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The original point I made

The only point you've made is that you're a bigot who is not interested in honest discussion. And you keep making it by repeating the same bullshit.

Grow a thicker skin for fucks sake you absolute child.

Says the guy whining about mods deleting his content.

I'll hand it to you -- you've put on a masterclass-worthy performance of a bigot having a breakdown because nobody takes him seriously. You've blamed me, you've blamed the mods, and you've blamed lemmy. The only person who hasn't done anything wrong here is you.

When everyone in the world is giving you problems, it's time to consider that maybe you're the problem. And if the users and mods on lemmy are too harsh for you, then maybe you should go back to Truth Social or wherever the big-brained adults like yourself hang out.

No, man.

You came in here posting absolutely disgusting ableist slurs and spewing discriminatory bullshit that's not true. Then after you get called out on it by everyone, you've start changing your tune, cherry picking specific circumstances that if that had been what you originally said, we'd have ended up in a different conversation. But instead we're having this garbage conversation that you decided to start.

And as for "hey look, people used this word in the 60s all the time!" I'll point you to every other slur, whether ableist, racist, sexist, or whatever. You know what? People used them all in the past with impunity. That doesn't make it ok to use them today.

Instead of just Googling things that support your prejudice and confirm your existing biases, try searching for the counterarguments.

retarded is NOT a slur it is legitimately a medical term and you people are too sensitive

It's actually not.

they cannot vote

They actually can.

You seem to have a serious problem with facts and with discrimination.

You're spouting false bullshit, and you're prejudiced.

You're exactly the kind of person who should not be allowed to vote, but luckily for you being a stupid, wrong, bigoted asshole does not revoke your rights.

I think it’s a tragedy that we let people who are borderline retarded cast ballots at all.

You deserve to get lambasted for that. That's a horrible thing to say.

The very core of democracy is the idea that individuals have the right to make choices in how they live their lives, and that the power to govern derives from the consent of the government. What you're saying is that there's an arbitrary line of intelligence below which you don't accept someone's ability to consent, and you deny their right to make choices about their lives.

I think that's the tragedy here.

Gotcha. That makes sense. I know nothing of how food is made.

How long would a can of hand-stuffed fish meat made in such conditions be viable before going bad?

Well, no. The Electoral College has its own list of problems, but keeping 3rd parties out of power is not one of them.

There's two main reasons we don't have any serious third party candidates:

1. We have a first-past-the-post system, which mathematically results in a two-party system, and

2. no serious politician runs as a third party candidate, because any serious politician understands how our election system works.

It's almost like... there's a reason these 3rd party candidates aren't making it onto the big party tickets.

"I don't like Trump, but Biden just doesn't excite me..."

Those were the really fun days of the internet.

When surfing the web was actually an adventure and you'd actually discover things.

Not that I could ever go back to dial up speeds, but damn those days were fun.

he can’t pardon himself

Anytime I hear someone say Trump can't do something, I want to wave my hands in the air and point to everything.

Trump will pardon himself because he has no shame, and the people in charge of pointing out that he can't pardon himself will do fuckall, just like every single person with any repsonsibility has done fuckall the stop Trump from doing anything for the past 8 years.

There have been thousands of chances to prevent Trump from doing A, B, C, D, E, F, G, etc. And every. single. person. has done nothing at all to stop him. He truly is above the law.

That's a terrible argument against it.

If there's a bad vibe to eliminating a candidate for following laws that were explicitly written down 150 years ago to stop such a candidate, then what kind of vibe does it give off if we flat out ignore that same law?

If we allow ourselves to be swayed by the idea that taking away a very specific privilege from a person gives off a bad vibe, then we'd be undermining our entire justice system and the very concept of law itself.

The law is unambiguous, and we must follow it. If we don't, then the rule of law truly has no meaning.