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Those who voted for this: are you happy here?

eudamoniac 4mo ago
No, climate is perhaps my least aligned issue with this administration. I may end up voting Democrats next time, we'll have to see how bad their platform is again. I just wish I could vote to protect our climate and our borders at once.
- adampunk 4mo ago
  What's your second least aligned issue?
  - eudamoniac 4mo ago
    Tax cuts benefitting the wealthy, I suppose. It's not a close second though, I care a lot about the environment.
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        adampunk 4mo ago
        As opposed to a fine vintage of 6 months.
        mrguyorama 4mo ago
        Hi, I've been here forever. Trump's tax cuts and climate policy is identical to what he did last time. Why did you vote for him if you were going to be unhappy with those policies? If you didn't like him doing those things, which he clearly signaled he would do and nobody had any intention of stopping him, what did you vote for him for? How did those reasons outweigh the damage he does with his tax cuts and climate policy?
        eudamoniac 4mo ago
        > Why did you vote for him if you were going to be unhappy with those policies? I voted for him for his other signalled policies that I did agree with, obviously. I deemed those more important than the climate policy and tax policy. > what did you vote for him for? Primarily cultural issues, which he delivered on beyond what I expected. Examples include the EO to change university admission processes away from DEI, which will have a huge positive effect on my Asian children, and a reduction in immigration and H1Bs.
        adampunk 4mo ago
        Honey. Sugar. They’re not making this anti-DEI paradise for you or your kids. How do you not see that?
        eudamoniac 4mo ago
        What I've seen for the past several years is that Asian and White applicants to universities, medical schools, and various other high institutions and careers are admitted at disproportionately lower rates when adjusting for qualifications. This is racism. If the left wanted my vote, they should have stopped being constantly, concretely racist against Asian people. Not the kind of harmless racism on the right that says we're bad drivers, but the deep institutional racism that bars us from the life we've merited and gives it to someone else because their skin color matters more. I'm not going to respond to you anymore, because you insist on commenting in a supercilious manner unbecoming.
        latexr 4mo ago
        I’m not American, so forgive my confusion, but are you really saying that you think DEI policies are not only racist, but more harmful and racist than profiling people based on the colour of the their skin or country of origin, then beating them into vans and throwing them into prison camps, including children? And are you also saying you are Asian and yet somehow believe you and your children are going to be exempt from such profiling? You said you care about “protecting your borders”, but if you’re Asian that means you’re neither a native American nor an original colonist. Someone in your family, at some point, had to migrate to the US. Why was it OK then but not OK now? Why exactly are you deserving of calling those your borders but other immigrants are not? This is honestly confusing. You talked of “harmless racism” on the right, but refused to comment on ICE and seem to believe DEI is worse. Could you explain exactly which racism is harmful and which is harmless? Does it depend on the race? Why is DEI a bigger problem than ICE?
- lhopki01 4mo ago
  What makes you think the Republicans are trying to protect the borders? From what I can see they're not trying to do that. They're just trying to make a permanent underclass of scare workers who they can pay poverty wages to. I only really see raids in cities and not the farms or countryside abattoirs that hire lots of illegal immigrants. If they really cared about illegal immigration then just remove the pull factor. Go after the employers of illegal immigrants. Make it a requirement for them to confirm immigration status before hiring anyone. Actual consequences for hiring illegal immigrants would rapidly remove the pull factors.

No, climate is perhaps my least aligned issue with this administration. I may end up voting Democrats next time, we'll have to see how bad their platform is again. I just wish I could vote to protect our climate and our borders at once.

adampunk 4mo ago
What's your second least aligned issue?
- eudamoniac 4mo ago
  Tax cuts benefitting the wealthy, I suppose. It's not a close second though, I care a lot about the environment.
  - adampunk 4mo ago
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      - adampunk 4mo ago
        As opposed to a fine vintage of 6 months.
      - mrguyorama 4mo ago
        Hi, I've been here forever. Trump's tax cuts and climate policy is identical to what he did last time. Why did you vote for him if you were going to be unhappy with those policies? If you didn't like him doing those things, which he clearly signaled he would do and nobody had any intention of stopping him, what did you vote for him for? How did those reasons outweigh the damage he does with his tax cuts and climate policy?
        eudamoniac 4mo ago
        > Why did you vote for him if you were going to be unhappy with those policies? I voted for him for his other signalled policies that I did agree with, obviously. I deemed those more important than the climate policy and tax policy. > what did you vote for him for? Primarily cultural issues, which he delivered on beyond what I expected. Examples include the EO to change university admission processes away from DEI, which will have a huge positive effect on my Asian children, and a reduction in immigration and H1Bs.
        adampunk 4mo ago
        Honey. Sugar. They’re not making this anti-DEI paradise for you or your kids. How do you not see that?
        eudamoniac 4mo ago
        What I've seen for the past several years is that Asian and White applicants to universities, medical schools, and various other high institutions and careers are admitted at disproportionately lower rates when adjusting for qualifications. This is racism. If the left wanted my vote, they should have stopped being constantly, concretely racist against Asian people. Not the kind of harmless racism on the right that says we're bad drivers, but the deep institutional racism that bars us from the life we've merited and gives it to someone else because their skin color matters more. I'm not going to respond to you anymore, because you insist on commenting in a supercilious manner unbecoming.
        latexr 4mo ago
        I’m not American, so forgive my confusion, but are you really saying that you think DEI policies are not only racist, but more harmful and racist than profiling people based on the colour of the their skin or country of origin, then beating them into vans and throwing them into prison camps, including children? And are you also saying you are Asian and yet somehow believe you and your children are going to be exempt from such profiling? You said you care about “protecting your borders”, but if you’re Asian that means you’re neither a native American nor an original colonist. Someone in your family, at some point, had to migrate to the US. Why was it OK then but not OK now? Why exactly are you deserving of calling those your borders but other immigrants are not? This is honestly confusing. You talked of “harmless racism” on the right, but refused to comment on ICE and seem to believe DEI is worse. Could you explain exactly which racism is harmful and which is harmless? Does it depend on the race? Why is DEI a bigger problem than ICE?
lhopki01 4mo ago
What makes you think the Republicans are trying to protect the borders? From what I can see they're not trying to do that. They're just trying to make a permanent underclass of scare workers who they can pay poverty wages to. I only really see raids in cities and not the farms or countryside abattoirs that hire lots of illegal immigrants. If they really cared about illegal immigration then just remove the pull factor. Go after the employers of illegal immigrants. Make it a requirement for them to confirm immigration status before hiring anyone. Actual consequences for hiring illegal immigrants would rapidly remove the pull factors.