Quote (thesnipa @ 26 Sep 2023 13:10)

almost all of his ideas make a decent amount of sense. give everyone a free photo ID, make it illegal for employers to give money to anyone that doesnt have one, and enforce it. like that the border issue dries up for migrant workers, and u can crack down even harder because the leftover traffic is cartel predominately. give people access to a 3% fixed mortgage with the US govt as the cosigner and let the govt possess the house if they default. better the US govt owns it than blackrock. get the ball rolling on anti trust issues that plague multiple sectors and should have been destroyed a long time ago.

i personally dont care about his vaccine stances even though i dont largely agree, because vaccines aren't a presidential issue. for the most part his whole platform would be hard to get through wit h EOs. but he may get some bipartisan support as a fence sitter, who knows.

Quote (majorblood @ Sep 26 2023 12:41pm)

we need cheap energy, you can't really just divest from oil without enormous advancements. You can be in support of alternative fuel sources, such as advocating for more nuclear energy, but banning fracking (immediate or not) would not support your desire to be less dependent on opec and obviously would have the opposite effect.

Quote (thesnipa @ 26 Sep 2023 13:46)

its almost a tale of 2 conversations. what do i want a president to do (not ban fracking but study and perhaps act on the worst effects, support nuclear, fund EC infrastructure advancement) and what do i want to see long term (fracking eventually stopped due to pricing, far more nuclear plants, more readily available EC infrastructure).

i think the most immediate action on fracking should be done at the state level, who tend to know the issues, economics, and their own water tables far better than the fed.

Quote (thesnipa @ Sep 26 2023 10:46am)

its almost a tale of 2 conversations. what do i want a president to do (not ban fracking but study and perhaps act on the worst effects, support nuclear, fund EC infrastructure advancement) and what do i want to see long term (fracking eventually stopped due to pricing, far more nuclear plants, more readily available EC infrastructure).

i think the most immediate action on fracking should be done at the state level, who tend to know the issues, economics, and their own water tables far better than the fed.

Quote (Crunkt @ Sep 26 2023 10:47am)

i love how so many americans seem to have opinions at all about fracking almost as if yall are brainwashed to think fracking aint that bad. lol.

Quote (thesnipa @ Sep 26 2023 01:10pm)

almost all of his ideas make a decent amount of sense. give everyone a free photo ID, make it illegal for employers to give money to anyone that doesnt have one, and enforce it. like that the border issue dries up for migrant workers, and u can crack down even harder because the leftover traffic is cartel predominately. give people access to a 3% fixed mortgage with the US govt as the cosigner and let the govt possess the house if they default. better the US govt owns it than blackrock. get the ball rolling on anti trust issues that plague multiple sectors and should have been destroyed a long time ago.

i personally dont care about his vaccine stances even though i dont largely agree, because vaccines aren't a presidential issue. for the most part his whole platform would be hard to get through wit h EOs. but he may get some bipartisan support as a fence sitter, who knows.

Quote (ofthevoid @ Sep 26 2023 01:01pm)

100% agree

No single candidate will mirror someone's views 100% accurately, not in a country with 350 million people. If a candidate resonates on 3 out 5 of my top concerns, I may go with him and won't get hung up on the other 2 things.

Him not wanting to touch entitlements is a big one for me but the fact that he's against military spending far outweighs that. The people that constantly fixate on the vaccine thing do it as a way to discredit him ignoring the 20 other issues he may have decent stances on.

Quote (majorblood @ 26 Sep 2023 13:50)

are you educated on fracking and the energy economy?

Quote (Crunkt @ Sep 26 2023 11:10am)

the experiment of taking dead dinosaurs and burning their liquified bones into the atmosphere has seem its time and it has to come to and end.

without the use of fossil fuels and alternatives to natural gas then there is no need for fracking