By not voting, you are still, implicitly, voting for the candidate who you wouldn’t have voted for. Do you think he’s not supporting Israel?

Do you think he even has any moral standing?

That’s who you’re voting for by not voting.

You just want to absolve yourself of that moral responsibility.

That’s exactly what you are doing. You’re focusing on this one issue, retreating yourself from the binary decision because neither options stands for what you (or I, or morality) would prefer. Completely ignoring that withdrawing from the choice plays into the hand of the infinitely worse candidate. So by not choosing, you do nothing to stop the situation in Gaza, but might actually make things a lot worse for people all over.

You can virtue signal that you did not compromise on your believes, while actually helping your country make a worse place.

Would this not be considered as “providing comfort to insurrectionists”, as described in the 14th amendment. Even just promising pardoning them.

So even if they argue he supposedly wasn’t involved in it, it would still disqualify him from office.

When the call is coming from inside the (white) house…

(Edit: to be clear, back in 2020)

And miss out on stuff like this?!

This is essentially a pro freedom of speech legislation.

It’s not though. It doesn’t just protect employers to call anyone whatever pronoun they want, it mandates that the preferred pronoun for trans people (and others) are not used.

It doesn’t just protect bigotry, it requires it.

Imagine being brainwashed bombarded on a daily basis with messages of how leftist will take over your country and how Trump will save them

What kind of a broken system is that?

Just to be clear, you mean that people ignoring the laws is what makes it broken, right? Not the laws themselves?

Cause your last sentence threw me off for a second.

If so, I totally agree with you.

I’m not from the US, but are people really streaming while driving? Cause that’s just ridiculously stupid.

I know people are driving much longer distances in the US than here, but at least put on some podcast or music to entertain you. Nothing that keeps your eyes off the road.

What if my religion mandates killing everyone over the age of 60?

Could I get away with it because of freedom of religion?

You don’t think this happens in e.g., European countries?

Yeah, the cover-up is the bad part.

Might as well be considered a hit-and-run.

Can you please eshplain why they pronounce it that way?

I’m not familiar with Argentinian politics. What would you call him?

Most things I read the last few days called him left wing. But things get fuzzy calling people/parties left/right, especially across different continents.

Sorry, I misread your comment as saying you were in the UK. That’s on me, you didn’t formulate it badly.

I do think that Erdogan’s reelection is worse for Turkey than Brexit is for the UK. And I think the latter is fucked up.

Still, I truly believe that a lot of people that voted against their own interest are victims of themselves and the lies they were fed. But I’m definitely too soft hearted and naive at times.

Like you said, I’m an outsider and didn’t mean to imply to mandate who you should have sympathy for.

You can still have sympathy for people that didn’t vote for him but are living there (so similar to remain voters living in a post-brexit UK), and even for people that voted for him based on lies.

It was money that was previously blocked. The US didn’t lose it. Iran just regained access to it.

Anyone burning down schools to “protect the children” should take a very hard look at themselves. I hope they catch the people responsible quickly.

I do fear that this will cause some more islamophobia here (and we already have plenty). The problem isn’t religion per se, it’s misinformation. People believe that this program would cause teachers to teach kids how to masturbate, which is obviously ridiculous.

Unfortunately, fake news is more common in certain groups. One of those groups is muslims. It’s the same reason why vaccination rates are much lower among them.

It’s a problem that runs very deeply and is a consequence of a failed integration approach.

Ask them, who’s going to ban the trans people if the government is shut down?

They are. They want to remove any protections of minority groups. Back to the good ol’ lynching days.

(I feel dirty just typing that out)

Regardless of their intent, if it means people don’t use social media to get their information on topics like this, I’m okay with it.

Hitting Benghazi.

The conspiracy theorists will go nuts