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- New ranking puts Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK on top for climate performancewww.euronews.com ↗Submitted 6 hours ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on Where to start? 3 days ago:
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- Comment on Where to start? 4 days ago:
If us Star Trek nerds can’t get our facts straight, what hope for humanity?
- Comment on Where to start? 5 days ago:
Measure of a Man is season 2!
- Comment on Where to start? 6 days ago:
I’d start with Strange New Worlds. It’s very classic Trek in terms of its themes and stories, but as it’s still being made it has contemporary audiences in mind. If you like it, I would then go to TNG.
- Comment on So, this was totally predictable. Here's why. (long article) 1 week ago:
I’m not going to go through this point by point. Some of it I think is probably about right and some not. What I will say is that I don’t think it’s consistent to say people were crying wolf over Trump, who tried to overthrow one election and would have done the same with this one had he lost, and then in the same place to suggest that a Harris win would’ve resulted in the end of democracy based entirely on a loosely defined notion of elitism.
- Comment on Biden thinks Trump voters are trash. 3 weeks ago:
My point was that if the man is still ‘armed’, he hasn’t been ‘disarmed’, he just has one less (type of) gun. For example, if I told you that there was a man in my street with two guns, and then added that he’d now been disarmed (forcibly or otherwise), you would assume that he now had zero guns.
- Comment on Biden thinks Trump voters are trash. 3 weeks ago:
The fact that he didn’t call them trash is the salient point here.
I mean, apart from anything else, the word he used, whatever it was applied to, was ‘garbage’.
- Comment on Biden thinks Trump voters are trash. 3 weeks ago:
disarm
If a man had an assault rifle and a handgun, and he put down the assault rifle, would you describe him as ‘unarmed’? If so, I don’t think you can describe removing assault rifles as ‘disarming’ people.
- Comment on Biden thinks Trump voters are trash. 3 weeks ago:
No, he didn’t. Both the context and the grammar make it clear that my interpretation is correct. Even if you interpret it unsumpathetically, the infefence that it’s ‘all’ Trump supporters is something you’ve added.
Any Trump supporter pretending to be offended by what Biden didn’t actually say is in any case a massive hypocrite, because Trump built his political career on being offensive. They can’t turn around now and act all offended unless they also repudiate Trump.
- Comment on My Fellow Republicans, It’s Time to Say Enough With Trump 3 weeks ago:
That’s part of the reason I’m sharing it here!
Anyway, I’m sure there’s a non-zero number of conservative-leaning readers of the NYT. Every one of them who’s swayed away from Trump is a win.
- Comment on Biden thinks Trump voters are trash. 3 weeks ago:
He didn’t. “The only garbage I see is his supporter’s” garbage, i.e, it’s the possessive “'s”.
Anyway, Trump called the whole country a garbage can, so if you’re so desperately offended by your misreading of Biden’s comments, I guess you’re also pretty torn up about Trump’s, right?
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to conservative@sh.itjust.works | 6 comments
- Comment on 'The worst thing I've ever heard': Holocaust survivor blasts Harris for comparing Trump to Hitler 3 weeks ago:
Missing the vital context that Trump keeps praising Hitler, and that’s the reason people are making the comparison.
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- Comment on Confessions of a Republican Exile 5 weeks ago:
I put an archive link in the post! Here it is again.
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- Comment on Everybody who ever voted for trump is a cunt. 5 weeks ago:
I broadly agree with you that everyone who voted for Trump was in some sense wrong, but I don’t think your framing is helpful. Even honest people with good motivations make mistakes and I think that some percentage of Trump voters was essentially mistaken when they voted for Trump (and if they’re planning to vote for him again).
Specifically, the mistake they’re making is believing that the ends justify the means.
Let’s say a person holds some sort of conservative belief that’s not in itself evil, like that taxes should generally be as low as possible, that any fiscal headroom should primarily be taken as an opportunity for a tax cut rather than for more state spending. There’s nothing wrong per se with believing this (all tax policy is a matter of balance and there will always be some people who, on balance, think taxes should be lower). However, believing that this is so important that you should vote for a person like Trump is wrong: the ends (low taxes) don’t justify the means (Trump regaining the presidency).
NB: The question as to whether low taxes are actually good, or of whether Trump will actually deliver them, is irrelevant to this argument; the whole point I’m making is that these people are mistaken, so if they’re also mistaken about the merits of low taxes that’s a point in favour of my argument, not against it. For what it’s worth, Trump will raise taxes on all Americans because his tariff scheme is a tax that will be paid for by Americans.
- The Moment of Truth | The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States.www.theatlantic.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to conservative@sh.itjust.works | 0 comments
- The Moment of Truth | The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States.www.theatlantic.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to conservative@lemm.ee | 0 comments
- Comment on Keir Starmer pins economic growth hopes on British Hollywood with new tax relief 1 month ago:
Terrified this will now actually catch on.
- Comment on Keir Starmer pins economic growth hopes on British Hollywood with new tax relief 1 month ago:
Brollywood?
- Comment on Rudy Giuliani’s Daughter: Trump Took My Dad From Me. Please Don’t Let Him Take Our Country Too 1 month ago:
True. You’d have to have a certain quantum of shittiness to even end up in his orbit. But once in it, things can always get worse.
- Rudy Giuliani’s Daughter: Trump Took My Dad From Me. Please Don’t Let Him Take Our Country Toowww.vanityfair.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to conservative@sh.itjust.works | 5 comments
- Rudy Giuliani’s Daughter: Trump Took My Dad From Me. Please Don’t Let Him Take Our Country Toowww.vanityfair.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to conservative@lemm.ee | 0 comments
- Rudy Giuliani’s Daughter: Trump Took My Dad From Me. Please Don’t Let Him Take Our Country Toowww.vanityfair.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to conservative@lemmy.world | 1 comment
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