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@Romaq This gets me a lot... like i beleive in their intent, but they make such a dishonest argument to get there i just cant get on board... then when i correct them but say i agree with intent, now im a nazi and sealioning... its such a shitshow out tbere.

It's pretty horrible when you agree with people in principle, but they are are unprincipled liars exaggerating or making up "facts" whole-cloth, and in doing ruining any positive vibes you'd have interacting with them. "Uhm... dudes, you are right, but you DO NOT have to *LIE* about it, do you?"

Man the rhetoric on the fediverse gets soooo tiring... why does everything need to be exagerated beyond all reality... the reality is horrible enough, there is no need!

@freemo To give you an idea of how populist he is:

He went on about how he'd shoot drug smugglers on the border.

He went on about how he'd blockade Mexico with the navy to "stop the flow of drugs".

He went on about abolishing unanimous juries to administer the death penalty.

He wants to expand use of the death penalty outside of murder.

Censorship of books in libraries.

Censorship of views in higher education.

He talks big about all that tough on crime stuff.

Lots of talk about the border and "finishing the wall".

@olives I dont mind a strong border, though its not a priority for me... a lot of that is very concerning i agree.

@strawd I do, and if it is awful that woukd be a deal breaker for me for sure. LGBTQ rights are at least as importsnt, probably more so, to me than gun rights.

Sadly its hard to find supporters of gun rights that have other good principles i support... but i fear the pressure to violate gun rights is getting too strong to not have it be a factor for me.

@olives that could be... ill let ya know once i do some research if my opinions have changed

Until now ive had no love for Desantis. But just heard he made co stitutional conceal carry legal in florida... first time i heard of sometbi g he did that i really like, i migbt need to look into hin some more and see if maybe he is t so bad as i thought... maybe...

@taopond Why is it Laozi isnt considered a romanization but Lao Tzu is? Neither is in chinese characters.. sincere question.

@JonKramer Petty revenge, the best kind of revenge!

Reminds me of that time the guy paid all is past due tickets with a wheelbarrow full of pennies :)

@JonKramer Those arent parking tickets.. I think all of them are old parking slips (showing you paid to park there)... Only one of them is valid. He is trying to make the parking cops life difficult by forcing them to figure out which one, if any, is valid.

@auldlangsin quick, start licking every toad and eati g every growth you can find... something is bou d to work!

@LouisIngenthron

Going back to the point of sovereignty as its original definition as you shared "absolute control and autonomy"... well in the USA sovereignty is split. The federal government doesnt have it because they can not do certain things, and thus dont have absolute power (points 1 - 4 are powers the federal government doesnt have over states and states are sovereign in those regards).

That is why when we talk about sovereignty without any adjectives before it we say that sovereignty int he USA is shared between the federal and state governments, each taking a piece of the pie and only collectively can their powers be seen as sovereign as a whole.

@thegonzoism

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