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> I live in a rural working class region. I have beers with these guys all the time. They're my best friends and I'm the odd coder guy that works from home. Th
by physicles 2y ago
> I live in a rural working class region. I have beers with these guys all the time. They're my best friends and I'm the odd coder guy that works from home.
This is what America needs more of — people from different worlds just having beers together, and realizing that we’re all normal people trying to get by.
Do you know of anyone who can articulate a compelling case of why Trump would make a good president? I’m left-leaning but I want to understand where others are coming from.
- cynicalpeace 2y agoI tried to make one earlier. I also consider myself left-leaning. 1. Don't want war with Russia. Trump's presidency was relatively low-war. He's also expressed a great desire to end the Ukraine conflict. If the Donbas and Crimea is the price of avoiding Nuclear war, I'm on board. The moment that switched me to deciding on Trump was when Dick Cheney endorsed Kamala. 2. Protecting kids. I don't think kids can consent to medical gender transition. It amounts to state sanctioned child abuse. I have kids. Once you're 18 go ahead do what you want. 3. Illegal immigration. I lived in South America for 4 years. My wife is Colombian, we just moved back to the States. Legally. It was a long and arduous process to come in legally. That should be made easier (something Musk at least has espoused) and coming in illegally should be made harder. I know quite a few illegal immigrants and they are being abused by the urban elite to build their summer homes. They're not living a better life and they're stuck here. 4. Federal bureaucracy. The federal bureaucracy has become a parasite on our progress. Just look at what's happening with SpaceX. This ties in with the immigration thing. The problems we have with immigration are actually that the lazy and corrupt bureaucracy takes years to process something that should take 2 hours. (and does! even in "third world" countries like Colombia) 5. Trust. Everyone who hates Trump likes to talk about how much he makes stuff up. But he's authentic. Meaning he rarely reads from a script. He talks off the cuff. He's not controlled. I'm tired of having politicians that basically hate half the country and think we're dumb because we don't like to listen to their corpo-bureaucrat speeches
- nickpp 2y ago> Donbas and Crimea is the price of avoiding Nuclear war On the contrary, the risk of nuclear war increases when Putin gets Donbas and Crimea. Because what he wants next will be even more valuable to nations with nukes. Appeasing sounds great but at some point you run out of other people's countries.
- cynicalpeace 2y agoThe Neville Chamberlain comparison has been used to involve us in every major war since WWII and literally all of them turned out to be total disasters. It's like Charlie Brown and the football.
- geoka9 2y agoOne could argue there have been no major war since WWII and the belief in the futility of appeasement is exactly the reason.
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- nickpp 2y agoSo what's your message for the Ukrainians being bombed, their homes destroyed and families killed? What should they do? Pack up and leave, take refuge in other countries? Just give up and stay under the Russian boot, obey when taken to fight in meat waves against their neighbors? What would you do in their place?
- cynicalpeace 2y agoI would fight like hell and ask for help. I've watched a lot of their go pro videos those guys are savages. They have my utmost respect But I'm not Ukrainian. I'm American.
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- darkhorn 2y agoWe let it go with two land parts in Georgia. Then he attacked Ukraine. Now, if we let it go with land parts Putin will attack again.