WaxedWookie @ WaxedWookie @lemmy.world

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Righting the policy wrongs is the first step, the easier step and the one they're faltering on - you can't begin to fix the damage the bad policies have done if you don't deal with the bad policies doing the damage first.

If you think they're done kind of complex dance, I'm comfortable saying that's a you issue, my dude.

I'm glad you seem to agree with what I've been saying from the outset, but have been too caught up in linguistic revisionism to notice - scroll up.

Standard Democrat fare - they'll perpetuate the worst of the GOP nonsense, fix some of it, and generally be less terrible. Also see: Gitmo.

...but as long as the alternative is the GOP, who will make everything far worse far faster (to the point that they're likely to end the moribund US democracy next term), you need to get out and vote for them up and down the ballot.

With a look like that, you strike me as the last person to give up tbh.

Whatever the case, I appreciate people with the... whatever it is to express themselves like you - even if I'm a vanilla cishet black T and jeans everyday kinda guy - selfishly, the fact that you are who you are and do what you do gives me hope that we're (painfully slowly) creeping forward toward better things as a society... the kind of nonsense you endure notwithstanding.

Don't change for anyone - you seem rad as-is.

Yeah - OK, you're operating under your own definition of creation that happens to align with whatever is convenient for your narrative. I'll stick with the dictionary, thanks.

From the outset, my primary concern has been the legislation and EOs that do the damage - our "representatives" enact them, and they do the damage. You need to start with the rollbacks of the things doing the damage before you fix the damage. This isn't complex.

I'm opposed to genocide - I sure as hell hope you agree with that - I'm also vote blue no matter who as long as the alternative is spewing openly Nazi rhetoric like a unified Reich and immigrants polluting the blood of the nation.

Hell yeah!

Well intentioned cis outsider here, so I hope this comes across in the spirit it's intended.

For better or worse, I can imagine that this decision would ironically make many people more comfortable, as they wouldn't experience the same level of perceived gender ...dissonance(?). Whatever the case, you don't need me to tell you that it's certainly not your job to adjust your identity or presentation to please people, and it's a rad look - I don't think I could help but take a bit of an admiring look tbh.

The "oxy" is where you went wrong.

We genetically engineered mosquitoes to have gender dysmorphia - weird times.

Was the mistake that it gave him a crippling humiliation fetish?

That was a hard, bizarre watch - and from Fox no less. They're not beating the weird allegations, and they're not sending their best.

If it's of any consolation, there's some joy to be found in watching him utterly degrade himself in service of the even bigger piece of shit that made an absolute mockery of both Cruz and his family.

There's no doubt that he would.

The makeup would at least be competently applied, and I've got to assume less fluorescent with none of the screaming contrast against the sickly transparent, veiny white skin of an octogenarian fuelled by hamberders, covefe, and hate - particularly for kamabla.

Yes - it's harder to reunite kids with their parents than it is to separate them - I'm not arguing that - I'm saying that not every bad thing the GOP does is an act of destruction - like the creation of the executive orders Biden destroyed, like the creation of the policies that led to the separation of those children from their parents. Destroying bad policy or bad EOs isn't inherently harder than creating them - repairing the damage they do is the hard part, but you don't get to do that until you fix the bad policy/EO. This is the part where the Democrats have made some progress, are world better than the GOP, but remain a disappointment.

You're boiling down everything that the GOP does to destruction, and that simply isn't the case as I've already demonstrated. As long as you insist on ramming those square pegs into such an over-simplistic round hole view of the world, discarding any clear, but inconvenient fact, you'll fail to understand the world, and any conclusions you draw will continue to be utterly worthless.

Now I'll stand aside and make room for you to stupidly/dishonestly pretend that destroying bad EOs (which is exactly as easy as creating them) is "bull crap", and that I've said the GOP creating bad things is somehow good because you imagine creating things is inherently good, and only something the Democrats do.

Fuck me - I'm honestly ashamed to share a political tent with such a moron, but better you than the Nazis, I suppose.

In my personal opinion, I'm inclined to think that Trump's death would be a pretty unambiguous positive given the threat he poses, and the number of additional people that will predictably be killed because of his policies. That said, you can't just let a third party kill your political actors, and the negative outcomes of a likely war will dramatically outweigh any good done.

A list of Trump's executive orders that Biden rolled back is a weirdo list of random things?

That seems like a transparently stupid thing to say - I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, stand back and let you explain that one.

It can't be that you think that because some things are easy to undo, all things are, and that because my examples don't fit that narrative, you dismiss them in a fog of cognitive dissonance.

You're using the vaguest possible language and imagining you're profound, then dismissing the example I gave because it disagrees with your narrative by point to burning villages as though that means anything?

I gave the more specific example of destroying Republican legislation, and either you're too dishonest to acknowledge that, or too stupid to understand. Why be like this?

I'll be more specific and point to 4 executive orders from Trump that Biden destroyed, and ask you to explain precisely what the fuck you think you're talking about?

• Preventing Online Censorship
• Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combating Recent Criminal Violence
• Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes
• Rebranding United States Foreign Assistance to Advance American Influence'

Try to refrain from smugly gesturing at vagueries - you look silly enough as is.

You mean like destroying the GOP's atrocious policies, right? No? Then you might need to explain yourself, friend.

Based on the downvotes, it seems we're indifferent about the principles underpinning the constitution and the entire legal system, the right to a speedy trial and freedom from cruel and unusual punishment.

Most of this wasn't tested in those legal cases - to my knowledge, they didn't even meaningfully challenge the fact that these detainees were being held by the US on foreign soil to transparently and dishonestly skirt those protections.

The irony.

Would you mind giving a quick explanation of your understanding the rule of law and its relevance to the constitution and US legal system?

Bonus points for extending this explanation to the 5th-8th amendment (particularly 6 and 8).

I'd say the shining city on the hill should have made restoring the rule of law a higher priority, but that's just my opinion.

It seems the GOP can make things plenty worse in a hell of a hurry, but when it comes to righting the wrongs, it's all too hard. The Democrat inclination toward civility politics and the status quo over basics like protecting the rule of law and the democracy will be the death of us.

Oh for sure - but vague gestures at imagined hypocrisy are all part of their shtick.

It's all irrelevant though - there's no evidence that'll sway a conspiracist - your options amount to walking away, appealing to the emotions of a lunatic, or violence. It's not for me to say which is right.