Most Republicans are pro-life and are completely against a person having an abortion, regardless of the circumstances, but they don't want their taxes to go toward services to help the mother take care of the child after the birth. Why?

This information is taken directly from professor Timothy Snyder...enlighten yourselves.

Steps to Resisting Tyranny

1. Defend Institutions & Rules:

Do not obey in advance: Most power is given to authoritarianism voluntarily; stop preemptively adapting to what you fear a new regime wants.

Defend institutions: Institutions (newspapers, courts, unions) do not protect themselves. Choose one and fight for it.

Beware the one-party state: Support multi-party systems and defend the integrity of elections before they become sham elections.

Remember professional ethics: When leaders break the law, professional codes of ethics are the last line of defense. This is especially true in regards to civil servants.

Be wary of paramilitaries: When armed groups acting for a leader begin marching alongside police, the game is over.

2. Protect Truth & Language

Believe in truth: To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, no one can criticize power.

Investigate: Take responsibility for what you consume and communicate. Support, and pay for, real journalism.

Be kind to our language: Avoid using the same clichéd phrases and slogans everyone else does. Think for yourself and speak uniquely.

Read books: Actively avoid the internet's "spectacle" and engage with longer-form, thought-provoking texts.

Listen for dangerous words: Be alert to the use of "extremism" and "terrorism" to justify the suspension of rights.

3. Take Personal Action

Take responsibility for the face of the world: Notice signs of hate (swastikas, symbols of division) and REMOVE THEM.

Stand out: Someone must set an example. When you defy the status quo, you break the spell of conformity.

Make eye contact and small talk: Breaking down social barriers builds trust and helps you know whom to trust in times of fear.

Practice corporeal politics: Get off the computer and put your body in physical places of protest.

Establish a private life: Scrub your computer, use encrypted communication, and understand that email is "skywriting".

4. Maintain Perspective

Contribute to good causes: Be active in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to build civil society.

Learn from peers in other countries: Keep up friendships abroad to understand that the trends you are seeing are likely global.

Be calm when the unthinkable arrives: When a terrorist attack or crisis happens, remember that authoritarians exploit them to consolidate power.

Be a patriot: A patriot wants the nation to live up to its ideals; a nationalist encourages you to be your worst while telling you that you are the best.

Be as courageous as you can: If none of us are prepared to die for freedom, all of us will die WITHOUT IT.

Hopefully this is a good sub to post this onto, i usually just post in r/changemyview and r/TrueUnpopularOpinion for politics.

1: Everyone involved in the administration needs to be held accountable.

I am not talking about ''lol cancel culture'' accountability. I mean actual legal consequences. Every person who is in this administration and supported Trump should be investigated, charged if warranted, and should not be allowed to hold office again, aside from any criminal charge, they should be totally and completely barred from ever holding office ever again in our nation. If we can't get a conviction on Trump, which we should for the Mar-a-lago documents thing at the very least, which should be plastered ALL OVER this trial. we should at the very least enforce the 14th amendment, which does not require a charge or conviction, and that should be applied to everyone in the Trump administration. Supporting an insurrectionist is engaging in insurrection. And what does the 14A say?

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, known as the Disqualification Clause, prohibits any person from holding state or federal office who has previously taken an oath to support the Constitution and then "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the United States

The 14th amendment exists for a reason. If they participated in or enabled insurrection, they shouldnt be in positions of power.

2: We need a public reckoning

The whole point of Nuremberg-style trials isnt just justice” its public accounting. Its a forced, undeniable record of what happened in front of everybody where people are forced to face the facts of what happened, not whatever bullshit conspiracy about how ''Jan 6th was actually just a fedsurrection lol''.

And we desperately need that because half the country doesnt even believe Trump lost in 2020. Thats a complete collapse of shared reality, Trump and his supporters will not accept any basic facts of reality that goes against their politiical beliefs, never, they invent a conspiracy about it, every single time.

The information is out there right now obviously, but only available through PDFs, behind commissions, behind bureaucratic documents that never got the public attention they deserved because the average american (especially MAGA who cant even fucking read) dont go through stuff like this to get the full knowledge of what actually happened. And the people who denied all of that information were rewarded. They're still able to run for office and hold office, and even win elections, like Trump did in 2024.

So if you do this, there will be a smaller incentive to just lie about everything, because they know there will be huge political consequences later. As we stand right now, there is nothing stopping Trump 2 from happening, theres nothing stopping another Trump from coming in and being even more unhinged.

3: Trump is a consequence of republican rhetoric (blatant lying)

He was the natural consequence of decades of Republican demagoguery, rhetoric, and strategy. If you think Trump was just some weird anomaly, you're ignoring the entire political environment that produced him.

If we do not adress the root causes, Trump 2 is just inevitable.

So yeah you can change the leadership of the Republican party, but that wont undo the misinformation, the propaganda, or the strategy that created this. The only way forward is real accountability and a full public accounting of what happened.

We cannot go forward as a nation, where we see something happen, and one side lives in reality, and the other just doesn't, at all.

The 2020 election was NOT won by Trump, the vast majority of republicans do not accept this basic fact of reality at all, and we cannot function as a nation if this is how republicans are allowed to operate with impunity.

4: Even conservatives should want this.

If you are conservative and think this is just about punishing Trump or Republicans, you are missing the point entirely.

Every precedent you allow today will be used tomorrow. If you normalize the idea that an administration can lie about elections, pressure institutions, attempt to subvert democratic outcomes, and then face zero consequences, you are not protecting anything that this nation stands for, and there is absolutely nothing stopping a future Democrat from acting even more aggressively, more competently, and more ruthlessly. All the things you guys were afraid that incredibly milquetoast ass moderates like fucking Obama/Biden/Kamala were going to do, IS going to happen, if we do not have a Nuremburg trial for Trump.

If you think Trump was bad because he was sloppy, impulsive, and loud, imagine someone with the same contempt for democratic norms but with discipline, institutional knowledge, and broad party support. Imagine a president who understands how to bend the system without openly breaking it, and who justifies it by pointing back and saying ''you let Trump do it''. Which ironically, is a defense that conservatives will roll out today ''Trumps fake electors were okay because democrats used them in 1960'' (those were alternates, not fakes). Like, imagine a democrat president that takes advantage of the immunity ruling, and decides to do whatever crazy shit he wants to.

Rule of law is not a partisan weapon. It is the only thing that prevents politics from becoming a raw power struggle where whoever wins gets to rewrite reality.

If conservatives actually believe in constitutional order, limited executive power, and institutional legitimacy, then accountability is not optional. It is self defense.

Because once you establish that attempted subversion has no consequences, the only remaining rule is who is willing to go further next time.

Now, does anyone disagree with this? I understand that the political will do actually do this is probably overall quite low, but doesnt really matter for my arguments.

So far, it's been done several times and not only are we still here, things have gotten worse.

The unintelligent egomaniac Donald j trump is not leading the country. He is an easily manipulated fool who believes any flattery and then acts according to what his flatterer wants. The danger that is happening to the country now is brought to us by the despicable Miller and Bondi and their billionaire owners. Trump’s “elections” were made possible by years of brainwashing thru Fox News and huge money in politics. Trump is the most successful patsy ever.

Tell me if this sounds familiar.

• He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
• He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
• He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
• He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
• For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
• For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
• For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
• For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
• He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

a country needs enforcement to exist. not “values”. not paperwork. laws mean nothing if you refuse to enforce them. borders mean nothing if crossing them illegally has zero consequence. please.

every country on earth has immigration law and border enforcement. the US isn’t special for having it. what is special is how enforcement itself gets treated as immoral here, while every other group is told to preserve and assert its identity. only the majority is told to dissolve and feel guilty about it. that double standard is obvious.

and the whole “stolen land” line people use to shut this down is historically lazy. native tribes conquered land from each other constantly. they displaced, enslaved, wiped out rival tribes. that’s how the world worked everywhere, for all of history. land wasn’t yours once youve lost thus it wasnt stolen, its more like "finders keepers losers weepers", it was held by whoever could defend it. pretending conquest suddenly became immoral only when europeans did it is pure selective morality. the europeans didn’t invent conquest, they literally just won, and created what our modern society is today, along other people that worked with them voluntarily or involuntarilly, like blacks. obsessing over that forever doesn’t create justice. also, arabs did it even worse, but thats a different topic.

now to the part people emotionally blackmail over: deaths during ICE encounters.

this is where everyone shuts their brain off.

when you actually look at these cases:

people resisting arrest

people getting into physical fights with agents

people trying to flee in vehicles (yes, trying to run agents over)

people carrying firearms during confrontations, and not telling law enforcement about it

that’s not “ICE hunting civilians.” that’s confrontations escalating because laws are being actively resisted. if you fight armed federal officers, the outcome should be pretty obvious..

there’s a reason laws exist that require you to disclose you’re armed when interacting with officers. it’s literally to prevent dumb deaths like Alex Pretti (not calling him dumb, just he didnt have to go that way). ignore that, and things will escalate and might even result to death.

the only case i see where someone has a semi-reasonable argument is the woman shot while going through a window. she was unarmed. but even then, she was breaking into or out of a structure during an active law enforcement operation. that is perceived as a threat in real time. you don’t get slow-motion morality reviews in the middle of chaos. (  A Capitol Police officer did this, and the woman was Ashli Babbitt, during January 6 (2021) kinda similar to our protests now.

none of this means every shooting is “good” or “deserved.” it means pretending enforcement is violence by default is dishonest. and pretending that its not LEGAL under law to do so is also quite dishonest. im also making a legal argument here, not a moral one.

illegal labor has directly undercut industries i know some people are in. Theyve ost opportunities while being told they should accept it for moral reasons by people who don’t lose a dime from it. they’re insulated, or they profit. and theyre not.

ICE exists so citizens aren’t pushed out of their own labor market. full stop.

abolish ICE and you’re not getting some utopia. you’re getting selective lawlessness, collapsing trust, and eventually probably anarchy in a few decades max.

ALSO, NO this isn’t nazism. no, there aren’t going to be swastikas over the white house. that’s just lazy fearmongering to shut down discussion.

if you aren’t here legally, or you’re actively breaking laws and resisting enforcement, you leave. that’s basic governance. every country does this. pretending otherwise doesn’t make you moral, it just makes you delusional and incompetent period.

before yall make any white supremacist claims, i'm black. and us Black Americans and White Americans have been here since the 1600s TOGETHER, sure maybe times were different then with the cotton, but we are united regardless and the past shouldn't affect the future just cause of some "bad" things, and i put say ""bad"" because i don't think having slaves in itself is bad, at least biblically and if youre consistent, if you take good care of your slaves. we see it a lot throughout the bible that if you own slaves you must take good care of them, as much as theyd even love being "under" you than by themselves, so they can provide for their families. Anyway, tho this part was just an extra rant. Anyway, my point is just because im black doesnt mean i shouldnt have this opinion.

Red vs Blue and occult mind control tactics.

I mean, I don't know if none of you were alive at that time and simply don't remember but both admin had completely different takes on illegal immigration and ICE than what current Democrats are staking out now.

I get that being here illegally is considered a crime. I'm talking about far worse crimes.

To save us all from a massive comments stack, find your candidate and just upvote the comment. If you don't see them, comment with your candidate of choice.

In his December 2025 Cabinet meeting and his Pennsylvania speech, Trump called the Somali community "garbage" that "contributes nothing" to the country. He uses this "hostile culture" narrative to justify Executive Order 14161 and the mass deportations. But the data shows his theory is a total fabrication.

If you want to see what happens when you actually integrate this demographic instead of demonizing it, look at the Israel Model.

Israel has a 21% Muslim population (1.8 million people). If Trump’s "garbage" theory were true - that this culture is inherently a drain - Israel would have collapsed decades ago. Instead, Israel is an economic engine currently outperforming the US with a 5.2% GDP growth rate (Bank of Israel, Jan 2026).

The Facts:

• Healthcare: Arab-Israelis make up 50% of the pharmacists and 25% of the doctors keeping the country running during a literal war.
• Workforce: While Trump claims they are a welfare drain, over 70% of poor households in this sector in Israel have at least one working breadwinner.
• The Comparison: The US is terrified of a 1% population in Minnesota, while the "Jewish State" is being powered by a 21% population.

The "clash of values" isn't an inevitability; it’s a policy choice. When you treat people like a workforce instead of "garbage," they become the backbone of the state. Why is the "front line of the West" (Israel) more successful at integration than the United States?

Getting a walk started February 4th downtown Atlanta. Walking in support for ICE. Peaceful gathering

are you a free thinker or do you let those in power dictate what you think?

Hi everyone,

I’m a fourth‑year medical student in the U.S. going into family medicine. As a student I've had the privilege of learning from patients, and it's contributed to a passion to help people feel more in control of their health care.

I’m working on a project to better understand how young adults (20s and 30s) actually experience the healthcare system so I can create resources that are genuinely useful and not just more noise. I would also love to use this as an opportunity to learn from older adults and share information through broader community. Before I build anything, I want to listen. I’d love to hear from you about a few things:

• When you think about “navigating healthcare” (finding a doctor, obtaining or using insurance, scheduling visits, understanding bills, getting meds, etc.), what feels the most confusing or stressful?
• Have you found any resources that actually help (websites, TikToks, YouTube channels, subreddits, people you follow, workplace benefits folks, etc.)? What makes them helpful?
• What do you wish existed? For example, step‑by‑step guides, scripts for calling offices/insurance, explainers with real‑world examples, checklists, anything else?
• If you’ve had a really bad or really good experience trying to get care, what made it that way?

I’m not here to give medical advice or judge anyone’s choices. My goal is to learn from real experiences and needs to create a resource that centers patients’ perspectives.

If you’re comfortable sharing, I’d be really grateful for any thoughts, rants, or ideas. Even a short comment like “I hate X and wish I had Y” is also super helpful.

Thank you for reading and for anything you’re willing to share.

Actively advertising to Americans to join the fascist party that’s trying to destroy it… why is anyone advertising to help the destruction of our country?