I mean it's sad but sad stuff happens all the time whether undocumented immigrants are involved or not. I'm in San Francisco every day and the last thing on my mind is people's immigration status - this city does indeed have some pretty serious issues to work through, and undocumented immigrants existing isn't one of them.
That's a false equivalency.You fine with this?
The Right’s Violence Problem (Published 2022)
The Buffalo killings are part of a pattern: Most extremist violence in the U.S. comes from the political right.www.nytimes.com
I can't recall ever seeing anyone rushing to defend and justify that scumbag's actions, I can't say the same for those that carry out mass shootings.
Who? Biden isn't even remotely far-left, even by American standards. I don't think much of Biden, but it's not because he's some extreme leftist. Biden won the election, he wasn't installed by anyone other than a majority of voting Americans who were sick of Trump's crap. More people likely voted against Trump than for Biden.
There isn't a far-left agenda in America, at least not one with any traction. The number of politicians who are even remotely far-left is minimal at best. Bernie Sanders might be our most far-left politician at the federal level and he's not even that left on the larger scale. About the only place you'll see people talking about anything considered far-left is the internet and they're almost always younger people or old ass conservative blabbering on about how the country is going to hell because of "wokeness" despite not knowing what that even is.
Right-wingers don't support the rights of most people, or even understand rights to begin with. Even start with something like the Bill of Rights and those who describe themselves as "right-wing" don't know what the hell it's even about. The right to Freedom of Speech is probably the biggest on that right-wing and conservative people don't even remotely understand.
Nobody cares about drag queens until they crave an audience of children.
Citation needed. I thought RuPaul's Drag Race was a family show with an audience in the millions. Now it's an affront to civilisation?
Are women's sports being destroyed? Last I heard they were still there. Trans athletes vary in athletic ability. They won't dominate their sports.
They were kind of minding their business before Russia decided to invade their country. When the US joined other countries in helping them fight back, right wingers complained that it was a waste of money and that they should let themselves be overrun.
For once a boycott against trans people seems to have worked, probably because the people who drink light beer and those who think trans rights are an abomination overlap. Sucks to be InBev, but I think they'll survive.
I don't know what makes you think you'll be banned unless you break the AUP. Weren't you just talking about cancelling Bud, by the way?
Kids are impressionable. They don't need to hear about puberty blockers, and genital mutilation.
The US is providing more money than than all of the EU combined. That doesn't seem proportionate.
No. I was responding to the person who said I would be banned within the week.
Unless you're too young to remember the Cold War, it's pretty easy to see why the US is spending so much on the war in Ukraine. Russia has never stopped being our enemy and it's much, much cheaper to fight them via another country than it is to put American servicemen and women on the ground. The US will do the same thing for any country that takes up a war with China too.
No abortions, no incest/rape exceptions, calls for condom/birth control bans, desire to prosecute not just any woman who leaves the state to seek an abortion where it's legal but calling out for Wish.com bounty hunters to turn over anyone who might assist a woman seeking an abortion.
Are you kidding?
I don't know the ins and outs of this case but are qualified people allowed to make decisions on their behalf as to whether they're transgender or not?
The US spends more on its military than all of the EU combined. Part of that money is used to foster stability in areas which are likely to lead to global conflict. I'm guessing it figures another global superpower throwing its weight around counts in this regard.
You were, though. I just quoted you doing so in the previous reply.
Perhaps you should've quoted them directly, then.
Goodness gracious, you actually managed to prove his point.
It's like looking into 2016 all over again.
None of that is suppressing freedom of speech. Right-wingers got their panties in a bunch over it and it's not a freedom of speech issue. Twitter isn't the government. If it wants to ban people for being dickheaded COVID deniers then guess what? It can do that. If it wants to ban people for posting about Hunter Biden, guess what? It can do that. What can't be done is that the government can't throw you in jail because of it and if they do, you sue the government and take it to the Supreme Court.
The difference is allowing the other party to spread their message, then reacting passively.
Sure, but people got banned for suggesting that the vaccine was not necessary. Again, they turned out to be right.
Still doesn't change the fact that Twitter banning them wasn't a violation of freedom of speech.
That's definitely wrong. But, little late for those who died asking for it on their death beds.
Unsurprisingly, I'm betting you chose not to actually dig into what was said & why b/c it would rain on your stance.
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A misunderstanding is fine, but when you guarantee that getting the shot will guard you from the disease, and people who resist get fired from their jobs by the thousands, it's reckless.
Yeah, I know what he said. It wasn't true.
The right doesn't try to cancel anything. As @Famine said, we speak with our wallets.
Those two have zero correlation.
Yep, that's definitely how it played out for everyone else.
The statement itself isn't true flat-out, but it's based on solid data.
@McLaren posted what Biden actually said. Biden was still incorrect, but the facts don't lie. You're chances of being hospitalized or dying from COVID after being vaccinated are exponentially lower than those who didn't get the vaccine depending on a ton of different variables. And you may or may not have gotten COVID, the thing is unless you were testing yourself almost daily you wouldn't know. My son got COVID and was sick for a few days, my wife got it and never showed symptoms, I got it and ended up in the hospital followed by a bout of long-COVID. Had I not been vaccinated, I could've very well died.
You do know the right is trying to ban books because they don't like the message in them. Or what about throwing a bitchfit over Kaepernick? Or how about women's rights? The right does cancel culture just as much as the left does.
Putting yourself in a dangerous situation for the sole purpose of needing to protect yourself isn't exactly the most solid case of self-defense. The kid went looking for a fight and is an irresponsible gun owner. The case was difficult to prove murder on, but Rittenhouse was by no means just defending himself.
