Moblin Major General
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Haven't done a real draft in a while. Might as well.
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1 hour ago, NinjaMonkey said:
So, I thought that Biden said that nobody would be deported during his first hundred days, and yet ICE are doing it anyway. Why hasn't he stopped them, or at least de-funded them in a bid to halt this? Especially since this was one of his campaign promises.
A circuit judge in Texas blocked his moratorium, and the time it would take to fight would've exceeded 100 days, anyway. So Biden decided to back off because this is something he has to play the long game with, regardless of him being over the bureaucracy.
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25 minutes ago, NinjaMonkey said:
Is this taking in to account the reports of tens of thousands of voters switching their voter registrations away from the Republican Party, because of how toxic Trump is?
It's doing their best to ensure those votes don't keep the district blue.
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So... 🐐. That's all I gotta say. Congrats Bucs and congrats Brady.
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It still doesn't quite feel real, yet. In a good way, unlike last time. The last 4 years were a very difficult personal time for me. I hope the next 4 turn out better in more ways than one.
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Gotta say, the Browns coming within a touchdown of the defending champs and taking Mahomes out of the game possibly until the Superbowl itself is an accomplishment in and of itself.
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Hats off to the Ravens. Now hope the Browns win so you don't face the Chiefs.
Edit: I am officially jumping on the Browns bandwagon thanks to them holding a lead against the Steelers.
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50 minutes ago, eclipse said:
But as long as America ignores that part of their history, I don't think we'll be able to address the current elephant in the room.
I'm not sure if acknowledgement will actually change anything. It's something that bears mention, but the rabbit hole is so deep that I am unsure if there would be anything that could be done to undo it. It went on for centuries, those who thought to try and stop it also played right into the conspiracy, and now there are so few indigenous people that anything that we try is a worthless platitude. Everything we can think of is worth doing, but even all of it wouldn't make up for what was done long before now.
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29 minutes ago, Dragoncat said:
Lord Raven, I am back here just to comment that it was Ana. While I do not condone her threatening suicide, she is still my friend, as she has been from before I joined SF. I hope you can agree that if someone was your friend, you would be more sympathetic to them. She was banned, from my understanding, for not backing out of heated arguments. But I would be lying if I said nobody egged her on and nobody stirred the pot.
Some of this is coming from the area I live in as well. Wyoming is a red state. My family, my neighbors. Trump supporters. So when you guys say some of these things about Trump supporters, you are indirectly saying these things about my family and neighbors. Step back a bit and try to see where I'm coming from. It does not matter if Crysta says "I don't care about your mom". She does not have to care about my mom or what my mom thinks, but imagine if you were on the recieving end.
It just feels like there is no gray area allowed here. You are either red or blue. You're not allowed to be purple. And heck, if you're red...well, good luck.
I willingly say things about people on that side because I know people on it. I have relatives knee deep in this crap, and I am sick of it. Most of them are really loving, wonderful people. But what they were led to believe is so disgusting I can't associate with them, anymore. Consider doing the same, for your sake, instead of continuing the mental gymnastics.
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2 hours ago, Lewyn said:
People are willing to bear witness to a wolf tearing apart a sheep on a regular basis. So I'm sure they would be equally willing to witness the sheep trying to defend himself and fighting back.
For every person that sees a sheep trying to fight against a wolf, there is another that sees a wild ram trampling a puppy. You have to account for many perspectives when fighting what's wrong, otherwise you alienate some people and radicalize your opponents.
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45 minutes ago, Lewyn said:
So Pfizer offered US up to 600 million doses (enough for 300 million people, almost the entire US population) but Trump refused and just bought 100 million. So we could have all been vaccinated this month and go to normal, wouldn't that have been nice? A lot less people would die as well.
What does a classless tenant do when they're about to be evicted? Absolutely trash the place so that the landlord has to clean it up. Guess who the landlord is in this situation?
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50 minutes ago, Jotari said:
Duterte put the entire country under (effectively) Marshall law with a strict lock down and offered up the Philippines as a guinea pig for the Russian vaccine. It might not be the admirable way to combat it, but he was openly taking means to fight the virus.
I don't know where you get your news from, but Filipinos I know say that isn't what happened at all. What the news is saying and the boots on the ground aren't saying the same thing. And some of the "martial law" enacted is outright meant to be long term political oppression.
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7 minutes ago, Jotari said:
So open question, some food for thought. Imagine you got exclusive information from a CIA agent or something that Trump was unequivocally right. The election was rigged by Biden and Trump is the legitimate winner. Would you make this information public?
If I felt it served the public good, no. This single act of corrupt and anti-democratic skullduggery would not undo the corruption and skullduggery caused by Donald Trump. It might weaken democracy tacitly if it was covered up, but compared to what Trump was aiming for, it wouldn't be anything noteworthy.
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9 minutes ago, Dayni said:
As someone who's not heard much about the new administration, anyone have a good idea of what that looks like and should we be worried?
It probably won't look much different than Obama's presidency, except with more cleanup because Trump really messed everything up.
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45 minutes ago, Crysta said:
Wait, how were Graham's and McConnell's opponents much worse than they were?
Republican Primary challengers. Their Democratic Party Challengers were okay.
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9 minutes ago, Sunwoo said:
I agree with you in general, I'm just not exactly an optimist. I keep on feeling like there's the real possibility that people will forgot really fast (like, before-the-next-election fast) just how bad select Republican representatives were in regards to letting Trump get away with all his shit and start equating things they don't like about Democrats to genuinely problematic things Republicans did in the past 4 years.
And, like ... the fact that certain really, really unpopular Republican congressmen got reelected easily is part of the reason why I'm pessimistic. Not that I thought it'd be easy or all that realistic for a Democrat to take Kentucky or anything like that, but shit, they can't even give a different Republican a shot instead of the guy whom they apparently don't approve of?
The problem is, some of the people who were running in the primaries against the unpopular candidates were arguably much worse than they were. While it didn't hold true for Jeff Sessions, I can believe it was true for Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell. The devil you know, etc.
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31 minutes ago, Lewyn said:
You guys are really hopeful. You forget Trump isn't a typical president, and you also forget who the current GOP is. Trump's pawns. You also forget the DOJ is under his control, and he has stacked the courts with hyper partisans. It looks like the margins are really thin in many of these areas as well.
Another Trump strategy telling Republican state legislators to disregard popular vote of state and just give all electors to him. You think America is some sort of invincible democracy. It isn't. Unless the GOP stands up to him, it can very well end here.
Do you honestly believe state legislatures want to force their electors to be faithless? That every single one has as little faith in democracy as Trump? Allow me to disabuse you of the notion that it will just end. Trump may not be a typical president, and the GOP on the national level may be weak, but it is also too weak to put forth any actual effort beyond satiating his ego. Logic isn't their strong suit, especially considering one incoming congresswoman is a member of Qanon.
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2 minutes ago, Glennstavos said:
When you try to engage with your folks on politics, you can feel the rift opening up between you with each word out of your mouth. But damn it at least try. These people are capable of reason. If they use facts, counter with your own facts. If they use appeals to emotion, counter with your own. It's so important to show these people we all live in the same reality no matter what our respective bubbles say.
Some aren't voters, but cultists. You can't reason with some of them. You have to deprogram them so they can understand how much damage he has done to their psyche.
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