I'm not sure what this post is for. It's an endorsement post, but every time someone asks for clarification you avoid the topic, and just say that you like Trump. You said in your post that the liberal left is a threat to free speech, and then defined a threat to free speech as arresting people for their words. As a food fair argument for why I should vote for Trump over Harris, what is your evidence that people will be arrested for their opinions?
Edited to add: you did exactly what I accused you of
But you did say the liberals are tightening the leash on free speech. Mixed with this thread, it feels like you are saying that people are being arrested for their opinions. What did you mean by that statement then?
How is that different from losing a job or being unwelcome in a space for speaking an opinion? By that definition, where has there been an attack of free speech? Legitimately asking.
To be clear, you are the mod banning people talking in your post about free speech, right? This isn't some nebulous random other mod
Well, I assumed you were old enough to vote for Goldwater... Not born 30 years after his election. That is my bad for assuming, usernames don't have to be factually accurate.
That said, I mean. Yeah. I had a friend joke that 30 is like your 20s, but that's when you figure out which knee is your bad knee. Sure enough, about 2 months after my 30th, my right knee started popping
Edit: removed an extra word
Finally, we can hear the voice of an aging white guy. What a relief
I'm surprised it got the first bullet point wrong, considering how spot in the second one is
Pit bulls are not considered a large breed
What amount of time on Lemmy does one need to pass the gate keeping threshold you're setting?
Or because they aren't inherently dangerous. Also, pit bulls are notoriously confused for other similarly shaped terriers, and laws that ban them are unusually over zealously enforced to ban dogs with flat faces, regardless of aggression.
My memory was that we knew this at the time?
I was just stirring the pot, and I love this response
Oop, and you need to have the last word too, checking that off the bingo card
Edited to add: they just couldn't help themselves
"Loser" still fits nicely in that caricature.
I am not a Nazi, but you are a caricature of an internet argument
Ah yes, calling a stranger a Nazi on the Internet. A compelling point
I don't want to sound like a contrarian, but I'm struggling to figure out how this relates to the previous comments.
I will say, as much as I am being argued with for saying that the history of Germany's history with Israel is complex, and the history of Zionism is complex, no one is really responding in a way that doesn't sound like the Charlie Day red string board meme.
When I look at the current state of Israel and Palestine, I see a lot of people backed into corners. Netanyahu knows that if he loses power, he'll be arrested for corruption, so will do anything to support his base, who are the worst of the Zionists this thread is about, so he only has an incentive to continue butchering Palestinians.
I see the US not wanting a nuclear armed Israel to feel that they are out of defensive options against their neighboring countries, and as such feels a need to keep supplying weapons and intelligence so that Israel is only, merely, butchering Palestinians, instead of something worse.
I see the Palestinians being sacrificed, which is causing some of them to need to fight back, so they're radicalized, and join Hezbollah.
And I see the rest of the region wanting to punish Israel for their heinous actions.
And looking at this as a US citizen, my experience is that the people who want to make it look like the solution to solving this is easy, are also usually trying to get you to vote for Jill Stein, and I'm not convinced that it isn't an astro-turfed movement to push for spoiler votes to get Trump in office.
I would like it if we could say the situation is nuanced, and then talk about the nuance, rather than scream that it's cut and dry