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@eee bringing up Palestine as an equivalent to the "horrible antisemitism" just makes every attempted appeal to sympathy in his post fail on that merit alone. All it says is "You must feel sympathy for the Jews... but only the Jews!"

Good luck with future generations. Both the left and right have major opposition to Zionism.

@GoyGirl @ins0mniak @thefinn @Owl "The economy is bad" is a common refrain, but I must ask what country in the world has this supposed good economy that increases the birth rate. Meanwhile, people in dirt poor countries are the ones having far more kids. So no, I will not buy that line of reasoning.

Feminism, on the other hand, is a far more prevalent factor in lower birth rates. Countries with more of it have lower birth rates.

@suquili @deprecated_ii I love how it shows none of them in action.

@bigmattoidchimpin It does not matter if billionaires actually physically go to vote or not. The idea is to push for a net taxpayer voter system and to confront the fallacy of "paying their fair share" regarding those who are paying not only more total dollars, but a greater percentage of their tax dollars.

And if it turns out that there are some rich folks who are somehow getting more than they are receiving in tax dollars, then they should be disqualified from voting too. I am fine with that.

I have an idea to sell the idea of a net-taxpayer voter system to leftists. Use their hatred of billionaires against them. Talk up how billionaires should not be voting since they have been getting huge tax cuts.

Maybe it won't work, or maybe it will force them to look into how much each group actually pays into the tax system.

@sickburnbro what exactly will happen if Republicans win re-elections? A whole lot of heel dragging and posturing? The election matters little when nothing comes of "winning."

@Humpleupagus @Sweetie_Squad_Liquidator Then we know that every deranged post we see on here is not due to Hump being intoxicated, bur rather just him in his full unfiltered self.

@Gran3Walder >right wing discourse wasnt actually suppressed

Reddit, Twitter, Facebook are all examples where right wing discourse was most certainly suppressed. With the Twitter files, it was our own government doing this too, while pretending it was just "a private company making its own choices."

@sickburnbro based on what was in one of the emails where Musk stated "why would I want to meet with a bunch of diplomats?", his autism may have unironically saved him from being another name on the list.

Being a sperg is often a curse (speaking from experience), but it can be a gift when you make it not worth the trouble of those who are attempting to coerce you into something that ends up being a bad thing.

And to make sure we do not fall into the trap that short sighted libertarians do, the order of operations goes like this: the welfare ends. THEN we can stop ICE activity. Thinking the order of operations are interchangeable shows that you have no ability to think.

I have a proposal to address the ICE activity/immigrant welfare fraud/immgration issues in general. This is a proposal I doubt anyone on the left would agree with (and probably a good number on the right too).

I accept ending all ICE raids and activity on the condition that we abolish all welfare and welfare adjacent programs. If the immigrants are really making it on their own, then welfare being gone will not affect them.

@Aether this is even worse than "why do we need farmers when food comes from the grocery store?" UberEats is just a completely unnecessary part of the chain when it comes to the food industry. The worst thing that would happen without UberEats and things like it (such as DoorDash) would be people having to get the food themselves rather than have it delivered. Everyone else in the process is way more important.

@ChristiJunior @sickburnbro Previously he was that type, as he was able to win and be relected in a district in Minnesota that was traditionally red (and now is represented by a Republican). Since becoming governor he has gone off the deep end and has no trace left of the supposed moderate he was portrayed as. Did he stray from what he was before, or did he just show who he truly was? Either way, he gets no sympathy from me for his downfall.

@Aether Yeah, no part of the colonoscopy is fun. Especially not the preparation the night before. You will never forget the feeling of the burning sensation of stomach acid coming out where the sun don't shine.

@sickburnbro I recall a whole lot of Louis Rossmann videos going over how much NYC makes no sense financially. For example, how much it costs to rent out a space for a store front in NYC is ridiculously high. To the point that there is no way for a lot of places to remain profitable.

I would not be shocked to see NYC call for a bailout in the future. It happened once before in the 1970s.