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I love how the man continues to give reasons to not vote for him every time his mouth opens.
And yet millions of people still want to vote for him! It's baffling!
That's because they think it'll only apply to "those other people" that they don't like. For example, with police brutality, the white, straight, Christian right thinks the police will only beat "black thugs" so it's perfectly fine in their book.
Cite your sources!
SOURCE: 01/06
Academia notwithstanding, common knowledge doesn't generally need to be cited unless it includes statistics. Asking the guy to cite his source for that statement would be like me asking you to cite a source when you claim that water is wet. It's just kind of obvious, you know?
Guess my joke wasn't "kind of obvious"? Crud.
I did eventually get it, but you might have been better off saying "Jan 6" instead of MM/DD format.
Yeah, makes better sense that way. 01/06 means something to me though. Got the PTSD merit badge and all. And that's not a facetious comment. Can't watch the videos, can barely glance at a pic, can't even think about it except in terms that abstract away the reality.
When my Pilipino wife asked me about it (she wasn't here at the time), I cried and yelled and cursed. Babbling like a madman trying to explain that day.
And that's all I can talk about ATM.
Also,
"I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”
They want to vote for him because they agree with him.
It is not baffling in the least.
They think they'll be the one with their boot in someone's face.
Not the one being "put in their proper place"
He's laying out his fascist plans in a bid to win fascist votes, and his odds are not terrible. His supporters will see how he failed last time and work to correct course next time. This whole police state thing and all his dehumanizing characterization of political opponents and his authoritarian leadership tendencies, align with mainstays of fascist rhetoric. This includes his narrative about domestic political subversion and his vow to suspend the Constitution, as well as his engagement with the QAnon wing of the MAGA movement.
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-hiding-fascist-plans-plain-110001819.html
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/donald-trump-fascist-vermin/
For us, it's a warning, for them, it's a selling point.
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." -Maya Angelou
Or, and hear me out, reasons to vote for him.
You are everything wrong with this country
How do you know? You don’t even know my personal views.
I struggle to understand why any common person would ever want less police accountability. Do you like being abused by people in positions of power? Is it some sort of sexual masochism?
So they are not afraid to do their job. The police need to have the freedom to do their job most efficiently and effectively.
You believe police need more leeway in their ability to brutalize people for them to police effectively?
That's ridiculous, obviously.
You’re opinion is not an obvious fact. My opinion is not an obvious fact.
And no, I do not believe that. But many people do. And it’s all, just opinions. Just the opinions of of bunch of hapless great apes with too much consciousness.
There are few obvious, objective facts that can be discerned by human beings. And the few that can be, are not known by all. As a matter of fact human beings know very little about reality. Including the smartest of us.
Almost all of us are deeply ignorant and just cannot know much about reality. Yes, I include myself. But I don’t fool myself with thinking that how human apes run their affairs is anything other than preferences.