PizzaMan

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PizzaMan,

I see that in Oregon as well, moving here because they destroyed California with their politics. My concern is they will move like locusts consuming all the resources and leaving a wasteland behind like they did in California. I can already see where they are starting to do that in Oregon.

This is emotionally loaded, misleading, and just silly.

And anybody could just as easily claim Texas has been destroyed by their politics. It’s just a meaningless statement.

PizzaMan,

they destroyed California

like locusts consuming all

leaving a wasteland California.

they are starting to do that in Oregon.

These are emotionally loaded terms.

People are moving to Texas, Florida and other red states. That’s a fact.

There are people moving to and from all states at all times. Water is wet. Demographics will change. The sky is blue.

PizzaMan,

How about you instead focus on something that actually matters:

thehill.com/…/4369951-young-voters-right-now-pref…

Young voters overwhelmingly say they would support President Biden over former President Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up if the 2024 presidential election were held today, according to a poll released Wednesday.

In the Economist/YouGov poll — conducted via web-based interviews Dec. 16-18 — more than half (53 percent) of registered voters under 30 said they would support Biden, and less than a quarter (24 percent) said they would support Trump.

Another 10 percent said they would support another candidate, 4 percent said they were not sure, and 9 percent said they wouldn’t vote.

The younger generations are voting more and more. And they are seeing through the bullshit.

PizzaMan,

At a minimum you guys could at least attempt to understand the argument.

alreporter.com/…/opinion-school-choice-is-a-scam-…

mediabiasfactcheck.com/alabama-political-reporter…

Tl;DR: “School choice” is as good for freedom as the Patriot Act was for privacy. It’s a bullshit label to cover for the fact that the actual policy ends up fucking over society by under funding already struggling schools and instead giving the money to corporations that already have too much power.

PizzaMan,

This is why liberals look confused to people. They scream we want to be more like Europe then scream when we want to be more like Europe.

This is a strawman. Quit trying to put words in my mouth.

If a community is under funded then it’s that community fault.

Not really. There are housing developers and real estate orgs that intentionally destroy neighborhood housing value for their own profit. The lower house prices mean that local schools go underfunded because of how property tax is tied to school funding.

americanprogress.org/…/systemic-inequality-displa…

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbusting

www.blackpast.org/…/blockbusting/

On top of that, marginalized demographics do not have the generational wealth required to get better jobs, meaning they can’t bear the burden.

Tax them more but don’t tax me to pay for other areas.

Fuck that. No school should be left behind because of some made up failure to pull up bootstraps that don’t exist.

Piss away your vote if you like, but I’m going to vote to keep society educated. I don’t want to live in a world of uneducated assholes, especially considering how big of a factor education is in crime rates.

PizzaMan,

The local communities can vote a tax in.

I already addressed that:

“On top of that, marginalized demographics do not have the generational wealth required to get better jobs, meaning they can’t bear the burden.”

It’s not my job to pay another schools upkeep. I

I can’t fathom why somebody would want higher crime rates. Failing to educate the public leads to higher crime rates.

Republicans truly are the party of crime.

PizzaMan,

we just keep them incarcerated.

How very freedom. We are number one in prisoners per capita. Land of the Free my ass.

Any system that intentionally increases crime, prisoners per capita, and cost is a bad system. There are alternatives that reduce all three. But it requires everyone investing in education.

PizzaMan,

Nobody is intentionally increasing crime

Republicans and people like you are trying to destroy education. And that leads to higher crime rates.

So ultimately you’re saying you want higher crime rates.

PizzaMan,

Republicans are trying to destroy education by siphoning money away from already underfunded schools. Y’all aren’t trying to fix it. You’re just focusing on culture war bullshit.

PizzaMan,

That’s not the claim though. Quit trying to move the goal posts.

PizzaMan,

Then why are talking about money?

Because a school needs money to operate. There is a minimum amount of money it takes to operate a school. Taking money away from an already struggling school will just make things worse.

You said the were siphoning off money which isn’t true

So then where is the money coming from? The government’s budget is a zero sum game.

PizzaMan,

So which is it. Goal post move or goal post move

PizzaMan,

Hamas forfeited their position to complain about differing combatants and civilians when they chose to engage as irregular combatants.

Hamas isn’t the only group complaining about civilian deaths though, so this is a weird point to bring up that doesn’t really add anything to the conversation.

To that end, everyone who stays in combat areas when told to evacuate should be considered a combatant

Children are not combatants. Women (generally) are not combatants. Refugees are not combatants.

This is also a double standard, because Israel has been told for decades to leave. Does that make Israeli civilians combatants? No, obviously not.

Civilians should not be killed. Organizations that intentionally kill civilians are terrorists organizations, which includes both Hamas and Israel.

PizzaMan, (edited )

Not a lawyer but the issue I see he hasn’t been convicted of anything close to rebellion.

The 14th specifies no requirement for conviction. And historical precedent* has been set such that it does not require conviction.

PizzaMan, (edited )

I do not accept your attempt to move the goal posts. Your claim was about whether conviction was necessary. It is not.

PizzaMan,
PizzaMan,

Enforcing the 14th amendment is not corruption.

Attempting to overthrow an election is an insurrection.

PizzaMan,

The reasonable response is to hold politicians accountable.

PizzaMan,

You have grossly misread the situation. We unfortunately have a two party system, meaning it is inherently an evil vs lesser evil system, it’s inherently an us vs them system.

None of the candidates are qualified or good. So at the bare minimum I’m going to vote for the one that isn’t parroting Hitler.

PizzaMan,

Because the options were evil vs lesser evil.

PizzaMan, (edited )

For comparison, here is Trump:

“[Migrants are] poisoning the blood of our country”

From Mein Kampf:

“All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning.”

Yet some think Biden is the worst of the two options we have.

PizzaMan, (edited )

you can bring the injustice to light if it exists.

It doesn’t exist though, which is why they’re defaulting to a counter accusation.

Requesting evidence for a claim is reasonable. Responding to that request with accusations is not.

PizzaMan,

Tolerance is a social contract. If you fail to be tolerant then the contract no longer protects you.

That’s not an injustice like you seem to be implying.

PizzaMan, (edited )

The social contract is about the government and the people

I’m aware, that is one of the applications of the concept. Which is why I said it was “a social contract”, as in it is a kind of unwritten rule of society, as in “an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits”.

Try to keep up. Stop trying to control the language of others.

The only people who are intolerant are the liberals

Funny, only my republican side of the family is homophobic/transphobic. The rest are accepting. You have it backwards.

PizzaMan,

Love to see laws that will boost racial profiling. Way to make us proud.

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