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LiberalRetvrn
they don't understand the things i say on twitter.
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LiberalRetvrn
2d ago
The difference is that the romans would just call Elagabalus a fag and laugh about it, then go back to having anal sex with their femboy harems. I wouldn't have to listen to endless christwoke virtue signalling about family values from coping closeted homos like JD Vance. People could just do what they want without the insufferable handwringing.
LiberalRetvrn
3d ago
It's probably the Right's fault that the situation is uncomfortable
Well yes, it is. Transgenderism and homosexuality are traditions in our culture dating back to Roman and Greek times. If we weren't being subjected to Judeo-Christian values, her ex-wife wouldn't have felt the need to repress being transgender in the first place. And it wouldn't be such a big deal for a relationship to end because one partner evolves. All of the supposed problems with that situation are caused by artificial right wing judeo-christian morality.
Interesting. To me the current situation also feels like 2020, but because of coronavirus lockdowns. Again we are being expected to tolerate draconian government interference with our daily lives, because of some supposed threat. Watching people leap to the defense of the ICErs reminds me of how people cheered when Australian police were beating anti-lockdown protestors. Again it feels like the whole world has gone insane, and nobody is willing to do anything about it.
Here is a tweet with 5k upvotes saying that "ICE should start sl**ghtering liberals for no reason at all." I remember seeing opinions like this about anti-maskers, and thinking how weird it was for this "edgy", "transgressive" humor to be deployed in support of government power.
LiberalRetvrn
7d ago
Being socially malformed can have real negative impacts on career and personal development
Not now that dinergoths are the ones making the hiring decisions. Plenty of people get away with non-median social aesthetics now, and still make plenty of money and have successful social lives. The archaic social norms no longer matter at any stage of life (other than maybe for boomers, but soon they will be retired and irrelevant).
See: James Damore
James Damore was fired because of wokeness, not because of his aesthetic or personality traits. He was fired for committing wrongthink. When has someone ever been fired from a tech company for wearing cat ears? The question of what lifestyles and aesthetics are allowed is different than freedom of speech and thought.
LiberalRetvrn
9d ago
I don't understand, what is your argument against this judge's decision? It seems like you're just assuming consent on this. The decision seems like obvious common sense to me, it's the bare minimum I would expect from a judge with any integrity. Standing up for American values, the constitution, and freedom isn't "activism", that's what judges are supposed to do.
LiberalRetvrn
15d ago
There's a reason why Trump with his better political instincts is pivoting away after this fiasco
Is he? I haven't seen any sign of this, it seems like he's doubling down. He certainly has good political instincts, but he doesn't have to worry about politics anymore. I seriously doubt he cares about what happens to the republican party after he's retired.
LiberalRetvrn
17d ago
a very small contingent of revolutionary communists believe that the answer to this question is no
I don't see how this is an extreme viewpoint at all. The purpose of the second amendment is partially to check state power, by giving the government something to fear (in minecraft) if they behave unreasonably. I'm not sure what that has to do with communism. Communism in practice generally involves the rule of law and "the people" having absolute power over the individual.
LiberalRetvrn
24d ago
"Lock her up!" was a big part of Trump's platform in 2016. I'm not sure why some random podcaster saying this is particularly interesting, You can find thousands of podcasters saying every politician you can think of should be locked up for one reason or another. I think there is a sentiment among liberals that democrats need to start playing dirtier, because the republicans continually reap the benefits of defecting from norms. Merrick Garland being a prime example of that, and why there is talk of packing the courts as revenge.
LiberalRetvrn
28d ago
is that he gives off this vibe of being quintessentially capital-A AMERICAN
His appeal is that he's a billionaire who puts his name on everything, says whatever he wants, bangs hookers, and never apologizes for any of it. He's doing exactly what the average lower-class guy would if they were rich, and that makes him trustworthy and relatable. If anything, he talks about American values and culture much less than other politicians. He wants America to WIN because America is his team, and it's good when your team wins. Compare him to Reagan, who also used the "make America great again" slogan, but to him "America" meant specific things - the pilgrims, the free market, opportunity, conquering the west. We were the city on the hill. But Trump would work just as well in any country or time, there's nothing uniquely American about a strong man who make our country great and beat up other country.
LiberalRetvrn
30d ago
Is OP's combination of beliefs any weirder than the mainstream US political parties? It sounds like he's a religious conservative who also is skeptical of big government and the police state.
LiberalRetvrn
30d ago
I really don't get the purpose of using a single "Culture War" thread for everything. Why not just let people make their own top-level posts? Most of the topics in this thread aren't even about the culture war, they're about politics.
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
I do have principles, but I don't think it's possible to judge civil disobedience acts in a vacuum. Disobeying an unjust law is good, disobeying a just law makes you a nuissance to society. I have principles about freedom, individual rights, and liberalism, not about what tactics are justifiable to achieve those things.
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
Another consistent view is that Ashley Babbit deserved it because she was protesting for a bad cause (overturning an election) whereas Renee did not because she was protesting for a good cause (stopping the feds from kidnapping us).
The real crime of january 6th was that they used up one of our most potent civil disobedience options on something so meaningless.
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
I believe taxation is theft. The government should be funded through donations, and people should be free to earmark their donations for whatever purpose they see fit.
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
How? I absolutely view ICE as Trump's personal paramilitary force, similar to the sturmabteilung. Or at least, I think he hopes that's what they will evolve into. Deporting illegals is a great pretext for creating all the systems they will need to start targeting political dissidents and Trump's enemies. And the angrier the ICE agents are, the more ruthless they'll become. He needs a police force he knows is loyal, who will act without question when he needs them to establish martial law.
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
it takes a lot of white female privilege to drive a car at a cop
And yet despite being 70% of the population, white people run over very few cops.
It occurs to me that yours is the first "white privilege" complaint I've heard about this incident. If this had happened in 2015, there would almost instantly be thinkpieces about how we're focusing on a white woman being killed by police when thousands of unarmed black people are gunned down every year. To me this is more evidence that peak wokeness has long since passed. Occupy Wallstreet was the last liberal or populist movement that wasn't subverted by identity politics. Maybe this will be the first of the new post-wokeness era.
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
I don't sympathize with the ICE employee because he is being paid to deal with whatever stress this job causes him. If he can't handle it without taking out his feelings on innocent people, he should just quit. It's a pointless job anyway, so nothing would be lost. I also can't imagine stepping in front of a running car, and my first instinct if said car were approaching me would be to jump out of the way, not draw my ccw. His actions make me think he actually wasn't in fear for his life, because shooting the driver didn't change anything about the momentum of the car.
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
I've never claimed that she made a smart self-preserving decision by participating in civil disobedience against ICE. That's what makes her a hero in my opinion, she sacrificed herself (possibly unintentionally) to resist federal overreach and the police state. And I want her killer to be punished.
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
There is neither panic nor fear, just smugness and derision.
Right, and then the other ICE employee started charging at her, and she feared for her life. I would be scared too if some guy dressed like a muslim terrorist started trying to drag me out of my car. For all she knew, these were just a group of Trump supporters pretending to be ICE.
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
Normal police officers don't cover their faces, usually drive marked vehicles, have body cameras rather than filming with their personal cell phones, and will identify their name and badge number when asked. If a police officer were out of uniform and driving an unmarked vehicle, there would have to be much more tolerance for suspects supposedly "resisting arrest," because people wouldn't feel comfortable surrendering to some guy.
The mission of an ICE employee is also very different from a beat cop. ICE is trying to deport as many illegals as they can. Every person an ICE employee encounters is either an illegal alien who needs to be deported, or some busybody getting in the way of them deporting more illegals. Beat cops don't start their interactions with citizens under the assumption that they're interacting with a salvadorian cartel hitman. Policing is very different from protecting the country from external threats.
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
Well obviously some situations would require lethal force. All I said originally is that the standards should be higher for professionals than for random people minding their own business. I don't like the idea that police can provoke a somewhat violent response from a suspect and then use that as justification to use deadly force.
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
No, I'm judging purely based on the video. I saw nothing in the video that made it clear the ICE employees were putting her under arrest. I don't see how someone can be "resisting arrest" unless they're aware they are being arrested. All I saw was a guy in a mask jumping out of an unmarked vehicle and running toward her, yelling "get out of the fucking car". In that situation it seems reasonable to fear for one's life. Why does the ICE employee have the right to self-defense but an American citizen on a public street doesn't have the right to flee?
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
Well I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. If he didn't think she was a threat, it's even worse that his first reaction was to start blasting.
LiberalRetvrn
1mo ago
could you tell us if it contradicted any of your prior take on the situation?
I didn't realize that things were so calm before the second ICE employee charged in yelling obscenities at the woman. I'm now shifting some of the blame over to him. I had assumed based on the way he approached that the situation was already tense.
I'm also surprised that the guy who shot her was filming with his cell phone rather than having an official body camera. Unless he did also have a body camera, and was just filming to be petty because the citizens were filming him. Which would be very unprofessional.
nobody is being "abandoned", the trans parent can just continue parenting without pretending to be a perfect judeo-christian Family Man. What's the big deal? Most marriages end in divorce anyway. I would have preferred if my parents got divorced right away rather than screaming at each other for 15 years, and they were both transgender heterosexuals, they just didn't get along. Imagine growing up with a dad who was so cucked he wouldn't even let himself be the gender he wanted.
Edit: snowflake mods banned me, so don't bother responding. Imagine being so sensitive you call a slight difference of opinion "trolling"
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