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Check back several pages. The labels didn't start until you kept ignoring the input from other members. In other words, you started acting like the stereotypical crackpot and creationist so you got labeled. And still you want to put the blame everywhere except on the person who is criticizing something they haven't studied very well. And when it was explained to you that many of these aspects are either being currently explored or met with failure, you continue with your vague admonitions about how science isn't critically examined. Honestly, this is the most hypocritical part, where you criticize people who've studied this for being uncritical. It's rather anti-science to NOT study science.

You interpret it as derision. It's really just pointing out where your arguments fail. We disagree with you, explain why, but you think it's derision. Yeah. You interpret it as misconception. It's really just you claiming to be skeptical of the science. The problem with this is that skepticism shouldn't sit on a fence the way you do. A true skeptic questions, then finds out what the best explanation is, and goes with that. They get off the damn fence, but you seem to be sitting up there eternally, claiming since there are things we don't know that we should assume we're wrong about what we do know.

He can't change the Constitution with executive order. He lied about being able to. Please, PLEASE learn more or stop looking at the news. You'll find no hope there.

According to Project 2025, they'll be diluting the efficiency of those funds by bringing in "private sector input", which simply means middlemen looking to profit from your benefits. They don't need to "axe" them to make them less than they need to be.

Outside of TFG's energy policy, he plans on cutting Medicaid and disability programs. Project 2025 plans on putting the disabled into institutions, like they did in the 50s. I'm a step ahead of a wheelchair myself, and we'll get no love from this administration. OTOH, you won't be in the community anymore, so they'll take your car away since you won't need it. Energy problem solved! I do worry what these institutions will be like without the protections of the ACA, should he be able to strip that away from Americans. And of course, students with disabilities are going to suffer too. There are going to be massive cuts to all non-defense programs, really. I sure wish we could have gotten you some bus service in your area. Hopefully, the Biden Infrastructure funding did some good in your part of Iowa.

He is, you're right. Asked and answered.

So read and learn. Nobody here wants to discuss bullshit lies he can't pull off, it's counterproductive and just confuses people who don't read enough.

You CAN'T be that obtuse, I refuse to believe anyone can! "I love the poorly educated!" -- TFG

The GOP has worked hard to keep Americans ignorant and uneducated, especially about oil and gas production. Few average citizens understand it and I think the Republicans count on that. Did the price of gas come down when US companies were fracking shale at home? I didn't see it. Why doesn't it "strengthen the American economy" to refine oil from other countries? Our refineries still get paid, still make a profit. I think a lot of the GOP stance on renewable energy is because they never want to admit they did the wrong thing and now have to fix it. Climate change, racism, sexism, these are all things Republicans don't want to acknowledge as the fault of humanity.

I think you're in denial. This is a blatant "No True Scotsman" fallacy. Does it matter if white Christian Nationalists in the US understand the religion they pretend to follow? No. They just want all the people of color who don't believe in their white Jesus to go away. It's not the modern world who removed Christian values, it's the white Christian Nationalists.

A distinction without a difference. I'll say it a different way. Sexism and misogyny, in the context you're talking about, are the exact same thing.

! Moderator Note We don't discuss creationism here. It's been shown that it's a waste of time. All of these points have been refuted over and over again. Don't bring this up again, anywhere on this site. You've already wasted SO much time you could have spent studying science instead of criticizing from ignorance.

You're just the type of person TFG likes to rile up. He passes an executive order that's essentially meaningless to remove the 14th amendment. Why should we discuss that? That's not how it works. He's flooding the zone with shit like he always does. Ignore the drama.

Misogyny is just a more overt sexism. TFG fits all those definitions, including rapist, felon, traitor, and criminal.

An attempt to allow all people to be in on discussions to make a better world. Much of America thinks white Christians have more rights than anyone else.

The increasing need to make more profit comes at a cost to many so a few can benefit. In the US, we only have so much money to spend on healthcare, and too much of it goes to unnecessary companies like health insurers and medical device suppliers and pharmacy benefit managers. They get paid well to do absolutely nothing but leech off the system, and our health suffers for it. Is that pain and suffering enough for you?

We, as in humans?

It's not a sustainable system when what you have to do to maximize your revenue is in direct conflict with the basic practice of providing goods or services AS NEEDED. The current system in the US incentivises people to own every piece of merchandise they possibly can. Neighbors don't share lawnmowers or tools, everybody needs to buy their own. It's never been sustainable.

Notice that the new tariffs don't include China like he promised his base. Canada and Mexico are being targeted, and Canada has some of the harshest sanctions against Russia. If Canada loses the US as a trade partner, they may have to loosen some of those restrictions against Putin. I think we'll also see TFG continue to laud authoritarian dictators with lifelong positions, while vilifying traditional democratic partnerships.

Well, you aren't the first creationist to hide behind that piece of garbage argument. Before consideration?! Because you don't understand the science you're deriding, you don't recognize when others have carefully considered your waffle and found it lacking, even when they point out exactly what they mean. Crackpots often claim they're being dismissed out of hand, without consideration, just because they're challenging preconceived notions. But those preconceived notions are theories with mountains of evidence behind them. That's what's being taken into consideration when we read your posts. It's bizarre that you think your scratchings hurt the theories involved, when you have such a hurdle to overcome but don't bother to actually study the science. You prefer to pick what feels right to you, then quote mine anything that seems to support what you're saying. That's part of why you don't recognize that a LOT of consideration is being applied to your posts.

I think the only reason he'd lift the ban is because his own magats are flooding the app right now. If it's a great app for the left to use to mobilize their efforts against fascism, it's an even better tool for fascists. He's not going to lift the ban and leave it for the left to use. Yes, and learning it for the first time. I saw a clip of Tom Hanks from a few years back, who was a huge history buff in school, where he was absolutely flabbergasted to learn about the Tulsa Race Massacre. He heard about it through social media, and couldn't believe how many other people hadn't heard about it.

If we embrace the OP's suggestion, to create a movement to destroy the sad and regrettable bits of American culture, perhaps technology can be used to help organize it. I think this is partly why there was a surge of effort to ban TikTok, to keep Average Joe from realizing how many others are sick of the hate and division TFG has perpetrated on the US. Protest movements are going to increase. They take time, but they work. We finally got the right to vote for JohnDBarrow's mom, and by the mid-70s she could have her own bank account or a credit card in her name only. Protest drove those gains in equal rights, the ones JDB doesn't think his mom should have had. Progress (aka NOT stuck in the mud) requires that we destroy or ignore the old culture and traditions when they no longer serve us. If they only serve the hateful, greedy, or jealous, they probably deserve destruction. Thanks to the OP for suggesting this movement. What other elements of American culture and tradition need to be destroyed?

He forgot to run that past President Musk first. In an oligarchy, TFG is a very minor player, a tool really.

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Ah, so your god has a Plan, but it's not aligned with its Will? People die because of other people, your god didn't will it, but it's part of its plan?! You've got this figured out where you never have to give a straight answer and you can always claim you're right!