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Generals » Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General) » Post 168774

Generals » Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General) » Post 168657

marinus18

@Meanlucario
IMO no democratic country should allow voter registration of individuals who don’t know the basics of their countrys constitution.
And this would be a very easy ABCD test and would save so much in terms of understanding what one is voting for.
Unfortunately these have historically only been used to make it harder for minorities to vote, mainly blacks. They could just put in very vague questions that have no clear right answer so they can pick and choose who has the answer “right”.
Good understanding of the social and political structure is indeed very important but voter registration shouldn’t be a thing. It’s main purpose is to filter out people who don’t have time to get registered or don’t have the motivation. This helps the republicans as they have a large indoctrinated and highly motivated base that will jump through any hoops to vote.
Putting in competency tests like constitutional tests or literacy tests was banned because they provided too much opportunity for bad faith actors to disenfranchise minorities who would vote against them. You can also put in biased questions to filter out people who’s political opinion you don’t like.
You don’t want to have any rules in the system that say “These citizens aren’t allowed to vote” as that could present an opportunity for definitions to be stretched or things to be twisted.
@Meanlucario
I think the second one is more troubling. The first is just a stupidly false statement but the second actively says to avoid talking and encourages you to be disingenous towards them. To not actually listen or take seriously what they have to say.
@Meanlucario
Question: What are you going to do about inflation?
Answer: A lot.
That’s what plenty of people are like, I swear.
There really is only one way to bring inflation down quickly and that’s price controls. Everything else will take years to be felt at all. Longer term solutions would be anti-trust to increase competition and higher capital taxes combined with higher minimum wages to increase purchasing power and decrease the money supply.

Generals » Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General) » Post 168654

Background Pony #10F6
@Meanlucario
IMO no democratic country should allow voter registration of individuals who don’t know the basics of their countrys constitution.
And this would be a very easy ABCD test and would save so much in terms of understanding what one is voting for.

Generals » Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General) » Post 168602

marinus18

@Background Pony #3E47
“Rule of law” just means the people rule who are ‘supposed’ to rule. It’s part of the narrative that they are the ‘true’ Americans and democrats are some foreign entity.
They are against the rule of law. “Rule of law” comes from the enlightenment as a contrast to a rule of man which meant kings and nobles. In a country ruled by law everyone is supposedly under the law and no one is above it. If anything republicans want to end the rule of law and make sure oligarchs like Musk and elite political figures like Trump are above the law and can dictate irrespective of it.
The biggest test of the rule of law was Covid where the rule of law not only applied to the average person but to the elite as well. The republicans made it very clear they prioritized the convenience and profits of the elite over the rule of law.
I think their attitude towards the covid restrictions, mask mandates and vaccine requirements showed that they do not care about the rule of law. It’s easy to say you support the rule of law if it’s applied to people you consider beneath you on the social hierarchy. It’s not so easy if it’s applied to you and those you consider your peers.
It’s a feature you see commonly with fascists though as they care about social hierarchy above all. The “law” is not a principle to govern by but is a tool to enforce social hierarchy. Fascist rule is a rule by law rather than a rule of law. In the mind of a fascist the superior ‘in’ group ought to be above the law because that’s how it’s supposed to be, they are the winners. It’s part of why they have no qualms about Trump being a criminal, the law isn’t supposed to apply to him in their eyes. In their eyes the law is something that applies only to those below them, it’s something for them to use and so they consider it unfair and like an attack if it’s used against them.
Rule of law though has shown to be the best way to govern. To have laws that are effective apply to everyone. Rather than having a handful of elite who can do what they want regardless of the consequences for everyone else. The weakness of rule of law has always been oligarchy though and if oligarchy becomes powerful enough they will try to overrule it. Pretty much as soon as laws have existed there have been elites who consider themselves above such things.

Art Chat » CLothing dye for midtone Paper » Topic Opener

LP2Lily
Artist -

Lily Fathom
Has anyone tried using Rit clothing dye on paper or mixed media type? I been told by a couple of people I could tone paper. Basically achieving a similar affect as tone brown or grey paper. The idea of working backwards from dark to light in a traditional medium.
I also heard of coffee staining, but this throws off the PH neutral balance of paper. I know Nerd Forge would use PH testing and baking soda to reach PH 7. However, I am not sure I would trust this enough myself. My last resort will be experimenting with water color paint in a tube. I could just dilute it. Though it would be cheaper if I could simply dye paper in the same bath of water from Rit.

General Discussion » Person Above You » Post 131259

Generals » Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General) » Post 168388

Ciaran
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Senior Moderator
君場森生きる
Research is done by government agencies … With government agencies doing all the research and corporations copyrighting it and selling it as if they developed it.
How is Medicare in any way involved in this?
Yes, the US government, particularly through the NIH, invests heavily in basic biomedical research. And that foundational research is often used by private companies to develop marketable drugs. But the pharmaceutical companies then invest heavily in the development, testing, and commercialization of new drugs. Clinical trials, regulatory approvals, scaling distribution and manufacturing - all of that is private sector contributions.
The recombinant human growth hormone is a great example of this collaborative process.
Medicare is a US Federal health insurance program for individuals 65 or older.
Zero dollars from Medicare go toward research.
It can negotiate prices for some high-expenditure drugs, but none of its money goes toward research.
2LDR: Pharmaceutical research in the U.S. is funded through a combination of public investments (mostly through the NIH), but also substantial private sector investments. And the private sector bears most of the cost of creating marketable products that result from the research.
Medicare is centered on providing health coverage and negotiating drug prices. It doesn’t directly fund pharmaceutical research.
Medicare makes healthcare insurance mandatory does it not?
No, it doesn’t.

Pony Discussion » Unpopular opinion time » Post 175686

Ciaran
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Senior Moderator
君場森生きる
Is this a joke?
No. You’re the one who brought up characters shitting on each other being offensive. If you find it offensive, that’s fine - that’s your call. Also as far as I am aware I don’t think anyone cares what you say about videos on other platforms. We just care what you say about artist’s work on this site. Please don’t test that - you seem to really hate that artist’s work. But if you don’t like their videos, and you’re not talking about the videos here, then it has nothing to do with us.
Am I not allowed to say that? … Am I not allowed to express a negative opinion?
Sorry if I am coming across condescending. You could also please dial back the aggro. But - Rule #0 - Criticism is welcome and encouraged when done so in a constructive and helpful manner. However, using baseless, unconstructive criticism as a veil for the purpose of insulting or attacking an image and/or an artist is not allowed.
The post I replied to is about that artist’s work on this site. It doesn’t mention the videos you keep talking about.
As I am very sure you already know, if someone is publicly attacking an artist whose work is on this site, we ask them to stop. Sometimes even fucking stop. And when it seems like it might be possible to just post a meme that some might enjoy, we try that. Clearly for you that image is a ‘no fun’ image. It isn’t for me. I guess that’s just personal taste.
Anyway, “horrendous faces, massive butts, gratuitous toilet humor, incest, and usage of slurs” isn’t constructive or helpful. Neither is complaining about “characters pooping on each other” or referring to someone’s work as “deliberately low effort and offensive” shitposts.
If their work is a deliberately low effort and offensive shitpost, report it and we’ll review it. We delete a lot of images like that.

Generals » Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General) » Post 168159

Background Pony #01F2
@neutralgrey
Just to clarify, it was not an ICBM but a new type of missile they are testing called “Oreshnik,” boasting speeds of mach 10 and supposedly no current defense systems can intercept it, Putin claims.

Generals » Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General) » Post 167967

Ciaran
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Senior Moderator
君場森生きる
The Dailywire is from capitalists. I also mentioned that they push Christianity several times
In response to my asking for an example of the Federal Government of the US using religion as a propaganda tool.
You made a claim, I’m asking you to back it up.
I’m doing this because you make an incredible number of claims - walls of them sometimes.
And when anyone asks you about it or replies to you with regard to one of your claims, you respond with another wall of different claims.
So I’m trying to see if you will respond to someone trying to talk to you about one single claim that you have made.
Please consider this a kind of Turing test. I’m trying to figure out if you are just trolling this thread, or if you are a cleverly but not entirely well coded bot.
It is. That point wasn’t related to the US government.
I think it is very much on topic - the topic was me asking you for an example defending your claim:
In the US especially religion was propped up by the federal government for propaganda reasons.
That is the example you gave.
It doesn’t seem you are here to discuss things with people, but instead are just pushing walls of claims.
That makes you seem more like you are here to push a message, with no interest in discussing topics with others - not even the topics you bring up.
Is this a language barrier thing? Are you just here to practice English or something like that?
Because you really don’t seem to be here to have anything even approximating any kind of honest discussion of the claims you are putting forth here.

Generals » Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General) » Post 167364

ᎶㄖҜㄩ 乃ㄥ卂匚Ҝ
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ZAMASU
How many schools are teaching critical thinking these days? This will help people make better decisions and help them fight waves of misinformation and propaganda that they will encounter online.
Schools never taught that to begin with. Don’t believe me? Ask any kid still in high school to not stand for the pledge. They’ll be forced to even if it’s for a political reason because “they’re causing a distraction”
Schools existed to teach to the test and indoctrinate kids into being obedient members of society, and even then they fuck up at that.
Y’all can thank the Prussian Empire for that. They created their schools to indoctrinate the kids of newly-conquered Poland to be loyal to the Prussians. Then Horace Mann brought that system to America to train kids to be obedient workers for their corporate slave-drivers. The rest, as they say, is history.
@ᎶㄖҜㄩ 乃ㄥ卂匚Ҝ
Fuck, how bad is it if I live in a red part of a solid blue state?
I’m assuming you live in a rural area (which I don’t think you should do unless you live and/or work on a farm.) If that’s the case, then try moving to the nearest major city. If not, then the suburbs will do fine.

Generals » Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General) » Post 167351

neutralgrey
Solar Guardian - Refused to surrender in the face of the Lunar rebellion and showed utmost loyalty to the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).
Silver Bit -

How many schools are teaching critical thinking these days? This will help people make better decisions and help them fight waves of misinformation and propaganda that they will encounter online.
Schools never taught that to begin with. Don’t believe me? Ask any kid still in high school to not stand for the pledge. They’ll be forced to even if it’s for a political reason because “they’re causing a distraction”
Schools existed to teach to the test and indoctrinate kids into being obedient members of society, and even then they fuck up at that.

Generals » Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General) » Post 167043

Dustcan
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
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Condensed Milk - State-Approved Compensation

Dogs
Is this supposed to be some kind of gotcha? Because I noticed how even the article mentioned the dude was fired and efforts were corrected.
Most troubling of all, perhaps, was a sentiment the expert said a member of Kushner’s team expressed: that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. “The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy,” said the expert.
“Both sides are the same.”
@The Smiling Pony
Yes. It’s not Doom anymore, is it? It’s been tampered with for reasons unknown.
Imagine going to see the next Black Panther movie, the hero swoops in, time for the mask reveal and:
https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/05fb0c63-6713-48a8-8c54-e4d92b8c6588/dc3l7fv-5b6c074f-b27d-4c6d-a9a8-1e48675df7cb.png?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcLzA1ZmIwYzYzLTY3MTMtNDhhOC04YzU0LWU0ZDkyYjhjNjU4OFwvZGMzbDdmdi01YjZjMDc0Zi1iMjdkLTRjNmQtYTlhOC0xZTQ4Njc1ZGY3Y2IucG5nIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmZpbGUuZG93bmxvYWQiXX0.U8dV8aku5-lulD6ccdr9-RQ3dvc_lXWsAZa-phegISM
Oh…
Gotta love when some chud steps into fandoms he knows nothing about to broadcast that he knows nothing about it.
Because otherwise you would’ve called that character by his name “Hunter, the White Wolf”.
Oh you didn’t know? A Trump supporter who doesn’t know something? What are the odds.

General Discussion » Vent thread » Post 195037

Mr.Myoozik
StarTrix Forever! - Derpi Supporter
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Music/Charts Enthusiast
Visited my uncle today because he had surgery recently to remove one of his kidneys because they had large cancerous tumors in them. His other kidney has small ones and they’re doing lab tests to see what they can do to proceed, and it’s scary to think that a family member of mine has one of the worst diseases in mankind.
@CaptainXtra
I see Moistcritikal let himself go 😏

Pony Discussion » MLP G5 Discussion and Speculation Thread » Post 27308

Crackpot Quackpot
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Preenhub - We all know what you were up to this evening~
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -

Erratically Sane
I wanted to get this out of the way first but man, mdash wants to really claim credit as the MLP info hacker so he started dumping truckloads of concept of things we already knew about or stop caring for (the 2017 post-movie plans) which I find very annoying when simply wanting to browse “g5”. Like yeah, I seen them before, it’s nothing new, unfortunately.
@Dragonpone
Since IDW made her first. Expect to see more of her. Meanwhile, I’m even more interested in seeing Skye back considering Hasbro has a sudden aversion to zebras that isn’t Zecora. Or maybe that one guy who thinks Zecora is the one and only true zebra. Those in S10 don’t exist and so are the ones in G5. Also he doesn’t like Violette despite sharing the same affliction as her. Anyhow, I’m glad about that, it seems as though this story would give an in-universe explanation on why the zebras haven’t appeared outside of the comics and I already can explain why, the reason being pretty shoddy on Hasbro’s part.
@Dustcan
I mean she was the main gal of the movie. Till Misty came.
@DerpyFast
Hitch: Element of Normality
@Dustcan
As parasites I highly doubt they would die off that easily. These guys probably laid 100 eggs each that can withstand the tests of time.
@Dustcan
Would probably spite the guy I just mentioned in that yeah, she’s here to stay.
@Dragonpone
I knew it’s too good to be true. Sprout’s forever banned I see.

Generals » Legend of Zelda Thread » Post 2711

Background Pony #756C
idea for Zelda game:
Link must pass tests set up not by zelda/hyrila or the goddesses or whatnot but by his precious incarnations-that is The Links from previous games. to test his skill and inherit a special item each one wielded.
In adaption to the standard ones. (Bow, Bombs, Lantern, Boomerang, etc)
the Heroes are referred to by Title to tell them Apart
Hero of Legend (original game’s link)
Hero of The Sleeper’s Dream (Link’s Awakening)
Hero of Time
Hero of Winds
Hero of the Age of Seasons
Hero Touched by Twilight
Hero of the Soaring Skies
Hero of the Cursed Masks

Generals » Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General) » Post 166672

Commune
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It’s worth noting that even the source I gave in the Forbes article is not entirely flawless. It failed to take into account which sports groups the athletes came from, they combined all different types of athletes and tested them
To be fair the authors noted this limitation and urge for further research to be taken, plus I highly suspect for the limitation I noted, the reason they combined all different types of sporting groups is due to the incredibly small size of transgender athletes that actually exist, so they legitimately could not have done a study if they hadn’t because then they would be studying like, 5 people as a sample size(this simply shows how much of an outsized issue this is though, if sports groups and scientists legitimately struggle to study trans athletes because of how irrelevant they are in the grand scheme of things, doesn’t this indicate this is fucking pointless?)

Generals » Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General) » Post 166666

Commune
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Betrayal! - Betrayed their team for a badge. Shame forever!
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2017) - Celebrated Derpibooru's five year anniversary with friends.
Not a Llama - Happy April Fools Day!

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@Background Pony #01F2
Jesus Christ listen to what I’m saying
I do not deny that there are some studies saying that trans women may be on average stronger or have some biological differences than cis women, the question is, to what extent is that relevant? Or significant?
If a trans women and a cis women were to compete and the trans women is on average better, but(and here’s the important but), not to the extent that it’s impossible or even improbably that the cis women could’ve beaten the trans women multiple times, why should trans women be excluded if the sport is still competitive between the two?
“But it’s unfair”, yeah fucking guess what it’s sports, different groups of people have different traits than each other, woopie doo, so long as it’s competitive I don’t care
Now to be fair, there are some indication that some physical sports have significant differences, to quote your source
The study reported that after 2 years on GAHT there were no significant differences between ciswomen and transwomen in the number of push-ups or sit-ups performed in 1 min. However, transwomen ran significantly faster during the 1.5 mile fitness test than ciswomen
However, your source also has another study that indicates
In this study, the race times of eight transfemale distance runners were compared at baseline and after one or more years of GAHT. After adjusting performance for age, the eight runners were not more competitive in the female category (after GAHT) than they had been in the male category (before GAHT).
The problem, of course, is that due to the incredibly small demographic we are talking about(trans women athletes in physical sports), any study is likely to have a sample size of like a few dozen people because not a lot of trans people are actually in sports

Generals » Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General) » Post 166456

Toastypk
Nightmare in the Moon - Had their OC in the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Cool Crow - "Caw!" An awesome tagger
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
Solar Guardian - Refused to surrender in the face of the Lunar rebellion and showed utmost loyalty to the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).

Royal Advisor
@BlitztheDragon
That word means whatever the hell people want it to mean.
For all my life I’ve been a wanter of equality. Equal rights for gay people, trans people, all that stuff. Treating people right, testing people the same, making sure everyone has access to the same programs, opportunities, and freedoms. It’s what America is supposed to be about!
And this is stuff now that all of a sudden people would put in that sort of umbrella. To move away from, too? Really?
I will never stand for doing that.
Why is this so hard for people to understand?

Generals » Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General) » Post 166445

Generals » Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General) » Post 165781

Wiimeiser
Nightmare in the Moon - Had their OC in the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
Dream Come True! - Participated in the MLP 9th Anniversary Event
Wallet After Summer Sale -
A Tale For The Ages - Celebrated MLP's 35th Anniversary and FiM's 8th Anniversary

(Foil Hat)
@marinus18
I’ve heard that Europe is going Right, so it’ll probably be drawn in. I guess I’m unthinkably radical left now, and the one time I took a political compass test I ended up 1 to the left.

Pony Discussion » MLP G5 Discussion and Speculation Thread » Post 27284

Background Pony #BECD
Very interesting - but dating is strange, August 2025? And it’s a compilation of different comics - only one of which is possibly confirmed, the one about Cadence? Also, it seems that distortions and incorrect angles in the descriptions of the stories the IDW comics are unusual, “the Mane 5?” We know that it is now the Mane 6 with Misty - although it should be called “the New Mane 6” to avoid confusion with the Mane 6 from G4.
For a whole ten years it had been lore that Cadence became an alicorn after overcoming and reforming a witch with her talent magic despite being a pegasus. It is possible that she, being very young as an alicorn, is sent to the magical school where the dragons attacked, which may be her first time using pure magic. Celestia could defeat a dragon even if she had to work a little with a dragon lord, without killing - but it will be different with a swarm of dragons.
Violette Rainbow and Skye are in demand and in addition something that the G5 teams had worked on, which makes these two their “heart children”. So a new story about these is not really unexpected. We see a continuation of the royal pegasi sisters in the two subsequent stories, although the one about a famous pegasus and a tournament seems interesting. Maybe Rainbow Dash’s ghost will test Zipp, or is there a new G5 pegasus we don’t know about? The Mane 6 with the possible exception of Twilight have become “ghosts” who can visit the homes of mortals as seen when Fluttershy comforted Old Discord.
It’s unclear, but it’s possible that IDW is in high gear to prepare for a new round of G5 stories and this publication of the comic for August 2025 may have happened accidentally.
The situation for Hasbro is still not good. Have seen the link with the video essay - and much of what Cxcd stated seems to agree with my observations. It came out that the G5 preparations had gone through several rounds in 2017-2021, among other things to avoid Discovery who had mistakenly obtained license rights to G4, especially S4-S9 which is unavailable today. There was a high level of ambition around G5 which means that Goldner put down considerable resources - which became a big disadvantage when the virus came in the spring of 2020. And almost at the same time Goldner started to get sick, serious errors started to occur - the 2D continuation from the ANG movie is what we had been promised in 2019-2021.
Netflix was chosen to avoid extra costs, the Entertainment One purchase had become more expensive than expected. It then suggests that Goldner may have lost control - for the handling of the S10 was under any criticism as it was preferred to shorten rather than slow down during the epidemic. The cancellation of PonyLife in the winter of 2020-21 was another example. For unknown reasons - perhaps out of pride - Goldner refused to retire or seek assistance until his death in October 2021. It is possible that the Hasbro management for which Goldner was CEO had begun to intervene and thus already in the year 2021 gained an upper hand that prepared the ground for the new CEO, Chris Cocks from January 2022. And then things really started to crumble, so that the G5 received an exceptionally bad treatment.
Transformers ONE has turned out to be a very good movie, but the advertising effort - which was Hasbro’s responsibility - was miserable, and no preparations were made for toy sales in connection with the release of the movie. It threatens to do major damage to the brand, and Transformers fans are in a growing frenzy, because they had to go in and try to fix it. This testifies to a lack of strategic management. The strategy for G5 was partly dumped by Hasbro before the movie came out, and it had a very difficult birth beforehand.
Hasbro has got the Boeing disease. Being a company that gambles on the willingness of other companies to fund brands on “loans” from the licensee for their own profit makes Hasbro vulnerable, TYT 2.0 was dumped because Netflix quit. Paramount could be next. And perhaps IDW comics, which has too small a stable of capable artists and a failing comic market in the US. Hasbro transfers the risk to others. Without thinking that there will come a day when no one will take this risk.
The Chinese might as well come and eat Hasbro.

Generals » Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General) » Post 164874

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Ukraine is about more than just the country itself. If the US doesn’t support Europe against Russia then Europe is not going to support the US against China. Ukraine is a crucial test of the NATO allience and it’s strength. If the US bails on Ukraine it will show China that it can disregard NATO.

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Yet ironically as he is attacking marginalized groups he also makes his supporters feel like one and worthy of the same sympathy that they see blacks getting.
Yes. That’s not ‘ironic’ - it’s the point.
Like with a lot of fascism they kinda want to have it both ways.
No. They don’t want it ‘both ways’. They see themselves as the victims. They see those who they want to victimize as the enemy responsible for their victimhood. That’s just one way.
Though from what I’ve seen Trump himself isn’t actually all that relevant
Let’s test that. Remove Trump.
If Trump gone, the bipartisan border bill would have passed. Kevin McCarthy would still be speaker of the House. Matt Gaetz most likely would have not been able to avoid being investigated and censored by the House for underage sexual abuse and trafficking. The people responsible for the January 6th Capitol attack would not be celebrated heroes at the national level. Rudy Giuliani wouldn’t be a surrogate speaker at a Madison Square Garden event. Marjorie Taylor Greene would no longer be trending. And we wouldn’t have a candidate for POTUS literally quoting their opponent’s statements - word for word - as the entirety of their advertisement for themselves.
Others have tried to replace Trump, or to ‘out Trump’ him and become the head of the GOP. But even though incredibly powerful party members like Mitch McConnell have been COMPLETELY honest about what kind of complete and utter asshole Trump is, and how unsuitable they are for any kind of political leadership, Trump still has won the GOP and owns it completely. If Trump doesn’t like someone, they’re gone. He can’t MAKE someone successful in the party, but he can completely ruin them if he doesn’t like them. Even McConnell has only been able to cling to his position because he’s such a tick and has been buried into the system for so long. But just imagine the kind of shit McConnell would have gotten up to if Trump didn’t hate him and had actually supported him.
No one else has been able to be the lightning rod for the GOP, the core of this hate-motivated third party that rose up and ate all the other allied sub-parties that used to make up Republicans in the USA. Just look at Vance - even when someone toes the line as hard as they can, but they aren’t Trump. The second Trump is gone, Vance will be moldy and extremely weird used up bacon. He has already thrown away every thing his entire career was built on, and Vance still can’t do what Trump is doing.
So. I think Trump is relevant.
Cause people can pick out the parts they like and just project onto him the rest.
Yes. That was the lesson he learned from Sarah Louise Palin. Just watch HIM watch HER talking - you can see him practicing how to do what she did. That Sarah Palin ‘so close to sane but then not quite’ and never actually say anything that anyone can blame you for or stick on you as an actual fact.
Before Palin, Trump tried to make sense. Afterwards, he realized how to do what she was doing, but better. Meaner. More inciting. But never actually saying anything that anyone could point to as an actual statement or opinion.
Trump isn’t stupid. He may be addled and demented, but he didn’t get where he is by being stupid. he’s very smart, and you can literally watch him stealing what others are doing - kind of like Rogue - all he has to do is see someone use their mutant powers, and he is able to do it himself.
I have hard several MAGA folk urging for what is in all reality a communist revolution.
I think you mean ‘Authoritarianism’.
It’s why Evangelicals think he’s more religious than anyone else.
I don’t believe Evangelicals think he’s religious at all. I think they believe he is just a tool to achieve their goals. He’s an “instrument of God’s will” who faces persecution by his foes. He is “the anointing” to mark where “God’s presence will come down to Earth”. He’s the enormous overpriced boat you have to buy to prove your love to Christ so that you can finally permit Christ into your bank account and save you from foreclosure because Christ loves you and you have let him into your life by finally proving your faith through correct purchases and overextending yourself.
He’s a part of the Divine Plan. But more like a “modern-day Cyrus” who was used by God to fulfill divine purpose without actually being a believer. Trump, in this twisted Evangelical construct, is an ‘instrument of God’s will’.
But that doesn’t make Trump “good”. “God uses flawed individuals to accomplish His plans”. Trump is just a catalyst. And the Evil that Evangelicals trust Trump to ‘fix’ are all about social and cultural things that Evangelicals think Christians should be in control of.
That’s about social and cultural control and authoritarianism, not communism.

Generals » News, Articles, Events, and Shenanigans. [Potentially NSFW] » Post 3472

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Some important context is missing to that story. Peanut’s owner is an antivaxxer who refused to vaccinate his pets for rabies, and that was part of the anonymous complaint. Peanut was put down because he bit the responding animal control officer, and when an unvaccinated, non-domesticated animal bites someone, it is standard procedure to euthanize the animal to test for rabies. It’s a tragic development and I’d rather the squirrel have lived, but this was predictable.
There’s a very specific type of person that Peanut and Fred’s content catered to, and they’re the only ones making this into a martyr story. Just saying.
Also pretty sure that we shouldn’t be doing calls to action against people, even if you’re upset at them.

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