That wasn’t so hard, was it? People tripping over themselves to find a gotcha and forgetting to use a little common sense.

Well it does pledge to the republic and to the values of the republic. Which is appropriate for a republic.

Lemmy and reddit are closets in one room of one floor of one building, where they kick out anyone who won’t scream “Fire!” along with them. Those are echo chambers. Anyone telling you that half of the country is fascist, is pushing an agenda and using fear to influence you. Or they have been influenced and are simply propagating the propaganda.

Lol are you serious? You gotta step outside the echo chamber every now and then.

It’s for their own party members, same reason Democrats call Republicans fascists.

Whoa, how did that happen?

We had a new Engineer start, fresh out of college, and he was terrified to call people at first. Now, only a few months later, he much prefers it as a more effective means of communicating.

Do you mean that housing should be provided by the government? By the tax payers? And what about maintenance? Is that also provided by the taxpayers? So they would pay people to come fix up the house you live in for free? I guess I’m just not quite sure how you think it all works.

I literally know hundreds of families with more kids than that and a spouse without any income, and I’m one of them. These are construction workers, small business owners (trades), union electricians and the like, engineers, accountants, etc. They live in modest homes in outer suburbs or rural areas. They/I live pretty frugally of course, but saying it’s impossible or “hilarious” is simply wrong. I don’t know what to tell you, except that its just not true.

They tried that with me once, but I showed them and got a different job.

Government can throw you in jail.

This is not what a matriarchy would look like at all, since men are physically stronger overall. A matriarchal society would have to be based on respect or some other acknowledgement by men that women should lead, since a domineering, physical, might-makes-right society would not end up this way. Not sure why or how (some) women feel the need to physically subjugate men and rule on men’s terms, to use the rules of patriarchy to form a matriarchal society. It simply can’t work.

I’ve been trying to make sense of the whole “weird” campaign, but concluded that it’s actually just confusing and I’m not really sure what they are trying for.

Yeah that’s an interesting development. I have more questions now than I did before.

You haven’t been watching very closely then. There has never been a moral high ground.

Dude, who are the ones actually shooting at people? You so worried about what might happen that you can’t see what’s going on right in front of you.

Someone hollered “shooter down”, then Trump got up from under the pile of secret service agents. Under those circumstances it doesn’t seem that strange for the crowd to be a little pumped up. But yes, these situations usually take a few days to settle and for the facts to come out. Rumor mills and conspiracy theory engines are going to be in overdrive meanwhile.

Fear seems like the go-to strategy when you have the weaker candidate. During the Obama elections, the only thing Republicans could do was try to scare people into voting for them, since they knew they couldn’t beat him. The strategy turns from focusing on the strength of your own candidate to focusing on the flaws of the opposing candidate. Democrats entire strategy at this point is maximizing fear of Trump. Not sure why it’s so hard for them to get rid of Biden and put up a real candidate, but it looks like a flaw in the nomination process.

You were awake when your elementary school teacher taught you about the American Civil War, and you didn’t side with the resistance.

It’s entirely possible that the question has never been considered, and that it is technically legal. In that case we should probably close that gap, and soonish.