Mag1cman

Coders, I beg of you: Multilayered quoting would be a blessing. Thanks in advance, kings.

Democratic elections are a threat to democracy? You majored in Political Science at Trump University, didn't you?

Sidewalker, did I ever refer to you as Roosevelt's Sidepiece back on DART? If so, this would be why. Also, just gonna note right here that you missed my sarcasm.

No, but we did have the worst economic collapse since the great depression, a grossly mismanaged pandemic that resulted in the needless death of a million Americans, the greatest budget deficit in modern times, and an insurrection that tried to overthrow democracy..

You can't reverse a travel ban designed to prevent COVID (calling it racist) and then be shocked when COVID hits the US... and of course, preventing COVID from running its way through the population was impossible. There is not a single country where "shut everything down for 'two weeks to stop the spread'" actually worked. And of course, had the media not made a big deal of what was basically a new winter flu, the economy wouldn't have tanked in the first place.

The budget deficit is the one thing I will give you. Trump's stimulus spending was retarded. Yet, as a whole, the economic policy of his administration was superior to Biden's. Not a high bar, but he managed to clear it by being less braindead.

As for the so-called "insurrection?" Lol. We got the world's first unarmed insurrection, everyone. Lmao even.

I get it, you would rather have a dictator then diversity, but that is just who and what you are, it has nothing to do with who and what American is.

Yes, because diversity is more important to American culture than things like freedom, property rights, 1A and 2A, which immigrants, legal and illegal, routinely vote against. I'm not even arguing for no immigration; I'm arguing for higher standards and better enforcement. I would love a world with open borders, but that is only reasonable where total freedom of association exists, and when third-world Marxists can't vote my rights away.

Until then, I will continue to be a closed-borders libertarian. Yes, libertarian. My support of Trump over the years has gone from MAGA to "welp, he's not a democrat, so MAGA I guess."

And the claims of him being a dictator are laughable. I'll elaborate more in getting to Double_R:

Google the enabling act of 1933

Please tell me what Trump's enabling acts are.

If he is a dictator, every president prior with his powers is also one. The irony here is that every time you guys whine about something Trump does with presidential powers, you make a great case for the reduction of said powers, which I would support. But are you going to honestly advocate for such powers to be taken away for all presidents for good, or would it just be a grift to justify the next Democrat using said powers in greater frequency and to downplay when previous Democrats have used them?

Search within yourselves. When you are ready to honestly advocate for the reduction of the government as a whole, or at bare minimum, the presidential powers, you can come back to me on that one.

I would go through the spiel of how Trump in his first term surrounded himself with adults who believed in the constitution and how even he has said he won’t make that mistake again, but we’ve already lived through 10 months of an administration that looks absolutely nothing like the first.

Go ahead and hit me with your spiel. I suspect it's misquoting, either by omitting context or the rest of the quote, or both.

And you can keep claiming that Trump is oh so different this year, and that the Kristallnacht will surely happen this year all you want. Definition of insanity.

The funny thing is, if you even look at him on policy, he ends up being a boring, 90s moderate. There's a meme that Republicans are just Democrats 30 years prior... yeah, he's not gonna change that narrative any time soon.

At this point, your ignorance is a choice.

Well, the saying goes: "If you don't listen to the media, you're uninformed. If you listen to the media, you're misinformed."

I await your responses. See you boys Monday. Or Tuesday if I'm feeling lazy.

fun fact: Churches have been fined for trying to help the homeless before. Not specifically for helping the homeless, but for helping them in ways the state doesn’t like.

two incidents I vaguely remember:

—a church fined for letting the homeless sleep in the building (in LA iirc)

— a church fined for feeding the homeless without a vendor’s permit (or something like that)

Why is this relevant? less red tape/legal risk for charities and churches would result in a completely privatized social safety net… this would be great for the poor, and society as a whole. The government will obstruct such efforts because they want the poor to be dependent upon them… thus making them “votercattle.”

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“Save democracy” lmao

The leader elected in a democratic election is a threat to democracy because he… uses powers given to him as president, the position he was elected to serve in.

It’s even funnier when you remember we had one term of Trump already. The camps did not open; the sky did not fall.

Exhibit A as to why I don’t engage with RemyBrown:

It’s getting a lot better. I’ll confess that I’ve been using Google AI results…

that being said, always double check the ai. Don’t just blindly trust it.

Yeah I’m not shocked that the critics could just be Redditors making stuff up

Sir this is the science and technology forum

Red states =/= red voters, because there are plenty of blue voters within said red states. Your attempt to make a point is a fallacy of division.

Excerpt from "The politics and demographics of food stamp recipients" (link)

Of these, about one-in-five (22%) of Democrats say they had received food stamps compared with 10% of Republicans. About 17% of political independents say they have received food stamps.

The share of food stamp beneficiaries swells even further when respondents are asked if someone else living in their household had ever received food stamps. According to the survey, about three in ten Democrats (31%) and about half as many Republicans (17%) say they or someone in their household has benefitted from the food stamp program.

But when the political lens shifts from partisanship to ideology, the participation gap vanishes. Self-described political conservatives were no more likely than liberals or moderates to have received food stamps (17% for each group), according to the survey.

So, depending on how you look at it, someone on the left is either equally or more likely to be on food stamps than someone on the right. But since the relevant quotes from Trump and you are about partisanship, not ideology: Trump's statement is accurate, and your point fails.

lol. And you just repeat yourself.

Even if you aren’t a chatbot, you behave like one.

LLLLLLL Canadaaaaaaaa… dun dun dun dun dun dunnnnnn!

Again, doesn’t prove the research is sound

I honestly care even less about this issue than when I first heard about it... didn't even think that was possible

Megalomaniacal tyrants building useless edifices in their own honour is a global paranoiac phenomenon.

yeah and here we have the additional layer of stupidity to the issue.

many presidents in the past have made changes to the White House. I guess those presidents are tyrants as well.

Dont get me wrong- I don’t really care for it. However, it’s no obsession of mine. But to the left, it’s another <current thing here> to be upset about.

Damn if the Democrats just keep things shut down they might have my vote ;)

Only a month?

It’s definitely a useless waste of money. I get that the president can modify the White House at his pleasure, but there’s no need for this.

Why not just knock down a few walls, if he absolutely must have his ballroom?

Will the building even look good after that?

$250 Million… far from the most expensive thing I’ve seen the govt does that wastes money, and far from most pressing issue in this country. But it’s still kinda dumb.

I don’t care. Matter of fact, I almost wish it could stay shut down for good.

From what I’ve seen, it sucks.

Graphics are still bad, the map is uninteresting, and nothing about the game really stands out.

Does this game have any redeeming qualities? Not buying it regardless, but I am curious what people think.

Twitch has sucked for a decade at this point. I remember when they made the “deer lady” a member of their staff.

lol he ain’t getting shit (I have a feeling he knows this and is just ragebaiting the media)

It’s either Vance 2028, or by some miracle, the Libertarian Party manages to shock everyone

oh who am I kidding. Vance 2028

Hot take: The voting age should be the highest of all, at 30.

I think they're neat. Raising the stakes... ideal for tournaments.

your browser has bookmarks

Pretty good.

Back in the DDO days, the Religion forum was considered the worst one for its toxicity.

On DART, there was a user in the politics forum who has a habit of posting inflammatory threads, and went out of his way to be an aggressive asshole to anyone who disagreed with him even once. Hot temp banned twice and thankfully, he’s hasn’t appeared since then. Since then, I’d say the politics forum is the worst one.

Even on DCraft today, politics is definitely the worst one. Even the less obnoxious people there will still have some insanely bad faith responses to anything you say, interpreting everything in the worst possible light.

No one has really crossed into ban worthy territory yet. But it’s just not a good forum. I’ve been thinking to create some high quality threads for that forum to help it, but I’m kinda busy irl.

The first season we’re good in a while and the Jaguars are an actual threat to us smh…

Nice

Yes. 10000%. Especially when the alternative was a Harris presidency. Or 4 more years of Biden.

I do notice gas has gotten cheaper where I live; groceries, not really.

Not having as much woke shit crammed down my throat is nice. Having less worry about cultural erosion due to endless migration is nice.

But all this ignores something more important: Principles. Even if the knowledge of deportations didn’t make me happier, it doesn’t change the fact that we shouldn’t have people who refuse to follow our laws in our country.

It doesn’t change the fact that allowing for endless migrants to enter the country is a bad idea. It doesn’t change the fact that transgenderism is a mental illness and normalizing it is a bad idea.

So, when you get down to it, even if these things didn’t make me feel any happier, they would still be good.

The question really isn’t a good question- it’s just emotional manipulation which can be easily dismissed.