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What national or global issue matters most to you right now?

Terrorism committed by extremists who falsely practice Islam.
 
Overpopulation/lack of birth control, corruption, crime, poverty, the environment, war and the progress of science and technology.
 
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Also, Turkey getting one step closer to becoming a dictatorship is another thing that worries me. Erdogan is a crazy person with some radical views and now you wanna give him pretty much absolute power? *sigh* The situation is already bad and I don't even wanna think of what's gonna happen next. :(
 
Well for the UK you just need to watch some of Johnathon Pie's videos and you'll see how much of a s*** storm this country is becoming.

There's so many things wrong with the world too and capitalism is a big part of it.
 
Any oppresion against ANYONE needs to end, whether you are a straight man oppressing gay people, or you are some girl on twitter who invites girls/gays to a party for free and chargers $100 for straight men. Serious or not, it ALL needs to end.
 
Any oppresion against ANYONE needs to end, whether you are a straight man oppressing gay people, or you are some girl on twitter who invites girls/gays to a party for free and chargers $100 for straight men. Serious or not, it ALL needs to end.

I completely agree to this. It doesn't matter who's getting discriminated or who's discriminating against others, it needs to stop, even if it's a Republican restricting Democrats from entering a Christmas party, but will allow other political parties in.

I don't know why people were trying to discriminate against white men now, claim that they're being oppressed if white people exist, or condemn all whites as evil or all men as evil, but they got to realize what they're doing is just as bad as (or even worse since they're motivated by hate) how white people treated African Americans in the past. But they would refuse to believe that. But let me tell you something. Their hatred towards white people and men, poor treatment towards Christians, negative portrayal of people who disagree with them, and their double standards is exactly why we have some reality star with no political experience as our president and a worse one as our vice president. And look what's happening! All of California is going to be cut off from all federal funds. The Affordable Care Act is on the edge of total repeal (not just the two parts I oppose) with no replacement. Abortion may become illegal again in some states. And the Senate has changed the rules of comfirmation of a Supreme Court justice. I know most of you guys would oppose this (as well as all the other liberals, including hateful liberals such as SJWs), but this is what we get when a bunch of frustrated people vote for your enemy on revenge. The one that should be blamed is the one that driven the Trump voters to voting him. And what they do to frustrate them? Oppression, which includes painting all white people and conservatives as racists. If conservatives were doing the same as the liberals were that got Trump in office, the Democrats would hold total control of all three branches. Yes, oppression has some serious consequences.
 
Well for the UK you just need to watch some of Johnathon Pie's videos and you'll see how much of a s*** storm this country is becoming.

There's so many things wrong with the world too and capitalism is a big part of it.

i always chuckle when i see anti-capitalists on this forum. like, you know the mayor of your town is a capitalist right? you live in a mansion while the rest of your villagers live in 1 room shacks. it makes sense though. you're the one making money, playing the stalk market, taking out loans and repaying them, all while being the sole provider to the town's museum and public works even. you've earned that mansion if you ask me. the rest of your villagers are lazy moochers always begging you for fish and fruit, trying to sell what little they have for jacked up prices, and low balling you for your stuff too.

think of how mentally draining Animal Crossing would be if you were forced to split all of your money and possessions 11 different ways so that all villagers in your town would be equal. all that work with almost no payoff whatsoever. grinding your teeth when you see Frank sleeping on your gold bed. that's socialism for ya. having an equal outcome does not equal fairness. equal opportunity does, which all people have with capitalism.

how does someone against capitalism enjoy this game at all? could you imagine Gandhi playing Grand Theft Auto? it would've crushed his spirit and he'd have died of a broken heart on the spot.

I completely agree to this. It doesn't matter who's getting discriminated or who's discriminating against others, it needs to stop, even if it's a Republican restricting Democrats from entering a Christmas party, but will allow other political parties in.

I don't know why people were trying to discriminate against white men now, claim that they're being oppressed if white people exist, or condemn all whites as evil or all men as evil, but they got to realize what they're doing is just as bad as (or even worse since they're motivated by hate) how white people treated African Americans in the past. But they would refuse to believe that. But let me tell you something. Their hatred towards white people and men, poor treatment towards Christians, negative portrayal of people who disagree with them, and their double standards is exactly why we have some reality star with no political experience as our president and a worse one as our vice president. And look what's happening! All of California is going to be cut off from all federal funds. The Affordable Care Act is on the edge of total repeal (not just the two parts I oppose) with no replacement. Abortion may become illegal again in some states. And the Senate has changed the rules of comfirmation of a Supreme Court justice. I know most of you guys would oppose this (as well as all the other liberals, including hateful liberals such as SJWs), but this is what we get when a bunch of frustrated people vote for your enemy on revenge. The one that should be blamed is the one that driven the Trump voters to voting him. And what they do to frustrate them? Oppression, which includes painting all white people and conservatives as racists. If conservatives were doing the same as the liberals were that got Trump in office, the Democrats would hold total control of all three branches. Yes, oppression has some serious consequences.

the left has gone so overboard with social justice and virtue signalling. i'm not even like this hardcore conservative/Republican but i'm always forced to defend the right because of the left's foolishness. i honestly thought Trump winning would be a wake up call to Democrats but no, they're doubling down on the bull**** that lost them the election. Hillary still thinks she lost because of misogyny, the Russians, and whatever. no. she lost because she ran an anti-bullying campaign. sorry, working class people (most of which just happen to be white) don't have time to worry about the feels of people more privileged than them. it is not the government's place to preach morals. the people determine the morals of the government. all these people want is to put food on their family's table. Trump promised them that. Hillary (and most of the mainstream media) just called them racist and a non-factor. what did you expect? Hillary thought she could win while alienating these people. it's her own fault. and the people who blindly went along with her without questioning it didn't help either. while Trump was out rallying, Hillary was sitting on her ass daydreaming about all the "charity" donations she was gonna get after winning the election. in hindsight it's not surprising at all that she lost.

when you call a huge group of voters racist, misogynist, Islamaphobic, transphobic, homophobic Nazis when they clearly aren't, and they know they aren't, they're not going to vote for you. it's a clear sign that things will just get worse for them.
 
i always chuckle when i see anti-capitalists on this forum. like, you know the mayor of your town is a capitalist right? you live in a mansion while the rest of your villagers live in 1 room shacks. it makes sense though. you're the one making money, playing the stalk market, taking out loans and repaying them, all while being the sole provider to the town's museum and public works even. you've earned that mansion if you ask me. the rest of your villagers are lazy moochers always begging you for fish and fruit, trying to sell what little they have for jacked up prices, and low balling you for your stuff too.

think of how mentally draining Animal Crossing would be if you were forced to split all of your money and possessions 11 different ways so that all villagers in your town would be equal. all that work with almost no payoff whatsoever. grinding your teeth when you see Frank sleeping on your gold bed. that's socialism for ya. having an equal outcome does not equal fairness. equal opportunity does, which all people have with capitalism.

how does someone against capitalism enjoy this game at all? could you imagine Gandhi playing Grand Theft Auto? it would've crushed his spirit and he'd have died of a broken heart on the spot.

. . . I don't even know how to debate against someone who's dumb enough to compare fantasy to reality. Just. . . Wow.
 
the left has gone so overboard with social justice and virtue signalling. i'm not even like this hardcore conservative/Republican but i'm always forced to defend the right because of the left's foolishness. i honestly thought Trump winning would be a wake up call to Democrats but no, they're doubling down on the bull**** that lost them the election. Hillary still thinks she lost because of misogyny, the Russians, and whatever. no. she lost because she ran an anti-bullying campaign. sorry, working class people (most of which just happen to be white) don't have time to worry about the feels of people more privileged than them. it is not the government's place to preach morals. the people determine the morals of the government. all these people want is to put food on their family's table. Trump promised them that. Hillary (and most of the mainstream media) just called them racist and a non-factor. what did you expect? Hillary thought she could win while alienating these people. it's her own fault. and the people who blindly went along with her without questioning it didn't help either. while Trump was out rallying, Hillary was sitting on her ass daydreaming about all the "charity" donations she was gonna get after winning the election. in hindsight it's not surprising at all that she lost.

when you call a huge group of voters racist, misogynist, Islamaphobic, transphobic, homophobic Nazis when they clearly aren't, and they know they aren't, they're not going to vote for you. it's a clear sign that things will just get worse for them.

Yeah, I'm not gonna defend the republicans or conservatives over everything they say or everything they do (even if I am a biased comservative), but the behavior of the left wing is atrocious. I don't care if they support legalizing abortion for all reasons. I don't care if they want to enforce communism. I don't care if they believe in more taxes. What the Democratic party is doing wrong (which includes SJWS, safe space college students, and BLM) is that they're bullying people who disagree with them. They're also bullying people for what people in past generations did wrong. This is what costed them the election. And what did they do when they lost? Hillary conceded, but these whiny people born 1990 and later rioted and protested like barbarians, vandalizing property and assaulted people. They got to realize that their poor behavior before the election is why they lost, and their behavior in the post-election protests is going to get them in a lot more trouble, which includes less democratic victories.

In fact, I was late to tell this, but there's five things they were doing wrong in the protests.

1. They are protesting an election. It doesn't matter if your candidate wins or if their candidate wins, you need to accept the results. By protesting the election, they are being immature, disrespectful, and going against the vein of democracy.
2. They have no reason to protest in the election if they didn't even vote. If they did, I can see why it would upset them, but most of the protestors convicted didn't vote. I know the last election was bad because both candidates suck, but why would they protest if Trump specifically won and not Hillary?
3. They were blocking major freeways and roads. It's okay to protest along a street, but to mass crowd a street everywhere is not okay. This can block emergency vehicles from getting somewhere.
4. They were vandalizing property and assaulting people. Peaceful protests are fine, but riots are never acceptable.
5. They were using profanity in picket signs and using offensive gestures. Remember the Civil Rights protests? Their picket signs were appropriate and reasonable. The Trump protests were just hate-filled.

And have they learned their lesson? No, but they are showing their true colors when they riot and protest. Plus, they're bullying conservatives.
 
. . . I don't even know how to debate against someone who's dumb enough to compare fantasy to reality. Just. . . Wow.

Pot calling the kettle black. It's cute to ignore the reality that humans are still selfish animals, yet that's the argument you're making. I get it, it would be wonderful if we could all live in harmony and share everything we have and accept everyone for every role we play. But at the end of the day humans still play by the raw rules of nature - and that's to be predator or be prey.
 
when you call a huge group of voters racist, misogynist, Islamaphobic, transphobic, homophobic Nazis when they clearly aren't, and they know they aren't, they're not going to vote for you. it's a clear sign that things will just get worse for them.

Not all racists are Trump supporters but all Trump supporters are racist.

Weird how that works.

And before you say "no they're not" I'mma clap back by saying that if you vote for the man who blames "Chyna" and "bad hombres" for all our problems, then you are in fact racist.
 
Not all racists are Trump supporters but all Trump supporters are racist.

Weird how that works.

And before you say "no they're not" I'mma clap back by saying that if you vote for the man who blames "Chyna" and "bad hombres" for all our problems, then you are in fact racist.

Wow rude. I thought you and I had a halfway decent acquaintance going on here. There are plenty of other reasons Trump supporters chose him and are sticking to him.
 
Wow rude. I thought you and I had a halfway decent acquaintance going on here. There are plenty of other reasons Trump supporters chose him and are sticking to him.

Just because you voted for him for the other reasons doesn't make them go away
 
Hey all. Just a reminder to keep this debate civil and stop with the name calling and patronizing comments. If you can't argue without becoming angry and resorting to petty personal attacks, exercise a shred of self control and walk away before you get heated and end up breaking the rules.

We'll be keeping a close eye on this thread, and those of you who still want to resort to insults and namecalling will be receiving a flogging (and a warning).

Thanks!
 
Just because you voted for him for the other reasons doesn't make them go away

First of all I'm not racist. I've worked with people of all backgrounds and other than one random stranger I would feel very confident that they would tell you this is true. And yes, while I disagree with my president in some respect I still support him. I disagreed with Obama on a lot of things and still supported him. I would've supported Hillary if she was voted in, again despite disagreeing with her on a lot of things. Despite what people say, I still think the US, despite its flaws, does a lot of things better than a lot of other countries.
 
First of all I'm not racist. I've worked with people of all backgrounds and other than one random stranger I would feel very confident that they would tell you this is true. And yes, while I disagree with my president in some respect I still support him. I disagreed with Obama on a lot of things and still supported him. I would've supported Hillary if she was voted in, again despite disagreeing with her on a lot of things. Despite what people say, I still think the US, despite its flaws, does a lot of things better than a lot of other countries.

okay honey werk
 
My top issue - is a toss-up between healthcare and political correctness. Originally, I wanted to repeal all of the ACA, but I'm more interested into wiping out the individual mandate and employer insurance mandate, as well as the contraceptive mandate Hobby Lobby fought against.

I'm quoting myself because of one thing. The Republicans failed to repeal Obamacare, again. Second time after we got a new president. But do you know what, I may be against Obamacare, but I'm not wanting to repeal it anymore. I would rather let it stay in effect until it implodes and brings our economy down to a huge recession (which is bound to happen anyway since socialism is a failure in general). If this happens and if the Republicans don't repeal it before this incident, then it will make people view the Democratic Party very unfavorably as their chances of winning future elections will minimize for an extended period of time. Look what happened to the Republicans when the stock market crashed in 1929 and didn't care about the incident? They lost total control of the federal government, and could not hold office for a very long time. The same may happen to the Democrats if Obamacare implodes before repeal.

If you want to know why the Democrats would be in trouble, it's because they take full responsibility of Obamacare. They were the ones who passed the bill without a single Republican vote. They were the ones that written the law. They were responsible for it since 2010, and if it does fail, they will be responsible for it as well. In fact, they faced a huge fallout in 2010 after passing Obamacare because they didn't even read the bill, as people recognized it as a bad idea to start with.

Therefore, I would tell the Republicans to stop voting on Obamacare in any way. If they repeal without replacement, it won't teach the Democrats a lesson on what they did in 2010 on Obamacare. Instead, they will lose a lot of seats. Instead, they should focus on other issues, such as political correctness, turmoil in the Middle East, and the Michelle Obama school lunches.
 
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