I would say most people want children and quite regular life. It’s pretty basic/natural thing to want.
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I believe this as well.
TRUMP doesn’t, but all of his allies and voters do.
They already think we’re racists, now they think we’re the pedophiles too.
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I agree, but id like you to speculate for me.
Why would more successful people be more child averse? This is happening all over the first world.
That’s been the case for the last decade. Supporting Trump, for most people anyway, has always come with consequences, and that’s always been part of the soft coup plan, in my speculative opinion. The social pressure to go along with woke has been tremendous, again by design. This has been true for every single socialist revolution across all of history, and it has been no less true for America’s experiment with Democratic Socialism. Forget about “seizing the means of production” aka nationalizing businesses, and think about in-groups and out-groups. If you’re part of an out-group in a socialist society, you had better learn to collaborate with the in-group, otherwise you WILL face consequences.
Epstein is just the latest shiny thing that has people’s attention, and it was predictably and reliably amplified by the mainstream media the moment Elon Musk and Trump started their “feud”.
My brother hasn’t been to visit in Lewiston since I stood up for our mother when she was campaigning for Trump during his first run, which included two appearances on television. They used to come a few times per year, drop my nieces off for a few nights of free babysitting, and politics never came up. Mom was treated even worse by my sister-in-law, who was openly hostile and condemning of Mom for the last years of her life, all under the assumption that her personal politics were a moral imperative worth alienating family over. It got even more rocky when my stepson refused the vaccine, and it hasn’t really recovered since.
When mom passed away after spending two weeks alone in a hospital during COVID, the first words out of my 8 year-old (at the time) nieces’ mouth when I dropped my brother off after cleaning out her house was “Did you burn all of grandma’s Trump stuff?”
I answered “No, we don’t burn any of grandma’s things. Your grandmother was a lifelong Republican…”, then I was cut off by my sister-in-law who barked “No, not for the last six years. We choose to remember your mom as the smiling, dancing woman at our wedding.”
I just left their home at that point, in total shock and disbelief.
They’ve never apologized for anything, because they don’t think they have anything to apologize for. It was all justified to stop Trump, who we only vote for once every four years.
Yeah, conservatives do bad stuff too, and mistreat people for various reasons, but the whole Trump Derangement Syndrome is real, and it has sucked to live through.
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Like comparing Trump to Aragorn?
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The jury is still out on that comparison, but no, not like that. Besides, I can explain what I meant by that by citing the relevant literature, specifically Aragorn’s terrible reputation among the townsfolk of Bree along with Boromir’s initial rejection of the idea of Aragorn as leader of Gondor. All that is gold does not glitter…
Comparing Trump to Hitler is the basis for TDS, which is completely unsupported by academic literature. The irony of this is, of course, that the people who unquestioningly believe ridiculous media narratives like Trump being a fascist are exactly the kind of people who went along with the actual fascists.
Democratic Socialism is overall quite similar to National Socialism, except it is internationalist with different race-based in and out groups. Otherwise their domestic policies are remarkably similar on many major issues.
That comparison only makes sense if you ignore the rest of the story.
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You mean the story that’s unfolding in real time right in front of us, with Trump’s second term just getting going?
That story is only in your head.
I’m still confident Trump will go down as one of the greatest American Presidents in history, assuming he continues to rack up the wins. Don’t forget, Abraham Lincoln was HATED, absolutely HATED.
Maybe the guy in this video is just a sucker for MAGA, but he’s explaining what I’ve observed to be factually-supported, along with what I’ve learned from a friend who worked at DHS and USSS going back to the Bush administration. I also can see it with my own two eyes every day in Lewiston.
I don’t necessarily agree with Wall Street Apes’ specifically blaming the UN, but the man in the video seems credible to me.
That’s what the thread is for, among other things.
You never explained what your trusted sources for news are, by the way.
Thinking they are being liberated and free when in reality it is just another form of bondage - one more insidious. Instead of being tied to the needs of others, they are shackled to the endless maintenance of their own ambitions, a path that, in its final act, often ends with a hollow, almost pathetic laughter—an echo in a room stripped of anything with lasting meaning while the blackbird crows in derision.
This has been fed to them as heroic and they are too vapid and ignorant to see it.
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I sometimes run into a couple of these gals at the dog park, who think the dog park is full of people who go there to listen to them complain about Trump.
I’ve never been to a cat park, but I can only imagine what that must be like.
One of the great things about boat ownership is that I never run into any insufferable liberals out on the water. Maybe that’s just a coincidence, but it is a nice coincidence.
Drunken louts who are likely Trump voters and bad boat operators remain an issue unless I put in at a remote lake on a weekday.
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Domesticated cats being led by feral cats, probably
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I’d actually like to pick your brain, specifically, about this. If you don’t mind.
Happy to reach out in private instead of public dialogue.
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And plenty of people worried about the next overthrow, so they would protect themselves. Intentionality and momentum are great…but the same people who overthrew the last rulers will decide they want to be better(harder to overthrow, more ruthless, whatever) rulers.
What does “we” mean here? The United States?
The continental U.S. is almost equal in physical size to all of Europe, is bigger than Australia, and has a significantly larger population than Australia and Canada combined.
Allowing the U.S. to divide would likely create close allies while permitting the creation of states with governments that better protect(especially in regards to fiscal and social policy) or, at least, more closely mirror the desires of, their people.
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The people want this.
The government will never allow it. They view us as their property.
Hold up, this is sounding like Confederacy talk!
I support these notions.
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That’s why fizzling out is the better option.