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skhuntedon Trump's Victory Is a Major Win for Elon Musk and Big-Money Politics

Since Citizen’s United and gutting the Voting Rights Act there has been a massive increase in money spent on U.S. political races and there have been thousands of closures of polling stations. We have a pretend democratic like system.

skhuntedon The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It

The voters in the U.S. who want government to leave them alone say they want this also want government to regulate aspects of healthcare they don’t like. They want government to regulate private businesses so that they can’t exclude their notion of what “free speech” means. They want government to crack down on all the people and things they disagree with.

skhuntedon The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It

They should be worried. Bad governance is bad. But people do want something to be done about ease with which children can access pornography online. A solution will eventually be imposed if the industry doesn't clean things up.

skhuntedon Trump wins presidency for second time

In 2008 these things could have been changed but Obama was too interested in bipartisanship.

skhuntedon The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It

Yes.

skhuntedon The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It

I don’t think this is a compelling argument for keeping things as they currently stand.

skhuntedon The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It

We don’t have to do it the same way the Chinese do. We can implement it in a bad way or in a good way.

skhuntedon The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It

But they have done that and so a government mandated solution is warranted.

skhuntedon The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It

Can you give some examples of this “leave me alone” that they want to see enacted?

skhuntedon The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It

By waste I meant the consuming of goods and accompanying trash that comes with it.

skhuntedon The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It

I’m very liberal and very much opposed to authoritarianism. I don’t see the problem with forcing online content to be different than offline content. You gotta show ID or otherwise prove age to buy alcohol and pornography offline. Why not for online as well?

skhuntedon The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It

From the perspective of wanting less waste and less pollution tariffs are a good thing.

skhuntedon The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It

Almost no one really wants government to leave them alone. Everyone looks to government after a disaster. People rely on government for policing and most people for providing their children education. People rely on government to ensure the food supply is safe. These things are largely forgotten about by the people saying they want less government. There are contradictory views held by the people who say they want government to leave them alone. They have bought into a fantasy narrative that they are under attack by government and liberalism.

skhuntedon Trump wins presidency for second time

You should the entirety of what I’ve written.

Russia has perfected the art of sowing division and faux outrage. We’ve done it to other countries so we deserve it in some sense.

It’s possible that Russia is better at some things than the U.S.

skhuntedon Trump wins presidency for second time

Changing number of representatives would require a constitutional amendment…

You are wrong on this. You should look up Reapportionment Acts. The number of Representatives does matter in an electoral system and for other reasons. A Representative from California represents far more people than one from North Dakota. This is a major power imbalance in both electoral matters and in matters of federal legislation.

The number of Representatives hasn’t been updated in a 100 years.

skhuntedon Trump wins presidency for second time

But I'm sure you'll say "oh, those were just trumped up charges by the Republicans". Ok, then don't blame Trump voters when they think "oh, those were just trumped up charges by the Democrats".

You’d be wrong. I don’t have your apparent level of inconsistency.

skhuntedon Trump wins presidency for second time

Russia and China have been waging a cyber war against the U.S. for a long time now. Russian accounts on social media have been effective at sowing dissent, chaos, conspiracy theories, and false information. Tim Pool and others on Russia’s payroll is clear evidence of this.

The lesson of the day is that the U.S. is far more conservative than I thought. Trump is the President we deserve and we deserve what comes next. White rural voters will not be helped by him and I will not shed any tears at their plight.

skhuntedon Trump wins presidency for second time

For the most part. But one can vote for the party that is more supportive of human rights, the environment, etc.

skhuntedon Trump wins presidency for second time

The Clintons earned $120 million in 10 years after he was President. Hilary gave 30 minute speeches at Goldman Sachs for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Clearly these were payouts for repeal of Glass-Steagal and other policies. He was a predator and not deserving of the adulation he got. She became senator for New York by having it basically handed to her.

It would benefit humanity if people were taught to be consistent in their views. If they understood that extremism is when the cause is more important than the truth.

skhuntedon Trump wins presidency for second time

It’s a white nationalist backlash. They cared not about the messenger; only the message. It’s also the product of Russian disinformation. Russia has perfected the art of sowing division and faux outrage. We’ve done it to other countries so we deserve it in some sense. We’ll see a rise of toxic masculinity. Women exercising sexual autonomy and gaining power is not something snowflake men can handle.

Such is my belief. I could be entirely wrong.

skhuntedon Trump wins presidency for second time

I don’t believe you are correct. People who vote for a man as debased, self centered, sexually depraved, and criminally inclined as Trump are “wrong”. White men latched onto a horrible person as their savior. If that’s what they want then they deserve what comes. But the people who don’t want that should stick to their principles.

What does it say about Trump that so many of his lawyers and advisors ended up in jail and that so few former cabinet members endorsed him? What does it say about his supporters who cared not that he raped children with his pal Epstein?

Remember when Cruz and Lindsey Graham spoke honestly about Trump just before November 2016? Recall what they said then to what they say now. It’s a cult.

skhuntedon Trump wins presidency for second time

I think they would have gone for updating the number of a Representatives. But they didn’t even try to do such things. Obama kept trying the make a deal with Republicans and acted like it was the 1970s. In the end he saw what his efforts were worth when Republicans refused to even vote for his Supreme Court nominee.

skhuntedon Trump wins presidency for second time

When Obama was President his first two years Democrats had clear majorities of both houses. But that fool was obsessed with “bipartisanship”. He acted as if the political norms of the 70s had not changed. Also, they haven’t even tried to fight for the things I mentioned.

skhuntedon Trump wins presidency for second time

Obama is the only 2 term President to have gotten a majority of the vote both times since Ronald Reagan. Our system had been broken in a sense (depending on your perspective). We’ve had candidates get a plurality and some a majority of the vote who did not get elected. I think the electoral system needs to be abandoned.

The U.S. is far more right wing than people thought. That Trump got a majority of the vote is a huge win for him. No one can claim his win is because of a backward electoral system and not because he is popular. This is huge. Democrats will be dead for 2 years minimum. Trump will be able to enact whatever legislation he wants to.

He is the President we deserve. The DNC needs to be abolished. Democrats had the opportunity to reform the system. It’s been over 100 years since the number of Representatives has been updated. They could have imposed election reform. They could have gotten rid of archaic Senate rules like filibuster.

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When Trump lost in 2020 his supporters accused Twitter, Facebook, etc. of censoring their voices. Laws were passed in Texas to combat this. Now the pendulum has swung the other way.

skhuntedon Couple plans to return to US after dream life in France became a 'nightmare'

I believe you are wrong. Particularly in Europe and the less metropolitan an area is the less likely a foreigner will fit in.

skhuntedon Couple plans to return to US after dream life in France became a 'nightmare'

Stories like this need to be understood. It’s tiring hearing people in the U.S. say things like, “If you don’t love America then move elsewhere.” Moving elsewhere is an option for only a few people. It’s also necessary for most people to find a community of fellow immigrants. Locals won’t accept you (depending on where you go).

skhuntedon More than 10k North Korean troops in Russia for Ukraine war, says South Korea

Yes, bots are doing at languages. In the U.S. it’s common for college level courses to have students use AI to generate papers. English is one of the most widely spoken languages. Your Instagram link doesn’t demonstrate anything. There is no reason to believe those are pictures of NATO troops.

skhuntedon More than 10k North Korean troops in Russia for Ukraine war, says South Korea

Russian bots? How do you know those are NATO troops?

skhuntedon More than 10k North Korean troops in Russia for Ukraine war, says South Korea

The United States stands to lose a lot more by formally entering this conflict.

I don’t believe this is correct. If Europe and the U.S. won’t defend Ukraine then what makes people think they’ll defend Taiwan? The U.S. is showing that it is not a reliable guarantor of security. Europe looks helpless and weak.

Suppose tomorrow it was announced that China has brokered a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia and that they will send peacekeepers to ensure compliance. Imagine the shitshow that would follow. As the war drags on and as Ukraine’s ability to fight wanes such a scenario becomes more likely.