waste of taxpayers money”? And lying under oath is a pretty serious crime, especially given Trump was no longer President when the interview happened. Why was this interview suppressed to begin with, anyway?
- Comment on Trump appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast for nearly three hours: Here are the top moments 3 weeks ago:
He could have just not shown up to the inauguration. He could have declared a state of emergency. He could have taken control of the military. He could have done any number of things, but he didn’t. Instead, he stepped down when the time came. That’s not a dictatorial thing to do when you have power.
