Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Background Pony #D0E9  
I think perhaps you need a better peer group. No, I know so.

@Latecomer  
Yeah, and why don’t we judge a killer for killing? Once it happens, guess what, too late, it already happened. Only thing left is desire for punishment or vengance, however much good that does.

@Angrybrony  
I mean, being LGBTQ+ doesn’t really change who you are.
 
Heck, I’m asexual, and I’ve barely mentioned it in the two years I’ve been on this site.

@TheSultanAkbar  
So you favour the abolition of laws altogether?

@Latecomer  
Then you judge all peer groups I just talked about - from kindergarden to school to workplaces to family - on a few phrases I have said and nothing else, and in particularly not on their behaviour. Like clockwork.

@Background Pony #D0E9  
No, I understand there are personal reasons - but if it’s that ubiquitous, you have a problem.

@Latecomer  
What? Never said that. A law is there to punish misdeeds and rash behaviour and law enforcement is there to keep the peace. Nothing more, nothing less. Laws are not there to punish or enforce thoughts or views.

@TheSultanAkbar  
Art is not a view, it’s an action.

Yesterday Aurora, Colorado was holding a violin vigil for Elijah McClain, who was known for playing his violin, especially to animals.
 
police stormed a peaceful vigil in memory of elijah mcclain, attacking mourners with pepper spray. families were there. children were affected.

@Latecomer  
Technically, it’s neither. Art is supposedly to be an expression of emotion or an impression of reality. Of course, it is an abstract concept and no one can agree what it is.

@tehwatever  
… How does one go from the Nazis to the racists to religion?
 
There’s a reason why the slippery slope is a fallacy.

@TheSultanAkbar  
Nevertheless, one can express bigotry through art as much as through violence.

@Latecomer  
Nah, I think I am fine. I can live with having friends who drew a swastika when they were 6, or held some objectionable opinion towards foreigners when they were 12. People aren’t perfect, some do dumb things, you and me both probably did too. Doesn’t mean we don’t deserve someone else’s company.

@Background Pony #D0E9  
If they’ve improved or got over it, then sure, it’s fine. A lot of people are idiots when they’re young.
 
If they still have such sympathies, that’s a different story.

@Angrybrony  
So, how’s that craphole in the middle of Seattle working out?

@TheSultanAkbar  
what’s that got to do with this?

@Angrybrony
 
Because “SQUIRREL!”

@vit  
First they came for the Nazis, and I did not speak out, because they’re why this fucking poem exists in the first place.

@vit  

And a tiring, overused one at this point.
 
Seriously, this site has had more warnings about slippery slopes lately than the Himalayas in an ice storm.

@Background Pony #02F1  
I do think it’s possible for even anti-Nazi censorship to be clumsy and ineffective.

Biden (and the DNC) topped Trump in fundraising for a second month in a row.
 
It was record breaking the first time a challenger outspent an incumbent in a summer raiser month, doing it twice in a row is nothing short of astounding. More over, around 68% of the donors were new small-donors, which represents a record showing of attracting new blood at the mid point of an election cycle.
 
Trump still has an incumbent cash advantage, but if Biden keeps this up then Trump may go into November with the smallest gap between a challenger and incumbent in recent history.

@Zincy  
Money isn’t everything, but it’s a ressuring sign.

@Zincy  
Hoping for a repeat of 2016.

@Latecomer
 
Biden has a surprising amount going for him right now. He has the most resilient polling numbers of any candidate in modern history, blowing Clinton’s out of the water. He has a significantly larger small donor pool. He has more crossover support with donors and PACs than any challenger has ever had (Lincoln Project, 43 Alumni for Biden, Conservatives for Biden being three major PACs). And he has higher fravoribility than Trump (and Clinton), actually managing to do what Clinton never could and crest 50% across the party factions.\
 
 
@MagpulPony
 
 
Biden has accomplished several things Clinton never could. She never polled above the margin of error in the swing states, she had a much smaller donor pool, she had almost no party cross-over support, she never reached a 50% inter-party threshold, and she never managed to get above the water in favorability.
 
Your orange fuck-boy cannot ignore political gravity forever. He is not a god, and eventually reality ensues.

@Zincy  
I take it we can cridet Trump for most of that, though.