Again, you don't understand the term 'terrorism'. A school shooter is only a terrorist,
if they (there were a few female school shooters) act out of a political or religious or dogmatic ideology. If they are just crazy, even if they are without conscience and wanting to do harm, that's not 'terrorism', by definition.

Indians are mostly a peaceful people, especially the ones wearing turbans,
who are Sikh. The Sikh religion is the most peaceful religion on Earth.

They do have emotions, but they are taught to act from reason and divine remembrance rather than raw impulse. It's about balance: don’t let emotions dominate you, but also don’t bury them. Instead, integrate them with reason, remembrance of the Divine, and ethical living.

Sikhism teaches that one should act from a place of Naam Simran (remembrance of God) and Gurmat (the Guru’s wisdom) rather than from impulsive emotional reactions.
The aim is not suppression of feelings, but recognition and transformation—channeling emotions toward constructive, spiritual, and ethical action.
Example: Anger itself isn’t always condemned—righteous indignation against injustice is encouraged—but uncontrolled personal anger is discouraged.

The more 'extreme' a Sikh becomes, the less likely they are to even hurt a fly.
That's why I berated your use of the term 'terrorism' in his case. He fucked up,
he made his move intentionally, but I very sure that he didn't intend to hurt anyone. However, your first impulse is always to assume evil intent, when any person is doing something that results in a negative outcome, or just something that you don't like. You do that, because it's part of the ideology that you support. They are learned mental processes, which they teach you intentionally. It's so you can tell yourself
that you are 'morally correct' and everyone else is 'immoral'. It's a very effective strategy to discourage ethical and critical thinking.

Good enough to be a truck-driver, in my opinion.
The report itself says that he is capable of using translation devices.
Does the fact that he uses translation devices in court, tell you something?
The communication in court is a lot more complex than the communication
with a traffic cop. He came over very polite, by the way.

In the EU, drivers are constantly driving in countries that they don't speak
the language of. That doesn't necessarily make them worse drivers.

You're not being funny, you're being incorrect, seriously. You're using false facts to justify your statements. It's very serious that you don't check your facts, before you use them.

Trying some Socratic games, I see, like "What's the difference between leadership and ruling".

In a democracy, 'leadership' to me means: having principles, communicating them to the citizens, asking citizens for support to turn those principles into policies that represent those principles, then show them to everyone and ask for their votes, and then, no matter how many votes you get, have the elected representative do the very best that they can to get the policies into effect.

To me, 'ruling' means dominating your personal believes onto others, to shape the world towards you own vision and to get hold of more power, for self-gratification.

How about ignoring Congress and pushing through everything by Emergency Powers & Executive Orders? Trump is breaking all previous records. Is that 'leadership' or 'ruling'?

Criticizing your president is not TDS. The guy is breaking all trade agreements and imposing random tariffs on everyone. He is breaking all agreements on Climate Change. We made a deal with your country, for the preservation of humanity, and your guy says "Fuck humanity!". The guy is threatening the safety of many countries, including the whole of the EU. If we don't pay up, he will withhold weapons from us and let Russia conquer us. That's a Maffia move man. You can try to justify it, but me criticizing it is not TDS, that's self-preservation.

"Socialism has never worked" You're calling a lot of countries 'socialist'. Half of Europe is 'socialist' by your standards. The most 'socialist' countries are the Scandinavian countries. Those countries have been doing very well for many decades. They provide a much better quality of life to its people than the US. Meanwhile, the working class in the US has been getting poorer for decades. Is your version of capitalism working? Well, it is for a very small minority of very wealthy people. The reason for that is corruption, not 'Moral correctness'.

Why do you keep talking about gas prices? The president has almost no effect on them. Gas prices are 2.5-4% of people's expenses. They go up and down, due to supply and demand and global crisis. It's the industry that decide how much you should pay. The government can only decide on the taxes or to sacrifice nature and human health for more oil extraction. Americans who live around the fossil fuel industry are dying young, from a.o. cancer, at a much higher rate than Americans who live far from it. Many Americans still don't have clean tap-water.

American citizens have been suffering low incomes, poor healthcare, expensive housing, expensive other insurances, expensive groceries, expensive education, poor working conditions, poor mental health, addiction, fear of their kids getting shot in school, and lack of time off to enjoy their lives. People like you either don't care about solutions, or they care more about blaming people they hate for it. Neither will make your lives any better. If you think that you're doing fine now, I promise you that you don't have to wait long, before you're NOT.

Did I say that he didn't?
Below are the official results of your elections.
It shows that I spoke the truth and you were lying.
You, nor any of the other right-winger, corrected your mistake (or lie).
Is that your 'Moral correctness' at work?
There is only one morally correct response to this: acknowledging your mistake.

2024 U.S. Presidential Election:
Official Popular Vote & Electoral Vote (American Presidency Project, based on state-certified results)
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Republican: Donald J. Trump / J.D. Vance – 77,303,568 votes (49.81%), 312 electoral votes
Democratic: Kamala D. Harris / Tim Walz – 75,019,230 votes (48.34%), 226 electoral votes

2020 U.S. Presidential Election:
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Democratic: Joseph R. Biden / Kamala Harris - 81,268,773 votes, 306 electoral votes
Republican: Donald Trump / Mike Pence - 74,216,728 votes, 232 electoral votes

2016 U.S. Presidential Election:
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Republican: Donald Trump / Mike Pence - 62,955,340 votes, 306 electoral votes
Democratic: Hillary Clinton / Tim Kaine - 65,788,564 votes, 232 electoral votes

Any sources for that?

Do you realize that you have not put up ONE argument for why Kamala Harris would be worse than Trump? I agree that Democratic voters were stuck with her. So? You still assess her plans vs his plans.

Trump is hurting your economy. Can't you see the signs yet?
You keep repeating that Trump stopped 3 wars. Which ones?

No one would blame you for throwing out criminals. That's not what your doing. The large majority of the people he's throwing out are just working at their future, while your employers are profiting from them.

Not 85 million, but 77.3 million, less than the 81 million who voted for Biden in 2020.

If you cannot make ONE logical argument, based on real facts, or on honest opinions, for ANYTHING, don't bullshit me about critical thinking skills.

Scroll back to my earlier pictures, than you see nudes. I stop sharing nudes when the site changed its rules. I'm not sharing my private information with all the vindictive lunatics on this site.

Did you ever intend to honestly discuss anything?

Who knows how much money she makes of it.
Maybe that's why she's laughing (to the bank).

No, the video is called "Cop Arrests High School Kid Driving His Sister to School
(then lies about it)"

Do you see any emotions on the faces of white school shooters?
When was it ever an Indian guy shooting up kids?

Why money obsession is keeping you poor
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People confuse money for real resources.

This is What “Always” Happens Before a Market Crash
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Nice to hear my country as the first example.

And now, some damn good news:
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Here's a list of virtues that every religion in the world values:

Compassion
Honesty
Justice
Courage
Generosity
Humility
Patience
Forgiveness
Gratitude
Loyalty
Respect
Responsibility
Self-control
Wisdom
Kindness

Secular moral standards value all of them too. Without any religious basis, just because they serve humanity.

Who wipes his ass on all of those values? TRUMP!!!

Biden represented most of those values to a far greater extend.

Here's a list of vices, that all religions universally condemn:
(so does secular morality, because these vices hurt humanity)

Cruelty
Dishonesty
Injustice
Cowardice
Greed
Arrogance
Impatience
Vindictiveness
Ingratitude
Betrayal
Disrespect
Irresponsibility
Lack of self-control
Foolishness
Hatred

It's an almost 100% accurate description of Trump's character.

If you even try to contradict that, your foundation is built on sand.
But hey, you can still fool yourself, by saying: "God doesn’t call the qualified; He qualifies the called.".
So, what does it look like when Satan picks a representative?
Mother Teresa? Mahatma Gandhi? Martin Luther King Jr.? Nelson Mandela?

Here's a list of horrible dictators or at least very scummy leaders, who were all 'duly elected':

Adolf Hitler (Germany)
The Nazi Party won the most seats in the Reichstag elections of 1932.
Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933 after electoral success.
He then consolidated power through the Reichstag Fire Decree and Enabling Act, eliminating democracy.

Benito Mussolini (Italy)
Though Mussolini’s rise included the March on Rome (1922), his Fascist Party did participate in elections and entered parliament legally.
After gaining legitimacy, he dismantled Italy’s democratic institutions.

Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines)
First elected president in 1965 and re-elected in 1969.
Declared martial law in 1972 and ruled as a dictator until ousted in 1986.

Alberto Fujimori (Peru)
Elected president in 1990.
In 1992, he staged an “autogolpe” (self-coup), dissolving Congress and ruling by decree.

Viktor Orbán (Hungary) (modern example)
Elected in 2010 with a parliamentary supermajority.
Has since curtailed press freedoms, judicial independence, and checks on executive power.
Many describe Hungary as a “soft dictatorship” or “illiberal democracy.”

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Turkey)
First elected prime minister in 2003, later president in 2014.
Used electoral legitimacy to centralize power, suppress opposition, and change Turkey’s political system into a strong presidential model.

Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe)
Initially came to power via elections in 1980 after independence.
Transitioned into an authoritarian ruler, clinging to power for decades.

Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela)
Elected in 2013 after Hugo Chávez’s death.
Accused of manipulating elections, suppressing dissent, and using authoritarian measures to stay in power.

Slobodan Milošević (Serbia / Yugoslavia)
Rose through electoral means in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Later ruled with increasing authoritarianism, suppressing opponents and media.

Juan Perón (Argentina)
Elected president in 1946.
While popular and democratic in origin, he concentrated power, suppressed opposition, and established a personality cult that bordered on authoritarianism.

That was one beautiful hommage to truckers. I honestly liked it.
It was nicely written (although I suspect some help from ChatGPT was deployed,
I recognize the style) and perfectly delivered. It was funny too, at times,
but that reaction is either an act, or the result of a big canister of Nitrous oxide.

Here's a good police vest cam video:
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If I see so much different emotions, between when a white person does something bad versus a brown person, or a white person getting killed vs a brown person getting killed,
I'm indeed calling that racism. Are those emotions genuine? Probably, but not admirable.

In forum discussions, bigger and badder doesn't matter.
In relation to seniority and 'standing tall', are you talking about your dick?
Congratulations!

Why do all business turn into a beige or grey box?

Wall Street broke Cracker Barrel, not WOKENESS
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More evidence of Trump health issues emerges in new video
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I don't think we have to worry about Trump trying to steal a 3rd term.

Moral correctness is the last thing you can accuse Trump
of having. He would puke all over you for believing that.

It’s interesting that you say "you and I stay standing tall". One of you is definitely holding their ground with some honesty and substance. The other is just puffing their chest while throwing cheap shots. I’ll let others decide which is which.

OK, so no more Indian drivers. You must feel so safe now.

Are white American drivers never making illegal moves in traffic?
Can white Americans drive trucks from birth? No need to train and test them?
Can white Americans drive as long as the employers wants them to, without
ever getting tired?

Or will you just feel a lot better about it, when a white American does the exact same thing, causing the exact same number or more deaths?

Yes, of course that is different; this guy made a stupid mistake, while it would be
a conscious decision to run over protesters, not an accident.
If a white right-winger killed 10 black gay-rights protesters, while it is clear that
the driver was not in any danger, you would defend the driver, because you think those protesters are wrong on principle.

You can disagree with protesters blocking a road, but that's not a capital offense.
It's an inconvenience, not a violent attack, no reason for the driver to use lethal force to defend themselves.

What you include in that argument, could be an argument, if it was true, but that's no argument to allow driving over people, when it is NOT true.

It doesn't require new laws to allow people to defend themselves, when they are in danger. Your self defense laws are already taking the position of the one defending themselves, accepting their claim of being at risk much too easily.

I would never blame the people in the black car. They are innocent victims.
I don't know who those 3 million people are, and I don't agree with them.
The guy still made a very irresponsible and illegal move, causing 3 deaths.
I just don't see that as a reason to call him a terrorist, or an evil person.
Can you understand that morality is a scale, not binary?

I didn't say I'm not, I'm just saying dgraff is too.

I stand for my opinions, I always provide a justification or at least a reason for why I have them. I am here to discuss them. I don't just drop a zinger of an opinion and then just bugger off.

Show that I'm wrong, and I'll accept that I'm wrong. Those guys just cower off,
when they cannot defend their position any longer. You can see it for yourself
in all the abandoned discussions.

When other people have an opinion that I disagree with, I don't just belittle them,
I always try to explain why I don't agree with them or why they are wrong.
I only call them dumb, when they keep repeating the same tired old nonsense over and over.

Opinionated much?

What the hell does Amsterdam have to do with it?
That's the weirdest change of subject (Red Herring fallacy) ever.
See, you're chickening out from the actual subject again.

My country, and even Amsterdam, has less problems with drugs, than the US.
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The US has such a horrible opioids problem that it's central to you border security policies and pointed out by Trump as the reason for the tariffs with Mexico and Canada.

In 2023, the US had 105,000 people dying from overdoses.
80,000 of those deaths involved opioids.
(population: 334.9 million) -> 31.4 o.d. deaths/100,000 people
23.9 opioid o.d. deaths/100,000 people

In 2023, the Netherlands had 338 people dying from overdoses.
178 of those deaths involved opioids.
(population 17.88 million) -> 1.9 o.d. deaths/100,000
1.00 opioid o.d. deaths/100,000 people

"Socialist Party leader calls for fewer foreign workers in NL":
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The SP has continued its long-standing stance: opposing mass labor migration and advocating for stricter controls to protect workers and housing markets. This aligns with their broader views on neoliberalism, globalization, and safeguarding the Dutch working class.
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This is not a new stands of the SP. The party has been saying the exact same thing, since 1983, far before right-wing populists were addressing it as a problem. However, right-wingers used it to demonize brown people, to redirect people's anger about seeing their jobs being given to cheap workers, for the profits of the employers, towards racism.
Since that right-wing populist party was voted in as the biggest party in 2023, all their laws were designed to restrict actual refugees, and NONE to restrict the million labor migrants from Eastern Europe. They only care about the racism, not about fixing the problem.

This is the stands of my SP, about labor migration, from their own website:
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The SP considers labor migration a form of modern slavery. There are between 800,000 and 1.2 million labor migrants in the Netherlands, no one knows the exact number.
They are brought here by companies, exploited, and discarded when no longer needed. An increasingly large portion of the homeless population in the Netherlands consists of labor migrants. Meanwhile, the pressure on our neighborhoods, social services, and housing market is high, even as companies profit.

But labor migration also causes problems in the countries of origin. It uproots communities, leaves children growing up without their parents, and leads to local jobs being taken over by even lower-paid labor migrants. Through various legal loopholes, more and more labor migrants from outside Europe are now working in the Netherlands. This lawlessness must come to an end.

We will stop uncontrolled labor migration. We will do this by introducing work permits and setting a migration cap of 40,000 per year. This way, we ensure that only those who are truly needed can come here to work, we can tackle the exploitation of labor migrants by employers, and we can help those who genuinely need protection and are fleeing war and violence.

I'm opinionated? You lot have an opinion about someone from the first second
that you hear "immigrant involved in crash". If I don't agree with phart calling it a "terrorist attack", you find me to be a horrible person. I have standards for terms:
"Intentional, directed violence, against civilians to instill fear and achieve political, religious, or ideological goals."

Meanwhile, you lot have been making fun about driving over protesters, when you don't agree with those protesters. You agree with intentionally killing protesters,
that you don't agree with, politically. That does fit the definition of terrorism.

You lot have made a hero from a 17 y.o. kid who went to a protest carrying an AR-15, 'definitely not looking for trouble', but finding it, and killing 2 people, wounding a 3th.

If you do agree with protesters, you will cry for years, when one of them is killed.
I find you two horrible people, for your bigotry.

I'm here discussing opinions, you just drop them on people
and then chicken out for talking about them. (not you phart)

You're just belittling everyone who doesn't agree with you.
How about that, for being 'Self centered' and 'Obnoxious'?

Take a look in the mirror!

Did you see any video of him, besides the dash-cam?
Did he know then that he caused the death of 3 people?
You watch him knowing the result, thinking he knew it too.
Understand that this idea puts your brain in a certain state.

I agree that he was being incredibly stupid, but I see no INTENT of killing anyone
and I don't think that you can determine his emotions from a few seconds of video,
that is cut short and likely shows an angle of the accident that he couldn't see.
That camera is much more to the front and higher, than his line of sight.

Why do they pause, or end, or loop the video, at his expressionless face?
I have searched for more video, but I cannot find it. Did you?
Do we have any video or reports about what he did when he found out?
Maybe he starts crying like a baby, directly after they cut it.
Can we believe any media reporting, if they all cut the video short?
Show me real evidence of him being that horrible person, and I'm with you.

Just a tiny thing about that turban, do you who wear turbans like that?

That's car related porn.

Car-related porn (literal) → refers to actual pornography involving cars, e.g. sexual acts performed with or inside vehicles.

“Car porn” (figurative slang) → refers to aesthetic admiration of cars, usually photos or videos that highlight beautiful, rare, or powerful automobiles in a visually indulgent way,
not sexual, but using “porn” as slang for “visual indulgence.”

So: one is literal adult content, the other is metaphorical praise.

Still, if the car plays a prominent role, it's fine by me.

Men Build Custom BUGATTI Using 3 Old Cars
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What a sexy ass car!

That is a problem, but you can't solve it by just letting truckers drive until they are at their destination. That will cause even more lethal accidents. Drivers aren't robots.
In my country, there are not enough resting places either. The difference is that
you can drive from the most Northern end to the most Southern end in 4 hours,
if there are no traffic jams. It's mostly international truckers who have a hard time finding a resting place in my country. So, how should it be solved?
Either the government invests in resting places, or the companies that operate international truckers should be forced to invest in resting places on their properties. Just waiting until the problem fixes itself, is never a solution.

Not everything, but if they would want to fully explain everything that is happening in the US, it would be an hour long program filled with just that.
Your 'news' doesn't do a better job of explaining what's happening, and that's about your own country.

Why is it that when women are tired of men, they feel entitled,
but when men are tired of women, you don't say that?

Trump in jail? Yes, because he has broken countless laws.

I still see Trump rolling over and beg, so I hope that changes.

If Ukraine can do more than defend itself, we would see what?
I think you would see a Russia that is losing and has to retreat.
Why would it be different from the US going away from Afghanistan?
The US could have nuked Afghanistan, but didn't.
Why would you think that Putin would do that?

Putin is evil, a cold motherfucker, but he is strategic.
Can you pull your head out of your ass and think strategically?
What does Russia/Putin have to gain from a nuclear attack?
Does that bring him or Russia closer to his goals?

Because you have Trump now, someone who is notorious
for never paying.

"a liberal far extremist.." only a dumb-ass would think that's a logical term.

Can you explain the value system of a "liberal extremist"?

I'm a "liberal" for social issues, which means that I don't care what people do in their private lives, as long as it doesn't affect me in a negative way. Religion is fine, as long as you don't force it onto other people's children and you don't put religious dogma into law. Is that "extremist"?

Economically, I'm NOT liberal, I'm a democratic socialist, that means that I support changing the capitalist system to a socialist system, when we succeed in convincing people to vote for that. First we need to make news and information independent, so it's not funded by billionaires or owned by companies that are owned by billionaires. If people are indoctrinated with capitalist propaganda 24/7, they will keep believing capitalism is great, until it starves them to death.

I'm so goddamned tired of the stupid argument "You are an atheist, therefore moral correctness to you does not exist."
You say that you're not a Christian, but you're using a very tired trope of Christian apologists. DAMN!
What is "moral correctness"? Not killing anyone, because the '10 commandments' say 'Thou shalt not kill'? How about all the killing in god's name? If you are not a Christian, than you don't even have "Thou shalt not kill" as "moral correctness". How does your self-induced 'Abrahamic' superstition tell you that killing is wrong? Did you feel it, in your heart? SO DO I!

It's simple: getting killed doesn't imagine to be a fun experience.
I don't consider me to be that different from other people, so I can imagine that other people don't particularly like getting killed either. That's why I think killing is wrong. So, I think: how can we create a world with less killing in it? Maybe, if everyone has no good reason to kill other people? That should be a world with less CONFLICT over resources, which means less inequity. Can you follow that thinking? Would it be possible to create "moral correctness" from that?

You're telling me that I have to imagine some supernatural nonsense, so I can believe that some god wants me to behave in a certain way? What kind of god would care? What reason do I have to believe in that god? Do I need to imagine a god that cares about me being 'morally correct', so I can be 'morally correct'? That's basically what you believe, right? If not, explain it. In a clear, logical way. Can you do that? Or do you need to be an arrogant asshole, who tells himself that he is 'morally correct', to do that?

That was me being funny. With my 'Trump news', I'm referring to everything happening internationally related to American politics. If I would just watch the news on Dutch TV, then I would know almost nothing, because they reduce something complicated to one line that explains nothing. So, I also watch current affairs programs and late night discussion programs when they invite guests that study the US, economy and politics. I always listen to our radio channel BNR (Business News Radio), which is at least right leaning. The have the America Podcast, every week. Those are people who explain the things Trump does from his perspective, presenting him as more intelligent than I believe he is. Are you following any news that gives you an other perspective than what you want to hear?

I don't care much for your "CNN, Msnbc..e.g". What is your justification for calling them all "fake"? Explain the difference between them and Fox'News' and 'News'max. You're not mentioning them, so you seem to think those are more reliable. What are you basing that on?

"independent stations"? Do you think Fox'News' and 'News'max are "independent stations"?

"I just wrote it" Yes, without any justification. Here's mine: if you pay into a program, you're entitled to benefit from the program. Simple JUSTICE.
"They use a mathematical formula of entitlements." Good!

"if I said it well it must be then.." No, you're saying lots of false things. A single mother making $100,000/year would not qualify for Medicaid.

"Gas prices are lower by 30%" compared to what? The height of the pandemic?
"No taxes on tips" are not helping for the lowest incomes, because they already pay almost no taxes. Tips are very susceptibele to get scammed by employers. Just pay those people a good wage, instead of making them rely on tips.
Those "home equity taxes" are mostly an issue for Higher-income households. The changes that Trump introduced hardly affect the poor & lower middle class. It result in the rich paying less taxes, which means that either the poor & lower middle class make up the difference or programs that help them get cut.
Trump cut taxes for the wealthiest people, but his tariffs result in big tax increases for everyone. The 50% poorest Americans, will see an about $1,300–$1,700 increase in expenses, per year, per household, resulting from Trump's tariffs. Nearly 60% of Americans don't have enough money put away to afford a $1000 emergency expense. Trump is sinking them all with his tariffs.

Can you answer any question without bullshit comparisons? What do medicaid and burglary have in common. "sovereignty"? Illegals don't get medicaid. There are however lots of undocumented immigrants who pay into medicaid, medicare and social security, without ever benefiting from it.

Why does every subject end up with 'illegals'? I'm asking you about AMERICANS, who get their benefits cut by Trump and who are now paying more taxes, in the form of tariffs.
You're not justifying anything you're saying, that's lazy.
Do some work. Look up facts and data. Put evidence to your claims.

When you sacrifice on the altar of the religion of Trump,
you're NOT an independent voter.

Just prejudices. Many single moms are just tired of men.

That was a horrible accident. It was in Canada though.
They also blamed the driver, and he was certainly not innocent.

No matter if he caused the deaths of 100 people, by driving into a truck transporting nitroglycerin (just an example), an accident is still an accident. A judge should weigh the responsibility for the accident and the likelihood of what can be expected resulting from the risk, less what actually happened. That's why a drunk driver is also getting pretty severely punished, if they didn't cause any accident. They can be expected
to cause deaths. Judges shouldn't act on "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth".

"Over the past decade (2012–2021), Canada experienced a decline in commercial vehicle collisions and fatalities. In 2012, there were 400 fatalities resulting from commercial vehicle collisions, which decreased to 343 by 2021, a reduction of
over 14%."

"Regarding the involvement of immigrants in fatal truck accidents, specific data is not readily available. However, a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal indicates that recent immigrants are less likely to be involved in serious motor vehicle crashes compared to the general population. The study found a 45% relative reduction in the incidence of crashes among recent immigrants, suggesting they are less prone to being drivers in serious motor vehicle crashes."

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Now why is that?
When a 'native' gets into an accident, there are not immediately millions of people pointing at the driver. They will wait until the legal process results in a conclusion.
An immigrant driver is immediately blamed, and when they are found guilty, they don't just get punished like the 'native', they also often get deported. That's why they are
in general more careful. They have more to lose.

Still, an immigrant from a country like India with driving experience of the lethal roads of India, might not be the best suited for a driving job in a western country.
They should get extensive training and go through strict tests, before they are
accepted as qualified.

That's not what your regime is doing. You want to disqualify all immigrant by default and deport them without a chance, purely out of prejudices, while closing your eyes
to companies that cause accidents on the roads.

"Reports indicate that he had been driving for approximately 13 hours on the day of the crash, which is within the legal driving limits for commercial truck drivers in Canada. However, there have been discussions about the broader issues of driver fatigue and working conditions in the trucking industry."

I once drove back from Denmark, with friends, after our vacation together. It took 11 hours, because of traffic jams. We switched driving position several times, so I had probably driven about half of the hours. When we came home, I was beat.
Driving 13 hour on end is brutal. Why do we allow that to happen on our roads?

Show me evidence of those speaking fees coming from Russia.

All your ex-presidents try the speaking gigs at least for a while.
Bush did, he's just not paid as much, because he sounds so incredibly dumb.
Jamie Oliver gets $500,000 per gig too. Are there Russians paying for his food propaganda?

True, NAFTA is mostly a product from Democrats. Trump renegotiated NAFTA → rebranded it as USMCA. Then, in his next term he said: "What idiot created USMCA? Cancel it!"

"Once NATO is cleaned up"? Is it dirty now? What simplistic language.

The American taxpayer is paying so much for 'defense', because you use your power for cheap resources. Don't expect the rest of the world to pay for those interests. Decide for yourself if that is good for the American tax-payer.
The result is a big fucking military, which could defend Europe, but the last time you did that was in WWII. In all your other conflicts, it was your interests, your regime change wars, your retribution on terrorists, and Europe came to help you. The first time in 80 years that Europe is at risk, Trump tells us: "You have not paid enough for our dominance in the world, why should I help you? Pay more, or I'll let Russia conquer you.". That's a Mafia boss speaking.

I cannot make heads or tails from the rest of it, it's irrelevant.
Bullshit green new deal? Can I conclude that you reject climate change?

While the 9/11 terrorist attacks were carried out by al-Qaeda, and Osama bin Laden himself, the 9/11 Commission found that the organization was heavily financed by wealthy SAUDI individuals and charities, who contributed to a system of indirect financial support that benefited the terrorist group.
The 19 hijackers on 9/11 were from four countries: 15 were from Saudi Arabia, two were from the United Arab Emirates, one was from Egypt, and one was from Lebanon. All were affiliated with al-Qaeda, a global SUNNI Islamist jihadist movement. Iran's population is 90% Shi'a Islam, their autocratic theocracy is based on Shi'a Islam. Iran and Saudi Arabia are mortal enemies. It's ridiculous to blame Iran more than Saudi Arabia for 9/11. Obama had Osama bin Laden killed.

Explain to me how George W Bush was going after bin Laden, because
it never made sense to me. If you think Iran was the #1 sponsor, then what about Iraq? There was NO al-Qaeda in Iraq. A spelling error?
In Afghanistan, sure and Taliban too. It didn't require a war though, their government was willing to allow the US in, to destroy the terrorists.
Bush was just satisfying the hawks, who wanted to own the whole
Middle East. Could it be that the Bush family was heavily profiting
from Military expenses and oil?
In any case, those wars turned out a massive failure.

I don't worship Obama, I think he did many things wrong. He should have used his presidency to show Americans that Democrats are the true workers party, instead he played nice with the billionaires too.

Then you voted for a billionaire, with the help of the #1 billionaire buying votes for him. When they won, #1 got to destroy all the government expenses that he didn't like, which mostly affected the poor working class, while eliminating agencies that bothered his companies. Then, the number one priority of Trump was giving tax-brakes to those billionaires. Just repeating it, so you can't call your side the 'working class heroes'.
Maybe you still will, but it would be ridiculous to everyone with a brain.

I'm only believing what our journalists tell, me while you're parroting proven lies. I'm getting my "Trump news" from Dutch and American news outlets. You seem to get all your news from the bottom of the right-wing conspiracy algorithm rabbit hole.

Are you saying that you think that US citizens who paid 10 years of taxes shouldn't get any social security payments and medicare? Why not? They paid into it, so they should at least be partially entitled to it.

"Pregnant women who are single parents trying to bring up children that were abondened by the father should receive medicaid."
Well, don't they?

Not all single mothers live in poverty. Women aren't helpless.
Yes, help the ones that need help, but don't generalize in this way.

Oh sure, those immigrants are living in luxury, while Americans are homeless. Tired old bullshit. OK, how about fixing homelessness then? I just asked you why Trump isn't doing anything to improve the lives of people. Your country has enough billionaires who can pay a bit more taxes, to eliminate homelessness. Instead, those spending cuts are going to LOWER the taxes of the billionaires. Is this justifiable on trumps order to cut medicaid?

You know what, I'm done reacting to the rest of it for today. In just your first paragraph, you have shown clearly to start off whit the idea "Trump good", and then make up complete nonsense to justify everything he's doing. Don't you know about his fucking tax-cuts?
Are your billionaires homeless or starving? Trump seems to think so.
Or is he just enriching himself and his buddies who helped him win?
You're either lying to cover for him or you're completely ignorant.

Indeed, she clearly has an opinion about his ideas,
so instead of sheepishly laughing, tell the world
what's so ridiculous about his ideas.
To me, he made a lot of sense.

I don't think paying your politicians a medium wage would work, because then they would only take more 'donations', and sell their influence to even more special interests and wealthy people. At their current wage, people are already saying that they should
be allowed to 'better themselves', because they are all educated people.

I would propose making their wage dependent on them actually engaging in politics. Some of them never show up for debates, never write a bill, never write an amendment. They are just present to vote the party line, without ever reading a bill.

Our biggest party in the House of Commons is the PVV, the right-wing populist party
of Geert Wilders. They have 37 representatives, and their corner is almost empty the majority of the time. It's completely empty 34% of all debates. One representative has never showed himself in debates, only shows up to vote. Five of them have never even given their 'maidenspeech'. Still, they get all paid $164,265/year.

My party is present for less debates, but they only have 5 representatives, they are almost as effective with less than 1/5th of the people. They also get paid $164,265/year, but they donate 53% of it to their party, leaving them just about median wage.
They don't take any personal donations, they don't trade in stocks, and they know
damn-well what they're voting for, when they show up to vote.

If there are not tens of thousands of very rich and hundreds of wealthy leaving,
nothing is happening. Anecdotes are not strong evidence.

If the 99.9% that is staying is paying more taxes, it's worth it.
Raise those taxes, until 10% is going away. Show other countries that it's OK,
to follow the example, and they have nowhere to go.

You're just parroting propaganda. Obama did NOT give uranium to Russia. The Russian state-owned enterprise Rosatom acquired a controlling interest in Uranium One, a Canadian company, that owned U.S. uranium mining operations. This gave Rosatom indirect control over around 20% of U.S. licensed uranium production capacity at the time, BUT not actual uranium. Those were NOT your uranium deposits, but Canada's uranium deposits. Obama did not have any legal measure to stop a Canadian company selling assets to a Russian company. That's called capitalism, you might have heard of it.

China doesn't need the US. You're only about 15% of their exports.
If Trump wants to force them, he could stop the tariffs against the EU and instead join forces.

I agree that Ukraine will probably have to give up some territory and forget about Crimea, but in a negotiation you don't start dealing them everything they want. Trump should know that, if he's such a good deal-maker. What's also important if you want to make a deal, showing the opponent that you're at least somewhat trustworthy. Why would people make a deal with you, if they know that you have no intent of keeping your side of it. Trump is notoriously untrustworthy. So is Putin, so a deal between Trump and Putin isn't worth the paper it's written on.

The Russian people have no power, Russia is a dictatorship.
Better think of that, before you turn the us in one too.
Leaders like that only care about you being willing to sacrifice
yourself for their glory.

Only naturalized citizens can vote. There was no illegal voting with any significant result. Those were all lies. Meanwhile, Trump is the one making Texas cheat even more. Most people do understand that, so it will actually cost you more votes than you're gaining.

Instead of cheating, why doesn't Trump actually do something to improve people's lives? That's the reason most people voted for him. That was incredibly naive, and he is now showing them that.
Trump is doing everything that the left warned people about.
People should have listened. Trump is only lying when he promises good things or promises not to do a bad thing. When he even hints
at doing something bad, you can rely on it.

Do you think he's winning people over, by cutting healthcare, food programs and social security? Do you think people like it, when he uses the national guard as an intimidation force? Sure, it's just Democrat states now, but people understand that these are tyrannical tendencies. Only you lot like it, when he threatens stealing a third term. All this shit is turning so many people away, that no amount of cheating will work. Trump will then cancel elections all together, which will turn almost everyone against him. This will end very badly.
The military took an oath to defend the Constitution, not the president.
He will end up facing the firing squad.

Rich People Are NOT Fleeing The Country
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Responding to the lie that they keep telling you.

Ashli Babbitt was leading an angry mob through a hole in the barricade
that protected those cops. She posed a real threat.

Remember not giving a crap about the death of the boy on the right?
Remember your argument? He didn't follow police orders.
Why is that only applicable to black kids and not to MAGA lunatics?

I'm not saying that I would support all his ideas, but why is that woman below laughing?

Oh sure, it's the Democrats' fault. PURE PARTISAN HACKERY, no truth to it at all.

It's ALWAYS Republicans who cut funds for oversight and safety, not Democrats.
You yourself are a big fan of that "deregulation".
How about regulation that keeps unqualified drivers from getting drivers licenses?

⚖️ Framing & Politics

Republicans: Typically frame these moves as “cutting red tape” and helping small trucking businesses survive.

Democrats: More likely to prioritize strict enforcement and stronger safety requirements, often aligning with labor unions and safety advocacy groups.

Safety Advocates’ View: Many Republican-led changes (especially delays/rollbacks of Obama-era rules) were seen as increasing risks of fatigue, speeding, or poorly trained drivers on the road.


Obama/Democrats/Biden introduced training improvements: MAP-21
(Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, 2012).
It was a surface transportation reauthorization law that:
- Funded highways and transit for FY2013–2014,
- Reauthorized highway safety programs,
- Included permanent provisions like the Entry-Level Driver Training (ELDT) mandate and the Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse requirement.


Republican-Led Deregulation Affecting Road Safety NEGATIVELY:

1. Hours of Service (HOS) Rules
HOS rules limit how long truck drivers can drive before resting.
Under the Obama administration, FMCSA tightened these rules (e.g., requiring two overnight periods in the 34-hour restart).
Under Trump (2017), Republicans suspended and rolled back some of those rest requirements, giving drivers more “flexibility.”
Criticism: Safety advocates argued this could increase fatigue-related crashes.
Industry supported it as easing unnecessary burdens.

2. Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs)
ELDs automatically record driving hours, making it harder to falsify logs.
Mandated under Obama (final rule in 2015).
Some Republicans tried to delay or repeal the mandate (Rep. Brian Babin of Texas introduced bills).
Trump administration implemented the rule but signaled openness to exemptions.
Criticism: Rolling back ELDs would reduce compliance with fatigue laws.

3. Speed Limiters
Obama-era FMCSA proposed requiring electronic speed limiters on trucks.
The Trump DOT (Republican-led) withdrew the rule in 2017.
Criticism: Safety groups say this killed a measure that could have reduced crash severity.

4. Entry-Level Driver Training (ELDT) Rule Delays Mandated by MAP-21 (2012).
Finalized under Obama in 2016.
The Trump administration delayed compliance twice (from 2020 to 2022), citing industry readiness.
Criticism: Delaying left gaps in training standards, potentially putting less-prepared drivers on the road.

5. Enforcement Slowdown
As I mentioned earlier, FMCSA enforcement actions dropped ~60% after Trump took office, partly due to new procedural hurdles and a general deregulatory stance.
Criticism: Allowed unsafe carriers to operate longer without penalties.

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