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the-pi-guy on 06 July 2024
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Tober said:

you apparently survived survived Trumps first term.

The problem with this logic, is that a lot of things take time. 

I think that's one of the greatest failings that people have with logic. We struggle with sustainability. Cutting down a few trees doesn't hurt the environment. Poisoning a pond of water doesn't hurt the environment that much. We keep going with that and entire forests are cut down, entire regions of water are poisoned, and entire species die. 

It takes time for environmental impacts to be seen. It takes time for the economy to undergo changes. It takes time for political opinions to sway. It takes time for bad diet choices to start affecting health. 

Some of these things take literally decades, before it starts hurting. Some of them might even be wildly different timescales. Some environmental issues have taken hundreds of years before they really had a noticeable impact. 

To be clear, with this point, I'm not comparing Republicans to Nazis. But you could have said the same thing about Jews surviving the Nazis. Hitler took power in 1933, started rolling back rights of Jewish people, and it wasn't until 1941 that the Holocaust actually began. Which would basically be someone's 3rd term in the US. 

I don't believe the average Republican is anywhere in agreement with most Nazi positions. But I know some Republicans that are. I have a family member who is pretty open about how they think black people should be re-enslaved. There are tons of Republicans who believe that trans people should be killed. There are tons of Republicans who believe that Democrats should be killed.

I don't think the average Republican believes anything like this. But there are some that do, and tons more that give massive benefits of the doubt to Republican politicians, to the point where even if one was actively murdering Democrats, some of them still wouldn't care. They'd justify it, by saying well those must have been bad people, because I'm a good person and I would never vote for a bad person. 

Republicans are currently indirectly killing women and trans people, by reducing the kind of healthcare they can have. That's kind of tricky, because even if someone legitimately has good intentions, a bad policy might lead to indirectly ending people's lives. 

Like some drugs are really bad, so we're going to make it illegal, but now we have people who are in prison, and they are going to have a hard time adjusting back into society. You can make that decision with the genuine intention of making it so that people don't get into drugs, but you're also hurting people who do. And you might find that on the whole, that your law did more harm than good over the years.