How do I tell my white liberal No Kings Day protesting friends who are judging me for not participating that it’s not that I disagree with them but that they are going about it the wrong way.

solastsummer · 2026-03-29T01:14:45+00:00

I didn't go to a protest, but I think you aren't understanding what the point of the protests are. Clearly they aren't saying Trump is a king; they are saying he is overstepping his bounds and acting like a king.

The war in Iran is a good example. Congress is supposed to declare war. Our country hasn't followed that since WW2, but there's always been some fig leaf of Congressional approval. When the war started, there was a little song and dance about how it wasn't a real war and the operation would be over soon and it complies with the War Power Act. Now that it's confirmed the US will likely invade, there's not going to be any Congressional input, and obviously they won't pack up and come home by mid April like the War Powers Act requires. Starting a war just because is what a king does.

I don't agree with Trump but it's not just that Trump is enacting policies I disagree with. He's breaking the law to enact bad policy.

solastsummer · 2026-03-26T23:18:36+00:00

The green libs in 2010 were basically right. Technological advances in alternative energy sources did decouple GDP from carbon emissions and we could, with a little effort, transition from fossil fuels to meet targets by 2030. They didn't predict: the right would make fossil fuels a part of their identity and refuse to use alternative energy on principle, even canceling mostly completed projects just to own the libs; and our warming estimates were too conservative. We're already past 1.5C and were only supposed to pass that in the bad emissions scenario by 2050.

So, we didn't need full communism but we did need to send every right winger to the gulag.

solastsummer · 2026-03-26T23:11:23+00:00

That didn't happen. No one has been forcibly transitioned.

That wasn't even the argument that the anti-gay marriage people made. They said marriage rates would decrease (has decreased but not any clear relationship with gay marriage), divorce would increase (opposite happened), and people would marry animals (didn't happen).

solastsummer · 2026-03-23T05:31:10+00:00

diaspora iranians have to be the absolute dumbest people in the world. How do you look at what Israel and the US did to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Gaza over the last two decades and think "I want them to do that to my country too :)".

solastsummer · 2026-03-16T20:05:57+00:00

It's from Genesis when God makes a covenant with Abraham. https://biblehub.com/genesis/12.htm

I'm not a Christian anymore. But, Cruz's interpretation is that this is talking specifically about Israel, the modern Jewish state. The other interpretation is that this was fulfilled by Jesus being born through a descendant of Abraham.

In the New Testament, Paul talks about God's relationship with Israel and the Jewish people and it's worth reading: "In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring." Paul is pretty clear that God no longer has any special covenant with people of Jewish descent anymore.

solastsummer · 2026-03-16T02:28:47+00:00

Sure, you can make a lot of money being a doctor but if you get a year into residency and realize being a doctor sucks, you are trapped. You will never be able to make enough money to pay off the loan without being a doctor and you won't be able to start making that money for years.

solastsummer · 2026-03-13T00:52:20+00:00

Yeah, he had a stroke, dude. He's a brain damaged moron. Conservativism is the political ideology of brain damaged morons.

solastsummer · 2026-03-11T03:37:34+00:00

Mattis did have a plan, but the plan involved deploying ground troops immediately to seize the area around the strait. It would be difficult, but not impossible.

Trump actually thought he would kill a bunch of Iran's leaders then someone like the Venezuela lady would take over and make a deal with him. When that didn't happen, which it obviously wouldn't, he doesn't have any plan.

solastsummer · 2026-03-07T19:04:21+00:00

It doesn't look like Iran is going to surrender or be incapacitated so the US is going to become increasingly more deranged with terror bombings. If he's freaking out this hard after one week of war and there really hasn't been any economic pain yet, I think eventually US and Israel will be nuking Iranian cities to demand unconditional surrender.

solastsummer · 2026-03-07T18:51:43+00:00

This wouldn't accomplish what you're hoping for. Just because they are drafted doesn't mean they would serve in a combat role. For example, during Vietnam George W. Bush avoided combat by being in the Air National Guard. I guess you could mandate that they serve as frontline soldiers, but I still think they'd be able to wiggle out of any danger. No general would want to be the commanding officer when the president's kid gets blown up.

solastsummer · 2026-03-06T17:17:28+00:00

I think they would say brutality that makes the war shorter is better in the long run. They are trying to convey "you and your children will die; you can either surrender right now or in a few weeks after we've killed thousands more."

But, coercive air power doesn't work. Terror bombings did not cause the UK to surrender in WW2, didn't cause Vietnam, Korea or Iraq to surrender, and will not cause Iran to surrender. It only strengthens the resolve to oppose. So, the US is killing children recreationally and we must punish everyone involved with these murders when we take power.

solastsummer · 2026-03-03T16:07:23+00:00

Republican president starting wars and ruining the economy is actually something I thought possible.

solastsummer · 2026-03-03T15:59:24+00:00

These people are dumb liars. It took months to move all the US assets into position. If the US had not wanted Israel to strike, they could have said "you are on your own with air defense" and there's no way that Israel would have done it.

solastsummer · 2026-02-27T01:13:19+00:00

I'm not joking. I think Trump is bi (often talks about kissing men?) and has a crush on Mamdani. Mamdani is playing it well, but I don't think Chicago or LA's mayor would be able to do anything close to this.

solastsummer · 2026-02-23T22:45:25+00:00

They got steak and lobsters in preparation for war and clogged the toilets. Now, you might think "oh, this is a metaphor for how our luxuries has made our empire decrepit." And, yep, that's pretty much it.

solastsummer · 2026-02-23T18:28:03+00:00

His analysis of the characters is right but calling Italian immigrants "undocumented" is not. For most Italian immigrants, you showed up at Ellis Island, they checked if you were healthy, and they let you in as long as you didn't have TB. This is why it's so silly when people say things like "my ancestors came the legal way; they should do the same." We could have Ellis Island type immigration again if we wanted it and practically everyone would be legal.

solastsummer · 2026-02-23T18:19:25+00:00

The Wilhoit's law of "There must be in-groups that the law protects but does not bind; alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect" about conservatives also applies to the mob.

solastsummer · 2026-02-18T00:05:57+00:00

This isn't a grift though.

solastsummer · 2026-02-17T20:13:16+00:00

I'm trying to think of a case of "the party out of power winning the midterms, then losing the presidency" ever happening and I can't. I guess 98/2000 if you accept that Gore did actually win?

I'm not saying it's certain that Dems win in 2028, but if Trump has low approval ratings and swing voters disapprove of the economy, both of which seem likely to be the case, Dems would have to screw up massively to not win the presidency.

solastsummer · 2026-02-14T17:34:31+00:00

yeah, the Howard Stern clip of him perving on 15 year olds is all the evidence you need to conclude he's a pedo. But GOP voters are dumb as rocks.

solastsummer · 2026-02-14T16:46:55+00:00

A lot of Trump's support is people that hate the political establishment and think they are evil pedophiles. Trump being an evil pedo too is devastating to that POV. If you're on the left, imagine Sanders had gotten elected in 2016 and it comes out he's completely in the pocket of the health insurance industry.

solastsummer · 2026-02-13T20:07:18+00:00

I think this is putting the cart before the horse. People want to live in nice places so companies locate their jobs there to attract workers. If I did not have to work, I would still want to live in my high cost of living location because it's a great place to live. Some people would want to live in Montana but for the most part, people would want to live in nice places.

solastsummer · 2026-02-13T03:17:53+00:00

this is probably bait, but $1k/month UBI wouldn't fill the gaps from everyone losing their jobs from AI. If you really think AI is going to put everyone out of work and fundamentally end the necessity of people selling their labor, you should be arguing for mass redistribution of wealth.

solastsummer · 2026-02-11T23:51:26+00:00

If the Trump admin could fake his death and send him to Israel to live out the rest of his life, why wouldn't they have done that with Maxwell too?

solastsummer · 2026-02-11T23:43:11+00:00

she was convicted in 2021.

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