What public figure do you disagree with the most?
The first question is who is a public figure? A politician, a ~pastor~ charlatan, educator or musician? Is one a public figure if they are known only within a small hamlet or is there a geographical minimum to be a public figure? Should they be alive or dead? Do I have to disagree with them on everything or just a specific issue.
I am surprised I can’t answer this question definitively. There’s no one individual or groups of individuals that I care so much about what they say to disagree with them. Don’t get me wrong. I am not indifferent. I am not invested in what most public figures say. Take for example Putin or Trump, I interact very rarely with what they say unless as a soundbite and that’s not enough to form a proper opinion.
Where I should ideally pay much attention is with the governance of this country but the president is a fraud. His ministers frauds. It takes a great amount of patience to listen to any of them speak or articulate their policies.
What about public intellectuals? Another blank.
Maybe I should get involved with what’s being said.
Random thoughts 
I just hate politicians in my country. Maybe, everyone does toward their own.
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I think so.
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And the second part of the question is, so I disagree, so what?
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Yes, what do we do with the disagreement? Can we construct something out of it?
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What i just posted a second ago is something I created out of that disagreement. (bad girl)
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It would have to be Trump. He’s arrogant, whiney, with the social graces of an unwashed monkey. If you’re trying to convince people of how great you are (or think you are) perhaps you should work on your persona. And stop trying to look twenty years younger than you were twenty years ago.
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If you are trying to convince people you are great, maybe you need a mirror.
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The decisions in US policy I disagree with the mist are the decision to allow an open southern border, decisions to keep Ukraine from signing a early peace treaty with Russia, and our policy in the Gaza conflict in allowing so many deaths of innocent people..Those decisions have been made by groups of people but carried out by the US government.
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I have not been able to understand the situation at the southern border. Is it different from the border with Canada?
On the Ukraine war and Gaza, I think we read from the same place.
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The only difference in the Mexican and Canadian border is the number if people coming into the US illegally. The numbers are overwhelming our ability to absorb them. Countries have procedures for legal immigration so we know how many people are coming unto the country and screen them. We have always had people coming unto the country illegally over the southern border, but the numbers have been relatively small. Over the last few decades numbers have been so large that it is stressing the resources to deal with them. And they are bringing tremendous amounts of illegal drugs. Drug trafficking is a problem. And people trafficking. They are crossing deserts and rough country under highly unsafe conditions.
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Maybe the country should consider loosening the border control to make it easy to come and go, especially for the border communities then this problem might just reduce. or maybe I am just being too ambitious
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Not being politically oriented, I have never quite understood why what we think about another country’s policies should matter to anyone, in a way it’s like boycotting apples and refuse to serve them to company because you’re allergic to them. I realize this is a huge country with a LOT of opinions, but unless you’re prepared to go to war because two other countries are scrapping (again), it seems that sympathetic neutrality is the only way to go.
I also understand that this country tends to run with its guns out, it’s how we became a country, and anyone descended from the early patriots has some of that tendency still active.
We are not a perfect place, few countries are, and the shenanigans we have quietly performed in the shadows during former wars is appalling.
And when you decide to choose sides (but never help, just smile and nod) it will always be the wrong side, for the wrong reasons.
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Your country, for good or wrong reasons, has a policy of interference in the name of democracy, national security or stopping communism.
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Most of the real reasons come down to money, resources, and trade. Oil is the goal in the middle east.
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Oil mainly regardless of the resultant destruction it leaves in its wake. After 20 years in Afghanistan, the exit was chaotic. I wonder how the exit from Iraq will play out. Or as long as there’s oil in Iraq, the government will be a puppet of Washington.
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