Do you believe Biden should be judge, jury, and executioner?
Absolutely not!
Maybe I understand your perspective better now? Is it that your opposition is to a president directly ordering someone be arrested/killed (vs directing the department of justice to administer a speedy and comprehensive trial in order to prevent a miscarriage of justice)?
I’m arguing against Biden throwing Trump in jail
Presumably because Trump is a politician? Or is it that you believe he committed no crimes?
Just to understand your perspective: is there anything a politician, either sitting or running, can do that would cause you to support jailing or executing them, or is the complication of them being a politician such that, in your eye, no penalty can be met for any crime they commit?
I believe he is also on the record saying that being detained while having to prove your citizenship is a minor inconvenience. He definitely seems to be speaking from his own perspective rather than that of anyone likely to have to deal with the outcome of these rulings.
Sadly, this is consistent with my experience with hospitals. The schedules are constantly in flux and no one bothers to tell the patients/advocates. It really sucks and seems unnecessary. Sorry that happened to you.
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Thanks for your reply. I feel you mischaracterized my response, likely because you didn’t understand it, in which case, likely because I did not express it well.
I don’t care whether op leaves Reddit, it’s not an important issue to me, and it has absolutely nothing to do with purity. I was responding to the idea that it’s hard to leave reddit, which may feel true for op, but, just as you suggested, if everyone took that attitude with everything, positive change would be stymied, and your suggested resort to suicide would make a lot more sense. Making space (e.g., by leaving an abusive relationship of one kind or another) can seem hard or scary, but I stand by it as a means to enable better things to come. What op wants to do with that is up to them.
I hope that’s more clear.
Ah yes, like food, water, and air—impossible to live without!
Word to the wise: leaving makes space for alternatives that clinging to hinders.
“What is this, an arch for ants?”
Interesting. Genuine question: how do you propose to compel to work those who are wealthy enough to live without working?
Under this plan, would the farms be nationalized, or would people be forced to work for the profit of private farm owners?
I thought someone running for political office can’t be arrested or tried for a crime in case they eventually win election (at which point all possible charges are automatically dropped)?
Who will be ignored next?
I hate to say it, but there hasn’t been a time in modern history where there weren’t women and children starving while the rest of the world did nothing.
“We [the rich] are sick of financing you. You want health care? Befriend a doctor. You want entertainment? Go roll around the mud with your fellow pigs.”
This is apparently not a real quote from Musk: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-billionaires-tired/
Plenty to be concerned about, all the more reason it’s important to be factual.
I presume they’re too focused on their big win with how they saved Gaza to worry about anything else…
I’m curious if he would have felt the same way had he become aware of any Hispanic US citizen being detained by ICE, or if he only feels this way because it happened to him, specifically.
I was under the impression that JD Vance enjoys the financial support of Peter Thiel et al.?
How Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley funded the sudden rise of JD Vance
OP is asking an interesting and important question. While I don’t claim it as definitive, there was an insightful article written in 2016 that attempted to address the question head on: How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind
I searched the link you posted and did not find a single mention of Kamala?
As of March, substantially less than half (closer to 1/3). I’d imagine it’s even lower now: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2026/03/25/americans-broadly-disapprove-of-u-s-military-action-in-iran/