Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Meanlucario
I mean both parties stink.

@Auroriia
Aaaah and so we come to the “uniparty” myth.

@Meanlucario
I mean Legal immigrants matter. They come here the hard way Like some of my family has, and you mean to tell me the people that do that Wrong Matters as well? People who Are immigrants are more mad at that then the Americans are and I’ve seen no one even bothering to bring that up.

@Auroriia
Both have flaws, but at least the left is trying to improve, where the right decided that The Handmaid’s Tale (a dystopian story where women are basically breeding cattle) was a vision of the future. I’ll take my chances voting for Harris and a chance for a better tomorrow than Trump and making it illegal to not be a straight white Christian male.

@Auroriia
You want to stop illegal inmigration? Put billionaires’ feet to the fire because they’re the ones using them for cheap labor.

And that certainly includes Trump.

@Auroriia
You have creditable sources for that claim?

The Ukrainian raid into Kurskaya oblast’ has its Wikipedia page already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2024_Kursk_Oblast_incursion

Wikipedians:

Ukraine supporters:

I wonder whether it’s just another small raid to distract Russians or something bigger? If they managed to capture and hold some territory, that would both force Russia to recapture that territory as a priority and serve as a bargaining chip during potential negotiations. “We’ll give you your territory back if you give us our territory back.”

Define “wrong”?

There is a far cry from a drug dealer cross the border to make a buck VS. A impoverished mother fleeing a dictatorship to save her family.

Both crossed the border in the “wrong” way, but for vastly different reasons.

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

@Meanlucario
“I’ll take my chances voting for Harris and a chance for a better tomorrow than Trump and making it illegal to not be a straight white Christian male.”

What even is this comment?

@Background Pony #1D40
I think it’s a horrid idea. Ukraine doesn’t have much manpower left and certainly shouldn’t be wasting it like this. Russia isn’t pulling reserves from anywhere to contain this so this isn’t even a strategic victory.

Muskrat is back at it again. He marked the “White Dudes for Harris” account as spam and falsely accused them of “manipulating the platform.”

@Auroriia
Project 2025 and the party’s past actions.

@Meanlucario
“I’ll take my chances voting for Harris and a chance for a better tomorrow than Trump and making it illegal to not be a straight white Christian male.”

Oh, I read that incorrectly. my fault. Also Trump’s not going to do that. Thats a horrid abuse of power, which would be taken up with the supreme court.

@Auroriia
For most of America’s history, immigration restrictions didn’t really exist

Immigration restrictions only came into existence once Asians started coming over and White America couldn’t have that

@Background Pony #10F6
With very limited info that we have, it does seem like a bad idea. The emphasis is on “very limited info” though. We’ll see in time. Possible reasons I can think of right now is to prevent Russia from relocating soldiers from this area elsewhere, or to preempt a planned Russian raid.

Every time this has happened it seemed pointless. This seems no different whatsoever.

@Auroriia
And the supreme court passed a ruling where any president can do what they want as long as it’s an “official act,” something Biden is using to destroy that notion and make the supreme court no longer able to use their power like that again. It happened just a few months ago.

@Background Pony #1D40
Trump literally mentioned he has no association with project 2025.

@Meanlucario
You need 60 votes and that alone is if even Republicans even get the majority in the house and senate.
Its too divided.

Even if you would get it through the supreme court, It should still go through appeals courts.

@Auroriia
Yet his agenda matches perfectly with many points and many people who wrote P2025 were members of his admin when in office AND he endorsed the Heritage foundation multiple times.

But I guess Trumps word is better than facts right? Like when he said he’d lock up Hillary.

Trump is also a habitual liar who, once caught in a lie, doubles down on it.

@Auroriia
Only after it was pointed out by the dems that’s what his party was planning. And didn’t he try [passing something that was the same thing, just a different name?

@Auroriia
Again, the supreme court gave the president the power to ignore their checks and balances. Legal Eagle explains it better than I ever could. It’s literally them trying to make Trump a tyrant if he gets back into the president chair. How hard is it for you to understand that Trump sees Putin and decide he wants to be just like him?

@Background Pony #10F6
RU forces are are pulling back from staging areas to deal with it, UA skirmishers have shot down several attack helicopters with cheap infantry AA, and there’s a whole lot of panic among RU military and civilians in the area.

Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. The same type of units that sit in a trench are not the same kind that take over land and not the same kind that can blitz through a weak position and get out fast.

@Auroriia
This may come as a surprise, but Trump lies a lot. A vast number of his close staff are directly involved with P2025, to the point that if he genuinely knew nothing about it it exposes him as a complete and utter moron.

His reasons for distancing himself from it are:

@The Smiling Pony
What differs compared to the previous cross-border raids?