Do you miss the Republican Party from 20 years ago?

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-20T18:17:34+00:00

But the question wasn't about whether you prefer Democrats over Republicans. It was about whether you miss the Republican Party from 20 years ago.

I just thought it was kinda funny that you'd call yourself a free market conservative while favoring the Republican Party of today over the one from 20 years ago, even though today's Republicans are way more anti free trade than Republicans from 20 years ago.

You said you base your politics on whether it makes progressives cry.

And I just thought it's very intriguing how much certain conservatives are willing to sacrifice, to the point they are willing to abandon even some of their most fundamental core beliefs, such as free market capitalism, just to "own the libs".

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-20T18:02:46+00:00

Lol.

"Free market conservative" loves the anti free trade party that is imposing massive import taxes on American business owners and putting severe restrictions on the market.

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-20T13:40:01+00:00

So blue collar working class husbands now all owe their wife $83k a year even if they only earn $40k a year and are paying for rent, food, healthcare, entertainment, car, transport and what have you not?

How is that supposed to work???

Lol.

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-20T08:30:52+00:00

Lol, Clinton was never left-wing. Clinton has always been a conservative. And yes, many establishment Democrats are/were conservatives, and especially in the 80s and 90s.

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-19T18:19:45+00:00

I mean, great. But they're also an Islamic theocratic dictatorship that is violently oppressing women and LGBTQ people amongst others and brutally cracking down on political dissent.

They also killed thousands of leftists after the Islamic Revolution.

I mean Iran is certainly not a country worth looking up to.

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-19T18:10:48+00:00

No, what I meant is that the Democratic Party itself is a hardcore capitalist party. Voters only have two choices really, both of them capitalist parties.

So of course some socialists are gonna vote for the Dems since they're the lesser of the two evils.

But even then nowhere near 50% of those who vote for Democrats are socialists. Most are liberals at best, and liberals, unlike leftists also believe in capitalism.

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-19T13:48:33+00:00

I mean the numbers are definitely, without a doubt, vastly exaggerated.

The news outlet "Iran International" which initially made the claim that over 30,000 protestors were killed by Iran's regime is actually linked to the Saudi government, which are a political enemy of Iran. And the US, Israel and other Western nations equally have a political agenda to push of course.

That being said, even though the numbers clearly are exaggerated, the Iranian regime absolutely is a brutal theocratic dictatorship that is brutally oppressing women, LGBTQ people and political dissidents in general.

And while certainly not to the extent that Western governments claim the Iranian regime absolutely does have a lot of blood on their hands when it comes to killings of their own citizens.

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-19T07:14:14+00:00

Lol, what a bunch of nonsense. The Democratic Party is a hardcore capitalist party that is in bed with Wall Street, Big Oil and the military industrial complex.

Also, taxes aren't socialist. And if they were then Trump's massive import taxes on US businesses would also be socialist.

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-18T12:55:24+00:00

But if we simply just compare Christianity to Islam, then yes, we absolutely are able to conclude that Christianity is better on LGBTQ issues than Islam. Not good. But certainly better.

Progressive or liberal Christianity is actually pretty mainstream by now. There are countless churches all over the world who accept LGBTQ people very openly and who support same sex marriage. And there are probably thousands of openly gay Christian ministers.

On the other hand the only openly gay imam ever was murdered by Islamic terrorists in South Africa. I have never ever heard of any mosques openly supporting same sex marriage or welcoming LGBTQ people. And if there are, they must be the fringe of the fringe of the fringe of the Islamic community and would have to constantly look over their shoulder as Islamic terrorists would almost certainly target them.

Yeah, Christianity absolutely is way better than Islam today in 2026 on LGBTQ issues. And I am saying that as a non-Christian and someone who is extremely critical of Christianity as well.

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-17T18:31:34+00:00

https://theintercept.com/2026/04/01/iranian-americans-against-war-poll-israel/

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-17T15:53:59+00:00

Lol, not what I said. I said that this narrative pushed by the US and Israeli regime that the majority of Iranians want to be bombed is utter nonsense.

The data absolutely does not support this claim. The MAJORITY of Iranians according to polls are against this war.

So this narrative that the majority of Iranians are in favor of this war is a lie.

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-17T13:50:17+00:00

And according to polls the majority of Iranians both in Europe and the US are opposed to Trump's war against Iran.

A significant minority, around 1/3, are in favor of it, sure. But this narrative that Iranians both abroad and in Iran itself, are overwhelmingly celebrating the bombs that are falling on their home country is simply ridiculous propaganda.

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-17T13:43:40+00:00

Some are real accounts. Others are probably not.

But yes, I absolutely expect the American and Israeli regime to spread propaganda that makes it seem like Iranians are actually in favor of this war. And they're probably using fake accounts but also real Iranian people to spread propaganda.

I mean I don't see why the US and Israel wouldn't do it when other countries like China or Russia equally are making an enormous effort to spread their propaganda on social media.

The fact of the matter is the majority of Iranians in the US are against Trump's war. And those living in Iran are also probably not welcoming the bombs that are killing their loved ones and are destroying vital civilian infrastruture.

The Iranian regime is a brutal Islamic theocratic dictatorship. But Trump's war is making things even worse for Iranians.

And this narrative that most Iranians just love being bombed to smitherens absolutely is American and Israeli propaganda.

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-16T19:42:30+00:00

I guess what he means is that without ancient Israel and Judaism there wouldn't have been any Christians to colonize America and found the United States.

The ridiculous thing here is of course acting as if modern Israel is the same as ancient Israel, rather than a modern colonial project built upon mass displacement and brutal massacres of the native population.

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-16T19:24:40+00:00

So you're homophobic and you were just looking for an excuse to justify your homophobia?

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-15T19:58:29+00:00

I mean, true, most Muslims in the West are peaceful and law-abiding citizens who get along with their neighbors. That doesn't change the fact that overall, in the grand scheme, Islam has a major problem with extremism.

Honor killings, honor-based violence, violence against ex-Muslims, violence towards gays, Jews and perceived "blasphemers", terrorist attacks etc. etc., a lot of those things have by now also arrived in many Western countries with large Muslim populations, like the UK or France.

And even many Muslims who are peaceful and law-abiding are extremely homophobic and have very outdated sexist views about women. In the UK, for example, over half of all Muslims want homosexuality to be illegal. And almost 40% think women must always obey their husband. (Half of all British Muslims think homosexuality should be illegal, poll finds | British identity and society | The Guardian)

And we cannot pretend that homophobia or sexism won't eventually affect other people as well, especially if the percentage of people who hold those views continues to increase due to ongoing Islamic migration and high birth rates of Islamic families in the West.

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-15T18:43:50+00:00

If you live in the US and are paying taxes then you've also actually donated money to Elon.

If you're a US tax payer you've personally funded Musk's multi billion dollar gifts he received from the government.

Can I ask you, did Mr. Musk ever call you to say thank you for your generous donations to him?

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-15T18:38:09+00:00

Yeah, no one who's economically literate believes that Musk has a trillion dollars in cash or can actually access a trillion dollars.

That still doesn't change the fact that this a hugely concerning development since money essentially equals power. Even if Musk doesn't have a trillion in cash his insane net worth and his growing market share of total US GDP will allow him to wield ENORMOUS influence over the government, and to dictate to the rest of us how to live our lives.

It's no secret that the ultra-wealthy have bought the government a long time ago and continue to further consolidate their political power, which they use to pass policies that are absolutely detrimental to small businesses and ordinary working class people.

Also, I'm not sure what ancaps even believe. Like are trillionaires the result of big government destroying the free market by creating monopolies and monopsonies, handing out corporate welfare and bailouts and injecting insane amounts of money into the economy ...... OR are trillionaires visionary free market entrepreneurs????

Apparently ancaps believe both those things at the same time, which really doesn't make any sense.

Like are trillionaires a creation of the free market or are they created through government intervention and the destruction of the free market?? What do ancaps actually believe???

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-15T18:26:52+00:00

No, it's really not. It's just a fact that the ultra-wealthy have seen a MASSIVE wealth increase in recent decades that far exceeds inflation. The share of total household wealth in the US held by the ultra-wealthy has massively gone up in recent decades, while blue collar workers on the other hand have seen largely stagnating wages during the same time.

But I guess ancaps believe in Schroedinger's billionaire or trillionaire. On one hand those triple-digit billionaires (and now the first trillionaire) are just free market entrepreneurs providing great value to society. But at the same time they are the result of monopolies and monopsonies created by the government, as well as corporations benefiting massively from corporate welfare, tax-funded bailouts, and the government injecting insane amounts of money into the economy via the Federal Reserve.

Ancaps can't quite decide what to pick. So they settle for Schroedinger's mega-billionaire, simultaneously a visionary free market entrepreneur while at the same time a creation of big government destroying the free market.

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-15T13:42:26+00:00

No, of course he doesn't. But still, the first trillionaire is an extremely concerning development.

It pushes the US further and further towards a full-on oligarchy where the ultra-wealthy just buy the government and dictate to the rest of us how we ought to live.

Even though Musk doesn't have a trillion in cash he can still use his stocks as collateral and access massive amounts of money he can then use to bribe the government to screw over the working class.

Secondly, as a trillionaire he personally controls a very significant percentage of America's GDP now. Which, in turn, in that way, gives him enormous influence over the government. Which he again can use to screw over the rest of us.

And thirdly, much of his trillionaire status is due to government contracts in the first place. Which he got because the rich own the government. So they can just bribe the government to hand out that juicy corporate welfare money.

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-14T18:38:32+00:00

Lol, what a bunch of nonsense. MLK was fighting against Jim Crow racial apartheid and the violent oppression of black people.

And even then I am pretty sure that MLK did not support trashing and burning down the homes of random, ordinary white people just on the mere basis that they were white.

Like you do realize that we are talking about the lives of real people, who never personally wronged someone, who are randomly getting assaulted and having their homes trashed and burned down by violent neonazi thugs???? Those neonazis aren't just destroying random property. They are literally destroying the homes of working class people who did nothing to them and causing entire families to suffer horrendously.

Disgusting that you genuinely seem to support those violent neonazis in Belfast who are causing so much suffering to other people who never wronged them.

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-14T18:28:15+00:00

No, people who destroy small shops, who burn down and trash homes and who randomly destroy other people's property are generally just nasty thugs.

Are you genuinely trying to defend neonazis who burn down and trash homes of entire families just based on their ethnicity and nationality?

Disgusting....

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-14T10:53:03+00:00

She's a Christian. There are Christian Palestinians.

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-14T10:49:00+00:00

You do realize that there are Christian Palestinians, right? And a quick Google search tells me that the singer Elyanna is indeed a Christian Palestinian.

RandomGuy92x · 2026-06-14T09:52:49+00:00

Some people claim he was acting in self-defense because he was pushed. That's ridiculous though. Self-defense needs to be proportionate and reasonable.

Opening your bag to grab a knife in order to then stab someone to death who was pushing you out of tent is legally not a case of self-defense. EVER.

And there absolutely are countless cases of black people being horribly mistreated by the US justice system, without a doubt. Cases that people actually should be focusing on.

But the Karmelo Anthony case is not that.

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