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archive on Leaning Blue https://leaning.blue/categories/archive/ en Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:43:09 -0400 https://leaning.blue/2026/02/16/the-more-i-learn-about.html Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:43:09 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2026/02/16/the-more-i-learn-about.html <p>The more I learn about Trump and Epstein, the more I instinctively understand MAGA hot takes</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/stupidpeoplefacebook/comments/1r69rgc/comment/o5rxgew/">www.reddit.com/r/stupidp…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2026/02/07/crazy-that-hell-just-accept.html Sat, 07 Feb 2026 01:16:30 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2026/02/07/crazy-that-hell-just-accept.html <p>Crazy that he’ll just accept an apology. If a democrat posted the same thing, everyone on planet earth would be demanding their resignation. But sweet innocent Trump yet again gets a pass. He won’t even apologize.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/southcarolina/comments/1qxngkv/comment/o417rg0/">www.reddit.com/r/southca…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2026/01/29/i-find-this-more-or.html Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:25:10 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2026/01/29/i-find-this-more-or.html <p>I find this more or less acceptable given the context that she went head-on running TP. So I don’t hold this against her really except that it seems like they feel they were achieving something where it’s more like it demonstrates what Charlie achieved; sort of taking false credit. To my way of thinking, the sparklers and outfit during the memorial, where it seems clear that she was being used by the GOP and went in asking no questions or with no thoughts of her own except to embrace pageantry, strike me as far far worse inditement of her character.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/clevercomebacks/comments/1qqbh9x/comment/o2h4vyz/">www.reddit.com/r/cleverc…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2025/11/29/if-were-handing-out-perjury.html Sat, 29 Nov 2025 10:06:26 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2025/11/29/if-were-handing-out-perjury.html <p>If we’re handing out perjury charges I know a certain POTUS who lies constantly</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/UnderReportedNews/comments/1p9i0f5/comment/nrdpt1w/">www.reddit.com/r/UnderRe…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2025/11/11/i-want-them-to-have.html Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:15:29 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2025/11/11/i-want-them-to-have.html <p>I want them to have a better, more savvy plan than this group could come up with arm-charing it. They are one-half of the leadership of the most powerful country known to exist, I expect them to do more. Shouldn’t be on me to call the shots, all I have is “don’t relent on the shutdown when they’re clearly feeling the pressure”. It’s on them to bring a better plan to the table than that.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/thedavidpakmanshow/comments/1ouin9a/comment/noc7qfe/">www.reddit.com/r/thedavi…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2025/09/29/they-cant-wear-the-masks.html Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:31:33 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2025/09/29/they-cant-wear-the-masks.html <p>They can’t wear the masks when COVID is killing people, but they’ll wear it to terrorize people. Police should have to identify themselves. Take the maksa off, put on a uniform and carry a badge. are you legit, or what?</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1ntoou8/comment/ngw3inu/">www.reddit.com/r/law/com…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2025/09/16/we-must-work-to-have.html Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:17:17 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2025/09/16/we-must-work-to-have.html <p>We must work to have FOX’s FCC license, enough is enough</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1ni7ias/comment/nehzoi9/">www.reddit.com/r/somethi…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2025/09/12/fox-should-lose-its-license.html Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:42:17 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2025/09/12/fox-should-lose-its-license.html <p>FOX should lose its license.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1nfem38/comment/ndwyigf/">www.reddit.com/r/politic…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2025/07/23/so-full-of-shit-tulsi.html Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:59:30 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2025/07/23/so-full-of-shit-tulsi.html <p>So full of shit, Tulsi. Just release the Epstein files already. With any luck Obama will address this, if the right wants to arrest a president, I think two can play at this game except the left has legitimate grievances based in this reality. Please oh please let’s go down this road.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1m7gupc/comment/n4rvom5/">www.reddit.com/r/law/com…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2024/10/13/this-is-the-kind-of.html Sun, 13 Oct 2024 07:26:21 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2024/10/13/this-is-the-kind-of.html <p>This is the kind of lawful legal immigration MAGA supports</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/thedavidpakmanshow/comments/1g2esia/comment/lrpdhnk/">www.reddit.com/r/thedavi…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2024/09/10/the-eithersideism-is-rich-if.html Tue, 10 Sep 2024 17:18:36 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2024/09/10/the-eithersideism-is-rich-if.html <p>The either-side-ism is rich, if there was ever a world where Trump would allow such a debate, Harris would surely show up and attempt it. I like Lex and suspect he thinks all this means he’s remaining neutral, when in reality by suggesting both sides are roughly the same he’s giving one side way more credit than they deserve</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/lexfridman/comments/1fdniho/comment/lmi47sl/">www.reddit.com/r/lexfrid…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2024/09/06/its-states-rights-you-have.html Fri, 06 Sep 2024 14:05:55 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2024/09/06/its-states-rights-you-have.html <p>“It’s States Rights, you have freedom to go to another state if you wish!” until we take it away next week. Class act, Republicans. Way to say one thing, do another…</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/thedavidpakmanshow/comments/1fag1m3/comment/lltxw49/">www.reddit.com/r/thedavi…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2024/08/24/because-those-unions-exist-and.html Sat, 24 Aug 2024 10:06:19 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2024/08/24/because-those-unions-exist-and.html <p>Because those unions exist and are potential donors. The ones that don’t exist would hurt them, but the moment they materialized they would be forced to pander</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskSocialScience/comments/1ewygse/comment/ljpff7j/">www.reddit.com/r/AskSoci…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2024/06/11/this-strikes-me-as-a.html Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:27:25 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2024/06/11/this-strikes-me-as-a.html <p>This strikes me as a good thing. If the right wants to clean house, and the left wants to clean house, can’t we just throw them all in jail and be done with it? Surely AOC is perfectly innocent but the courts will sort that out in time. The trick here is to not be afraid of the courts, the courts will set us free. Let’s not protect our side by ignoring the crimes of the other - they ran for office, they knew the risks.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AOC/comments/1dcop30/comment/l85u22u/">www.reddit.com/r/AOC/com…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/10/25/the-parks-are-there-for.html Tue, 25 Oct 2022 16:39:53 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/10/25/the-parks-are-there-for.html <p>The parks are there for people to conjugate and share food. It’s discrimination to turn people away because of their living status.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/yd74am/comment/itrrkxd/">www.reddit.com/r/videos/…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/10/06/i-thought-the-white-lives.html Thu, 06 Oct 2022 07:39:09 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/10/06/i-thought-the-white-lives.html <p>I thought the “White Lives Matter” shirt was appropriate in the context of a political commentator and a mainstream agitator trying to make an edgy point. Worse things have happened. On it’s merits, it certainly made me stop and think about the movement for a moment. If I were Candace Owens, and assuming I wasn’t an opportunistic slime-ball and actually believes in what I’m doing, would a political movement like Black Lives Matter inherently offend me? Is there a case to be made that by framing the discussion around police brutality as a “black lives” thing, do you undercut any real discussion on how to actually solve the issue? To me, at least, the shirt evoked these questions and my first thought was “Finally, Candace Owens does something interesting, Kanye West is one hell of a muse”. But I also understand the threads sentiments that trying to undercut a movement like this is inherently racist. So it’s hard to say.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/xx09pw/comment/ir9ouz7/">www.reddit.com/r/enterta…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/09/22/pretty-cool-how-little-he.html Thu, 22 Sep 2022 07:44:46 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/09/22/pretty-cool-how-little-he.html <p>Pretty cool how little he understands the democracy he presided over. He doesn’t have authority to declassify many of those documents. He was President of the United States, not the known universe.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/xkodya/comment/ipgflof/">www.reddit.com/r/facepal…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/09/21/bill-maher-listens-to-the.html Wed, 21 Sep 2022 10:11:32 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/09/21/bill-maher-listens-to-the.html <p>Bill Maher listens to the alt-right propaganda and then assumes it’s true and then blames the Democrats for being so crazy. I’ve noticed this a few times in his monologues.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/xk4zgx/comment/ipbzzlm/">www.reddit.com/r/enterta…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/09/20/my-dad-used-to-pick.html Tue, 20 Sep 2022 07:21:01 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/09/20/my-dad-used-to-pick.html <p>My dad used to pick cotton and grew up without electricity, he would sooner immolate himself than vote for Tim Scott.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/southcarolina/comments/xitjpz/comment/ip6ia84/">www.reddit.com/r/southca…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/09/18/these-people-arent-hot-potatoes.html Sun, 18 Sep 2022 08:19:22 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/09/18/these-people-arent-hot-potatoes.html <p>These people aren’t hot potatoes, you can’t just dump a bag of migrants on someone’s doorstep and expect it to sit there for a week. You really have to wonder what goes through these people’s minds.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/xh0qzb/comment/iox21j1/">www.reddit.com/r/WhitePe…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/09/11/the-moneys-going-to-ukraine.html Sun, 11 Sep 2022 09:48:38 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/09/11/the-moneys-going-to-ukraine.html <p>The “money’s going to Ukraine” part is what makes this guy a bad person. Seems like the greatest superpower in history could fix the water of a small town and support those suffering from an invasion all at the same time. This guy doesn’t want to help either one, he just wants to use one to browbeat the other. Cool stuff, republicans.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/xbfwa0/comment/inzj567/">www.reddit.com/r/facepal…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/08/21/abolish-the-irs-is-the.html Sun, 21 Aug 2022 08:18:06 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/08/21/abolish-the-irs-is-the.html <p>“Abolish the IRS” is the only thing Conservatives say that resonates with me as a progressive. But it’s a lot like ‘defund the police’ where the tag line doesn’t quite align with the policy proposal. You don’t really abolish the IRS, you point them exclusively at businesses and take individuals off the hook. You could restructure the income tax as a VAT, make life a lot easier on everyone, and even the people who are not here legally are paying their fair share. If they’d make some noise about this stuff, instead of the pro-wrestling theatrics they seem to spend their time on these days, they would be a lot more palatable to people.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/wt9r5o/comment/il6n6sw/">www.reddit.com/r/facepal…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/08/19/im-fairly-certain-every-president.html Fri, 19 Aug 2022 07:20:14 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/08/19/im-fairly-certain-every-president.html <p>I’m fairly certain every President moving forward will have a criminal trial. So be it, I’m willing to sacrifice several Obama’s to the alter of justice at this point if it means Republicans see actual accountability today.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/obama/comments/wro63e/comment/ikx4dct/">www.reddit.com/r/obama/c…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/08/10/trump-supporters-hear-loud-noise.html Wed, 10 Aug 2022 08:29:37 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/08/10/trump-supporters-hear-loud-noise.html <p>Trump supporters hear loud noise in the back, get spooked, call for civil war. For the record, calling for civil war is like the definition of treason soooo</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/wktlsd/comment/ijpkryl/">www.reddit.com/r/politic…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/07/29/personally-i-think-it-would.html Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:55:10 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/07/29/personally-i-think-it-would.html <p>Personally, I think it would be OK for her to bake in the oven another decade, but she’s one of the few politicians I can take seriously at this point so why not?</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/wb1yaw/comment/ii4lyuo/">www.reddit.com/r/politic…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/07/25/the-party-of-small-government.html Mon, 25 Jul 2022 11:21:28 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/07/25/the-party-of-small-government.html <p>The party of small government wants to tell you who you can sleep next to at night and under what conditions you can leave a marriage. Insanity, these people must be stopped.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/w7qmcm/comment/ihl5w6k/">www.reddit.com/r/politic…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/07/07/ive-lived-in-sc-my.html Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:24:51 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/07/07/ive-lived-in-sc-my.html <p>I’ve lived in SC my entire life. Libertarianism is big here, and it’s been co-oped by the GOP and their culture wars. People are thoroughly convinced that somehow Trumpism washes out to libertarianism. So even when you point out the clown car and how many people fit into it, they’re willing to excuse it because the ends justify the means. In their view, the Democrats are the ones out-foxing them at every turn so they view this as the late stages of a zero-sum game. They feel desperate and are willing to take extreme measures. This is how things are constantly framed in their news bubbles.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/southcarolina/comments/vtcvk5/comment/if7l7j4/">www.reddit.com/r/southca…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/07/02/the-supreme-court-is-starting.html Sat, 02 Jul 2022 08:27:07 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/07/02/the-supreme-court-is-starting.html <p>The Supreme Court is starting to look like a Christian Fascist organization</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/terriblefacebookmemes/comments/vpoz5n/comment/iekj82t/">www.reddit.com/r/terribl…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/07/01/two-other-branches-of-government.html Fri, 01 Jul 2022 07:46:23 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/07/01/two-other-branches-of-government.html <p>Two other branches of government exist to provide a check and balance to the courts. Democrats run both those branches of government. I wonder if there are any constitutional remedies to this current situation? Maybe someone should kill the filibuster and unpack the courts? Just a suggestion…</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/voj6ib/comment/iefvghw/">www.reddit.com/r/politic…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/06/27/when-democrats-are-deeply-concerned.html Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:11:15 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/06/27/when-democrats-are-deeply-concerned.html <p>When Democrats are “deeply concerned” that means there’s no plan to prevent it and we’re just waiting for the shoe to drop</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PresidentWarren/comments/vlkq84/comment/idxbl9n/">www.reddit.com/r/Preside…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/06/26/i-cant-tell-if-the.html Sun, 26 Jun 2022 11:00:56 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/06/26/i-cant-tell-if-the.html <p>I can’t tell if the right is actually sick of wokeness, or just want to weaponize it to further hurt the Disney corporation. Maybe it’s a little of both, but either way I’m getting tired of everything becoming trench warfare against a battalion of dipshits. The truth is, as a secular progressive I show _enormous_ tolerance towards the Christian right and their backward lunacy. This tolerance is the problem, it’s given them the breathing room to dismantle things, and their stupidity has given them all the cover they needed as it’s hard to see these clowns as any kind of serious threat.</p> <p>This is all becoming too much of a cross to bear, I think they hasten their own demise by not trying to co-exist and it’s set the stage for someone to set up and actually represent a silent majority here. Interested to see which celebrities and junior politicians try and take the mantle.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/vl4hb3/comment/idt9ijx/">www.reddit.com/r/enterta…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/05/30/this-comment-section-is-why.html Mon, 30 May 2022 08:31:46 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/05/30/this-comment-section-is-why.html <p>This comment section is why reducing mass shootings will be so difficult in America. In the same breath, people admonish our government for refusing to act over decades while saying they can’t get rid of their guns in case the government moves against them. We’re a nation where, daily, a gunman goes into a building with impunity and kills as many people as possible. If we can’t get past GO on a concept like reducing gun ownership, then we’re already too far gone. 35% of Americans own all the guns, yet there are more guns in America than its current population. The real problem is that everyone accepts this reality as somehow unchangeable.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/v0dh49/comment/iajdehv/">www.reddit.com/r/Sanders…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/05/26/those-politicians-largely-caused-this.html Thu, 26 May 2022 10:42:40 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/05/26/those-politicians-largely-caused-this.html <p>Those politicians largely caused this problem, could fix it, refuse to acknowledge it, and are actively making it worse. Anyone who wants to walk up to that stage and say so has my support.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/uxvrfa/comment/ia2jz1p/">www.reddit.com/r/AskRedd…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/05/20/i-think-democrats-have-to.html Fri, 20 May 2022 09:35:17 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/05/20/i-think-democrats-have-to.html <p>I think Democrats have to get real and start driving these idiots out of our politics. If you tolerate the fringe, it becomes mainstream. If the left seriously has the public on its side, then it’s time to show it.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/utopod/comment/i9bskis/">www.reddit.com/r/enterta…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/05/14/if-a-group-of-supreme.html Sat, 14 May 2022 13:28:29 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/05/14/if-a-group-of-supreme.html <p>If a group of SUPREME COURT JUSTICES can’t sort themselves out then it says all you need to hear about their wisdom and professionalism. So surprise! culture war justices shoved down our throats are incompetent radicals who can’t maintain their own institutions.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/upied5/comment/i8ljhc3/">www.reddit.com/r/politic…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/05/05/its-hard-to-imagine-how.html Thu, 05 May 2022 08:32:53 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/05/05/its-hard-to-imagine-how.html <p>It’s hard to imagine how any of these idiotic people remain in office. They are always spouting self-important nonsense. Literally, everything children do and wear is at the behest of adults. We can force them to wear shirts and shoes, but masks are somehow a bridge too far. It’s clear that the left has a moral imperative to crater this party and ensure they never return to power.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/southcarolina/comments/uikwjg/comment/i7f227t/">www.reddit.com/r/southca…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/05/03/this-statement-is-radical-the.html Tue, 03 May 2022 20:23:23 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/05/03/this-statement-is-radical-the.html <p>This statement is radical, The Right is becoming an enemy of good sense and decency.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/southcarolina/comments/uhintn/comment/i78a4cz/">www.reddit.com/r/southca…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/05/02/if-i-was-running-a.html Mon, 02 May 2022 13:01:16 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/05/02/if-i-was-running-a.html <p>If I was running a justice system with a small colony in some kind of Walking Dead situation, it would be on the table I’m sure. Do I think the great state of South Carolina should be in charge of rather a man lives or dies? I do not, and I don’t want its blood on my hands either.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ugqodi/comment/i71rgyq/">www.reddit.com/r/AskRedd…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/02/16/im-pretty-sure-history-will.html Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:26:18 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/02/16/im-pretty-sure-history-will.html <p>I’m pretty sure history will find Rudy is guilty of treason, while Eminem is mostly guilty of making offensive music. Let’s keep Eminem around and prosecute Rudy and his friends.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/stk4xz/comment/hx64eqi/">www.reddit.com/r/enterta…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2022/01/27/the-thing-to-keep-in.html Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:42:46 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2022/01/27/the-thing-to-keep-in.html <p>The thing to keep in mind here is FOX News has a responsibility to filter out people like her and find someone who can speak intelligently on the topic. Saying she set the movement back is a bit disingenuous considering FOX was looking for this, struck gold, and now are pretending she represents the values of the movement. FOX News is the bad actor, she’s just an idiot who got used.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/sdwauc/comment/huiv6j1/">www.reddit.com/r/bestof/…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2021/12/28/the-only-real-story-here.html Tue, 28 Dec 2021 10:11:23 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2021/12/28/the-only-real-story-here.html <p>The only real story here is that Trump supporters are so neutered and locked in their own mental prisons they can’t just say what they feel when given the planned opportunity. Something tells me if Trump hung with any of these people, he’d immediately tell them all to grow a pair.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/rqa1c8/comment/hqa1cu9/">www.reddit.com/r/politic…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2021/11/23/everyones-rhetoric-veers-off-into.html Tue, 23 Nov 2021 00:18:15 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2021/11/23/everyones-rhetoric-veers-off-into.html <p>Everyone’s rhetoric veers off into flights of fancy. Team red or team blue, every argument spins wildly into some hot take completely detached from reality. It’s like one group compiles a list of facts which are neither here nor there, and the next group weaves it into some rhetoric designed to rile the mob and crystalize some false narrative.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/qzx7oq/comment/hlqafhx/">www.reddit.com/r/Liberta…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2021/11/21/i-feel-like-this-presidency.html Sun, 21 Nov 2021 11:35:12 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2021/11/21/i-feel-like-this-presidency.html <p>I feel like this presidency is underwhelming to those who were expecting Biden to transform into Elizabeth Warren. Really, Biden has done what he said he’d do, and you guys are mad you lost the election. That’s fine, I would have preferred someone more to your tastes too, but to say he’s weak is to just give the right more ammo.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AOC/comments/qytvjz/comment/hlioyn6/">www.reddit.com/r/AOC/com…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2021/11/10/i-dont-know-if-the.html Wed, 10 Nov 2021 21:09:52 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2021/11/10/i-dont-know-if-the.html <p>I don’t know if the divide here is actually left or right. I think any reasonable person can see the complexities here. What seems to have a party divide is the interpretation of these complexities.</p> <p>What really strikes me most about the whole matter is that we seemed to have tripped over some loophole - where if you’re feeling particularly predatory one night, and you hear about a riot breaking out, you can grab a gun and see what kind of trouble you can get yourself into. If you wait for the right conditions you could have some murderers wet-dream. This shouldn’t be allowed to stand.</p> <p>It’s hard to determine if this is what Kyle was thinking, but it seems his intentions here would speak to the heart of the matter. I suppose, even with my typical liberal repulsion to someone carrying a gun and defending a store that’s towns over, I can understand that his actions could fall under self-defense, or that he came to this situation without an intention to cause harm.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/qr3snl/comment/hk57tv0/">www.reddit.com/r/Liberta…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2021/11/08/these-things-get-complicated-personally.html Mon, 08 Nov 2021 16:15:06 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2021/11/08/these-things-get-complicated-personally.html <p>These things get complicated. Personally, I figure he was hoping to shoot someone and so I hope he gets the book thrown at him. But, that’s a personal opinion based primarily on media recountings during our ongoing culture wars.</p> <p>At the end of the day, I don’t know what happened here, nor do I know Kyle or what was going through his mind during this. It’s entirely possible that, legally, he was in the right. It’s also possible that authorities will determine that, from his perspective, he was justified in what he did. On these, I can’t really speak, but while I personally feel he’s a murderer, I know if I were in his shoes I’d want a fair trial that gave a ruling based on established law and precedent.</p> <p>That’s the problem with discussing cases like this, I know how I feel from the facts explained and my general sense of outrage that someone would drive to a riot and shoot people, but real life is always more complicated than we understand from the outset. It’s best to let the system run it’s course, and trust that the group looking into this is on the level.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/qphl9r/comment/hjugkhn/">www.reddit.com/r/Liberta…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2021/10/30/ultimately-it-doesnt-matter-that.html Sat, 30 Oct 2021 14:07:05 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2021/10/30/ultimately-it-doesnt-matter-that.html <p>Ultimately, it doesn’t matter that Musk is right and he can manage the money better, the other billionaires need to be brought to the well and Elon is just going to have to take the hit.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/qj5kk0/comment/hio4r75/">www.reddit.com/r/Liberta…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2021/10/22/yeah-id-say-they-are.html Fri, 22 Oct 2021 04:43:20 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2021/10/22/yeah-id-say-they-are.html <p>Yeah, I’d say they are. I personally think the Democrat’s war is the more correct one - mail-in, early voting, automatic registration are all things that seem OK to me, but I can put myself in a red hat and see how they could see that as an out-and-out attack.</p> <p>From my perspective, Republicans pushing Voter ID, the constant recounts, and the insistence that everything is doomed constantly sure seem like an attack to me. So I think this is all largely a matter of perspective, and I think a fair read of both sides would point out they have some basic and obvious points in their favor.</p> <p>What I outlined above provides more than enough distraction to prevent any kind of substantive political discussion about a proper future state here. I think that’s likely the real goal behind a lot of this rhetoric. Republicans especially like to “starve the dragon” as it were, and while that’s fine tactically, I think it’s telling of their mindset.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/qd4ksy/comment/hhlivc1/">www.reddit.com/r/Liberta…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2021/07/18/no-space-biology-chemistry-and.html Sun, 18 Jul 2021 10:06:28 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2021/07/18/no-space-biology-chemistry-and.html <blockquote> <p><strong>No space, biology, chemistry and time aren’t good enough reasons to justify forcing others to keep you alive. You’ve no objective reason to force others to pay for your healthcare beyond “society” and “everyone else is doing it”, you’re just appealing to bandwagon and authority.</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>Objectively speaking, healthcare is a universal need as it’s something every living person needs. Logically, since we know everyone needs it, and we understand morally that barriers such as the ability to pay for help shouldn’t block someone from receiving help, the only reasonable thing to do is off-load the cost away from the individual. Otherwise, you have immediately built a system where only certain classes of people (those who can afford it) get good quality of care, and the rest go without.</p> <p>To your point about how nothing is a good enough reason for you to keep someone else alive, this is a horrible worldview that has led to the near-collapse of our society. A better approach here would be for us to agree intellectually that there’s no good enough reason TO LET SOMEONE DIE and to charge the government with building institutions towards that goal. It turns out that through taxes, we can abstract away from individual healthcare costs and frame a system where every single person in need can be covered. For a government charged with securing life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, I’m not sure I even see another way forward.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/omgqu7/comment/h5mqv4s/">www.reddit.com/r/Liberta…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2021/05/28/in-fairness-to-the-republicans.html Fri, 28 May 2021 18:02:58 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2021/05/28/in-fairness-to-the-republicans.html <p>In fairness to The republicans, I don’t need a commission to tell me what I already know: Some republicans are willing to stage a revolt, try to mame other Republicans in their way, and then all pretend it never happened out of loyalty to the party. It’s hard to even process how dangerous this is. Had this insanity succeeded, Republicans would clearly have supported it. With this, they make clear that the Republic is one flash mob away from getting overthrown, and in some circumstances they support it.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nn2e9b/comment/gzt5181/">www.reddit.com/r/politic…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2021/05/07/this-is-the-republican-thing.html Fri, 07 May 2021 08:40:05 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2021/05/07/this-is-the-republican-thing.html <p>This is the Republican thing to do when Democrats are in office, they did with Obama too. They’re only willing in participating if they own the process from one end to the other, which sounds petty and juvenile. Hard to believe these people are running the largest, most influential, government in human history.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/n6llkz/comment/gx9m5gs/">www.reddit.com/r/politic…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2021/04/12/hot-take-but-i-think.html Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:28:14 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2021/04/12/hot-take-but-i-think.html <p>Hot take, but I think it’s within the realm of reason that the officer did mean to go for their tazer but was confused in the heat of the moment. This reaffirms my belief that an armed police force so willing to meet escalation with escalation mostly serves to make tense situations worse.</p> <p>If you’re looking for a libertarian view to latch onto here, consider that I (and any criminal not sentenced to death) have a constitutionally guaranteed right to life. The idea that some officer of the state can just ride on up to you, shoot you, and consider it justified because you said something provocative or moved a certain way flies in the face of the whole thing. We should expect people in such positions to do everything possible to prevent death, not sanction it as our default position.</p> <p>If anything, we should be asking the police to assume way more risk (pay them more, but end qualified immunity), and basically make the bar so high that it would extremely hard for any state actors to ever justify killing a citizen. Perhaps in most cases, they wouldn’t even possess the means because ideally the expectation that a police officer doesn’t kill would be reinforced by not having them carry a killing device at all times. The current way things are structured, no wonder this shit happens constantly.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/mpm4z0/comment/gub93xe/">www.reddit.com/r/Liberta…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2021/04/01/what-is-this-feudal-china.html Thu, 01 Apr 2021 14:22:05 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2021/04/01/what-is-this-feudal-china.html <p>What is this, feudal china? We should open the fucking borders, let’s stop being afraid of poor people already</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AOC/comments/mhy0nm/comment/gt23svl/">www.reddit.com/r/AOC/com…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2021/02/28/greedy-capitalists-play-woke-on.html Sun, 28 Feb 2021 13:46:17 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2021/02/28/greedy-capitalists-play-woke-on.html <p>Greedy capitalists play woke on TV but do business in China against all morality and decency, this should outrage us all. How would a Libertarian non-interventionalist policy help end Chinese re-education camps?</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/lucw8f/comment/gp73k4x/">www.reddit.com/r/Liberta…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2021/02/13/i-dont-understand-if-it.html Sat, 13 Feb 2021 10:35:26 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2021/02/13/i-dont-understand-if-it.html <p>I don’t understand, if it was premeditated days beforehand, and they all met at a Trump rally, where he directed them to execute their plan, how is that not incitement? The premeditation hurts his case, especially if it can be proved that he knew about the plan beforehand - which clearly he did, telling them to march down. Would be a big coincidence if he decided independently to do it too</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/limynf/comment/gn7x67z/">www.reddit.com/r/politic…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2021/02/03/what-doesnt-bend-breaks-what.html Wed, 03 Feb 2021 10:58:18 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2021/02/03/what-doesnt-bend-breaks-what.html <p>What doesn’t bend, breaks. What would fill my heart with joy, is that instead of saber-rattling, if he were to acknowledge this horrible cycle and try to do something positive about it. Republicans like Mitch McConnell actually working towards bi-partisanship would not only be a sight to see but might actually heal some wounds.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/lbmmpk/comment/glv7wsa/">www.reddit.com/r/politic…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2020/12/27/yeah-but-what-do-you.html Sun, 27 Dec 2020 10:17:34 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2020/12/27/yeah-but-what-do-you.html <p>Yeah, but what do you people know? You voted in a man with no experience to fix the government and brought us to the brink. Now the same people are calling Biden the boogeyman, what a joke.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/kkq421/comment/gh6pzfj/">www.reddit.com/r/Liberta…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2020/11/18/if-he-turns-on-trump.html Wed, 18 Nov 2020 09:08:35 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2020/11/18/if-he-turns-on-trump.html <p>If he turns on Trump before he concedes/inauguration then people won’t donate to the defense fund. Once they have squeezed Trump dry their tune will change.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/jwa9e2/comment/gcpquzk/">www.reddit.com/r/politic…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2020/10/14/the-ratings-argument-is-nonsense.html Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:08:04 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2020/10/14/the-ratings-argument-is-nonsense.html <p>The ratings argument is nonsense, this isn’t a rally. More people will tune in to the crazy one. I for one am voting for Biden but am more interested in finally seeing Trump pretend to be President for an hour. If he just acts normal for one hour he could really complicate things for Biden. I’m interested to see just how he’ll make it weird and awful.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/jb8tsd/comment/g8u9nkh/">www.reddit.com/r/politic…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2020/10/10/these-days-im-fairly-progressive.html Sat, 10 Oct 2020 09:40:31 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2020/10/10/these-days-im-fairly-progressive.html <p>These days I’m fairly progressive, I don’t agree with the libertarian agenda but I do see value in having more legitimate political views in the race and would support process improvements to see that happen. I think it could get a bit dangerous, two fairly conservative parties could split the vote for themselves, giving the other side an unfair advantage. I think you would need to couple it with some ranked voting system if you want to get an accurate gauge at what the people want. I think the problem with this approach is that invites a certain galvanization to your politics where you’d never see a democrat win again. I suppose some would be in favor of this, and perhaps it makes sense considering most South Carolinians would sooner die than vote blue so why keep forcing it on them? As a blue voter in SC I don’t know if I like it, but could be convinced on a matter of principle.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/SouthCarolinaPolitics/comments/j8ggg9/comment/g8bj225/">www.reddit.com/r/SouthCa…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2020/09/22/ill-tell-you-this-much.html Tue, 22 Sep 2020 08:42:41 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2020/09/22/ill-tell-you-this-much.html <p>I’ll tell you this much, this has certainly shifted my position of The Republicans as untrustworthy liars. I guess that opinion has been forming for a while, but it’s cemented now. You can’t reason with liars, you can’t trust liars, all you can do is defeat them and get them off the field.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ixgfg8/comment/g67idiy/">www.reddit.com/r/politic…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2020/07/26/this-whole-obama-did-it.html Sun, 26 Jul 2020 13:08:09 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2020/07/26/this-whole-obama-did-it.html <p>This whole “Obama did it too” argument just goes to show how totally serious Republicans are about reform and making a better government</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/obama/comments/hxxaj8/comment/fzbfz0j/">www.reddit.com/r/obama/c…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2020/02/01/americas-brexit-is-when-trump.html Sat, 01 Feb 2020 17:11:27 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2020/02/01/americas-brexit-is-when-trump.html <p>America’s Brexit is when Trump takes the Federal government and secedes it from the union. FOX will have Mark Levin on 24/7 trying to explain it to people.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ex92i4/comment/fg7fupk/">www.reddit.com/r/AskRedd…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2020/01/25/how-do-people-flip-from.html Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:26:34 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2020/01/25/how-do-people-flip-from.html <p>> How do people flip from mocking everyone as snowflakes to being the ultimate victims and snowflakes themselves and not bat an eye? Not have an ounce of cognitive dissonance?</p> <p>Because it’s a strategy. They understand that the overriding goal for everyone on their side is to win. So they can swing wildly from preaching accountability to mustache-twirling because it’s all just a means to an end. When you experience the cognitive dissonance, it’s softened by the fact that your team is kicking their asses.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/ettnut/comment/ffivxlh/">www.reddit.com/r/Liberta…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2019/10/08/why-is-it-that-graham.html Tue, 08 Oct 2019 08:02:36 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2019/10/08/why-is-it-that-graham.html <p>Why is it that Graham can go on CNN and lament The President like this is the misstep of the decade, then he goes live on Hannity a few hours later and doesn’t mention a thing about it?</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/southcarolina/comments/detybj/comment/f2zrk4o/">www.reddit.com/r/southca…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2019/09/22/wait-what-evidence-nobody-has.html Sun, 22 Sep 2019 10:52:47 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2019/09/22/wait-what-evidence-nobody-has.html <p>Wait, what evidence? Nobody has presented evidence. All I’m aware of is an allegation. What we have evidence of is Trump trying to coerce an investigation of a political rival out of a foreign power. If the Trump camp had _evidence_ they wouldn’t need this underhanded investigation.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/d7qthl/comment/f13qyau/">www.reddit.com/r/Liberta…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2019/09/21/i-like-how-trumps-takedown.html Sat, 21 Sep 2019 14:41:43 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2019/09/21/i-like-how-trumps-takedown.html <p>I like how Trump’s takedown of Biden is beat-for-beat what they accuse Joe Biden of doing. Can’t we just arrest them both and call it fair?</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/d7d5xp/comment/f0zbm85/">www.reddit.com/r/Liberta…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2019/05/29/mueller-reminds-us-all-that.html Wed, 29 May 2019 19:41:40 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2019/05/29/mueller-reminds-us-all-that.html <p>Mueller reminds us all that he investigated, and wrote down his findings in a report. Really didn’t say very much more than that.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/bujyfn/comment/epdt4my/">www.reddit.com/r/politic…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2019/05/07/ironically-testifying-probably-will-help.html Tue, 07 May 2019 07:04:54 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2019/05/07/ironically-testifying-probably-will-help.html <p>Ironically, testifying probably will help Trump unless he has some bombshell we haven’t heard. The strategy of acting like it’ll be damaging helps Trump set the long-term expectation that there’s nothing to all of this. Trump’s theatrics help him.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/bldvlj/comment/emq8jpm/">www.reddit.com/r/politic…</a></p> https://leaning.blue/2019/04/17/the-double-standard-from-the.html Wed, 17 Apr 2019 11:47:33 -0400 http://leaningblue.micro.blog/2019/04/17/the-double-standard-from-the.html <p>The double standard from the right is intense, it’s hard to believe they don’t see the hypocrisy. FOX news tried to hit him with this last night. “You can elect to pay more in taxes, why don’t you?” type of argument is so weak I can’t believe they tried to hang a whole discussion on it.</p> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/be7n1n/comment/el3yvqp/">www.reddit.com/r/Liberta…</a></p>