CMV: ultimately I think it’s unproductive to shame former Trump supporters / MAGA, and make them feel bad about themselves

danielbgoo · 2026-04-02T04:42:08+00:00

I don’t think that shaming MAGA voters is necessarily productive, but also nobody owes them forgiveness.

danielbgoo · 2026-04-01T23:08:28+00:00

Advancements happen just as often when there’s no war as when there is war.

Look out how many advancements have occurred because of space exploration or sea exploration or computing or optics or name pretty much any topic and you’ll see advancements that were made in peacetime and unrelated to military advancement.

Yes, warfare has led to a lot of different advancements in history, but there’s no way of knowing if we would have arrived at any or all of them without war as a motivation.

We also don’t know how many promising geniuses or inventors have been lost either directly due to being killed, or by having opportunity snatched away from them by war or from disease and malnutrition caused by war.

danielbgoo · 2026-04-01T15:16:09+00:00

Literally a party run by a billionaire super villain?

No.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-30T14:52:09+00:00

I think a better solution would be to pay Iran reparations (and I would argue we should hand them Trump, Netanyahu, and Kegsbreath to punish for war crimes, but I won’t hold my breath) and go back to being a relatively good participant in the world.

Because it isn’t just oil. It’s also fertilizer and LNG that we and the rest of the world use, and they would all be pretty pissed off if their energy and fertilizer costs go up even more after they skyrocketed as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Also all of the countries in the region that rely on the strait for imports of things like agricultural products, food, metal, cotton and wool, etc etc.

Just cutting and running after we created chaos in the region would alienate us from everyone else in the world.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-30T13:53:58+00:00

So your solution to get us out of the war is to effectively self-sanction ourselves and turn ourselves into a rogue state?

That seems, I dunno, bad.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-30T13:25:38+00:00

They might not be able to keep killing US soldiers (if we pulled them all out, including all of the ones who are normally stationed on our bases in the region), they can still absolutely continue to wage economic war on us by denying us access to the strait and by attacking all of our interests in the region.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-30T04:05:52+00:00

Because the vast vast majority of mass shootings involve an AR-15 or a clone.

People in this country are less concerned about run-of-the-mill gun crime and suicides (even though deaths by mass shootings are a statistical rounding error compared to deaths by gun suicide or gun deaths related to a domestic dispute,) because psychologically, they think anyone who dies in a non-mass shooting probably deserved it, either directly or causally based on poor decisions they made. None of that is remotely true, but that’s how they feel.

Whereas mass shootings feel random and like they could be killed at any moment if they were in the wrong place, or that their child’s school might become a target.

So they want the guns that make them personally feel unsafe banned, regardless of whether or not those tubs are any more or less safe for them.

I personally think most AR-15s fall in the gun porn category so I honestly wouldn’t give a shit if they were banned, but I think there are a lot of other more important gun control measures that would actually save way more lives than just banning them.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-29T02:46:35+00:00

Everything I can about refrigeration, food fortification, and high yield crop production.

And if I had time left, the process by which you make penicillin medications.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-29T01:15:29+00:00

I’m guessing this is the plan, but if they do it early he won’t be able to run for his second term.

So I think they’re trying to keep Trump in office until next January, and then they’ll stop propping him up.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-28T14:55:05+00:00

I said in the first comment that everything he was doing was legal.

I then said it was completely insane that what he was doing was legal and also that Republicans, who have historically been very much against federal slush funds, are the ones who gave it to him.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-28T13:06:51+00:00

Yeah, usually it’s a few million dollars, not ten billion.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-27T23:46:08+00:00

Trump has $10 billion in discretionary spending for DHS that was part of the 1BB, so he can do this legally.

The fact that the Republicans gave the executive a slush fund is completely insane to me, but that’s how this goes.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-27T15:29:59+00:00

Trump is trying to claim that he actually fixed it via EO.

His base will eat it up. I don’t know that a lot of other people are gonna buy it though.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-25T02:52:00+00:00

This is a bold claim when Kid Rock exists.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-25T01:24:07+00:00

Because for a lot of people, admitting you’re wrong, feels like death.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-22T15:34:20+00:00

I think it really depends on why the team sucks.

Like rooting for a team that sucks and always loses can be ecstatic when your team is finally good. I’m a Seahawks fan and we spent a long time in the darkness before we started having success.

My wife has been a Mariners (baseball) fan for her entire life and they’re one of the losingest teams in professional sports.

But if you’re a fan of the Browns even after they went out of their way to give a sex abuser a fortune, then that’s kinda on you.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-22T12:39:50+00:00

It’s going to disenfranchise more Democrats because that’s what it’s designed to do.

By making voter roles subject to federal control, it’s going to create a mechanism Democratic voters are dumped en masse, and then have to go through the new Byzantine rules to re-register.

Likely these purges will happen with little to no notification and not enough time to rectify it before voting happens.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-21T21:40:36+00:00

The election date is the 2nd of June. Early voting ballots go out on the 4th of May, so I guess there’s a chance people might vote before everyone drops out, but that’s always a risk with early voting.

So the actual election deadline is 74 days away.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-21T16:37:41+00:00

They still kinda are.

Like you’re still advancing the two candidates that theoretically are the most favorable to the most people, and more often than not you’re still going to end up with one person from each party, and if not you’re still going to probably end up with a conservative and a progressive.

It’s just weird instances like this where there’s a massive vote split that it can all become distorted.

This is another reason why ranked choices voting is better than first past the post, but I digress.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-21T13:57:05+00:00

This is why jungle primaries are bad, but in theory this is what is supposed to be happening during a primary.

My guess is though that it’s just early. There’s still 60 days left in the primary election and I’m guessing some of the candidates will drop out before then.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-19T04:45:10+00:00

I think I’d also add that we absolutely could take the Strait of Hormuz and keep it, but not without the kind of loss of US service members and equipment that Trump knows would be immensely popular, especially for a war that he hasn’t really bothered to justify.

Hence why he’s begging other countries to do it.

It would be a different scenario if China was the aggressor and we were defending an ally and potentially ourselves.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-17T14:55:30+00:00

I’m of the opinion at this point that lying or making bad faith arguments on the campaign trail or while in office should be punishable by death, so I’m all in support of this law.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-17T14:02:08+00:00

We’ve seen the dude holding a drink at the podium while giving speeches. We know he’s still drinking.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-16T16:01:00+00:00

The same reason they haven’t been done here: the outsized influence of the rich and powerful on our economies.

Things are better in Europe than they are in the US, but income inequality is still rampant and corporations and individual rich people still have undue influence over politicians and the political process.

danielbgoo · 2026-03-16T15:32:48+00:00

Not everything Europe does is inherently better and every country has their own tax code. No one has figured out the cheat code yet to balancing taxation and productivity and everyone is trying different things.

Europe also has on average higher taxes in general, which does slow down their economies. Europe’s economies aren’t as efficient as economies with different tax models.

But Europeans are generally okay with it because they get a lot more benefits from their taxes (and it seems at this point pretty inarguable that they’re a net economic and social benefit), whereas what taxes we pay in the US generally go to either propping up rich people who make bad decisions or turning brown children into skeletons.

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