Serious question for anyone who voted for Trump in 2024 and Dems in 2026, what specifically motivated your change? Or if you voted Trump in 2024 but stayed home or voted 3rd party, same question? What specifically did Trump do to make you turn against him? #2026Election
This is akin to saying the sun can't be 10,000 degrees because it would burn everything on earth. The only way for the car to fly is for it to exert more force on the ground than it weighs. If you're close enough to the thrusters that force will act on you not the ground
I think people are missing something very important in the Schmitt affair. Schmitt's line of questioning only makes sense if he expects Smith to deny being in Atlanta. But Smith visiting Atlanta proves nothing so if Smith had visited Atlanta before, he would've simply said yes.
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No one says everyone is “born exactly the same.” No one believes that. There are differences between individuals and even some groups as we choose to categorize them. We even have our petty bigotries and prejudice from time to time. So did the Founding Fathers.
But we also believe in the biblical Christianity of the founders: all men are made in God’s image and are born equal in dignity and claim to equal justice before God.
We believe that genetic characteristics are value neutral, and healthy, first-world societies define themselves by values, not DNA.
We believe nurture, culture, values, environment, religion, and individual choices do more to shape a man than his DNA. That’s because we believe man is more than just meat. We believe just judgement looks at the individual and evaluates him based on his choices and character rather than his race.
And we believe there is no scientific or biblical justification for a hierarchy of race, or a biblical or scientific mandate to keep races separate. God made them “male and female.” He ordained sex. He didn’t ordain certain genetic lineages. (No, not even the Jews are a pure genetic lineage. The Bible is clear about this. They were a people defined by covenant, not blood)
This is why the written revelation of God is so important. God tells us what we should care about and what matters. Obsession with genetic differences, disordered overemphasis is psychotic. And the disingenuous claim that those not obsessed with genetic differences are denying them altogether is even more so.
"The world makes no sense if you think everyone is born exactly the same."
@KonstantinKisin asks @nathancofnas what motivates him to tackle controversial topics despite pushback from all sides.
His answer: ignoring natural group differences forces society to blame "mystical injustice" for inequality, meaning there will be no peace until we accept biological reality.
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MAGA, Inc. needs to keep his followers angry about movies and lady athletes so they won't ask questions about why there's more taxes, spending, debt and socialism under Trump than under Biden.
"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law."
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This is fascinating to me, because beyond the surface level it illuminates why conservatives are often so full of shit.
The baseline here is that there's a heatwave, and Mamdani asked New Yorkers to adjust their thermostats to help the grid. This is regular practice in red and blue areas of the country. Daniel posts a defiant "I'm not gonna do what mommy tells me!" style post. He surely thinks he's a very clever boy here.
Now if the message is "This is a free country, and I love my AC, and by god it's my house and no government bureaucrat can force me to change", then fine. Sure. But there is no law being proposed here. No police are bursting down your door demanding to check your thermostat. It's a request from a community leader, a polite ask that you engage in a very small pro-social sacrifice.
You would think conservatives would understand the idea that local communities should pull together in times of need. For the 'common good', perhaps. You'd think. And that they'd be happy if no government force was involved, if they could act merely because they had strong moral character and believed in private charitable action.
"Nobody should ever ask anyone to sacrifice for the common good, even if it's just a polite request" is just dipshit nihilism.
But I suspect Daniel doesn't actually believe in those conservative ideas. Or if he does, they're a distant second to the true guiding star of conservative thought: owning the libs. Given the chance to help people or own the libs, conservatives will always own the libs. Given the chance to demonstrate strong principles or own the libs, they'll always abandon the principle to own the libs. The actual philosophy of the right is merely "We hate the left". And it's sad.
Is there an account on here more dishonest than this one? There were 4,461,972 votes cast for governor in 2022. There's around 8 million registered voters in Michigan.
A short recap of the pride cap controversy:
MLB has pride night with optional caps for players. Players wear optional caps and write on them. MLB reminds players it's against the rules to alter your uniform. Hawley tells MLB to be nice to the players.