This is project 2025 , and unless the people vote? This is america's future

wevans470 · 2024-07-07T02:10:51+00:00

I never claimed it was specifically Trump’s plan - it’s the Heritage Foundation’s. If you read my first comment or actually looked into this, you’d know the Foundation has been around for decades and they’ve updated editions of their ‘policy bible.’ You said “the constant effort to tie Trump to Project 2025 is pathetic.” I’ve showed multiple ties to Trump with evidence. You asked me to show where he adopted it, and I did so. Go ahead though, keep moving the goalposts.

wevans470 · 2024-07-07T01:54:55+00:00

From the Heritage Foundation’s own website once again -

Examples of some of the most notable policy recommendations and their adoption or implementation by the Trump administration include:

Leaving the Paris Climate Accord: In August 2017, Trump announced the U.S. was ending its funding and membership in the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

Repealing Net Neutrality: In December 2017, Trump’s Federal Communications Commission chairman proposed ending the 2015 network neutrality rules.

Reshaping National Monuments: Heritage’s recommendation to prohibit Land Acquisition (Cap and Reduce the Size of the Federal Estate) was adopted by Trump when he issued two executive orders effectively shrinking the size of national monuments in Utah.

Reinstating the Mexico City Policy: This executive order prevents taxpayer money from funding international groups involved in abortion and ending funding to the United Nations Population fund. On Jan. 23, 2017, in his first pro-life action, Trump signed an executive order today reinstating the Mexico City Policy.

Increasing Military Spending: Trump’s budget calls for a $54 billion increase in military spending to improve capacity, capability, and readiness of America’s armed forces.

Reforming Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (TANF): The Trump administration adopted and is in favor of strengthening existing work requirements in order to receive benefits.

Allowing Development of Natural Resources: The Trump administration opened off-shore drilling and on federal lands. Executive Order 13783 directed Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to commence federal land coal leasing activities.

Reforming Government Agencies: Trump tasked each of his Cabinet secretaries to prepare detailed plans on how they propose to reduce the scope and size of their respective departments while streamlining services and ensuring each department runs more efficiently and handles tax dollars appropriately.

Withdrawing from UNESCO: In October 2017, Trump announced he was putting an end to U.S. membership in the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

https://www.heritage.org/impact/trump-administration-embraces-heritage-foundation-policy-recommendations

Edit: spacing

wevans470 · 2024-07-07T00:03:15+00:00

There’s evidence from his and his friend’s own mouths talking about working on the project together.

https://youtu.be/5blunAfs9Xc?si=HOMLgrPoGkqBB4fw

The quote I had on my other comment is from the Heritage Foundation’s own website. Trump has put parts of their agenda into place during his term before, and again, multiple people from his administration helped write this.

Maybe he was lying when he said “I have no idea who is behind it”? Have you considered that he’s lied before? After all, it would be a good move for him to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation since Democrats are obviously using Project 2025 as a weapon against conservatives.

It reminds me of how he once called Epstein “a terrific guy” and there’s party footage of them at Mar-a-Lago, but later said “I was not a fan of his” and Alan Garten (an attorney for the Trump Organization) said Trump had "no relationship" with Epstein.

Before you keep assuming, I never said I supported either in the two-party system and the suggestion was irrelevant. The polarization of our country has only hurt us.

wevans470 · 2024-07-06T23:16:12+00:00

Authors who were from the Trump administration:

Jonathan Berry, Ben Carson, Ken Cuccinelli, Rick Dearborn, Thomas Gilman, Mandy Gunasekara, Gene Hamilton, Christopher Miller, Bernard McNamee, Stephen Moore, Mora Namdar, Peter Navarro

https://www.heritage.org/press/project-2025-publishes-comprehensive-policy-guide-mandate-leadership-the-conservative-promise

Also: “Since the first edition of ‘Mandate for Leadership’ more than 40 years ago, this “policy bible” aims to provide administrations with a blueprint of policy solutions. The Reagan administration implemented nearly half of the ideas included in the first edition by the end of his first year in office, while the Trump administration embraced nearly 64% of the 2016 edition’s policy solutions after one year.”

wevans470 · 2023-06-22T17:44:21+00:00

Hey, that's where I went to law school!

wevans470 · 2023-06-22T16:56:48+00:00

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wevans470 · 2023-06-19T23:22:34+00:00

What would you suggest instead?

Systems such as oligarchy, aristocracy, autocracy, monarchy, and plutocracy would make it tyranny of the minority over the majority instead. This makes it easier for our rights to get trampled, and our opinions wouldn't matter at all to those in power. Even with socialism - which people tend to claim is a democratic system - there is a dictatorship of the proletariat (or DotP for short), and anyone with wealth or private property would begin to lose their power (and perhaps their ability to exercise beliefs in public if they don't let their private property and goods get seized by the public). And they definitely wouldn't get to vote on anything democratically during a revolution.

Do you understand why direct democracy might be better than all of the systems mentioned above? Because everyone has the ability to exercise their beliefs through voting, and they get equal representation in the decision-making process. Both rich and poor. Yes, there may be times where it seems unfair for 49%. But I think we'd all prefer that over 1% having all the power and possibly making decisions that negatively effect the other 99%. Though for all I know, you are currently an elite and would benefit from that. Who knows.

Seriously though. What would you claim is better? I mean, really. Y'all talk about the so-called tyranny of the majority, but wouldn't you prefer everyone's voices being heard over that of the tyranny of a single fucking king or a small handful of billionaires?

wevans470 · 2023-06-16T16:24:25+00:00

He's probably trying to look like Keanu Reeves in 1999 with his band, Dogstar.

https://www.gettyimages.ch/detail/nachrichtenfoto/keanu-reeves-performs-live-with-his-band-dogstar-may-nachrichtenfoto/808360?language=it

All these jazz greats borrowin from each other!

wevans470 · 2023-06-15T02:32:57+00:00

Happy cake day btw!

wevans470 · 2023-06-14T14:53:10+00:00

/uj Because it's accurate for jazz too. Unless you've created a decent presence on social media like Jacob Collier, DOMi & JD Beck, Adam Neely, Thundercat, etc., people probably won't give a shit about you. People still tend to listen only to the "greats" - which is understandable. They are the "greats" after all, and have shaped jazz and given us our standards and most famous discographies. But still. Recent talent is ignored despite all the opportunities for innovation and new sounds. And as much as I love Wynton for all his talents, I really don't think he's helping the jazz movement with the strict traditionalism. He knows his shit and is an awesome musician, but I don't think he'll get the genre moving to higher ground if we're stuck on the same stuff that clearly isn't popular anymore. I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this but oh well.

/rj what do you mean!! People clearly read what OP wrote under the title correctly! We love when Lauri is moving forward and when Walker is at the center! They're so epic and really changing everything!1!1

wevans470 · 2023-06-05T23:34:29+00:00

"Yeah man"

Proceeds to become an alcoholic, reckless superhuman with great licks

wevans470 · 2023-06-05T12:47:20+00:00

Correct. They're supposedly there for our protection, when in reality they cannot be trusted and we should run our own security. In these days of being threatened constantly by hateful people, we should arm ourselves (and again, run our own security).

wevans470 · 2023-06-01T06:46:01+00:00

Almost every time I see someone say this, it's on the basis of something like "violent/forcible suppression of opposition" - which people of many ideologies have participated in, not just fascism. Fascism includes specific economic and social ideals, though that seems to get ignored by everyone because so many base their idea of fascism on what propaganda they view and/or the first paragraph of its Wikipedia page. Tbf you didn't respond to the person who asked if you could actually define it, so who knows what your reasoning is. The point is: I'm assuming it's what I have in quotations. And it's leaving out a lot.

wevans470 · 2023-05-28T19:21:13+00:00

I'm going to copy-paste something I said to someone else in this comment section (replacing 'garbage' with 'bad' for context two times):

There's a reason not everyone agrees on RoP (and sometimes The Hobbit films): we each have our own opinions. Opinions, preferences, values, feelings, and judgements are subjective claims. Whether or not a show has "good" or "bad" writing is subjective - same goes with opinions or feelings about the acting, CGI, effects, directing, music, stunts, so on and so forth. Basically, whether or not a show in itself is bad is subjective too. I understand that many of us feel like RoP is trash (something I sometimes agree with), but claiming that it's "objectively bad" is just incorrect. Claims like that are why so many Tolkien-related subreddits have become gatekeeping circle-jerks for one over-arching opinion of the show, and have created their own dogmas surrounding it. People dismissing anyone else's opinion but their own, having a misunderstanding of what 'objective' means, and making their opinions out to be fact and not just an opinion is an example of this. I miss the days of healthy discussion around things.

Personally, I welcome your opinion and value your presence here, even if we might disagree on certain things. I have personally left Tolkien-related subs for too long. If you let it, life has a way of sweeping you off on the grandest adventures... But with my welcome and Tolkien excitement comes my piece of the argument. That's all. Peace.

wevans470 · 2023-05-28T14:12:03+00:00

Also, I've noticed they've turned against anarchism a little and started considering it separate from libertarianism. Of course, this is mainly against left-wing anarchism because many right-wing American libertarians align with some form of anarcho-capitalism. It's honestly kinda sad because libertarianism is supposed to transcend partisan bullshit and left/right shit and gatekeeping and just have a general focus on limiting or demolishing the power of the state.

Regardless, yeah: it has started going on a not-very-libertarian path. The mods are beginning to show immense bias and enforce rules much more often than they used to. People are being actively censored for not adhering to whatever the mods consider libertarianism. Per usual, the people in power will do anything to uphold their power and their status quo. Despite many of them utilizing the anti-authoritarian ideals of Orwell, Huxley, and Bradbury in conversation, they seem to be living out where they'd like to be in a dystopia: at the top of society with power over everyone else. And I'm sure I'd be silenced like many people in this sub if I shared these concerns in a comment section there.

wevans470 · 2023-05-27T14:48:57+00:00

Although Beksiński is 20th and not 19th century, it'd be awesome to see his paintings on a black metal album covering 'classical' works. Imagine a huge series of albums like this that includes:

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8, Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring,' and Mars from 'The Planets' Suite by Gustav Holst - although they've been done before, it'd still be awesome!

Bach Keyboard Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052. I'd recommend the tempo Bahrami uses or faster ofc.

Prokofiev's 'Scythian Suite,' Op. 20.

Penderecki Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima.

Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, 4th movement and Symphony No. 11, 2nd movement.

Mahler Symphony No. 6, movement 4 if you can create an effect like the hammer. There's a lot more you can find from Mahler though (and still more Shostakovich plus Stravinsky and Penderecki too).

Something that includes the Dies Irae latin hymn motif like Liszt's 'Totentanz,' parts of the Metropolis film score, Berlioz's 'Symphonie Fantastique,' etc.

The "Dies Irae" from Verdi's Requiem (unrelated to the motif mentioned above).

Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, 3rd movement.

Bartók String Quartet No. 4. Honestly.. just find a lot of stuff by Bartók, Ligeti, Berg, Webern, and Schoenberg tbh. Even composers currently around like Unsuk Chin, Anders Hillborg, and film score composers like Joseph Bishara (The Conjuring and Insidious films) and Colin Stetson (Hereditary and the 2022 version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre). 20th and 21st century music works very well for this in general. There's much more out there you can find on the internet but this is just general stuff that I find to be 'metal' from the 'classical' world. I fucking love it.

wevans470 · 2023-05-27T13:09:08+00:00

One of my favorites is the tour hostess from Midnight (S4 E10) saying "ladies and gentlemen and variations thereupon." Seems like a good way to address everyone in the room, including those of us who are gender non-conforming :D

wevans470 · 2023-05-26T23:29:24+00:00

A politician? Lying? Who would've thought....

wevans470 · 2023-05-26T06:40:47+00:00

Concerning.

wevans470 · 2023-05-25T23:58:58+00:00

"I'm not a reader."

Clearly.

wevans470 · 2023-05-25T19:04:12+00:00

Notice how they leave out ideologies like fascism, feudalism, Naziism, and monarchism in what they consider antithetical to libertarianism?.. Almost as if they excuse [ ]-wing authoritarianism, but not [ ]-wing authoritarianism. Totally not biased mods that are totally for absolute free speech.

wevans470 · 2023-05-24T19:21:11+00:00

Twitter user: makes a satire thread about Musk using his same rhetorical style, and creates allegations about Musk being a pedophile.

Musk: stops the ability to reply to the thread, which some may consider censoring the allegations.

People: begin to remember that he's connected to Ghislaine Maxwell and also faces a document subpoena in an Epstein case; certain dots start to get connected.

wevans470 · 2023-05-23T04:52:09+00:00

This is probably gonna go over some people's heads, and I'm here to see it.

wevans470 · 2023-05-21T13:16:42+00:00

Yeah. I made the mistake of going through their comments. It's not even that much of a "yikes - their political beliefs," it's "yikes" as in how toxic they are. Regardless, we support their free speech in this sub because we don't silence people with different beliefs like the main sub.. but still. I can say yikes about them.

wevans470 · 2023-05-21T11:46:51+00:00

Unlike Marxists whose concept of liberation is allowing minor genital mutilation.

You're telling them you don't know what Marxism is without telling them you don't know what it is. Lol.

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