They don't really want to live in the country these laws and rhetoric build, they just want to smear shit all over the walls in a tantrum because the world isn't giving them everything they want.
Putin wants to see Trump in power for exactly that reason. A barely coherent buffoon, rubbing his soiled diaper all over the walls of a bigger, nicer house full of people he hates.
It must be humiliating to see conservatives pushing a conservative agenda and have no response to it except "no you".
Have you even thought this through logically, or do you just bleat what you're told to?
If support having police search schools to ensure gender identity is suitably suppressed, you should be proudly taking credit for it as a conservative.
If you don't support it, conservatives have made it clear that this is their agenda and if you don't support it, you're no longer welcome among conservatives.
So what's it going to be? Are you going to openly support current Republican policies, pretend you do, pretend you don't, switch to the party you've been trying to throw your shit at or just not vote?
Is this really the corner you want to back yourself into for shit-tier jabs like "Must be a Democrat"?
He's the asshole's candidate. We don't need to politely pretend otherwise.
The only difference between the conservative Burundi government and the conservative American government is what they think they can get away.
He says it's out of fear of being poisoned, but he routinely tells incredibly obvious lies.
I think he just eats like the worlds most spoiled toddler because he wants to and picked the excuse with the most self-importance and bravado.
Realistically, there's no shortage of Christians who are just in it for the abuse. They like the way bigotry feels and the church gives them plenty of targets.
While this is definitely something people should do, be careful offering "the free market will fix it" as a solution -- it's pushed a solution by neoliberals exactly because it doesn't work.
In this particular case, ethical businesses may have already been pushed out of the market because the only way for them to compete is to either charge more or also rip off their workers and suppliers.
Charging more is obviously the correct solution, but paying more for an ethically produced product isn't a luxury everyone has because they're also working for an insatiably greedy company.
Regulations that force companies to behave ethically is the only way out of this hole, which is why neoliberals fiercely oppose them.
Probably lots of reasons, all of them fucked.
The main reason is probably money. There's no better way to turn billions of dollars of public funds into billions of dollars of private profits.
It also reassures neoliberals that for all his rhetoric about forgiving loans and improving healthcare access, he's still willing to kill children if there's money in it.
It's also a chance to show off the unstoppable force of American arms against people who are considered completely expendable to America.
This was so awkward I had to check if you were joking but nope, actual conservative who got his feelings hurt and retaliated with the two most generic right-wing insults there are.
I could teach your entire personality to a bird.
they can give millions in subsidies direct to corporations
That's exactly why they're fighting it -- every dollar they give to poor people is a dollar less they can give to rich people.
Their initial investigation into him lasted 13 months.
Epstein died in 2019. If there's any open cases it's because they're not making any effort to close them.
America can probably dodge fascists for a while yet but wealthy neoliberals have spent millions of hours and billions of dollars trying to ensure that anyone who might genuinely fix things never has the power to do so.
There's the giant media companies looking to maximise their profits through manipulation and cronyism, rather than anything resembling actual journalism.
The legal system that's reluctant to investigate, prosecute or punish corporations and the ultra wealthy at the head of them, but enthusiastic about throwing poor people in for profit prisons.
Tech companies that will platform any reprehensible views in exchange for a few dollars of ad impressions, pumping their users for pennies with an elaborate emotional slot machine.
Then of course the open political corruption. Gerrymandering, insider trading, disenfranchised voters, voting machines with no paper trail and a deeply flawed election system where any vote that isn't for one of the two neoliberal parties is functionally thrown in the bin.
When we can't stand it any more, we're fed bullshit non-solutions instead, written and published by the problems themselves and designed to make them even richer.
"The free market will fix it. Buying more guns will fix it. Electing a man with the communication skills and emotional regulation of a toddler will fix it. Murdering people based on the amount of melanin in their body will fix it".
Each one has already been tried and each one has failed to even dent the issue, because if they had any chance of succeeding then they would have banded together to undermine them in a bipartisan act of class solidarity.
And fuck, that's just the politics. The same insatiably greedy, neoliberal trash is also responsible for the impending climate breakdown, endless wars and unprecedented levels of unemoloyment and homelessness because no matter how much we give them, they just can't say "no" to profits.
We need to vote, but we also need so much more than voting. We need the entire world to unite in protest, demanding their governments either acknowledge the rights, freedoms and entitlements of every person on the planet, or be held accountable when they don't.
So it's not hard to see why people might get disillusioned when "maybe if we abuse minorities more, we'll be able to own homes again" still seems to be an idea people want to explore.
Nope. I know it's hard for you to relate to, but I'm not remotely insecure enough to be "triggered" by a stranger who smells like a Magic: The Gathering tournament, hurling someone else's insults like a parrot taught to swear, because there's nothing else for him to do now that they teach teenagers to recognise emotional abuse.
They were 100% aware they were hosting a "not technically child pornography but we're going to use it as child pornography" sub, but there's no subreddit degenerate enough that they'll ban it while it's profitable.
Not nearly as absurd as resisting it by firing into crowds of innocent people and voting for someone who openly struggles to put basic sentences together.
If you want to play the "this person represents everyone I disagree with" game, you're going to have to do better than one person, who may not even exist, being a dildo.
I won't. He's not a good person and doesn't make even a token effort to pretend otherwise.
I also have to subscribe to and use Adobe software but suggesting it's less buggy and less expensive than other apps is delusional.
The moment you try and do anything outside of basic image editing, Photoshop immediately shits the bed.
It's riddled with features that were half developed or half removed. Tried using any of the 3D stuff? It pops up a box saying "We've abandoned this and it probably won't work, but go ahead and try because we haven't properly removed it". Using artboards? Probably not, since half the app seems to break with them, including their brand new features like Live Gradients that rearrange themselves when you save.
Looking for a filter? Well there's 2 places to look since they seem to have lost interest in the filter gallery half way through, then piled mediocre AI filters on top. It'll be a slow search, since for some reason some popup windows take fully 3 seconds to open, probably due to their 4 different UI systems in various states of abandoned.
Photoshop is widely used today because it was good 15 years ago. If someone hasn't already creating a leaner, more stable, better designed, more ambitious piece of software, it's only a matter of time until they do.
Republicians are never going to go after a Democrat for sleazy, self-serving neoliberalism because they're also sleazy, self-serving neoliberals.
It's one of the unspoken rules of the rich -- you can use unimportant bullshit to jostle for votes, viewers and market share but you're never, ever to attack the system that makes them richer.
The moment someone does, watch them band together across "left-wing" and "right-wing" in a show of class solidarity and signal strength the rest of us can only dream of.