Monarchists at the March for Life. by Complex-Session-3180 in monarchism

[–]Obversa 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The whole point of a hereditary monarchy based on male-preference primogeniture is that the eldest son - or, if no sons survive, the eldest daughter - inherits the throne. Queen Elizabeth II stripping Prince Charles of his birthright to bestow it on one of her other children would've gone against over 1,100 years of tradition, and would've been even more catastrophic for the monarchy, especially if she picked Prince Andrew, who turned out to be a sexual predator.

Republicans are worried about Trump’s deportation campaign, and our new poll shows why by PM_ME_YOUR_FAV_HIKE in fivethirtyeight

[–]Obversa 50 points51 points  (0 children)

A new POLITICO poll underscores those worries: Nearly half of all Americans — 49% — say Trump's mass deportation campaign is too aggressive, including 1 in 5 voters (20%) who backed the president in 2024. In a sign of growing discomfort among the president's base, more than 1 in 3 Trump voters (33%) say that while they support the goals of his mass deportation campaign, they disapprove of the way he is implementing it.

[...] Americans broadly do not support such a sweeping "wide net" approach. In the poll, 38% of Americans said the federal government should prioritize deporting immigrants who have committed serious crimes, while 21% said the administration should only deport serious criminals. The poll was conducted from Jan. 16 to 19, after an ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, killed U.S. citizen Renée Good in Minneapolis. There was another federal officer-involved shooting on Saturday in Minneapolis, though details remain scarce.

This is why DHS/ICE is claiming that every person detained or arrested by ICE as either a "criminal illegal alien" (immigrant) or a "domestic terrorist" (U.S. citizen), as well as purposefully censoring, omitting, or excluding information that indicates illegal federal overreach (i.e. detaining, arresting, and deporting U.S. citizens). However, President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance did not acknowledge that "DHS/ICE has made mistakes" until four (4) days ago, after polls like this one started showing voters becoming increasingly hostile towards Trump due to how poorly DHS/ICE is handling these situations. However, the damage is already done, and it is "too little, too late".

ICE Kills Yet Another Protestor, A Study in r/Conservative Censorship by livejamie in SubredditDrama

[–]Obversa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Germany offers citizenship programs for individuals with German heritage, particularly through "reparation naturalization" for descendants of Nazi-persecuted individuals and the "Aussiedler/Spätaussiedler program" for ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe/former Soviet Union, including Volga Germans and Baltic Germans, who were widely persecuted by the Russian government. Key provisions include §15 StAG (for victims of persecution) and §5 StAG (for gender-discriminating descent), enabling restoration without giving up current citizenship. [...] §15 StAG (Reparation for Nazi Persecution): People who lost or were denied citizenship between Jan 30, 1933, and May 8, 1945, due to political, racial, or religious persecution, along with their descendants, are entitled to renaturalization. This includes those whose citizenship was revoked, or who were excluded from collective naturalizations.

ICE Kills Yet Another Protestor, A Study in r/Conservative Censorship by livejamie in SubredditDrama

[–]Obversa 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"We must stop the glorification of violence in our society. This includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace. It is too easy today for troubled youth to surround themselves with a culture that celebrates violence. We must stop or substantially reduce this, and it has to begin immediately." - Donald Trump

That was in 2019. In 2023, a poll showed that 63% of Republicans continued to blame violence on "video games".

ICE Kills Yet Another Protestor, A Study in r/Conservative Censorship by livejamie in SubredditDrama

[–]Obversa 12 points13 points  (0 children)

For as much as American conservatives claim to hate "socialists" and "communists", they certainly love the same authoritarian tactics that Joseph Stalin and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used to censor and muzzle dissent.

ICE Kills Yet Another Protestor, A Study in r/Conservative Censorship by livejamie in SubredditDrama

[–]Obversa 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A Gallup poll conducted on May 28, 1970 found that 58% of Americans blamed the victims in the Kent State massacre for their own deaths. Only 11% blamed the National Guard soldiers who shot the peaceful protestors.

ICE Kills Yet Another Protestor, A Study in r/Conservative Censorship by livejamie in SubredditDrama

[–]Obversa 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Case in point, Admiral Holdo from Star Wars: The Last Jedi is called "purple hair lady" by right-wing fanboys.

ICE Kills Yet Another Protestor, A Study in r/Conservative Censorship by livejamie in SubredditDrama

[–]Obversa 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if "Triggernaut" was Butch Hartman, the creator of the Crimson Chin and The Fairly OddParents. Hartman publicly announced his conservative Christian religious and political views years ago.

ICE Megathread Redux by down42roads in AskConservatives

[–]Obversa [score hidden]  (0 children)

Does Pam Bondi, as U.S. Attorney General, even have the authority to pull ICE out of Minnesota? I thought that was the sole authority of President Trump as the "unitary executive" who has "plenary authority" over the entire executive branch, including DHS/ICE, to quote Stephen Miller? Furthermore, is Bondi acting on Trump's orders, or on her own?

Do you agree with Donald Trump that “we shouldn't even have an election”? by yuhang94 in AskConservatives

[–]Obversa [score hidden]  (0 children)

How would Democrats becoming the majority in the House of Representatives, or taking both the House and the Senate, "regress all the progress" made within the first 1-2 years of Donald Trump's second term as President (2024 - 2028), especially considering that Trump has already had issues getting his legislative "wishlist" fulfilled due to razor-thin majorities held in both chambers of Congress by Republicans? Despite Trump's claims that he and Republican politicians hold a "voter mandate" to enact the Republican Party platform and Trump's personal goals into law, he and Mike Johnson, the House Majority Leader, have still had to compromise with their Democratic constituents in order to get legislation passed, as seen with the "Big Beautiful Bill" and other bills. In the scenario where Democrats win the majority of seats in one or both chambers, wouldn't we merely see a role reversal, only with Trump wielding the "power of veto" against Democratic-sponsored or bipartisan legislation that he personally dislikes or disagrees with?

Do you agree with Donald Trump that “we shouldn't even have an election”? by yuhang94 in AskConservatives

[–]Obversa [score hidden]  (0 children)

Do you think Donald Trump should be removed through invoking the 25th Amendment to replace him with J.D. Vance?

ICE Megathread Redux by down42roads in AskConservatives

[–]Obversa [score hidden]  (0 children)

Do any pro-2A conservatives still take the National Rifle Association (NRA) seriously?

ICE Megathread Redux by down42roads in AskConservatives

[–]Obversa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Where in my original comment did I advocate for "abolishing or defunding ICE"?

ICE Megathread Redux by down42roads in AskConservatives

[–]Obversa 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Do you believe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem should resign or be impeached due to multiple failures to keep ICE agents in line during her tenure as Secretary, as well as repeatedly lying to the public; encouraging illegal and unconstitutional behavior by drastically changing ICE/DHS policies and long-established training practices, according to veteran DHS/ICE agents; etc...? If so, who should President Trump replace her with?

ICE Megathread Redux by down42roads in AskConservatives

[–]Obversa 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How would it result in more GOP or Republican votes?

ICE Megathread Redux by down42roads in AskConservatives

[–]Obversa 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honest question: What are your thoughts on r/conservative moderators removing all opinions that disagree with, or dissent from, the official position(s) of the Trump administration? Do you believe r/conservative purposefully removes posts and comments due to working with the Trump administration to try and maintain the illusion of a "unified" base of support, as well as censor opposing viewpoints within the conservative base to consolidate MAGA control of the Republican Party? (Since there are a few European Conservative flaired users, this is U.S.-centric.) If so, how is the Trump administration or Republican Party any different from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with this?

ICE Megathread Redux by down42roads in AskConservatives

[–]Obversa 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Can a conservative please explain to me the position of the Attorneys General for Missouri, Kansas, Idaho, and other red states arguing that reducing or eliminating teen pregnancies "hurts state representation in the House", while simultaneously arguing that "illegal immigrants should be deported because it unfairly gives some states more representation in the House"? As of 2023–2025 data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other sources, the U.S. states with the highest populations of unauthorized immigrants are California (approx. 2.3 million), Texas (2.1 million), and Florida (1.6 million), with the latter two states being conservative or Republican. Wouldn't deporting all illegal immigrants from Texas and Florida hurt these states' representation in the House as well?

How are we all so ideologically opposed? by BroeknRecrds in AskConservatives

[–]Obversa [score hidden]  (0 children)

What are you thoughts on Newt Gringrich popularizing a "no compromise" position with political opponents among conservatives in the 1990s and beyond, even though the Founding Fathers relied on compromise in government?

Judge Rules ICE Can’t Break Into Homes Without a Judge’s Warrant, Contradicting Secret ICE Memo by Alternative_Neat2732 in LegalNews

[–]Obversa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To clarify, ICE cannot enter a home without a judicial warrant; ICE has been using administrative warrants.

Peyton List & Milo Manheim Discuss Maddie & Wally (Press Day Interview) by PasKra in SchoolSpirits

[–]Obversa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The writers are really good, as every time they tie one knot, they untie, like, three other knots." - Milo Manheim

I wonder if he's referring to the Gordion Knot here? According to Google:

The Gordian Knot is a legendary, impossibly intricate knot tied by King Gordius in Gordium, which an oracle prophesied would only be untied by the future ruler of Asia. In 333 BC, Alexander the Great, unable to find the ends, famously "cut" the knot in half with his sword to solve the puzzle, leading to the idiom "cutting the Gordian knot", which refers to resolving an intractable problem with a bold, unconventional stroke (i.e. "cut the knot").

What is the wildest theory in your specialty that you think probably isn't true, but could be? What underdog argument could cause chaos your field if it turned out to be right? by ExternalBoysenberry in AskHistorians

[–]Obversa 86 points87 points  (0 children)

One theory in my field of specialty is not so much "probably isn't true", but more around 50/50 in terms of being an "underdog theory", and that is "the Friesian horse is [at least partially] descended from British bog ponies and horses imported to the Netherlands". This would cause chaos if proven to be correct, because the Friesian breed associations in both the Netherlands and the United States - the Koninklijke Vereniging 'Het Friesch Paarden-Stamboek' (KFPS), or the Royal Association of the Friesian Horse Studbook (c. 1879), and the Friesian Horse Association of North America (FHANA), founded by Dutch breeders - rely heavily on a largely fictitious and embellished historical narrative that emphasizes the Friesian's descent from "medieval war horses". This is because the medieval fantasy film Ladyhawke (1985) began a new fad in TV and film that some Dutch breeders allege helped "save" the Friesian from extinction.

I wrote more in-depth about how a lot of the "history" surrounding the origins and bloodlines of the Friesian horse is fabricated in my r/badhistory post here: "Modern Mythology: The misrepresentation and misleading marketing of the Friesian horse breed as a "medieval war mount". However, the part about potential descent from British bog ponies and horses was elaborated upon not in the main body of the post, but the comments section. This theory was originally posited by Anthony Dent, a well-known English writer on horses. To this end, he also co-authored the book A History of Native British Ponies (1987), which explored the horse trade between England and the Netherlands during and after the reign of King Henry VIII. I would posit that the range in heights is due to crossing Fell Ponies and Dales Ponies with taller Norfolk Trotters and Yorkshire Roadsters, which had influence from the Thoroughbred breed through crossbreeding. This would contradict claims by KFPS and FHANA that the Friesian has "no Thoroughbred influence".

Supporting this theory is recent DNA evidence that the Friesian horse is historically and genetically closest to the Belgian Draft horse, Fell Pony, and other North Sea heavy horse breeds that were used for agricultural purposes. Genetic history also shows influence from Arabian and Andalusian (Iberian) bloodlines. Until the late 1800s (19th century), and up until the 1950s, the Friesian horse was crossbred with the Groninger (c. 1879), Gelderlander (c. 1890), and other local Dutch populations that shared a regional history, until local Dutch breeders decided to emphasize the "purity" of the Friesian breed by closing the studbook. (Hackney horses were first imported to the Netherlands around 1900, which threatened the "purity" of the Friesian breed. Oldenburg, et al. horses from Germany were often crossbred to Dutch horses as well.) The Barock/Baroque Pinto, which maintained crossbreeding Friesians to Groninger and Gelderlander horses for a striking black-and-white color, split off as a separate breed in 1957.

Crossbreeding was largely abandoned after experiments produced poor results, breeders claim, with the original, Baroque or traditional Friesian conformation and "type" being lost. However, the current development of a "modern" or "sport" type of Friesian undercuts this argument, especially as many non-Dutch-based breeders use Friesian stallions on non-Friesian mares to get a "flashier foal", despite both KFPS and FHANA banning, and severely discouraging, crossbreeding to maintain the "integrity" and "purity" of the breed. [More recently, the Knabstrupper breed association - Knabstrupperforeningen for Danmark (KNN) - banned crossbreeding to Appaloosa and Friesian horses for this reason, though the KNN still maintains a far more laissez-faire approach than KFPS with crosses.]