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  • That’s really not true either. They don’t take issue with technology.

    They have cell phones and washing machines. Some Amish communities just look like any old country highway with pickup trucks and harvesting equipment.

    The particular type of Amish you’re thinking of will still have things like landlines and probably some electricity on the farm.

    They take issue with depending on others, Amish strive to be self sufficient and independent. They don’t want to attach themselves to possessions, or things they can’t make and maintain themselves, but that doesn’t mean they can’t use them. They can and gladly do. They have rules on their use, they self regulate their use. Guy I went to school with has his wife go through and look through his phone. If she thought the was using it too much she’d hang on to it. He drove an old pickup and he and his brothers ran a junk yard part time specifically so he’d have access to parts for it. He was going to school to be a machinist, because there was a machine shop in his community and he didn’t want to bother the elders with learning how to use it. Soon as he finished the precision machine program he just went back to his farm.













  • Yeah people just care about bread on the table and the roof over their head. Telling 150 million voting Americans to care about the world is falling on early 100 million deaf ears.

    75 million don’t care, or actively dislike anybody outside the US.

    Another 38 million only care as long as it’s convenient. And right now it’s not convenient.

    Maybe 10-15 million are anti Republican because they’re lgbtq+.

    Of the 150 million voters, 80 million are voting on a single issue. And for many of them, it’s either for or against abortion.

    We’ve been supplying the West with a military for decades. We put more in to our ministry, and by extension every NATO member country’s military than the rest of NATO combined. We don’t have social programs, no healthcare, no child care, under funded education, no paid sick leave, no parental leave. We have a big shiney military.

    People can’t afford to take a day off for the flu and they’re supposed to care about Europe?

    Big ask mate. People here care about how they’re doing today and tomorrow. Not Ukraine 6 months from now.




  • Shit I was saying when Biden was still running and I got crucified for it.

    As you shift to the right you leave your base behind, ignoring a growing, left swinging faction within the party is going to lead to outcomes like this. Working class people all have the same problems, and one party says they’ll do something about it. They’re lying, people who are generally smarter and paying attention know they’re lying, but that’s not most people.

    The other party has had a chance, and failed to do anything to alleviate the concerns of the working class. Regardless of the circumstances, or their actual ability to affect change. And they spent the entire election cycle trying to curry votes from a dedicated base instead of getting voters excited about something.

    Swing left, swing hard. Become the unhinged leftist the other side is already accusing you of being.




  • That is absolutely not what Clinton was impeached for.

    The investigation in to Clinton began before he’d ever met Lewinsky, and it was over some real estate dealings. Because Clinton had not actually committed an impeachable offense, Ken Starr had to keep going back to Congress to ask for a wider scope.

    The investigation took so long that after it began, Lewinsky was hired, Clinton won a re-election, there was sexual activity, word got out about it, and then Clinton lied about it under oath during a completely different deposition regarding a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Jones, which is what he was ultimately impeached for.

    It wasn’t the affair or the harassment, it was the lie, and it was only the lie because they were absolutely desperate to impeach Clinton for anything by that point.