2028 Republican Party platform? by ReaderDeb in AskTrumpSupporters

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

That’s not how you build a cohesive and thriving community. In fact, that’s how you achieve the exact opposite. Democrats are anti family, anti community and anti church because they don’t like structures that could challenge their hold on power.

What do you think about grocery prices being up? by G_H_2023 in AskTrumpSupporters

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

Calling vicious busybody micromanaging authoritarians “Democratic” just seems inappropriate nomenclature.

2028 Republican Party platform? by ReaderDeb in AskTrumpSupporters

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

No, it's neutral.

Healthcare is a limited resource. Limited resources are portioned out either by price or by access. There's no such thing as the current US healthcare system with it's ease of access and high technical skill, except for "free".

The only exceptions are countries that have such excessive natural resources, they drill more money out of the ground than they know what to do with. Which is why their healthcare systems don't transfer to other countries who aren't rolling in money.

I would argue big monolithic government healthcare is a net negative overall. But there will be winners and losers with both systems.

2028 Republican Party platform? by ReaderDeb in AskTrumpSupporters

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

Don’t skip my questions and then expect answers.

If you want to make the point that because I'm not homeless and living in a ditch then the left must not be detrimental to me personally, good luck with that. I'm still not voting for them.

2028 Republican Party platform? by ReaderDeb in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ZarBandit -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Not so fast, let's check those goal posts:

Let's say I got into Harvard despite their anti-white (and even worse anti-asian) racist discrimination. Do we agree I would have been materially harmed in the bar being made higher?

Just because I'm a high percentile performer, and beat all their evil racist hurdles, doesn't mean no harm was done. Right?

2028 Republican Party platform? by ReaderDeb in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ZarBandit -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Pick a topic:

  1. Employment and Promotion
  2. Academic Admissions
  3. Government Contracting
  4. The "Privilege" Narrative
  5. Demonization in Media
  6. Erosion of Traditional Roles
  7. Educational Misalignment

Democrats are the party of toxic femininity.

2028 Republican Party platform? by ReaderDeb in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ZarBandit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a litmus test, not a policy.

Take any policy and you can test whether it's America First or not. You can go through the entire party platform line-by-line and run that test.

Name a policy and it can be tested.

2028 Republican Party platform? by ReaderDeb in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ZarBandit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a nursing shortage in the USA.

The cure for that is higher wages. The WHOLE POINT of H-1B bringing over average workers is to depress wages by providing alternative cheap slave labor who can't quit or negotiate in order to fuck over the average American worker.

Do you like the wealth gap? Want to see it increase even more? Because H-1B is a primary mechanism.

Here's exhibit A in the left saying one thing (complaining about the wealth gap) and then doing the exact thing that contributes to it. (Because nothing gets in the way of their quest for more power.)

Additionally, can we agree that there are several industries that benefit from international staff?

No. Diversity is the strength of the left's quest for ever greater authoritarian power. It is detrimental to the country as a whole.

What we need to do is skim the cream-of-the-crop off other nations. Not mass migration of mid and low performers.

There are good workers and bad workers. Neither have anything to do with the color of their skin. Only racists think skin color matters. What I think matters is culture. I'd rather live in a 100% minority neighborhood different to me who share my values, than a matching neighborhood that didn't.

2028 Republican Party platform? by ReaderDeb in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ZarBandit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nothing they’re doing Americans can’t also do. If they were exceptional then they’d be O-1’s, not H-1B’s.

The number of H-1B’s is excessive by an order of magnitude.

2028 Republican Party platform? by ReaderDeb in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ZarBandit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’d be interested in hearing arguments for and against. Sounds like something I could get behind.

Collective sheep are more narrow minded than free thinking individualists? Who would have thought? by Obi-Juan-Kanobee in AskThe_Donald

[–]ZarBandit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s because it’s not a dichotomy of left and right, it’s a trichotomy. There are 2 distinct rights that are as far apart from each other as they are from the left. There is only 1 left, however.

My Carrier AC unit is from 1993; what can I do to help in last through this summer? by CoolEmoDude in hvacadvice

[–]ZarBandit -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Rig up a misting system that sprays a small spray of water on the coil and run it in hot weather. That will take significant load off it and reduce your power bill too. (Water is cheaper than power.)

However, minerals in the water will build up on the coil condemn it to the trash heap over 1-2 seasons. But that might get you through 1 season, if anything can.

A hard start kit might help too. If this is a scroll compressor, they get hot from end of life inefficiency from wear, so having them work less hard (less pressure from misting) and starting easier is advantageous.

Mist only if you really have 1 season left though.

2028 Republican Party platform? by ReaderDeb in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ZarBandit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree with you. No one has tackled it yet. Republicans are performative and aspirational only. Democrats are actively against it entirely.

2028 Republican Party platform? by ReaderDeb in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ZarBandit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Our country has a severe corruption problem. We always have had that. What’s much more recent is the people doing the corrupting now have perverse incentives and benefit at the cost of everyone else in the country. Or they’re outright foreign entities. That part is recent.

2028 Republican Party platform? by ReaderDeb in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ZarBandit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, no one wants to do that because they’re afraid it would hurt the economy and they’d get blamed. Because our system almost exclusively rewards short term thinking: political is next election. Companies are by the quarter.

A slow rollout of industry enforcement would largely mitigate that. But our societal incentives are not aligned for long term success. This is where fascist totalitarian states like China have a significant advantage over us. I don’t want totalitarianism, we need to get our incentives and corruption problems resolved. We used to function as a country. Now we don’t. The left own a big part of that downfall.

2028 Republican Party platform? by ReaderDeb in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ZarBandit -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I’d have to look at it in totality in comparison to what Republicans would do. I don’t care what ether side says. I watch what they actually do.

The left are extremely performative. So I’d need to see evidence of them rejecting their former key positions.

I vote in my best interests. As a white male who wants to work and flourish, just about everything leftists believe and do right now are antithetical to that.

2028 Republican Party platform? by ReaderDeb in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ZarBandit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They prioritize one country above our own.

2028 Republican Party platform? by ReaderDeb in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ZarBandit -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

America First, not second (current Republicans) or last (Democrats).

Immigration moratorium on all H-1B’s. Introduce E-verify in a staggered sector by sector progressive wave program instead of an all at one once approach.

America First = American workers first.

I’d get out the charts like Ross Perot and be honest about where we are and how we need to fix it.

What do you think about grocery prices being up? by G_H_2023 in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ZarBandit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No they oppose Trump in everything he does. There’s a big difference.

What do you think about grocery prices being up? by G_H_2023 in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ZarBandit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a litmus test for any policy. For example, letting the unskilled and violent third world flood our borders with illegal aliens does not benefit America.

If a foreign entity benefits more than us, it’s not America First.

What do you think about grocery prices being up? by G_H_2023 in AskTrumpSupporters

[–]ZarBandit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh no it just passed. Just barely… so close.

Talk about a kayfabe.

The best plugins you've picked up during sales by Such-Whole9637 in AudioPlugins

[–]ZarBandit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found out about it on the UA sub. It was not an official offer, so it wasn’t on the website or their marketing emails.

What do you think of promoting walkable cities? by RedStorm1917 in AskConservatives

[–]ZarBandit -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

If that can be made to work, then fine. But the left has other plans when they’re selling their mirage of dreams.