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Earthwormjim91, to memes in It's Always Money in Philadelphia

And then complain about being broke. All the fucking time.

Earthwormjim91, to asklemmy in Non-religious Republicans of Lemmy, how do you reconcile your non-religious convictions with a party that bases a lot of its policies on religion?

Ok so if your choice was between a politician who made LGBT issues their priority but were against medicare for all/socialized medicine, and a politician that made medicare for all/socialized medicine their priority but were against LGBT rights, who would you choose?

Both are human rights issues. Which one is more important to you?

Earthwormjim91, (edited ) to asklemmy in Non-religious Republicans of Lemmy, how do you reconcile your non-religious convictions with a party that bases a lot of its policies on religion?

It just seems like you’re saying “political issue” but what you mean is “doesn’t affect them”.

Yeah, that is exactly what I said and what I meant. It was my point. Thank you for getting the point?

At some point it’s a forced choice, and sitting out isn’t really an option.

Idk, the fact that the Log Cabin Republicans exist kinda proves that it is. Even LGBT people can reconcile Republican ideals and their own LGBT identity. It’s much easier for someone that isn’t LGBT to ignore LGBT issues. And the majority of people wont have someone close to them be LGBT, making it even easier to not care about them.

Earthwormjim91, to asklemmy in Non-religious Republicans of Lemmy, how do you reconcile your non-religious convictions with a party that bases a lot of its policies on religion?

Many many people believe that healthcare is a basic human right, right up there with LGBT issues.

Putting Medicare for all on the same footing or higher than LGBT issues, because healthcare affects literally everyone.

Earthwormjim91, to asklemmy in Non-religious Republicans of Lemmy, how do you reconcile your non-religious convictions with a party that bases a lot of its policies on religion?

They’re a Republican. They don’t view LGBT issues as a human rights issue in the first place. It’s a political issue for them. Hence why they can reconcile that their opinion vs the party platform.

Again, that’s why they said they’re not anti-lgbt rather than saying they’re pro-lgbt.

They can disagree with the Republican Party on LGBT issues, because it’s a political issue for them and not a human rights issue.

Earthwormjim91, to asklemmy in Non-religious Republicans of Lemmy, how do you reconcile your non-religious convictions with a party that bases a lot of its policies on religion?

You know that someone can agree with most things in a platform and hate other things about it right?

The fact that they said they’re not anti-lgbt instead of saying they’re pro-lgbt implies that lgbt issues in general are lower on their list of priorities. They may not agree with the anti lgbt stuff but it isn’t important to them anyway.

Earthwormjim91, to news in Biden announces $1.3 billion to build new power lines, upgrade aging electric grid

Anyone who thought $1.3 B could upgrade the entire power grid is an idiot in the first place.

Maybe $1.3 T.

Earthwormjim91, to news in Young Activists to Biden: Change Course on Gaza — or Lose in 2024

We’re talking about NOT voting, you illiterate fuck.

Earthwormjim91, to microblogmemes in OH!

Yeah that would work to with the “technically”.

“Alcohol is not a solution, but liquor technically is.”

Earthwormjim91, to microblogmemes in OH!

Ethanol sure. There are hundreds of kinds of alcohols.

Cholesterol is an alcohol. Sorbitol is an alcohol. Ethylene glycol is an alcohol. Propylene glycol is an alcohol.

Earthwormjim91, to news in Young Activists to Biden: Change Course on Gaza — or Lose in 2024

Young people don’t fucking vote. It doesn’t really matter what they want.

Biden wasn’t shoved down anyone’s throat. Everywhere that mattered in the primaries had single digit turnout for 18-29 year olds.

Earthwormjim91, to news in Young Activists to Biden: Change Course on Gaza — or Lose in 2024

The people that care most about this were never going to vote in general. And with a significant majority of the population supporting Israel, there’s not really any option for candidates against it either.

And again, given that the majority of the population supports Israel, someone like Trump and Biden are going to be equivalent on the issue.

npr.org/…/american-support-israel-biden-middle-ea…

2/3 of Americans in that say the US should publicly support Israel.

www.cnn.com/2023/10/19/politics/…/index.html

Only 13% say their sympathies lie with Palestinians in the war.

It’s really only Arab Americans that support Palestine over Israel. And more Arab Americans identify as Republican and would vote for Trump who is even more pro Israel and anti Palestinian. reuters.com/…/arab-american-support-biden-democra…

Earthwormjim91, to microblogmemes in OH!

No, because the alcohol in a drink (ethanol) is still not a solution.

That’s not the original meaning either. The original meaning came from Arabic for a stibnite distillation used as eye liner. It came from Al-kuhl. It’s the same way that “spirit” came to mean a hard liquor. Distilling something down to its purest form was meant to harness the “spirit” of the thing.

A given spirit is a solution of alcohol and water, but alcohol itself is not. Which makes the whole “technically” part of the joke fall flat.

Earthwormjim91, to asklemmy in What's the significance of calling it "Israel-Hamas War" vs "Israel-Gaza War"?

No, Hamas is a fucking terrorist group that hasn’t allowed an election since they staged a coup in 2007. They kill civilians and use civilian infrastructure as military strongpoints.

Earthwormjim91, to microblogmemes in OH!

Exactly. If you’re gonna make a chemistry joke, at least get it right.

Something like “Alcohol isn’t a solution, but it can be a solvent for the right problem” would be clever and true.

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