u/MoonFacedJoyAssassin

Basically title.

I never voted for him and don't particularly like him, but wow, he could never be as bad as Democrats claim he is. All the shady things they've done to try (and fail) to being him down just paint more and more of a picture that the left is willing to break all the rules and sacrifice all their supposed beliefs to take this one man down.

One man who, again, has not been the Turbo Satan I was repeatedly told he was. I'd even go so far as to say he's a bad President and a worse man, but honestly, I was made to believe it would be so much worse that this actually seems relatively fine. Makes me wonder why the Democrats/Left felt the need to destroy every shred of trust and dignity they had trying to stop him.

Somehow everyone forgets about this.

It apparently wasn't our responsibility to throw billions of dollars of resources and cash at Ukraine when Russia annexed Crimea. Even though it was obvious Russia would eventually want to expand further, we did nothing about it. Now, years later, there are Russians fully entrenched in the Crimea area, and Ukraine refuses any settlement that wont get them Crimea back, which has turned the whole thing into a new meat grinder forever war. And of course, Biden was VP at the time, but somehow neither Obama or he catch any criticism about their poor decisions leading us here, when this was some textbook "Peace in our time" bs.

As is custom: NOT ALL WOMEN.

The issue is you all know what I'm talking about. Obviously women deserve rights and equality the same as men, the problem is that some women very visibly like to intentionally give up their agency when it suits them.

"I'm just a girl," type stuff, or pretending they don't know how to do something so a man will come save them, or acting like their arms are just so so weak when it's time to lift something, or how women can make their own money but still want a man to provide for them, or claiming women can totally intuit you're a creep based on vibes but then dates a serial abuser because "how could she have known!"

This hypocrisy between what feminism says women want and how SOME garden variety women act is a huge part of the problem, especially when you factor in the women are wonderful effect and women's greater in-group bias, meaning a lot of people (men and women) are willing to give them a pass or make excuses for bad behavior.

What the title said. I don't think anyone but politicians are happy about the price of gas right now, but prices were this bad twice in my life before, both previous times under Dem Presidents. They've gone down before, they will go down again, and it's annoying that anybody only cares when it's their opponent in office.

Disclaimer: I have very mixed opinions about abortion and don't fall cleanly into either pro-life or pro-choice, this is merely an observation from the middle

1. Covid showed your bodily autonomy only extends as far as society is comfortable letting it

2. The same people who used to say "My body, my choice" like a religious mantra abandoned it the second it applied to literally anything else

3. But the most damning one is something I'm sure you've all seen: they turn around and use pro-life arguments against the men. "Oh, you knew there were consequences to your actions and now you want to get out of it" and "The baby's rights are more important" kinda stuff. If you talk to someone who's pro-choice it seems to only be a matter of time before they drop a line straight out of the religious fundy playbook but genderflipped.

This makes it very hard to take their arguments seriously, at times, when it seems like the only autonomy they care about is the bodily autonomy to get an abortion.

Edit: I feel like some of the people attempting to steelman the pro-choice/covid response side are missing the point that this is largely an optics issue, and that many of them are also kind of proving my points to some degree. I appreciate how chill a lot of ya'll have been though.

Edit 2: Conscription is another, similar issue I think is worth bringing up as well.