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“Where are you getting “roll over and give up” from?”

from the cowardly statement about how nobody should fight back because there’s nothing to be done.

that’s simply not true.

dozens of executive orders have been halted by lawyers, judges and civil rights activists.

all of your anxieties you are pretending are real are false echoes of the other person who doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

you being afraid of fighting back and recommending giving up doesn’t make you brave, it’s pathetic.

it’s even worse when you attack the people that are fighting for your civil rights every day, despite your selfishness and cowardly propaganda.

thank you, this is a very good point and I’m going to remember it.

“how they’re being ignored and nothing happens.”

this is flatly incorrect, although it is what rump wants you to believe.

he’s signing a lot of executive orders, asking his cronies to find loopholes to attack vulnerable groups, but lawyers and judges are managing to stop a lot of those orders and unconstitutional actions.

there’s no use rolling over while the fight has just begun.

a lot is legally happening and things would be a lot worse if we didn’t have a lot of brave lawyers and judges on the side of the sane.

Even if legal and judicial activism isn’t as exciting or getting as much attention as the 5 million strong protests, those legal consequences and judicial developments are saving people’s lives and should be respected.

you missed or ignored the explicit subjects and objects of their sentences, then.

“50501 and crew are baby stuff”

it’s not perspective.

“You think that wasn’t the case in Germany too?”

I see you don’t know what you’re talking about.

"50501 and crew are baby stuff "

nice try, Nazi lover.

but hundreds of legal actions actually stopping the administration and millions of people protesting is not baby stuff, even though it scares you.

“and they failed anyway”

roll over and give up like you want to. the heroes will fight while you hide under your bed.

the protesters, the lawyers and judges and politicians fighting against all of this stuff you’re willing to hide your eyes from are the heroes.

that’s why my comment lauded the activists and not cowards.

Luckily, this time there are judges, lawyers and civil rights activists as well as the millions of people showing up for protests.

all of them are doing what they can to hinder the embarrassing horrors of the rump administration.

my 2 cents:

none of what you’ve written here indicates you weren’t born gay.

“…wish i was in the woman’s shoes in porn (autogynephilia), that was my first homo sexual desire.”

that doesn’t sound like you were “simply born straight”

your post strongly suggests to me you have a lot to learn and accept about sexuality.

“always had a totally masculine identity, male engagements”

saying something like this indicates to me that you don’t understand the complexities of masculinity, femininity or sexuality.

did you read a lot of books as a child? is that masculine or feminine? did you climb trees?

assigning labels and expectations to your behaviors may be why you don’t view your own sexuality as “a case of normal, stable homosexuality”.

which is what it sounds like you are discovering: a case of innate normal, stable homosexuality.

he’s right.

China has invested a ton of money and diplomatic efforts in Southeast Asia for the past 5 years, and for the next four all Xi has to do is point at Rump to negotiate closer ties.

China is the safer economic and defense partner at least until rump is gone, and probably for much longer.

thank you I was wondering about the public reaction to the mines closing, since it does seem like a good thing on its face, no you’re absolutely right that a problem doesn’t need to be handled the hardest way.

interesting to hear about the cycle coming around again with steel workers now.

that was a great write up and an appreciated explanation, have a good one!

“To be clear, I’m not dunking on Bernie or AOC.”

Not for lack of trying. You failed in mischaracterizing and insulting Sanders because I proved how baseless each of your accusations and assumptions are here: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35914985/17933545

“Their intentions might be in the right place.”

There’s no “might” about it, as I pointed out in the same comment.

“I’m saying the system will only allow so much muckraking.”

And rivers are only so wide. Profound.

“The ruling class ultimately determines who is on your ballot in the first place.”

Realizing your earlier error(“…by design”), you are now just less accurately paraphrasing my prior comment:

"the design was for anyone to be able to enter politics in the US. At a local level, this is still largely possible.

Corporate backing determining higher-level political outcome is a recent consequence of Citizens United, the ruling by the US Supreme Court that allowed unlimited political funding by the wealthy. That ruling is a corruption of the US political process, not “by design”."

Thanks for backtracking, but pretending you were saying something different than you were before is disingenuous and irritating.

You were wrong about the US electoral process, or charitably, you misunderstood and mischaracterized it.

Your diagram is simplistic and fundamentally flawed.

You made up blatantly false and consistently vague accusations about Sanders and the US electoral system at large.

I corrected you on these points in earlier comments.

That’s that.

rump pissed off the factory of the world and now the country with the highest population in the world is also letting him know he’s in some shit.

heartwarming.

I was in the same boat and read a lot of different books and watched videos on how to draw, and the number one thing that helped me was the frequency with which I drew.

techniques made a difference certainly, but the amount that I drew was the primary factor in how satisfied I became with my art.

if I can share purely anecdotal evidence, something that seems to help me was not drawing the next line until I could see the next line in my head, and project that mental next line onto the paper that I was drawing.

I didn’t read that or watch that anywhere, I just thought that if I could picture what I wanted to draw in my head, I could probably draw it, and until that point I wasnt clearly picturing what I wanted to draw in my head.

wow, yes I appreciate you adding that context, that’s some important information to know

yup, I was speaking to the US context of the post.

aa for the “standard expectation”, maybe in a perfect world, but unfortunately not in this one.

universal healthcare, education, housing, and the protection and maintenance of fundamental civil rights must be “part of the debate” because they are not guaranteed in most, and arguably all, countries.

“Bernie is a centrist at best.”

Plainly incorrect:

Bernie fights for universal healthcare, universal education, strong unions, higher taxes for the wealthy.

These are radically progressive positions in the US and most other countries.

“I believe Bernie is more based than centrism in his real views”

Your belief has no basis in reality, while his political track record is filled with the introduction of legislation and his public advocacy for the causes above and many more.

“you need corporate backing to win an election in the US by design.”

this is also incorrect, the design was for anyone to be able to enter politics in the US. At a local level, this is still largely possible.

Corporate backing determining higher-level political outcome is a recent consequence of Citizens United, the ruling by the US Supreme Court that allowed unlimited political funding by the wealthy. That ruling is a corruption of the US political process, not “by design”.

Bernie has also proposed legislation repealing CU and regularly advocates for repealing CU so that the “design” of political entry in the US can be reestablished.

wow, that’s crazy. thanks for the video, i just watched it.

if thatchers goal was to close the mines, wouldn’t miners voluntarily not working play into that?

or does strike in this context mean general protest rather than specifically not working?

got it, thanks for the broad strokes and context