Agreed.
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It’s not a result of authoritarian action.
The idea that rolling back authoritarianism is actually authoritarianism is, to me, strange. It’s been brought up often as such, over the years, on this board, though.
Edit: Let’s see whether it works in other fields.
-Man, those neighbors sure let their kids stay up later than ours. They let them go out without helicoptering around them too. They sure are authoritarian.
-My damn boss let’s me make my own decisions on so many things. It’s like he thinks I’m an adult. What an authoritarian.
-I just put up a new mailbox without getting the approval of my HOA. My old President would have thrown a bitch fit, but the new guy doesn’t seem to care. I’m sick of the new guy’s authoritarianism.
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That’s moving the goalposts. The point is, it’s something.
What are folks’ take on what is happening in Afghanistan and Bidens role?
You mean, where neither of us lives? It might as well be Timbuktu for all I care.
Inevitable - the correction of a 20-year mistake. I’m not at all surprised by the speed of the Taliban’s advance - I doubt anyone who actually witnessed the situation firsthand is. Heart goes out to the civilians of Afghanistan who suffer the most whenever any of these large inflection points transpire. Biden deserves no credit or blame IMO - he just happens to be the person in the White House when it happened.
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We could either have stayed or left. He pulled us out and now needs to get our people out.
Of course the Taliban are taking over.
I was in favor of wrecking their shit after 9/11, but not much of what went down over the next 20 years. At this point I’m not terribly opinionated about staying or going.
They are both shit options because Afghanistan remains the same backwards shithole it has always been.
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Are you saying the no where suburbs you and I live in are somehow not influenced by 2 of the top 5 most influential cities in the world?
I am not immediately affected by the nonsense coming from the East/West Coast. Well until Austin decides they don’t want to be left behind. Which always gets the clown car fired up in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio. 4 of the top 11 population cities in the country.
I’m not affected by the (at times) clown show in Seattle. And I only live a couple miles away.
The reasons you and your neighbors choose to live where you do instead of Austin or NYC or SF, are the same reasons you won’t see the same policies enacted in your town. And if policies are enacted where you live that are “crazy”, it’s probably time to move… and odds are super high you sell for $$$ and buy for cheap in your new conservative/libertarian town.
The times are a changing. The only constant is change. Etc, etc.
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Maybe for people like you. Some of us will stay right where we are and dare the government to stop us from living our lives.
If nobody does there eventually won’t be anywhere to move.
So the huge majority should sit down because 1 or 2 people wish to enact some progressive BS and have found the legal system a wonderful method of changing eons of traditional thought.
This is why I think the US will have a massive civil war in the future.
Many policies are enacted at the state or federal level.
No one knows why people that choose to live stacked upon one another also want to control people that choose to live far apart.
I don’t think so. I think the woke alienated any possible, capable allies last year.
Easy there killer.
Use your vote to get policies and politicians you like into power. If enough elections go against your values that you’re thinking “there goes the neighborhood”, it’s probly time to move.
Scary that civil war is so close to the surface in your head. That seems much more of a problem than possible future policy you disagree with…
Also, traditional thought that’s eons-old most certainly needs to be revisited, and if changed, done through legal methods. Not civil war.
LOL you hear that @treco? It’s scary that civil war is on your mind.
I’m sure leftists across the land would prefer you come along quietly with their insane policies.
I actually called our ideological conflict a cold civil war several years ago when the ill intent of the Marxists running the Democrat party and their media propagandists became too clear to ignore.
That was in the Covington Catholic thread, long before Covid gave a convenient pretense for accelerating the Democrats social suicide policy efforts.
I hope it doesn’t go hot, but we’re already at war. Conservatives are starting to wake up to this notion and pushing back harder, much more.
Like most of US history, imperfect people will line up with the imperfect Republican Party to stop the policy disasters advanced and implemented by Democrats.
Meet the new American politics, same as the old American politics. Now with broadband.
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Between whom? Antifa vs the My Pillow platoon?
It should be noted that NYC is going to elect a mayor who is nothing like the phony Italian they have now.
Also of note that the leading vote getter in the Seattle mayoral primary is a pro-business moderate.
The leftist rapture is not coming, no matter how badly certain gravy seals wish it.
It won’t be the right who starts the civil war. It will be the side that thinks violence is justified for so many many things.
Judging by which folks in here are talking about justifying civil war and stockpiling weapons, coulda fooled me.
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Who are you talking about?
Stating that I think the Left’s incessant desire to rule, will lead to a war, certainly isn’t any desire to see that happen. ‘Civilized’ people have been killing each other since always. We haven’t suddenly evolved past that.
But l disagree with your and all progressives desire to change all traditions, values, mores just to satisfy non ending change for its own sake.
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