• denies climate change (despite every climate scientist, whose job it is to show it doesn't exist, finding that it beyond a doubt does - it's important to stress that this shouldn't even be a political issue, it's like a barometer for idiocy);
  
• wants to abolish the Department of Education (which was started in order to combat the US's failure to keep up with the rest of the world in terms of education, and provides funding to public schools, aid to students and collects data on US education for the sake of improving the education system);
  
• wants to put an antivax conspiracy theorist in charge of public health, who is against things like fluoride in the water (ask your dentist how stupid this sounds);
  
• wants to enact tariffs that 23 Nobel Prize winning economists agree will be a disaster for the US economy (I guess no one learned from his previous term, where he gave huge corporations a permanent, trillion dollar tax cut and disproportionately cut taxes for the upper class, hurting the lower and middle classes in the long run and inflating the deficit);
  
• has been constantly ripped apart by the people close to him, including many of his top advisors from his first term and even his own running mate;
  
• attempted to incite a coup d'état when he lost the 2020 election, which ended in multiple deaths and over a hundred injured (which he has never taken any responsibility for - these are YOUR supporters);
  
• falsely claimed that Haitian immigrants were "eating people's pets", which he softly rescinded in an interview as soon as he wanted support from Latin American voters;
  
• etc.
  

(6th November 2024, 10:37 PM)Delphinoid_ Wrote: I just don't understand it. How could America let this happen? What possessed the majority of Americans to vote for this? I feel terrible for the Americans who have to watch their country get wrung dry by ignorance and radicalism. I guess there's no choice but to just see what happens though.

(6th November 2024, 10:37 PM)Delphinoid_ Wrote: What possessed the majority of Americans to vote for this?

(7th November 2024, 2:04 PM)LCPD Wrote: In the famous words of someone, "Its the economy stupid." Inflation hurt people, they see it in their paychecks and interest rates. Thats what hurt Harris and she didnt really have any notable achievements during her time as VP. She was put in charge of the border and see how that turned out. It really just came down as a referendum on the Biden administration which people have described as Jimmy Carters second term.

(7th November 2024, 10:13 PM)Different Wrote: @Delphinoid_ what are your thoughts on Trump wanting to ban abortion? He’s mentioned wanting to do this a few times before becoming president again.

(8th November 2024, 1:01 AM)Mia Wrote: I tried to not get involved with politics this time around, because both sides were filled with negativity. Only until recently when I heard about some of Trump's plans did I start to realize, I should probably stay at least somewhat involved in the political process. With that being said, he's trying to take steps towards blocking same sex marriage, and that goes against what I believe. I just hope nothing comes of that. Honestly, I'm just hoping for the best for everyone.

(8th November 2024, 2:30 AM)Delphinoid_ Wrote: By the way, have you heard what people are saying? "Your body, MY choice". Young boys are saying this at school over there. It's foul, really foul.

(7th November 2024, 1:52 PM)Legend Wrote: https://whyharrislost.com/

(18th November 2024, 5:37 AM)1amayzingman Wrote: That is pretty much exactly opposite of what actually happened. Harris lost primarily for 3 interconnected reasons:
1. Joe Biden has been extremely unpopular and she did literally nothing to separate herself from him in any way.
2. She ran as far to the right as she could on essentially every issue except for abortion (celebrating an endorsement from Liz Cheny and basically ceding all ground to republicans on immigration reform being two particularly egregious examples).
3. She refused to change course at all with regards to our funding the genocide in Palestine.

In short, it was broadly because she moved too far to the right, not that the party moved too far to the left. For further evidence of this, Harris specifically underperformed compared to a lot of the senate/house races that were also happening.

(18th November 2024, 7:29 AM)Simon Wrote: Calling it a genocide is just regurgitating what you hear online and not actually putting any thought to it. It is a war.

Israel has had one of the best civilian to terrorist death ratios and if Hamas didn’t hide behind civilians there would be less civilian casualties.

Look at the ‘state of Palestine’ population growth trends, it’s only going up. This is not the population growth chart of a group of people going through a genocide.


Also, do the math, in the last year since October 7th. Israel reports that there has been 34k killed in Gaza (majority of which are terrorists), how long would it take at that pace to actually commit genocide? Especially since their population is growing….


Use your brain and think, don’t just say buzz words because other people say them….

(18th November 2024, 9:25 PM)1amayzingman Wrote: The median age of a Palestinian is 19.9 years old.

(19th November 2024, 10:09 AM)Minimania Wrote: No, Hamas is not innocent, but there are innocent people who have no choice but to live in Palestine for various reasons. Israel is not innocent either. There has been leaked footage of some Israeli drones targeting Palestinians without discrimination, and some of them look like non-combatants. This isn't some rag-tag militant force. Israel has the power of a great military and with it should come the responsibility for their actions. People have a right to draw ire with their indiscriminant targeting of Palestinians. Bombing civilians is something you do if you're committing a genocide.