I argue with the hope of convincing those on the fence reading it. Appreciate the looking out though. You are right this person won’t be convinced

I’m terrified that my SO is going to be dragged out of our home.

Doesn’t seem like it. You valued your virtue signaling more.

Now my family has to worry about being able to eat and you worry about your SO. Frankly I worry about mine too

Neither of these things would be happening under a Kamala presidency, but that doesn’t matter to you it seems.

You may find this hard to believe but you can vote for harm reduction and continue to protest the things you disagree with.

If you believe that the democrats lead us to fascism through a lack luster campaign then you acknowledge that a Democrat win would have resulted in the prevention of fascism. That means you chose fascism. I guess we all have to live with the consequences of your actions.

Also you underestimate the number of things I can be mad at. I can be mad at Trump, the Democrats and people like you all at the same time. You’ve made it very clear you can only comprehend one issue at a time, but trust me I have enough anger. I’ll keep marching until they stop me ✌️

Frankly I don’t care how you try to justify it. Project 2025 was not a secret. Now my sister lives in fear of how she’ll make ends meet and provide Healthcare for my niece. And I am looking at being unemployed all due to Trump’s policies.

Your logic doesn’t change Trump’s actions nor does it change the absolute devastation facing me and my family.

These plans were not a secret, and instead of casting a vote for less suffering you stayed home. Ensuring the suffering of not only people here, but an accelerated genocide.

But hey at least you think you have the moral high ground. Must be nice having the privilege to both judge and not feel the effects of Trump’s policies at home. Daddy leave you an emerald mine too?

You made a choice and that made kids hungry. Own up to you. You can justify it however you want. You can use whatever prose and logic you wish, but you and many others like you bear that responsibility.

The dems can be a whole hell of a lot better, and so can you. I’m sorry you found neither shool lunch programs for hungry kids and abortion rights for women an appealing policy of their platform

Funnily enough your moral high grounding resulted in school lunch programs being discontinued. So good job now we have a genocide AND more hungry kids domestically

My dad did the exact opposite and it has absolutely trashed our relationship. Went from left leaning but generally apolitical then he voted for Bernie in 2016. After that he went full MAGA. He’s not the man that raised me anymore that’s for sure

I mean it is in the name. The DEMOCRATIC People’s Republic of Korea.

Dumb libs can’t even read

I don’t know how to make this any clearer this is not a full throated endorsement of the democratic party by any means. This is a pragmatic response to our failed governmental system.

If my choices are won’t cut food stamps and will cut food stamps. I will vote for the party that won’t cut food stamps.

I have plenty of criticisms for the “won’t cut food stamps” party, but abstaining from voting and allowing the “will cut food stamps” party to win is the absolute worse option. If you want to pretend to care about the working class don’t stand on a moral high ground and allow the “will cut food stamps” party to walk into a majority.

>looks at the absolute gutting of worker protections, union rights, funding to Medicare, funding to food stamps, and an unimaginable number of federal grants that go directly to providing services to impoverished Americans being pushed through executive action and congress

Yeah sure exactly the same, absolutely no difference between the two. The working class definitely won’t be suffering any more

Not blaming the global post covid inflation solely on the democrats.

Truthfully a lot of it was simply corporate greed, and they should have spoken out against it. They didn’t because they’re subpar. They ignored the issue of the worsening economy because they’re inadequate.

However, we could have had a chance at making at least some changes. Democrats at the very least would have pushed to codify abortion rights and not have tried to dismantle every government agency. But instead we have whatever the hell this is. It’s actually delusional to believe Democrats would have been “exactly the same”.

I don’t love Democrats, but at least I have a basic sense of self preservation

I don’t believe other than the planes he slipped through immediately after the Courts first order, he has broken it further. Since then he has obeyed this one. And this is just a continuation of the existing order.

But you never know anymore. And of course this is just about kidnapping people and taking them to an El Salvadorian Gulag. Nothing about him revoking green cards over free speech

Don’t be so dismissive. Many still remember Obama quite well. It just happens to be the people that hated him the most

I don’t think asking my government to stop arming a foreign government committing genocide should be called “anti-zionist” it’s anti-genocide.

When have I ever worshiped those slave owners?

Also very weird take. The revolution was started by the wealthy. It wasn’t some grassroots rebellion. It was backed by the authority of the individual colonial governments. So each state’s colonial government joined in to rebel. That’s a lot different than expecting some protesters to start a sustained rebellion.

To be clear my previous comment wasn’t talking about The American Revolution. It was talking about the general concept of revolutions. Historically they can work, but as I explained that’s a lofty thing to expect an individual to start

I’m not saying revolution doesn’t work, historically it does. But your judgement is not very practical. If you act as an individual you get arrested for terrorism and the state charges you with the death penalty. You riot the state brings in the riot police to bash your face in. You truly revolt and they bring in the tanks and declare martial law. Martial law would greatly benefit the current administration.

I don’t know how to get around these obstacles, and I suspect neither do you. I have a whole hell of a lot more respect for those that leave their homes to protest injustice than those that stay at home and do nothing other than critize people for trying. I don’t see you volunteering to fire the first shot in either my country or yours. So until you are ready to take that leap maybe don’t critize those trying to do something. Or come up with a criticism more constructive than “why don’t you just commit crimes and risk everything including your life”. That’s a lot to ask of anyone

Very eloquent point

Funny how every state that succeeded listed defending the institution of slavery as a reason for leaving the union and subsequently joining the confederacy.

I think the most accurate statement is the Confederate states left the Union to preserve the institution of slavery. The Union originally only sought to bring back the Confederate states and end the open rebellion. Lincoln was much more interested in restoring the Union than ending slavery, and in the early part of the war would have absolutely allowed slavery to continue if it meant ending the rebellion. Thus, restoring all states to the United States. However, as the war progressed it became clear there would be no easy resolution. Through the Emancipation Proclamation he was able to break the power behind southern production, the slaves, and push forward abolition. A cause he personally was always favorable towards, but unwilling to sacrifice the Union for.

Hopefully you don’t live in a red state. They’ll try to take your kids for that one

I always did like how the Ferengi found human slavery abhorrent.

But also didn’t really acknowledge that their women were effectively slaves.

Funny, because I’ve been seeing some of the largest protests my city has seen in 20+ years