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Why is it morally and legally acceptable to cheat on your wife or girlfriend, to have sex with prostitutes, and to use illicit drugs for recreational purposes if you're a Republican or some other supporter of Donald Trump?

Like why does being a Republican or otherwise supporting Donald Trump mean that moral and ethical standards that apply to everybody else don't apply to you, because you've got some kind of license to do whatever?

How does this make sense when the upcoming Trump administration and other government officials are trying to make being transgender, watching hentai, chatting with lewd AI, and all of these other things illegal because of "violating traditional morality"?

If I loudly and publicly say that I love Trump and give his political organizations money, does that mean that I can enjoy whatever I want in my personal life without having to have it controlled by traditional moral demands about how sex is evil, drugs are evil, and so on?

Friendly reminder that multiple American businesses steal your personal information for malicious purposes after they spy on it when you file job applications.

Why is the legacy media blaming self-driving cars for the actions of a migrant from Saudi Arabia?

Russia wants to use ICBM's in the Ukraine. He is the only one that can stop them.

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How many rabbits would you ideally like to have around where you live, if you somehow could pick any number you wish? And why would that be?

Posted here instead of /pony/ since it technically is an argument even if it's not political.

Should Kinder Eggs be legalized in the US?

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te is working with U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson and other U.S. leaders right now in order to create personal ties outside of the spotlight when it comes to the Pacific and its diplomacy. Mainland China has called the Taiwan issue a "red line" not to be crossed in Sino-U.S. relations. Belligerence to the Taiwanese keeps getting worse and worse.

There's more at: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-president-spoke-with-us-house-speaker-johnson-sources-say-2024-12-05/

Since a lot of Trump voters are here on /townhall/ who think that dictatorships across the world should destroy their nearby democracies because feminism, homosexuality, socialism, and the like have made democracy as a concept too decadent... and those voters otherwise have an attitude about foreign policy that supports strongmen... I'm wondering what's the "red pill take on Taiwan"?

Like what about Taiwan having too many sympathies for Jews, too many sympathies for gay people, too many sympathies for poor people, et cetera or otherwise being too left-wing and emotionally soft in a "sissy" way... or like what other issues with Taiwan make it a positive thing for mainland China to take it over and eliminate its democracy? Why should Americans like that idea? What's your argument? How does it work?

As the saying goes: "red pill me" on why the Taiwanese are bad people! Please help me understand what's now going to be U.S. policy in 2025 and onwards!

There's a coup underway in South Korea you say?

What do you think about how Donald Trump and Republicans encourage incidences of crossdressing by straight, white, heterosexual males, as a direct result of the societal suppression of LGBTQ+ culture, resulting in psychological repression in the individual psyche (as it ceases to have any healthy outward form of expression), resulting in widespread crossdressing by straight, white, heterosexual males? Do you think the crossdressing of straight, white, heterosexual males would have been less under a Harris/Walz administration?

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In America, it seems like both the left and the right have problems with pandering to their own extremists.  But it seems like the left has a bigger problem with this.  Does this match your experience?

New/Newer cars suck. People should stop pretending that they don't. Because they really do.

If somebody kills a child molester, assuming that it's just some ordinary person living a regular life who did that out of rage for the action and nothing else, what should the proper punishment be for that murderer be, if anything?

A British TV movie that's in the franchise known as 'Unforgotten' touches upon this. The police officers catch the attacker but face a dilemma in which they can't agree among themselves if they want to even arrest the murderer since their motivations were so, so clear and seemingly relatable.

What would you do?

I've been hanging out in the ponychan/ponyville community for 12 years at this point and despite all my best efforts to share my experiences with being transgender the entire time I've been here, it really frustrates me how people here (mainly in /townhall/) will still regurgitate bullshit about transgender people like myself despite everything I have ever shared about my experiences.

I mean, from my perspective the situation is an absurdity worthy of Camus, what I experience is a part of my private subjective experience of being myself and by the nature of entirely subjective experiences, it produces no physical evidence I can share with anyone. It's a feeling of dissonance and incongruity between what seems intuitive in my mind and what I recognize and experience 24/7 with the body I have. I'm not delusional, I don't believe I was literally born female nor do I believe I have a female soul or anything like that. I know I was born male and that I have a male body complete with a deep voice, facial hair, thick body hair and male genitals ... all of which has always been unnerving to me for reasons that I have no explanation for and it makes as little sense to me as it would to you. And yet, those here who would oppose my right to the pursuit of happiness and would demand I produce the empirical evidence to justify what I am doing to mitigate the pain of that dissonance, seemingly unaware or unconcerned that such a standard is literally impossible and instead continue to repeat the most bad faith strawman narratives about me and others like us here that get passed around in all sorts of transphobic echo chambers all over the internet.

I'm not going through transition for ideological, philosophical, or religious reasons. I've been on hormones for nearly 2 years now and the benefits have been much more than 'merely cosmetic', before I went through any visible changes, I went through very welcome psychological changes, it's literally for the sake of my mental health and I don't care if that creeps you out or disgust you cause it doesn't make sense to you.

You aren't omniscient, and maybe people outthere experience things you do not or cannot experience, just because it doesn't make sense to you doesn't give weight to your paranoid solipsistic narratives about it, and your paranoid narratives about it don't justify your support for any politician or their policies to rob us of the right to become comfortable in our own skin for thePost too long. Click here to view the full text.