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its pretty scary everywhere seems to be one bad election away from fascist takeover.

well the right thinks anything that makes you not exactly like them is a crime. Including thinking and having different opinions and ideas. Therefore they do adhere?

I think you might be leaning towards the paradox of intolerance and the recent solution for it which has become very popular.

A tolerant society must be intolerant of intolerance.

This philosophical concept seems paradoxical but actually it's been solved via another philosophical concept. The social contract. Hate speech in almost every instance violates the social contract thus putting those who engage in it in violation of the social contract. It is not being intolerant at that juncture to remove that person from society. It is not intolerance but a violation of contractual obligation.

yes lets change the one thing twitter has left a recognizable brand

this is a bullshit article. poll suggest a lot of things and this poll is awful. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/

the admins are using their powers to remove things.

This guy gets it. Gun Control has only been passed in this country in response to minority gun ownership. They have been poorly conceived at make no sense from the get go. It is near impossible to control inexpensive technologies and banning those technologies is a waste of time. We talk about gun violence but that's the wrong conversation. We should be talking about violence and why that occurs. The gun is just a multiplier of violence not the actual problem.

Guns just as or much more dangerous were readily available by mail order in the 70's and back so why weren't these problems more profound then? For one at the end of the 70's we did away with our entire mental health system and never replaced it. People seeking mental healthcare have few options in this country even with insurance as insurers have figured out if the neglect there provider lists then they pay less overall with zero ramifications and little to no loss in sales from large employer plans (who don't prioritize the issue).

Mental Health education and health education overall is severely lacking in this country most people don't know the signs to identify a mental health problem or how to handle it even professionals did you know that males most commonly display signs of schizophrenia at 18 but women most often start to display signs at 27?

Poverty and Economic disparity though likely play the largest role. This country is quickly devolving due to rampant poverty and resources are flooding to the top with no stop in sight. I really tie both economic poverty and lack of access to reasonable education as both impact the country in relatively the same way. The major contributing factors are market monopolies, regulatory capture, over representation of corporations in our electoral system, and a broken electoral system. I won't go through all of these and there are absolutely more.

The good news is that the two things that would do the most to alleviate these things are possible. A move to ranked choice voting and a push for a single payer system for healthcare. The path may seem indirect but a ranked choice system would resolve the all or nothingness of our system and make it harder for corporations to fully corrupt our electoral process as they would need to do far more than simply push for a single side. a single payer system would eliminate insurers that have an incentive to avoid paying for mental healthcare and sever health and well-being as a reason to be a wage slave.

The worst atrocities in history have been conducted by those who were convinced it was for a righteous cause. The quote goes

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”

― Steven Weinberg

The green party has been for the last decade funded by the GOP run PACs as a means to siphon left leaning votes. Don't be a fool.

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It's has been truly bizarre watching that country commit to communal suicide even as an American. You out Murica'd America.

The scariest thing I hear time and time again from Christians is the following.

"I don't trust people who don't believe in god because they have no moral compass."

They say this in such a matter of fact way. Most people have a good understanding of right and wrong without a rule book. For many that "moral compass" is intrinsic, even instinctual. It is an evolved part of humanity that helps us operate within a society. The Christian's are saying it is a core piece of humanity that they lack and since they model their perception of others after themselves they cannot fathom that concept. They are broken humans who without a ruler/leader would be dangerously unpredictable and violent as they have no system to make good choices. This is why those same people prefer a king.

This book is an invitation for you the reader—Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith, and Ms. Smith—to come to Washington or support those who can. Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the Administrative State.

what the fuck.