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To the well-thinking Americans; I'm very sorry that Trump is screwing up your 250 years
of independence celebrations. It's hard to see.

If you prefer opinions over facts and logic, he's your guy.

"Facts" are an accurate description of reality. If everything only came down to belief, then medicine, engineering, and science wouldn't work consistently. A bridge doesn't stay up because people believe it will, it stays up because it follows the laws of physics. Beliefs are personal, facts are constrained by reality.

Yes, you are on a side, a side that denies reality.

"I am pretty sure someone here can call out a lie from your side"
Wow, I cannot remember the last time your side said anything truthful.

"common sense" is untrustworthy, it's based on intuition, not necessarily on reality. You can have a natural logic, but what you are most commonly referring to as "common sense" is just mostly "group think". It depends on culture and era.
What feels "obvious" is often wrong, especially in complex subjects. Knowledge provides accurate facts, and logical reasoning tests whether conclusions actually follow from those facts. Without both, common sense can confidently lead to mistakes.

So the one having to resort to fallacies is the one you need to unbrainwash people?
Why can't you find someone who uses verifiable facts and correct arguments to do that?

My side doesn't need to lie about facts and confuse people with fallacies.
That's a pretty good sign that the brainwashed people are on your side.

Good universities DON'T teach students WHAT to think, they teach them HOW to think. Rather than asking students to accept claims on authority, they teach them how to evaluate evidence, use logic, question assumptions, design experiments, solve problems, and revise their conclusions when better evidence emerges. Your idea shows me that you have no experience with higher education at all, which makes it easy for propagandists to make you believe the nonsense that you are parroting.

The Delft university isn't just repairing cars, they are designing and building cutting-edge solar-powered vehicles and winning prizes with them. And not just solar cars either.

- Brunel Solar Team – Designs and builds world-class solar-powered race cars for the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge.
- Forze Hydrogen Racing – Builds hydrogen fuel cell race cars. Their prototypes have achieved impressive acceleration while demonstrating that hydrogen can power high-performance vehicles.
- DUT Racing – Competes in Formula Student by designing and manufacturing electric formula-style race cars from the ground up. The team develops everything from suspension and aerodynamics to battery packs and software.
- Eco-Runner Team Delft – Develops ultra-efficient hydrogen-powered vehicles focused on maximizing distance per unit of energy. They regularly compete in efficiency competitions and have set performance benchmarks.
- Hydro Motion Team – Designs and builds hydrogen-powered boats, exploring zero-emission maritime transport.

I visited the famous Dutch Technical University several times, because a schoolmate went to do research there after our education, while I went into private sector jobs.
They do real science there and students are closely involved. Lots of advancements in science and technology come from universities and then get picked up by private companies making money from these publicly funded advancements.

That's because he fires off 5-10 fallacies per minute
and it is impossible to address all of them in limited time.



[A fallacy is a mistaken belief, misconception, or a flaw in reasoning that undermines the logical validity of an argument. It is an error in logic that makes an argument unsound, even if the conclusion happens to be true. People may use fallacies intentionally or unintentionally, but they can mislead others by making flawed arguments seem valid.]

In most clips he is debating students, not skilled debaters like himself.
And he was known for cutting up his debates in clips where he thought he was winning
and leaving out all the bits where he is losing. He gave himself a 3/0 advantage, and then you comment how difficult is was to debate with him. Sure, professional grifters are indeed hard to beat in a debate, but their ideas are not. That's why he needed all those tricks.

Sometimes Charlie got crushed by students, but he never showed those parts in the clips. The real problems with his argumentation only show up in a careful analysis. Because his pace was always so high, he never showed any weakness, and most people are not trained in recognizing fallacies, he can still look good firing off completely faulty and dishonest arguments. If you get the time to think about it, or an analyst takes you through all the fallacies, Charlie completely unravels.
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Always funny when Jordan Klepper talks with MAGA people.

Tim Minchin - Prejudice
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Great song, great message, great humor.

You grew up in a time when education was much cheaper.
You just admitted that it was affordable. It isn't anymore.
That hurts poor people to help their children grow out of poverty.
Since the income inequality is worse for black people, that affects black people more than white people. And then you will accuse them of not trying hard enough. Do you want them to make something of themselves or not? If so, why make it even harder?
Do you prefer spending money on prisons in stead of on schools?

Liberals and leftists aren't offended by someone talking about racism.
They might be offended by someone expressing racist views though.
You try to pretend that racism isn't true, while your Supreme court just allowed Republicans to gerrymander the shit out of elections, to make the votes of black people completely irrelevant. That's racism, systemic racism.

ChatGPT agrees with you. It says that gas BBQs can produce a lot of CO.
It wouldn't have killed me though, because I have CO detectors in my house.

I think that it's a result of your country only having 2 parties.
It's the politicians in your party that you like most telling you by endorsing a politician that they have similar politics like them, saving you the trouble of investigating everything they said and did. That's not needed in a country with 20+ parties.
You know what your party is all about, so you can safely assume that another politician from your party basically supports the same principles.

In my party, the politicians are interchangeable and expendable. If you want to be a representative, that's what you accept. You can have your own style and you can promote and defend certain strategies, but the ideology and party line are put before you by your constituents, in high detail. You still have a choice in how to represent them best, when you vote in the representative bodies, but vote against the Statement of Principles, the Statutes and the Program, and you get into problems pretty quickly. That's why we don't need endorsements in the party.

Some people of color still achieving success is not disproving the existence of systemic racism. We are talking about it, that's evidence of systemic racism already.

If you are born white and wealthy, the doors will open further, no matter how stupid
you are.

Sure, country folk are probably more prepared then us city folk.
Besides our central heating, we don't have any electric heaters or something. However, in a pinch, we could put the gas BBQ inside.

The El Niсo strength in 1876–1878 is among the strongest known, but it has likely been similar or even worse in 1982–1983, 1997–1998 and 2015–2016. How many people die is not just dependent on the temperatures and drought, but also on how flexible humans are at the time. People who can import food and water have a better chance of survival.

Many historians argue that the 1876–1878 death toll was as much a political and economic disaster as it was a climate disaster. The El Niсo created the droughts, but the scale of the famine depended heavily on how societies were organized and how governments responded. For example, in places such as India, which was under British Raj, grain continued to be exported even as local populations faced famine. The prevailing economic philosophy favored free markets, so governments were often reluctant to interfere with food prices or halt exports. In some regions, people could not afford food that was still being bought and sold.

One of the biggest differences from today is that people had no concept of El Niсo
as a global climate pattern. Today:
- satellites continuously monitor the Pacific,
- thousands of ocean buoys measure temperatures,
- climate models can often forecast El Niсo months ahead.
That allows governments to prepare food supplies, water resources, and disaster responses before the worst impacts arrive.

I've heard of it. Isn't it crazy how much distance that can travel.
We get some of that too sometimes, but mostly it means that your car looks very dusty, after it has rained down.

A window unit is not going to cool my whole house.
Aren't window units designed for sliding windows?
No one has those in my country, or at least not in the last 60 years.

Forty years ago, a normal average summer temperature in the Netherlands (measured over June, July, and August in De Bilt) was around 16.2°C. A normal afternoon temperature during the summer months at that time fluctuated between 20°C and 22°C. Sometimes, people had to turn on the central heating, on cold days in the middle of summer.

We never needed air conditioning in my country. Just like people in Hawaii or Aruba don't have a central heating system or underfloor heating, which is almost standard in my country, we never had a need for air conditioning. Even when my house was built, 17 years ago, the climate was still not changing as much as it doing now.

You don't spend thousands of dollars/euros on a system that you use a few days per year. We do still have some high temperature records from decades ago, but those are from extremely fluke weather, that only lasted one or two days back then. And when that happened, people were completely ill prepared and many people died, just like that one freezing weather period in Texas, in Februari 2021. No one in my country would die in their own home in cold weather like that, because our houses are built to withstand cold, not heat.

Why would I then spend thousands of dollars/euros on a complete system? Because they are also useful for heating a home on electricity. For several months in the spring and fall, it's still cold enough to need heating, while there is enough sun coming from my solar panels.

Does that mean you are used to it, or does it still suck a lot?

And you probably all have air-conditioning, right?
Most Dutch people can only open the windows at night.

The summer before last, we invested in electric roller shutters for the remaining 2 windows upstairs. We are now waiting for the electric awning to be installed downstairs on the back garden side. We ordered them on May 27th.
I'm thinking of ordering air-conditioning for the whole house, but it's probably not smart to ask around for quotations in record heat. They will probably not be installed this year, so I can also start this process when we have normal temperatures again.

One key difference is that Trump's endorsements have become increasingly risk-averse. Rather than boosting struggling candidates, he often endorses candidates who are already likely to win, allowing him to claim credit afterward.

By contrast, Mamdani's endorsements are increasingly being treated as a genuine test of political influence: he backs candidates who actually need the support, and if they outperform expectations, it's reasonable to attribute at least part of that success to his endorsement.

I know, I know, so I will add some extra lies on top of that, for your entertainment.

Several heat records were broken in my country today:

1) The high record for 26th of June, in De Bilt (our central measuring location that has been measuring by an exact standard method since 1901), 32.9 °C from 1976, was broken early in the day. The new record could still go up, but it was 36.5 °C at 16:00.

2) Night record: The very first official tropical night ever recorded in June was measured in De Bilt (the temperature did not drop below 20 °C).

3) June record: The all-time monthly record for June in De Bilt had stood at 36.1 °C since June 27, 1947, but that historic record has also been erased from the books today.

Today is the first time that the Dutch meteorological service has issued a 'Code Red' specifically for extreme heat. The warning applies to much of the country, while some northern provinces remain under Orange or Yellow depending on the expected severity. This resulted in several actions:
- The parade on Veterans Day will not take place on Saturday.
- Several festivals, including Defqon.1, the major dance festival in Biddinghuizen,
have been completely cancelled.
- Only travel if absolutely necessary.
- Trains are running less frequently.
- Schools remain closed in multiple locations.
- Other events are taking measures.

You might ask: "Is a 'Code Red' not ridiculous for temperatures that are normal in the summer, in many areas in the world?"

The reason is that heat warnings are not based on temperature alone. They are based on how dangerous the heat is for the local population and infrastructure.

In the Netherlands, a "Code Red" heat warning may be issued at temperatures that people in countries like Spain, Greece, or parts of the Middle East would consider fairly ordinary. That is because several factors are taken into account:
• People are less acclimatized to extreme heat. The Dutch climate is usually mild, so prolonged temperatures above 30°C (86°F) place greater stress on people's bodies than they would in regions where such temperatures are common.
• Buildings are designed to retain heat. Dutch homes are generally built to stay warm during long, cool winters. Many lack air conditioning, making indoor temperatures dangerously high during heatwaves.
• Humidity can make moderate temperatures more stressful. The Netherlands often experiences relatively high humidity, which reduces the body's ability to cool itself through sweating.
• The warning system is impact-based, not temperature-based. Authorities assess the expected effects on public health, vulnerable groups, healthcare services, transportation, infrastructure, and the risk of wildfires or water shortages. The same temperature can have very different consequences in different countries.
• Nighttime temperatures matter. If nights remain warm (so-called "tropical nights"), people cannot recover from the daytime heat, increasing the risk of heat-related illness.

For comparison:
• In southern Spain, 35°C (95°F) may be a normal summer day because buildings, work schedules, and daily life are adapted to it.
• In the Netherlands, several consecutive days of 32–35°C can lead to significantly higher excess mortality, particularly among elderly people and those with underlying health conditions.

So the apparent discrepancy is not because the Dutch authorities think 30–35°C is objectively more extreme than elsewhere. Rather, they assess how dangerous those conditions are in the Dutch context. A heat warning is therefore a warning about expected impacts, not simply about the thermometer reading.

Of course, corporations try to play states against each other, and that has led to a race to the bottom, where corporations and the wealthy pay less and less, while ordinary Americans are forced to make up the shortfall. States could easily cooperate to prevent this, but red states would rather remain subservient to big money.

As a result, average Americans keep getting poorer, which is also bad for the economy. In New York, the mayor is helping small businesses, which is much better for the incomes of ordinary Americans. Jobs in that sector are also far less vulnerable to the AI transition, than the jobs at Goldman Sachs.

By the way, ChatGPT says it's not true:

The short answer is: no, there is not strong evidence that businesses are leaving New York by the thousands because of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and Goldman Sachs has not announced that it is leaving New York because of him.

A few important distinctions:

1) Warnings are not the same as departures.
Many business leaders, investors, and CEOs have warned that higher taxes or more regulation could encourage companies or wealthy residents to leave New York. For example, executives such as Jamie Dimon and Ken Griffin have expressed concerns about New York's competitiveness.

2) Goldman Sachs is not leaving New York.
I could not find any credible report that Goldman Sachs has decided to relocate its headquarters or exit New York because of Mamdani. In fact, reports indicate that Goldman CEO David Solomon met with Mamdani as part of an engagement effort rather than announcing a departure.

3) Some finance jobs have been moving to Texas for years.
Banks and financial firms—including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and others—have expanded in places like Dallas and Miami. But that trend began well before Mamdani became mayor and is driven by multiple factors: lower taxes, cheaper real estate, remote work, and business incentives. It would be misleading to attribute all of it to Mamdani.

4) The evidence for a mass exodus is mixed.
Some commentators and business groups claim an exodus is brewing, while others note that predictions of a Wall Street flight have repeatedly failed to materialize and that New York remains the dominant U.S. financial center. Several analyses argue that fears of an immediate business collapse are exaggerated.

Being unbiased doesn't mean treating bullshit and lies as seriously
as the objective truth. Being unbiased doesn't mean being neutral,
it means being OBJECTIVE.

There is only one truth, and you recognize it by using rationality;
recognizing facts, based on evidence, then using logical reasoning
to come to correct conclusions.

Your media doesn't do any of it. They just train you to trust them
and then fill your head with ideas that they want you to believe.

Your 'liberal' media is already worse than anything we have,
but your right-wing media is at the level of Russian propaganda.

They are not talking shit about Jews, they are done with ISRAEL.
Wanting to stop a genocide and land grabbing is not antisemitic.
(Most) People are not (completely) stupid, people recognize evil when they see it.
They didn't forget 9/11, they just see it done by your side 100x over.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir just said: "For every tear shed by an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep".
Not even the Nazis had a 1000:1 Retaliation ratio. They had a collective punishment ratio of 100 civilian executions for every German soldier killed by resistance fighters. That means that the Israeli government is TEN TIMES WORSE!!!

If your side didn't want 'that Muslim' coming in, your side could have given citizens
what they are asking for, which is to stop people going desperately poor.
It was Trump's choice to do that. People liked the slogan MAGA, but everyone but you understands now that it was just a stupid fucking lie.

These are Trump's most recent poll ratings:
30% approves
67% disapproves

Trump is stealing from the people and taking it for himself and his wealthy buddies.
He wants to increase the war budget to $ 1.5 TRILLION, after he promised "no more stupid wars!", and then cut their healthcare, education and everything else they need
to survive the modern world. What do you expect? There is a limit to even the stupidity of Americans. Your side has failed them just too fucking much, or they would not be happy to vote for a MUSLIM SOCIALIST!!!
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No answer? Remember how your side was complaining about the price of eggs?
Can people afford them easier now? It's not just the price of eggs that makes that people can afford them. It's also what's left of their income, after they paid for rent or the mortgage, their power and water bill, sewer, trash collection, internet, mobile phone, their insurances including health insurance, childcare and education expenses if they have kids, the gas for their car and all other food.
Trump called their struggles to pay the bill A DEMOCRAT HOAX.
How many people agree with that?

The truth is leaning left.
The right is completely preoccupied with nonsense and lies.
AI is logical, that is why Elon is struggling so much to turn it right-wing.

In New York, progressives/leftists/socialists basically won everything that they could win. They have seen Zohran Mamdani and now they want more of it.

New York's 7th Congressional District (Parts of Brooklyn and Queens):
Progressive Winner: Claire Valdez
Endorsed by Zohran Mamdani.
Valdez is a democratic socialist and former United Auto Workers (UAW) labor organizer who campaigned closely alongside Mayor Mamdani.
Defeated Establishment-backed Candidate Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso. Reynoso was the institutional favorite.

New York's 10th Congressional District (Manhattan and Brooklyn):
Progressive Winner: Brad Lander
Endorsed by Zohran Mamdani.
Defeated Establishment-backed two-term incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman. Goldman had strong backing from the Washington establishment, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who actively campaigned against Mamdani’s slate.

New York's 13th Congressional District (Upper Manhattan and the Bronx):
Progressive Winner: Darializa Avila Chevalier
Endorsed by Zohran Mamdani. Chevalier, a democratic socialist community organizer, was Mamdani's most fiercely defended and polarizing pick on the slate.
Defeated AIPAC-backed incumbent, Rep. Adriano Espaillat.

New York's 17th Congressional District:
Combat veteran Cait Conley won the primary to challenge GOP incumbent Mike Lawler. She ran a campaign centered on working-class affordability.

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) ran their largest-ever coordinated slate on the exact same night for the New York State Legislature. Despite center-left Super PACs spending nearly $10 million to stop them, a wave of progressive challengers won their primaries, including:
- Aber Kawas (State Senate)
- Samantha Kattan (State Assembly)
- David Orkin (State Assembly)
- Eon Huntley (State Assembly)
- Christian Celeste Tate (State Assembly)
- Illapa Sairitupac (State Assembly)

That is not unbiased media, that is pure Trump propaganda.

I'm not saying that, you can listen to whatever media you want.
You're making yourself stupid by doing it, but that's your right.

I don't like either liberal media or right-wing media, I want OBJECTIVE media. There is less of it every day, because you let corporations and wealthy people buy up all the media, which means that they turn into propaganda for the wealthy.

If you are referring to media which has been shut down by algorithms like google, you're talking about the worst misinformation that ever existed. Regular right-wing nonsense gets incredible preferential treatment by Google, YouTube and Facebook. The algorithms actively suppress left-wing ideas, no matter how factual they are.
Anyway, that's not Government censorship, that's corporations deciding what they like to prop up and cut off.

Funny how you say that, while you once defended Christian morality.
How do I define Christian morality? Following the teachings of Jesus himself.

Let's score Jesus, Trump and Mamdani on the virtues that Jesus professed:

Humility
Jesus: 95%
Trump: 15%
Zohran Mamdani: 65%

Care for the poor
Jesus: 98%
Trump: 35%
Zohran Mamdani: 90%

Compassion
Jesus: 95%
Trump: 30%
Zohran Mamdani: 85%

Mercy and forgiveness
Jesus: 98%
Trump: 20%
Zohran Mamdani: 75%

Service to others
Jesus: 97%
Trump: 35%
Zohran Mamdani: 85%

Inclusion of outsiders
Jesus: 95%
Trump: 25%
Zohran Mamdani: 90%

Skepticism toward wealth and status
Jesus: 99%
Trump: 5%
Zohran Mamdani: 85%

Avoidance of self-glorification
Jesus: 90%
Trump: 10%
Zohran Mamdani: 70%

Peacemaking
Jesus: 90%
Trump: 45%
Zohran Mamdani: 75%

Love of enemies
Jesus: 99%
Trump: 10%
Zohran Mamdani: 65%

Self-sacrifice
Jesus: 99%
Trump: 20%
Zohran Mamdani: 70%

Strict sexual morality
Jesus: 95%
Trump: 20%
Zohran Mamdani: 40%

Religious devotion
Jesus: 99%
Trump: 35%
Zohran Mamdani: 70%

Obedience to God
Jesus: 99%
Trump: 25%
Zohran Mamdani: 65%

Evangelism / spreading a religious message
Jesus: 98%
Trump: 20%
Zohran Mamdani: 30%

Traditional family and marital commitment
Jesus: 60%
Trump: 35%
Zohran Mamdani: 80%


Raw average score:
Jesus: ~90%
Trump: ~25%
Zohran Mamdani: ~73%

Similarity to Jesus:
Jesus → Jesus: 100%
Zohran Mamdani → Jesus: ~80%
Trump → Jesus: ~27%

And of course that inflation spike was global and resulted from the pandemic.

Biden can be praised for listening to experts and signing the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022, allowing a historic release of oil from the SPR in 2022 to temporarily cool soaring gasoline prices, and allowing the Federal Reserve to aggressively raise interest rates to cool demand. The last was a difficult decision, because it didn't make him popular, but it was necessary according to the experts.

Trump can be criticized for raising inflation, by starting a tariff trade-war, that most experts were warning against. Tariffs can be a legitimate tool against unfair competition. However, Trump turned them into a blunt instrument and starting a trade war that resulted in exploding costs of living for Americans, retaliatory tariffs against U.S. exports, billions in farm bailouts, and increased economic uncertainty.
And when a president repeatedly makes market-moving announcements in an unpredictable way, while unusually well-timed trades appear around some of those announcements, people are inevitably going to ask who knew what and when.
There is no publicly proven insider trading by Trump or his family (yet), but he created
exactly the kind of opaque, volatility-driven environment that invites those suspicions.

Suggesting your media is 'unbiased' is the funniest thing you ever said.

You once supported completely unlimited freedom of speech and now you are OK with taking away the rights of media that you consider biased. Previously you were OK with your media verifiably lying, and now you want unbiased media?
I say you're gaslighting; you see that there is someone in power now who can crush the speech of the other side, so you flip from your original position.

You keep saying "for me". You're not the only American CITIZEN.
Women, protesters, everyone using the media, everyone voting
and every American who needs a lawyer is a CITIZEN too.
How many lawyers does your president need?

I'm asking you for the third time:
Why do you think that you have more right to rights than other people?
If 'people' is too broad for you, OK limit it to 'citizens'.

Obviously, you think that non-citizens aren't people who deserve rights.
Your Constitution says otherwise, but we both know you don't care.
At least Republicans have stopped pretending they care about the Constitution.
There is a limit to gaslighting that even your side thinks is too much.

Democrats are citizens too. If you think they should lose their rights, don't cry when they take your rights, when they are in power again.

Extreme, record-shattering heat is gripping Western and Central Europe, with hundreds
of national and all-time temperature records falling. Countries facing the most intense conditions and unprecedented early-summer heat waves include France, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Italy.

Why temperature records are being not only broken but smashed
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Richard Betts, head of climate impacts research at the Met Office and a professor at the University of Exeter: "I've been a climate scientist for 33 years and we're seeing exactly
the kinds of things that we were warning back then... [although] these records are perhaps more extreme and coming sooner than we had expected".

"If someone beats a world record in high jump, you would expect them to beat it by one centimeter and not suddenly by 20, 30 centimeters and the same holds for the weather" Erich Fischer, professor at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, told BBC News.
"If the record is broken after 100 or 150 years of measurements, you would have probably expected it to be broken by a tenth of a degree and not suddenly by two degrees or three degrees", he added.

Steyer carried a negative net rating, with 39% viewing him favorably and 43% unfavorably (-4 net rating). Steyer's history as a hedge fund manager and his unprecedented $216 million self-funding blitz caused significant unease among voters who felt he was "buying the election".

A poll showed that self-identified progressives broke heavily for Becerra, with 39% backing Becerra and only 29% preferring Steyer.
Progressive voters preferred Becerra's decades of institutional experience, specifically his 122 lawsuits defending liberal policies against the first Trump administration, over Steyer's outside corporate outsider platform.

When Swalwell dropped out, tracking polls showed that Becerra was widely viewed as the "least objectionable" second-choice alternative for mainstream Democrats.
A poll (CEPP) also showed that as trailing candidates like Katie Porter lost steam, a higher percentage of their voters strategically migrated to Becerra (37%) rather than Steyer (31%) to prevent a worst-case scenario where two Republicans advanced to November.

Voter trust was the single biggest obstacle Tom Steyer faced, and a widespread skepticism about whether a billionaire hedge fund titan would actually keep his populist, tax-the-rich promises ultimately tanked his campaign.

Current polls show Democrat Xavier Becerra with a commanding, double-digit lead
over Republican Steve Hilton.

The following rights that i addressed are definitely related to CITIZENS:

1) Demonstration and protest rights
This directly implicates the First Amendment.
The key debate is whether the administration's actions target unlawful conduct or whether they chill protected speech and assembly.

2) Freedom of the media
Freedom of the press is explicitly protected by the First Amendment.
The disagreement is over whether Trump's actions merely criticize the media or whether government pressure creates a chilling effect.

3) Freedom of lawyers and legal advocacy
This implicates rights of association, petition, due process, and the independence of legal representation.
The legal controversy exists precisely because constitutional rights may be involved.

4) Voting access
Voting is a fundamental right of citizens.
The dispute is not whether voting rights matter, but whether stricter verification requirements are legitimate election-security measures or unjustified barriers.

5) Birthright citizenship (attempted)
Citizenship itself is one of the most fundamental legal statuses in the US.
Trump is trying to turn CITIZENS into immigrants.

Even if the US funded my country for 100%, it is still a nonsense argument.
How is it an argument to all Muslims being a danger or not???

Lookatmine2 didn't have a counter argument to what I said about Muslims
and Christian Nationalists, so he attacks with irrelevant nonsense.

My argument is that the US is much closer to becoming a theocracy, by the actions
of Christian Nationalists, than by the actions of Muslims, with very similar repression
of freedoms, and I see no one making an argument against it.
My political ideas or my country's finances are irrelevant to that argument.

I'm not a Christian, but Trump calling himself a Christian offends me;
I think it's blasphemy. Zohran Mamdami makes a better Christian than Trump.
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Zohran Mamdami even looks much more like what Jesus probably looked like.
The image of the white, blonde, blue-eyed hippie, is just a fantasy from white people.


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If Jesus returned to the US right now, he would be deported by ICE in a hot minute.

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This is why my very capitalist government, who likes how our former prime minister Rutte, who is now the secretary general of NATO, is sucking up to Trump,
has blocked an American company taking over a Dutch data company.
Here is an American investigating it and being shocked about the implications.
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There is a difference between withholding your trust and assuming the worst.

Are we waging wars on 'hopes' now?
Your own words show Trump's utter incompetence.

Trump did NOTHING to prevent Iran from having nukes.
He only showed them that they desperately need them, for self defense.

Are the Iranian people freed of their dictatorship? NO!
Are we sure that Iran doesn't make nukes? LESS SO!

Trump is now negotiating with the very people he taught not to trust him.

Trump killed Iran's pragmatists and strengthened the hardliners who argued
that America could never be trusted.

The very Iranians who dreamed of freedom and looked to America for help, have buried family and friends, watched hope give way to fear, and may emerge from this crisis less free, more fearful, and more distrustful of the United States, than ever.

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If the criterion is "which arrangement appears better for preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon?", then most nonproliferation experts would currently rate the 2015 JCPOA's published verification regime as stronger and more proven than the publicly known terms of the 2026 framework, because the newer framework's inspection and enforcement details are not yet fully public.

🟩 = Better for Western nuclear security
🟥 = Worse for Western nuclear security

1) Nuclear inspections and verification

🟩 Obama JCPOA (2015):

Extensive monitoring by the IAEA.
Continuous surveillance of key nuclear facilities.
Detailed procedures for investigating suspicious activities.
Verification provisions were written into the agreement.

🟥 Trump Framework (2026):

Publicly known inspection provisions are less detailed.
Many verification mechanisms are still being negotiated or have not been released publicly.
It is not yet clear whether inspections will be as intrusive as under the JCPOA.
2) Limits on uranium enrichment

🟩 Obama JCPOA (2015):

Enrichment capped at low levels suitable for civilian use.
Clear numerical limits on enrichment and stockpiles.
Breakout time (time needed to produce bomb fuel) was significantly extended.

🟥 Trump Framework (2026):

Public descriptions have been inconsistent regarding whether Iran may retain any enrichment capability.
Final enrichment limits are not yet fully defined publicly.
3) Limits on enriched uranium stockpiles

🟩 Obama JCPOA (2015):

Strict caps on how much enriched uranium Iran could possess.
Excess material had to be shipped out or diluted.

🟥 Trump Framework (2026):

Discussions include reducing or removing highly enriched stockpiles.
Publicly available details are less specific and less developed.
4) Confidence that Iran is not secretly building a bomb

🟩 Obama JCPOA (2015):

Relied on a large inspection and monitoring infrastructure.
Created a structured system for detecting violations.

🟥 Trump Framework (2026):

There is currently less publicly available information demonstrating an equivalent monitoring system.
Confidence depends heavily on provisions that have not yet been fully disclosed.
5) Economic concessions to Iran

🟩 Obama JCPOA (2015):

Sanctions relief was phased and linked to verified compliance.
Benefits were tied to specific nuclear obligations.

🟥 Trump Framework (2026):

Potentially larger economic benefits, including discussion of a fund reportedly around $300 billion and broader sanctions relief.
Critics argue this provides more upfront leverage to Iran for fewer publicly known nuclear restrictions.
6) Ballistic missiles

🟨 Obama JCPOA (2015):

Did not eliminate Iran's missile force.
Missile restrictions were mostly handled through separate UN measures.

🟨 Trump Framework (2026):

Does not appear to require immediate dismantlement of Iran's missile arsenal.
Future missile limits may be negotiated.

Result: Roughly a tie from a nuclear-safety perspective.

7) Overall nuclear safeguards

🟩 Obama JCPOA (2015):

Fully negotiated.
Detailed technical annexes.
Years of implementation experience.
Clear verification architecture.

🟥 Trump Framework (2026):

Still evolving.
Many key technical details remain unclear.
Public information does not yet show safeguards that are demonstrably stronger than the JCPOA.

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Overall score (nuclear-security perspective only)

Obama JCPOA (2015):

🟩 Inspections
🟩 Enrichment limits
🟩 Stockpile limits
🟩 Verification confidence
🟩 Compliance-linked sanctions relief
🟨 Missiles

Trump Framework (2026):

🟥 Inspections
🟥 Enrichment clarity
🟥 Stockpile controls
🟥 Verification confidence
🟥 Economic concessions
🟨 Missiles

Most of my list was ABOUT CITIZENS.

No billionaire becomes a billionaire from their own labor.
Slaves had plenty of jobs too. Under feudalism, people worked 10-14 hrs/day
and were still starving and dying from the common cold.
People escaped their exploitation by resisting it.
You are doing the opposite.

They are not MAKING that kind of money, they are EXTRACTING IT.
People like you are turning everything into wealth transfer to the 0.1%.

You are defending a guy becoming a trillionaire from electric cars and space,
which are things that you considered completely useless before, and is funded
by tax-dollars for a big chunk.

It would help a lot if you didn't assume the worst, by default,
for every person who you consider different.

We came back from a week of vacation in Germany, at around 19:00 hrs.
Our Muslim neighbors brought as food, as soon as we came home,
saving us the trouble of arranging something to eat ourselves.

You are just assuming something and then you claim it as fact. It's wrong.

"How often do Muslim people in the U.S. report suspicions of terrorism or extremism?" Neither the FBI nor major academic studies appear to publish a comprehensive count
of such reports.

What researchers have found is that Muslim-American communities have frequently cooperated with law enforcement and have sometimes played a significant role in identifying or disrupting extremist activity:

A major study by researchers at the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security found that Muslim-American organizations and community leaders have engaged in "self-policing" practices, including reporting concerns about potentially radicalized individuals to law enforcement, excluding extremist preachers from mosques, and confronting people expressing support for terrorism.
Researchers and law-enforcement experts have argued that cooperation from Muslim communities has been important in preventing attacks and identifying suspects.
The same body of research notes that violent extremism involving Muslim Americans has historically involved a very small number of individuals relative to the size of the Muslim-American population. For example, one annual report identified 25 Muslim-Americans associated with terrorism cases in 2014, with only 6 involved in plotting or engaging in violence in the U.S. that year.

The difficulty is that most tips to law enforcement are not publicly categorized by the religion of the person making the report. So we can say:

Muslim Americans do report concerns about extremism and suspicious behavior.
Researchers have documented this cooperation as a meaningful factor in counterterrorism efforts.
There is no authoritative nationwide figure showing what percentage of all terrorism tips come from Muslims or how often the average Muslim-American makes such reports.

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Elon Musk is now the first trillionaire. He has been for a while, but only when he sold some SpaceX stock, do we know that the value of his share is about 1 trillion dollars.

Understand that the passive income of a trillion dollars is $137 million per DAY. That means that he can buy 350 average American houses per DAY. He is not doing that, he prefers to buy companies, which increase his influence in the world. Other multi-billionaires are indeed buying houses and farms.

Just six years ago, the wealthiest man in the world was Jeff Bezos. He owned $100 billion in assets. Today, the wealthiest man in the world owns at least TEN TIMES as much.

Did your wealth grow by ten times in the last six years?

In another six years, will the wealthiest man in the world own $ 10 trillion?
And 12 years from now? Will the wealthiest man in the world then own 100 trillion dollars?

The total value of everything in the US is estimated to be around 200 trillion dollars.
When do you think this will be owned by just a few wealthy men?
What will become of you, if everything in your country is owned by a few wealthy men?
Do you understand the power that they will hold over you?

You have to ridicule what I'm saying, because you know it to be true.
If you had real arguments, you would use them.

"my insane ideology"?
Explain what you think that I want and why you think that's insane.

I don't want a small group of people dominating me. Is that insane?

'They' are the ridiculously conservative people who call themselves Christian and want to push their doctrine onto all Americans. They are only a small group in your country, but they have LOTS OF MONEY, and they are USING IT to buy politicians. You are most likely not part of that group, but you are allowing them to do it, by looking away. You better open your eyes, before it's too late.

Trump is openly proposing to make 'Anti-Christian' actions 'terrorism'.
Explain that please.

Republicans have repeatedly pushed federal legislation that would require age verification for adult-content websites nationwide. Recent examples include the 'SCREEN Act' and the 'SAFE for Kids Act', both of which would require websites hosting significant amounts of sexually explicit content to verify users' ages before granting access.

They will eventually pass a law that make you verify your age, by registration. Only liberals, leftists and principled privacy respecting Republicans are voting against it.
MAGA politicians don't have principles. They just do as they are told, or they get expelled. Marjorie Taylor Greene actually believes in protecting young women from the abuse of dirty powerful wealthy men, and you saw what became of her.

Meanwhile, Palantir has received substantial federal contracts under the Trump administration, including defense, intelligence, health, and civilian-agency work. Public contract records show ongoing awards, and reporting indicates federal spending on Palantir increased significantly in 2025–2026.

In 2025, reporting indicated that a Trump executive order promoting data sharing across federal agencies was being implemented using Palantir's Foundry platform in some agencies. This could make it easier to combine data that had historically been kept in separate government silos.

Civil-liberties groups, watchdog organizations, and some lawmakers have expressed concern that:
- Multiple agencies may be able to access and analyze larger pools of personal data.
- Data from different federal systems could be linked together more easily.
- The public has limited visibility into how the systems are used and what safeguards exist.

You don't even need some big evil agency to record every move you are making, because all the social media are already doing that, under the argument of making money from advertising.

All in my head?
Are you even listening to your president and his people when they speak?

The first thing they do is make you register yourself when you want to watch or share material of a sexual nature. Simultaneously, they are setting up a mass surveillance system, to record everything that you're doing.
Tell me that you don't see that happening...

Where do you see 'my type' doing that?

Do you even know what Sharia is?

It's laws that are introducing religious doctrine into law and restricting personal freedoms. That is exactly what your Christian Nationalists are asking for,
and Trump is letting them have lots of it, completely violating the Constitution.

These are the categories of law that both define Sharia Law and the goals of Christian Nationalists:
1. Restrictions on Female Freedom and Autonomy
2. Harsh, Religious Morality-Based Punishments
3. Restrictions on Criticizing Religion
4. Eradication of Sexual Freedoms and Bodily Autonomy
5. Criminalization and Erasure of LGBTQ+ Identities
6. Religious Control over Public Education and Science
7. Legal Privileging of the Dominant Faith (Religious Caste System)
8. Totalitarian Infiltration of the Civil Bureaucracy

Things that the Trump administration already did:
- Abortion restrictions: Trump appointed Supreme Court justices who were part of the majority in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned the constitutional right to abortion established by Roe v. Wade. Critics argue this reflects conservative Christian moral views influencing law.
- Religious exemptions and conscience protections: His administration expanded protections for religious organizations and individuals who objected to certain requirements (for example, contraception coverage or participation in same-sex weddings). Supporters viewed this as protecting religious freedom; critics viewed it as allowing religious beliefs to limit others' rights.
- LGBTQ-related policies: Critics cited policies such as restrictions on transgender military service and some education-related positions as reflecting traditional religious views on gender and sexuality.
- School prayer and religion in public life: Trump frequently advocated a larger role for religion in public institutions and criticized what he saw as hostility toward Christianity in public life.
- Support for displaying religious symbols and expanding faith-based initiatives: His administration generally favored broader accommodation of religious expression in government-connected settings.

You challenged me to give just one example, I'm giving you the complete picture.
This is what is happening:
- government enforcement of religious morality,
- privileging one religion,
- linking religious identity with citizenship and patriotism,
- suppressing criticism of dominant religious views,
- and concentrating power in leaders who claim to represent the nation's true religious values.

That's the actions that a government will take to change a democracy to a theocracy.

You seem to take your sexual freedom seriously, but you are defending a government that WILL call your freedom 'perverse' and punish you for it.

If Obama is guilty of doing anything like Trump did,
liberals and lefties would not vote for him.
You voted in the most crooked president ever.

The result is that your president is doing the bidding of Putin and Netanyahu,
because YOU voted in a president who can be blackmailed easily.

It's not America first, it's Russia, Israel and Trump's money first.
America comes dead last in his priorities, and it shows.

During multiple rallies, Trump said that Democrats would start a war with Iran,
and he promised to not start wars like that.

You can try to defend it, but he broke that promise.
And he broke several more promises.
Unlike Democrats who break promises, Trump didn't even try to keep his',
he actively did the opposite of what he promised.

In any case, his war with Iran is your worst failure in decades.
He didn't achieve ANYTHING that he presented as goals for it.

Like I said; you only care about YOUR freedoms and rights.
Why do you think that you have more right to rights than other people?

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