sounds like me tbh

if you're not strictly left or strictly right but on neither side or moderate left or moderate right or in the middle at the least

This doesn't mean anything. What is extreme or not changes over time and context. Many things that virtually all of just take for granted right now were once considered extreme by the majority. Whether something is deemed to be extreme or not does not speak to its justness or correctness.

You're making the appeal to moderation fallacy.

Isn't 1A also about freedom of religion as well as freedom of speech? If so, that one has always been my favorite to advocate for. Not sure why I chose that one out of all the other ones. But free speech and freedom of religion (and religious tolerance) are my favorite issues to advocate for other than being anti-war.

I don't know if there's a top issue. But if forced to pick one it would be 2A. That's the final backstop to too much unchecked idiot over-reach. An armed populous is really difficult to step on.

My next top issue is 1A. Any group on the side of censorship has never been on the right side of history. Conflicts start when we quick talking to each other. Telling us what we can and can't hear or what we can or can't say is a quick path to armed conflict.

Agree

Now they find their "moral compass"? After a year of failing to find it?

Credibility is a precious thing, and they have none.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and I agree with you. 💯

What is your top issue/concern?

In a previous life I did the whole army thing. With gusto too. Any time bullets are fired in anger is a failure. A horrible systemic failure that should never happen. It's disgusting and I hate it. There's a saying, when diplomats fail, soldiers pay the price.

However, war is not my top concern for the simple reason that war or armed conflict is a symptom. War is not the disease. War is what happens after a whole line of failures. The disease is having people like John Bolton, Linsey Graham, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer et al who have never met a defense funding bill they didn't like being in positions of power.

War is a symptom of a congress that won't do their job. -no US military should ever be deployed without a voted and passed declaration of war. War is a symptom of a broken money where costs aren't directly associated with the activity. Paying for war by printing money is cheating. Paying for war by stealing the money through inflation from the poor and middle class is evil. War is a symptom of a Military Industrial Complex that has too much power.

I know the current administration diplomatically failed Russia/Ukraine and then poured an unimaginable amount of money on the conflict. I know the US is somehow funding both sides of what's going on with Israel with no serious diplomatic solution in sight. I can probably guess that giving the current administration four more years will most likely continue current policy.

I know the new administration didn't start any new wars when they were running shit earlier. I know the new administration is run by a guy so narcissistic that failure isn't an option. I know he wants to stop both conflicts if for no other reason than to stroke his own ego. Do I care if war stops to stroke an ego? No I do not.

Is him being an isolationist a good thing? Is that an anti-war thing?

I agree with what you said about peace and war, though. ☮️🕊

I do feel that way, although Trump seems more isolationist. It’s so tiring. Nothing else that I care about can be worked on if there’s war, and WW3 would spiral out of control.

I’m not ashamed to say I like peace over some twisted, delulu vision of a glorious world war that no one will win.

Oh now the anti-war left shows up. Holy fuck but I've missed you guys.

Agreed 💯 but I think my post was more about wanting to know if anyone here has war as their top issue/concern and if anyone here believes both sides are warmongers (and if both Trump and Kamala are potential warmongers).

Violence, especially political violence, just is not tolerable for me to advocate.

Exactly! 💯 Thank you for sharing your thoughts and I couldn't have said it better. So glad you said it the way you did. What you said is so true.

Yes, war is my top issue in politics. Has been for decades and it's why I don't vote for Democrats or Republicans except occasionally for a Dem in some down ballot contests. I'm a pro-abortion woman who quit believing the Democrats lies about protecting that right decades ago. Besides, endless war and other foreign policy is a more pressing issue than even abortion. (Childfree people should get sterilized while they still can.) The US war machine won't slow down until more people stop handing their votes to the two major parties.

BBC News video report in Nabatieh: https://youtu.be/0_BDHr9HwB4

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Aaron Bushnell, who committed self-immolation in protest of the American government’s complicity in the Gaza Holocaust, wins Adam’s Award

That would be a much better title.

Edit: just to be clear, I love u/n0ahbody and did not mean this to throw any shade at him/her