The whole deportation shitshow is being run by homeland security advisor Stephen Miller, a Jewish man.

And to be honest, never in my life would I have imagined a Jewish media pundit revelling in territorial expansion and shipping people off to labor camps, especially one that leans into his religious Jewish identity so much (I used to be a fan of Shapiro ngl):

That’s embarrassing but have you considered not leaving all your local Afghan translators, informants, and fixers behind to get tortured and killed by the Taliban when you left? No?

“It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”

If you want to call Israel a democracy then you have to specify that it’s an apartheid state too, and if you’re defending an apartheid state then you’ve got other problems, mate.

The ongoing genocide is a horrible tragedy, but it’s neither Auschwitz nor Warschau. All this comparison does is diminishing actual fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust. And the conparison takes the credibility of everyone doing it.

This is nonsense, it’s like saying the Holocaust wasn’t a genocide because the genocide of Native Americans or the Atlantic slave trade killed many times more people. You sure this isn’t a case of worthy vs. unworthy victims?

“bulldog” type of debater

lol I had never thought of it like that but 100% agree

So funny to see White America discovering America is fascist.

welcomed an open Nazi into his political coalition. You might think I am exaggerating. I assure you I am not.

So many Americans have exactly zero historical awareness about where many Nazis went after the Third Reich was dissolved. There was Operation Paperclip, but they also went to a country that recently got a $40 bn gift from the Orange Führer.

blah blah doomed to repeat it

Why don’t Democrats do the “lesser of two evils” thing and pass the government funding bill? People are suffering because of this!

But this article isn’t about the rank-and-file Republican citizens. It’s about the grifters in elected office.

Haha yes, it just got me thinking, that’s all. Excellent points, thank you.

Thanks for the link. That’s an interesting way of measuring it.

About two-thirds of registered voters identify as a partisan, and they are roughly evenly split between those who say they are Republicans (32% of voters) and those who say they are Democrats (33%). Roughly a third instead say they are independents or something else (35%), with most of these voters leaning toward one of the parties.

Of course we can’t know about adults who are not registered voters, but I would suspect they lean Democrat. I don’t really buy the 50/50 split though because that would be a blowout for Republicans in terms of electoral votes due to FPTP voting. There are also other forms of corruption like gerrymandering that allow Republicans to win elections with a minority of votes.

Are there many Republicans in the USA? I thought they won elections because they won the areas where votes are more valuable i.e. those places with very low population density. Same with American governance in general, like how California (pop. 39 MM & 732,189 people per electoral vote) has the same amount of Senators in Congress as Wyoming (pop. 587,000 & 192,284 people per electoral vote).

Would you say 1 out of 4 American adults are Republicans? 1 out of 3?

Lmao I like this response. Does it mean that reality is inherently evil?

Hey, check this out, you might find it interesting. From Parenti’s Contrary Notions:

If what passes for objectivity is little more than a culturally defined self-confirming symbolic environment, and if real objectivity—whatever that might be—is unattainable, then it would seem that we are left in the grip of a subjectivism in which one paradigm is about as reliable (or unreliable) as another. And we are faced with the unhappy conclusion that the search for social truth involves little more than choosing from a variety of illusory symbolic configurations. As David Hume argued over two centuries ago, the problem of what constitutes reality in our images can never be resolved since our images can only be compared with other images and never with reality itself.

Good point

Sure, objective morality is the belief that certain actions are inherently right or wrong, regardless of individual opinions or cultural beliefs, that moral truths exist independently and can be universally recognized. The second question I haven’t the slightest idea, but it would be interesting to find out.

I don’t have a position, I was asking a question.

the world doesn’t even have objective morality

Deductions based on subjective information got you here. Or did you objectively observe (through, for example, objective experimentation) that there is no objective morality?

That’s what therapygary was trying to tell you, but not sure why they expected your subjective experience to realize the contradiction it itself is based on, lol.

Making a meme where your position is in the ‘right’, doesn’t make it true or even sensical.

Great points, I like it. Someone else pointed out that perhaps there’s no objective morality, but perhaps another explanation is that there are no individuals, that’s why it seems like that.

Hmm, that’s a weird opinion. What are you assuming “my position” is?

You mean your subjective experience?