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Comment · 6 years ago
Just tell me which rectangle of silicon to drill out.
Comment · 6 years ago
Consider it getting into "good trouble."
Comment · 6 years ago
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal
Comment · 6 years ago
Then stop over taxing us.
Comment · 6 years ago
I know its late but I'll add:

I'm afraid that the history of my country will be permanently revised and that my children will learn the revised version instead of the patriotic one. I fear I'll have to correct everything they learn about history and language.

I'm afraid that the public school system and the universities will convert my children from happy and productive citizens into angry activists.

I'm afraid that a portion of most products I buy will wind up supporting causes that are detrimental to my own interests, as the left has somehow gained control of the board rooms of major corporations.

I live in a dark blue state under lockdown and I fear we'll never truly be freed from it. I worry that the left will once again dispatch extremists to my neighborhood because of some unpredictable future event that sets them off.

I believe the left hates men, boys, white Americans, and Christians. I'm most of those things and you couldn't induce me to vote for a Democrat even if you paid me FIRE money right now.

I know that only answers your first question. I don't know who DeJoy is. I don't care about the post office. And I don't care about his response to the virus. In my opinion, the government has no role to play in virus handling.

I don't support the president because of his polices. I support him because he opposes the left. The only thing he could do to lose my support is to cave into them.

Comment · 6 years ago
I've disengaged from the news since shortly after COVID started so I had to DuckDuckGo what you meant. I see a 38 minute interview on YouTube that I could watch, but unless in it he announces his support for abolishing the police or canceling American history, I doubt it would change anything.
Comment · 6 years ago
The reaction to his election traumatized me. For the first time in my life I felt like a foreigner in my own country.

I disagree with most of his policy positions. His tax cut was too small, his insistence on opening the public schools is baffling to me given how the public school system manufactures his opposition. He was never able to build the wall, although I expected that. Ultimately I can work with my disagreements with him and the right more broadly. There is room for compromise there.

But watching the left since 2016 and especially recently after the death of George Floyd, policy matters don't concern me much anymore. I'm afraid of the left. I feel intimidated by their vast cultural and social power. And I'm going to vote for someone that unapologetically opposes them.

I know that doesn't really answer your question as you asked it. But there it is anyway.

Comment · 6 years ago
Trump supporter here. I'll answer any questions you may have about that.
Comment · 6 years ago
Voting was never intended to be so important.
Comment · 6 years ago
People should have feel the burden that taxation places on them.

Payroll withholding already artificially dampens the strain that taxation imposes on everyone that earns a paycheck. Issuing a pre-filled out form is another step backwards.

Paying taxes should be burdensome and uncomfortable.

Comment · 6 years ago
You're going to have to do a better job at steel-manning their argument before you can even hope to engage them on this issue.

Besides, post-2016 it appears the business elites have switched sides.

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