Don't think it'll do any good. Voter fraud renders voting meaningless, and we've seen throughout history that once a two party system's in place, you're fucked; third parties just split the vote and die.
But I'm fine with the Republican party dying, and since I'm not gonna boogaloo, wasting half an hour once in a while to vote's an easy, if fruitless alternative. I didn't think he's win 2016's primary but I showed up and said what the hell, despite having never voted in a Republican primary in my life. I didn't think he'd beat Hillary due to voter fraud and cheating, showed up anyway. I've not regretted riding with him yet.
This, this, a thousand times this. I don't know why we keep trying to give credit to Antifa. I'm not in favor of violence, but it was absurd of us to go home and just leave the damn capital after storming it successfully. BLM held down several blocks for a month, we can't handle an all night vigil?
We showed what we COULD do, but we stood down as soon as they blinked. We're civilized, for better and for worse.
The thing is they listen to people who were there and saw or have tattoos or other walking proofs of the Holocaust. You can audit the records and see the science (they did some fucked up experiments there) and a solid paper trail of the torture and murder that took place.
They don't listen to people who saw cheating at the voting places, won't address the videos, the affidavits, or allow a signature audit.
Holocaust denial is reasonable until the evidence is audited. The Holocaust was a horrifying enough thing that decent people should be in disbelief that humans could do something that awful. Then you do the legwork to see how horrifyingly real it is, and inside of you forever after should be a deep seated distrust of government institutions.
I think they think of money like a video game; some unlimited resource. You just beat more monsters/grind more and more comes out. So why not just increase the drop rate on the grinds?
Where money and its value comes from is actually pretty complex. I understand that thinking from a 14-15 year old. But once you're in your second year of high school and doing more advanced math and science, it's time to learn exactly what money is.
Sucks for the workers, too. What if you're retired, or a kid, or even just want a little spare change for some very easy side hustle? You can't offer to clean a vet's kennels or shovel snow or something for five bucks. They have to pay $15.00 an hour or it's illegal, which means they have to get someone to run harder and do more tasks---and someone with less time, ability, etc. just gets fucked. They'll just tack those $5.00 an hour tasks into their expectations of the $15.00 an hour skilled worker.
I've seen it in government. One of our state agency's accountant spend about 50% of their time making helpdesk tickets for the IT team because when the online payment system gums up, they won't hire a slew of low-education help desk workers to filter calls between "accounting issue" and "system processing money issue." So instead they're paying CPAs that money. This pisses the CPAs off even though it's much easier work ("describe problem, wait for someone else to actually fix it"), because they'd actually like to get other tasks done, like bank reconciliation, or investigating fraud allegations.
No part of that is even subjective.
Do they intend to inaugurate Joe Biden? Yes. Will that be before the national mall? Yes. Is the public completely banned from the national mall for the duration of the event? Yes. Will there be 20,000 or more soldiers present there at the time when the public cannot be? Yes. Was Biden declared the winner by popular media and critical swing locations between the hours of midnight and 5:00 AM? Yes. Would most people call hours between midnight a 5:00 AM 'the middle of the night'? Yes. Was this certified outside of typical hours, during previously defined 'middle of the night' time? Yes.
You can make excuses as to why this is okay. (Trump was elected in 2016 in the middle of the night, for example--counting tends to finish after midnight.) But you can't say there's any fraud or disputed statements in this tweet at all.
Unfortunately, a nuanced position makes it hard to slap into easy bulletpoints.
I think it's a great thing overall, for the same reason nuance is a very good thing to understand in anything reasonably complex.I think it pulls a lot of people to our side if they're willing to stop and really think in ways outside of prescribed talking points.
It's why I changed my mind from libertarian Open Borders to "No, Trump has a point, let's close them down for now while we have a lot of terrorist stuff going on and until we figure all this out."
Now that ISIS is a non-entity thanks to Trump, my position has become more akin to: "actually, there are many other problems with open borders such as election fraud, census issues, and free rider problems which are going to take some time to clean up. I am now willing to be less hard on borders if we can be more hard on voter ID and proof of citizenship for public services. Alternately, I am willing to slow walk public service barriers if we instead enact barriers to illegal entry. I just want to stop free riders, and don't care too strongly which we use to get there."
(I want voter ID yesterday, with or without borders so that's not as nuanced--I do see how proof of citizenship will complicate and make other public services more expensive, I'm more flexible on those. But proof of citizenship to vote is relatively easy and does not complicate a life-saving or daily necessity.)
Right. BLM had largely unspecified and incoherent goals; those that were outlined were many and difficult to quantify. BLM's violence targeted victims and locations untied to their nebulous demands.
Patriots stormed a location of an activity they were protesting, with specific, quantifiable demands: auditing of and judicial oversight for elections in specific locations.
Extremely different.
Part of that problem is we don't all quite share the same values; we just share enough of them. Some view pro-life as huge; some are pro-choice but figure we have bigger fish to fry right now (none of his SCOTUS picks seem like they're going to put their foot down on RvW, so not a big deal). Some view penalty tariffs on China and such as great, some are more libertarian but are happy enough with being pulled out of deals to spent money that they're okay with it. Some love Trump's pacifism; others would honestly be just fine turning the middle east to glass, but are fine as long as, at the very least, we're pulling out and it's not our problem anymore.
I went to a Catholic school with a religious reference as our mascot; sacrilige, maybe, but definitely meant as "this thing is fucking GREAT." A friend went to a Catholic School whose team was called The Crusaders.
You don't name your football team after something you don't see as absurdly cool and powerful.
If I didn't personally know and like a lot of blacks and Asians way cooler, smarter and more capable than me, I'd be be a White Supremacist just to spite them.
That's how radicalization happens. Think about the people who haven't met many minorities, or only meet them in the worst circumstances (99% of the blacks I've met are wortlhess because I worked in social services for years and thus got the welfare crowds--because 99% of the welfare crowd is useless, regardless of race).
Without a specific and personal counter-example they hold dear and in esteem, why wouldn't people embrace an ideology they've been accused of having for their entire lives?
They're basically only interested in shunting you off to counselors and therapists in your zip code off of a list they have. Those counselors and therapists are only interested in urging you to adapt prevailing values and norms with no regard for the individual's own goals or desires. Get in the round hole, accept your feminine side and check your privilege.
Said from the capital ceremony only the choosen elites like her can attend.
The system is back as it should be, we are established as your betters, an upper class; I pray for peaceful acceptance by you peons from here on out.