Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests
by tekknik on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @10:28AM
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I accept this philosophy, as this is the correct way a functioning democracy operates. Independents and Republicans are tired of the riots, the attempts at forcing ideals (such as forcing the use of pronouns, forcing deviation from one’s religion). Maybe get rid of the crazy ideas, stop spending so much money and focus on american citizens before foreign citizens and you’d have more people on your side.
Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests
by FireBeyond on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @06:28PM
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Your rights to practice your religion are not eroded. But guess what, your rights to practice your religion end where they impinge on other people's rights.
Nothing makes your rights more important than theirs. I'm sorry that is a bitter pill for you to swallow.
Partisanship is only something to be concerned with when you're dealing with functioning political parties. In America, I think the bare minimum for a political party should be that it believes in the ideals of America: a government by and for the people.
MAGA is not that, it's an explicit rejection of the ideals of the American revolution. Fundamentally they have a vision for America run by a king who has absolute authority over state, congress, and the judicial system.
There's no meeting of the minds that can be had with such a perspective, our forefathers figured that out and started the American Revolution over it.