That will be one piece of good news this year if he is dead. Fuck that piece of shit. We should’ve listened to our Syrian ambassador Robert Ford and fully supported the FSA.

Oil, tobacco (I guess you said drug) companies, Monsanto/Bayer, nursing home and hospice admins…

Damn, good deal!

Yeahhhh but that’s like the FP-45 Liberator gun going up against an AK, let alone tanks and drones. Nobody is using plastic guns for a reason, forgetting the fact that the plastics supply could be tamped and they still require machined parts if the new nazi party really wanted to crack down on that. Leaving aside that the printers necessary to do this so it won’t blow up in your face are not exactly low-level consumer-grade and easily controlled on the market. At that point we’re basically back to pipe guns.

If I recall, gun control laws in nazi Germany were loosened, but only for nazi party members.

I’m sure they’ll craft something that keeps them out of the hands of everyone but the SA and SS.

It’s almost like these folks are the real “enemy from within” (Trump’s words, not mine) the whole time.

“It could be anyone. Anywhere. Any time! God forbid my picture is plastered everywhere. All the bodyguard protection barely Donnie, protectafter all!”

lol Musk dumped triple this in PA on a whim.

After all, $60,000,000 to Musk is what spending $20 is to someone making 100k.

File that under when I care for your opinion.

If you had respect and do care, ask why.

Not quite the same gap but I grew to be good friends with a work buddy in his 40s when I was 25.

Throughout my life I tended to connect better with people older than me.

But if you have bad vibes beyond just the age then it may be worth talking candidly with your son about your concerns.

Carl Sagan wrote in 1995:

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance

While there were always idiots, they often lacked the capacity to engage or equip themselves with such a sophisticated web of lies to prop up their beliefs. As such, Joe Schmoe from Bumfuck, Alabama had a limited platform and so could go on his blissfully ignorant way without much harm beyond his county line.

These days? They all communicate together and domestic and foreign operatives can reach them all the same to stoke division.

Crazy to watch.

I thankfully dodged having to speak with a socialist who sat out the election over Gaza. I’m not sure I could control myself. That pisses me off far more than your typical red hat.

Nah. They engaged in textbook bottom-up investigation knowing they’d be prosecuting a former president and going up against stacked courts.

The stacked courts delayed everything. Would’ve happened regardless; the only difference is if Garland/Smith rushed, they might risk a lack of corroborating evidence to convince a jury or lose on technicalities.

As much as it pains me to say it, I’d rather this than a jury returning a Not Guilty.

The biggest bullshit post-election is this scapegoating Garland. That we knew Trump was a convicted felon and pending 3 other trials and still voted for him is kind of a bigger problem.

Honestly I’m all for it; then handing the keys to Trump lmao.

Or implement a No Fly Zone and fully commit NATO forces to air defense. See Putin squirm on what to do and how to react. Makes the Putin-Trump relationship tense. Trump backing down would be seen as weak. Putin wouldn’t retaliate because he wouldn’t risk losing his puppet.

I like this. Bonus: read children’s books and bilingual books; watch news or children’s shows in Spanish.

Find a good way to crunch vocabulary memorization with digital flashcard programs you can work during any downtime you have.

I’m mostly surprised by the “faces consequences” part.

✅- White

✅- Conservative

❎- Rich

❎- Male

Tough luck…

The more voter accessibility, the better vote turnout. It’s no different than going the opposite way with voter suppression strategy or Jim crow laws. Most states already utilize digital transfer of voting data to state secretary central branches to my knowledge.

Not only this but it (a) actually helps prevent voter fraud while (b) improving turnout by way of digital accessibility.

If we shot down every idea from the peanut gallery because it wasn’t simple on its surface we wouldn’t have a lot of things.

But what did I notice is that you’ve now twice dodged the fact that the thing you’re most scared about implementing this is already a reality.

So can you explicitly tell me what unavoidable downside it would bring that doesn’t already exist in reality?

Ironically, you’re accepting fascism is here by preventing us from advancing with a more secure election system that would permit a more responsible, accessible digital voting, are you not?

You’re holding us back for fear of what could be.

Even in the wake of what already is a practical reality as I showed.

Ok, Abed.

It’s no different than playing by the rules (or lack thereof) of the game like Bannon or Stone play in their strategizing with Trump: Perception is Reality. Ends Justify Means.

Maybe not along this issue, but yes Democrats must realize just how poorly educated and gullible the electorate is and start catering their message accordingly. In spite of moral reservations, fear & anger are powerful motivators.

Yes, Dems couldn’t pull it off because the coalition consists of a large number of ethically-bound and higher educated individuals who aren’t willing to play dirty as a means to an end… Even when that end is far superior than what the opposition seeks.