You're doing the same old "everyone's the same, everything is the same" solipsism. It's easy to cherry pick outliers but that doesn't invalidate trends.
Fundamentally the Christian/western worldview and the Islamic worldview are 180 degrees apart, and lead to very different behavior in most individuals, and vastly different collective behavior. In the Christian/western worldview, man is fallen and shitty, and evil comes from inside us, so if we want to perfect our world (and get to heaven) we have to each work on our own behavior. In the Islamic worldview man is made pure, and then corrupted by the outside world, especially by the actions of infidels. This is why when a man rapes a woman they stone the woman because she tempted the pure muslim man with her brazen bare ankle. The end result of Muslims in large groups will always be the purging of those "who spread mischief in the land." That is, anyone who pisses off the leading local imam.
These lead to vastly different behaviors and societies. Understanding this requires critical thought, though, and mumbling about how "we're like, all the same, man..." doesn't get you kicked out of your hippie drum circle.
You're just a crazy conspiracy theorist nutjob. I saw another whacko anti-Semite who listed all Trump's "connections" with Jews and Israel to prove Trump is a puppet of the Jews. Do you believe that, too? Is there anyone Trump is not a puppet of? Illuminati? Aliens? Lizard people from the Hollow Earth?
You're hallucinating conspiracy theories because you can't face the truth: you're not as smart and well-informed as you think you are. Get help. Or don't. It doesn't really matter what you do. Trump's agenda is coming along swimmingly and all you can do is jump from delusion to delusion. Sad.
If he gets to build up digging know-how, he'll be the first to actually make a shitload of money off asteroid mining.
The hard part of asteroid mining isn't so much the digging...or even the space part. It's the separating and concentrating. On Earth the minerals we mine were concentrated by eons of geological, hydrological, volcanic and biological processes, none of which took place on a dead asteroid. So, yeah, there's trillions of tons of platinum in them thar asteroids! There's an atom of it over there, and atom over there, an atom over there...
I have no idea how to solve that problem. Seems like some kind of chemical engineering problem, or a nanoscale engineering problem of sifting and sorting and combining pulverized dust.
Like that 5% unemployment number Obama and Hillary kept touting? Lies, damn lies and statistics. Leaves out people who gave up looking for work, who are underemployed, who went from a 40 hour a week factory job to working 29 hours a week at McDonald's (so they don't have to give them Obamacare insurance), doesn't reflect the unhappiness of people who haven't had a raise in 10 years.
People don't vote based on government numbers. They vote based on their personal economy, and that's what they did this time. They looked at their job or lack thereof, the financial situations of their friends and their family and said "yeah, the economy sucks, I'm voting Trump" while Democrats screamed "don't believe your lying eyes look at these government numbers everything is great!"
The same thing will happen in 2020. Dems will trot out some cooked numbers to say "everything is falling apart!" but the real test will be what the rust belt and black voters do. If they compare their economic situation in 2020 to how it is today and say "I'm better off," they'll re-elect Trump, and if not then they won't, what the TV says be damned.
How do you think his economic policies will work? He can't restore the jobs his followers want. If he implements enough protectionism, we'll get into a trade war and everyone will suffer. Why do you think employment will be higher in 2021 than it is now?
We're already in a trade war. We've been in one for forty years, and not fighting, just getting beat the fuck down by everyone else. Nations manipulate their currencies, employ value added taxes, subsidize their industries, etc, to undercut American manufacturing. So when you say "start a trade war" that's like lying on the ground with the bully on top of you beating your face bloody and saying "no, don't try to block or punch, you wouldn't want to start a fight!" So, yes, actually fighting back with tariffs, with lowering our corporate tax rates, with reducing regulations to make it more profitable to make things in the US than outside the US will bring back jobs.
Also by cracking down on crime and rebuilding the inner cities I think he'll secure a much bigger portion of the black vote. Democrats operate under the theory that poverty creates crime. Wrong. Crime creates poverty. When Trump cracks down on gang violence, deports the cartels, and frees the police to do their jobs and stop letting the cities burn down you'll see peace return to the black communities, which will then allow for the possibility of prosperity. Blacks will be better off in 2020 than they are today. I think something like 16% of black men voted Trump...get that up to 25% and the dems are fucked.
Rather than forming a mob, Christians are more likely to exhibit by-passer syndrome and just let bad things happen to gays. Some non-Christians can form that mob. Or the government can enact laws against gays. Christians would stand by idly if not silently cheer because bad things are happening to a sinner with Christians being able to claim their hands are clean, since they technically didn't cast the first stone.
Then they would not be following Christ's example. Christ didn't cheer from the sidelines while the prostitute was stoned, he stepped in. There are many Christian martyrs who died in non-violent defense of others.
We have evidence that this is true because True Conservative Christians, despite being a majority in much of the West and had a much longer history, has failed to stop the rise of the violent and minority regressive left, to the point that Christians today are seriously freaking out over the possibility of "the West" (which they equate strongly with their Christian culture and civilization) collapsing.
And these people are acting, they are speaking, they are continuing non-violent resistance to the regressive left and thereby winning hearts and minds. Every time a nice, normal looking person who wants to hear a gay conservative make fun of fat feminists get beaten with a flag pole or maced by violent leftists, a new convert from the crowd is made.
This is also the point of many of Jesus' parables. When you're struck on your right cheek, you were probably backhanded by a Roman. This is how they strike slaves. When you turn to him your left he has to punch you, like an equal. This shocks him into seeing you as human, rather than a slave. Roman law allowed soldiers to press Jews into carrying their bags but only for a mile. So instead carry it two. "I INSIST MOTHERFUCKER. HOW FAR YOU WANT ME TO GO WITH THIS, HUH?!" When they take your coat, offer them your shirt, too. "ANYTHING ELSE?? JUST TAKE THE WHOLE DAMN THING, TAKE IT ALL!" It shames them into seeing you as a person and reflecting on their poor behavior.
This is also the method that inspired Gandhi, and MLK. Conservatives, Christians, regular Americans, are following this same path in waking people up to the threats of the regressive left, and in the end it'll work. If you take out the magicy bits, the story of Jesus Christ is that of a man with absolutely nothing, no wealth, no army, just his conviction and his voice overthrowing a corrupt and entrenched political elite. It's a damn fine manual for non-violent revolution, and is why commies are always desperate to suppress it.
As for the money changers, well, when asking "WWJD" never forget one of the answers is "flip over the tables and start whipping motherfuckers."
It's happened, but it's a shitty example on my part, to be honest. Let's start over.
To Christians, being gay, that is, being attracted to members of the same sex, is not a sin. Acting on it, by having gay sex or by getting gay married, is a sin. So the Christian objection to baking gay wedding cakes isn't "I won't bake for you because I don't like what you are" but "I won't bake for you because I don't want to participate in your sinful ceremony." I don't think the government should be forcing people to do things against their religion. Just go to a different bakery.
Also not comparable to not serving blacks or Jews. You're born black or (ethnically) Jewish. There is no evidence people are born gay (there is no gay gene). This is one of the many places where I facepalm at leftist "sciencey policy." There are real, obvious, genetic differences between different human haplogroups (that we for convenience group into different "races"), there are real, obvious, provable biological differences between the sexes/genders, but leftists treat these as "mere social constructs," while there is no genetic basis for homosexuality and it's likely culturally conditioned (were the ancient greeks genetically gay? Are the afghans who pass around little boys genetically gay?), the left insists that they're "born that way!" Everything is backwards from reality on the left. Biology is culture and culture is biology.
I did it, and not a single piece of evidence, just wishful thinking speculation. Propaganda outfits asking "Does Trump owe money to Russia...?" This is "did Glenn Beck rape and murder a girl in 1990?" tier propaganda, and you feel for it. Sad!
Name a significant movement in this country of Muslim immigrants who are trying to implement Sharia law in this country?
In this country, not yet. In every country they inhabit it happens eventually. There's a large movement for Sharia in the UK, and they now have Sharia marriage courts already. It starts with "we should live under our own laws..." but the British government won't be able to say "well, okay, you can throw your homos off rooftops, just not our homos off rooftops." This is considered "persecution" by the Muslims and sets them on a course from Medina-mode Islam ("hey we're a religion of peace!") to Mecca-mode Islam ("convert or die, infidel").
They're fleeing that nonsense not seeking to put it on us
It doesn't really matter what the individuals want, though. One of the emergent problems from the philosophy of Islam, and why it's so dangerous, is that it allows a violent minority to control a peaceful majority, unlike Christianity which does just the opposite. Imagine a group of Christians (or westerners who grew up in a culture descended from Christianity like the secularized west) surrounding a gay man about to stone him. One person could stand up and say "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone! Judge not lest ye be judged! Thou shalt not kill!" You don't even have to believe in God or Jesus, there's enough memes there to activate some cultural programming that makes the westerners stand down. "Gee, maybe we shouldn't do this..." A peaceful minority controlled a violent majority.
Now do the same thing with Muslims. A large crowd watches as a small group is about to stone the gay. You heroically rush forward to stop the stoning and say...what, exactly? "Don't do this because...it's exactly what Mohammed said to do...?" The peaceful majority can't back you up (and don't really care), and the violent minority will accuse you of apostasy and the penalty for that is death, so you get stoned along side the homo. Great, let that be a lesson to the rest of you, don't fuck with the imam.
So it doesn't matter what they're coming here to flee. They're fleeing authentic, homo-killing Islam to set up some radical "not real Islam" in which they don't kill homos (but don't really mind so much the killing of homos, like in the recent survey in which 100% (100%!) of UK muslims thought the penalty for homosexuality should be death, they just didn't feel like doing it themselves, and as soon as there's a large enough group of them a more hardline imam will start agitating "ya know, you're really not doing this right!" and off a few homos and apostates and everyone else falls in line. Individuals don't really matter near as much as group behavior.
All kinds of countries have all kinds of minorities in them, the presence of Russians does not justify an invasion.
What justified the coup, though?
Arent all boarders set in a "moment"?
Yes, and they can change, too.
Finally, I would suggest that letting Russia invade and occupy Crimea is not at all practical. Letting a single country arbitrarily decide that a boarder doesnt suit them and then take territory from another country does not set good precedent for maintaining global order.
And letting the US overthrow the government of Ukraine to cut Russia off the Black Sea isn't at all practical or good for maintaining global order. If Russia staged a coup in Canada to block the Keystone Pipeline and so the US sent in troops, who's really the aggressor here?
You're playing "the US gets to fuck with anybody they want any time, screw their governments, get their people killed, but if anybody else does anything they're a thug who's a threat to global order."
Oh, and as a practical matter, Ukraine is not getting Crimea back. Russia's not giving it back, and who's going to make them? Not us. Not the Ukrainians. This is just yet more fallout from Obama and Hillary's completely inept foreign policy. The lesson for the future should be: quit toppling foreign governments and then acting all shocked and surprised and blaming everyone else when shit goes sideways.
Oh, by the way, did you know it's illegal to borrow any funds for the purpose of campaign finance? Not even "illegal from Russian banks" but just illegal period, because of the threat of conflict of interest? So any evidence of Trump borrowing any money for campaigning, whether from Bank of Super Patriotic America of Putin's Bank of Evil Commie Russian Shit would be enough for legal action.
Gotta watch out for whatever fake news you swallowed. You're gullible as hell.
So any ethnic minority has the right to cede from their country and join themselves to another?
Why do they not have that right?
More importantly, why is it a right at all and not simply a practical issue? The rest of your examples are pretty good reasons for avoiding ethnic/cultural heterogeneity. i.e., don't let in Mexicans because if there's enough of them they'll want to join Mexico. Don't let in Muslims because they'll want to install Sharia.
Practically speaking, Crimea is full of ethnic Russians who speak Russian who are only attached to Ukraine because of commie bullshit. Should that momentary decision back in the 1950s persist for the next million years, the fate of the Crimean minority forever bound to the political whims of the Ukrainians? This seems bad from a practical matter, and the morality seems arbitrary.
But I actually do remember "drain the swamp." It's five specific items from this policy speech about reforming government lobbying, and he's put the policies that effect the executive branch into place already. Getting Congress to impose these restrictions on themselves is another matter and we can't get into legislative initiatives until the cabinet is confirmed, but there's zero sign of flip-flopping on draining the swamp.
The problem is the left and the media pretend that "draining the swamp" means...whatever the hell they want. It seems like they've tried to redefine it as something to do with his cabinet appointments. "Oh my god, Trump didn't appoint enough pink haired translesbian demieskimos to his cabinet, so much for draining the swamp!!!!" Who the hell cares?
Trump been checking his campaign promises off at an amazing rate. Actual Trump voters (not neocon GOP establishment hacks like John McCain and Lindsay Graham the media might trot out on TV) are very happy. Now if it turns out his policies don't work and the working class is still poor and we've got race riots in 2020, then I can see him losing. But it won't be for lack of trying.
First: I am going to institute a 5-year ban on all executive branch officials lobbying the government after they leave government service.
Second: I am going to ask Congress to institute its own 5-year ban on lobbying by former members of Congress and their staffs.
Third: I am going to expand the definition of lobbyist so we close all the loopholes that former government officials use by labeling themselves consultants and advisors when we all know they are lobbyists.
Fourth: I am going to issue a lifetime ban against senior executive branch officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government.
Fifth: I am going to ask Congress to pass a campaign finance reform that prevents registered foreign lobbyists from raising money in American elections.
In what way has Trump "completely flipped" on this policy?
The evangelicals who supported a walking list of deadly sins are presumably already disappointed that he backed off his promise to attack LGBTQ government employees.
He made no such promise. In fact he promised to protect LGBTQ citizens during his RNC speech and got a huge round of applause for it, and he waved around a rainbow flag at a rally.
The rest of your post is predicated on the belief that Trump's economic policies will fail. I disagree, I absolutely think they will work, and employment will be better in four years than it is today. We'll find out in four years which of us is right, and not by government statistics but by whether or not Trump is reelected.
How about a Republican who consistently bashes other Republicans and repeats Democrat talking points, and who consistently opposes the ideology of the Republican base?
Is a vegan who eats steak still a vegan, and anyone who says "you're not a real vegan" committing a fallacy? How about a Nazi who loves Jews and prefers international capitalism to national socialism?
Yes, actually. The anti-Trump demonstrations are organized by paid political activists. Moveon.org, BLM, Open Society...an awful lot of these funded by George Soros, who happens to have been a Jew who collaborated with the Nazis to turn in other Jews when he was a child. The organizers are paid, and a not insignificant number of the actual protestors are paid, too, about $25 via craigslist. When they rioted in Chicago and news crews interviewed them they didn't even know what they were "protesting."
It's very concerning, because essentially what you have is the terror wing of the state. No, the government can't beat up political opposition. And it would be unseemly for the Democratic party to beat up political opposition. But when you have the billionaires who fund the Democratic party that was in power at the time also funding organizations that beat up the political opposition to the Democratic party...what the hell is the difference?
You see the nice German people who are currently having the piss taken out of them because they are taking hundreds of thousands of dark skinned Muslims as refugees. The nice German people took 6 million Jews, Gypsys, Black people, Homosexuals and gassed them to death because they reclassified them as dangerous animals.
It's not the same Germans, though. Do the teenage German girls in cologne deserve to be raped by Muslims because of her grandparents were Nazis? Or perhaps didn't even support the party and were simply Nazi-adjacent? And when will the guilt be absolved? Will her children be allowed to express their own interest without Nazi guilt? Their children? When?
I don't know where this concept of racial guilt comes from (and always while denying racial pride). I'm Catholic, funny, when I go to confession, my priest never asks me to confess my father's sins.
Isn't this exactly the freedom from government restrictions on how I choose to run my business that the right wants?
Half. I don't want the government forcing Christians to bake gay wedding cakes either. I spent a decade yelling at Christians to stop trying to force their shit on the gays, only to have the gays turn around and force their shit on the Christians. I'm beginning to think libertarian society is impossible because authority is too addictive.
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You're doing the same old "everyone's the same, everything is the same" solipsism. It's easy to cherry pick outliers but that doesn't invalidate trends.
Fundamentally the Christian/western worldview and the Islamic worldview are 180 degrees apart, and lead to very different behavior in most individuals, and vastly different collective behavior. In the Christian/western worldview, man is fallen and shitty, and evil comes from inside us, so if we want to perfect our world (and get to heaven) we have to each work on our own behavior. In the Islamic worldview man is made pure, and then corrupted by the outside world, especially by the actions of infidels. This is why when a man rapes a woman they stone the woman because she tempted the pure muslim man with her brazen bare ankle. The end result of Muslims in large groups will always be the purging of those "who spread mischief in the land." That is, anyone who pisses off the leading local imam.
These lead to vastly different behaviors and societies. Understanding this requires critical thought, though, and mumbling about how "we're like, all the same, man..." doesn't get you kicked out of your hippie drum circle.
You're just a crazy conspiracy theorist nutjob. I saw another whacko anti-Semite who listed all Trump's "connections" with Jews and Israel to prove Trump is a puppet of the Jews. Do you believe that, too? Is there anyone Trump is not a puppet of? Illuminati? Aliens? Lizard people from the Hollow Earth?
You're hallucinating conspiracy theories because you can't face the truth: you're not as smart and well-informed as you think you are. Get help. Or don't. It doesn't really matter what you do. Trump's agenda is coming along swimmingly and all you can do is jump from delusion to delusion. Sad.
And just imagine, if you could take the energy of a nuclear reactor, and release it all at once!
If he gets to build up digging know-how, he'll be the first to actually make a shitload of money off asteroid mining.
The hard part of asteroid mining isn't so much the digging...or even the space part. It's the separating and concentrating. On Earth the minerals we mine were concentrated by eons of geological, hydrological, volcanic and biological processes, none of which took place on a dead asteroid. So, yeah, there's trillions of tons of platinum in them thar asteroids! There's an atom of it over there, and atom over there, an atom over there...
I have no idea how to solve that problem. Seems like some kind of chemical engineering problem, or a nanoscale engineering problem of sifting and sorting and combining pulverized dust.
Why would any sane person ever run for president?
You can either talk people down or rise to their level.
Well the first one is much easier, so...kind of a no-brainer.
We use government statistics.
Like that 5% unemployment number Obama and Hillary kept touting? Lies, damn lies and statistics. Leaves out people who gave up looking for work, who are underemployed, who went from a 40 hour a week factory job to working 29 hours a week at McDonald's (so they don't have to give them Obamacare insurance), doesn't reflect the unhappiness of people who haven't had a raise in 10 years.
People don't vote based on government numbers. They vote based on their personal economy, and that's what they did this time. They looked at their job or lack thereof, the financial situations of their friends and their family and said "yeah, the economy sucks, I'm voting Trump" while Democrats screamed "don't believe your lying eyes look at these government numbers everything is great!"
The same thing will happen in 2020. Dems will trot out some cooked numbers to say "everything is falling apart!" but the real test will be what the rust belt and black voters do. If they compare their economic situation in 2020 to how it is today and say "I'm better off," they'll re-elect Trump, and if not then they won't, what the TV says be damned.
How do you think his economic policies will work? He can't restore the jobs his followers want. If he implements enough protectionism, we'll get into a trade war and everyone will suffer. Why do you think employment will be higher in 2021 than it is now?
We're already in a trade war. We've been in one for forty years, and not fighting, just getting beat the fuck down by everyone else. Nations manipulate their currencies, employ value added taxes, subsidize their industries, etc, to undercut American manufacturing. So when you say "start a trade war" that's like lying on the ground with the bully on top of you beating your face bloody and saying "no, don't try to block or punch, you wouldn't want to start a fight!" So, yes, actually fighting back with tariffs, with lowering our corporate tax rates, with reducing regulations to make it more profitable to make things in the US than outside the US will bring back jobs.
Also by cracking down on crime and rebuilding the inner cities I think he'll secure a much bigger portion of the black vote. Democrats operate under the theory that poverty creates crime. Wrong. Crime creates poverty. When Trump cracks down on gang violence, deports the cartels, and frees the police to do their jobs and stop letting the cities burn down you'll see peace return to the black communities, which will then allow for the possibility of prosperity. Blacks will be better off in 2020 than they are today. I think something like 16% of black men voted Trump...get that up to 25% and the dems are fucked.
Again, we'll see what happens.
Rather than forming a mob, Christians are more likely to exhibit by-passer syndrome and just let bad things happen to gays. Some non-Christians can form that mob. Or the government can enact laws against gays. Christians would stand by idly if not silently cheer because bad things are happening to a sinner with Christians being able to claim their hands are clean, since they technically didn't cast the first stone.
Then they would not be following Christ's example. Christ didn't cheer from the sidelines while the prostitute was stoned, he stepped in. There are many Christian martyrs who died in non-violent defense of others.
We have evidence that this is true because True Conservative Christians, despite being a majority in much of the West and had a much longer history, has failed to stop the rise of the violent and minority regressive left, to the point that Christians today are seriously freaking out over the possibility of "the West" (which they equate strongly with their Christian culture and civilization) collapsing.
And these people are acting, they are speaking, they are continuing non-violent resistance to the regressive left and thereby winning hearts and minds. Every time a nice, normal looking person who wants to hear a gay conservative make fun of fat feminists get beaten with a flag pole or maced by violent leftists, a new convert from the crowd is made.
This is also the point of many of Jesus' parables. When you're struck on your right cheek, you were probably backhanded by a Roman. This is how they strike slaves. When you turn to him your left he has to punch you, like an equal. This shocks him into seeing you as human, rather than a slave. Roman law allowed soldiers to press Jews into carrying their bags but only for a mile. So instead carry it two. "I INSIST MOTHERFUCKER. HOW FAR YOU WANT ME TO GO WITH THIS, HUH?!" When they take your coat, offer them your shirt, too. "ANYTHING ELSE?? JUST TAKE THE WHOLE DAMN THING, TAKE IT ALL!" It shames them into seeing you as a person and reflecting on their poor behavior.
This is also the method that inspired Gandhi, and MLK. Conservatives, Christians, regular Americans, are following this same path in waking people up to the threats of the regressive left, and in the end it'll work. If you take out the magicy bits, the story of Jesus Christ is that of a man with absolutely nothing, no wealth, no army, just his conviction and his voice overthrowing a corrupt and entrenched political elite. It's a damn fine manual for non-violent revolution, and is why commies are always desperate to suppress it.
As for the money changers, well, when asking "WWJD" never forget one of the answers is "flip over the tables and start whipping motherfuckers."
It's happened, but it's a shitty example on my part, to be honest. Let's start over.
To Christians, being gay, that is, being attracted to members of the same sex, is not a sin. Acting on it, by having gay sex or by getting gay married, is a sin. So the Christian objection to baking gay wedding cakes isn't "I won't bake for you because I don't like what you are" but "I won't bake for you because I don't want to participate in your sinful ceremony." I don't think the government should be forcing people to do things against their religion. Just go to a different bakery.
Also not comparable to not serving blacks or Jews. You're born black or (ethnically) Jewish. There is no evidence people are born gay (there is no gay gene). This is one of the many places where I facepalm at leftist "sciencey policy." There are real, obvious, genetic differences between different human haplogroups (that we for convenience group into different "races"), there are real, obvious, provable biological differences between the sexes/genders, but leftists treat these as "mere social constructs," while there is no genetic basis for homosexuality and it's likely culturally conditioned (were the ancient greeks genetically gay? Are the afghans who pass around little boys genetically gay?), the left insists that they're "born that way!" Everything is backwards from reality on the left. Biology is culture and culture is biology.
I did it, and not a single piece of evidence, just wishful thinking speculation. Propaganda outfits asking "Does Trump owe money to Russia...?" This is "did Glenn Beck rape and murder a girl in 1990?" tier propaganda, and you feel for it. Sad!
Name a significant movement in this country of Muslim immigrants who are trying to implement Sharia law in this country?
In this country, not yet. In every country they inhabit it happens eventually. There's a large movement for Sharia in the UK, and they now have Sharia marriage courts already. It starts with "we should live under our own laws..." but the British government won't be able to say "well, okay, you can throw your homos off rooftops, just not our homos off rooftops." This is considered "persecution" by the Muslims and sets them on a course from Medina-mode Islam ("hey we're a religion of peace!") to Mecca-mode Islam ("convert or die, infidel").
They're fleeing that nonsense not seeking to put it on us
It doesn't really matter what the individuals want, though. One of the emergent problems from the philosophy of Islam, and why it's so dangerous, is that it allows a violent minority to control a peaceful majority, unlike Christianity which does just the opposite. Imagine a group of Christians (or westerners who grew up in a culture descended from Christianity like the secularized west) surrounding a gay man about to stone him. One person could stand up and say "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone! Judge not lest ye be judged! Thou shalt not kill!" You don't even have to believe in God or Jesus, there's enough memes there to activate some cultural programming that makes the westerners stand down. "Gee, maybe we shouldn't do this..." A peaceful minority controlled a violent majority.
Now do the same thing with Muslims. A large crowd watches as a small group is about to stone the gay. You heroically rush forward to stop the stoning and say...what, exactly? "Don't do this because...it's exactly what Mohammed said to do...?" The peaceful majority can't back you up (and don't really care), and the violent minority will accuse you of apostasy and the penalty for that is death, so you get stoned along side the homo. Great, let that be a lesson to the rest of you, don't fuck with the imam.
So it doesn't matter what they're coming here to flee. They're fleeing authentic, homo-killing Islam to set up some radical "not real Islam" in which they don't kill homos (but don't really mind so much the killing of homos, like in the recent survey in which 100% (100%!) of UK muslims thought the penalty for homosexuality should be death, they just didn't feel like doing it themselves, and as soon as there's a large enough group of them a more hardline imam will start agitating "ya know, you're really not doing this right!" and off a few homos and apostates and everyone else falls in line. Individuals don't really matter near as much as group behavior.
All kinds of countries have all kinds of minorities in them, the presence of Russians does not justify an invasion.
What justified the coup, though?
Arent all boarders set in a "moment"?
Yes, and they can change, too.
Finally, I would suggest that letting Russia invade and occupy Crimea is not at all practical. Letting a single country arbitrarily decide that a boarder doesnt suit them and then take territory from another country does not set good precedent for maintaining global order.
And letting the US overthrow the government of Ukraine to cut Russia off the Black Sea isn't at all practical or good for maintaining global order. If Russia staged a coup in Canada to block the Keystone Pipeline and so the US sent in troops, who's really the aggressor here?
You're playing "the US gets to fuck with anybody they want any time, screw their governments, get their people killed, but if anybody else does anything they're a thug who's a threat to global order."
Oh, and as a practical matter, Ukraine is not getting Crimea back. Russia's not giving it back, and who's going to make them? Not us. Not the Ukrainians. This is just yet more fallout from Obama and Hillary's completely inept foreign policy. The lesson for the future should be: quit toppling foreign governments and then acting all shocked and surprised and blaming everyone else when shit goes sideways.
Oh, by the way, did you know it's illegal to borrow any funds for the purpose of campaign finance? Not even "illegal from Russian banks" but just illegal period, because of the threat of conflict of interest? So any evidence of Trump borrowing any money for campaigning, whether from Bank of Super Patriotic America of Putin's Bank of Evil Commie Russian Shit would be enough for legal action.
Gotta watch out for whatever fake news you swallowed. You're gullible as hell.
I just googled it and literally nothing about campaign funds from Russian banks. Can you give me one of those commie links, oh majestic woke friend?
So any ethnic minority has the right to cede from their country and join themselves to another?
Why do they not have that right?
More importantly, why is it a right at all and not simply a practical issue? The rest of your examples are pretty good reasons for avoiding ethnic/cultural heterogeneity. i.e., don't let in Mexicans because if there's enough of them they'll want to join Mexico. Don't let in Muslims because they'll want to install Sharia.
Practically speaking, Crimea is full of ethnic Russians who speak Russian who are only attached to Ukraine because of commie bullshit. Should that momentary decision back in the 1950s persist for the next million years, the fate of the Crimean minority forever bound to the political whims of the Ukrainians? This seems bad from a practical matter, and the morality seems arbitrary.
The Tea Party is the political insurgency that took over the Republican party. Actually took it back from the Neocon movement.
Okay. What did Flynn do that was illegal?
Currently Trump owns millions to Russian banks for his campaign funds
Yeah I don't think you can back that up.
But I actually do remember "drain the swamp." It's five specific items from this policy speech about reforming government lobbying, and he's put the policies that effect the executive branch into place already. Getting Congress to impose these restrictions on themselves is another matter and we can't get into legislative initiatives until the cabinet is confirmed, but there's zero sign of flip-flopping on draining the swamp.
The problem is the left and the media pretend that "draining the swamp" means...whatever the hell they want. It seems like they've tried to redefine it as something to do with his cabinet appointments. "Oh my god, Trump didn't appoint enough pink haired translesbian demieskimos to his cabinet, so much for draining the swamp!!!!" Who the hell cares?
Trump been checking his campaign promises off at an amazing rate. Actual Trump voters (not neocon GOP establishment hacks like John McCain and Lindsay Graham the media might trot out on TV) are very happy. Now if it turns out his policies don't work and the working class is still poor and we've got race riots in 2020, then I can see him losing. But it won't be for lack of trying.
First: I am going to institute a 5-year ban on all executive branch officials lobbying the government after they leave government service.
Second: I am going to ask Congress to institute its own 5-year ban on lobbying by former members of Congress and their staffs.
Third: I am going to expand the definition of lobbyist so we close all the loopholes that former government officials use by labeling themselves consultants and advisors when we all know they are lobbyists.
Fourth: I am going to issue a lifetime ban against senior executive branch officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government.
Fifth: I am going to ask Congress to pass a campaign finance reform that prevents registered foreign lobbyists from raising money in American elections.
In what way has Trump "completely flipped" on this policy?
The evangelicals who supported a walking list of deadly sins are presumably already disappointed that he backed off his promise to attack LGBTQ government employees.
He made no such promise. In fact he promised to protect LGBTQ citizens during his RNC speech and got a huge round of applause for it, and he waved around a rainbow flag at a rally.
The rest of your post is predicated on the belief that Trump's economic policies will fail. I disagree, I absolutely think they will work, and employment will be better in four years than it is today. We'll find out in four years which of us is right, and not by government statistics but by whether or not Trump is reelected.
Some businesses have stated they refuse service to Trump supporters. Is that okay?
So, force the Crimeans back with the Ukrainians even if they don't want to go? Doesn't sound very democratic.
How about a Republican who consistently bashes other Republicans and repeats Democrat talking points, and who consistently opposes the ideology of the Republican base?
Is a vegan who eats steak still a vegan, and anyone who says "you're not a real vegan" committing a fallacy? How about a Nazi who loves Jews and prefers international capitalism to national socialism?
Could I buy an Anti-Trump rally?
Yes, actually. The anti-Trump demonstrations are organized by paid political activists. Moveon.org, BLM, Open Society...an awful lot of these funded by George Soros, who happens to have been a Jew who collaborated with the Nazis to turn in other Jews when he was a child. The organizers are paid, and a not insignificant number of the actual protestors are paid, too, about $25 via craigslist. When they rioted in Chicago and news crews interviewed them they didn't even know what they were "protesting."
It's very concerning, because essentially what you have is the terror wing of the state. No, the government can't beat up political opposition. And it would be unseemly for the Democratic party to beat up political opposition. But when you have the billionaires who fund the Democratic party that was in power at the time also funding organizations that beat up the political opposition to the Democratic party...what the hell is the difference?
You see the nice German people who are currently having the piss taken out of them because they are taking hundreds of thousands of dark skinned Muslims as refugees. The nice German people took 6 million Jews, Gypsys, Black people, Homosexuals and gassed them to death because they reclassified them as dangerous animals.
It's not the same Germans, though. Do the teenage German girls in cologne deserve to be raped by Muslims because of her grandparents were Nazis? Or perhaps didn't even support the party and were simply Nazi-adjacent? And when will the guilt be absolved? Will her children be allowed to express their own interest without Nazi guilt? Their children? When?
I don't know where this concept of racial guilt comes from (and always while denying racial pride). I'm Catholic, funny, when I go to confession, my priest never asks me to confess my father's sins.
Isn't this exactly the freedom from government restrictions on how I choose to run my business that the right wants?
Half. I don't want the government forcing Christians to bake gay wedding cakes either. I spent a decade yelling at Christians to stop trying to force their shit on the gays, only to have the gays turn around and force their shit on the Christians. I'm beginning to think libertarian society is impossible because authority is too addictive.