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  • I’ll go ahead and recommend HappyCow for anyone looking for plant-based options outside of their home community.

    They have a map where people can suggest places that have vegetarian or vegan options but are mostly omnivorous, or full on vegetarian or vegan restaurants, cafes, grocery stores, food trucks, you name it. I think HappyCow the company also verifies the places people upload so it’s somewhat vetted.

    I find that starting with HappyCow and then cross-referencing with Google Maps or OSM gives me the best results.




  • another embarrassing false narrative by the Dems.

    Rittenhouse got due process, as much as I and many others regret the jury’s verdict.

    Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia got no due process, so no judge nor jury got to cast a verdict on the Trump Administration’s claims. Instead, Trump acted as judge, jury, and executioner by sending Garcia to El Salvador when we knew he obtained a withholding of removal specifically for that country in 2019.

    Even if the narratives were false, in Garcia’s case, Trump is removing your rights. That alone should be enough to pay attention and disapprove of Trump’s actions.

    he was MS13

    He was not. He immigrated to the US without proper documentation in 2011 at the age of 16 to escape gangs in El Salvador. Why would you try to escape gangs if you were part of one?

    a duel citizen

    He was not a dual citizen. Garcia has citizenship in El Salvador, but received a withholding of removal status in the US, an alternative to asylum. He was a legal resident of the US, and a legal citizen of El Salvador.

    he was not MS13

    This is true.

    that doesn’t disprove he was MS13

    No evidence was presented in immigration court that Garcia was part of MS-13. Instead, hearsay from a police officer (who later was found to supply confidential information to an escort, breaking his oath as a cop) and a anonymous informant (who said Garcia was in a NYC MS-13 gang, when Garcia lived in Maryland, not NYC) were deemed good enough for the immigration court. Neither the police officer nor informant were allowed to be cross-examined at the time, so we have no idea if these are lies or not. The judge didn’t allow it.

    it is on the judge to show sufficient evidence for their ruling.

    Do you mean it is on the lawyers accusing Garcia to show sufficient evidence? The judge doesn’t show evidence in a trial… They rule on the evidence…

    does call into question the rest of his judgement about him being MS13

    As it should. The entire thing was a sham.

    no person would apply only to US citizens?

    This sentence does not make any sense.

    Kilmar being a duel citizen

    Again, Garcia was not a dual citizen. He was a legal resident of the US as afforded by a withholding of removal verdict, and a legal citizen of El Salvador.

    Please for the love of Truth educate yourself before speaking nonsense on the internet. You literally have Chrome or Firefox at your fingertips.





  • This is already common usage and I don’t see the need for any prefixes to the word.

    As we’ve already seen in this thread, sometimes prefixes are needed to help establish the arrow of causation when people do migrate. Did they come to or leave from this or that country? Etc.

    not the current english word.

    Good thing language can change over time :)




  • The claim and exercise of a Constitutional right cannot be converted into a crime.

    Irrelevant to this conversation.

    Persons faced with an unconstitutional licensing law which purports to require a license as a prerequisite to exercise of right… may ignore the law and engage with impunity in exercise of such right.

    By this logic, voter registration isn’t in the constitution, so you might be able to make the argument that it violates the 14th, 15th, 19th, and 24th amendments. Again, by this logic, regardless of if people have proper voting registration or any voting registration at all, they should still be able to vote anyways. The 4 Democrats mentioned in the above article pass a law against the above.

    The state cannot diminish the rights of the people.

    Tell that to the Republicans that introduced the above bill.

    there can be no sanction or penalty imposed upon one because of his exercise of constitutional rights

    What about the right to protest of UCLA students last April being violated because of false claims of anti-semitism, or the right to protest of Columbia students last March because of similar false claims? Did the US care about imposing sanctions or penalties on those people, or did they just detain and deport them instead?

    a person cannot be compelled “to purchase, through a license fee or a license tax, the privilege freely granted by the constitution.”

    Again, tell that to Republicans that introduced the above bill.


  • Socialism doesn’t preclude the rehabilitation of America.

    You and I agree on this. Abandoning capitalism doesn’t mean America needs to be destroyed, and adopting socialism doesn’t mean America can’t be rehabilitated.

    I don’t think you’re following your own argument here.

    Your original claim refuted the view of the Original Commenter (OC) who thought capitalism always wins, or seeks to concentrate wealth and therefore power in the hands of the few despite the needs of the many. I don’t want to assume what your views on capitalism are. Do you think we should keep it as an organization of the economy? Or are there better alternatives? Regulation on capitalism is not a solution imo. As we’ve seen with Trump and Bush, politicians can be bought out to represent corporate interests, and can install anti-regulation pundits to undermine progress.

    Are you trying to say all socialist call for the destruction of America?

    Quite the opposite. I’m saying I think you say all socialists call for the destruction of America because from how you’ve presented yourself, you don’t recognize the variation in political philosophy on the left. My first comment to you tried to illuminate this variation by refuting your worldview that authoritarian, tankie communism applies to all forms of leftist ideologies, when there are others that don’t include such levels of authority.

    I’m not trying to argue. I’m trying to educate.


  • Pretty much sums up your entire philosophy and why no one takes tankies seriously.

    Per your original comment, yes. Pro communist tankies aren’t the same as socialists. Wish more people wouldn’t make that equation.

    It’d be like me saying that liberals are just MAGAts, when you clearly have different liberal factions like centrists and Social Democrats, and conservative factions like libertarians and fascists.





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    people were immigrating from Europe

    The linguistically correct term her would be emigrating from Europe.

    to the US

    This is immigrating.

    emigrating to Europe

    This is immigration.

    from the US

    The word you’re looking for is emigration.

    emigrating from Europe

    You’re correct here.

    to the US

    Once again, immigration.

    immigrating to Europe

    This is the linguistically correct use of the term.

    from the US

    Proper word would be emigrating.

    Easiest solution is to say migrating

    Migration by itself doesn’t indicate whether you’re referring to domestic-only movement, where people migrate inside of a country, or domestic-to-foreign where they cross a border, or foreign-to-foreign movement.

    It all depends on the boundary you set.

    If your chosen boundary is Europe, people moving to Europe are immigrating there, and people moving from Europe are emigrating there.

    If your chosen boundary is the US, immigration is moving to the US while emigration is moving from the US.

    Since migration isn’t specific and can refer to any of the above cases, I prefer transmigration since “trans-” refers to “across” which I often interpret as “out from and in to”.

    We don’t need to give up on prepositions in order to have more accurate language.


  • The majority of the population has departed from reality.

    According to Ballotpedia, ~63.9% of the eligible US voting population (older than 18) turned out to vote, or ~155 mn people. This means ~36.1% didn’t turn out, or ~88 mn people out of the ~243 mn total population. In 2020, the turnout rate was ~66.6% or ~158 mn, meaning ~33.4% or ~79 mn didn’t vote out of the ~238 mn total population.

    According again to Ballotpedia, ~77 mn voted R in 2024 (~49.8% of the voting population or ~31.8% of the total population), ~75 mn voted D (~48.3% of the voting population or ~30.8% of the total population), and ~3 mn voted 3rd party (~1.9% of the voting population or 1.2% of the total population).

    In 2020, ~81 mn voted D (~51.3% of the voting population or ~34.2% of the total population), ~74 mn voted R (~46.9% of the voting population or ~31.2% of the total population), and ~3 mn voted 3rd party (1.8% of the voting population or ~1.2% of the total population).

    You say majority, but clearly less than a third of adults in 2024 voted R.

    I don’t think we can say why the other ~88 million didn’t vote. Sure, maybe some of them share a reality that diverges from the rest of the world. But we can speculate some other reasons too: maybe they were too apathetic because their party ran on issues not necessarily aligned to the views of their own, maybe they had to go to work to earn a paycheck, maybe they were turned away from the ballot box, maybe Joe Biden’s approval ratings tanked and upon dropping out of the race, many people on election day still thought he was running, maybe Kamala didn’t diverge enough away from Biden (or Republicans) to make a meaningful difference in voters’ eyes, and maybe some of them didn’t think women should be in office, with gender inequality still a prescient issue.

    I liked Tim Walz’s analogy in response to the Democrats’ performance in 2024:

    If a teacher teaches a subject, quizzes their class afterwards, and finds that less 100% of the class pass, the fault for that performance doesn’t lie with the kids. The fault lies with the teacher. The teacher needs to teach concepts in multiple ways using different pedagogical methods to activate as many kids as possible.

    Politicians are the same for me. If people aren’t voting for you, a politician needs to speak to (and sometimes educate) the public in more ways than just one - and do so effectively.

    Democrats dropped the ball this year. It still seems like they’re dropping the ball in Congress. We’ll see what the party does. I’d recommend they look to the progressive caucus with Bernie Sanders and AOC for the answer.