My cousin moved to America in 2021 and is now married, so was hoping to stay. She’s a trans women, so is now very much considering moving back to the UK because of the state of politics out there.
Seeing senior politicians engage in anti-trans, anti-LGBT stuff just empowers those below to act out. It’s rather scary.
All this talk about him being on the spectrum excusing his actions is a load of tosh.
We’ve all worked with autistic cadets, and I’m sure we’ve all seen some of them being very excited and struggling with how to present the emotions their feeling.
To my recollection, precisely 0 of the ones I worked with even came close to doing something that could represent such a salute.
His defensive reaction afterwards, instead of being apologetic, suggests that this was deliberately done. However, I don’t think it was done to support fascism or Nazism or anything similar - look at what we’re currently all talking about instead of the actions of the Giant Cheeto…
How on earth can you have previous legislated polices (DEIA, etc) that gave employment opportunities & security, but at the drop of a hat, the affected people get cast into nowhere?
The Orange One has dictated, turn everything around - put people on paid leave, & look at options to get rid of them.
To cap it all, he has pardoned the Silk Road creator (that sounds very arty - but it’s far darker than that):
“The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponisation of government against me,”
Only one lunatic that I can see. Who needs advisors & legislators? He is a one-man wrecking machine.
Stares at the allied forces withdrawal from Afghanistan…
Musk’s Roman (I am being generous) salute reminds me of when Dr Strangelove loses control of his arm and it does a Nazi salute. Dr Strangelove
This one I really don’t understand. The only reason I can see to pardon him is for money. Ross Ulbricht probably has access to a few thousand bitcoin which since his arrest will have gone up in price massively.
Add to this the creation of Trump Coin by Melania on the eve of the inauguration and you can sort of make sense of it. The grift is real!
Now this is another crazy thing. The net worth of Trumps cabinet picks is insane. This website puts the combined net worth of Trumps cabinet at approx $460 Billion. Now that includes musk, which tips the scales a bit as his net worth is approx $400 Billion.
But even if we take Musk out as an ‘outlier’. Trumps cabinet is worth $60 Billion. Bidens outgoing cabinet was worth a total of $118 Million. For context, 118 million seconds 3.7 years. 60 billion seconds is 1900 years. The difference here is incredible. Add in Musk’s net worth and we’re just getting silly.
The money involved here is unprecedented.
If this isn’t the literal definition of an Oligarchy then I don’t know what is…
There’s also no evidence that the Actual Romans did the salute. It was invented by Italian Fascist propaganda.
This is somewhat refreshing to see. Someone who knows they were wrong that day, and has properly acknowledged their wrongdoings.
We were discussing the same thing in the office 
perhaps, much like Trump, Musk doesn’t like to apologise in the belief it makes him look weak?
while he destroyed Twitter making it his vision of “X” there has been no acknowledgement that his impact and involvement has lead to no improvements in the platform…and while he did take a step back i don’t recall any admission of fault.
much like Trump and the way he has run his businesses, not all of which have been successful despite what he claims
okay now the thing is, abortion is bad, right? (except for like rape and stuff) and like also the fact that they teach kindergarteners about pride stuff but they don’t let schools teach about religion and Christianity?!
and I’m not an extreme MAGA supporter, I just think it’s the lesser of two evils
It’s interesting to hear the perspective from someone who is USA based particularly as the majority of the users on here are UK based so our view of American politics & culture is very much filtered through a media perception with our own cultural interpretations.
I would have classed Trump as an old school republican patrician with an ideology based on preserving the republic & the prestige of the business owners.
Kamala I would put into the traditional conservative box from a uk view possibly more of a peelite.
How is Kamala & trumped viewed objectively on your side of the pond? (or was it, like here, a bad change would always be better than no change)
The Orange One loved the blessings on the inauguration (a bit of fire & brimstone), yet criticised the Bishop that dared to stand up to him, as she suggested that mercy & consideration should be shown to LGBT & immigrants.
In only one day, this has (as expected) descended into very simple circumstances, it’s his way, or the highway; don’t you dare stand in my way or you will be bulldozed into the mud. All “yes” people in his legislative group & all the power to prevent the voices of those who might sensibly need to say “no.”
Will the Orange One move against book banning? Funny old thing, I doubt it very much!
Mostly extremists. The liberals are all gay, and the conservitives, are mostly straight people. (with a few exceptions) And what really miffs me off is that they’re teaching about pride and LGBTQ+ but they don’t let us talk or teach about Christianity!
hmmm I don’t know, maybe against some of the pride books
Ok that sounds like a little bit of a generalisation but I don’t how polarised the local media portrayal is of the different factions. In the UK broadcast media are legally required to be (in general) balanced so the stereotypes tend to focus between left, right & monster raving looney tend to be more ideological or class base than personal identity.
I believe this varies from state to state?
A lot of philosophy & belief training do start with the bible stores & parables of religious education before learn about other faiths & how humans think.
If you exclude either completely you do create division rather than tolerance & it’s frustrating to the excluded - do have a look at the thread about inclusive ceremony of remembrance as that has been quite respectful to various different view points.
Worth reading with a good mug of tea 
It is a bit of a generalization but you know…
It varies a bit from state to state but it’s mostly no christianity in schools
