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@Best.Korea
You have at least 40 Left wing beliefs, 25 right wing beliefs, 1 preagmatic response, and 13 Other.
Among your other beliefs 9 of them require more information or you misunderstood the issue.
- 8. 2020 electionIt happened?
- 15. Believe women, good or bad?I dont understand.
- 26. Ye WestI dont know much about him.
- 42. CRT I dont know what that is.
- 49. HitlerBad.
- 52. SexWhat about sex?
- 64. Voting People should vote?
- 68. Qualified immunity support I am not sure I know what that is.
- 73. Wage gapBan luxury items, then I dont care what the wage is.
1. The question here is do you believe Biden or Trump won in 2020?
2. If someone is accused of rape, do you support a conviction only if there is evidence or do you believe the victim unconditionally on the grounds that evidence is hard to get for rape trials?
3. Ye West (aka Kanye West) is running for president and he endorses Hitler. You have said that you don't like Hitler, but that Nazis should get free speech, so I will treat this as the pragmatic option. For me, pragmatic = half left + half right. So you are at 41 Left wing beliefs, 26 right wing beliefs.
4. Do you think CRT is a serious problem in schools?
5. Saying "Hitler is bad" is THE normie position. This question was asked because out of the current left vs right, nobody wants Hitler on their team. The left argues Hitler would have been a right winger if he was running today; the right argues he would have been a left winger. Do you believe Hitler was a left or right winger?
6. Do you think it's morally good to have consensual sex with people?
7. Do you think the voting age should be increased to get more mature votes, decreased to get more votes and a more inclusive democracy, or kept the same?
8. Supporting Qualified immunity is the opposite position to what BLM advocates; they want Qualified immunity repealed so if a police officer kills someone on the line of duty, they have to go to court over it. Qualified immunity doesn't allow this. Do you believe Qualified immunity should be repealed?
9. You misunderstood the question. Femenists argue that business owners are (subconsciously) sexist because they tend to pay women less than they tend to pay men. The opposing view is that the buisinesses have no incentive to be sexist and men tend to be more productive in order to earn a pay increase. Which view do you agree with?
But yeah; I was expecting the vast majority of your views to be left wing.
I was surprised, but I need to repeat this expieriment multiple times.
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@ebuc
Alright, you are pro choice. If you vote blue because of abortion; fine; I have no issue with this.
What if there were 2 politicians (Politician A and Politician B). Politician A is pro choice, pro deportation, anti vaccine mandate, anti-AR 15 ban, and thinks transgenders are mentally ill and delusional. Politician B is pro life, anti deportation, pro vaccine mandate, pro AR 15 ban, and think transwomen are real women.
Who would you vote for? If all you care about is abortion from the pro choice side, then you would side with Politician A, even though they are right wing on every issue besides abortion.
None of the left wing stances on these issues I mentioned are connected in any way except by party affiliation.
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@Best.Korea
You can, but you dont have to. Thats the beauty of arbitrary morality. It doesnt require any consistency.
The only thing consistent with your morality is all of those beliefs are backed by the democrat party. If the democrat party said, "transwomen are women, implement the vacciene mandate, abolish ICE, protect the unborn, and expand the 2nd amendment" (and the GOP disagreed with all of that), then your views would get molded to fit with the democrat party.
Well, maybe. I am not sure who selected it.
It was the democrat party that selected your morality.
Here are a bunch of policies:
- Reparations
- Citizens united
- First past the post
- Higher taxes on the wealthy
- Additional gun control
- Climate change alarmism
- Corporate welfare
- 2020 election
- AI
- Income tax
- Relocating peaceful (undocumented/illegal) immigrants(to either their home country or to blue counties).
- Big tech censorship
- Medicare for all
- Affirmitive action
- Believe women, good or bad?
- Death penalty for felonies
- Abortion for consensual sex
- Felons voting(assuming you back incarceration)
- Homeschooling
- Drag queens for children
- Teacher salary raises
- Increase Military spending
- Circumsising infants
- Energy
- Electoral college
- Ye West
- Ukraine-Russia Conflict
- Gay marraige
- Gas Sales Tax
- Churches
- Getting fired for being LGBT
- Getting fired for being conservative/unvaccinated
- Refusing service to LGBT customers
- Hard vacciene mandate (for customers)
- Censorship for far left (flag burners)
- Censorship for far right (white supremests)
- Porn
- GMOs
- Israel-Palestine conflict
- PR statehood
- DC statehood
- CRT
- Crypto Currency
- Birth control
- Minimum wage
- Individual welfare
- Oil nationalization
- Veganism
- Hitler
- Tariffs
- Gender transitioning for minors
- Sex
- Police body cameras
- Yemen-Saudi Arabia conflict
- Furries
- Subsidize renewable energy
- Planned parenthood funding
- Should employers be required to provide free birth control?
- Enviornmental regulations
- LGBT couples adopting
- Tough on weed
- Tough on vape
- Tough on Nicotine
- Voting
- Defund the police
- Defunding the FBI
- Adultury
- Qualified immunity support
- Constitutional carry
- Should prostitution be legal(unmarried people)?
- Metric system
- Hyde Amedment
- Wage gap
- Abortion for rape victims.
- Cultural Approporitation
- Transgenderism
- Trans people competing in women's sports
- Creationism
- Religion
It's a lot of opinions, you don't have to write a paragraph on them. Just state your opinions on them; no individual opinion would get challenged; this is just to test something out.
But I believe pretty much everyone in this country agrees with one party on at least 60 of these issues (because of partisan tribalism).
It's because of partisan tribalism that many people are against even modifying age of consent laws (we both agree age of consent laws should be modified). But since neither the left nor right wing media has endorsed this idea, pretty much nobody supports modifying the age of consent laws (they have a party to stick too).
If the GOP media is the first to advocate for modifying the age of consent laws, pretty much every right winger in your life will agree with them and the left will disagree with it. If the democrat media is the first to advocate for modifying the age of consent laws, pretty much every left winger in your life will agree with them and the right will disagree with it.
But as of right now, neither media group has endorsed the idea, so virtually nobody is open to even modifying laws regarding who can legally consent because people want to stick to their parties (I would assume so do you).
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@Deb-8-a-bull
Your whole argument doesn't make sense except for the following quote:
With Forged documentation.You can obtain all them rights.
If this is your belief, what specific protocol would you require to obtain rights a through d?
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@Best.Korea
What makes your supported rights a and c and not also b and d? Is it merely what the democrat party has selected that you would believe? If so, then you are being a partisan hack (whoever liked your comment is also a partisan hack).
What separates rights a and c from b and d other than party affiliation?
You know how militaries get to kill civilians under excuse of protecting more civilians?
I'm anti-war because war is legalized mass murder and it costs the taxpayers a lot of money.
You get forced to be vaccinated under excuse of protecting others.
You can make that argument with abortion. "You are forced to be pregnant for 9 months under the excuse of protecting others (the unborn)". You can make the same excuse with the undocumented, "You are forced to go through the legalization process under the excuse of protecting others (American Citizens from the potential terrorist however small the odds of a random undocumented immigrant being a terrorist are)".
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a. The right to an abortion
b. The right to own an AR 15
c. The right to be undocumented
d. The right to be unvaccinated
There are 16 possible combinations of these rights (assuming Boolean approach).
Definitions: a: Being in favor of legalized abortion. ~a: Not being in favor of legalized abortion. \cap: Intersection.
Why are pretty much all the following combinations represented in Washington DC the following:
1. a \cap ~b \cap c \cap ~d (democrats)
2. ~a \cap b \cap ~c \cap d (republicans)
What consistent ethos unites a \cap ~b \cap c \cap ~d together and ~a \cap b \cap ~c \cap d together?
It's all because the parties decided to embrace these arbitrary combinations of ideas. But then the parties control what the vast majority of people in this country think on these 4 issues.
I do not believe there is a single thing that unites a \cap ~b \cap c \cap ~d together and ~a \cap b \cap ~c \cap d together other than what the parties decided to initially back.
And if balance between freedom and safety is the goal, there are 4 other combinations that support 2 other rights and reject 2 others (a \cap b \cap ~c \cap ~d) (and it's opposite), as well as (~a \cap b \cap c \cap ~d) (and it's opposite). These 4 combinations (plus the democrat and republican combination) is 6 (4 nCr 2). This is not by accident. It's basic mathematics.
But these other ideas are barely represented because people have parties to stick to in DC. In fact, out of 16 Boolean combinations of these beliefs, only 2 are even represented (because the 2 party system has this country by the balls (and the far left and the far right that people seem to want will be in favor of the same combinations as the democrats and republicans separately; they are just more passionate about it).
In our tribalistic political environment, pretty much the only difference between center (left/right) and far (left/right) is passion. Bernie Sanders has the same goals as Biden (he's just faster paced with them than Biden is) and Matt Gaetz has the same values as Kevin McCarthy; Matt Gaetz is just faster paced with them).
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@IwantRooseveltagain
People operate with the data they know.Or they operate without data at all
If people don't have data, then they technically operate with the data they know.
People aren't Chat GPT; nobody on this planet knows everything.
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@Swagnarok
if you see content that infuriates you, and you respond to it
I wouldn't say I'm infuriated by it; but I'm laughing at many of the stupid people on Quora.
I'm in my comfy suburban home. They are on a computer screen. I'll be fine.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
In the past you predicted DeSantis would be the nominee and the country would be in a recession this year. You don’t seem to be good a predicting anything
Pretty much everyone makes an inaccurate prediction at some point in their lives.
I think Trump will win in 2024. I might be wrong though. If Biden becomes 15% points more popular, I would change my mind.
People operate with the data they know.
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This guy blocked me.
It's people like this that make me want to boast the following:
David,
You look like you are Gen X. I'm Gen Z. My generation is replacing yours through immigration and race mixing because you didn't abort us when you had the chance! But if you did, your population numbers would plummet and you would have to rely on even more non whites for labor (either that, or all retire and starve because nobody would be working in the US once every Gen X person is retired).
God bless our public schools (for increasing the national average IQ, something white nationalists seem to be very proud about)!
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@Double_R
We were talking about what voter suppression means, I was just using an example. You focused on your attitude towards that one example, not the topic.
Then where is your evidence of widespread voter suppression?
Because then we would need a new label for every single deviation, which would number in the hundreds or even thousands.
It would be millions. That's why political parties should be abolished and people who are running for political office should run as independents and abide by the rules in Online takes - Google Slides, slides 23 to 33.
Libertarian means socially left while economically right, authoritarian means socially right while economically left.
This isn't accurate. Libertarians disagree with the left on many social issues and they even disagree with the republicans on many economic issues. For authoritarians, it's similar.
Someone could easily be on the political left on every issue but be a 2nd amendment absolutist.
Then that person is left wing on every issue except guns.
Tommi Lauren is as right wing as they come on every issue, yet she is pro choice.
If this is true, then she is as right wing as they come on every issue except abortion.
When normal people don't have 79 issues in a spreadsheet and they can really only think of 3-4 issues that define their politics and they happen to buck party orthodoxy on one issue, being x wing on 3 issues and x^c on 1 issue is in theory a plausible combination. On the following issues:
1. Abortion
2. Vaccine mandates
3. Immigration policy
4. Gun policy
There are 16 possible combinations assuming it's just a Boolean approach. They are all social issues. The following groups of people want the governmetn out of the following issues:
1. Libertarians; all 4 issues. They want victimless social freedom unconditionally.
2. Liberals, 1,3
3. Conservatives, 2,4
4. Authoritarians; the empty set; they want safety unconditionally
5. Theocrats ; 3 and 4. They trust God (whom they believe is all knowing) to make the call
6. Communists/socialists; 1,3,4; They trust Karl Marx on guns, but other than that, they are basically hardcore democrats.
7. Constitutionalists: People who trust the US constitution and the founding fathers above all else; so 2,3, and 4
There is nothing consistent about over 100 million voters wanting the government out of issues 1 and 3 while having the government involved with 2 and 4 (or vice versa) except that they are following party orders! Libertarians, Authoritarians, and theocrats I can respect how they came to their conclusions even if I don't agree. Libertarians want freedom, authoritarians want earthly safety, and theocrats want eternal saftey. If one person on their own came to 1 and 3 or 2 and 4, I can respect that.
But people rarely come to their own conclusions; they hear news from people who also didn't come to their own conclusions and heard it from somewhere else.
If Karl Marx said that the gun lobby was a result of capitalism and that the 2nd amendment should be repealed, the communists and socialists would want to ban all guns. But the leader speaks and the people follow; because most people are sheep.
What do issues 1 and 3 have to do with each other that many people would take the small government approach with them but then also take the big government approach with 2 and 4 (or vice versa)? This you are dodging because you want to appear like you are thinking for yourself when you are following the herd.
Where are the people who want the government out of issues 1 and 2, but not 3 and 4 (or vice versa)? What about same thing, but for issues 1 and 4, but not 2 and 3 (or vice versa)?
Again, labels are just basic descriptions, they're not supposed to tell you where any individual stands on every issue.
But people try to mold to the label on issues that were going to initially indifferent to them.
First of all, shipping food to your house is more expensive, not everyone has that option.
It's probably a pretty nominal expense, especially if you do it in bulk. I've had books shipped to my house before. It's really not a big cost.
I could have easily used going to work
You can work remotely if you want, with a few exceptions, but those exceptions are people that have a strong enough immune system to where they almost certainly won't die if they get COVID and are vaccinated or boosted and worrying about them dying is very petty. But that's classical of authoritarian viewpoints of the right and left.
or how about casting your ballot if you live in a state that doesn't let you vote by mail?
Or you can allow mail in ballots in every state (which I support by the way). When I live on my own, I'd want to vote by mail.
If you don't value the hundreds of thousands of lives that could have been saved had we done things differently then I guess not.
I mean, I don't really value the lives of strangers enough to sacrifice for them and the people that get angry at me for that have not thought that statement through.
If human life was priceless and the government believed that human life was priceless, they could force every household in the US to adopt as many starving children as they could if it saves just one life. The logical principle applies to hundreds of thousands of lives.
The following 2 beliefs have justified all of the authoritarianism that has happened throughout history:
1. Human life/pain is worth saving/preventing.
2. Human eternity is worth saving, so we must kill those who we believe are a threat to the salvation of mankind (all politicians who have killed people in their country based on religious differences).
Sometimes, authoritarianism is good (like anti murder and anti rape laws), other times it is not good (like banning people for being Jewish).
If you ask the typical person if they were willing to spend $1/day sponsoring the life of a starving child, most people would say no. So most people value the life of a stranger child at less than $1/day.
I'm merely saying that $8 trillion of economic loss was not worth saving 1 million lives ($8 million/life).
People like talking about the value of human life until they have to actually sacrifice for it, then their self righteousness goes out the window.
Curious... Suppose COVID mutated and became 5x more contagious with a death rate of 35%. Would you then support lock downs and vaccine mandates?
35% death rate among non elderly people; yeah I would support lockdowns; the elderly can lockdown on a personal level all they want since they are retired and therefore don't need to work; but everyone else has too. A vaccine mandate wouldn't be necessary as virtually everybody would willingly get vaccinated if the odds of death were 35%. A vaccine mandate in that scenario (assuming the vaccines are 100% effective and produced the same side effects as the COVID vaccine) would be a lot like banning Russian Roulette; Russian Roulette is legal to play, but virtually nobody is stupid enough to do it. I believe you are referencing the Bubonic Plague.
Half of the things you respond to I didn't say.
I quote you every time.
I don't recall dropping any relevant points, if I did feel free to bring them back up and I would be glad to address it and explain why I didn't the first time of done so intentionally.
This point that I made:
You also seem to misunderstand libertarianism. Libertarians are leftists when it comes to social policy and are on the political right when it comes to economic policy.Some Social issues the libetarians and the left disagree on:1. Gun control2. Vacciene mandates3. Mask mandates4. Testing requirements5. Free speech absolutismSome economic issues libetarians and the conservatives disagree on:1. Free trade2. Corporate welfare3. Funding the Israeli military4. Military spendingThe idea that libetarians are, "Fiscally conservative, socially left" is incorrect.
Basically, the belief that the left isn't 100% (socially libertarian and fiscally authoritarian) and the right isn't 100% (fiscally libertarian or socially authoritarian). Outliers like Tomi Lauren and Michael Kaine (anti vax and pro choice democrat) aren't the rule.
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@Swagnarok
Every important person in an industry, much less dozens of industries, colluding to promote the same ideology, purely for ideological reasons, and deny access to basic services to those who run contrary to such, isn't a natural product of free markets.
A clothing store can tell a farmer, "we don't sell your product because it is food" and the farmer can't do anything to change that.
A food store can tell a tailor, "we don't sell your product because it is clothes" and the tailor can't do anything to change that.
A store that is open about the fact that they sell clothes and food can accept goods from both the farmer and tailor.
A social media market can say, "We only sell liberal ideas", "We only sell conservative ideas", "We have an open border policy when it comes to the things we sell at our store" (anything goes), etc.
There are other markets/social media companies to state whatever ideas you believe in. If FaceBook won't accept genuine conservative ideas, go to Parler. If your ideas are accepted by neither, go to Quora; I've seen white nationalists state their opinions there.
Go where you are accepted.
And yes, I'll admit free markets aren't enough to solve this. Everyone has an issue that they break with their camp on, and this is mine.
The conservative (and libetarian) camp prefers free speech to free markets. You aren't breaking with the conservative camp on this issue.
But since the bulk of human speech has migrated onboard platforms like Facebook Twitter, Reddit, etc., to the unnatural exclusion from said discourse of anyone who lacks access to these platforms, these companies deserve to be considered as powerful as governments in this regard and regulated as though they were governments.
Our government is nationalized. So you would nationalize an industry? It's fine to advocate this; the left wants to nationalize certain industries (healthcare). Although the difference is the left's reason is to save lives (which is objectively good), your reason is to state your objectively neutral message (I say objectively neutral because while you consider your message to be subjectively good, the left would consider it to be subjectively bad).
Sure. If it can be proven in court that a black man (or a person of any race) was brutalized by cops and that he didn't create circumstances which justified their conduct, then let the appropriate remedies be taken.
Aliright; so you want Qualified immunity repealed. So give the left credit on this issue, even if you disagree with them on abortion, guns, and transgenderism.
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@Greyparrot
"Healthy -at-any-size" is a far-left delusion.
That is accurate,, but very few left wingers believe being fat is healthy. Their argument is, "Don't hate people for being fat even if they are unhealthy because they are fat".
They also claim a man can get pregnant and that there is no standard definition for a woman.
That's because gender studies majors are idiots if they can't define what a woman is.
That's alright, but me (a math major) has a good definition for a woman in a way that hopefully the left and right will accept the definition.
My definition of a female is a human with more female points than male points. How to see how many of each type of point you have is outlined in the spreadsheet below:
If there are any terms that confuse you, let me know.
Lets just say, 1 undergraduate math major with small town values in under a week can answer the, "What is a woman?" question better than thousands of PHD gender studies majors with big city values can answer in a few years.
If there are any terms that confuse you in the spreadsheet, let me know.
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@Greyparrot
Fat positivity encourages people to be 5 times the size of Trump.
Trump weighs 110.22 kg.
110.22 kg*5= 551.1 kg
List of heaviest people - Wikipedia states that only 5 people in recorded human history have been bigger than that.
They are all dead.
There is not a single living person who weighs 5x as much as Trump.
Trump didn't die at 30 from morbid obesity.
Almost all of the world's fattest people lived beyond 30 years. Fat people tend to live less, but the notion that your typical fat feminist will die at age 30 is just ridiculous.
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@Greyparrot
So your argument is that globalists tend to build up their net worth and they tend to improve society more with their money than the government would if the government had their money?
That's fair, but then it means you like the globalists (which is fine; but then be upfront with that if it's what you believe).
A politician is more likely to be woke
Who do you think is more woke, a politician (Trump, DeSantis, and half of the politicians in federal office), or Big Tech Silicon Valley overlords (the owner of every major social media company except X).
Big Tech CEOs are more likely to be woke than politicians.
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@Greyparrot
Those people in the video all died at around 30 with the full blessing of the far-left "fat-positivity"
The right gets angrier at random Tik Tokers for being fat than they do at Trump for being fat.
Is it good to be fat? No. But is it a deal breaker to be fat? No!
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@Double_R
Irrelevant.I was using college ID's as an example to explain to you what voter suppression is.
But it's not a big problem like what the radical left makes it seem like.
There is no evidence whatsoever that illegal immigrants are flocking to the pollsYour response:New York city policy on local elections has nothing to do with voter fraud or the lack of evidence thereof.
Moving the goalposts I see.
Political ideologies are not defined in terms of absolutes.
Why wouldn't they be? If the left can be socially authoritarian on guns, why can't they also be socially authoritarian on like abortion?
Previously, you were arguing political ideologies were defined in absolutes (on social issues, you argued the left believed in liberty whereas the right believed in theocracy).
The party in power gets to decide, that's why we have elections.
Whatever the party decides is going to be an arbitrary combination of liberty (on economic and social issues) and safety (on economic and social issues) pre-determined by what the party has already advocated for.
Catching an STI because you chose to have unprotected sex is not the same thing as catching a virus because you needed bread and milk.
If one is really scared of COVID, they can have the bread and milk shipped to their house.
Plus, STI's are not going to shut down the country.
Neither should COVID under any time, as some more people would die in an open economy, but since human life isn't priceless (the people that believe human life is priceless haven't thought that claim through), it's an acceptable trade off to improving the economy. If human life was priceless and the government believed that human life was priceless, they could force every household in the US to adopt as many starving children as they could if it saves just one life.
The following 2 beliefs have justified all of the authoritarianism that has happened throughout history:
1. Human life/pain is worth saving/preventing.
2. Human eternity is worth saving, so we must kill those who we believe are a threat to the salvation of mankind (all politicians who have killed people in their country based on religious differences).
Sometimes, authoritarianism is good (like anti murder and anti rape laws), other times it is not good (like banning people for being Jewish).
so it's no wonder you constantly and consistently strawman everyone else.Not on pourposeIt is clearly on purpose. If not directly, then you are at the least purposefully refusing to reflect on it.
You don't know my intentions unless I tell them to you.
But you are sticking to your party and you are doing whatever mental gymnastics are needed to defend your party, including dropping points like when I claimed the democrats and republicans don't consistently stand for anything.
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@Greyparrot
The video you sent is basically saying, "Look at all these radical left fat people".
The left's fat people are irrelevant people in Tik Tok. The right's fat people have a decent chance at becoming POTUS:
Trump is fat!
Obesity is mainly a red state problem!
Here is who the democrats had as POTUS before Trump.
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@Swagnarok
A RINO is an ultra-center rightist who holds normal right-wingers in disdain.
What does it mean to be "ultra center right"? Right and left are arbitrary labels to describe arbitrary combinations of ideas, with no consistency with their beliefs.
But in the long-run he's helping them shift the Overton Window left, and eventually he himself will be dubbed a radical whose politics are outside the mainstream.
Where the Overton window shifts doesn't matter. The Overton window has shifted right on some issues (abortion) and left on some other issues (gay marriage). The Overton window doesn't exclusively shift left.
Additionally, see Parler, which overall was to the left of Gab but nonetheless was temporarily purged from the internet after January 6, because big tech stopped hosting the website and they had to find a new business partner.
Why would the right be against a company being deplatformed? That's capitalism; that's the free market.
You can pick between free speech restrictions (letting Bid Tech/the free market censor) or free market restrictions (not letting Bid Tech/the free market censor).
The right has to pick one to be consistent.
The US is the only Western country where you don't have to fear being literally arrested and prosecuted for expressing an opinion as basic as "marriage is between a man and a woman", much less a more hardcore right-wing sentiment.
That's because of the first amendment (which is good and even waving a Nazi flag or burning an American flag should be classified as free speech).
But here's the first amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
In other words, it's only congress that cannot prosecute you for your opinions. It says nothing about corporations. Fox News for instance, won't have a smart left winger like Kyle Kulinski on their show much because he makes Fox News look bad (the same is true for Marian Williamson).
With regards to corporations, you right now don't have free speech protections federally. And there are many instances of non government entities discriminating against entities because of their political opinions (the right cancelling bud light).
It's all legal.
Now, I think the first amendment should be expanded so the government and private companies can't discriminate against people for political opinions stated in non-work environments. So you could say that I am more pro free speech than pro free market.
But as of right now, free market and free speech are opposite values on the issue of censorship.
Nonetheless, "this violation of my rights is okay because other people have been violated even worse" is how you get fascism.
So you admit black people have had their rights violated and therefore want to end police brutality? Alright.
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@Swagnarok
What would remain is a sad echo chamber between leftists of all stripes and a tiny handful of ultra-vanilla RINOs
If your definition of a RINO is an anti Trump republican, would you call Ben Shapiro a RINO? He doesn't like Trump.
the same "demon of censorship" came to possess every sizable tech company all at once in the second half of the 2010s.
If the Daily Wire and Prager U and Charlie Kirk were being censored by Big Tech, you would have no idea those people even exist.
Stop playing the victim (just like many hardcore BLM supporters)!
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@IwantRooseveltagain
If an otherwise racist likes there being black people in the US to grow the GDP, so be it.What are you saying here?
I'm saying whatever someone's reasons for supporting a normal idea are, so be it.
If someone supports the idea of giving me $5 because they think I am an ugly piece of shit and they want to try and make me feel better (but it's my choice to take the money under those conditions), hey man; I'm ugly, not stupid!
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@Double_R
If college ID's are banned, then many college students will find themselves without the ID necessary to vote, meaning they will now have to spend their own time and money to get what they need.
Voting with Student ID in 2023: The State of the Law & Pending Legislation - Voting Rights Lab states that just 5 states in the US (3 of whom are very safe states, the other 2 are more battleground, but not by much; no state like Arizona or Georgia bans student ids when voting).
Now, should this be the law? I would say that it makes sense for it to be the law because many college students are immigrants who have a green card, and are therefore inegilable to vote (but they would have a student ID). US citizen students have driver's licenses, or if they don't, they vote the way people in Manhattan do.
Although if there were 2 types of student IDs (one for Citizens, one for non-citizens) and the Citizen IDs let you vote, I would be fine with allowing student ID to vote.
There is no evidence whatsoever that illegal immigrants are flocking to the polls
New York City gives noncitizens right to vote in local elections | CNN Politics. I would assume a decent number of undocumented immigrants are voting (and would try to vote illegally). Now, 27% of the country has the opinion that the undocumented should be allowed to vote (I can't find the source, but I remember the stat) and they have a rationale for it, "No taxation without representation". So it's an ok position to defend if it's what you believe. Just don't play hide the ball.
You also seem to misunderstand libertarianism. Libertarians are leftists when it comes to social policy and are on the political right when it comes to economic policy.
Some Social issues the libetarians and the left disagree on:
1. Gun control
2. Vacciene mandates
3. Mask mandates
4. Testing requirements
5. Free speech absolutism
Some economic issues libetarians and the conservatives disagree on:
1. Free trade
2. Corporate welfare
3. Funding the Israeli military
4. Military spending
The idea that libetarians are, "Fiscally conservative, socially left" is incorrect.
I supported vaccine mandates because we were dealing with a highly contagious disease, so your refusal to get yourself vaccinated (based on the available data at that time) endangers all of us.
"Freedom for all unless it endangers public health/saftey (my party decides when saftey outweighs freedom and vice versa)". Got it!
First of all there is nothing about the fact that it's two men or two women which increases the spread of STI's, that's just bigotry plain and simple. But more importantly, you have to choose to have sex and you have to choose to do so unprotected. You can't catch an STI on line at the grocery store.
"Public health doesn't matter if it's a situation you chose to put yourself into (so that applies to lockdowns and mask mandates as well, right?)"
I'm starting to learn a lot!
so it's no wonder you constantly and consistently strawman everyone else.
Not on pourpose; I'm saying unfortunetly, people are tribalistic and they want to follow their tribe (even if it doesn't make any sense).
Following facts, logic and evidence is not treating scientists likes religion.
So you will believe the scientists no matter what? Even if they say 2nd hand smoke is worse for you than actually smoking?
Wrt to the COVID vacciene, both of the following claims are true:
1. The vaccienes prevent COVID death 90% of the time.
2. Unvaccinated people that aren't elderly if they get COVID have a 99.9% chance of surviving.
They are both facts, but I expect you to ignore the 2nd one because you have a party to follow.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Yes, statements and beliefs that make no sense and are factually untrue.
To an extent, this is true (like claiming Trump won in 2020; he didn't).
However, many other claims they make (like a zygote being a human being) at least have the possability of being true.
You would be pretty arrogant if you did not believe that there was even a 1% chance (or 99% chance) that a zygote is a human being given the state of our society right now.
Interesting how you dodged my other points, about how you would treat Bernie Sanders better than Trump if they both advocated the same policy (assuming their reason for supporting the policy is different). If an otherwise racist likes there being black people in the US to grow the GDP, so be it.
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@Best.Korea
I'm fine with the current owner as well. But the current owner is not fine with the current owner being the current owner.
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@DebateArt.com
If you have to transfer the website due to business on your end, make sure whoever the new owner is doesn't censor people like what the corporate media does. I wouldn't want someone like George Soros running DART.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
while conservatives believe in nonsense
Can you define "nonsense" in this context?
and make stuff up that aligns with their ignorance and their distorted worldview.
How does this label not describe you?
ignorant definitions:
The main ones are "lacking knowledge" and, "rude".
You certainly are rude. Granted, I don't care, but it's hypocrisy if you are against conservatives based on this.
In terms of, "lacking knowledge", every living person on this planet has some amount of knowledge.
because liberals live in reality
If reality is real and not simulated, then everyone is living in reality.
It takes a very biased person to believe that their very strongly held opinions (that are not close to universally held opinions) are objective facts. And there is nothing wrong with having a bias; just acknowledge that you have a bias. Like I got biases towards certain positions.
A bias is nothing different from an opinion. My biases I try and think through; but the left and right wing want to just follow the herd.
If Bernie Sanders says, "We need to protect women's bodily autonomy and rapists violate women's bodily autonomy. We need to kill rapists!", you would endorse the death penalty for rape in the name of feminism.
If Donald Trump says, "We need to protect law and order and inner-city rapists violate law and order in horrible ways folks! We need to kill rapists!", you denounce the death penalty for rape and call the idea racist.
If AOC says, "We need to cancel rent and make housing free even post COVID because housing is a human right", even though you are a landlord, you would be cheering her on (even though you collect rent, which is hypocritical). AOC would be talking about you too. If she says housing and rent should be free, she doesn't want you to charge rent either for your tenants.
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@Double_R
This is a debate site, not a court of law.
What's the relevance? Roosevelt was making the claim that he doesn't think Trump supporters should be allowed to vote.
Well I'm not black, first of all, that's really my picture in my avatar ; )
My bad; I thought you said in another post that you were black.
If I pass a new voter ID law that says college ID's are invalid while hunting licenses are fine, we don't need a ferensic study to know that less college kids will vote while more hunters will, and we know which party that is going to help.
That would be true, but no GOP state banned it's college voters from voting. The right wants an ID requirement to vote in order to separate out undocumented immigrants from trying to vote illegally (we know how they will vote if legally allowed). If you are fine with undocumented immigrants voting, that's fine; but then be upfront with that (and the independents would tend to view it as a power grab because if the undocumented were a right wing voting group, the left would not be pushing for their voting rights).
Advocates for these laws love to pretend that the way to examine them is by looking at how it impacts the individual, as if relatively rare cases shouldn't count in our analysis.
Advocates for Voter ID laws merely don't want undocumented immigrants voting. Advocates against Voter ID law requirements cite that blacks can't get IDs (which they easily can).
Political positions are not a matter of randomness which we can evaluate via statistical probabilities, they are the result of how we see the world.
They kinda are.
Abortion, gay marriage & transgender rights for example are not random unconnected issues. If you believe in letting and supporting people living their lives how they see fit, you're going to be on the left on all of them. If your views are based deeply in religion, you're probably going to be on the right on all of them.
There are multiple flaws with this argument:
a. There are 8 combinations of beliefs based on the 3 issues you stated. They are:
1. Abortion should be banned, gay marriage should be banned, belief that transwomen are men.
2. Abortion should be banned, gay marriage should be banned, belief that transwomen are women.
3. Abortion should be banned, gay marriage should not be banned, belief that transwomen are men.
4. Abortion should be banned, gay marriage should not be banned, belief that transwomen are women.
5. Abortion should not be banned, gay marriage should be banned, belief that transwomen are men.
6. Abortion should not be banned, gay marriage should be banned, belief that transwomen are women.
7. Abortion should not be banned, gay marriage should not be banned, belief that transwomen are men.
8. Abortion should not be banned, gay marriage should not be banned, belief that transwomen are women.
(my belief combination is bolded and is a combination you agree with me on 2/3 of the issues you mentioned)
Why do I believe this? I think you should be allowed to do whatever you want as long as you are not harming another human to a significant degree (why I think gay marriage should be legal). I think a zygote is a human being based on the following scientific quote:
“The human life cycle, from zygote to adult organism”.
If it was believed that a human life starts at any other point (10 weeks into pregnancy as an example), the quote would say, “The human life cycle, from 10 weeks into pregnancy to adult organism”
Human and person are synonymous terms in our society.
Wrt to transgenderism, the only reason why I believe the vast majority of transwomen are women is because I actually have a good definition for what a woman is that isn't just, "Anyone who identifies as a woman".
My definition of a woman is someone who has more female points than male points according to the following spreadsheet:
The belief that transwomen are women or men is similar to the belief that God is either real or fake; it does not violate a trans person's right to live their life as they see fit. So by your libertarian definition of, "let people live their lives as they see fit", a leftist by that definition can believe that while also thinking transwomen are men pretending to be women (and letting them do that).
But here's how someone can believe the other belief combinations:
1. Theocrat.
2. A theocrat that doesn't think transgenderism goes against the bible.
3. Someone ideologically the same as me, but they didn't develop the spreadsheet I did and as a result, they don't believe in the trans ideology.
4. My justification I stated.
5. Someone worried about public health (gay sex often spreads STIs) and happens to not believe in the trans ideology.
6. Someone worried about public health (gay sex often spreads STIs) and happens to believe in the trans ideology.
7. Abortion should not be banned, gay marriage should not be banned, belief that transwomen are men.
8. Left wing group thinker.
That's the first thing I realized.
2nd thing, you claim leftism is:
Letting and supporting people living their lives how they see fit.
This is the definition of Libertarianism, not leftism, and libertarians are consistent with this belief (if you don't want to get vaccinated, if you want to get a bunch of AR 15s because you believe the government could go tyrannical, and other social issues associated with libertarianism that isn't associated with leftism (because socially libertarian and socially leftist aren't synonyms). If someone decides that they don't want to pay a huge amount of money in taxes and would rather donate directly when they die, leftism wouldn't let that person live their life as they see fit.
This belief is not the belief of leftism. You may make some justification to your socially left position on vaccine mandates, "public health" and it's fine to have this argument. Just realize then that leftism to you is not exclusively:
Letting and supporting people living their lives how they see fit.
It would then be an arbitrary combination of "public health/safety" and, "freedom". The right does the same thing. A time when they support "public health" is banning gay sex because it has the potential to spread STIs (condoms don't always work, testing is not done nearly as much as it should, PreP works for HIV only). A time when they back freedom is with not getting vaccinated against COVID. If the unborn are humans, and therefore part of the public, an abortion ban is done in the name of public health as well.
There's a clear link there, in one study they actually traced it back to the level of disgust they felt when viewing certain images, which upon further study was traced back to the size of the papillae on their tongues.
If you really believe that political ideology is caused by what is on someone's tongue, then changing a person's mind on political ideology would be like trying to change the stuff that's on their tongue.
I would assume the only reason people do long political conversations is to try and change someone else's mind, but if what you said is accurate, then tongue surgery would do a better job at changing one's mind than political debates. I'm going to go with not chopping through people's tongues in order to win votes.
That just literally makes no sense.
Studies have been done on this
Some studies have also said that 2nd hand smoke is worse for you than actually smoking:
As noted above, by being exposed to secondhand smoke, non-smokers are effectively smoking. However, it’s worse than if you were smoking tobacco directly, particularly if you inhale sidestream smoke.
Sometimes it's better to not treat scientists like a religion that can't be questioned no matter what. Sometimes common sense makes more sense.
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@Intelligence_06
It depends on the issue. I see issue stances like coin flips; if you flip a fair coin 79x, you should expect about 39.5 heads (left beliefs) and 39.5 tails (right beliefs). So E(x)=39 and the SD(x)=4.2, the 95% CI is (31.1, 47.9) heads and tails (separately), meaning if people came to their own conclusions, 95% of the US population would have between 31.1 and 47.9 left and right wing beliefs. For me, the number of left wing and right wing beliefs I have is 36 and 43 respectively. This is 5/6 SDs above the mean, so if people actually came to their own conclusions on issues (because the left and the right have arbitrary combinations of beliefs under their party's banner), I would be more right wing than about 80% of the US population, so if people actually came to their own conclusions, you could argue I was far right if these are your definitions for far/center left/right:
Far left: More right wing than up to 25% of the US population.
Center left: More right wing than between 25% and 50% of the US population.
Center right: More right wing than between 50% and 75% of the US population.
Far right: More right wing than between 75% and 100% of the US population.
(assuming normal distribution for political beliefs and assuming every belief is 50/50).
But because society is very polarized,this isn't reality as pretty much everyone either has less than 10 heads or more than 69 heads.
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@Ultramaga
If you are fine with children dying in order to give globalist elitist silicon valley overlords a tax cut, fine. But just be upfront with that.
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Liberal: Hello HFCSM. Would you blow a man to end world hunger?
HFCSM (honest and blunt): Honestly, I wouldn't end world hunger even if I didn't have to blow a man. Ending world hunger would cost a lot of tax money from the rich globalists. Cutting taxes means some people are going to have to starve, and I'm ok with that. I don't want to pay for other people's kids; that's socialist! God bless Big Tech.
If you disagree with HFCSM, that's fine, but then don't call yourself fiscal conservative; because that's logically what fiscal conservatism means.
Lower taxes means less money for the poor which means poor children starve.
If you're fine with that, alright, but if you're not; don't call yourself fiscally conservative, because you are not. And there is nothing wrong with that. Just come as advertised and if you call yourself fiscally conservative, just make sure you understand what that means.
I don't like it when people write blank checks and falsely advertise their political ideology. Just be honest!
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@Double_R
No one is litigating whether Trump supporters can vote
Roosevelt's quote was:
They are truly un-American and don’t deserve the right to vote.
Voter suppression: Passing laws with the knowledge and intention that such laws will negatively effect a particular segment of the population's ability to vote more so than others as a means of assuring a favorable outcome.
I don't think the GOP has done this. Enough blacks and browns vote (and they vote very blue) to where the GOP isn't taking away huge numbers of people's right to vote. Like, you are black. I would assume you had an easy time voting (many blacks in all states had no problem voting).
in your mind the question isn't what you think is right and allow your position on each issue to stand alone on its own merit, you believe there is a certain percentage of agreement with each side you need to hit in order to maintain your status as being above partisanship.
It's not really that, but I'm a math major; so I see the world in probabilities, averages, standard deviations, and similar.
Lets say you flip a fair coin 78x. It's expected about 39 of the flips would be heads and the remainder would be tails (Standard Deviation = 4.5). This means 95% of the people who do the expieriment would be between 39(+-)2(4.5)=(30 to 48) heads; 99.7% would be between 25.5 and 52.5 heads.
But because of parties, it seems pretty much everyone either has less than 10 heads or more than 68 heads. A head= a left wing belief, a tail= right wing belief.
This is because of the desire to fit into a political group and people are too afraid to come to their own conclusions.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Left wing media? Reality has a well known liberal bias, right?
It very much depends on the issue and what you think is the truth, not everyone does. Some issues are majority left wing; others are majority right wing.
If every issue was like 60% left wing, then democrats would win every federal election about as well as they currently win NY state.
In other words, the polls make America seem more left wing than the electorate does.
"Republicans are more likely to vote" Not by much:
2020 United States presidential election - Wikipedia states 37% of the voters were democrats, 36% of the voters were republicans.
The 2020 electorate by party, race, age, education, religion: Key things to know | Pew Research Center states 33% of people are registered democrats; 29% republicans.
37/33=1.12
36/29=1.24
(Geometric absolute value Quotient-1)*100: 10.7%
Republicans are less than 11% more likely to vote than democrats.
Is there any close election in a relatively battleground state that happened since Trump where the republicans won where you don't accuse the right of voter suppression? Or is that only what happens when your team loses?
Voter suppression for the left is like rigged election for the right.
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@Greyparrot
What do you think would be accomplished by the globalists keeping most of their money?
When the US government had very high tax rates, our debt was low. When Reagan cut taxes for the globalists, it caused massive deficit spending.
Nice job sticking up for Big Tech!
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@Greyparrot
But hey; if you want to defend woke corporation's right to have a lot of money, you do that; it's a free country.
But then you are pro Big Tech if you do that, so just acknowledge that.
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@Greyparrot
How many people do you believe actually paid 93% of what they produced?
In terms of marginal income, everybody in the top 1% under Eisenhower.
That does not mean there is no opportunity cost for punishing hyper-productive people.
What do you mean by opportunity costs?
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@Greyparrot
America was pretty productive during the 1950s. Taxes on the rich were 93%. And the rich still kept on producing (because at that point, earning money is competition). And we were so far away from communism back then we were literally fighting the USSR back then.
I'm not saying I agree with raising taxes on the rich, but your arguments just aren't good.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
When the right loses, they say it's rigged. When the left loses, they claim it's voter suppression.Are you unable to discern truth from fiction?
Yes. Are you able to discern what you actually believe from what your party is telling you to believe? Because if you agree with the left wing media between 25% and 75% of the time, you are able to do that. Anything outside of that range, and you are a partisan hack.
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@Double_R
I am against taking Trump off the ballot, but I also believe we need to follow the constitution, which clearly says Trump can't run.
This is a contradictory statement; you basically said, "I am against taking Trump off the ballot, but I also believe that because of the constitution and something Trump did, Trump needs to be taken off the ballot". You either want Trump taken off the ballot because of a law that he broke or you don't. Don't be weaselly.
So since you take issue with the ruling, what part do you disagree with? That Trump engaged in inserection, that the constitution bars him from running, or that we should follow the constitution?
The quote I made was:
Nice way to expand voting rights; by not letting people that disagree with you on Trump vote.
If Trump hypothetically was made unable to run and DeSantis replaced Trump, it would be a Biden vs DeSantis race. You can believe that Trump should be unable to run while also not wanting to deprive Trump supporters of the right to vote. You also can believe that Trump should be able to run while also not wanting to deprive Trump supporters of the right to vote.
I think Trump supporters should be allowed to vote. Disagreeing with that is against the first amendment.
Wrt the question, I understand Trump did Jan 6 and it was horrible and all of that, but I would rather give Trump a trial as to if he violated the constitution or not enough to be banned from running, and whatever the results of the trial are I will respect (results I don't know in advance). The supreme court is a right wing court; they repealed Roe V Wade, they expanded gun rights, but they also didn't claim Trump won the 2020 election, so the Supreme Court as of now I think would be a fair judge to see if Trump should be allowed to run based on Jan 6.
Voter suppression isn't debatable. The impacts of the laws republicans have pushed are tangible, measurable, and objective. Claims of election rigging are entirely made up.
Define voter suppression. I thought it was just not letting non-whites vote because they lean blue. Plenty of non-white people have voted in every state's election in 2020. If Texas flipped to be blue and had a blue majority in the house and senate (as well as the governor), the left would not be claiming there is voter suppression. But since Texas has red governors, the left claims they somehow did, "voter suppression".
Virginia flipped red in 2021; and there are articles about alleged "voter suppression":
If Youngkin lost, there wouldn't be claims of voter suppression.
The left only thinks there is voter suppression when a right winger gets power in a blue area or when right wingers in an area that seems to be turning from red to blue are worried they would lose power.
If Arizona had a democrat majority house, senate, and governor, the left wouldn't be worried about voter suppression. Instead, the right would say the election was rigged.
Democracy can sometimes produce right wing results.
Has it ever occurred to you that in your need to feel above the Frey that you are every bit as biased towards equivocating as those you criticize?
No; I see both sides and I'm not in an echo chamber. But you follow whatever left wing media tells you to believe even if it doesn't make sense.
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@Greyparrot
Anything labeled as "free" is anything but. There are no solutions, only trade-offs.
There is a trade off; the main trade off is that globalist silicon valley elites, the people on Epstein's island, and similar people are going to start to have to pay more in taxes.
Surely you don't like the Silicon Valley globalist elites?
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@Double_R
That's fine, but again, it doesn't compete with the emotions invoked by the idea of having to hand over your hard earned money to the evil greedy government.
What if there was an opposite shirt that said, "These woke globalists control the media! They have too much power! Raise their taxes!"? The right is more anti-woke than they are anti-socialism I think. Honestly, most people are. I could talk about my plan to pay off the US debt, nobody cares. I talk about a transwoman I have never met competing in women's sports (when it's extremely rare) and all of a sudden, people seem interested.
People prefer the culture war of things that don't really matter to a good plan for how to pay off the US debt. Before Ukraine got invaded, Rand Paul was like, "Not a penny for foreign countries" and the right didn't care. But when he added, "that burn our flag.", that is what made the right cheer.
People in this country don't genuinely care too much about taxation policy; if you are poor, you aren't taxed much, if you are rich, you are taxed a lot, but you don't really care as much because you got money to burn. It's also why many rich areas vote blue and many poor areas vote red despite the blue party being more pro taxing the rich and the red party being more anti-welfare; it's because virtually nobody votes on economic policy. It's always culture war that drives people to the polls, and it's why a black billionaire is more likely to vote democrat than a poor white West Virginia man; even though the democrats want to tax the black billionaire more to help the poor West Virginia man, they also say white privilege is real and that systemic racism is real (the GOP doesn't believe in this) and that appeals to the black billionaire way more than a tax increase of 8% and the poverty stricken white dude way less because a lot of poor people (not all; but a lot) aren't the brightest people; you could give them all the welfare they need to survive, but if that poor person is a white redneck and you say he should check his privilege for being white, he won't vote for you.
It's kinda like the question, "If I gave you $500 because you are ugly, would you take it?" The smart answer is, "Yes. I'm ugly; not stupid". The poor redneck answers "No" to the question. To them, pride is more important than survival, and to them, telling them they are privileged for being white is an insult to them, so they vote for the red party that will let them starve to death from welfare cuts, but also won't call them privileged to their face based on being white.
I pointed out fear is central to right wing ideology which is not the case on the left.
Reagan didn't seem like a guy that promoted fear in people; although he's before my time.
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@Swagnarok
If even our own resident commieland was somewhat reluctant to attempt such an outrageous move as this, then it tells you the effort to disqualify Trump from the ballot is nothing more than hyperpartisan politics as usual.
The GOP tried to impeach Biden because they didn't like how he was running the country.
We are at the point now where if a republican is in power at the federal level, the dems will try to impeach him and vice versa.
When the right loses, they say it's rigged. When the left loses, they claim it's voter suppression.
Just accept the fucking results whether you voted for the winner or not!
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Imagine being one of the millions of wack jobs that still supports this guy. They are truly un-American and don’t deserve the right to vote.
Nice way to expand voting rights; by not letting people that disagree with you on Trump vote.
Personally, the voting age being 18 is the only thing I can think of that I support being defined by age with the electoral college staying here because before Trump polarized society, we all decided 18 was to be the voting age and we would keep the electoral college.
Democrats will argue that we should lower the voting age and repeal the electoral college, not because it's what they actually believe (there was not a single state that joined NPV before 2000; when the GOP won the presidency and lost the popular vote), but because it benefits their party (because while out of the last 6 elections, democrats won the electoral college 3x, they won the popular vote 5x). For the GOP, the opposite is true; they want to keep the electoral college because it benefits their party.
Left wingers and right wingers can lie about their intentions all they want, "We just want every vote to be counted" (the left). "We just want a balance between power between big states and small states" (the right). I see through it all.
It's also why the left wants to lower the voting age while the right wants to expand it. The left cites, "voter equality", the right cites, "voter maturity". They are lying to the independents about their reasoning; both parties just want an electoral advantage over the other (and they expect the other party to not see through it; but they do; it's just that often politicians don't have the guts to say, "This harms my party" even though it's the truth because they are worried it would turn off the independent voters).
It's why the left wants statehood for areas predicted to vote blue (PR and DC) while the right doesn't. It's why the right wants an independent Jefferson and the left doesn't; more power for them.
How about this: Get rid of the electoral college and raise the voting age to 21? I'm unsure who has the advantage in that situation.
If Jefferson became a state, it would get 2 Senators for the GOP, and then DC can become a state (and get 2 senators).
Democrats: +2 senators
Republicans: +2 Senators
Puerto Rico can become a state (+2 Democrat senators and +5 Democrat representatives) and Southern New England (CT, MA, RI) can merge, taking 4 democrat senators away.
Democrats: -2 Senators, but +5 representatives
Total:
Democrats: +5 representatives
Republicans: +2 Senators
Given that there would be 440 representatives and about 102 senators, this means each senator is worth about 4.3 representatives. What you could then do is since now there are about 760,000 people per representetive, bring this down to 1790 levels of 40,000 people per representetive (19x as many representatives, aka more decentralization of representetive power), and you get:
Democrats: +95 representatives
Republicans: +2 Senators
This is now a senator to representetive power ratio of about 82:1. This means it would be equal to saying:
Democrats: +95 representatives
Republicans: +164 representatives
Net GOP advantage: 69 representatives
Keep in mind, this country would have 8000 representatives, so a less than 1% advantage for the GOP probably won't change much.
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@Double_R
Compare that to "get your government hands off my hard earned money!". Right wing arguments are almost in every instance overly simplistic notions that appeal to our basic emotional instincts, so they're just easier to sell.
What about Sarcasm? What if left wing bumper stickers said, "Let Mark Zuckerburg keep his hard earned money! God bless Big Tech (aka the free market)!". That's simple, and it's edgy/funny, which right wingers are good at making edgy jokes based on policy.
Right wing rhetoric centers almost entirely on fear; fear of the other, fear of the big bad government coming for your rights, etc.
Some things the left is fearful about:
1. Mass shootings
2. The unvaccinated
3. Democracy being ended
4. Anything Trump
5. Russia
6. White supremacy being normalized
And whatever your justification is for these fears, it's fine. You can have these fears. But both the left and the right have certain things they are afraid of (and fear is ok).
While left wing audiences care more about optimism.
The following people were optimistic and very left wing politicians:
1. Ron DeSantis
2. Ronald Reagan
3. Ron Paul
4. Vivek Ramaswamy
5. The entire MAGA base if Trump wins in 2024.
And there is nothing wrong or moral about optimism, whether or not you are optimistic is your choice. But optimism isn't exclusively left wing.
Did you read my link? It's just a google drawing. I don't think you did.
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@Greyparrot
Maybe we can force illegal aliens to work to provide this free healthcare without pay.
Slavery goes against the 13th amendment.
For a libertarian, you are very Trumpian on immigration. This is fine, but maybe you want to reconsider changing your libertarian label you gave yourself. I'm libetarian on the following issues:
1. Immigration
2. Guns
3. War
4. Vaccine mandates
5. Income tax
6. Rank Choice Voting
7. Prostitution (for the unmarried)
Other issues, I'm not a libetarian on (death penalty, adultery (which is legal in many states))
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@Best.Korea
So then the free market is good then on this aspect? Would you agree with that?
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@Best.Korea
Some goals are bad, but others are good.
I made a goal once. It was:
1. Decided to get Eagle Scout
2. Succeeded in achieving that goal
3. Felt very victorious
Make good goals; not bad ones.
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@Greyparrot
You don't need guards for illegal aliens, just busses to take them back home when they get tired of living in a prison room.
Or just don't spend money deporting them (because it treads on the fiscal liberty of the taxpayer) and also don't deport them (because it treads on the social liberty of the undocumented).
Don't tread on anyone!
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Bernie Sanders wants free healthcare, but his marketing sucks.
If I was Bernie Sanders and I wanted conservatives to support free healthcare (even if I wanted conservatives to support socialism), I would sell the following shirts with a sarcastic message on them:
The MAGA base isn't against socialism and they don't love the rich; they hate rich billionaires like Bill Gates, George Soros, and Mark Zuckerburg. They merely hate whatever right wing media tells them to hate.
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@Greyparrot
A hotel room is more expensive to build and maintain than a prison room. A prison room is more expensive than a tent, but more humane.
Prisons need guards; and that's going to add to the cost. Hotel rooms for the undocumented don't need nearly as many guards.
How about just execute murderers and rapists so no money has to be spent taking care of them?
Cutting taxes means some people have to die (with few exceptions, but this isn't one of them), and libertarians (and I) are ok with that. It's the cost of cutting taxes.
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@Best.Korea
If demand is equal to supply, prices again go up because anyone selling products at lower prices will quickly run out of them, and those who sell at higher prices will become the only sellers and will earn more money.
Goods get replenished pretty frequently.
When supply exceeds demand, what happens is not that prices go down, but capitalists reduce production to reduce supply.After supply is reduced and becomes equal to demand, we again have Problem 2.
If supply goes down, it's because demand went down first. Why produce something you know people don't want?
Also, there is the cost of production effect where even if supply is higher, price cannot go down as cost of making a product wont allow it.
If a store wants to get rid of something without throwing it away, they may offer the produce for less than the cost of production and just not buy any more of those items for the foreseeable future.
Therefore, we see that in free market, even the most ideal circumstances dont enable any reduction in prices in the long run.
What if cost of production decreases? 50 years ago, big and heavy computers that are much less advanced than the ones we have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Because the cost of production went down pretty significantly, it allowed us all to have technology superior in quality by every metric as well as price.
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