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The Big Mac set in Japan is ¥750 right now.

And Burger King is even cheaper.

It baffles my mind that people would pay $18 USD for that shit. I visited the US last year and while prices in general had definitely gone up since the last time I was there, there is absolutely no justification to pay $18 for McDonald’s. It’s crazy.

The fuck are you talking about?

You’re replying to things I didn’t say. Are you hearing voices or something?

Try again. Do better.

What about when people vote against their own interests?

They have the right to do so.

What about when the majority suppresses minorities?

That is a bad thing. But talk about a dictatorship?? That’s one person suppressing everybody else.

Dictatorships are not intrinsically bad.

You can have good dictators, even if they are rare.

Hard disagree there.

But it really depends on what you value as good and bad.

For instance, if you think that people have an inherent right to have a say in how they are governed, then a dictatorship can never be good because it infringes on that right in the most serious of ways.

If you think a stable and sustainable system of government that will last beyond the life of a few leaders is important, then dictatorship is not a good system, because one good dictator creates no guarantee that the next dictator will be good, and establishing a system of dictatorship affords a bad dictator that much more power to ruin lives.

Non-wankers, in fact.

he can’t pardon himself

Anytime I hear someone say Trump can’t do something, I want to wave my hands in the air and point to everything.

Trump will pardon himself because he has no shame, and the people in charge of pointing out that he can’t pardon himself will do fuckall, just like every single person with any repsonsibility has done fuckall the stop Trump from doing anything for the past 8 years.

There have been thousands of chances to prevent Trump from doing A, B, C, D, E, F, G, etc. And every. single. person. has done nothing at all to stop him. He truly is above the law.

So it’s not alarmist then. It’s an accurate take.

See, I might have cared about OP’s post being hypocritical or condescending. But then you went and posted something so outrageously dishonest, and when it was pointed out instead of owning up to your mistake and trying to do better, you doubled down on it and got pissy. But since you don’t care, I guess that’s where we end it.

Look at the text you wrote, and the parts that I bolded.

There is a difference between legitimate disagreement and dishonesty.

Pretending that OP is giving carte blanche to genocide or shrugging that off is an outright lie. Accusing them of anything else based on that lie is also dishonest.

You didn’t answer the question though.

Do you think democracy in the US is the same today as it was 8 years ago?

And do you think that if Trump wins the election, democracy in the US will be the same 4 years from now as it is today?

No it wasn’t, not even in the least. It’s absolutely dishonest to pretend that’s what it was.

Go after him for what he actually said instead of making up things to be angry about.

You thinking you have the more enlightened position simply because you are willing to carte blanche accept this behavior or foreign policy position from the candidate that will be better for the United States doesn’t make you a genius, it makes you self-rigtheous and self-centered. Real innocent people are really dying, and your ability to shrug that off in such a smug, self-satisfied way is truly appalling.

This really isn’t at all what he said, and is an extremely dishonest thing to post.

You complain that your comments fall on deaf ears, but when you accuse people of things that are blatant lies, what do you expect?

Is it alarmist though? Do you think that if Trump wins the election, democracy in the US will be the same 4 years from now as it is today?

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“I’m gonna vote for Jill Stein!”

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These people are harassing children and spewing hate messages. No they’re not violent terrorists, but they’re closer to that than they are to debaters.

both sides allowed to voice their positions in neutral language

Neutral language? Are you kidding me??

This is not a debate. One side’s position is “we want an after school club where we can learn about science and feel accepted.” The other side’s position is “you are evil and deserve to die.” If you give those two positions equal time, you are not being neutral. And there is no “neutral language” for hate speech.

And you’re trying to argue that “New club starts after school, kids have fun” Is some gross misrepresentation of what you said?

Yes. Because that’s not what I said at all. Go read what I actually fucking said.

It was a completely inoffensive article

It wasn’t.

that you blatantly misrepresented so you could offended. Sorry, but you clearly tried hard to do so.

I didn’t.

And I notice that you didn’t actually challenge any of my claims.

Because it was a dishonest troll comment that misrepresented what I said. Just like this one is too. There’s nothing to challenge when all that you wrote was dishonest. And there’s no reason to treat you seriously when you’re just trolling.

Well I wouldn’t have expected them to publish kids’ names for exactly the reason you suggest. But getting quotes from them should have been possible. And in any case, whether they quote the kids or not, at the minimum I expect them not to platform the people spewing hate. I don’t agree with you that what the article does is simply “shining a light.” They’re helping them out.