What is Your Big Issue

[Beelzebuddy]

Empathy.

There's lots of issues, but they're really not that complicated. They boil down to one person trying to make things better for everyone, and another person trying to make things better for themselves by making it worse for everyone else. To paraphrase Mister Rogers: look for the helpers. If you ever find yourself in over your head and you don't know what's the right thing to do, look for the helpers. No matter how scary or chaotic a situation may be, there will be people there who are working to make it better. To make the world a little gentler, a little kinder. If you look, you will find them.

That's all it takes.

The helpers are not charging teenage girls with murder for having a miscarriage in the wrong state. They aren't putting barbed wire on border crossings while denying medical care to injured people. They aren't carrying tiki torches and chanting "Jews will not replace us." They aren't murdering children in Gaza because they think they have it coming. They aren't saying people in bad financial straits deserve to be there because they didn't earn their keep. They aren't preaching social revanchism and stigginit on a diet of bile and vitriol. It's not hard to tell. Any argument to the contrary is trying to excuse not caring to look for fear you might find the helpers arrayed against you.

 

[Chanakya]

"Not turning fascist" didn't make the cut? Really?

That's the Planet X option. Except we're living that dystopia, where such things are even possible --- not that such lowlifes should try such stunts, happens all the time, but that so many half-wits should continue to be fooled and corrupted by said lowlife.

 

[Chanakya]

For me the three main issues would be:

1. Trump, and everything that that represents.

2. Ukraine.

3. Israel. (It's at #3, well below #1 and #2, because life will continue regardless. But it will be a diminished life, and a diminished us, given our support for this evil.)

 

[Chanakya]

I was trying to avoid loaded language. I probably could have consolidated a few.

Not using loaded language =/= Completely ignoring the enormities that language might be used to describe.

Never interacted with you, that I recall, had no idea so far about your politics. But I'm thinking I can guess. I mean, "loaded language"?! It's a completely doable exercise for a 10 year old to use inoffensive language, as far as the language itself, to talk about how, in this case, a theocratic fascist evil dystopia is, impossibly unless you'd seen it already happen, so close to reality.

 

[zorro99]

Preserving democracy is my top issue. So I answered Other - Domestic

 

[mumblethrax]

Whatever Taylor Swift says it is.

 

[smartcooky]

I'm not American so I can't vote, but if I was and I could, then the USA not turning fascist would be my Number 1.

I would vote for a potted plant, a used garbage bag, or a pile of fresh dog **** before I would ever vote for The Fat Orange Turd or, in its current form, anyone on the GOP ticket.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

To actually transition to a climate change coping society it will take a lot of political, economical and societal change, which is why I picked it.
Also, we need Goals that go beyond the next election or news cycle

 

[Tero]

Democracy. As opposed to dictator (Trump).

 

[bruto]

Democracy. As opposed to dictator (Trump).

Indeed, that's the big thing. We can regret the degree to which the pendulum swings, but it's another thing altogether when someone reaches out to stop it.

 

[Thermal]

Indeed, that's the big thing. We can regret the degree to which the pendulum swings, but it's another thing altogether when someone reaches out to stop it.

This. These aren't normal circumstances any more. January 6th happened, with all the scanalous accessory events before and after. This **** done got real.

And for our non-American contingent who finds our concerns uniquely a silly American problem, try to picture a little Hitler sitting at the helm of the world's largest and most powerful military, and the economic influence to change the course of history on a narcissistic whim. Y'all are in this boat too.

 

[smartcooky]

This. These aren't normal circumstances any more. January 6th happened, with all the scanalous accessory events before and after. This **** done got real.

And for our non-American contingent who finds our concerns uniquely a silly American problem, try to picture a little Hitler sitting at the helm of the world's largest and most powerful military, and the economic influence to change the course of history on a narcissistic whim. Y'all are in this boat too.

When I have had posters challenge my right to have opinions about what happens in America (because I am not American and therefore it isn't my business - Warp12 and Bubba come to mind) I have always replied by stating that the USA is the single largest economy and the single biggest military in the world, and everything, both politically and economically, that happens there affects all of us.... from mass shootings (the American disease), through energy and fuel prices to insane conspiracy theories like the Covid vaccine conspiracy theories promoted by morons like MTG and RFK Jr. These have impact worldwide. The Christchurch Mosque shooter was inspired in part by the American far right & white supremacist I]"Replacement Theory"[/I] and their belief that a civil war is needed to separate the races. The "Freedumb Convoy" of plague rats who occupied Parliament Grounds in Wellington was directly inspired the anti-vaxxer mandate protests in the US, and encouraged by what the plague rats saw on January 6 in DC.

A fascist like The Fat Orange Turd in charge of the US with people like Stephen Miller, Steve Bannan, Kevin Roberts & Marjorie Taylor Greene on his staff, would be a nightmare scenario for the whole world. I'm pretty sure most thinking people in "not-America" understand this only too well!

 

[angrysoba]

And for our non-American contingent who finds our concerns uniquely a silly American problem, try to picture a little Hitler sitting at the helm of the world's largest and most powerful military, and the economic influence to change the course of history on a narcissistic whim. Y'all are in this boat too.

You mean your uniquely silly American problems are OUR problems too? Yeah, we know that. Thanks for that. Do we get a vote as a result? No, thought not. I guess we are relying on you guys then, which is why we’re always nagging you. Hope that’s clear now, because I am pretty sure not many non-Americans are unaware of what you’re Yanksplainin.

 

[Thermal]

You mean your uniquely silly American problems are OUR problems too? Yeah, we know that. Thanks for that. Do we get a vote as a result? No, thought not. I guess we are relying on you guys then, which is why we’re always nagging you. Hope that’s clear now, because I am pretty sure not many non-Americans are unaware of what you’re Yanksplainin.

A Swedish poster upthread had dismissed the list as "silly US affairs", which gets under my skin a bit. We may not be the ideal superpower, but we're not exactly isolationist and uninfluential.

Apologies for the Yanksplaining. Now get back in your place before we give you a heaping helping of Freedom.

 

[novaphile]

Environmental issues for me.

I first learned about global warming in the late 1970s (it was called 'the Greenhouse Effect' back then.)

Since then, my choices about what I do, and how I live, have been strongly influenced by reducing my environmental impact.

 

[Venom]

Unfortunately this list is missing the most important issues. It is sad that these are even an issue we need to consider. But without addressing them, we as a nation will have failed and left us forever vulnerable.

Protect democracy.
Insure equal protection of the law.

This.

I selected Environmental Issues.

 

[Fidelio]

When did the GD Republicans become so comfortable with Russia invading and (trying) to steal a country?

 

[ahhell]

When did the GD Republicans become so comfortable with Russia invading and (trying) to steal a country?

2016?

 

[Craig4]

My big issue is that Trump is a ******* Nazi and his supporters are filthy Brown Shirts. You can't fix anything with a Nazi in charge.

 

[TragicMonkey]

When did the GD Republicans become so comfortable with Russia invading and (trying) to steal a country?

When a Democrat said it was a bad thing.

I really wish Biden would do an announcement that nobody should ingest large quantities of arsenic. Half of the most problematic portion of the population would take itself out immediately.