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 No.16346[Reply]

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California gop governor candidate posts this. This is why I know republicans are nazis. People here will attempt to deflect and whatabout, and remain blind to what's right in front of them
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 No.16360

>>16346
>california
I could not possibly care less.

 No.16363

>>16346
The core, nightmare thing for me is that some Russians living in Russia will talk positively of Stalin's Soviet Union same as how some Japanese individuals will talk nicely of the old fascist Empire and even some Germans speak nicely of the Nazis.

When it's a matter of the original countries in which the militaries exterminated countless innocents, it's pretty dark stuff.

A lot of seemingly decent organizations have horrific issues regarding bloody histories, like with Japan once again you can look at this recent-ish news story: https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/d01143/

And this recently-ish happened in Germany: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/25/afd-readmits-two-politicians-excluded-over-nazi-related-remarks

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 No.16356[Reply]

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The more I think about recent news in the context of summer in the United Kingdom and the United States, the more I wonder whether or not things such as air, sunlight, water, or other "fuzzy concepts" should be commercial products that get bought and sold by both companies and governments.

There's an extremely convincing argument that basic human rights should include breathing air and drinking water alongside having sunlight shine on you.

There's also an extremely convincing argument that if the American and British legal systems don't treat the likes of air and water as commercial goods with some price set on them then usurping entities (such as literal criminals acting on behalf of foreign businesses and/or regimes) will make these worth nothing, artificially setting a price at zero, and destroy the public trust.

Do you view air as a product? What about water? What about sunlight? What about other such things?

 No.16358

>>16356
>Do you view air as a product?
No.
>What about water?
No.
>What about sunlight?
No.
>What about other such things?
Trees, land? No. Anypony who wants to make use of common heritage should have to pay everypony something of equal or greater or value in return (see Venus Project)


 No.16352[Reply]

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It's simply self-defense

 No.16353

This is not a discussion topic of any kind, and arguably a call to violence.  Locked.


 No.16312[Reply]

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Well, seems like the party of protecting women and children and prosectuing human trafficking is guilty of all of these things and defending it when convenient. Is pedophilia legal now?
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 No.16348

>>16343
It's the least surprising thing in the world. Trump is never in the wrong in magaland

 No.16350

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Whooooa is that trump sniffing a girls hair? Imagine if biden did such a thing!

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 No.16331[Reply]

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Should members of the Trump family rule over the United States over the rest of this century?

Is this inevitable? Does this have to happen?
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 No.16341

I'm gonna give a point to Trump here for the clickbaity ragefuel title.

There's nothing wrong with Eric Trump running for president and being elected.

It would be a big issue if Donald sets up the framework such that Eric inherits the Presidential role by default.

 No.16342

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>>16331
Ah, I see. So this was their strategy all along -- get people to want a 3rd trump term and then endorse a family member when it's not possible -- how is trump different from other politicians, again?

 No.16349

I think we should give the united states back to the house of windsor


 No.16311[Reply]

I honestly find this worldview kinda juvenile.

 No.16313

Well it's childish to unquestioningly support authority. It's not like maga was ever interested in growing a conscience or do anything that doesn't spite what they think 'the left' is.


 No.16222[Reply]

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Are we currently witnessing one of the biggest and most blatant and obvious government coverups of all time?
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 No.16301

What's the thought on Trump pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell?

 No.16303

>>16301
Least suprising thing

 No.16305

>>16301
I'm surprised that individual lawmakers haven't legally nullified everything against both Epstein and Maxwell.

Granted: this is something that truly nobody, neither MAGA nor liberals nor moderates nor literally any mass movement anyplace, wants. It would be as unsupported as the government banning ice cream cones. Or intentionally blowing up Mount Rushmore. Still, could happen.

I rate the odds of Trump pardoning everybody and screaming that Epstein was framed alongside that Maxwell was framed at a 75% likelihood.


 No.16283[Reply]

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>>15837
White people are so pathetically fragile and cannot even be bothered to engage with their own racial history, and this thread is plenty evidence of that fact. It says a lot when calling that out is seen just as racist as lynching a black man for no reason, hanging him, burning the body, calling it a barbecue, and then sending a postcard to another family member about said 'barbecue'

If this upsets you, you're pathetic. I'm not arguing about it, I'm calling you out.

 No.16284

>>16283
>I'm not arguing about it, I'm calling you out.

Then the thread doesn't belong here.


 No.16187[Reply]

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Donald Trump owned casinos, which exploited people's gambling addictions, and he filed for bankruptcy six times in order to try to game the system. He is now considered by a subset of America to be the greatest President of the modern era because of these skills and capabilities. The Republican party either generally supports this or is merely using him as a means to advance their own agenda -- each possibility distasteful. Republicans promote opposite values in their campaigns.
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 No.16200

>>16199
>An opportunist is someone who lacks moral and ethical concern
Which again, still leaves absolutely nothing for me to go off of in the original context.
He's an opportunist because... What? He just is?

>I mean I never heard Ramsey suggest to his callers that they should game the system, as Trump has done,
Assuming you are correct that he's "gamed" the system, is Donald Trump this Ramsey character?
From what you've described, seeing as you've labeled him an "opportunist" with an explicit moral derision, I would think it pretty irrelevant what he thinks.
Certainly he is not the entirety of Trump supporters either.

Why must Donald Trump, and anyone who supports him, abide by the divine will of Ramsey as though his word comes straight from the heavens themselves?
Seems rather absurd to me. Near as I can tell, there's nothing to justify such a thing, beyond perhaps a conflation of two individuals as the same because they're on the same 'side' politically, which even itself might be a stretch.

>The relevance is that Fundamentalist Christians say people should be moral, yet many appear unable to tell when their moral inclinations are being manipulated, don't care, or supports such manipulation.
Okay, but based on what?
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 No.16204

My politics

 No.16273

Very funny how maga will always find an excuse for their dear leader. Could you at least try to hide your biases? it's so fucking obvious yall only give a shit when leaders fail when they're democrats.


 No.16227[Reply]

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One of the main reasons for appointing Kennedy as the Secretary of Health was so that he could launch mRNA vaccine studies to see if DNA fragments created in the production of mRNA vaccines integrate into human cells, potentially causing cancer. Yet, this hasn't been done yet despite all the other things that have been done already. It also seems like Republicans in general are now actively against mRNA vaccines, withdrawing research funding, including (apparently) not providing funds for research that would prove they are harmful.

I'm starting to think that Republicans never really cared about whether mRNA vaccines were safe to begin with and are simply against anything that is new.

Thoughts or any news that these studies are still going to be done? Or are they never going to be done because they know doing them would prove that they are safe?

 No.16228

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Of course, the freak out over mRNA vaccines wasn't sincere. It was all part of a grand conspiracy theory that absolved Trump of handling the pandemic with incompetence, and that federal employees were mandated to take it after Biden took office.

Never trust politician or media pundits to be sincere about anything. In fact never take at face value anything anyone says if they're asking you to help them gain power or a large amount of money.

 No.16230

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyge27y2g9o

From the news going around and the special cause for autism that is being researched, it seems like current MAHA is not friendly to vaccines full stop.

We're going find that effective vaccines are a myth of the past and that the only way to keep yourself safe from illnesses is by building a strong immune system by exercise and a diet of whatever supplements being peddled. Oh, and healthy genetics.
Otherwise,, if you die, you die.

 No.16271

if it took an obvious fraud to get you to think critically about this, you were always lost. give up and find something else to care about.


 No.16232[Reply]

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Is superman woke or are you just the bad guy?
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 No.16261

>>16258
>engages in complete psychological projection in a total "no, you're me and I'm you" fashion
>doesn't make any actual arguments
>raises no intellectual points
I didn't expect any different.

At any rate, living in a world in which all of the moderates, all of the centrists, all of the libertarians, all of the democratic socialists, all of the liberals, and everybody who's "not right-wing" (which is sort of like putting "not bald" or "not having blue eyes" into a gigantic bucket) are supposedly racist shitbags... if we take the MAGA claim that they're blessed, sainted angels while everybody else not in their tiny group is inferior bastards and suppose that MAGA is correct that they're a kind of tribalist master race better than everybody else... that would still not make it justified for people on the right to be racist back against anybody in revenge. Anyways. In the first place. Since that's not how morality works.

"Other people do immoral things, therefore I can too" is the mindset of a whiny toddler. To be honest.

 No.16264

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>>16261
Closing your borders and kicking out the people who came illegally is not racism.

 No.16267

>>16261
>all of the moderates, all of the centrists, all of the libertarians, all of the democratic socialists, all of the liberals,
Nobody is saying that but you.
That is because it is incredibly retarded.

Stop licking lead paint off the walls, and try engaging with what we're actually saying instead.


 No.16202[Reply]

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How could the Empire have been better off?
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 No.16214

>>16210
Catgirls?
>use claws for advanced slashing as well as climbing, jumping up, and leaping down
>use ears for advanced hearing
>less need for eating and drinking to replenish their bodies, maybe
>less need for sleep, maybe
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

 No.16223

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Overweight anime girls.

No, I will not elaborate.

 No.16225

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 No.16211[Reply]

Why even bother if the government wants us all dead, zombies, or in a military cult?

https://www.kff.org/tracking-the-medicaid-provisions-in-the-2025-budget-bill/

of particular note ...work/education requirements have been enabled unless you can prove your mental illness to a government official, which is sadistic, and if you happen to get cancer without being on medicaid, if you don't somehow get a job or go to school immediately (they will only pay 30 days prior to coverage instead of 90 now, and you have to have worked 30 days prior to the application), you're not covered, which is also sadistic.

(also if a state that hasn't enrolled yet in medicaid expansion, the very good cost-sharing incentive is now gone, meaning they probably won't)

How is this supposed to motivate people to be proud of their country and participate in society, again?
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 No.16213

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>>16211
The American people are chickens. And they vote for Colonel Sanders. That's really all there is to it.

We want Social Security abolished. We want Medicare abolished. We want Medicaid abolished. We want minimum wage laws abolished. We want labor unions exterminated. We want more pollution. We want more inflation. We want lower wages. We want fewer options in terms of housing. It goes on and on. We want any restrictions on the power of government and business control over our lives ended.

We want this. And we're getting it. Good and hard. We're getting it.

Like the homosexuals, the feminists, the Jews, the transgender people, and the rest of Iran who marched in favor of the Islamic extremists taking over that country's government from the Shah and fervently wanting the Ayatollah-led revolution, with gay men kissing each other as they waved green flags covered with the Muslim crescent symbols, we really hate ourselves. Passionately. And we want an elite in power to show us "who's boss".

Like the Austrians, Czechs, Poles, and the rest who cheered on for the Nazis as they invaded. Like the Rwandan population that screamed in favor for the genocide. Like the Mongolians who would do anything for Genghis Khan.

We want a daddy. And Trump is our national daddy. Daddy. Not a President. Not a leader. Not anything else. Daddy. He's your daddy. He's my daddy. He's America's daddy.

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 No.16221

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Don't get fooled next year


 No.16181[Reply]

Non-MAGA evangelical takes down MAGA evangelical's bullshit dishonest representation of the Bible to justify ICE raids.

 No.16185

Slightly old, but a good breakdown of the role disgust plays in twisting Christianity for the sake of "Christian" nationalism.


 No.15704[Reply]

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 No.16168

>>16159

This is the weakest criticism I've ever seen anywhere online. Utterly lacking in self awareness.

>>16162

>editorial content
>serious political philosophy
>pretending political cartoons aren't traditional

>>16164

>Fundamentally they only ever consider, let alone show, one side.

Editorial content has no obligation to be 'balanced'. It's literally a way of expressing an opinion, and if that's in reference to current events then of cpurse their going to reference the news their commenting on, of course their presenting their opinion alone. You consume other people's editorial content to get their opinions in response. Frankly this seems like a real stretch to try and play the victim over something that's been a well established practice in media for literally centuries. Editorial content is not reporting, is expressing opinions, thats what an editorial section of a newspaper fundamentally is, and the vast majority of content about politics posted on YouTube is editorial in nature, as well as the majority of content on cable news channels.

 No.16174

>>16168
Political cartoons are and have always been simple propaganda.
The default state for them is strawmanning the opposition.
You are right they have no obligation to be balanced; they are within their rights to be propaganda.
But acting as though it's consequently anything but propaganda is asinine at best.

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