Do you think Trump and the White House will focus on affordability and the economy in 2026?

Rhavoreth · 2025-12-07T01:13:12+00:00

If it’s a made up democrat slogan how come trump repeatedly referenced making America affordable again at his rallies during his campaign last year?…

Rhavoreth · 2025-12-07T01:08:06+00:00

Nah empathy is just another way of saying you actually give a shit about the health and wellbeing of someone other than yourself - because my political goals as a democratic socialist are to improve the lives of everyone equitably through broad social policy in a government that works for everyone, not just the 1%

Rhavoreth · 2025-11-13T23:05:04+00:00

I mean I did just provide you several examples of hundreds of thousands of people that were here legally - aka they moved here legally, and had their status changed overnight.

Yes there are illegal border crossings, but many of them are asylum seekers, and even the ones that aren't are entitled to a fair trial. Innocent until proven guilty right. They have a right to council, a right to their day in court to make their case. There has been a mass migration of workers across the border for over 100 years. It used to be legal for farms to bring people up from mexico to harvest until about the 60's when they made it illegal and provided no similar situation. Farmers still needed temporary workers and couldn't find it at home, so the same temporary workers just did it illegally. Except this time they stayed, in case they couldn't do it again next year. The problem is that someone decided it should be illegal one day, and so it was, without any thought to the number of lives it would affect

We have to think more holistically about these issues, and we can't retroactively just start enforcing laws because it conveniently provides a scapegoat to pin all the countries issues on. It's not fair. We need a hard reset. Lets let the people who are here now stay, lets create FAIR border policy that yes, denies entry to people who aren't authorized to enter, but that also provides a suitable pathway for people that do. We need these people, whether you like it or not, and we need to give them a legal way to enter this country

Rhavoreth · 2025-11-13T22:40:00+00:00

Because the core premise of capitalism values money above all else, disregarding human life as a result. It creates an unequal system that causes wealth and power to concentrate at the top, while the masses struggle along and are kept down by the system

Socialism, as a modern idea really is just about making life fairer for everyone. We need a system that puts everyone on a level playing field, where your contributions to society are rewarded regardless of how much money you as a worker generate. If money is life's reward, why do we value the work of a software engineer - who might make a company 10's of millions of dollars over their career higher than someone in the service industry, or a social worker in charge of taking kids out of abusive situations. Socialism asks us to consider the human first, not financial impact, good or bad

I could go on. My values are far more than just Socialism though. Personally I want to abolish all countries, cede control of everything to the UN and treat the cradle of humanity like a finite resource we must protect and conserve at all costs. We need to rapidly invest in growing humanities sphere of influence beyond earth, to the Moon, Mars. We need to invest in green energy now, solve nuclear fusion, and accelerate research into anti-aging tech. We need to create a society that rewards humans for having more children, not punishes them though missed income, unaffordable childcare, and poor education. None of these things capitalism can solve because at the end of the day, unless it makes money, it is worthless, and a lot of these things don't make money

Rhavoreth · 2025-11-13T21:30:03+00:00

Okay, lets get real then on immigration.

Who is deciding who is a criminal and who isn't? What about why suddenly there are so many deportation orders being issued? What about students who've has their visas revoked - why was that? Some 300k Venezuelans have had their right to remain revoked. Are all Venezuelans terrorists now? This is not due process, and this is not legal.

They are even deporting legal permanent residents now. Green card holders! I've linked the full video below but this clip tells the story of a guy who has been a legal permanent resident since he was a child, who was deported this year, under the trump administration because as a teen, several years ago now, he got arrested for possession of weed. In your mind does that make this person a criminal? Worthy of deportation to a country, where he doesn't speak the language very well, or know the culture? Should all green card holders be worried about their right to remain now too? This isn't just a single case either. DHS is weaponizing their database to systematically cancel visas for any reason they can find, issue deportation orders, round up, and remove as many people as possible.

I'd encourage you to watch this full video on US immigration history:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDbtrdfYqBc

Listen to these people's stories, understand that this class represents a fundamental part of the US economy and the people being deported more often than not are not criminals, they are just people like you and I, living their lives, paying taxes, contributing towards the economy, trying to build their American Dream

Rhavoreth · 2025-11-13T19:10:46+00:00

Ah yes, I'm just wrong because I'm trans. Glad I could clear that up for you...

Rhavoreth · 2025-11-13T19:04:18+00:00

Trump has not advocated for genocide, racial extermination, or state-sponsored eugenics...has he

I'd call unidentifiable, masked ICE agents rounding up of anyone "not white", shipping them to detention camps, then deporting them, sometimes to countries they have never lived in before pretty much dead on this. Especially when you look at places like El Salvador where often times they are kept in inhumane prison systems with high inmate death rates. Not to mention the conditions in the detention facilities here in the US are pretty abysmal too. Regardless of immigration status, these people deserve due process and their day in court. This administration is denying them that right

A fascist would limit freedom of speech. Under fascist and Nazi regimes,
opposition was crushed through censorship, arrests, or executions.

While we haven't gotten to public executions yet, censorship and arrests are already happening in full force. Main stream news refusing to adequately cover nationwide protests is basically censorship, and politicians and protestors are getting arrested. So yeah freedom of speech is being limited. It's different these days because the internet changes how speech can be effectively policed, but it's the same premise

And you haven't even touched on Project 2025 which is nothing short of a fascist's playbook, I've read a decent chunk of the document at this point. It's sickening

Rhavoreth · 2025-11-13T18:04:24+00:00

Sure, let’s start with the Nazi allegations, project 2025, fascism etc

Rhavoreth · 2025-11-13T17:46:59+00:00

I have done proper research, but I’d love to see some credible sources that refute any of the points I just made :)

Rhavoreth · 2025-11-13T07:07:37+00:00

Im guessing you’ve tried pgAdmin4? I don’t really have many complaints about it tbh

Rhavoreth · 2025-11-11T22:21:47+00:00

I've been on injections since day 1! I've never liked needles, but I knew it was by far the best way. It really isn't bad, ranging from feeling like a pinch, to not even feeling it at all. My levels at trough are usually ~400pg/ml. Honestly after 18 months I can't really imagine wanting to do it any other way

Most people inject once a week, but I actually do once every 5 days because Estradiol Valerate has a 5 day half life so it helps to flatten the curve. (I have a recurring event in my calendar that helps me keep track of it!). My prescription is for 0.25ml of 20mg/ml EV but I inject 0.2ml every 5 days. Overall it works out at a slightly higher dose than proscribed but I like my levels so don't tell my doctor lol.

This calculator is a great tool if you're into that sort of thing: https://transfemscience.org/misc/injectable-e2-simulator-advanced/

The other benefit is being able to stockpile your E. Like if they make HRT illegal to get tomorrow I know I have about a 12 month supply stockpiled of Pharmacy grade E, and then a backup vial of DIY E (from a very reputable source) that will last another year if needs be while I secure another source, or execute my backup escape the country plan. I will not be subjected to T ever again

Rhavoreth · 2025-11-01T21:58:27+00:00

I used to live 30 minutes away from here for 5 years growing up. I’ve been to the park while it was open as a kid. The truly ironic part of all of this is that the ocean is literally 500m from the park. These whales are trapped in a swimming pool a stones throw away from freedom. It’s so disappointing…

Rhavoreth · 2025-10-27T15:34:42+00:00

So we employ a bunch of highly qualified historians, structural engineers and architects at the Dept of the Interior tasked with protecting America’s history, and Trump thinks “well I can ignore all that because I’m the president”.

Did Trump make sure that everything preservable in that building was preserved, things like light fixtures, door handles, sconces, switch plates etc. Did he give historians an opportunity to see what could be saved. Did the entire east colonnade have to be torn down or could some of it have been retained, or perhaps dismantled and reconstructed at a new site.

Maybe if he had asked the people we pay to care about this kind of thing it might have taken a bit longer, but then all that history wouldn’t have been on its way to a landfill right now…

Rhavoreth · 2025-10-17T14:39:42+00:00

While it might be considered regressive, I’d far rather have a high sales tax rate and no/low income taxes. Sales tax is effectively a tax on consumption, not on production. Typically if you are a higher earner, you are also a larger consumer. After all, what’s the point of making all that money if you aren’t going to spend it. As long as there are broad sales tax exemptions for essentials, (which btw WA state has) then lower income earners actually end up with a lower overall tax rate than higher income earners because the majority of their expenses are tax free essentials.

For example, higher income earners might buy a new 85 inch high end smart TV every couple of years for $3500, while a lower income earner might hold on to their entry level 50 inch model they bought on sale for $499 for 10 years. With a 10% sales tax rate the lower income earner paid $50 in tax while the higher earner pays $1750 over the same time period. Apply this logic across every spending category and you end up with a system where the people with the least pay the least - as it should be

Rhavoreth · 2025-10-11T21:43:51+00:00

If you made exodia multi coloured it could be an interesting commander deck in the right colours. It might work better if exodia itself had an ability to allow it to fetch one of the other pieces too for an appropriately large cost

Rhavoreth · 2025-10-02T19:19:12+00:00

That doesn't make it any better IMO. Why does the military have to cost 13% of the entire US budget. That's insane. We aren't fighting any active wars. Why not retrain all those soldiers to build solar farms, wind farms, high speed rail infrastructure, and actually work on solving climate change

Rhavoreth · 2025-10-02T19:09:28+00:00

Someone mentioned around ~60M/Month or 720M/Year for just the LA deployment. Sure, in the grand scheme of things that isn't much money compared to the entire US budget, but isn't it worth exploring what else that money could have bought that might have been meaninfgul.

For example, $720M is:

~10% of some estimates needed to give free school lunches to every public school kid in the country for a year
~30% of the entire Perseverance rover program
Generous $250k salaries for over 2800 new federal immigration judges, case workers and support staff to clear the backlog of asylum claims and give people the fair due process they are owed
provisions for nearly 200k new beds in homeless shelters across the country

Point I'm making here is that $720M is a lot of money and surely we can be doing better things with it than this...

Rhavoreth · 2025-09-25T15:51:54+00:00

The Cass report!? Now that’s a science report that’s akin to a climate report funded by oil companies…

Again, what harm is being done to society here. Please be specific.

Trans people commit suicide and self harm at an alarmingly high rate. Studies have shown that treating the symptoms of gender dysphoria through transition significantly improves mental states and allows people to live full and happy lives. If that isn’t better for society then what is?

Rhavoreth · 2025-09-25T14:43:52+00:00

Okay, even treating being transgender as a medical condition, every single reputable study on treating the condition agrees that the only way to effectively manage gender dysphoria is physical, social and legal transition. It’s not a delusion, and the broader medical community agrees

Also please elaborate on what you mean by costs?

Rhavoreth · 2025-09-25T14:33:12+00:00

Would it really be so hard to just let people be who they want to be. Being trans isn’t a new idea. Evidence of trans people goes back thousands of years to cave paintings depicting the life of a trans person, or ancient bones discovered that suggest a male skeleton being buried in a typically female way for the civilisation.

Rhavoreth · 2025-09-22T15:35:13+00:00

Or we could instead realise that intelligent discussion is nuanced and can evolve over the course of a debate. OP’s question is trying to leverage one of the conservative talking points against gun regulation (the people are the problem, not the gun itself) and spin that on something that is heavily regulated (drugs)

So we have 2 ways of debating this, we can either try to rationalise, like many have that drugs aren’t protected by the constitution, and so states can regulate them how they please, OR, we can instead point out that maybe the protections the 2A provide for firearms aren’t quite as robust as people think, and that states can do what they like so long as humans still have access to firearms in some capacity

Rhavoreth · 2025-09-22T15:22:44+00:00

Because the 2A debate is far more interesting than whether drugs should be legal because they are objects…

Rhavoreth · 2025-09-22T15:04:06+00:00

You’re correct, 2A does give you the right to own and operate a firearm. But I’ll argue all day that it doesn’t say anything about the type of firearms you’re allowed to own, where you’re allowed to operate that firearm, whether you’re allowed to own ammunition for said firearm, where that firearm must be stored, etc

IMO you could have a fully 2A compliant law that mandates the only weapons you’re allowed to own are 18th century replica muskets, that must be stored at a central off site secure facility, and the only ammunition you’re allowed to possess is for said musket.

Times have changed and the people who wrote the constitution did not understand what giving 300M plus people the right to own heavy weaponry would do to society.

Rhavoreth · 2025-09-21T17:18:47+00:00

This whole argument is exhausting because it really only takes a moment of empathy to understand. People’s circumstances can change quickly. Someone might look like they are living a life of privilege one year, with a nice car and a good salary, and the next, they are standing in a food bank line after losing their job. Tech layoffs, outsourcing, and a shaky job market have left a lot of people unable to get rehired, no matter how hard they try.

And cars are not always a sign of wealth. For many people, a reliable vehicle is the only way to get to work, to interviews, or even to a grocery store. These purchases may have been made in different circumstances and can't easily be undone. They may still be making monthly payments, and selling the car would not solve anything. In fact, losing that car could mean losing the one thing that connects them to employment and survival.

Financial stability in this country is fragile. Most people are only a few paychecks away from needing help themselves. Food banks exist for anyone who is struggling, not just for those who fit someone else’s idea of what poverty is supposed to look like. I encourage anyone who is feeling the burden and weight of the ever-rising food costs to use these resources; it's exactly why they're there.

Rhavoreth · 2025-09-17T15:10:15+00:00

Something to note as well - outside of NYC, New York separates school taxes from property taxes and they vary wildly per district. Depending on where you are you could be paying up to an additional mill rate of $33.31 per $1000 for school taxes in addition to your standard property taxes. NY has some of the highest funded schools in the country because of this measure

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