GoddessNoAi

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think you understand.

Most of those 200 years aligns with Trump's agenda

He's not the deviation. Historically speaking, Trump is the norm.

That doesn't mean I'm giving up, but I'm not going to fool myself about the odds of success either.

[–] [email protected] 113 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Jones has a right that his assets not be sold unreasonably as a fire sale or for an illegitimate purpose

Genuinely asking: is that true in any way shape or form?

Because I was under the impression that when assets are seized they stop being yours and you have no right to anything regarding them. But maybe that only applies to poor people

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

My concern is that they'll further weaken the already pathetic judicial process for deportation (justifying it by saying it speeds up the process "and we have so many cases to get through") and citizens who get swept up by the machine won't have a chance to prove their citizenship. Because when the REAL goal is oppression and elimination of a minority group, "accidentally" deporting a few hundred citizens is a feature not a bug.

If it gets that bad, your only hope is to have your documents on you at all times and hope that you're lucky enough for the boots on the ground to walk past you because of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Damn, way to miss the mark 🤣🤣🤣

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hence

Vote progressive in the primaries

Get enough Progressives and enough left-leaning Democrats together on the issue of rank choice voting, and it really could happen. Obviously, I'm of the opinion that it's the only way it could happen. So even if the chances are small, it's what I think we should shoot for.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I could be wrong, but isn't the "not annexing" because he doesn't recognize it as a separate territory in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Let's not pretend they don't know what they're doing. He means it exactly like that, and so does everyone who's listening to him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

If you're "out" then stop coming on social media to argue with people.

You don't want anything to do with the situation, but yet you insist on being part of the conversation.

Without me

Nobody asked you to be part of this conversation, yet you keep showing up. If your morals are so important to you, how about you keep your word.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (7 children)

asked to be part of a political system

But, you're not being asked. You already are. You don't get to pretend you're not, just because you didn't give your permission. This isn't an opt-in situation.

And I get that maybe you feel that isn't fair, and I agree it isn't. Just like none of us asked to be born, none of us asked to be part of society either. But we are, and we have to deal with that now.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 months ago (4 children)

His point is that some people think killing is so wrong that they'll actively advocate for a course of action that will kill waaaaay more people.

You value your own moral purity over the lives of other people.

That's his point.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (12 children)

That's how it's going to be as long as we continue to use First Past the Post voting.

And since the only people who have the desire, and potentially the power, to change that are Progressives who caucus with the Democrats, vote Progressive in the primaries and Democrat in the general. If you're not willing to do that, then yeah you might as well get comfortable with the current system.

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