DigitalTraveler42 @ DigitalTraveler42 @lemmy.world

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So what are they going to do, not vote Biden and vote for the definite racist Trump, who is promising mass deportations and who's supporters are pushing to end democracy? Like let's f'n be for real here.

I mean Biden literally laid a trap for Trump and the MAGAs with his statement on the border, and they fell right in it by axing the bipartisan resolution they almost passed, but of course Trump opened his fat yap and the MAGA idiots did his bidding as usual.

Fight fire with fire…

(Saturn Devouring his son, Francisco Goya - 1820-ish)

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I've known quite a few people who were kicked out for weed while I was in the Marines, on the clock these folks were good Marines, off the clock they weren't getting DUIs like the other dumbasses I was in the Marines with.

Also my quality of life would have gone up drastically if i could have relaxed by smoking weed after getting off of work in the Marines, there would probably be less fights in the barracks if we smoked instead of drank, probably less f'n rapes too, there are far too many drunken service members doing horrible shit.

The private prison, alcohol, tobacco, gun, and gambling lobbies and police unions are the main opponents to legalization, and they all have far too much power over the rest of us.

I'm 100% behind Biden, but if he wants to cure our growing loneliness and isolation, he can start by legalizing pot and letting pot bars show up as much as regular bars.

We also need some serious investment in community activity centers, safe places for young people, old people, middle aged people, to meet, socialize, and enjoy activities together, within their age groups while also allowing folks to mix with other age groups.

The big problem is the social isolation that began not only with the rise of the Internet, but also with the culture war bullshit, and with parents controlling their children because they are afraid of what they're seeing on the news every day. We need to find new ways to get people out there mixing again.

Vast improvements in public transportation would help greatly here too, most of the barrier these days is getting to places to do socializing, people can't count on their family for transportation, cars and everything else is expensive and jobs aren't paying well, and neither citiies or rural areas are built for easy getting around, outside of the few American cities with solid public transportation systems no American city is very walkable. Also ensure that people aren't going to get arrested for dumb shit, especially on public transportation, there was just an article this week about all of the money the NYPD is wasting enforcing bus fares when the bus fare machine isn't functioning properly, just let those people ride and stop hassling poor people.

What an idiot, especially when he blames his ignorance on his religious and political stances.

Also dumb, saying this to a newspaper formerly conceived of, headquartered, and printed in the same county that launches the most stuff to space, Brevard county Florida, aka the Space Coast, where you can see stuff being launched to space almost daily, ans almost from any part of the county, including from my backyard pool.

We need way more pushback against people spouting this level of ignorance.

NIMBYs are just modern day redliners.

DeSantis basically did the same thing here in Florida after we voted to restore voting rights, then his brown shirts arrested a person who voted thinking that their rights were restored.

https://www.splcenter.org/news/2023/08/11/florida-laws-criminalize-voting-returning-citizens

When Biden said that about the border he was challenging the Republicans to give Biden that win, because he knew they wouldn't and that Trump is too dumb not to fall for the trap Biden and his team set by saying that, and Biden was right, Trump pulled the strings and the border deal failed.

Right or wrong though, we need to solve the border problem, and that's definitely not by letting rednecks hunt central and south Americans, like Trump and the GOP, especially the Texas GOP, are advocating for.

Biden knows that the solution lies in legislating for more judges and other staff to help streamline and improve the citizenship process, but the GOP are against that because they buy into the "great replacement theory" and don't want any more brown people, especially with Trump telling them that he'll do mass deportations if he's elected.

But it also goes beyond that, because we have to help solve what keeps people coming here, and that's because of the political instability and tyranny of their origin countries, I mean brown people aside, look at what's going on in Haiti today as an example (gangs basically taking over the Haitian capital and kidnapping more political leaders).

You say no matter who wins, but if Trump wins he's promising to make all of this dramatically worse, his supporters are determined to end democracy, and he and his supporters are promising vengeance on their enemies, and I and many others would definitely be considered their enemies, this is full on Hitler/Stalin shit, and sitting on the fence like you are is basically siding with Trump.

You my dude are completely misreading the situation.

Thx my dude

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are NOT using their religious clout with WISDOM. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.' Just who do they think they are?... I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of "conservatism."

-U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964 Presidential Campaign

There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me ... that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are?”

—U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., Congressional Record (Sept. 16, 1981). Born Jan. 1, 1909; died 1998.

Barry Goldwater warned us so long ago, but it wasn't until the Tea Party that the Alt-Right Nazis and Christian Nationalists really came out of rhe closet and onto the main stage, setting things up for MAGA.

My conservative father brought up something akin to climate change, so I raised one eyebrow and hit him with my best Jon Stewart "do go on...", then he immediately switched gears to how it's climate cycles and blah blah blah, I just laughed and changed the subject so he couldn't bog me down into a political argument on my birthday.

Accusations of improper response to domestic abuse

In March 2022, The Roys Report published an investigation implicating Grace Community Church and John F. MacArthur. [51]Several women victims of domestic violence were reportedly asked to return to their husbands, under threat of excommunication. MacArthur associate pastor Carey Hardy allegedly told a victim to lead by example and “suffer for Jesus” by enduring her husband’s abuse. A church elder, Hohn Cho, allegedly urged MacArthur to reconsider the victim's request, who told him "forget it." The victim was humiliated twice, in May 2002 and August 2002, by MacArthur in front of the congregation for having finally divorced her husband. In 2005, the victim's husband was sentenced to 21 years in prison for aggravated child molestation, corporal injury to a child, and child abuse. After the publication of the affair by Christianity Today in February 2023, the pastoral council denounced “lies”. [52]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_MacArthur_(American_pastor)

But the bath salts thing was a one time thing, Floridaman is all about those pills, always has been.

He's definitely turned himself into the golden calf at the very least.