They could have added a dirty hedgehog to the Muppet Show. I don't see the problem.

What are you babbling about?
How is anything I said there related to the courts?

Sure, Trump is ignoring all the court rulings. At some point, even his Supreme Court is going to rule against him, out of pure self preservation. That will be the end of your judicial branch, because Trump will destroy them too. Your legislative branch is already broken. They are just serving Trump.

Why don't you just admit that you want a dictator?

I say "Trump", but it looks like he's not long for this world, so it will probably be JD, who will destroy your democracy. Do you trust him to be your dictator?

Am I supposed to think of you as a neutral arbiter
in this case?

At least you're considering her a quality potato.

1) She should be prepared to get taken hostage by Hamas.
2) She is a bitch for Hamas!
Claims 1 and 2 are contradictory.

People who think Hamas is cool, don't care about the freedom of Palestinians.
Protesting against the genocide of Palestinians and wanting freedom for Palestinians, is the opposite of 'being a bitch for Hamas'.

How about INEQUALITY, smart-ass!?

The billionaires are reverting humanity to feudalism.
Don't you think that preventing that might be a priority for liberals?

War is only a distraction from the fascist dictators who are working to achieve
that feudalism. Nationalism is just a handy tool to brainwash the masses.

Who is still saying it?

"Defund the police" doesn't mean "Get rid of police", it means getting back all the tasks that were dropped onto them, which could be done better by civil servants, and give them to civil servants.

The police spends 70%+ of their time on issues like mental health, homelessness, substance abuse, and low-level disputes. That is a waste of money and also has very negative effects on citizens, because cops SUCK at those tasks.
Those tasks should be handled by specialized services (social workers, crisis intervention teams, traffic safety units).
This would free up police to focus on the 5–10% of cases that are actually violent crime.
When they are that much more efficient, some of the police budget can be reassigned
to the civil servants, which is the "defunding" people talk about.

People are also tired of having to fear police almost just as much as criminals.
You have a strange idea of freedom, if you want to replace crime with a police state.

Go look up what people actually mean with "Defund the police", instead of doing
your stupid straw-manning.

"No bail law"? There are only TWO countries in the world with a commercial bail bond systems (private, for-profit), the U.S. and the Philippines. Do you think that's working well? GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK!

The VR glasses are not worth their money yet. The best ones are good enough for some fun games, but they are really expensive and it requires an expensive system to run them too.

The robots will be expensive for ever. Those are just billionaire toys. It would be cheaper to hire a cleaner, a cook and entertainment, for the foreseeable future, even when the robots will replace humans for jobs.

Make your cooking and cleaning as efficient as possible, and it will at maximum cost an hour a day. I had planned this all out, but then I found my girlfriend. She cooks very inefficiently. If I didn't work 10-15 hrs/week more than her, I would prefer to do the cooking myself. We split the cleaning about 50/50%. She started the washing machine, so I can put it in the dryer when it's finished.

Are you talking about the sex robot or the VR glasses?
One can be good exercise and the other not so much.

Before I found my girlfriend, I was very much socially inept.
She had her problems too, but we grew together, by complementing each other.
My employer helped me a lot too. I took on several courses.
Social skills can be trained, like every other skill.
In real life, I'm much easier to deal with, than I'm being here.
I'm here to pick an argument. I only do that in real life, when I'm challenged to it.

I think you have a lot of patience. That's important in a relationship.
Accept that any woman has her fault, and she will accept yours.
Just make your existence known to enough women, so one will notice you.
There might be one character issue that you could work on; try to see the good in people, instead of assuming the worst motives for any move they make and any word they speak.
Most people are actually not that bad.

I have a question: Is Trump dead yet?

Show some of that education then, and actually explain your morality and how Trump fits into it. If there is reason to it, you should be able to explain it.

You're just parroting Trump, on the taking advantage trope. The US wanted to be the arms manufacturer, to protect your dominance and make lots of money from selling them. None of your wars were in favor of Europe, it was all to keep you the superpower, to destroy any alternatives for capitalism, to steal natural resources, and to deal revenge on the terrorists who attacked YOU. Even WWII was just your country eliminating a competitive power. Europe supported the US for decades, while NATO was only intended to further your domination over Europe, against Russia. We can defend ourselves against Russia, our military is three times as large, but Ukraine needs weapons that the US produces to defend itself. The US mostly sent old stockpiled, almost expired, munitions, while Europe actually paid for it at new price.

It sucks for our citizens, because it will cost lots of money to create our own military industrial complex. Still, it's better then having to trust the US to be our supplier. It's enriching too many corrupt selfish assholes, who have an incentive to keep the world in a continuous state of war. I hope the EU doesn't make the same mistake, to have wealthy people own the military industrial complex, because it should be completely publicly owned. As long as people make money from war, we cannot have peace.

Do you have any arguments for saying that, or is your brain not capable
of any higher thinking than just primitive mocking?

Greta Thunberg attempted to travel to Gaza aboard a vessel named Madleen (formerly called Barcarole), a UK-flagged yacht operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. She boarded the Madleen in Catania, Sicily, on June 1, 2025, as part of a humanitarian flotilla, aiming to challenge Israel’s sea blockade and deliver symbolic aid to Gaza.
The Madleen carried essential supplies like baby formula, flour, rice, diapers, water-desalination kits, medical supplies, crutches, and children’s prosthetics.

The Tesla wasn't a permanent gift, but she did use it during her 2019 North American tour.

There’s no evidence she has ADHD. Greta Thunberg has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, which is part of the autism spectrum. I know exactly what it is, because one of my best friends has Asperger’s. He has some problems making decisions and standing up for himself, but people with Asperger’s are in no way narcissists.

That she donates her earnings, is showing the exact opposite of what you are trying to demonstrate.

She could be rich of her book royalties & publications, speaking engagements, awards and prize money, which would have added up to millions by now, but instead she does not keep any of the income personally. All proceeds go into the Greta Thunberg Foundation, which redistributes them to climate and social sustainability efforts. Greta leads a minimalist lifestyle. She avoids luxury and flies only when absolutely necessary. Instead, she favors trains, electric transport, or sailboats. For practical needs like travel and lodging, Greta’s family covers those expenses rather than relying on income from her activism.

It's all evidence that calling her a narcissists is rediculous, she's the opposite.

To you Hamas are some evil idiots, but they do understand when people support their cause of freedom for the Palestinian people. They would not hurt her.
It's sad that you can only think in black and white.

Why do you think that? She is sacrificing a good paying job, her comfort and her safety, for a good cause. That is something that narcissists never do. They only do what benefits themselves. They don't even understand the concept of doing something for others or the common good.

It's like on Memorial Day 2017, President Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery, accompanied by then–Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly.
Kelly’s son, Robert, a 29-year-old Marine killed in Afghanistan in 2010, was buried
in Section 60 of the cemetery. While standing by his son’s grave, Trump reportedly turned to Kelly and said: “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”.

Is that an argument for calling her a 'narcissist'?
She does put herself in dangerous situations, true.
Are only men allowed to do that, in your opinion?
Getting bombed by Israel is the biggest risk there.

I would say that it was a valid assessment of their upbringing.
Those parents are 100% Trump voters. They just melted their kid's brain.
Your side always immediately accuses the other side, and you never apologize.

Why do you call that shooter 'her kind'?
Was it 'liberal ideology' that drove this person to their act?

The shooter left a manifesto revealing a deep fascination with past mass shooters and violent ideation, diaries and YouTube videos included drawings, journal entries, and imagery referencing mass murders, with hateful messages directed at Catholics, Jews, Trump, and multiple marginalized groups. Just because they also hated Trump, doesn't make them a liberal or lefty. Liberal and lefties don't hate Catholics, Jews and multiple marginalized groups. Investigators describe a chaotic, contradictory mix of hate, nihilism, and conspiracy-style thinking, which also included random slogans like “Mashallah” and references to Hitler. This suggests contradictory, shock-value extremism, not coherent ideology. Still, this kind of crazy happens much more in right-wing conservative circles, than on the left.

"The home environment was described as deeply Catholic, with elements of religious conservatism—neighbors recalled home-based prayer meetings, homeschooling on Saturdays, and strong anti-abortion activism by the mother."

How is Trump doing? They are spreading old photographs on social media,
as proof that he's still alive. Why would they do that, if he was actually doing well?
I don't think he's dead, but there is obviously something wrong with him, if he's not able
to just make a real photo of himself playing golf.
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Yes, she was arrested. So? Was that a lawful arrest?
Should she 'learn' something from getting arrested for protesting?
Protesting is a right. The law should not be abused to 'teach' people
to not use their democratic rights.

Propaganda isn't 100% untrue, it's about flipping the truth to serve a goal.
The propaganda is trying to make it about her, by calling her narcissist,
instead of addressing the reason why she is protesting; a genocide.

I wouldn't call it propaganda, if it was just a statement of facts.
I'm calling it propaganda, because he's creating a narrative to attack her character.

She is a protester. She has shown herself to be consistent in her principles.
She's not in it for herself. Even you questioned her sanity for spending all her time
and risking life and limb on these issues. She does it, because it attracts interest
to the problem that she is protesting against. That's the goal of literally all protests.
She's not there to get admiration from people, she's there only for the purpose.
People who don't like that, because of their political agenda, try to discredit her,
instead of honestly discussing their differences of opinion. That's a dishonest tactic,
but you seem to like that, or you just don't perceive it.

You better learn to perceive it, because that's how they hack your mind.

Alex O'Connor is giving examples of every logical fallacy,
by picking a silly debate on hotdogs with ChatGPT.
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I think this is both very funny (bone dry humor though) and educational.

Who has ever before used the term 'narcissism', for caring about nature,
humanity who is dependent on it, and people who are mass murdered?
Damn, that's dumb.

The author is Stephen Pollard. From 2008 until December 2021, he was the editor
of The Jewish Chronicle and he remains a senior advisor, and writer on the paper.
You're literally parroting Israeli propaganda.

Warren buffet is investing with the prospect of high inflation, due to fiscal irresponsibility.

"Warren Buffett Just Sent a Hidden Warning"
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But, you go ahead, and invest on the idea that Trump will strengthen the US economy.

The whole world shared guilt for what happened in WWII. However, the most guilty were the stupid people, who followed a narcissist without any scruples, who was demonizing minorities as the cause of all the problems in society, and who confused nationalism with hate against those minorities, and who redirected the anger with the elites towards the protectors of democracy, to install himself as the fascist dictator.
History is repeating itself, and you are one of those stupid people. You're even worse.

You have not answered any questions. You have addressed a lot of them, but that's not the same. Conclusions are the end result of a logical process. Your claims are either false or irrelevant and there is no correct logic supporting your arguments. You have decided that you like Trump, for the rhetoric he is using, and you make yourself believe all the lies he's telling you, so you can conclude that he is right and 'morally correct'.

Your morality is based on a self-inflicted delusion, you have admitted this. You don't even want to explain it, you just tell people to go through the same process of delusion as yourself. That would never result in the same 'morality' that you think you have. It's based on supernatural nonsense like the main religions, but at least they try to be consistent among each other. They base their 'morality' on picking and choosing texts in ancient books, filled with contradictions and scientific ignorance, but at least they are able to justify their beliefs. They can point to a line in their holy book and repeat what they were told to believe what it means. You cannot do that. You say that your morality is based on Abrahamic scripture, but you cannot explain how. You encourage reading Plato, but you do not show any knowledge of what he taught. Plato's main principle was the pursuit of truth through reasoned dialogue. REASONED!!! You're not interested in dialogue, and certainly not reasoned. Reason means using a logical process for argumentation. I don't see you having the ability. I don't see you being interested in learning the skill. There is no truth or sound argument that anyone could provide you, that would make you change your mind on anything. You will call any fact that doesn't agree with you fake and you will call every argument that doesn't lead to an outcome that you like nonsense. You think that you already have all the conclusions, so you will lie to yourself to not upset those conclusions. You will take them to your death bed, even if Trump himself caused your death bed. If believing in flat earth would further Trump's agenda, he could make you believe it in a minute. It's a damn shame, and it's fucking dangerous. You have exactly what it takes for Trump to create his 'Drittes Reich'.

An election denier, of course.
You only care if a president is senile, when it's the Democrats. Trump's mind has been slipping for a while. He's now worse than Biden was.
His health is declining rapidly too. Have you seen his hand and his ankles? Last week people were thinking he already died. None of the right-wing grifters were confident enough to make fun of that. They know he could die at any moment and they know your officials would not be transparent about Trump lying on his death bed. They are not being honest about his health this very moment. He is clearly getting regular IV's in that hand. What is he getting?

"after Iran brutally destroyed by trump"

"the money lost by billionairs investing in the destruction of Israel"
I have no idea where your mind is going with that. It could be anything, because you live in an alternate reality.

"I did the right thing. You didnt.... " I don't live in your country, remember? I'm not voting in your elections.

My 'hate' for Trump is logical. He is a danger to democracy and humanity. He is trying to turn the US in a true dictatorship. Your democracy has been failing for decades, but your side is destroying it completely.

You seem to forget that the "crippling tariffs" are only for trading with the US. We don't need to export to you, we have the rest of the world. Still, if your citizens want our products, they just need to pay more for them. So far, no company has decided to move its production to the US, to escape the tariffs. Several companies are strengthening their production capacity outside of the US, to escape the tariffs for the rest of the world. The economic collapse is already hitting you.

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What Economists Are Observing Now:
1. Deteriorating Labor Market
Flattening job growth: July’s jobs report revealed only 73,000 new positions added, far below expectations, with May and June significantly revised downward—down from 144K to 19K in May, and from 147K to 14K in June. That puts the three-month average at a mere 35,000 new jobs per month, the weakest since the pandemic.

Across-the-board job cuts: Over 53% of U.S. industries are now cutting jobs, with only healthcare still growing.

Labor participation decline: Despite low unemployment rates, labor force participation has stagnated, partly due to fewer immigrant workers, making the unemployment rate a poor recession signal.

Moody’s economist Mark Zandi—among others—warns the economy is “on the precipice of recession,” citing flat consumer spending, contracting construction and manufacturing, and rising inflation. He doubts even rate cuts by the Fed would suffice.

2. Slumping Consumer Confidence & Spending

Confidence dips: The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence index fell to 97.4 in August (from 98.7). More concerningly, the expectations sub-index dropped to 74.8, a level below 80 often seen as a warning sign of recession.

Spending retreats: Consumers are pulling back on major purchases like appliances and travel; the outlook for the job market and income was also downgraded.

3. Economic Leading Indicators Signal Weakness

The Conference Board’s Leading Economic Index (LEI) declined 0.3% in June to 98.8, deeper than expected. Weak components include consumer expectations, manufacturing orders, and rising unemployment claims. Overall, the LEI has fallen 2.8% in 2025, trailing the 1.3% drop in late 2024.

4. Private Credit Bubble Risk

Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan CEO) and others are increasingly alarmed by the rapid expansion of the $2 trillion private credit sector—lending outside banking channels with high leverage, weak regulations, and limited transparency—a setup reminiscent of pre-2008 vulnerabilities.

Dimon also warns that fading pandemic-era stimulus and persisting tariff policies could further destabilize the economy.

5. High Tariffs & Policy Interference Undermine Confidence

Tariffs are dragging growth and fueling inflation: 88% of economists in a recent NABE survey believe tariffs will slow growth and raise inflation, with widespread concern over erosion of institutional independence (e.g., interference with the Fed and BLS).

Political interference is creating instability: Economist Claudia Sahm stresses that moves to undermine key economic institutions like the Fed and Bureau of Labor Statistics threaten credibility and could worsen inflation and instability.

Really? "my media"?
You're denying official election results?
It's mind boggling to me how much you guys are required to lie to yourself, to keep the delusion alive.

It doesn't matter? Are you saying that it wouldn't have mattered if he had lost, because he would have just stolen the election anyway? Or are you saying that elections don't matter anymore, because Trump will make sure there will never be one again?

Say something relevant about what you want for your country, instead of useless generalisms. The future of your country always matters. Your future is tied to the future of everyone. How about investing in clean energy? It provides good paying jobs and it doesn't pollute your air and water as much. It's also getting cheaper, while fossil fuels keep getting more expensive, because the easy sources are running out.

Again, you don't understand the term 'terrorism'. A school shooter is only a terrorist,
if they (there were a few female school shooters) act out of a political or religious or dogmatic ideology. If they are just crazy, even if they are without conscience and wanting to do harm, that's not 'terrorism', by definition.

Indians are mostly a peaceful people, especially the ones wearing turbans,
who are Sikh. The Sikh religion is the most peaceful religion on Earth.

They do have emotions, but they are taught to act from reason and divine remembrance rather than raw impulse. It's about balance: don’t let emotions dominate you, but also don’t bury them. Instead, integrate them with reason, remembrance of the Divine, and ethical living.

Sikhism teaches that one should act from a place of Naam Simran (remembrance of God) and Gurmat (the Guru’s wisdom) rather than from impulsive emotional reactions.
The aim is not suppression of feelings, but recognition and transformation—channeling emotions toward constructive, spiritual, and ethical action.
Example: Anger itself isn’t always condemned—righteous indignation against injustice is encouraged—but uncontrolled personal anger is discouraged.

The more 'extreme' a Sikh becomes, the less likely they are to even hurt a fly.
That's why I berated your use of the term 'terrorism' in his case. He fucked up,
he made his move intentionally, but I very sure that he didn't intend to hurt anyone. However, your first impulse is always to assume evil intent, when any person is doing something that results in a negative outcome, or just something that you don't like. You do that, because it's part of the ideology that you support. They are learned mental processes, which they teach you intentionally. It's so you can tell yourself
that you are 'morally correct' and everyone else is 'immoral'. It's a very effective strategy to discourage ethical and critical thinking.

Good enough to be a truck-driver, in my opinion.
The report itself says that he is capable of using translation devices.
Does the fact that he uses translation devices in court, tell you something?
The communication in court is a lot more complex than the communication
with a traffic cop. He came over very polite, by the way.

In the EU, drivers are constantly driving in countries that they don't speak
the language of. That doesn't necessarily make them worse drivers.

You're not being funny, you're being incorrect, seriously. You're using false facts to justify your statements. It's very serious that you don't check your facts, before you use them.

Trying some Socratic games, I see, like "What's the difference between leadership and ruling".

In a democracy, 'leadership' to me means: having principles, communicating them to the citizens, asking citizens for support to turn those principles into policies that represent those principles, then show them to everyone and ask for their votes, and then, no matter how many votes you get, have the elected representative do the very best that they can to get the policies into effect.

To me, 'ruling' means dominating your personal believes onto others, to shape the world towards you own vision and to get hold of more power, for self-gratification.

How about ignoring Congress and pushing through everything by Emergency Powers & Executive Orders? Trump is breaking all previous records. Is that 'leadership' or 'ruling'?

Criticizing your president is not TDS. The guy is breaking all trade agreements and imposing random tariffs on everyone. He is breaking all agreements on Climate Change. We made a deal with your country, for the preservation of humanity, and your guy says "Fuck humanity!". The guy is threatening the safety of many countries, including the whole of the EU. If we don't pay up, he will withhold weapons from us and let Russia conquer us. That's a Maffia move man. You can try to justify it, but me criticizing it is not TDS, that's self-preservation.

"Socialism has never worked" You're calling a lot of countries 'socialist'. Half of Europe is 'socialist' by your standards. The most 'socialist' countries are the Scandinavian countries. Those countries have been doing very well for many decades. They provide a much better quality of life to its people than the US. Meanwhile, the working class in the US has been getting poorer for decades. Is your version of capitalism working? Well, it is for a very small minority of very wealthy people. The reason for that is corruption, not 'Moral correctness'.

Why do you keep talking about gas prices? The president has almost no effect on them. Gas prices are 2.5-4% of people's expenses. They go up and down, due to supply and demand and global crisis. It's the industry that decide how much you should pay. The government can only decide on the taxes or to sacrifice nature and human health for more oil extraction. Americans who live around the fossil fuel industry are dying young, from a.o. cancer, at a much higher rate than Americans who live far from it. Many Americans still don't have clean tap-water.

American citizens have been suffering low incomes, poor healthcare, expensive housing, expensive other insurances, expensive groceries, expensive education, poor working conditions, poor mental health, addiction, fear of their kids getting shot in school, and lack of time off to enjoy their lives. People like you either don't care about solutions, or they care more about blaming people they hate for it. Neither will make your lives any better. If you think that you're doing fine now, I promise you that you don't have to wait long, before you're NOT.

Did I say that he didn't?
Below are the official results of your elections.
It shows that I spoke the truth and you were lying.
You, nor any of the other right-winger, corrected your mistake (or lie).
Is that your 'Moral correctness' at work?
There is only one morally correct response to this: acknowledging your mistake.

2024 U.S. Presidential Election:
Official Popular Vote & Electoral Vote (American Presidency Project, based on state-certified results)
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Republican: Donald J. Trump / J.D. Vance – 77,303,568 votes (49.81%), 312 electoral votes
Democratic: Kamala D. Harris / Tim Walz – 75,019,230 votes (48.34%), 226 electoral votes

2020 U.S. Presidential Election:
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Democratic: Joseph R. Biden / Kamala Harris - 81,268,773 votes, 306 electoral votes
Republican: Donald Trump / Mike Pence - 74,216,728 votes, 232 electoral votes

2016 U.S. Presidential Election:
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Republican: Donald Trump / Mike Pence - 62,955,340 votes, 306 electoral votes
Democratic: Hillary Clinton / Tim Kaine - 65,788,564 votes, 232 electoral votes

Any sources for that?

Do you realize that you have not put up ONE argument for why Kamala Harris would be worse than Trump? I agree that Democratic voters were stuck with her. So? You still assess her plans vs his plans.

Trump is hurting your economy. Can't you see the signs yet?
You keep repeating that Trump stopped 3 wars. Which ones?

No one would blame you for throwing out criminals. That's not what your doing. The large majority of the people he's throwing out are just working at their future, while your employers are profiting from them.

Not 85 million, but 77.3 million, less than the 81 million who voted for Biden in 2020.

If you cannot make ONE logical argument, based on real facts, or on honest opinions, for ANYTHING, don't bullshit me about critical thinking skills.

Scroll back to my earlier pictures, than you see nudes. I stop sharing nudes when the site changed its rules. I'm not sharing my private information with all the vindictive lunatics on this site.

Did you ever intend to honestly discuss anything?

Who knows how much money she makes of it.
Maybe that's why she's laughing (to the bank).

No, the video is called "Cop Arrests High School Kid Driving His Sister to School
(then lies about it)"

Do you see any emotions on the faces of white school shooters?
When was it ever an Indian guy shooting up kids?

Why money obsession is keeping you poor
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People confuse money for real resources.

This is What “Always” Happens Before a Market Crash
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Nice to hear my country as the first example.

And now, some damn good news:
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Here's a list of virtues that every religion in the world values:

Compassion
Honesty
Justice
Courage
Generosity
Humility
Patience
Forgiveness
Gratitude
Loyalty
Respect
Responsibility
Self-control
Wisdom
Kindness

Secular moral standards value all of them too. Without any religious basis, just because they serve humanity.

Who wipes his ass on all of those values? TRUMP!!!

Biden represented most of those values to a far greater extend.

Here's a list of vices, that all religions universally condemn:
(so does secular morality, because these vices hurt humanity)

Cruelty
Dishonesty
Injustice
Cowardice
Greed
Arrogance
Impatience
Vindictiveness
Ingratitude
Betrayal
Disrespect
Irresponsibility
Lack of self-control
Foolishness
Hatred

It's an almost 100% accurate description of Trump's character.

If you even try to contradict that, your foundation is built on sand.
But hey, you can still fool yourself, by saying: "God doesn’t call the qualified; He qualifies the called.".
So, what does it look like when Satan picks a representative?
Mother Teresa? Mahatma Gandhi? Martin Luther King Jr.? Nelson Mandela?

Here's a list of horrible dictators or at least very scummy leaders, who were all 'duly elected':

Adolf Hitler (Germany)
The Nazi Party won the most seats in the Reichstag elections of 1932.
Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933 after electoral success.
He then consolidated power through the Reichstag Fire Decree and Enabling Act, eliminating democracy.

Benito Mussolini (Italy)
Though Mussolini’s rise included the March on Rome (1922), his Fascist Party did participate in elections and entered parliament legally.
After gaining legitimacy, he dismantled Italy’s democratic institutions.

Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines)
First elected president in 1965 and re-elected in 1969.
Declared martial law in 1972 and ruled as a dictator until ousted in 1986.

Alberto Fujimori (Peru)
Elected president in 1990.
In 1992, he staged an “autogolpe” (self-coup), dissolving Congress and ruling by decree.

Viktor Orbбn (Hungary) (modern example)
Elected in 2010 with a parliamentary supermajority.
Has since curtailed press freedoms, judicial independence, and checks on executive power.
Many describe Hungary as a “soft dictatorship” or “illiberal democracy.”

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Turkey)
First elected prime minister in 2003, later president in 2014.
Used electoral legitimacy to centralize power, suppress opposition, and change Turkey’s political system into a strong presidential model.

Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe)
Initially came to power via elections in 1980 after independence.
Transitioned into an authoritarian ruler, clinging to power for decades.

Nicolбs Maduro (Venezuela)
Elected in 2013 after Hugo Chбvez’s death.
Accused of manipulating elections, suppressing dissent, and using authoritarian measures to stay in power.

Slobodan Miloљević (Serbia / Yugoslavia)
Rose through electoral means in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Later ruled with increasing authoritarianism, suppressing opponents and media.

Juan Perуn (Argentina)
Elected president in 1946.
While popular and democratic in origin, he concentrated power, suppressed opposition, and established a personality cult that bordered on authoritarianism.

That was one beautiful hommage to truckers. I honestly liked it.
It was nicely written (although I suspect some help from ChatGPT was deployed,
I recognize the style) and perfectly delivered. It was funny too, at times,
but that reaction is either an act, or the result of a big canister of Nitrous oxide.

Here's a good police vest cam video:
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If I see so much different emotions, between when a white person does something bad versus a brown person, or a white person getting killed vs a brown person getting killed,
I'm indeed calling that racism. Are those emotions genuine? Probably, but not admirable.

In forum discussions, bigger and badder doesn't matter.
In relation to seniority and 'standing tall', are you talking about your dick?
Congratulations!

Why do all business turn into a beige or grey box?

Wall Street broke Cracker Barrel, not WOKENESS
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More evidence of Trump health issues emerges in new video
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I don't think we have to worry about Trump trying to steal a 3rd term.

Moral correctness is the last thing you can accuse Trump
of having. He would puke all over you for believing that.

It’s interesting that you say "you and I stay standing tall". One of you is definitely holding their ground with some honesty and substance. The other is just puffing their chest while throwing cheap shots. I’ll let others decide which is which.

OK, so no more Indian drivers. You must feel so safe now.

Are white American drivers never making illegal moves in traffic?
Can white Americans drive trucks from birth? No need to train and test them?
Can white Americans drive as long as the employers wants them to, without
ever getting tired?

Or will you just feel a lot better about it, when a white American does the exact same thing, causing the exact same number or more deaths?

Yes, of course that is different; this guy made a stupid mistake, while it would be
a conscious decision to run over protesters, not an accident.
If a white right-winger killed 10 black gay-rights protesters, while it is clear that
the driver was not in any danger, you would defend the driver, because you think those protesters are wrong on principle.

You can disagree with protesters blocking a road, but that's not a capital offense.
It's an inconvenience, not a violent attack, no reason for the driver to use lethal force to defend themselves.

What you include in that argument, could be an argument, if it was true, but that's no argument to allow driving over people, when it is NOT true.

It doesn't require new laws to allow people to defend themselves, when they are in danger. Your self defense laws are already taking the position of the one defending themselves, accepting their claim of being at risk much too easily.

I would never blame the people in the black car. They are innocent victims.
I don't know who those 3 million people are, and I don't agree with them.
The guy still made a very irresponsible and illegal move, causing 3 deaths.
I just don't see that as a reason to call him a terrorist, or an evil person.
Can you understand that morality is a scale, not binary?

I didn't say I'm not, I'm just saying dgraff is too.

I stand for my opinions, I always provide a justification or at least a reason for why I have them. I am here to discuss them. I don't just drop a zinger of an opinion and then just bugger off.

Show that I'm wrong, and I'll accept that I'm wrong. Those guys just cower off,
when they cannot defend their position any longer. You can see it for yourself
in all the abandoned discussions.

When other people have an opinion that I disagree with, I don't just belittle them,
I always try to explain why I don't agree with them or why they are wrong.
I only call them dumb, when they keep repeating the same tired old nonsense over and over.

Opinionated much?

What the hell does Amsterdam have to do with it?
That's the weirdest change of subject (Red Herring fallacy) ever.
See, you're chickening out from the actual subject again.

My country, and even Amsterdam, has less problems with drugs, than the US.
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The US has such a horrible opioids problem that it's central to you border security policies and pointed out by Trump as the reason for the tariffs with Mexico and Canada.

In 2023, the US had 105,000 people dying from overdoses.
80,000 of those deaths involved opioids.
(population: 334.9 million) -> 31.4 o.d. deaths/100,000 people
23.9 opioid o.d. deaths/100,000 people

In 2023, the Netherlands had 338 people dying from overdoses.
178 of those deaths involved opioids.
(population 17.88 million) -> 1.9 o.d. deaths/100,000
1.00 opioid o.d. deaths/100,000 people

"Socialist Party leader calls for fewer foreign workers in NL":
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The SP has continued its long-standing stance: opposing mass labor migration and advocating for stricter controls to protect workers and housing markets. This aligns with their broader views on neoliberalism, globalization, and safeguarding the Dutch working class.
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This is not a new stands of the SP. The party has been saying the exact same thing, since 1983, far before right-wing populists were addressing it as a problem. However, right-wingers used it to demonize brown people, to redirect people's anger about seeing their jobs being given to cheap workers, for the profits of the employers, towards racism.
Since that right-wing populist party was voted in as the biggest party in 2023, all their laws were designed to restrict actual refugees, and NONE to restrict the million labor migrants from Eastern Europe. They only care about the racism, not about fixing the problem.

This is the stands of my SP, about labor migration, from their own website:
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The SP considers labor migration a form of modern slavery. There are between 800,000 and 1.2 million labor migrants in the Netherlands, no one knows the exact number.
They are brought here by companies, exploited, and discarded when no longer needed. An increasingly large portion of the homeless population in the Netherlands consists of labor migrants. Meanwhile, the pressure on our neighborhoods, social services, and housing market is high, even as companies profit.

But labor migration also causes problems in the countries of origin. It uproots communities, leaves children growing up without their parents, and leads to local jobs being taken over by even lower-paid labor migrants. Through various legal loopholes, more and more labor migrants from outside Europe are now working in the Netherlands. This lawlessness must come to an end.

We will stop uncontrolled labor migration. We will do this by introducing work permits and setting a migration cap of 40,000 per year. This way, we ensure that only those who are truly needed can come here to work, we can tackle the exploitation of labor migrants by employers, and we can help those who genuinely need protection and are fleeing war and violence.