@Kirbycide:
Starla, the major issue I have with your viewpoint is that it tends to be extremely selfish. You don't care about political issues unless they impact you directly. Instead of telling me to check my bias, I think that maybe you should check your privilege.
Right, so you use SJW terminology to invalid me and make me look bad. I don't think I'm selfish at all. Wanting people not to be homeless? Want poor areas not to be in poverty? Wanting people to have their gun rights? Want to have black schools funded so black people get better educated? Want police reform because I'm sick of corruption? How is that any selfish?
Hell, I even sometimes do $100 tips just for fun and it gets me no reward but a smile on a person. Plus, I was abused as a child and bullied. I have no privilege, don't assume things about me because I disagree with you on some points. That's just resulting to name-calling with your logic. You don't know me, yet you assume. I said check your bias because well you only focus on left-leaning stuff and think Democrats are 100% right and not thinking if any of their logic can be wrong. Hell, I was taught by liberal English teachers to check my bias, it's how I learned of the site allsides.com where it helped me see both sides of the news.
You are lucky enough to not have to resort to joining the military in order to get by or go to school, so you don't care that someone like you might be banned from joining.
Well, even if I had no choice, I would not join the military because I refuse to kill other people. Well, I don't think people should be banned, but honestly it's not a big of a deal compared to other things for me. I'm not really lucky at all.
You believe that women should have a right to decide how to manage their bodies and reproductive health, but you don't feel strongly about it because you personally wouldn't use that right.
Um, okay. so, I wouldn't use it, so what? O.o I don't care what women do with their bodies, it's their choice. But if I get in an argument by chance with someone, I express this opinion of pro-choice.
Do you really not see how selfish this seems?
It really isn't. I'm just sharing my opinion about the subject is all. And just because I don't care about the military, doesn't mean trans people should be banned. It's just not an important issue to me compared to other things like affordable education, police reform, living wage, getting people off the streets, etc.
@MDL:
Well, getting technical for a moment, you don't need to seperate into two in that instance.
To put it another way, you're still pro-choice on all counts.
You would just "choose" to keep it if you had a kid.
It's a lot quicker/easier to just put it that way.
Oh, I get it now. Didn't think about that. Thanks for the clarification. It explains why I lost a friend because I didn't care what women did with their bodies, and she blocked me thinking I'm okay with "people being murdered."
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@Kirbycide:
Yeah, there's really no problem with leaving everything up to the governors. Sure.
Okay, let's not forget about California that had a Democrat governor and their rates were high, and same with Illinois and New York. Honestly, I don't think any governors done a super awesome job, Democrat or Republican, but Democrat governors did better than Republican ones.
Though to be honest, the tactic of just shutting down people and making them stay home without pay, contact tracing, etc. is just wrong. Now so many businesses are lost and more people are homeless because of it. And even if you mandate masks, doesn't mean everyone will follow them, hence in my state, it's this way, and we have a mandate.
Plus, you disqualifying all the states that actually did a better job regarding the virus. I think my Democrat governor did an average job at it, but at least a bit better than other states. Once cases started, he was right on it, instead of waiting like CA or NY. So, you look at the states that did a bad job, but did not look at the states that did a good job. That's double standards.