Yzermandius19

that doesn't hurt you at all

how? hurting your feelings doesn't count

I have said how repeatedly restricting the speech of politicians and lobbyists by penalizing them for speaking in private is an obvious restriction of free speech politicians and lobbyists have rights too and you don't get to infringe on them in the name of transparency your desire to hear those conversations is not more important than their free speech rights get a better government transparency plan

I all for government transparency I am opposed to restricting free speech in the name of transparency your plan just sucks get a better plan that doesn't restrict free speech if you can't do that, expect pushback from reasonable people like myself transparency is not more important than free speech

I am not hard-wired to disagree with everyone on the left I am not hard-wired to agree with everyone on the right I am not that tribalistic you pretend that I am to dismiss anytime I agree with the right or anytime I disagree with the left as me merely being a team player so you don't have think about my position much at all

I don't care whether you believe me or not I am merely pointing out that you are strawmanning me so you can dismiss my opinion without any critical thought I don't play identity politics

not at all I agree with the left on many things I disagree with the left on many more things I am not a reactionary I give credit where it's due regardless of the source don't project your involvement in identity politics on me

that failure included the murder and intentional starvation of millions Hitler's kill count comes up well short of Stalin's and four others in history for that matter

nah that was Stalin and the Soviets and that's not a good thing this anti-human framework you are working under is why the environmental movement is failing so hard not pro-environment, just anti-human and until you ditch that Malthusian baggage, environmentalism is going to be a hard sell

nothing has been better for the environment than money and capitalism you have it backwards

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/trump_favorableunfavorable-5493.html expand to MAX to see his favorability ratings going back to his running for the Republican nomination in 2016 up to the present

keep in mind Zeitgeist this is a self proclaimed eco-fascist talking he is perfectly comfortable with tyrannical government measures to achieve his eco-utopia because he creates a false dichotomy where the end of life on earth is the only alternative to his bullshit totalitarian agenda as that is the only way he can think to sell this anti-human Malthusian nonsense

Trump is more popular than he was during most of his presidency or prior to his election, in fact and certainly more popular than Joe Biden and the weak Democrat bench

the government being used against the governed diminishes trust in the government if that happened less often that would significantly enhance trust in the government you want more trust in government? then stop supporting it being used against your political opposition to compel them to make choices that suit your preferences against their will or you're part of the problem the more people that stop being part of that problem the more people will trust the government the more people keep being part of that problem the less people will trust the government and rightly so the most trustworthy governments have the most trustworthy electorates the most trustworthy electorates have the most trustworthy governments the least trustworthy governments have the least trustworthy electorates the least trustworthy electorates have the least trustworthy governments it's not rocket science

those who would use force to compel others to make choices they don't want to make isn't a libertarian the exception would be choices that harm others against their will if people want to make choices whose consequences only impact themselves, they are free to do so if you think libertarians would behave differently it is because you are projecting your desire to compel the actions of others to conform to your preferences on them or they are just pretending to be libertarians to score points against their political opposition but the fact remains there are libertarians who don't play in your false dichotomy where the two sides seek to impose their ideology on others with government force and it is those who don't wish to impose their ideology via force who have the moral high ground not those who do against those who don't you stoop to the level of the conservatives you most despise when you try and impose your ideology on them as they try to impose theirs on you their bad behavior doesn't justify your bad behavior rise above the false dichotomy and have some actual principles instead of becoming just like the opposition to fight the opposition, protip

the threat of communism persists it's just more of an internal threat than an external one now

the libertarian side of that coin doesn't impose their selfishness on others with government force though the anti-libertarian side does the libertarian side allows people to make choices they don't approve of the anti-libertarian side doesn't

add that to their other weekly expenses they can't afford to do without though it's becoming more affordable, but it still isn't so cheap that anyone can afford it

nope the left are the more sensitive ones much of the left has just gone insane all of the smart lefties have caught on and don't let the existence of anti-libertarian conservatives get in the way of seeing it don't go down with that ship, eyeball they aren't worth it

as bad as some conservatives are the woke left are far worse and the existence of those conservatives doesn't justify supporting their radical agenda you need to stop giving them a pass just because they virtue signal that they don't like those conservatives it's like Dougie says, you're behind the times, those conservatives aren't the biggest problem anymore but because the biggest problem is against those conservatives, you don't think they are a problem you got massive reactionary blinders on the smart lefties without blinders on, realize that woke left are the biggest problem take the blinders off and join them, better late than never

that's just what happens in communist states the proletariat is always thrown under the bus it never plays out the way the useful idiots planned on paper reality always gets in the way of their utopian vision that doesn't make it not communism communism just always fails because it's stupid and fails to take human nature into account and when it fails, it results in a lot of dead and oppressed proletariat the real communism had never been tried canard is next level dumb it's been tried repeatedly, it just never succeeds, because it doesn't work

of course he's a communist you can f*ck off with your no true communist argument

Trump is going to win in 2024 no need to rush it

middle ground fallacy, argument to moderation thinking the CBC is 100% legitimate is comically stupid

I don't care if people immune to historical facts buy it or not the historical record > your uninformed opinion facts don't care about your feelings