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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
> About the only thing good about Trump is the fact that he doesn't want to get involved in wars, just the appearance of them.
Too bad he's unstable enough that he could easily start a war if he believed he could,like have you forgotten how close they came to war with Iran?He sent a load opf troops over there for gods sake,a clear indication of a possible conflict
With Trump it's his only saving but that rings hollow when you remember that plenty of other presidents have managed not start a pointless war,its far more likely a war starts elsewhere he decides in get involved because he wants the glory
Edited by Ultimatum on May 27th 2019 at 10:13:52 AM
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverIt was a science joke.
I.e. "time is relative so technically the past and present are the same." Einstein used it to let his friend's wife know that her husband could never die because he always alive somewhen.
But I think comparing Trump with the guy who did the Trail of Tears and kidnapped a Native child to raise as his own is just letting us know what a shitty situation we're in.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on May 27th 2019 at 9:48:12 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I don't know if this video explains something all of us knew already or not, but I found it an interesting look into how insidious hate speech can be by pretending to be innocuous.
Unfortunately I learned two videos later that he's kind of a bothsidesist so that's disappointing.
i'm tired, my friendOh, sorry. He goes by Thought Slime on youtube. He actually makes pretty good content despite the lowkey bothsidesism. He also has videos where he explains how the right don't actually value individualism and why being civil towards the right cannot work.
Unfortunately the latter video also paints Nancy Pelosi as a Dirty Centrist™ who makes successions to the right because it makes her look good and, besides maintaining power, that's all she cares about. So... yeah.
If that doesn't wrinkle you, though, check him out.
i'm tired, my friendI mean, maybe, but even then, claiming Pelosi cedes to the right is objectively wrong, and comes from a rigid definition of the word "civil" that conflates it with "concession".
He claims the center-left only cares about staying in power and not the people, and while he's careful to specify the center-left, he compares the two big tent parties in ways that lead me to believe that he believes that those apathetic, self-centered center-leftists make up the majority of Democrats, which, for my money, is functionally identical to bothsidesism.
i'm tired, my friendIronically, 'bothsiders' tend to be extremists as often as centrists.
Edited by Protagonist506 on May 28th 2019 at 7:41:15 AM
Leviticus 19:34I've said before that there are two brands of bothsiderism: centrist bothsiderism and extremist bothsiderism.
Centerist bothsiderism: both sides are equally bad because they both say mean things about each other. I'm apathetic about politics.
Extremist bothsiderism: both sides are equally bad because the side that's supposedly with me isn't as extreme as I want them to be. I'm extremely passionate about politics.
"I don't like the current dominant tendencies in the Democratic Party" does not equal "they are equally as bad as the Republicans". If you don't expect people left of social democracy to have some problems with a party that pitches itself as "we'll maintain the existing system, but slightly nicer" you haven't met many leftists.
Edited by DeathorCake on May 28th 2019 at 2:58:20 PM

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