Anonymous wrote:Name something that doesn’t involve bringing others down. We know it makes you happy to “own the libs”, love Trump tearing down the east wing, and laugh at brown people being hunted in the street. I’m not asking about gloating. What is good in your personal life as a result of this regime? Has your grocery store lowered its prices? Did you finally get that promotion a DEI had stolen from you? Are you making so much money now that your wife can quit her job and stay home where she belongs pumping out babies? Is your child no longer gay? Are you paying less for health insurance? How has your life improved?

Anonymous wrote:I’m very happy already thanks.

As are most conservatives , research indicates that Republicans are happier than left leaning voters.

Maybe you should be asking yourself this question.

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Anonymous wrote:Voter ID, strong borders and deportation of border crashers. Immigration completely controlled by who will contribute and not drain resources.

I'm open to uncontrolled borders if all social spending is eliminated in the constitution. When the borders were open in the distant past people sank or swam with zero income redistribution, free hospital services or school. Charity was 100 percent private.

Dear MAGA dumb-f**k, here's a pro-tip: a rising tide lifts all boats.

No, it's a zero-sum system. Ds take from those who have, to give to those who don't have, often without rhyme or reason apart from a fundamentally Communist notion that nobody should have any more than anyone else, without regard to merit, effort, or initiative.

Money taken from those who have it sinks them; it doesn't cause them to rise along with those standing there with their hands out.

No.

If billionaires paid their fair share of taxes, they wouldn’t miss that money in the slightest. It’s not like they’re using it for anything worthwhile. Another Monet for their seventeenth villa in Italy? A yacht for their yacht? Quack immortality treatments? A few Congresspeople here and there? After a certain point, it’s pure excess. And as we’re all seeing with the release of the Epstein files, there is a level of wealth at which there is no accountability. It’s looking more and more like extreme wealth creates monsters. That alone should be enough to tax centibillionaires out of existence.

And if you don’t think billionaires owe anything to anyone, there is the fact that they made their billions in the first place by leveraging public infrastructure paid for by we the people.

"Fair share" meaning give some to you, even though you did nothing to earn it? Ok, then.

Many consider that "fair" is reaping the rewards of your own labor and efforts, not standing there with your hand out to sponge off the success of other people. You want more money? Go earn it for yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:Voter ID, strong borders and deportation of border crashers. Immigration completely controlled by who will contribute and not drain resources.

I'm open to uncontrolled borders if all social spending is eliminated in the constitution. When the borders were open in the distant past people sank or swam with zero income redistribution, free hospital services or school. Charity was 100 percent private.

Dear MAGA dumb-f**k, here's a pro-tip: a rising tide lifts all boats.

No, it's a zero-sum system. Ds take from those who have, to give to those who don't have, often without rhyme or reason apart from a fundamentally Communist notion that nobody should have any more than anyone else, without regard to merit, effort, or initiative.

Money taken from those who have it sinks them; it doesn't cause them to rise along with those standing there with their hands out.

No.

If billionaires paid their fair share of taxes, they wouldn’t miss that money in the slightest. It’s not like they’re using it for anything worthwhile. Another Monet for their seventeenth villa in Italy? A yacht for their yacht? Quack immortality treatments? A few Congresspeople here and there? After a certain point, it’s pure excess. And as we’re all seeing with the release of the Epstein files, there is a level of wealth at which there is no accountability. It’s looking more and more like extreme wealth creates monsters. That alone should be enough to tax centibillionaires out of existence.

And if you don’t think billionaires owe anything to anyone, there is the fact that they made their billions in the first place by leveraging public infrastructure paid for by we the people.

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Anonymous wrote:Name something that doesn’t involve bringing others down. We know it makes you happy to “own the libs”, love Trump tearing down the east wing, and laugh at brown people being hunted in the street. I’m not asking about gloating. What is good in your personal life as a result of this regime? Has your grocery store lowered its prices? Did you finally get that promotion a DEI had stolen from you? Are you making so much money now that your wife can quit her job and stay home where she belongs pumping out babies? Is your child no longer gay? Are you paying less for health insurance? How has your life improved?

Immigration moratorium for 25 years. The foreign born population of the United States is already at record levels and we need decades to assimilate the tens of millions of newcomers into our nation. And we're all about to suffer a tidal wave of job losses due to AI and automation and the last thing we need is millions of foreigners coming here to compete for increasingly scarce jobs and resources.

Anonymous wrote:Name something that doesn’t involve bringing others down. We know it makes you happy to “own the libs”, love Trump tearing down the east wing, and laugh at brown people being hunted in the street. I’m not asking about gloating. What is good in your personal life as a result of this regime? Has your grocery store lowered its prices? Did you finally get that promotion a DEI had stolen from you? Are you making so much money now that your wife can quit her job and stay home where she belongs pumping out babies? Is your child no longer gay? Are you paying less for health insurance? How has your life improved?

Anonymous wrote:I’m very happy already thanks.

As are most conservatives , research indicates that Republicans are happier than left leaning voters.

Maybe you should be asking yourself this question.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly it makes me happy when I have meaningful positive interactions with people — especially when these interactions are with people who are quite different from me.

I think it taps into the whole Martin Buber “I and Thou” concept — that even small interactions with strangers can be sacred and life-affirming if we let them be. It is the opposite of algorithmically driven discourse.

I’m an independent, btw, non-MAGA

OH BS there are no "independents" at this point in time

Either you believe in THE CONTSTITUTION or you don't. There is no inbetween!

We are at a crossroads and a Christian Nationalist MORON PEDOPHILE FELON with his sychophants are destroying this country. And you still claim to be an "independent"

No you are MAGA.

Anonymous wrote:Honestly it makes me happy when I have meaningful positive interactions with people — especially when these interactions are with people who are quite different from me.

I think it taps into the whole Martin Buber “I and Thou” concept — that even small interactions with strangers can be sacred and life-affirming if we let them be. It is the opposite of algorithmically driven discourse.

I’m an independent, btw, non-MAGA

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Anonymous wrote:Lower taxes, better regulated borders, disincentives for the able-bodied who choose not to work or who choose to be under-employed, social services limited to those whose situations are not of their own making, allocation of government benefits without regard to recipient immutable characteristics like race, gender, or ethnicity; national right-to-work legislation, and a greatly simplified tax code which neither incentivizes nor punishes personal or corporate behavior favored or disfavored by the government to achieve political objectives.

There are a number of items here that most Americans would agree with. But apart from better control of the southern border, Trump and the GOP is not addressing any of these items or even trying to. And surely progress on any would require compromise, no? So why the constant vilification of the Democratic Party?

Because Democrats used to be the party of the US worker but they have abandoned them.

we want are party back from the globalists

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Anonymous wrote:Voter ID, strong borders and deportation of border crashers. Immigration completely controlled by who will contribute and not drain resources.

I'm open to uncontrolled borders if all social spending is eliminated in the constitution. When the borders were open in the distant past people sank or swam with zero income redistribution, free hospital services or school. Charity was 100 percent private.

Dear MAGA dumb-f**k, here's a pro-tip: a rising tide lifts all boats.

No, it's a zero-sum system. Ds take from those who have, to give to those who don't have, often without rhyme or reason apart from a fundamentally Communist notion that nobody should have any more than anyone else, without regard to merit, effort, or initiative.

Money taken from those who have it sinks them; it doesn't cause them to rise along with those standing there with their hands out.

Anonymous wrote:This thread quickly devolved into the usual talking points — mostly what makes everyone unhappy about the other side.

But happiness: that’s a different beast entirely. It’s not “the absence of unhappiness.” It’s qualitatively different. Remember happiness?

What would make people — MAGA, sure, but anyone! — actually happy?