“Death threats poured in during the days before the 2018 midterm elections.”
I love this country, but it is now deeply fucked-up.
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“Death threats poured in during the days before the 2018 midterm elections.”
I love this country, but it is now deeply fucked-up.
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There’s a difference between regulating and over-regulating. Over 1,600 unnecessary Obama regulations no longer exist, thanks to Trump.
To be honest, I hadn’t considered the patent system a partisan issue. I assumed both parties are against stealing property of any kind, but with the wacky dems these days, nothing would surprise me.
That being said, it’s refreshing to discuss the topics with a liberal, without you deflecting too much, and avoiding the issues. And you haven’t even called me a racist, so that’s a plus : )
What would be an example of an unnecessary regulation that has been eliminated, thanks to Trump?
Fair enough, I’m all about substance. Just because I identify with more issues on the liberal side, doesn’t mean I agree with absolutely everything Democrat. I’m not registered with either party. If it were up to me, we wouldn’t even have them, and have a system that goes on it’s own merits, but this is all that we have. Personally, I’m fine with people just shutting up on social media either way on either side.
Regardless of what something thinks about the issue, far too much comment is made about superficial commentary of social issues, deciding what person did or did not do what and everything else. Jury duty of public opinion isn’t mandatory, and I think it simply is enough to say ‘if this celebrity did this, he/she is deserves to goto jail, if not, then don’t.’
Not saying I’m going to start an argument over someone with a Trump hat on or anything, Gandi overcame the British Empire without throwing a punch or using a weapon. I’ll debate anyone however on their views, and I’ll back it up with evidence of what works and what doesn’t work based on research and logic, and point out the hypocrisy if needed – and that’s it.
Anyone who votes democrat at this point needs to have their head examined. I’m not saying republicans aren’t without fault, because I despise many of them as well. But we are talking about aborting babies in the 3rd trimester (and beyond!), encouraging illegal immigration and paying for their healthcare, and giving repercussions to people whose relatives were slaves 6 generations ago.
But getting back to Acosta, the funny thing is we see lots of fake Trump supporter violence – Jessie Smollett and Covington kids are two examples – but the real anger & violence tends to be directed toward Trump’s supporters. It doesn’t really bother me anymore, in fact I find it comical how everything the haters accuse Trump of, is usually something they are guilty of themselves. Remember the Russia hoax they tried to feed us? Oops, Trump never conspired, and actually the dems did conspire with UK, Italy, Australia, Ukraine.
Lets not pretend this is about life. Do you think it should be mandatory to donate organs after death, that would save lives? Do you think it should be mandatory to donate blood that would save lives? Do you think it should be mandatory to get vaccines? Do you even think it should be mandatory to even do the most basic thing and be a good Samaritan and report someone in distress?
We don’t even have those as laws, but you idiots promote anti-abortion where there’s an ACTUAL risk of death due to pregnancy. Forget about whether its a life or not, we don’t even do the above things for such precious ‘life.’
Government shouldn’t enforce ANYONE to risk their life over any condition that may due so, REGARDLESS of if it’s a life or not. Especially one that had over 300,000 deaths related to childbirth in a single year, even recently. Tens of millions of women have died due to childbirth complications over human history, and we don’t even require a dead corpse to be used to save someones life – so lets not pretend its about life.
It’s about authoritarianism and forcing someone to do something, because as always, conservatives have nothing fucking better to do than concern themselves with someone else.
Actually, I don’t disagree with you that the abortion laws that we’re seeing now are too restrictive. And I don’t think these new laws in Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, etc are expected to stick – this is obviously intended to end up in the supreme court. You probably don’t realize, most republicans have no problem with abortion to save the mother, or in the extremely rare case of rape or incest. It’s the other 50,000,000 legal murders since 1973 that you support that lots of us are against.
For a word you clearly like to type, you obviously don’t understand the definition of ‘authoritarianism’, because only one side wants more regulations, and less personal freedoms – and it ain’t republicans. In fact, did you know that Trump has a rule that, for every regulation created…two regulations must be eliminated. You’ve just exposed yourself as an angry self-hating democrat.
“Save the mother” – yeah once internal bleeding starts, its over. Complications come during and after the pregnancy, it’s not a matter of choosing to flip a switch. every point along the way, and even after birth, is a risk to a person. That right there is a government regulation forcing someone to maintain a condition that risks their life. Would you want that enforced on you? Sorry, there’s a percentage chance you could die here, but oh well, you’re forced to accept it and not get medical assistance. If you die, too bad. Pro life my ass.
Republicans define regulations. The difference is, Republicans want the world’s ‘regulations’ run by rich billionaires in backroom corporate deals, to the detriment of everyone else.
Lets not pretend being a Republican is being ‘free’.’ You guys love to bitch about regulations and welfare, unless it benefits yourself. Feel free to let those poor conservative rural counties fend with their own county tax dollars instead of freeloading off of redistribution from the state for their services and utilities.
I’m game with letting ‘regulations’ go that you guys hate so much. Lets start with the patent system, that shouldn’t be regulated, I should be able to go and sell and reproduce those military design documents from Northrup Grunman and Lockheed Martin you military industrial guys love so much, without government intervention.
Or how about the Securities and Exchange Commission? The FDIC? They shouldn’t get involved in regulation putting any security measures on safe haven’s for wealth. If I want to hack into the Koch Brothers and Sean Hannity’s account and funnel their wealth into cryptocurrency, they should stop supporting those damned government regulations saying I can’t do that.
If you don’t agree with that, then you’re a hypocrite for picking and choosing which ‘regulations’ you agree with. You want to go full on anarchism? Then do it.
I am personally opposed to abortion. That’s my opinion. I don’t believe it is possible to name some arbitrary point before which it is permissible. The concept of “viability” is just as arbitrary as any other. Life is a smooth continuum.
Having stated that, I will add that I would vote pro-choice as a matter of public policy because conservatives either misunderstand or deliberately misstate the issue. A modern society does not choose between legal abortions and no abortions. It chooses between legal abortions and illegal abortions. Women who don’t want babies will seek the means to terminate pregnancies if they feel they have the right to control their bodies, and I would like that to happen in the presence of and with the aid of medical professionals.
The laws are irrelevant to women of means. They can always go to another state, or to Canada (, or to any other civilized country except Poland, South Korea and Ireland) and get a safe, legal abortion. Poor people, however, always end up bearing the burden of onerous laws. Poorer women will have to go back to back-alley abortions. And that is what I would want to avoid if I were a legislator.
“A modern society does not choose between legal abortions and no abortions. It chooses between legal abortions and illegal abortions.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerri_Santoro
This is the America that the GOP wants. A woman bleeding to death in a hotel room because she didn’t have the option of legal and safe healthcare.
If abortion offends you then do something that lowers abortion rates. Access to contraception and sex education works. Scolding and abstinence do not.
If you think children are important make childbirth safer and adoption easier. That’s a better use of the public’s money than frivolous law suits.
I’m with you, Scoop. I’m generally against abortion too. But it IS the individual woman’s choice. So I would also be pro-choice.
Unfortunately, I can only say that here anonymously, because once the “against abortion” part comes out, I’m automatically an anti-feminist right wing racist conservative bigot who loves Trump.
Indeed. In face-to-face conversations, I avoid the topic because the left is holier-than-thou about their pro-choice dogma, and the right is, well, just generally holy. They would be holier than thou even if “thou” consisted of Siddhartha Gautama and Jesus of Nazareth.
It’s like watching the fall of the Roman empire and no one has the balls to step in and stop the rot… Get your shit together USA!!!
I don’t think things will change until younger generations take voting seriously. They need to match the output of the baby boomer generation who always goes out to vote.
I think what’s underestimated in all this is actually how cult-ish senior citizens can be with their voting choice. There’s a pretty significant amount of people who flat out see the end of the road for themselves, and flat out seem to want to bring on the rapture, apocalypse, end times .. whatever you want to call it, to take everyone with them.
It’s not even enough to say, “hey you’re supporting something terrible for society” – its gone to the point of justifying it as what SHOULD happen. See the link earlier about moving to get away from climate change.
The biggest failing with Obama when he had complete majority was to not straighten the road ahead out. Not that some parts of the ACA weren’t needed, but he staked the entire chance for real change on a broken system that just ended up defunded as a shell of itself.
If/when the Presidency flips back, its time to go full nuclear, since Trump has shown how to destroy the US from within.
Stack the Supreme Court and appoint five additional justices. Give the five US territories statehood, along with Washington DC, and the appropriate representatives in the Senate/Congress. Another illegal immigration amnesty program ALA Reagan, with immediate voting rights. Fair and equitable voting opportunities, expand the dates and methods of being able to vote to make it easier. Allow non-violent incarcerated prisoners the right to vote.
Then we’ll see how big and bad the conservatives are when they get a taste of their own medicine. They want to play dirty and excuse this POS of a person, then match them in intensity and make sure it never happens again.
You realize what you are describing is true dictatorial rule? Whether you like it or not, 50% of the country doesn’t agree with what you outline. Trump proved this to be true when he won which was a direct backlash of the partisan presidency of Obama. The answer to partisanship is not more partisanship. It’s compromise and moderation. You are insinuating that to be “right” is to be wrong and to be left is to be right. That’s just not how an equitable society works and is the core problem with modern day liberalism. It believes it has the moral high ground but morality is completely subjective. Just because a bunch of you agree with each other and something sounds politically correct, doesn’t make it moral. The religious right claimed morality because of their faith in god and the left is behaving just as irresponsibly. The best thing the country could do right now is to elect a moderate. Trump is not a conservative. He’s a populist. Your entire 6th paragraph is about how to change the laws to help the left win. You win at the ballot box. And regardless of how centrist and common sense you believe yourself to be, centrists are in the center not on the left.
Yeah I don’t buy your both sides bullshit, sorry. If you don’t like gay marriage or pride parades, ignore it. If you don’t like abortion, then don’t get it. We don’t even make it mandatory for a human corpse to donate organs, a citizen to assist in saving a life, or blood donation to save lives so lets not pretend its about life – its about authoritarianism.
Virtually every conservative view is this way. No one is forcing you to have hot takes on illegal immigration or minorities. If you would turn off the social media, turn off FOX News, stop worrying about thinking some minority is taking something from you – it wouldn’t even be a problem. You’ve invented these problems for yourselves because you have no life. Immigrants or minorities aren’t the problem with rural areas, its because dumb fucks think they’re entitled to some $30 factory union job out in the sticks because they’re a white male with a high school diploma.
I don’t care if half agree or not, I already accept that half this country is made up of fucking idiots with too much time on their hands. If ‘half’ of the country believes what you say they believe, then opening up the voting to make it easier and more representative of the actual United States then it wouldn’t be a problem would it?
I don’t care about negotiation. Conservatives blew that chance when they elected an idiot who brags about assaulting women, cheats on his wife, makes light of nuclear weapons usage, continued a runaway effect on our environment and human health, and gives corporations major tax cuts making the world a worse place.
You can talk about ‘consensus’ all you want, but in 100 years when Trump is long gone, they’re going to be looking back at how idiotic and horrendously selfish this era was, the same way its looked back on how horribly the Black Death was handled in the Middle Ages.
I’m not worried about what it ‘appears’ as, anymore so than the Father of Liberalism FDR was about Nazi or Japanese Empire opinions on the matter. In the same manner, I’m for anything that will destroy similar philosophies in this country once and for all and give a fighting chance to kids being born today.
As a libertarian, I’m fine with doing away with all regulation both financially and socially. However authoritarianism cuts both ways. I won’t tell you who you can marry and you don’t tell me that I have to donate organs, or save lives, or donate blood. I am happy to have the “selfish” argument anytime but I refuse to have the authoritarian argument because I am consistently against it. However, I also do not want to support social or corporate welfare of any kind. I don’t want to support illegal immigrants in any fashion, and I don’t want to subsidize abortions in any way. I’ll decide what charities I donate my money to. It’s called philanthropy and it’s my choice not yours. However I think liberals have a fundamental issue with worrying about what others have as opposed to what they don’t. Jealousy is a defining characteristic of liberalism in that you don’t want people to have more than you who you deem unworthy. Who cares how many yachts or homes someone else has? So much of the lefts anger is driven by anger, jealousy, and spending other people’s money. Honestly Trumps presidency hasn’t affected my life in any way. Small business regulation has been lighter which I support. Gays can get married. Free speech is still a thing. And I continue to make money and donate to charities I deem worthy. I’m missing the hatred of trump. I have better things to do with my time than March and print signs.
I love this country too, and I agree with you. What do we do now?