(01-15-2022, 09:39 PM)MarleyJag Wrote:

(01-15-2022, 06:23 PM)Sneakers Wrote: Is defunding the police an extreme action?

Is attacking the police at the Capitol an extreme action? Extremists never see themselves as extreme, that's a given. But extremism has more to do with an inability to see a contrary point of view. Both conservative and liberal extremists have that in common.

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(01-15-2022, 05:26 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: You're convinced that Trump is an extremist.

True given his rhetoric but a bigger issue are his followers on the far right who see him as a savior. They're indistinguishable from the antifa movement.

We cannot reconcile without nuance. Saying Trump followers are the same as antifa is 100% rhetorical.

I find it so odd that there's this subpopulation of our society that ONLY relies on establishment media for their news. These people do not care about you. They do not have your best interests at heart. They are not giving you a clear picture of anything. January 6th was bad. Sure. People are starting to pick up on the fact that our government is acting almost exclusively in the interests of giant corporations and the ultra-rich. It has become corrupt, and you see people from both sides acting out. Yet, more and more leeway is given to one side. Why? The answer is simple: The radicals on the left are not a threat to what the elites are trying to accomplish, and the "radicals" on the right are. 

So, you have to ask yourself the question: Is the left creating something better than what we had? I mean, maybe if they were creating this utopia, opposition from the right would be disastrous, but they aren't. If you just actually look with your own eyes instead of taking the word of the people who constantly feed you [BLEEP] to process. I can't think of a facet of our society that is stronger than it was 20 years ago. You tell me. What's better? We are not as unified. Trust in almost all of our institutions has eroded to nothing. People are less educated. Racial tensions are higher. Our economy is being run into the dirt. Wealth inequality is higher. Jobs are down. Inflation is the highest it's been in forever. Our healthcare is falling apart. Crime is up and goes unprosecuted in the bluest areas. There is mass exodus from blue states. Almost all of this is a result of democratic policies that are "fixing" America. 

Literally the only thing I think is better is the news isn't as negative about the current President, and there is less rioting from the left, and both of those were problems created exclusively by the media. Stop listening to these self-aggrandizing morons. They are literally the embodiment of everything you hate about Trump. Narcissistic, arrogant, and Machiavellian.

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