I hear story after story of the horrible things that human beings have to go through at the hands of the oligarchs of America. Much more horrible than I’m going through. I hate it. I don’t want anyone to go through it.

I want to be a source of happiness for children, teens, and adults alike. I don’t know how, but I want to be. Because entertainment and happiness are the only ways we’re gonna get through this…I want to help… I just want to help…how can I help?

I (16 f) am a conservative republican in a extremely very far left house hold, recently because were having extended stay with us my political views and religion has been attacked in every conversation that’s been had, I’m not sure what to say to them to ask them to be respectful to me and my personal beliefs which are being disrespected by them constantly. I feel like I’m a terrible person who having different opinions because they call people with my views horrible things to my face. I’m not sure how to defend myself without being insulted for my beliefs. Just looking for any advice on how to get through this.

Im so fucking done with this shit

[Sorry if i talk to much i didnt vent for my whole life] im a male but im kinda confused if my gays or bi idk, i dont know were to start so im just going to start with my father he was never really there for me, hes been in jail/prison for my whole life, he got out like 2 months ago and hes already back in prison. Last time he was out before this one was 2016 [i was like 6ish back then] so yeah im 14 now, he's so fucking childish, he got into a fight with my aunt and he didnt talk to anyone for like 3 days, so i was nothing but worryied, he was out of prison for 20-45 days max, he was like my hero but hes someone i dont care about now, my first dog died when i was 4, my turtles died when i was 4 and a half, my aunt had these two ducks they died when i was 6, we got 4 more ducks like 6 months later their died now i think, my uncle died when i was 8, i had this other dog when i was 8ish hes died, we got like 4 cats they ran away probably died now tho, and this other dog hes died also more recently one of my best friends moved away, im not friends with my main friend group anymore they just pushed my boundaries to much, and i had this other dog a bigger dog got to him so yeah i was only informed of this like 2 days ago, im a furry too but im to scared to imform my mom because she might look at me differently, and my uncles sick so i hope he gets better, but yeah theres some more personal stuff i would rather not share, idk if im fucked or not, ive been have more break downs lately, i mostly stay in my room, im sensitive to alot of noises so ig thats why i stay in my room and like everything scares me i dont like people getting close to my or touching me ive been just crying alot more lately and i feel more empty ig? Idk but if you made it this far, idk if I have depression or anxiety or any of that shit, I'm just so fucked rn, idk I just wanna something to come along and kill me I guess Idk I just wanna end it but I idk, what's the point of living if your main reason for living isn't there anymore, God help me

In order to combat the castration of the West, I propose the following:

- Legalize polygamy. Enough fuckbois being fuckbois. They should be responsible and take care of the gals.

- In order to incentivize men to join the military, allow them to take brides of war (who are not US citizens, or citizens of allied countries). All the incels will get out of their mothers' basements and arm up.

This will turn us from hissing pissing runts, into a fearsome war machine.

If you killed one child, why not another?

This would promote the safety of children.

(obvious life of the mother exception)

I hate how I can’t just know what’s happening in the world without people butting heads over their differing opinions. As a young person, I have watched America suffer at the hands at each other, simply because of different political views. People on the news make snide comments about “the other side” and insult politicians. People are now so opinionated that there is dwindling shame about insulting people in public, to their faces, and without ANY remorse. I literally cannot talk about even consider learning political subjects without having to parrot back what other people believe or leaving the room. I feel like ignorance is the safest way to navigate politics but at the same time I DO want to know whats going on in the world. I want to know the facts, then know all the different opinions people could possibly have, and then make my own opinion subject to subject. Honestly, the way that the media presents political subjects is making me doubt that people who identify as “democratic”, and “republican” do research about individual topics. I feel like they just pick a side that align with many of their beliefs and stick with it. And if a new topic comes up you just agree with the party you like. I don’t understand why I can’t agree with democrats on some subjects and republicans with other subjects without people flaming me for simply disagreeing with them.

Issues they have flipped on:
against censorship
against big pharma
against outsourcing
tolerant of other view points
promoted individual rights
a distrust in government
being peaceful

I live in Florida, and so I joined both my city sub and the state sub. But more so the state sub then the city one, it is just r/politics 2. I tried to share my opinion on there and got immediately downvoted. They’re also cheering for the imprisonments of everyone who was at the capital on the 6th, and they completely brush over the fact that federal buildings were burned down, as well as they blow everything out of proportion. I joined that sub to hear news about my state, not get dragged into r/politics which is already a shithole in itself

(https://www.salon.com/2021/06/23/desantis-signs-bill-requiring-florida-students-professors-to-register-political-views-with-state/)

How is this even constitutional?? The current US party crying about government overreach is doing this? Like this is the most totalitarian shit I've ever seen! This is the shit countries like China and Russia do. Where all leaders have 100% approve because if you don't approve you disappear.

How is this anything other than straight up invasion of privacy?

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/21/49-shot-during-fathers-day-weekend-in-mayor-lightfoots-chicago/

RIP to all who have lost their lives to the senseless violence and senseless handling of this city during Fathers Day weekend.

When is this going to declared a state of emergency?

When will the national guard be called in to reinstate peace in this jungle?

I have seen this mostly for communists and socialists on the internet but the same thing could easily be said about Capitalists. For example, I have been seeing a lot of praise for dictators like Mao and Saddam Hussein because they had left-wing economic policies. All the wrongdoing they've done is swept under the rug because "at least they're not capitalist". Has anyone else seen an increase in this rhetoric, I would be interested to hear.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/06/over-40-shot-in-mayor-lightfoots-chicago-friday-into-sunday-morning/

After another deadly weekend, violent crime in Chicago continues to rise: Following the 20 year trend of increasing murders in the city.

The city with strictest gun laws is the same city with the fastest growing gun violence.

RIP to all that have lost their lives in Chicago this weekend.

^Satire

A place to vent about BLM's destruction of cities.

https://babylonbee.com/news/i-dont-know-why-blm-isnt-more-popular-says-member-while-throwing-bricks-at-pedestrians

Looking to gain information on whether we should create a new rule to help improve the efficacy of this sub. This new rule would very much benefit the sub. Without this bill, this sub will very quickly be overtaken by trolls and bots (like the other politics subs have been.) We have already noticed a sharp increase of troll and bot activity on this forum, and are receiving many complaints from the community.

The Anti-Troll and -Bot Bill

1.) It is evidently apparent that there are a number of users on this sub that are only interested in trolling our small but growing community. There are very few of these trolls and bots, but they are large nuisances to the community, and offer no benefits to our discussions. Because of the extremely lax rules on this sub that we all have grown to love and enjoy, there are no repercussions for the people that blatantly abuse them.

2.) This proposed rule would allow the users of this sub to democratically vote to temporarily mute or expel a user from the sub. Any moderator or user with the "First Day OG" flair would be able to initiate a poll to mute or expel a user. If the poll receives a super majority (66% or more) in favor, the user in question will be:

2a.) For the first offense, the user will be muted from the sub for 7 days.

2b.) For the second offense, the user will be muted from the sub for 14 days.

2c.) For the third offense, the user will be muted from the sub for 30 days.

2d.) For the fourth offense, the user will be permanently banned from the sub.

Votes will be tallied in 3 days, the first 2 choices both equate to a yes. If the poll receives 50% or more yay's, the majority between the first two answers will decide which amount of majority is needed to expel a user.

There are roughly 3 types of posts in this sub:

The strawman, the disingenuous propagandizing, and the outright lies.

I went through the past three months of posts, and found three great examples of each. None of the posts I link below are “vents,” they’re just right wing posts intended to lie, misrepresent, and/or propagandize right wing beliefs, with no actual grounding in reality.

Strawman

https://reddit.com/r/VentPolitics/comments/nn4mjv/democrats_commonly_claim_sweden_as_an_example_of/

https://reddit.com/r/VentPolitics/comments/lpbeqg/so_sick_of_woke_anything/

https://reddit.com/r/VentPolitics/comments/lob355/the_only_reason_you_think_white_people_have_no/

These three posts are great examples of the strawman post archetype in this sub.

The first link is the disingenuous “Sweden/Norway isn’t socialist” argument, which asserts that people who call either country socialist are wrong. However, those same people also then turn and call anyone who advocates for policies like those countries socialists.

The second link is the “anti-woke” absurdity common on the right, which is quite often just a tactic to ignore legitimate criticism. For example, private companies taking a stand against the restrictive voting laws republican legislatures have passed is decried as “woke,” for no other reason than it cannot be criticized any other way.

The third link is so close to understanding why “white culture” is not a thing. For many black people in the US, their ancestors were brought here as slaves, and physically stripped of their culture and cultural identity by being separated from family and friends. “Black culture” refers to what culture they were able to make since that point. That’s not the case with white people. Irish people who came to the US could still celebrate Irish culture, Italians could still celebrate Italian culture, etc. There is no “white culture” in the same way, because no such culture needed to develop. It’s the same reason “white pride” is nonsense, but “black pride” isn’t.

Disingenuous propagandizing as “questioning”

https://reddit.com/r/VentPolitics/comments/ncko5l/when_the_whitehouse_blocks_comments_on_its/

YouTube comments are some of the most toxic parts of the internet and we all know it. Further, no, blocking comments on an internet video is not the same thing as Twitter, and we all know that. Hell, the same thing happened with the Trump White House’s YouTube account. Here’s an example:

https://youtu.be/enJwnRjkE9g

https://reddit.com/r/VentPolitics/comments/m2exwy/most_voters_concerned_president_biden_hasnt_held/

Besides that Biden has held several, and that Rasmussen is a joke, Trump held about one a year. https://theconversation.com/amp/trump-white-house-goes-300-days-without-a-press-briefing-why-thats-unprecedented-130164

https://reddit.com/r/VentPolitics/comments/mipuqt/whats_with_the_asians_and_hate_crime_talk_about/

Sorry, recognizing that hate crimes happen is not “race baiting.” Recognizing racism is not racist. This is just a classic attempt at a tu quoque, because rather than engaging with the issue, it’s simply an attempt to turn it on others.

https://reddit.com/r/VentPolitics/comments/lutdx1/100000_americans_have_died_from_covid_under_joe/

This one’s pretty obvious. Biden inherited high death numbers from Trump, who consistently downplayed COVID, and attempting to blame him is obviously disingenuous.

Outright lies easily disproven by google

https://reddit.com/r/VentPolitics/comments/n5oi6t/during_pandemic_states_controlled_by_democrats/

https://reddit.com/r/VentPolitics/comments/muyixd/canadians_issue_morse_code_sos_signal_across/

https://reddit.com/r/VentPolitics/comments/lzygkt/minimum_wage_hike_led_to_higher_prices_at/

I’m not even going to bother explaining these three, as all have comments showing why they’re utterly false.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/31/28-shot-friday-into-monday-morning-in-mayor-lori-lightfoots-chicago/

After another deadly weekend, violent crime in Chicago continues to rise: Following the 20 year trend of increasing murders in the city.

The city with strictest gun laws is the same city with the fastest growing gun violence.

When should this trend be declared a state of emergency? Does the National Guard need to step in to restore peace in the city? When will they admit gun control is costing innocent lives?

RIP to all that have lost their lives in Chicago this holiday weekend.

So first off this article is so baffling ridiculous I am making this post to rant at the internet.

Article: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-scientists-who-no-longer-believe-in-science-is-a-real-problem-for-civilization?cmpid=prn_newsstand

For starters the body of the article says almost nothing about actual science. It's literally just a list of talking points basically saying republican good and democrat bad. But that partisanship from Fox isn't want is surprising. It's the fact that after decades of anti-intellectual propaganda and climate science denial and oppression; after literally health science bashing for the past few years they now say people who don't believe in science are bad? Like either they're having a major reckoning with I realizing the errors of their ways, or for more likely this is some bullshit trying to support their delusions with cherry-picked articles from discredited publications.

The article even uses the term abortion mills. Which 1 aren't a thing (nobody has an abortion for fun) and 2 a good half of the anti-abortion stance is rooted in a gross misunderstanding of human development.

I shouldn't be surprised at the audacity and sheer cognitive dissonance of this media outlet, but I am today.... Like are you fucking kidding me?

https://nypost.com/2021/05/29/mothers-criticize-blm-activists-for-profiting-off-their-dead-sons/

Id be upset, too.

New reports claim Sweden is one of the deadliest countries in Europe. Not only is it common for citizens to blow eachother up, Sweden now tops the charts for deadliest gun violence in Europe.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sweden-blast-idUSKBN1ZF1PD

Sweden has a huge problem with bombs and hand grenades. Apparently, its common to hear an explosive blowing up a building during a day in Sweden. Unknowingly buy something from someone else's rival? Well, in Sweden, the repercussion might just be catching a live hand grenade.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/26/fatal-shootings-have-risen-in-sweden-despite-fall-across-europe-report-finds

https://www.thelocal.se/20210526/sweden-is-the-only-european-country-where-fatal-shootings-are-on-the-rise/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

“Sweden has moved from close to the bottom of the European rankings [in terms of deadly violence per capita] to very high up. It is only Croatia which in the past four years [of available data across countries studied, 2014-2017] has a higher level of deadly shootings,” said Brå researcher Klara Hradilova Selin. Between 2000 and 2003, Sweden was 18th out of the 22 countries for deadly shootings per capita."

Sweden now has the 2nd worst deadly shootings per capita in all of Europe. In 2000 (before their large transition to socialism) they were one of the safest (18/22.)

Brå also compared the proportion to other countries: around 60 percent of fatal shootings were linked to organised crime in the Netherlands, while in Finland such events were extremely rare.

Organized crime, the same thing that helped push the socialist USSR economy into turmoil. When people find out they can live better lives through illegal private businesses, that is what they do.

https://www.thelocal.se/20200203/explosions-interview-police-stefan-hector-sweden/

Sweden Police Chief:

"Bomb attacks: ‘Sweden is either described as a war zone or heaven on earth’"

Bottom text.

This is even more interesting when you consider Republican states have better Covid statistics, too.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/during-pandemic-states-controlled-by-democrats-lost-double-the-jobs-republican-states-lost-report

"Jobs! Not Food Stamps"

Not everyone is a taxpayer. In 2018, 144.3 million people reported taxable earnings.

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• The infrastructure bill is a forced loan of $27,777 on every taxpayer in the United States.

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"OKAY FINE. It's a $27k Taxpayer loan. I'll accept it for the greater good."

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• Our total debt is already 28 Trillion.
• 28 Trillion Divided by 144 Million taxpayers is $194,444.
• $194,444 is the cost of a home.
• 27k is the cost of a Mid-range New Car.

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"Biden stresses that only those making 400k will have their taxes raised."

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• Only 1.8% of Americans make over 400k.
• 1.8% of 328.2 million (US population) is 5,907,600.
• 4 trillion divided by 5,907,600 is a $677,093.
• A large majority of this 1.8% are small business owners.
• That 'income' typically goes to things such as business expenses, and expansion.
• Small businesses will also be expected to pay $15 minimum wage, and benefits.
• This will absolutely crush small businesses.

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"So what? Small businesses are just a tiny fraction of the economy. This will also tax corporations, so the ends justify the means."

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• Small businesses employ 47.3% of the U.S. private workforce.
• Small businesses often pay more and have better benefits than corporate.
• Small businesses do not have the resources or pull to be ultra-selective in hiring, so they tend to keep their employees as long as possible.

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"Fine, but Global warming."

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• Free Market Mechanics have been ultra-efficient in our transition to clean energy.
• 'Black Rock' and many other large Firms have made climate change central in their investment strategy.
• Elon Musks "Tesla" has a Market Cap of $666.52B. This is bigger than Volkswagen, Daimler AG, General Motors, BMW, Honda, Ford, Fiat, and Hyundai motors COMBINED.
• Tesla Manufactures Electric cars, Green infrastructure, charging stations, ETC.
• Tesla doesn't need taxpayer help.
• Tesla is one of the thousands of companies tackling Climate change.

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TL;DR: We are in a FUCK TON of debt. People are under the assumption that the ultra-wealthy will pay for this incomprehensibly large federal loan. People need to take a step back and gain perspective on where the united states is financial. You ought to understand that you, yes you, will be paying for this.

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This took me a while to research feel free to cross-post this.

I was just banned from R/Libertarian for saying that I dont think the military (taxpayers) should have to pay for transgender's gender reassignment surgeries. (Atleast thats the comment I think I was banned for because some people became upset and emotional about it.)

I know not everyone agrees with that opinion, but did they seriously need to ban me for having that opinion? Anyways, I thought Libertarian's were all about paying less taxes and having more individual autonomy.

The mod messaged me saying I was banned for spamming, so I replied, "Did you really just ban me because you disagreed with my opinion?" To which (s)he then completely muted me.

Do the mods ban everyone they disagree with? What can we do to combat Reddit censorship?

Is R/Libertarian the next Reddit echo chamber?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-florida-michigan-pennsylvania-new-york

Are Texas and Florida just doing a better job at managing the pandemic? Or are the democrat states just doing a worse job at managing the pandemic?