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Not only are they a non-sequitur, they are false. While it is true Biden enacted more humanitarian policies, the border was never open. And if that is your response to my point, I have to assume you have no valid counter-point to my point.

I said power and the brand. Different things. Trump in fact has admitted that his brand is his most valuable asset. He said, "I became president because of the brand."

it astonishes me that you cannot see that Trump inflames this so-called culture war as a complete and total distraction from his true purposes - which are his power and his brand. He doesn't give a f*ck about DEI, or transgenderism, or abortion, or any other facet of the culture war. They are just convenient control techniques for his ignorant base. I've said before - his method is "outrage and distract" - so he can go about his true purposes

He's a predator. He's a sexual predator, he's a business predator, he's a people predator, he's an allies predator... And he's a predator of minds, as the existence of the Trump cult shows...

Trump peddled his lie about how other countries would pay for the tariffs. His supporters were too stupid to know this was a lie, or else they didn't care, in their mass exultation of their cult leader. But when Trump makes the same lie to an economic forum, to a group of people who know that it is a lie, that seems proof positive that his game is only to perform for his base. His game is only to support his brand. He doesn't care about the American worker. His audience is his base, his only concern is his brand.

I have just downloaded Jack Smith's report to my computer https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025.pdf I'll keep it for posterity Republicans are all for free speech unless they don't like what you are saying

You have no idea of the oppression and the injustice Indigenous peoples have endured throughout our history? Let’s go back a bit, to the 18th and 19th centuries. The common refrain was “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.” This attitude is captured in an American “classic” – Nick of the Woods (published 1837) written by Dr. Robert Montgomery Bird. In it, he popularized old settler slurs for Native Americans – “red niggurs” – “niggah Injun” - “cussed niggur of a savage” - Niggur-in-law to old Sattan.” This novel featured serial racial murder complete with Jack-the-Ripper-style mutilation as a cause for celebration. A brief for genocide. As late as 1953, this book was classified as an example of “American humour” (In American Humour, by Constance Rourke). You have no idea about how residential schools tore families apart? Children were taken, forced from their families, for no other reason that to commit cultural genocide, and make those children ashamed of where they came from. A common slogan of the time was “Kill the Indian in the child.” This evil created a detrimental intergenerational effect and laid the foundation for the epidemic we see within Indigenous communities today. A mass cultural trauma. So, for example we see today that Indigenous people are at much higher risk of suicide And we see a greater estrangement from society, as evidence by their greater incarceration rate: Colonialization was not good for them.

You probably don't even see the irony in your rejecting someone else's reality based on your feelings.

yes, there are some responses that deserved to be ignored. I stop short of using the "ignore" function, however, because "free speech" and all that. But I do notice that the prime motivation for some on the right seems to be to yank someone's chain, rather than to present a considered position. It's almost like they think they are living vicariously through Trump. They are attracted to his ugly show of power, and try to emulate it. It's a rather fascinating sociological tendency.

So, you are indeed denying the validity of their identities. It's that sort of attitude that leads to stigma and harassment. There has been research to disprove the idea of social contagion.

the environment certainly provides stimuli, but the brain provides the response But we are not. No-one controls their environment. You only control yourself. What we control is our response to the environment. My main point has been to point out that during fetal development, a human brain sexually differentiates to either male or female. You haven't provided any valid counter-point to that. That they exist and are real.

So you accept the legitimacy of transgender women and men? I'm great, thanks for asking.

She is exceedingly sane compared to RFK Jr. with his gibberish claims and conspiracy theories. the guy is selling $26 onesies for babies that say, "Unvaxxed and Unafraid" - for goodness sake. I had to look up this term. Apparently, it means the secret police. But it's actually "kashisti" Are you familiar at all with RFK Jr's history? ... what stands out in Kennedy's case is the sheer volume of what he has asserted over the years, from his insistence that Republicans stole the 2004 election to his claims that 5G networks are being used for mass surveillance to his belief that the CIA assassinated his uncle. https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187272781/rfk-jr-kennedy-conspiracy-theories-social-media-presidential-campaign

I believe Caroline Kennedy over Bobby Kennedy.

Do you have whiplash?

Very Trumpian of you, putting "fake" in front of everything.

If you disagree with my definition of identity, I think it is incumbent on you to provide an alternative definition.

Then why do you support him?

The Neuroscience of Identity How you view, how you perceive, how you imagine ... all functions of the brain.

No, it's just that your reply was so ridiculous. Our identity is generated by our brain. Please provide any evidence you have to the contrary.

Lol! Omg....

You're asking me to prove that thought comes from the brain? Really?

You put your faith in Trump. As much as I believe this faith is misguided, I get it. It suits your ideological predisposition (or should I say distortion?). But a rational mind will look at Trump, at all he has said and done, and come to the logical conclusion that he is not in it for the many, but for the few. Fear-mongering suggests unsubstantiated conclusions. I prefer to consider it being realistic.

It might broaden your perspectives if you can get out of framing everything in terms of hate.

He's just so ugly.