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The joy and peace I have in life come from my socialist values.

It is you who do not understand. I am woke. I will remain woke. It doesn't matter to me if that's not what the majority of my fellow citizens want right now, and I didn't lose. I kept my values. I only hope more of my fellow citizens will develop those values in the future. I think four more years of Trump might help them see the results of rejecting those values. And actually, I don't think they reject these values. I think they've just put their own interests above them.

then you will lose again, the majority of people don't want it I will not lose. I didn't lose this time. I will be the same years from now as I am today. The people who lost are the ones who were conned into voting for Trump.

DEI is not racist, nor does it advocate any other prejudices. DEI is an attempt to make sure that racism and other prejudices are not practiced in the workplace. Like I said before, it is not Affirmative Action.

The left and DEI are not using race (or any other feature) as a "prop to further a political agenda." They are trying to eliminate racism and other prejudices from the workplace.

100% erroneous. Society should be about merit not doling out awards based on looks. Stop insinuating yourself. Your status in society should not be based on merit—that's a feature of capitalism. Your status in society should be equal to everyone else's—that's a feature of socialism.

DEI is not Affirmative Action, which was an attempt to "correct" situations arising from White-favoring racist policies in the past. DEI is only trying to ensure that no racist (or other prejudicial) policies will continue in the present.

DEI might seem to "exclude" straight White people (only right-handed ones 😉 ) because, before DEI and its predecessor, Affirmative Action, preference was given to straight White people. DEI is an attempt to make sure that kind of preference is not practiced anymore. White people don't have to accept being "second-class citizens." They have to accept now that all others are also "first-class citizens." Historical Context of DEI in the Workplace - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Blog Post By Juan Taveras (He/Him/His)

I do get it. Don't take Trump's victory here as the public's complete abandonment of liberal values. People are sick and tired of worrying about the cost of living and how they are going to adequately support their families. I get that. What I don't get is why they think someone like Trump is going to fix that and "save" them. He won't. His right-wing policies will fail, or he will abandon them and then blame the failure on someone else. Inclusiveness (DEI) is what a society should be all about, in my opinion. I've always said the difference between the right wing and left wing is the first letter of a two-letter word. Right-wingers are only concerned about Me, whereas left-wingers are concerned about We. Right now, the majority (slim, 51%/47%) of the US voters are more concerned about themselves and their own families. They think Trump will do something to change that. I would actually love to see Trump do something to help them, but I have no faith that he will be able to do that whatsoever. I predict we are in for at least four years of chaos and turmoil, but not the type of violent turmoil and aggression that Trump inspired after the last election. This will be pitiful social turmoil.

I won't debate point-by-point with you. We could do that all day. I feel the same way about right-wingers as you do about lefties. I think this election illustrated just how much like a religion it is. Leftists, like me, don't want power. They just want everyone to share in the assets of our country, The voting public rejected (or didn't understand) that, but only by a 51/47 split in the general election voting. I won't change, and I hope there will be future candidates who share my values and aspirations. Until then, I'll just have to watch all that unfolds in the USA on my TV from my home in the jungle-filled mountains of northeastern Thailand.

I've never said Trump had something to do with this incident, but he has has a lot to do with similar incidents in the USA.

What drives us is our hubris, and our technological inventions will eventually destroy this planet's biosphere and us along with it. There is no such thing as unlimited resources or renewable energy. Our belief that we will find or invent these someday is what continues to destroy this planet. I have no idea why his daughter is leaving him, but I'm sure she has plenty of very good reasons with which I would agree,

I'm not in favor of anyone "doing wonders" in the space/tech industries, especially going into space. We should not even consider going to another planet until we learn to live both environmentally and socially compatible on this one. Otherwise, our going there should not be called "colonizing," but more accurately, it would be "metastasizing" because we (humans) are like a cancer on this planet.

This topic, "cancel culture," certainly does have something to do with Trump and people like him who encourage such actions. This poor kid is dead. He killed himself because he was publically humiliated by his fellow students because, I think, he was accused of being gay. I'm sure nothing I post here will affect him, but I hope my posts will affect some others who read them.

I admit that Trump's election has had a very troubling effect on me. I am troubled mostly to find out that a majority of US voters would even think of voting for Trump. But after more reflection, I realize I have lived in Thailand for over 20 years, so I am not really aware of what conditions are like in the US now. I'm living comfortably here, so I cannot fully appreciate how anyone could even consider voting for someone like Trump. Anyway, we'll all find out just what a second presidency with Trump will be like soon. He'll be sworn in at the end of January, and he's promised to start implementing his policies on day one. I think by the end of February, we'll begin to know better just how things are going to go over the next four years.

I don't think that's so. I think there are people out there who would provide homes for them. They just need to be found and the dogs sent to them, Take me, for example. I live in the mountains of Phetchabun Province. People from the city come up here and abandon their dogs, some of them who are still nursing puppies. I have a large parcel of land, about 12 rai, so can accommodate any strays we find on the road. Right now, we have 11 dogs. We spay the females but not the males. They need all the testosterone they can get to survive up here. My Thai neighbors all have dogs, most of them more than one. I'm sure that's the case in many areas of Thailand outside of large cities. I hope the authorities in the cities that have to deal with these dogs establish a relationship with rural areas so they can relocate these strays and not just kill them.

Lock her up!

I am a far-left liberal, and I accept that Trump's election was, in part, a "wake-up call" on what the right-wingers call "woke" issues. However, I think the "wake-up call" should not be taken as a call to change the policies but to try to further educate the public on these issues and what is best for society. I, myself, intend to stay "woke."

I assume the "personal relationship" mentioned was a homosexual one. That's not mentioned anywhere in the article that I could find. And, yes, "cancel culture" is alive and well everywhere, especially in my home country, the USA, and I'm sure that it will become even more of a problem now that Trump has been elected president again.

I can't see how my prediction of a complete (or even partial) collapse of the US government could be best in any case. I am a liberal, a far-far-left liberal. I do think Trump's presidency will be a disaster for the USA and many other nations, too. I will continue to be a far-left liberal, even if the voters in the US don't like liberal policies. I don't think a political party should only stand for what they think the majority of voters like. They should stand up for the issues and policies they think are best for the country. That didn't work this election, but I hope the Democrats don't change their agenda too much just to appeal to the voters. I hope they stick to their ideas about how to govern and try to educate and convince the public on why their policies would be better for the country than those of the conservatives, especially Trump supporters. I looked up "ANF" on the Internet and couldn't find an interpretation of it that I thought you meant. So I ask you, what does "ANF" mean in your sentence above?

I would never watch Fox. CNN is my choice of news media on TV. Like I said above, we'll just have to wait and see, and I don't think we'll have to wait too long. Trump will be president in just over 70 days. He promised to take several consequential actions in his first few days. I'd say we'll have a better picture of all this in mid-February.

Well, Trump won the election, and now we'll just have to wait and see what kind of job he does on economic and social issues. As I said earlier, I expect the worst case in both. I hope I'm wrong,

Well, we'll just have to wait and see what it is three (or four) years from now. I expect it will grow even faster than these graphs show it has for the past six years.

Yes, and I don't see the lack of sexual arousal, both physical and mental, as a problem. The opposite of "arousing" is "calming," and calm is the way I feel most of the time now. This calm also allows me to concentrate on other things I am doing,

Are you experiencing erection issues? Yes, but that's been the case for many years now - maybe as many as 10 years. It's not a problem for me, though. I don't have any sexual arousal thoughts anymore, probably due to a reduction in my testosterone hormone.