Change My Mind

That's why leftists make memes and then turn off commenting on those memes.

The left can't meme 🤣

This has been true until lately when the Left openly started grooming children in public schools and agitated their formerly loyal base of . . . moms. Now it is sometimes possible for average citizens to publicly criticize the increasingly insane left without immediately getting doxed and losing everything.

But it's still risky because the Mainstream Media outlets are nowadays nothing more than the permanent political propaganda arm of the Dem Party. It's best to be wealthy and connected before publicly criticizing the Left.

I can't change your mind; you said is the truth.
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Being a leftist means you practice critical thinking skills and aren't brainwashed by 24-hour "news" media.

So why is it that leftists rebuke those who are telling the truth when they express their political views?
And how come they can't explain further when someone questions their political views?

What do you mean? Leftists believe in freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and practice critical thinking. We don't get all our ideas spoonfed into our heads by the ragebait TV man; we know how to do research and think for ourselves.

Kidding aside, why do you think Leftist folks whine about Trump, based on what the media said about him?
And how come they blindly accept ridiculous ideologies (sex change operation for kids, green new deal, etc.) without ever questioning them?

Leftists are afraid of Trump and his followers because of the things they've done and said. We don't get all our ideas from the media like you guys do. We know how to research things and think for ourselves. Trump has said he thinks the Constitution can be terminated, and Vance has said that Trump should violate the Constitution. Trump attempted to change the electoral votes to make himself the winner after losing an election, and then told his armed supporters to march on the Capitol to stop the transfer of power. I support the Constitution and justice for criminals.

More examples from other people:

Vance:

Trump should "fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people. … And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, 'The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.' … We're going to have to get pretty wild and pretty far out there and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with." … Extra-constitutional "is exactly right."

Bannon:

"And what Trump's going to do is just declare victory. Right? He's going to declare victory. That doesn't mean he's the winner, he's just going to say he's the winner. [Democrats are] going to have a natural disadvantage [from absentee ballots] and Trump's going to take advantage of it — that's our strategy. He's going to declare himself a winner."

USA v. Trump:

"They also told the defendant that the initial returns on election night might be misleading—that is, that he might take an early lead in the vote count that would diminish as mail-in ballots were counted because his own supporters favored in-person voting, while supporters of his opponent, Joseph R. Biden, favored mail-in ballots. Privately, [Trump] told advisors … that in such a scenario, he would simply declare victory before all the ballots were counted and any winner was projected."

Flynn:

"Within the swing states, if he wanted to, he could take the military capabilities and he could place them in those states and basically rerun an election in each of those states … People out there talk about martial law like it's something that we've never done. Martial law has been instituted 64 times."

This is what we're scared of. Trump and his friends openly advocate for violating the Constitution, ignoring the will of the people, and turning the US into a dictatorship, and they have a bunch of allies in the government willing to let him get away with anything he wants. I've never been more scared about the future of our Republic than I am now.

I can feel your cognitive dissonance from here.

Some examples:

"Do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution."

"Then, I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president"

"I have the absolute right to PARDON myself."

Hannity: "Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?"
Trump: "Except for day one."

"He says, 'You're not going to be a dictator, are you?' I said: 'No, no, no, other than day one. … After that, I'm not a dictator.'"

"You won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. It'll be fixed; it'll be fine; you won't have to vote anymore."

"You won't have to do it anymore. Four years, it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won't have to vote."

"We have some very bad people. We have some sick people—radical left lunatics. And I think it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, National Guard or if really necessary by the military."

"When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. … That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak"

"WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again … this … extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials. Those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught, and prosecuted at levels … never seen before in our Country."

"By the way, and if [Clinton] gets to pick — if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know." [Encouraging her assassination?]

"We'll stand up to crazy Nancy Pelosi … how's her husband doing, anybody know?" [After her husband was attacked in his home by a Trump supporter who broke in]

"I'm just not going to leave … We're never leaving … How can you leave when you won an election?"

"I don't f**king care that they have weapons. They're not here to hurt me. They can march to the Capitol from here."

Critical thinking of the NPC variety

What do you mean? Critical thinking is when you challenge your own beliefs and consider how they might be wrong. Republicans depend on people being brainwashed by sensationalist media to vote for them, which is why they fight to remove the teaching of critical thinking skills from schools.

Where in the hell do you get the idea that critical thinking is taught in American schools? Ideas like the Trans fad or climate change wouldn't survive five minutes amongst critical thinkers.

I'm saying it should be taught in public schools, but conservatives are opposed to it because no one would be a conservative if they practiced critical thinking. Your denial of global warming and the existence of non-binary people wouldn't survive critical thinking, for instance, but they need you to believe stuff like that in order to keep voting them into power to take away your rights.

"We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority." - Texas Republican Party platform