Do you believe people who are unresponsive and comatose for a long period should be kept alive despite the families wishes?

Is this a serious question?

Do you believe armed protesters are easier or more difficult to suppress?

unless you’ve worked in my field, which I can say with near certainty you haven’t, then you haven’t seen, witnessed, or experienced the things I have

I’ll bite, what field are you in?

Yep, the major difference between fireworks and an IED is how fast the charge burns.

There is, it’s called fireworks and not IEDs.

unless that person is explicitly getting paid to deal with scams

In this context it was their job to deal with the scammer.

That’s your takeaway? That we’re all be exploited so the person who has to deal with the scams should just be OK with it because we’re all on some hypothetical side?

If it’s anything like my brothers family they’ll be the first ones in line for food and the first ones to leave too.

I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety.

Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could happen here.

I didn’t say the kid suffered?

It’s a shitty spot for bio-dad to be in. Kid may see it for what it is and may not. If I were the dad I simply wouldn’t put myself in that sitatution. They can go enjoy their vacation and I’d spend the time with my son after.

Why did you assume I was talking about the dad?

You know a whole lot of parents don’t love their kids and don’t want to spend time with them, right?

I’d absolutely assume mom & new dad would have several romantic dinners and activites alone while bio-dad entertained his kid.

edit; oh I see someone grew up in a loving household and assumes they’re all like that

Feel free, leftwing flailing doesn’t help anyone (see the last 70 years as proof)

edit: Also funny you think I’m a centrist when I specifically called Harris a weak milquetoast pro-LE candidate.

beyond obvious that if people didn’t vote in this election, they’d literally never

Except for the 10m people that voted for Biden in 2020 but sat this round out.

You did say their apathy was justified, but it NEVER will be.

Where did I say that? There’s plenty of blame to go around and non-voters will receive their share but right now we’re talking about the rich ruling class who were unable to form any coherent argument or defense against an openly fascist, 34-time convicted, rapist. If that doesn’t show what they bring to the table then I don’t know what does.

You think it’s a sign that the politicians did something wrong that people literally can’t be bothered to stop obvious and imminent fascism.

You don’t? You think politicians did their jobs? I think they’ve been asleep at the wheel for the last 4-5 decades.

Funnier still, you claimed they cared but not voting wasn’t something they could blamed for.

I never said they cared, the opposite in fact.

bothering to vote

Ah yes the absolute lowest bar for civic participation and they still couldn’t reach it meanwhile Republicans are winning schoolboards across the country.

I’m actually coming around to your side though, both sides aren’t the same, one of them is good at politics.

“They saw how dangerous the people actively working against democracy were and were *still unable to form a coherent argument against it or court the millions of people who were afraid of it.”

I’m not sure evil through incompetence is any different than willful evil. One smiles while they patronize you, the other doesnt.

From where I sit the Democratic party was so afraid of an actual changecandidate that they neglected to have a primary and foisted a milquetoast pro-LE candidate that didn’t do anything to reach their base and instead tried to court it’s opponents supporters. So, maybe they’re actually worse than Republicans, at least an R will tell you they hate you and want to take your rights.

An openly fascist rapist beat them, if that isn’t an indictment of them I don’t know what is.

The Democratic party lost, it’s now OK to point at them and say “what a bunch of out of touch rich fucks” and throw them to the wolves, they do not represent us and in that way, are exactly the same as the other side.

So, do you think one of the parties isn’t owned by the 1%?

“No they wouldn’t, it would be bad for their investments in the economy, with more workers in the labour pool the cheaper labour becomes. So reducing that worker pool would mean companies would spend more on each worker reducing profits.”

You agree with that comment?