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  • I mean, I followed up with I dont know anything good she's done. She hasn't done anything good. Id definitely list good things she did if there were any. There just aren't any.

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  • Interesting. Who was Trump listening to when it came to COVID?

    Oh yes, that's right, Dr. Foucci. Interesting, that following the supposed "expert" led us to so many deaths. What would the Dems have done? Are you trying to claim they wouldn't have listened to Foucci? I find that pretty laughable.

    I will say though, Trump did an excellent job leaving how to handle it up to the states. We were able to see states like Florida flourish, which states like NY basically collapsed

    You can see my answer too RvW on another comment.

    Harris is evil in the fact that she's an empty vessel. I think she likes power, but she doesn't like to actually work to get it, and she's more than willing to do whatever she's told to do by the people who put her there.

    I can go on with how horrible she is, but you won't care, absolute obedience is the point.

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  • I didn't cherry pick, I came up with major good things trump did and major bad things Kamala did. I can't think of one good thing Kamala has done, her record is atrocious, and I responded to each claim the previous commenter made. Just took me a few days, since I have a life.

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  • Trump separated children from parents and locked them in cages. The majority of these children still haven't been returned to their parents.

    This was an Obama era policy that Trump ended in 2018. You know what Harris did? Completely got rid of DNA tests at the border, which had been giving us a solid idea of who was related and who might be being trafficked. Now we're missing 320,000 children, because we're not DNA testing and we're not tracking where they go once released.

    He elected judges to the supreme Court that over turned Roe v Wade, which is resulting in the death of pregnant women who can no longer receive life saving medical care.

    I'm fairly pro-abortion, and while I do think we need some basic pro-abortion laws in place, leaving it to the states to decide is the correct first step. I don't think Trump's appointees were placed here specifically to overturn Roe v Wade, but it definitely needed to be reexamined. I say it's good that people need to pay more attention to local elections. If abortion is the way to do it then so be it.

    He made Secret Service Agents rent rooms at hotels he owns, funneling money from the government into his own businesses.

    Lol. He didn't "make" the secret service rent his rooms, and when they did stay, he actually charged a discounted rate, lol. Dems also tried to claim that he made $$ through foreign officials staying there, but it was proven that any profit made from those stays were returned to the feds though voluntary payments to the Treasury dept.

    Trump refused the peaceful transfer of power

    That's not true at all. He used the constitutional pathways provided to oust suspected ballot harvesting/voting issues, both of which we're already seeing happen in real time during early voting this election. Power was peacefully handed over to Biden, and Biden has been president for 4 years now.

    Lied that the election was stolen (and has never presented any evidence and his lawyers admitted in court that they have no evidence)

    He didn't lie, he's very suspicious that the last election was stolen, as are a lot of people, which is why litigation is happening right now to battle ballot harvesting and voter fraud happening this election.

    Encouraged an attempted insurrection

    Absolutely not, this has been thoroughly debunked. He asked people to peacefully protest. There were agitators there that whipped up a crowd, but trump wasn't that.

    Idolizes dictators

    No he doesn't, this is an absurd lie. It's not idolization to read up on and understand powerful individuals, and it's not idolization to realize in which ways they were smart.

    Stated he wants to be a dictator Day 1

    Lol. A joke he made concerning the border. He'd be a dictator for one day and shut the border down, then he'd be a regular president again. If you watch the full clip it's very tongue in cheek and riffing with the interviewer.

    Wants people who oppose him to get shot...

    Are you talking about the recent Liz Chaney thing? This is another great example of the news purposefully being inaccurate. The full quote talks about how Liz Chaney always wants to go to war, always. He was saying that if she wants to send our people to war so badly, then we should give her a gun and put her on the front lines, see how she likes having 9 rifles pointed at her. Then we'll see how much she likes war, if she has to be the one fighting in it.

    Trump is anti-war through foreign diplomacy. He's the most anti-war, pro-gay, pro-black president we've ever had. In the time I've been alive.

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  • I did vote for him, and you can call me fascist all you want, that word no longer has power behind it. I'm not fascist, trump isn't fascist, most of his voters aren't fascist.

    Fascists exist, they're just not in any way the majority.

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  • Illegal immigrants aren't getting money and services through our usual welfare program, but nice try implying that's what we're claiming.

    And yes, kick out the ones here illegally. Not sure where you're getting camps from, just move them out. Then we need to redirect sources to Americans that need it and we need to make sure those are being spent properly and not disappearing into bureaucratic pockets.

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  • Harris is far worse than Trump. Her record includes extending peoples prison sentences for cheap labor to fight fires. Jailing parents of truant kids. Laughing about smoking weed herself after imprisoning people for it. Most of the people she kept behind bars are black.

    You know what trump did? He gave permanent funding to HBC colleges. His First Step act reversed Biden's Crime Bill that targeted black people. He also created a way for criminals to rejoin society after they finish their sentencing.

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  • Trying to combine immigrants in your first sentence is so disingenuous. Here's what makes it clear:

    Legal Immigrants are different than illegal immigrants. Of course your coworker is pissed off that he's come here legally and is not getting rewarded for it. Whether the ones who come illegally are lazy or not doesn't make a difference. They shouldn't be given anything we currently give them. We have veterans dying in the streets getting nothing. Everyone should be mad about it.

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  • Lol, the Atlantic.

    I said this to someone else but you have to Big Stretch trumps words to even make any sort of connection to the ideas listed in the article. If you're starting on a premise that's false, the connection is false too, sorry to say.

    Or, not sorry, actually. It's a really good thing that Trump is not like Hitler or Mussolini.

    Now, don't get me wrong, there's certainly a fraction of the right who is fascist, or at least, incredibly totalitarian, but they're swimming against the tide. I do think just like any political movement, we have to thread the needle, and the needle hole is small, so that we don't tip over into that side either

  • People in their 40s and 50s with no children, how does it feel?
  • Honestly? Kinda lonely. I'll be 40 in a few months. I'm a woman, if the perspective matters .

    I was engaged to the man I thought I'd marry and have kids with, but it didn't turn out to be the case, and although I learned how to choose better and what to look out for, I also wonder if I'm ever going to get to have a family of my own. It's been 6 years now since that fell apart, and I had to do a lot in that time to get back onto my feet, but the few relationships I've had since then are fleeting. Men seem afraid of commitment now, and it's hard not to completely fall to the idea that I'm just too old, which is what society is consistently screaming at me.

    I don't feel old.

    I am tired of searching though. At some point I will get to where I'm too old and that makes me sad to think about.

  • 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden
  • It wasn't. At all.

    He's not repeating Nazi slogans.

    And I just found out it's not even the same building. It's location has moved twice. It's such a lame stretch to try and link the two. It's sad

  • Lemmy, how do you deal with heartbreak?

    Finally found the man I thought I would marry, but the breakup came out of nowhere and I'm struggling to cope. What are the ways you've dealt with heartbreak in the past?

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    Mihon error, anyone else getting this?

    Mihon was working for the first few weeks, but now every time I try and open a manga in the app it says "no pages found" I've been dl-ing the updates and even uninstalled and reinstalled, but the error persists. Any ideas?

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    My car defeated me today.

    The alternator on my car went kaput. Nowhere in my area would do the job for less than $800-something, and most places were quoting $900-$1k.

    So I looked up how-tos on YouTube and it looked like something I, a woman with zero experience or knowledge of working on cars, could do.

    I got a remanufactured alternator for $180 and got to work following the tutorials I'd found.

    It certainly did not go smoothly, but I managed it. It took me 6 hours to get the alternator out, mainly because every goddamn bolt holding the parts in place were basically cemented in. I had to use my foot to stomp one loose because I didn't have the strength in my arms.

    Today I spent another 4 hours trying to put in the new one and all the parts back in place. And I did it!!

    Except for the power steering belt. That fucker would not go into place, and trying to force the belt tensioner back took every ounce of strength I could muster.

    All that work. All that time and effort and THE VERY LAST STEP to get my car up and running defeated me today. I had to get a task rabbit guy. He's coming tomorrow to get my belt back on.

    On one hand I feel proud that I made it this far. On the other I feel like a complete failure because it turns out I couldn't complete the task myself.

    Anyway, how was your weekend?

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    In the future, out willingness to surgically remove sexual organs, including breasts, from transgender youth under 18 will be looked at the same way we now look back on labotomies.

    It's just wild that we remove sexual organs -which is irreversible- from those who aren't sexually mature yet, rather than relying on therapeutics that are reversible until they're of age. Especially since so many trans youth also suffer from other mental heath issues. Those issues at least should be looked into and treated prior to moving forward with organ removal.

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    Should I (38/f) tell my best friend (37/f) that her decision hurt my feelings?

    One of the good things about lemmy is that I'm positive my friend won't find this post.

    Hey lemmy. My best friend and I have been close since we met back in high school, circa 2002. We lived a few blocks away from each other, kept in touch across the country during college, and even lived together for a few years after college. We've traveled overseas together, been through many break ups together. She was a solid rock for me when my fiance and I had a traumatic split 4 years ago.

    She got married legally two years ago, and their wedding is finally happening this upcoming spring. I've been so excited along with her. We've talked our whole friendship about being there for all the fun stuff for our weddings, and I've been doing all the maid-of-honor stuff since she asked me to be hers.

    She was initially depressed about dress shopping since she assumed no one would be able to go, including her mother, who has really bad travel/directional anxiety. We're all in different states.

    I asked her why she would even think that I wouldn't fly out to go dress shopping with her, since we've been talking about it for ages, and I love clothing shopping! She said she thought I'd be too strapped for cash, but I'd been saving up for her wedding stuff, so it's not an issue. We set the date for November and a she invited another long-distance friend from high school and I've been looking at tickets to get out there.

    Anyway, I was planning to reach out to her mom and fly in to her state to fly with her to my friends state so she wouldn't have to worry about making her way there with all her anxiety, but today I got a message from my friend. Her mom and stepdad are visiting her area this weekend for an extended family member's birthday, and she and her mom decided they would "pre-look" at wedding dresses today, "just to get an idea of whats out there" and wanted to know if I'd feel left out if they did that.

    My heart sunk when I got the text, because I knew that her mom probably was trying to combine dress shopping for this trip so she wouldn't have to take another trip out again so soon. I messaged back saying no I wouldn't feel left out, but did that mean dress shopping in November was canceled? She said no, that it was still on. I was a bit relieved, but still worried. I gave the okay, because of course I can't say no, that would be supper immature and inappropriate.

    Of course, she found a dress she wanted, and I was left out of the whole experience. She video called me at one point for a very short while, and sent me photos, and I tried my best to be happy and give good advice and opinions, but it's not the same, and I wasn't part of most of it. (She didn't go for any of my advice, but I'm not hurt about that - video and photo representation isn't the same, and my advice might have been totally off from what I would have said in person.)

    Anyway, here's the thing: this isn't my wedding. My feelings don't matter. I realize this in my rational mind, but I'm still incredibly hurt. I definitely wanted to be there for these types of moments for her wedding.

    I pretended not to be hurt though, because I really don't want to stress her out in any way when it comes to her wedding. I don't want in any way to be someone she looks back on and remembers as a source of stress or drama during this event. I realize that her mother brought up the idea and pressured her to do so because of her own travel anxiety, and I'm not mad at my friend for jumping at the chance to look at dresses with her mom when she could - just in case her mom pulls out of organized plans last-minute. I'm incredibly close to my mom, so I'd definitely want her there when it's my turn. I get it.

    Still, I'm hurt. I just don't know of I should tell her so, or if I should keep pretending I'm okay. What's done is done, she has her dress. Is there any point in bringing up my feelings at all? Or should I just swallow it all up and hope I work through the hurt privately somehow? I don't like hiding my feelings and lying to her, but I feel like telling her would do more harm than good.

    If you've gotten this far, I appreciate it.

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