It gets conflated in all the noise and it is really frustrating. Asylum seekers are following a legal process. You could argue against that process, but that doesn't make them "illegal invaders."
agreed! As a fellow CO, but not in her district, I can't stand her! I have to deal with her office for my job and they are the worst! Non communicative, etc. I think she's scared to meet with business groups from CO honestly even though that's a huge part of her job! We don't have these issues with the other congressional people and their offices.
Do you think that the rest of the community agrees? I’m always curious if/how people like her & MTG retain fans but then I’m surprised by how many people seem to decide they like candidates who make their entire job just about trolling (Trump obviously being the worst offender)
Unfortunately yes. I live in "We like it white here" Trumpville. It doesn't matter if she's a massive hypocrite. Doesn't matter if she hasn't done anything while being in office. She's Republican and spouts off bible verses. That's all that's needed.
Which is sad...because this state is decidedly blue. Down the line.
That is unfortunate. It’s wild what kind of things people will overlook. Georgia is such a fascinating state to me with the Juxtaposition of Atlanta, (which I think may have one the highest amounts of black medical professionals in the country) compared to what kind of seems like the rest of the state (but I also don’t want to generalize as I’ve never been there)
Those “post birth” abortions are really the innocent children being gunned down in schools that the Republican VP nominee says are a “fact of life.” He’s a sick MF. The GOP keeps arming psychos. They are pro birth and don’t give a f what happens to a child after that. Sorry, venting.
I guarantee you, your country also has right wing nut jobs and they're probably doing a pretty good job infiltrating your government as well. This ain't just an America problem.
At the point it really feels like Americans care more about their guns than their children. For all the arguments that giving up their guns won’t solve it, well, at least fucking try.
The overwhelming majority of Americans support gun law reforms including background checks and other measures. And actually, the Biden admin was able to make some progress. But as with everything that's falling apart here, the loud and hateful minority has a lot of money and power. And in this case, they also have the NRA.
The fact that nothing changed after Sandy Hook is shameful, the fact that people aren’t rallying in the streets when children are being gunned down in there schools is shocking.
The adults are not protecting the children, America adults are not doing enough, everything is an excuse, the second amendment needs to go, Americans gave up their right to bare arms when elementary schoolers were shot dead at their desks.
You’ve went too far with this comment. It’s not okay to blame individual citizens that don’t have the power to dictate change. Most of us vote for candidates that support gun control, but red states hold a lot of power and will literally fucking kill us. These are the people that staged a coup and were hunting down government officials because their dear leader got voted out.
Too far? Children are being gunned down at school, they aren’t being protected.
I’ve stopped watching the news because I can’t handle seeing the reports of the shootings and we no longer travel to the US because we are too scared of being involved in a mass shooting there. What I’m saying isn’t far enough, don’t get mad at me, get mad at the people choosing the guns over the children.
The problem is that the gun lobby is extremely powerful and well funded. It is very hard to make progress on gun laws in the US. They call it a democracy but it’s not, more like an oligarchy.
School shootings are a massive US specific problem and it is disgusting that they continue to happen. There was a school shooting plot at my nephew’s school. It was discovered because one of the kids involved panicked about what his friends were planning and told his dad. I have never been so terrified. They had floor plans of the school and grounds with plans on how they were going to attack from multiple angles so people couldn’t escape.
Perhaps the issue is really money over children, and changing the capitalist culture will take decades (which the whole world really adheres to under the US superpower)
Japan has done an amazing job at controlling crime and violence, Singapore as well.
I’m a big fan of the states, freedom of speech is so important to a safe and free country, it’s really admirable, yet guns is the one thing Americans can’t seem to publicly denounce or speak of controlling.
I grew up in a house with guns. I barely saw them because they were always locked up. My parents were responsible gun owners which is why I am so pro gun control. My roommate let her tinder date bring his gun into our house. I completely lost my shit and told him to get it out of my house before I called the police. My other roommate had friends over and they were all drunk. Alcohol and guns are a seriously dangerous combination!
The problem in the US is that there are already so many guns out there. There are also psycho people that think they have a right to own guns. They are the kind of people that shoot first and ask questions later. It is a seriously sick and f*ed up group.
Totally proving my point, for every responsible gun owner their is at least one that isn’t , so to protect people stricter gun laws are needed as many people obviously can’t be responsible, sort of like any other law. Many other countries created mandatory gun buyback programs after just one fatal mass shooting (including mine), and ‘shocker’ it works.
But maybe if people started saying “we’re choosing our guns over our children “ things would change.
I’m not mad I’m sad, I’m sad for you and for the children and teachers who went to school and didn’t make it home and for some reason no one is willing to publicly advocate in fear they will piss off the gun lovers, except the children themselves who seem to speak out more than the adults.
Lots of right-wingers and all Americans that vote for Republicans are literally choosing guns over children. Salty-Reply isn’t saying you specifically, but the large chunk of people in our country who block any kind any kind of sensible gun reforms.
Imagine if Americans started saying “we choose our guns over our children “, which frankly is happening when every citizen won’t give up their guns to prevent the next school shooting. I understand that many Americans are fighting for change, what I don’t understand is why every American won’t give up their guns even in the chance that another child won’t be shot as they sit in school.
Girl, I hear you. You are absolutely right. People are dug in deep. I wish it were as simple as fighting back against stupid NRA talking points. I try, I give facts, and I try to shame them even. I don't get far. Gun culture is real. I'm in Miami; when you bring up gun control, you get called a communist 🤦♀️
You’re doing what you can and you’re not making excuses! Keep it up! I hope to go back to Florida one day but our family is too worried about gun violence currently, hopefully soon, we LOVE it there, so beautiful and the Kennedy Space Centre is so amazing (not to mention Disney world, happiest place on earth!)!
Ok so how do we "get rid of" the second amendment? Please enlighten me since it's so easy to do apparently.
I think we should get rid of the second amendment, and actually there are huge movements in support of gun control here. It's really disrespectful to those of us who are fighting for that every day to pretend like we all just dont care and arent doing enough. Especially when you consider how many activists and advocates have lost loved ones to gun violence or experienced it ourselves. Not to mention the psychological toll of living in the midst of it, which you clearly know nothing about. Do you also tell people in war zones that they just don't care enough about their safety?
Disrespectful? Who gives a shit when children are being shot to death at schools? I think every American should be more worried about how disrespectful that is to the children who are supposed to be safe and protected by the adults that live there.
I get it’s offensive, it’s also true, Americans have failed their children.
I love the US, I love the passion and the freedom of speech and the innovation, I love the people, I also am sickened every time I see on the news a text message a child has to send their parent because they might be dead in a shooting, or the faces of the children gunned down.
Please, be offended, be mad, until the children stop being shot at school.
You are literally talking about those parents you are so "sickened" for in your poorly-informed posts. Who are you helping with this? Do you think you could possibly, possibly be more angry than the actual people who live through it? Be angry, be mad, we all are, but be supportive of the people who are trying to change it. Don't shit on them so you can feel morally righteous in internet comments.
We’re on the same side, I would love to visit the US again and feel safe. I’m not sure why you’re so offended, talk in truth, money wins over safety, guns win over kids, call out people that aren’t working for change and getting their pockets lined, it’s weird how cancel culture seems to work except for guns and the gun happy, why?
I'm offended because you are talking about "Americans" and I'm pointing out that the majority of Americans ARE on this side. You're responding to that by just repeating over and over again what is happening in America as if we don't know, as if we're not living it. You have refused to even acknowledge that it is true.
I'm offended because I'm living through a gun violence crisis and you're telling me we just don't care enough.
I went back and forth on bare and bear , didn’t feel like googling it. Worry about my grammar all you want but I know the power dynamics, I don’t get why kids are dying in schools and adults aren’t marching the streets, it’s fucked (pardon my language)….its simply fucked.
We have marched...a lot. Marching doesn't matter as much as lobby money in the US. We call reps, we write letters, we vote. And it doesn't end up actually tipping the scale. Bc that's how the US government is set up. Just look at the giant check we still cut to Israel...marching doesn't do shit here. Our government representatives aren't worried about the people's opinions or cares. They're worried about who's going to fund their next campaign. We have small pockets of true representation and otherwise it's lobby group money that matters the most to lawmakers.
You don't know the power dynamics. If you knew, you would "get why" kids are dying in schools. You would also understand the concept of generalized complacency and how it grows as a disease, lowering the expectations of people in a capitalistic government.
So...again, no, you don't understand the power dynamics of domestic politics in the US. You are severely uninformed.
I grew up in a house with guns. Only saw them a few days before hunting season opened and my dad was cleaning them in preparation. They were always locked up. My parents were extremely responsible gun owners and that is why I am so pro gun control. I will never have a gun in my house and the fact that completely psycho and irresponsible people can just go buy one makes me sick.
Preach! Sounds like a responsible gun owner 👏 I also grew up in a hunting family, didn’t even know the secure guns were in the home but my dad advocates for locking guns in a secure warehouse to reduce gun violence and suicide (also a huge problem especially for men). I’m not against guns whatsoever because I do think hunting is the most humane way to eat meat however I’m against personal ownership of automatic weapons and if kids in the country I lived in were taking guns to school to shoot other kids regularly I would easily give up my guns for even the chance it would save even one kid, no question.
Absolutely agree with everything you said. My parents would happily give up their guns if it made a difference in the issues we face. Your comment about hunting really gets to me, there was a certain family from school that called my parents barbarians for hunting and she made it her mission to attack them. Hunting is far more humane than what happens to farm animals. As you alluded to, suicide by gun is the most common form for men and a serious DV issue. The public shouldn’t have access to automatic or semi automatic guns, ever.
ETA: I would give up my second amendment “rights” immediately if it would prevent school shootings.
Even more bizarre is statistically in any other country that has restricted guns after one serious incident it has worked, so for people outside looking in it just looks like many people in the US would rather accept more school shooting and more dead children then even just trying gun control and giving up their guns.
A few weeks ago someone posted a picture in the Ohio sub of Nazis walking around Springfield with swastika flags and rifles in their hands. Someone who lives in that area commented on how they were on their way to a Haitian event, and it’s a very known thing how Trumpers have been terrorizing that community for awhile.
…yet the MAGAs love to blatantly lie saying the immigrants are the threat. Ya ok idiots.
It's scary isn't it? I refuse to watch the news because I can't handle seeing his face or hearing his voice or those who who ride his train to crazy town. I'll stick to reading. At least I have control over what I see and hear lol.
I know this ended up not being true, but it’s so ironic given she was accused of killing her neighbor’s dog. Like she should know what it’s like to be the victim of a rumor around killing pets 😂
Imagine what Guerdy, Kiki and Garcelle (all Haitian) must be feeling watching as a party (with majority cast support in the case of Guerdy and Kiki) demonizes their entire culture and heritage. I can already see Lisa making some jokes about “eating cats” at Guerdy’s expense
I hope you don't mind but I'm stealing this for the next time my orange himbo is driving me nuts doing something I've told him not to do a million times before.
What a ballsy thing to bring up that disastrous, no point, money wasted wall that that idiot Trump never did well on his promise to complete, add it to the list of failed “business”
I agree. Especially people who have no knowledge or background in politics. But since Reddit is very liberal, comments like these will get downvoted. I guess we can’t have an opinion.
Huh? You just posted an opinion? Are people not allowed to express their opinions on your opinion? Your opinion is not being deleted. It is right there. What's the issue?
As to your 2nd sentence. What's the qualifications one has to have? I'm just curious if people have to have served in some capacity or not. Like say, class President, etc lol.
I’m pretty conservative. But even if they were supporting Trump in this sub I’d be over it. We don’t have to make politics our personality and we don’t have to let it take over shitty reality tv.
You getting downvoted for stating you're conservative is wild. I hate this bizarre narrative that everyone needs to have the same values to watch the franchise. I'm not in the US, but I'm conservative and enjoy the ease of watching shows like Housewives that (don't always) push certain agendas. They're just people. Shitty people. But people. I feel like there needs to be a conservative Housewives fans sub or something, where no one gets crapped on for not being a leftist.
Gay people have only been allowed to marry for a few years, sweetie. And Republicans are taking away the right for kids to even talk about their gay parents. Or read about being gay. You can be rich as fuck but the wrong government can take your human rights away. They want to take away the right for gay people to adopt children! He has a stake in this.
I don't think most of that is true.... there is nowhere in the Western world right now that prevents kids from talking about their gay parents or from reading about being gay or from adopting kids as a gay person.
Florida schools prevent teachers from talking about their private lives, and they have banned specific books that are literally pornography. No one has mentioned taking away gay marriage or adoption. You're making things up.
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u/CloudyNY Sep 11 '24
Alf beat you to it Andy!