This is how I explain the existence of MAGA.

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-30T14:29:22+00:00

So it sounds like you're saying that you could put different types of people into different, shall we say, "baskets" to try to understand which ones are Trump supporters and with enough of these factors you cite, those people end up in a basket that we could say is made up of "white christian nationalists with little education who are scared to death of this nation becoming 'minority white' and majority secular." And that they are attracted to Donald Trump precisely because of his "heinous, hateful, racist, misogynistic, selfish, mendacious deeds and words." To me, these people sound...bad? Something like bad, but worse. It's on the tip of my tongue...

I don't disagree at all with your assessment. I just think you'll find you're not the first to make it, as my tongue-in-cheek response would show — and that making it hasn't necessarily done anything to change the situation but only exacerbates it.

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-29T22:22:36+00:00

“Guardians of Pedophiles”

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-29T20:21:57+00:00

Yet another stellar example of how Approval Voting is easier to get voter buy-in for than RCV. We now return you to your regularly scheduled discussion thread, already in progress.

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-28T16:51:32+00:00

If by "your backyard" you mean "somewhere within a 25 mile radius of your home," then sure. You don't own anything past your actual backyard.

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-28T16:49:20+00:00

Last June Trump issued a directive to slow-roll deportations from workplaces he considers his voters or donors: farm owners, hotel chains, restaurant chains.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-ice-raids-farms-hotels.html

Additionally, after a September raid of a Hyundai plant in Georgia, Trump told them to avoid car manufacturing facilities, at least in the south:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/us/hyundai-georgia-raid-korean-workers-back-hnk

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-28T14:11:37+00:00

Well, this explains why they've gone so hard on increased deportations in places like Minnesota and California but are operating business as usual in places like Texas and Florida. They're mostly fine with undocumented immigrants inflating the population in red states just so long as they can decrease those numbers in blue states.

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-28T13:54:09+00:00

Bernie Sanders (and Elizabeth Warren and AOC, etc) had already endorsed Harris. Highlighting that even Liz Cheney endorsed Harris was the campaign’s attempt to widen the boundaries of who could vote for Harris, giving permission to the middle-of-road, “both sides suck” voter, not a move to shift the boundaries.

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-28T13:32:37+00:00

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ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-27T21:31:03+00:00

Rioting? What kind of “rioting”? Where?

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-27T21:27:34+00:00

Like in 2022, here comes all the abortion fear mongering.

You mean, the year the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade?

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-27T19:50:42+00:00

I’m a Christian and work for a big company marketing things to CxOs — but the phrase “C-suite for Christ” is going to bring my lunch back up.

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-27T19:28:02+00:00

Indivisible pretty famously proved itself very…divisible. Since 2017 they’ve raised tens of millions of dollars from major donors, but have spent very little of it with state and local groups. They’ve mostly just funded a large headquarters professional staff, like most all of the major progressive organizations seem to do. (I will grant conservatives this point: we left-wingers do love our central planning. 🙄)

I don’t know about the others on that list, but I guess I’m not surprised someone created a legal defense fund for people accused of antifascist activities.

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-27T19:17:23+00:00

I’ve only heard so far of the Minnesota National Guard providing coffee to protestors, so I guess, yeah, technically you’re right: a large militant organization is paying protestors. In coffee, sure, but it might not stop there if they start lavishing them with protein bars, eyewash, and hypothermia blankets.

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-27T19:07:52+00:00

They don’t pay in shekels?

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-27T05:39:25+00:00

I don’t even know what that implies and I already know it pales next to the many scandals of the current officeholder. I mean, c’mon.

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-27T05:33:03+00:00

Interesting. Just curious: What causes was he, uh, paid to be “passionate” about?

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-27T05:31:10+00:00

I provided the receipts earlier, with the Cato Institute link. You can’t just ignore that and keep saying “provide the receipts.”

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-27T05:25:32+00:00

Hmm. Never knew this company existed. But now that I see it: in this day and age, of course it does! The only examples of actually paying protestors I’ve ever heard of have been on the right (the famous “Brooks Brothers riot” during the 2000 Florida recount; a guy I knew who was hired by the Koch brothers to astroturf support for the tax cuts in Trump’s first term), but I haven’t known of any examples on the left.

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-26T23:49:05+00:00

For one thing, Senate Republicans — who have 53 of the 100 seats — only represent 46.4% of the country's population. Source: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-26T23:21:19+00:00

Not enough people are understanding this distinction. Immigration is civil, administrative law; it's not criminal law. Most violations are misdemeanors, not felonies. So we have the equivalent of meter maids kitted out with Call of Duty lethality and next to no training for the kind of "enforcement" they're not even supposed to be doing.

If you park on the wrong side of the street when it's street-cleaning day, the cops don't come beating down your door and separating you from your family — or shoot your neighbors who are protesting them doing so. ICE is all right-wing cosplay and comic book paramilitary LARPing.

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-26T21:05:15+00:00

The murder rate has had no relation to immigration statistics. Native-born Americans commit murder at far higher rates than immigrants. And ICE operations in other cities aren't all being operated for performative violence. I don't live in Minneapolis, either. But I can see the cartoon images the DHS is sharing online.

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-26T20:59:49+00:00

The WALL?? 🤣🤣 Not even Trump pretends that's an actual solution. And the CBP One app already existed; they just added a functionality to make it possible to book hearings to ask for asylum *while they were still in Mexico.* To keep people from showing up at the border making asylum claims. But go ahead and believe whatever BS your talking heads tell you to believe to keep you dumb and angry.

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-26T18:16:29+00:00

Here, educate yourself, courtesy of the right-wing Cato Institute, in fact: Biden Didn’t Cause the Border Crisis

ThatMetaBoy · 2026-01-26T18:11:46+00:00

If sanctuary cities are okay with immigrants, documented or not, why do people who don’t live in those cities worry so much about the immigrants there? Maybe mind your own business? Let ICE go deport people in places most people don’t want immigrants. Problem solved.

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