In the context of Trump et al doing rape, I don’t think the distinction presented by Kelly really matters. Any amount of sexual assault and abuse is too much.

In what way does it matter here? Is some amount of trump rape acceptable? Is it beneficial to anyone other than trump et Al to split this hair?

That is a bizarre and ungenerous conclusion. Do you think adults having sex with 15 year olds is okay? What point are you trying to make?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_without_a_difference

A distinction without a difference is a type of logical fallacy where an author or speaker attempts to describe a distinction between two things where no discernible difference exists.[1] It is particularly used when a word or phrase has connotations associated with it that one party to an argument prefers to avoid.

For example, a person might say “I did not lie; I merely stretched the truth a little bit.”[2]

Conservatism is a bad world view. Rigid patriarchal authority will lead to abuse.

And the ultra rich would deserve to lose everything

The only thing that matters to them is in-group solidarity. They are bad people. That is a bad person world view.

That’s so much money that could have been better spent

I think food and having belligerent neighbors might be a problem.

I mean, kind of, but the robber is the root cause. They have agency and choose to rob. If it was flood protection, yeah, can’t blame the water.

The Republicans deserve the bulk of the blame

If I leave my door open and someone robs me, that’s a little bit my fault. But it’s a lot the robber’s fault.

The Republicans have agency. They choose to be human shaped trash bags. They deserve the majority of the blame and scorn. They are the worst people on earth.

I don’t think laws mean anything anymore. There are too many bad faith (pun intended) people in positions of power.

If ww3 happens to the tune of the US collapsing, there’s good odds it ends in a nuclear wasteland. There are too many religious nut jobs in power that probably believe nuking new York City means Jesus will come back or something.

The bullets don’t have to be silver. The GOP aren’t werewolves.

“divisive” is such a stupid attack. It has no substance. Sometimes people are divided for good reasons!

I expected the one from Inside https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oDQXFNWuZj8&pp=ygUMaW5zaWRlIHNvY2tv

i did some volunteering for zohran. Most of the people I talked to were very enthusiastic about him. I’m cautiously optimistic

For some reason all I could see was the Ork in work and was trying to figure out how orks feel about wealth inequality. Then I figured it out

One of the problems is some poor people (eg: many whites) would rather die than other poor people (eg: black folks) get anything at all.

Early voting is open in NYC. Voting isn’t the only thing you should do, but it’s fast and easy. No line at my polling place down the street.

A friend of mine was sincerely advancing the idea that it’s better that trump wins, because less-bad candidates like Harris just let people coast by without doing much as the world gets worse. He thinks something like Trump will be really bad, and people will demand more radical change. I think you can call that acellerationism. Pretty easy position to hold as a wealthy professional who owns property, I guess.

Personally, I’d rather people organize and try to make the world better without the worst people in the world having most of the power. Seems easier that way to me.