Trump's Plans for the Oil Industry

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(05-13-2024, 11:06 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: Whatever dude. If just because he has some Authoritarian tendencies doesn't make him an Authoritarian. 
That's like saying if a guy kisses another guy, he is a homosexual? 

And what you say kinda sounds like stating that a person with murderous phantasies isn't necessarily a murderer. Which is technically true, but also one would probably rather not leave his child with that person. So why leave the country to the guy with autoritarian phantasies. That's how all authoritarians start, as people with such tendencies, it's kind of what makes them become actual authoritarians.

(05-13-2024, 11:06 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: LOL not there "YET", there you go again, just stop with the fear tactics. For a guy that's so smart, you seem to catch on quick when the Right uses fear tactics and propaganda, but so blind to the Left's why is that? I might miss a few or simply ignore them, but I do my best to not repeat the bs part. 

Here's where imho the logical problem with this argument lies. Just because fears and worries get instrumentalized for tactics and propaganda does not mean that they are therefore insubstantial to begin with. That is not true for climate change as much as probably for some more right-wing issues like immigration. Just because the media at times quite exaggerates aspects of the problem (like all the alleged caravans and whatnot) does not negate the problem. And with Trump, there is substance behind the fears. He indeed tries to overturn elections, calls for negating the constitution in doing so, he indeed lets his lawyers argue that a president should have total immunity and hence should be able to order the killing of political opponents, he indeed wants to jail people in revenge and deems loyalty to him as more impartant as loyalty to the country, Trump indeed loves Kim and calls guys like him great and smart and is full of admiration, and so on and so on. That has nothing to do with the media or fear tactics. That's just what is, and what many people just accept or even endorse. You can't negate that.