I do not deny the fact that the US is a cesspool of discrimination, hate, unfairness and inequality. I have never said that and would never. And I also am aware that a secret police stealing people on the middle of the night is not different from forcing people to attend anti-gay camp programs and that denying gender affirming care to trans people is inherently evil.

About orange man: I mean it's not an argument that he would target more people. It's a statement of fact. He has said so publicly using Nazi terminology.

What would make it safe for your gay, bi, trans friends, mine, my cousins and daughter or even myself? Give me something actionable and productive. That's the real struggle here. I think a lot of people are looking for something that can actually be done. Like real ways to change the country we live in.

I feel like all we have are bad choices. I know nothing about you as a person but I can say for myself, that life got a whole lot more complicated when I personally became responsible for children. Not only having to worry about the world they would grow up in but also the risks I can take to my own life to secure that future.

people like you will only take action when you are personally affected.

People like me? You don't know a whole lot about me. I am a 30 something father of 2 who works every day to try and get people to realize the bullshit we are in. I think Biden is an old out of touch asshole in league with big corpo as are all the rest of the Democrats except maybe a few in current fed government. I also know for a fact that our socialist policies are being tanked on purpose by both sides in a lot of ways in order to make communism seem misguided at best and evil at worst by comparison.

What I want more than anything is for my kids and their friends, and the rest of humanity for that matter to grow up in a stable and healthy environment.

How I feel right now though is that we have a million fires burning right now, between rampant fascism, genocide, misplaced hate and dehumanization of minorities, not to mention end stage capitalism gobbling up the base that supports it and a climate that will destroy us because we cannot make headway to save ourselves because of these big corporations and rich fucks.

But more than anything right now, I don't want my kids to be fatherless because I disagree with an orange man. I don't disagree with any of your thoughts about where we are and how the world is, and I also know and hate that a vote for Biden is a vote for support of the IDF's killing of Palestinians, but allowing Trump to win won't change that, all it will do is bring additional fascist policies further into the open and bring them right here.

What would you do in my position? As a parent to children who have no part in any of this shit? I don't defend Biden. At all. All human life is sacred, and I will continue to do what I can to stop killing wherever it might happen. Including the US.

Who says this is a democracy? Reagan, Citizens United and so on have gotten rid of that.

Thank you for your perspective.

Truly honest question here so I can understand you: who are you voting for then? Are you ok with a man who has no problem calling for a genocide of his own right here in the US as well as hunting down and killing/hauling people for disagreeing with him? What real alternative is there right now in 2024? Any situation where people are killing others like what's happening to Palestine is unacceptable absolutely and unconditionally. But does that mean we should welcome a regime that is going to do the same here to people like you and me on principle?

Basically, what are you planning to do? All I saw in this reply was "I'm not like you and you can't make me be like you." What are you planning to do to enact the change YOU want to see?

I had a full load of classes at uni and worked 40 hours a week. Not much free time was has by me

I remember going through history and reading about the fall of Rome, Greece, Persia, etc and thinking to myself "it sure looks like I'm living during the decline of the US empire... Listened to Punk and Ska, and asked how "Trickle down economics" would ever work when a public corporation's sole reason for existing is to provide value for shareholders.

I also remember talking to my dad in the early 2000s about global warming and asking how any of it could ever change. He told me we'd have to vote for the right people.

Then Citizens United happened and put the nail in the coffin for all of it.

Yeah Spartans were all about the phalanx, whereas samurai would often train and fight 1v1 even on the battlefield in my understanding. I would agree with your assessment.

https://youtu.be/RPKus1FuV-o?si=8KH_pHhtDE8uaqrH

Red Bull also releases these offensive weird ads that play during sports events.

The evil they know...

Unity has a lot of tools out of the box and pieces you can purchase and license to put in a game. I would start there. I know godot is getting a lot more in the way of usability given unity's f-ups lately but I haven't seen that engine at all

This is giving me Shel Silverstein vibes

Yeah but do you vote? Bc then you'd have to pay anyway

Pray to get paid?