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  • TheFogan@programming.devtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldDebate
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    25 days ago

    I mean, it’s a very large dependency on which journals, how well cited they are etc…

    I mean yes there’s absolutely problems, but it doesn’t make much sense when we are comparing to basically completely unsourced arguements from complete and total laymen. That’s basically in the category of calling out Obama did some unethical things as president… in a discussion about trump. Yes 100% agreed with the premise, but also have to say they aren’t even in the same league.



  • I mean effectively he’s making the same mistake as biden did on messaging, IE Biden basically went publicly patting himself on the back of how the US had a lower inflation than most other countries durring the covid spree. but he phrased it in a way that was regularly interpreted as “I solved inflation… you feeling like everything is falling apart is on you.”

    Bottom line, things have been circling the drain for decades… which is why almost universally the candidate that wins is the one at least offering the image of change. It’s why hillary basically promising to keep going in the same direction as obama, and harris’s lack of ability to admit biden may have made some mistakes… gave us 2 terms of trump.


  • I would say the second amendment got kinda screwed in how it was… Like the primary point was to not have a standing army. Almost all the founding fathers specifically feared the idea of a standing army, as one of the greatest threats to liberty.

    “Always remember that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics—that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.” - James Madison

    “Standing armies are dangerous to liberty.” - Alexander Hamilton

    “I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights, providing clearly, and without the aid of sophism, for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction of monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury, in all matters of fact triable by the law of the land, and not by the laws of nations.” - Thomas Jefferson

    So yeah second amendment is great and all… though I would say, it’s primary value was meant to be that we could rise up against authoritarians… because the people are in the same equipment league as the army… instead now somehow we’re watching the nation argue over if the millitary code saying not to follow illegal orders is actually a real rule, while ice thugs are literally grabbing people off the street. At this point I’m honestly not seeing the second ammendment working without actually having a second civil war.