President Donald Trump
I assume it's still acceptable to have a Trump thread in a Politics forum?
So this is an obvious lie - basically aimed at
Man it is a political topic everywhere.I don't understand why you want to deny the fact that accepting a purely Marxist ideology isn't a political choice, inherently.Keep in mind here I refer to trans ness being EXCLUSIVELY linked to self identification. Accepting that someone word can change how he is treated by the law is simply exceptional, there are no precedents in history
I can't take any post that mentions marxism seriously anymore.
In this way, it’s similar to when a racial identity replaces the self.
Or when a sexual identity replaces the self.
Or when the brain replaces the self.
Until we collectively realize the self is the universal core identity, we will keep fighting.
Same basis that 10x was 100% not in villain's range, bro. If you know, you know.
In this way, it’s similar to when a racial identity replaces the self.
Or when a sexual identity replaces the self.
Or when the brain replaces the self.
Until we collectively realize the self is the universal core identity, we will keep fighting.
Has your cisgender identity replaced the self?
There are exactly zero of those in this forum, but I doubt that'll stop you from firing up some more of that self-victimization you love to engage in...
Everywhere in the world no one gave a **** about trans people politically, for all human history, until the worst people in society (radical leftists) everywhere politicized the topic.
Oh, totally dawg. "Leftists" were the ones freaking out about trans people in bathrooms and playing sports. Nailed it once more!
Speaking of "all of human history", that's approximately the same length of time that trans people have been using bathrooms that conform to their gender identity. You reactionary clowns either weren't aware of it, or too bitch-made to make your stand on it, before realizing there was a large group of cretins who feel similarly and you could do so safely.
A basic statement of historical fact is "bait". Good stuff. Tell us more about people identifying as cats and that stupid-ass non-sequitur **** y'all love.
You mean because he has absolutely zero idea what it is, right?
How America Can Avoid Becoming Russia
Political pressure must be brought to bear—through the courts, the press, and the states, but also applied to legislators while they still have any power left.
By Garry Kasparov
https://archive.is/5bFaW
Based on polls, election results, and the markets, Americans seem to be awakening, if only slowly, to the magnitude and nature of the threat they face. President Donald Trump and his allies in power are trying to erect an authoritarian Mafia state like the one Vladimir Putin and his cronies established in Russia. The American opposition talks of “undermining democracy” and “constitutional crisis”—but for the most part, its legislators, activists, and political strategists are pursuing politics as usual. They shouldn’t be.
If this sounds alarmist, forgive me for not caring. Exactly 20 years ago, I retired from professional chess to help Russia resist Putin’s budding dictatorship. People were slow to grasp what was happening there too: Putin’s bad, but surely he’ll stop short of—and you can fill in the blank with a dozen things he did to destroy Russia’s fragile democracy and civil society, many of which Trump is doing or attempting to do in America today.
Attacking the press as fake news and the enemy of the state? Check. Delegitimizing the judiciary, the last constitutional brake when the legislature is co-opted and feckless? Check. Expanding influence over the economy by threatening businesses and using tariffs to introduce a crisis and a spoils system? Check. Creating a culture of fear by persecuting unpopular individuals and groups? Been there, done all of that.
Putin is still in the Kremlin, and I’m writing this from New York City—my family has made its home there, as well as in Croatia, since we were forced to leave Russia in 2013. America’s institutions and democratic sentiment are far stronger than in the flawed, fragile state Putin took over from Boris Yeltsin 25 years ago. Russia was a mere eight years removed from Soviet totalitarianism when it elected a KGB lieutenant colonel who restored the Soviet anthem and called the fall of the U.S.S.R. the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the 20th century.
Americans, by contrast, have a well-stocked toolbox with which to defend their democratic institutions, if only they would use it. The press is still free; its only limitations are self-imposed. The economy is strong, even though Trump is working hard to put a stop to that. (People who feel economically insecure, or who depend on the government for their daily bread, don’t often rise up against it. Instilling a feeling of helplessness, a lack of control, is a key ingredient of authoritarianism. For example, the uncertainty created by Trump’s tariff flip-flops are anathema to consumer and business confidence, but uncertain citizens are more likely to follow a strongman.) American federalism and the separation of powers are not trivial for a would-be autocrat to overcome. Political pressure must be brought to bear—through the courts, the press, and the states, but also applied to legislators while they still have any power left.
The American opposition should spend less time criticizing the content of the administration’s executive actions—eliciting sympathy for a deported individual, say, or decrying the impact of Trump’s tariffs on 401(k) plans—than focusing on its suspect methods. The real crisis is the lack of due process in the deportations, to take the first example, and the president’s assumption of Congress’s power to levy taxes, to take the second. Sure, Trump loves tariffs, in other words—but he mostly loves exercising power, and his slate of arbitrary levies, unilaterally imposed by the executive, isa power grab.
Never lose sight of the fact that the Trump administration’s aim is to weaken and devalue the machinery of government, on one hand, and privatize the levers of power on the other. It is accomplishing all of this at a breakneck pace. Supporting a would-be autocrat because you like his policies (say, on DEI or transgender athletes) is a terrible trap, because soon enough, your opinions and support won’t matter at all. But making opposition to the policies the centerpiece of resistance also risks missing the point. America is hurtling toward the loss of its democratic institutions and the establishment of an authoritarian state where there will be no civil discussion of these issues at all: That’s what a principled opposition must fight with its full might.
also gotta call out the king (of naming himself after a lame, 25-year old meme?) rickroll for calling people "coward" while simultaneously having me blocked because I levy too many harsh criticisms at him
little pussy
How America Can Avoid Becoming RussiaPolitical pressure must be brought to bear—through the courts, the press, and the states, but also applied to legislators while they still have any power left.By Garry Kasparovhttps://archive.is/5bFaWBased on polls, election results, and the markets, Americans seem to be awakening, if only slowly, to the magnitude and nature of the threat th
Garry is a fantastic follow
Garry Kasparov literally believes in New Chronology, in addition to having any number of, um, spicy takes about culture, the West, etc.
It was cool when he beat Anand, with the Evans Gambit, at the top of the World Trade Center in the 1995 World Championship, but nobody should EVER take ANYTHING he says about politics seriously.
Any good chess player is stone nuts.
Edit: the 2 greatest chess players in US history both had SEVERE mental breakdowns, some 120 years apart
The thread was closed because this is an incredibly bad faith interpretation of what experts said and think on the subject and no amount of proof presented could get the weirdos like you to internalize the facts and stop saying ******ed **** like thisProposed theories1. Transgender is a mental illness2. Transgender is a fetish3. Transgender is a social contagion4. Transgender i
i honestly believe this is the truth to you, but i don't think it's a very honest accounting
for the most part it was more of what we see here, people discussing whether trans should be allowed to compete in women's sports and whether children should be allowed to transition
Genetics isn’t the source of conscious awareness and double mindedness.
Detransitioners actually exist. This means human beings, through our consciousness, have the ability to identify (or not) with the identities trying to impose themselves and replace the self.
What is the source of conscious awareness and double mindedness? The self (located in the mind).
If detransitioners didn’t exist, your position would be more viable.
As it is, promoting genes as the source of gender is simply another way of replacing the self.
i honestly believe this is the truth to you, but i don't think it's a very honest accounting
for the most part it was more of what we see here, people discussing whether trans should be allowed to compete in women's sports and whether children should be allowed to transition
edit: I might be misremembering (again?) so going to retract
Garry Kasparov literally believes in New Chronology, in addition to having any number of, um, spicy takes about culture, the West, etc. It was cool when he beat Anand, with the Evans Gambit, at the top of the World Trade Center in the 1995 World Championship, but nobody should EVER take ANYTHING he says about politics seriously.Any good chess player is stone nuts.Edit: the 2
Thanks for your opinion on Gary as a person.
Do you disagree w/ any of the contents of his article?
President Trump says the economy is great because "the USA is getting RICH ON TARIFFS."
So, Trump and his party say they want to shrink the government and let people keep more of their money, yet he somehow thinks that Americans paying tariff taxes to the government makes the US rich?
President Trump says the economy is great because "the USA is getting RICH ON TARIFFS."
So, Trump and his party say they want to shrink the government and let people keep more of their money, yet he somehow thinks that Americans paying tariff taxes to the government makes the US rich?
Yes he thinks tariffs are paid by foreign countries, a kind of patronage, and you can fund government with them removing taxes from Americans.
coordi,
If a child gets kidnapped and is raised by the kidnappers to believe the kidnappers are the child’s parents, is it wrong to return the child to the true parents?
The child believes the kidnappers are the true parents. A confused group of “experts” trust the child and believe the kidnappers are the true parents.
Should the child not be reconnected with the true parents?
I think you're extremely bad at answering very simple questions.
Do trans activists promote the self? Or do they say denying the trans identity erases their (trans) existence?
They want you (specifically) to leave them alone.
Thanks for your opinion on Gary as a person.
Do you disagree w/ any of the contents of his article?
Not too strongly, no. I didn't read it before, but I have now, and it strikes me like more of the basic "warnings of creeping authoritarianism" thing that has been covered extremely extensively by more incisive writers.
It's fine. No new ground, certainly.
Kasparov believes a lot of gross stuff, and as such, he should not be seen as a political thought-leader or highly regarded critic. With that said, I don't even dislike the guy, he's just a total crank; seems to be a relevant thing to point out.
Yes, but like I said, I think they could get prepared in ways that don't involve getting hit in the face.
Meanwhile......
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/eco...
An E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce ripped across 15 states in November, sickening dozens of people, including a 9-year-old boy in Indiana who nearly died of kidney failure and a 57-year-old Missouri woman who fell ill after attending a funeral lunch. One person died.
But chances are you haven’t heard about it.
The Food and Drug Administration indicated in February that it had closed the investigation without publicly detailing what had happened — or which companies were responsible for growing and processing the contaminated lettuce.
But much of the staff responsible for developing and distributing information to the public about foodborne illnesses was terminated this month as part of the Trump administration’s sweeping effort to shrink the federal government.
“We no longer have all the mechanisms in place to learn from those situations and prevent the next outbreak from happening,” said Taryn Webb, who led the FDA’s public engagement division for human foods until she was laid off during the mass firing this month.
And the administration has separately moved to delay a new federal rule requiring food companies and grocery stores to rapidly track down contaminated food and pull it off the shelves, though the FDA said the delay was meant to give time to ensure better compliance.
