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That's a tough question. I'd say it depends.

I mean, aren't all racists, sexists, religious-extremists, and the like, brainwashed?

I don't typically feel it's right to "blame", for lack of a better term, poor or stupid people for their financial issues or their inability to acquire and apply new knowledge, so I'm inclined to answer yes to your question. However, I also don't support "brainwashed" people that hurt, harass, or injur others. I can, and do, have compassion for them to try and understand how they came to believe, speak, and behave the way they do, but they don't get a pass. They're still responsible for changing their beliefs, the way they speak, and they way they behave.

I don't really see the comparison you're trying to make. My point wasn't based solely on the support they receive. Feel free to ask any questions if you'd like to understand what I'm saying/trying to say.

That said, I think insurance makes a bit more sense, but as I responded to another comment, I don't think it makes sense for Americans to use taxpayer money to train a racist agency to brutalize black and brown (and increasingly poor white) people for profit and then wash its hands of all the blood that results and pretend it's just the cops that are the bad guys, like they weren't trained to act the exact way they behave

Bad bait

I get your point, I just disagree that taxpayers shouldn't be on the hook for all the black people we've killed and the families we've destroyed.

I'm not a fan of the continuous buck passing that seems foundational to American culture and I don't believe "making police unions pay for it" will solve a "problem" that most Americans support. If I had to guess, cops would likely just rob from more black and brown people to make up for the loss

Yeah, the taxpayers should be completely off the hook!

Now, how do we best ignore the overwhelming support taxpayers have for police, police brutality, and for supporting corrupt sheriffs that regularly get reelected?

You legit have no idea why rural Americans are so damn upset, do you?

Sure, fascism. But why fascism?

Breaks my heart to think of how Dems and Reps have completely abandoned so many of our fellow Americans, despite how deplorable and insufferable some/many may be

I'm mostly with you, but if I tried to exercise and my legs broke, it'd be kinda wild to say the exercising "worked" because it exposed my shitty, unhealthy knees

That said, I'm all for changing up the narrative and using practical propaganda to expand support for protesters!

Don't Americans pay way more compared to most other countries because there's little to no competition and/or price negotiation to reduce the cost of prescription drugs? I thought that was what people were saying, not that they don't want to pay for healthcare. lol. How intellectually dishonest of you 😂

Well that seems just

That seems a little extreme. You don't have to look up all slang, just looke things up as needed

Ah, the old "no u" argument! Such a classic

I'm with you like 80%.

I can't, with a straight face, say, it's okay if people stay out, but I can say I completely understand why they would.

I can't imagine hard it must be for uninformed people to figure out what's true at this point. I was able to do it, imo, during the early days of youtube when there wasn't nearly as much misinformation, or straight-up fascist propaganda like there is nowadays, flowing freely. Now, I legit don't think I could do it starting at 18 with the clear understanding that I was being lied to and misinformed by supposed experts - really just pundits on corporate media networks.

Are people really ignoring everything else the guy said just because he said he wouldn't vote for Biden? That's fuckin wild; I can't imagine being so closed-minded

Edit: just saw this badass clip on insta: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6r_dZvPUCX/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Did you reply just to feel better about yourself or for attention? I really don't understand your point. No one said anything to you and yet you seem so offended for something that never even applies to you. Don't take this personally, friend, but that behavior's kind of pathetic, imo

I think you're allowed to "not know everything" in most places. Usually, the issue comes when you make a factually-incorrect or demonstrably-false statement with no explanation to back it up. I typically only see downvotes when a comment is made with undeserved confidence and/or exudes a sense of arrogance.

Why is everyone speaking in hypotheticals/theory? Sanctions have been used in the past. Has it achieved the desired result? If we don't know, maybe start with that

Yea, it's unfortunate how ignorant, and intellectually dishonest this conversation is, so far.

When I think of sanctions today, I think of Trump putting sanctions on Venezuela, tons of leftists saying that will disproportionately hurt the people living there, the country's finances going belly up, then thousands of Venezuelan refugees looking for a new home, and then of course the US denying its involvement and refusing to help and acrually choosing to spend ridiculous amounts of money to make the situation worse for literally everyone.

Idk, I think it's fair to say where that shitty ideology/culture came from. It didn't start in England but it sure spread from there

If that's your level of understanding, I would say you don't really need to be paying more attention. You should just understand your specific level of ignorance and recognize that you'll need to defer to the opinions of experts on whatever topic you hear about in the future.

If you refuse to learn about current events, and more importantly the context of those events in history and so on, then you have no choice but to trust experts that know more than you. In this context, expert means people that study/work in a field their entire life and are backed by the larger community of experts - that is to say, they're not at risk of losing their license or being removed from their employer/academic institution.