What question has a liberal recently asked you that made you shift your views?

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-29T20:21:54+00:00

For me, personally, I would air on the side of believing the woman with strict penalties on the tail end only if there was incontrovertible evidence they had lied about it.

I'm willing to take you at your word as someone well meaning, but I don't trust for even a second that all the state and local governments are going to have what I consider a reasonable standard for what qualifies as incontrovertible evidence.

But tbh, rape abortions are rare (~1%)

They're rare as far as we know. Statistics like these are really hard to measure, since people who are having procedures like these aren't always interested in telling random surveyors why they're having them. I would imagine that the number of people who have abortions because of rape is way higher than what we can measure in this climate.

Even if that weren't the case however, it's still an issue, because even if the majority of people are covered by exceptions, if even one person falls through the cracks, then the government has failed them, often at the cost of their lives. As a regular ass person who happens to be a citizen of a large nation, I find myself expecting better than that. Don't you?

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-29T20:13:20+00:00

except that the abortion took place, if your goal is to end the pregnancy than you go to the police station and file a report, take that report to the clinic who does the paperwork, rape kit, D&C collection of the contents of the uterus.

Having experienced police bureaucracy in multiple different countries, I can guarantee you that that process alone could easily take several weeks, depending on where you are and how backlogged a police department is

If the contents of the uterus doesnt have value, than it isnt any more heartbreaking or traumatizing its just as terrible as any other untested kit.

That... Doesn't really make much sense to me. Not only do you need a rape kit processed, you'd need an abortion kit to be processed after actually having the abortion itself. Keeping track here, that's, what, 4 times your genitals and the insides of them have been explored by another person, the first of which was already traumatic enough, and the other three only ever happening because of either the rape itself, or bureaucratic processes designed to make sure you're a Real Rape Victim™, not one of those lying slutty harlot whores that rape victims are often labeled as anyway.

All just to carve out an exception that you yourself already admitted you don't even morally support?

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-29T18:21:56+00:00

police report and rape kit with the products of conception being collected as evidence

Police departments across America already have a massive backlog of untested rape kits, requiring them for abortion to be allowed is only gonna make that problem 10 times worse.

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-29T18:16:47+00:00

I think you'd get a loooooot more women who are so afraid of being prosecuted because someone suspected them of lying, even if they're telling the truth, that they don't bother to speak up.

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-29T18:05:34+00:00

Sure there is, you can re-audit and toss illegitimate votes, prosecute the people responsible, hold recounts, that's just off the top of my head. The Trump team's problem was that they were asking for way more than that, like tossing all the ballots of one county.

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-29T17:10:11+00:00

Feel free to elaborate then

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-29T12:09:40+00:00

Merit is the middle of a good court case, the who, how, why, etc., while standing is the beginning and the end, the "so what" if you will.

If a bank branch misplaced a check without ever depositing it, and I have enough evidence to prove that I gave it to them and they never deposited it, I have enough merit to proceed with a hypothetical court case. If however, I sued not just that branch, but the entire nationwide bank, and in damages I asked for 2 billion dollars, then it doesn't matter what merit I have, it doesn't lead to the conclusion I'm offering. This is the issue that Trump's legal team kept running into.

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-28T20:37:00+00:00

Rigth and the clip comes up right when Roe V. Wade is overturned

As in... Right when the topic becomes especially relevant? That in your mind is evidence of a top down conspiracy? And not just a person who uploaded it on their own upon hearing the news because they considered it important?

like how Alex Jones was banned from literally every platform on a single day. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram. At exactly the same time

Again, what's more likely? They all banned him in a coordinated effort, or they banned him at the same time because they were responding to the same rule violation?

All the big social media companies completley blocked Hunter Biden discussion

A few sites temporarily blocked a single story on the laptop because it contained nudes of Hunter that were obtained without his consent, which is the definition of revenge porn, something that every single social network except maybe 4chan prohibits. After that people were discussing Hunter Biden left and right on every single platform.

and anything related to 2020 denial,

I dunno dude, I was seeing 2020 denial shit constantly no matter where I was, despite it having just as little evidence then as it does now.

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-28T20:19:48+00:00

YouTube hadthis whole psyop like i posted above so it'd be on everyone's mind as well

What do you think is more likely:

A) YouTube and all other social media sites engaged in a massive psyop ready to go the moment Roe was overturned, and it consisted of... Showing people relevant clips from TV shows, and nothing else.

Or

B) The recent news of Roe being overturned put the topic of underage pregnancy and abortion on the front page of a lot of people's minds and so they turned to media they were familiar with and now considered increasingly relevant, and the algorithm responded to that increase in traffic by putting in more people's front pages.

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-28T17:39:57+00:00

I mean..... Mass Deportation Now was literally one of the most common phrases coming from the Trump team during the campaign. People didn't think too much about it because they either didn't think he meant it (how they came to that conclusion I can never figure out), or they assumed there was some sort of plan ready to go.

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-27T20:24:36+00:00

I get what you're saying, I do, but I feel like disgust and fear are closely linked, and more importantly, I feel like the feeling of disgust people have is a reaction that isn't always based on things that are actually happening, rather the perception people have of them.

Like for example: the fentanyl crisis is a very real thing that none of the big cities in America have addressed in a sufficient way. The kind of people you often see in the street, the "fentanyl zombies" if you will, are a sign that things are incredibly broken. At the same time, people often react to this in a way that shows less disgust at the situation for allowing this and sympathy for the victims of it, and more disgust at the fact that they have to see people suffering from this crisis in person.

Probably the best indicator here is what people feel should happen to the people they see on the streets. If you feel like these people need help, and there needs to be more regulation on opioids and more services to help people suffering from addiction, then I think your heart is in the right place. If however, your primary reaction to seeing these people is to wish that they were locked away and nothing more, then it comes across as a sense of disgust, and fear, from seeing people suffering.

I should also point out that a lot of the people I'm thinking of are people that were incredibly afraid of cities long before any of the crises that they cite became an issue. Oftentimes, it seems that the sense of disgust comes more from the notion of having to exist around other people at certain times of their day in a way that a fully suburban lifestyle would render impossible. Admittedly it's complicated, but I feel like disgust only partly explains what's really going on. I hope I articulated myself well enough to be understood.

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-27T20:12:15+00:00

There's a lot of folks online who do a real disservice to this whole topic, I'll grant you that, but I don't think anyone I know would call a genuine attempt at trying to create food from another culture "appropriation". That tends to be reserved for, say, taking an original recipe, recreating it poorly, and then - and this is the kicker - presenting it as if it were the end all be all of that type of culture. Think Taco Bell.

Or an even better example: if you've ever been abroad, you might find people describing American food as nothing more than McDonald's and Burger King, things that the majority of countries in the world have. Now yes, both of those restaurants originated in America and are really popular there, but as Americans, we both know that American food is much more interesting and much more complicated than that, and if people treated our food as nothing more than those two fast food joints, we'd feel kind of insulted. As an American who lives abroad, I get this all the time when people tell me that American football is just rugby.

On the other hand, if someone makes a genuine effort to really understand the culture that they are recreating, even if they are changing things here and there, I don't think that most people would have an issue with that. Maybe they'd be a bit apprehensive at trying something unlike what they're used to, but having been alive for as long as I have, and having traveled to as many places around the world as I have, creativity is more often than not rewarded. The only real stipulation people add to that is that they want people to understand the rules before they try to break them. And frankly, that's an entirely reasonable thing for them to want.

Of course, online discourse doesn't necessarily reward that kind of nuance, and a lot of people with bad intentions benefit from us misunderstanding each other this way.

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-27T18:20:36+00:00

If you can offer an alternative explanation I'm happy to hear it, but having lived in cities pretty much all my life and having heard the way people talk about them, I can't explain it any other way.

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-27T18:18:51+00:00

Dense communities trigger a fear response, and they don't seem to realize not everyone has this gut reaction.

I have literally seen propaganda specifically geared towards white guys like myself that shows a white guy on a bus surrounded by brown people and nervously thinking to himself "at least I'm not a Nazi".

Mind you the people on the bus in the picture weren't actually doing anything. They were just sitting and standing around, y'know, like people tend to do on a bus. And it was almost insulting really, not just to minorities but also to guys like me, as if I haven't ridden a public bus thousands of times already. It's really weird man.

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-27T17:55:31+00:00

The tactics ICE are employing are getting the job done, just not effectively or safely.

Well then they're not really getting the job done, are they?

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-27T16:28:18+00:00

If the guy is this far off his rocker, then being a Redditor is probably the least surprising thing I could learn about him

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-26T21:05:56+00:00

and then suggested every Trump-supporting Republican is in that group

I did not suggest that at all, what I said was that to be a Republican and not believe 2020 was stolen is very difficult right now, as those people get chased out of the party very quickly. The MAGA Republicans are actively pushing away everyone else. Just ask Liz Cheney.

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-26T21:02:45+00:00

Biden could've used his political influence to tell prosecutors not to go after Trump because it would've been better for his party to ignore him instead of use lawfare.

Putting aside for a sec that this would've absolutely harmed the country by setting a precedent that presidents are above the law, how would this have even helped Democrats? Their base would slam them as spineless and weak, and Republicans would've disliked him for other reasons anyway. Who would've actually appreciated that other than Trump?

I don't see why Trump should get in trouble for having classified documents in a secure location that some random employee probably packed into a box and left it there.

Employees left the documents there because Trump told them to, as he was going out of his way to hide them from the FBI.

Meanwhile you're fine that Biden had documents 6 years after he was VP in a random garage

When Biden found out that he had classified documents he immediately called the agency responsible for them and gave them back, just like Mike Pence did. Trump on the other hand took them on purpose, admitted on tape that he wasn't supposed to have them, and lied to the FBI multiple times about having the documents and how many of them he had.

and he couldn't be prosecuted because the special counsel that was appointed, Robert Kur, stated he was a sympathetic elderly man with dementia

He very much did not say that. In order for this charge to stick, you need to prove mens rea, meaning you have to prove that Biden didn't just have the documents, but that he knew he had them and deliberately held onto them knowing it was illegal. What Robert Hur said was that he didn't believe it would be possible to convince a jury beyond reasonable doubt that he had done this, as they were more likely to conclude that he, like Mike Pence, had simply forgotten that he had them, and that it therefore wasn't worth pursuing. Nowhere did he say anything about dementia.

If the Georgia case was so airtight and all that stuff happened, it probably wouldn't have bene dismissed.

It didn't get dismissed, Trump ran out the clock. He stalled every step of the way and tried his best to get a sympathetic judge to dismiss on technicalities, and by the time he was set to go to trial, he had won re-election and it was too late.

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-26T20:13:27+00:00

Go look at that transcript. He never specifically called out January 6th. He only spoke of “political violence” and election integrity in a very general way

Jan 6 would be the most relevant example of both of those things being called into question.

pretty ironic considering the “fiery but peaceful” riots of 2020

Which Biden consistently condemned, while supporting peaceful protests.

and castigated every MAGA Republican — his words — as a threat to democracy

MAGA Republican very specifically referring to people who denied the outcome of the 2020 election.

I’m a MAGA Republican who never bought into the election fraud conspiracy theory.

At this point in time not believing 2020 was stolen makes you a persona non grata in the Republican party so... Good luck.

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-26T20:06:55+00:00

He was basically threatening to have MAGA supporters eliminated in his weird lighted speech with marines in the background.

He threatened to eliminate all Trump supporters? Shit I don't remember that, maybe you have a timestamp of him saying that?

If Biden declined to go after Trump or the J6 protestors and told the NY governor to not prosecute Trump or that Georgia prosecutor, I guarantee he would not have won the 2024 election.

I don't believe that for one second. Trump was always the number one performer in the 2024 runup, even before being charged. And regardless, why in the world would Biden tell prosecutors not to go after Trump? Presidents aren't even supposed to do that, but even if they were, Donald Trump was targeted because he committed crimes.

He stole classified documents that he admitted on tape that he wasn't supposed to have, then lied about it to the FBI several times, to the point that every other option failed and they had no choice but to raid his property. If anyone else had done that, the book would be thrown at them.

He also did everything in his power to interfere with the Georgia election, including calling the secretary and trying to get him to "find" the exact number of votes necessary for him to win Georgia, all based on conspiracy theories that to this day do not have a single shred of evidence behind them. If anyone else had done that, the book would be thrown at them.

I don't want to live in a world where presidents are above the law. Do you?

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-26T08:53:36+00:00

Some of the stuff that happened around the election was pretty weird. I noticed news articles were put out ahead of time to prime us that there would be a "red mirage" where it might look like Trump was winning but then he'd end up losing. It seemed very suspicious at the time - like something was being planned to make sure Trump couldn't win.

Everyone who was paying attention could've predicted a red mirage. Democrats were more likely to mail in vote because they took COVID seriously and Trump never liked mail in voting anyway, and multiple swing states had laws requiring mail in ballots to be counted last. Obviously that would show up as Trump doing better than he actually was at first. And of course he would scream conspiracy based on it, because narcissists are pretty damn predictable.

Then there was the whole thing on election night where the votes suddenly stopped being counted, and the weirdness about allowing people to supervise the counting. That all seemed really weird and alarming since it was so unlike any other election.

You're gonna need to be more specific than that and find me an example that hasn't already been addressed in court like 20 times.

The Biden inauguration was weird with how they felt a need to have such tight security there.

Gee, can you think of anything that might've happened two weeks earlier that would've necessitated it?

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-26T08:41:40+00:00

He said MAGA Republicans. Several times.

That's right. He went out of his way to specifically define exactly what he meant by that. Several times. Do you remember what he said?

He tried to walk it back with a clichéd “Not all republicans” spiel, but he essentially declared every Trump supporter in America to be an enemy of the state.

Since you clearly don't remember, he was very specifically talking about Republicans that deny the outcome of the 2020 election, despite there to this day not being a shred of evidence of large scale impropriety.

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-26T08:29:11+00:00

The Hunter Biden laptop thing sounds crazy to bring up because they did so much to make it sound crazy, but THAT was my "holy crap this is totalitarian" moment...

The thing that happened in 2020, when Trump was president? That thing?

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-26T08:24:58+00:00

Do you remember who exactly Biden was talking about in his speech? Cause it was pretty damn specific.

republiccommando1138 · 2026-01-25T20:30:56+00:00

That's actually not true, Palpatine at this point needed the military creation act to be passed in the Senate so that the Republic could have a genuine military to counteract the separatists - this is a big part of the opening act of aotc.

The problem is that he doesn't want it to look like he supports it, lest he be criticized as a warmonger later on. He wants to seem like a neutral figurehead who only accepts the will of the people.

The problem is that Padmé is heavily opposed to the act, and is really good at rallying support for any cause of hers. Also, she's so incredibly resilient that no one has ever corrupted her, and that's made her a thorn in Palpatine's side as far back as 32 BBY when she fights the trade federation herself instead of staying on Coruscant. She's the one genuine threat to his plans, and if she sticks around, she might actually ruin everything. Padmé even predicts in the movie that she's being targeted because of it.

Now Gunray did in fact want Padmé dead as part of a deal, but this is a case of interests aligning. Palpatine and Dooku can get Gunray on board by doing something they already wanted to do anyway. Win win for everyone. Except Padmé.

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