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  1. 10 hours ago, BootmanLA said:

    If California has high gas prices because of high gas taxes, that has zero to do with who is the president. They were that high under Trump, they were that high under both Bushes. So again, blaming a Democratic president for the choices of a state government, elected by a state's representatives, is - well, let's say "interesting," to avoid using words like "foolish" or "stupid" or "ignorant".

    Oil prices, too, as noted, aren't set by the president and are only very lightly influenced at the margins by presidential decisions. Ask any oil company executive. You're free to love crude oil prices being high, or low, or whatever; but if you give blame or credit to a president, that's (again) "interesting".

    You cite federal law prohibiting discrimination. Perhaps you're unaware that, in fact, federal law on workplace discrimination does NOT specifically include "sexual orientation" as a protected class - meaning that an employer could say "I found out you were a faggot - you're fired" and federal law could do *nothing* about that, for decades.

    Only a few years ago did the Supreme Court finally decide that "discrimination on the basis of sex" did, in fact, include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation - a decision that Republicans in general and the right wing in particular has been screaming about ever since. The right fought against that interpretation (and won those fights) from the time the Civil Rights Act was passed, in 1964, until the Supreme Court finally included LGBT people under its coverage in 2020.

    So for fifty-six years the Republicans fought specifically to exclude you from that "discrimination" protection you laud today. They're still opposed to it. And yet you seem to think they're on your side. "Interesting."

    You sound just like the current dictator

    dictator, in modern political systems, is a single person who possesses absolute political power within a country or territory or is a member of a small group that exercises such power. The term comes from the Latin title dictator, which in the Roman Republic designated a temporary magistrate who was granted extraordinary powers in order to deal with state crises. Modern dictators, however, resemble ancient tyrants rather than ancient dictators. Ancient philosophers’ descriptions of the tyrannies of Greece and Sicily go far toward characterizing modern dictatorships. Dictators usually resort to force or fraud to gain despotic political power, which they maintain through the use of intimidation, terror, and the suppression of basic civil liberties. They may also employ techniques of mass propaganda in order to sustain their public support.

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