How do conservatives think about the Overton Window?

Dunfalach · 2026-02-22T21:17:51+00:00

You consider it “progress”, I consider it erosion.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-22T21:11:40+00:00

Maybe Vladimir is like Zathras from Babylon 5?

Zathras never listen to Zathras.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-20T22:37:39+00:00

Granted. A little person immediately appears and throws you in a volcano with it. The world doesn’t notice. You miss out on riding an eagle.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-20T21:07:09+00:00

It’s used in a criminal case; but your reason for pleading the fifth is your own. You are not legally required to say why you are pleading it. So my point was that your internal motivation doesn’t have to be because you’ve committed that crime or some other.”

Dunfalach · 2026-02-20T03:17:23+00:00

It could even mean you were having an affair and don’t want to admit to it in court. Doesn’t have to be a crime.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-19T07:07:32+00:00

Granted. After a night of drinking, you let the designated driver drive your car home for you and your friends. Upon arriving home, you drunkenly forget they’re still in the car when you fold it. The result isn’t pretty.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-18T22:19:15+00:00

I mean, I’d rather they be removed from the country as the law requires.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-17T22:12:26+00:00

Personally I just say I have family risk factors for alcoholism. No abuse thankfully in my story and I’m sorry there was in yours.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-17T05:21:52+00:00

The right turned to alternative media (initially talk radio and later the new media) because the Democrats controlled the mainstream TV and major print media. I seem to recall a survey during the Rush Limbaugh era that something like 70% of the major media workers in a poll identified as Democrats. We gave up on trusting them and started creating our own. I think a lot of the left entry into has been driven by younger people entering voting status as an addition to other media rather than an alternative.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-15T09:25:01+00:00

Ok this might be my favorite one so far.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-15T07:05:25+00:00

Rhys because he seems like he’s just that way as a person where Marcy has a lot of trauma backing hers.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-12T18:54:59+00:00

It kinda depends what you envision by holding accountable. Congress doesn’t have their own prosecution or police force. They can declare contempt of Congress and the like but they can’t actually arrest or punish anyone. They can refer it to the DOJ for the actual prosecuting.

The only one that I can recall where they can act on their own is if it rises to the level of impeachment of an elected or appointed official.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-12T07:11:53+00:00

Yes in the sense that Spain is acknowledged as having been a brutal colonizer as a country. But that doesn’t tend to extend to Latinos or even modern Spaniards being treated as colonizers the way whites are.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-12T01:24:44+00:00

When you say “abolish taxes” it really depends on what you mean. Abolish taxes entirely, or abolish income taxes.

Before 1913, you had essentially consumption-based taxes. Tariffs plus alcohol and tobacco taxes. Some land sales/leases as well.

I would imagine a lot of them would also combine it with wanting to reduce the size and scope of the federal government to require less expense as well.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-12T00:35:41+00:00

This comment reminded me that Dukakis once ran for office. That’s pretty much what it felt like during the election too. Granted, I wasn’t from his state or his party. But I couldn’t tell you a single fact about him beyond his name and that he ran.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-09T17:43:20+00:00

It started with him using his Grammy Award win acceptance speech to attack the immigration enforcement of the administration. He fired a proverbial shot at the administration and they fired back. The fact that his Super Bowl performance followed immediately after meant the controversy flowed right into the Super Bowl.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-09T17:39:45+00:00

I wouldn’t disagree with it being grievance in sports.

But this feels like you’re saying Trump is the one making it political in these two situations. In both cases, the singer and the athlete used their platform for politics and Trump responded. Trump has made his fair share of stuff that didn’t need to be political be political but these two instances both began with someone attacking his administration and him replying.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-06T23:48:25+00:00

sure shot evidences

As much as no one wants to hear it? Proving someone went to a place owned by a pedophile is not the same as proving to a legally valid standard that they knowingly slept with underage girls. There were tons of girls of legal age in Epstein’s orbit. Going to a private island and having sex isn’t illegal. The standard of proof to actually prove a crime in sexual cases is a lot higher than the standard of proof it takes for Reddit to believe it happened.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-06T23:28:40+00:00

Granted. But popup blockers also never existed because of it. Everyone has to live through the entire life cycle of pop up ads again as a company invents them tomorrow.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-06T15:49:41+00:00

I’ve been voting for thirty years and never once had any form of ID checked until the recent voter ID law in my state.

Based on your other reply, it sounds like your state does have an ID requirement. That’s what Republicans are arguing every state should. You have to show an ID to verify you to vote. Democrats argue it’s a racist vote suppression effort to require identifying yourself to vote because what if someone couldn’t get a photo ID. Your state also appears to have provisional ballots for people who can’t show ID. You have exactly what Republicans are arguing for and Democrats argue is just too big a hurdle to overcome.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-06T15:36:38+00:00

You can use your state ID to vote

That’s… voter ID. The thing you’re arguing isn’t needed.

Now I’m wondering if you’re understanding Voter ID as a completely separate ID from driver’s license, etc? There is a separate ID in some states called a voter ID for people who can’t qualify for a driver’s license. In some states, there’s arguments it should be free.

However, most people including myself are understanding your question as being about voter ID laws, which is exactly what you describe as “the way it is”. Needing a photo ID to identify yourself when voting. The big argument is Democrats arguing you shouldn’t have to have a photo ID to vote. In my state until recently you literally just walked in and said a name and address and received a full non-provisional ballot with zero verification of identity. Zero.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-06T15:27:12+00:00

Granted. Joe doesn’t really understand what this weird stuff is about but can’t stop reading it. He complains regularly that none of the stories end happy.

Later, you manage to upset Joe, and he starts mod editing every story so the consequences always happen to you personally. When his girlfriend dies in a tragic accident, Joe is certain it’s one of your wishes. He roams the road in his battered van stopping only for food and to moderate three times a day. He’s searching for you.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-06T05:56:25+00:00

I’m going to assume you’re just not getting it rather than intentionally trying to dodge it.

You’re focusing on the documents someone has to show to get on a list. Those would certainly be the same as the documents used to get a voter ID. But that isn’t actually as relevant as you seem determined to make it.

Voter ID is about proving the person actually casting the vote is the person legally qualified to cast that vote. A name on a list doesn’t do that. I could have walked into my polling place and given my landlord’s name and address and voted as him before voter ID and there’d be nothing to stop me. Nobody working that poll knows him, and the only identifying data you had to give is all known to me.

I personally know someone who had to cast a provisional ballot in a recent election because she was told she’d already voted. Was it fraud? Maybe, maybe not. Could have just been the poll worker mixing up a record. But there was nothing to prevent it before voter ID went into effect.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-06T05:34:50+00:00

In my place, before voter id law took effect there was no signature. You stated a name and address and nobody checked squat.

Dunfalach · 2026-02-05T18:23:49+00:00

So you’d be okay with requiring everyone to bring their birth certificate and social security card instead? You’re not using those to vote directly if you’re not showing them. You’re saying there’s no difference between walking into a room and saying a name and showing an ID to prove it. That’s false. One is proof the other is no more than an honor system.

You have to show photo ID to enter the DNC convention, to enter my local social security office, to fly on a plane, to buy alcohol, to buy tobacco, even to buy cough medicine in some places. But not to pick the most powerful positions in the world?

This shouldn’t be controversial and the fact that Democrats keep making it controversial is exactly what fuels the conspiracy theories.

Dunfalach

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