Oh, it’s definitely still there but it’d still be considered fringe. Trump normalized hate groups in a manner we haven’t seen before.

The investigations uncovered Epstein’s close ties to former President Bill Clinton and Britain’s Prince Andrew, as well as his once friendly relationship with former President Donald Trump

Dear AP, why the fuck are you downplaying Trump’s ties to Epstein? Trump hung out with child diddlers to diddle children. He was hilariously cagey when asked if he’d release Epstein materials as president.

There may not be enough evidence to get him in court, but he should be held in the same group as Clinton and Andrew.

I think, additionally, that children, being still developing, suffer far more ill long term effects from emotional trauma than adults. That isn’t to say that any rape is okay - but the damage to a developing mind is much more deep.

If they replace Biden I hope to fuck it isn’t with this milquetoast spineless asshat.

Edit: Damn, I didn’t know Lemmy was so big on Whitmer.

Call your democratic politicians (if you have any) Governor/Senators/House Rep and advocate for pressure for Biden to step down gracefully from the ticket… then prepare to vote for Biden in November because that’s a hell of a longshot.

If you’re talking to people on the fence about voting or not focus more on Biden’s policy achievements instead of Trump being a boogie man. Anyone liberal who is considering sitting out this election has already internally decided that Trump is an acceptable outcome for trying to change the two party system or to avoid dirtying their hands voting for Biden to continue genocide - pushing against people’s fervently held beliefs is a waste of energy… the media really hasn’t put much attention on things that Biden has accomplished so talking those things up won’t make people defensive - you never want to directly challenge someone’s fervently held beliefs because it is extremely difficult to shift those.

Not at all, Trump’s presidency provided a false air of legitimacy for those fringe beliefs. And his success forced politicians to morph into his sycophants - if he’d failed the GOP would assume that going that extreme was unpalatable to Americans.

The arts are vital for a healthy society - their constant marginalization is deeply damaging.

If you have a partner it’s the less likely outcome that they’ll reject your new gender identity. Gender is a spectrum and we’re all a lot more interesting than just what our gender is anyways. Someone who was attracted to you was attracted to a lot more than just your gender expression so, on the whole, rather little about you is changing when you come out as trans.

I am not trans so I can’t talk to that realization but I am non-conforming and coming into that identity was mostly a relief. I had to cloak a lot and found myself pretty distinct from a lot of the stereotypes about men - I was married at the time and my partner didn’t bat an eye.

A mask ban for protesters would also limit our ability to stop a pandemic spreading. Mask bans are a bad idea (especially with creepy af facial recognition around).

But you do realize you jumped the shark into pure medication shaming right?

ADHD people have enough judgement focused on us that we don’t need to start shaming each other for tactics that help us on a day to day.

Just to clarify - the briefly stated “political reasons” you mentioned are being dog-piled by the establishment and having your political career torpedoed.

I have yet to meet a quantity of drugs that brings me all the way down to “normal” levels. It just makes my ADHD slightly more copeable.

I don’t even know why the tagginator comment is necessary since it sounds like the system invisibly works how you’d expect it.

Damn, I’m just imagining your face if Trump wins the election if those people you’re trying to remain ignorant of tip the election.

Ignorance is never a virtue.

Biden by a mile - but they’re both awful choices and clearly unqualified for the position.

By tradition no serious politicians participated. We didn’t have a primary and its disingenuous to say we did.

Whoever wins gets the nuclear football. Neither of these assholes is with it enough consistently to deserve that responsibility.

I tried, the establishment muscled out any real contenders.

Biden needs to be doing a fucking whistle stop tour - these political consultants are a waste of money.

Downvoting partially correct answers discourages participation and we’re not reddit.