I’m the arbiter of who I trust is arguing coherently or in good faith and I am ultimately not trusting of the average internet poster by default.
I’ve been arguing on dedicated internet debate spaces for a very very large portion of my life and I have a good eye for when someone isn’t worth being taken seriously.
That’s not a critique of democrats, that’s a critique of a portion of democrats and all of republicans.
Election stats? You ever hear the phrase “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics”
Stats on their own given a poor analysis of an average joe/jane can mislead just as much if not more than a talking head can.
The core fact remains that voting for a third party under a first past the post system is risking permitting the greater evil to win.
Sure, but on average when some self proclaimed leftist’s opening is “Democrats did a bad thing” in a vacuum my immediate assumption is they’re a campist/tankie, accelerationist, or a rightwing psyop and my instinct is to immediately challenge them (most of the time… sometimes its me critiquing the dems)
Sometimes it turns out they’re giving an earnest critique but usually not.
Given that you can act (in this case vote), your hands are more dirty permitting the worse evil to win through inaction.
You don’t get to clean your hands of things when you have the power to act to effect the outcome.
So saying “People voted for evil” is a selective self-benefiting myopia. Vote abstainers are not virtuous, they are a narcissists.
People who refuse to vote when there is a clearly superior option deserve whatever the greater evil brings forth when they win.
Usually 3, sometimes 18 if its hot in my room. However, I’m considering switching to 5 & 20 as of late.
To top it off, if the US was pressured to reduce its CO2 as harshly as possible, you’d probably force the US to improve its walking and bicycle infrastructure in cities and add additional pressure to incentivize people to move closer to work, likely drastically improving the average American’s quality of life through shorter commutes, less dangerous driving related deaths, less pollution, and less social atomization.
The only people external pressure to reduce CO2 would really hurt are like the richest 10-5% of people here anyway. So I’m all for it even beyond the environmental benefits.
Make it per capita, why compare 300 million Americans directly to 1.3 BILLION Chinese.
Probably because total amount of CO2 is what matters to avoiding ecological doom. Further, economies and CO2 regulations are largely segmented between US, EU, and China.
We need CO2 Tariffs on USA NOW!!!
Yea tbh. I’m in agreement as someone from the US. Anything that potentially reduces CO2 is a good thing.
Expiration dates are useful, but they are not usually a hard end point to a food’s safety or edibility.
IDK man, they were prepped that’s what Project 2025 was, a plan.
Its just that they’re also extremely fucking stupid.
He looked legit surprised when he won
He was surprised the first time as well.
IDK that I love the implications of this post.
Billionaires existing is bad. Whether they were “losers” as children/teens is irrelevant to the badness.
I think that a super popular person growing up rich and eventually becoming a billionaire could easily be more actively narcissistic or psychopathic. Debatably just as bad.
Its not really that fey is a slur (IDK if it is and I’m bi) but that he said “That’s the problem” afterward. Like, saying its unfortunate that hes the gay dude of the power rangers and that the gay guy got named after him is a problem. Its a very “your dad is kind of homophobic” level but its still shitty.
It sure does have some history. Even recent history!
non-problematic
I mean, I don’t hate Bryan Cranston. In fact I still like him a lot… but I have some bad news.
Now he at least apologized for it and seems earnestly sorry. And doesn’t even remember saying it. But I think this goes to show that basically no one is “non-problematic”.
Advanced it a few more levels and combine it with future robotics and AI and you have a girlfriend/boyfriend printer.
West World here we come, hope you are ready to be eradicated by a hoard of anime girl robots.
Trump is scaling back the NSA and CIA isn’t he?
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For some straight guys and gay ladies a girl could be mean to them and that’d increase how much they want them.
That’s a fairly small subset though.
As much as I hate private ownership of the means of production, her death is tied more to Musk and Republicans. And everyone even slightly responsible for Trump’s victory through action or inaction.