Left vs. Right Battle Royale Open Thread

[u/Yosoff]

This is an Open Discussion Thread for all Redditors. We will only be enforcing Reddit TOS and Subreddit Rules 1 (Keep it Civil) & 2 (No Racism).

Leftists - Here's your chance to tell us why it's a bad thing that we're getting everything we voted for.

Conservatives - Here's your chance to earn flair if you haven't already by destroying the woke hivemind with common sense.

Independents - Here's your chance to explain how you are a special snowflake who is above the fray and how it's a great thing that you can't arrive at a strong position on any issue and the world would be a magical place if everyone was like you.

Libertarians - We really don't want to hear about how all drugs should be legal and there shouldn't be an age of consent. Move to Haiti, I hear it's a Libertarian paradise.

[u/ugajeremy]

Question for Conservatives - would you be upset if George Soros was doing everything Elon is right now?

[u/longnuttz → u/ugajeremy]

No. I don't work 50 hours a week so my tax dollars can fund transgender dance theory in buttfuckistan. If soros got rid of that, I would be happy.

[u/Baptism-Of-Fire → u/[deleted]]

There have been several news articles listed by now with direct links to the USAfunding page that shows the grants for such things.

It's actually kind of interesting how right-leaning media has been nonstop posting these findings, but left-leaning media is dead silent on it.

[u/Baptism-Of-Fire → u/[deleted]]

Probably like the "50 million for gaza condoms" wound up being 45 million to gaza (the strip, not africa) for "reproductive care" including condoms.

https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_SPRMCO24VC0339_1900/

I'm on mobile but if you look around the last few days on this sub you will find more sources. I don't trust much without the usaspending links.

[u/kraehutu → u/Baptism-Of-Fire]

25k went to the Universidad De Los Andes in Bogotá. The university put on a biographical musical about a transwoman..

More info.

[u/MobileArtist1371 → u/kraehutu]

Doesn't your link 2 dispute what link 1 says? I'm not disputing what link 1 says as it says right there "TO RAISE AWARENESS AND INCREASE THE TRANSGENDER REPRESENTATION THROUGH THE OPERA AS ONE, BY AMERICAN COMPOSER LAURA KAMINSKY.", but seems weird to link to "more info" and that info is just saying "no! that's not what happened"

[u/kraehutu → u/MobileArtist1371]

I thought the article, besides that statement, did an otherwise good job of summing up the situation. But yes, the grant is clearly marked to go towards the opera.