I honestly think that Perot (whose politics outside of his anti-war stance are just as idiotic and self-serving as every other politicians) gave the DNC and the RNC enough of a scare to lock everything down and ensure that a third party would never even taste national election success again.

And they still never got compensated properly lol

As per usual, Natalie is just upset that our old white men (including Mao) are better than her old white men.

Knowing where the funding for foreign NGO’s comes from is still a good idea, regardless of the affects on the rights of LGBTQ people, which you can pretend is inherent, but it’s not. The primary contradiction is still imperialism, not gay rights. It’s a shame that they are the political football, but wanting to know where the money is coming from will never be a bad decision for a government to make.

This is some illiterate bullshit. If you listen to the rhetoric on both sides, they are literally both claiming that if they don’t win, then fascism wins and it’s the end of American democracy.

Nobody is even thinking about ‘will fascism take thirty cents off my eggs’.

Ah yes, the known liar definitely wouldn’t have lied about what she would do while in office.

Yeah as long as nobody does the dumb thing of asking for a definition, you can always say that you thought it meant ‘changing the jury’s verdict’. But never be the one to bring it up or mention it, it will immediately disqualify you from both the defense and the prosecution because then you are generally working outside their comfort zone.

It’s definitely possible, the at the door photo and immediate ‘go home’ meme definitely made my ‘well wasn’t that convenient’ radar go off. I am 50-50 on it right now. Either way it is good to see that the people have protocols in place for another right-wing coup.

Yeah, this kinda jargonic shit is pretty typical for your average liberal arts text. I’d love to read the studies they are citing, cause I will guarantee that there is a lot of editorializing going on here. Notice how the ‘Men’s coping… authoritarian communist rule’ is completely uncited. The sections before and after are cited, but that part is stuck in there to make it look like it’s supported, but I would make a safe bet that neither study actually says that because if they did, they would quote the study’s author directly. Also notice how that trend continues through the page.

I had this kind of problem all the time when I did my liberal arts degree and my grade would suffer for it depending on the professor. Never enough to get a ‘C’, but I am legitimately getting better grades in my engineering classes now because I don’t have to deal with this level of interpretative, editorialized and adhoc bullshit. Shit’s tough, especially if you actually take the science seriously, unlike a lot of these authors.

It’s the U.S. any morality or empathy that you can develop in your teens and college is quickly and decisively stripped away from you by the universalized and all-pervasive corporate culture. People mistake it as a generational thing, and while some aspects are, contempt for the kids is consistent.

The liberal narrative is usually ‘Thank god we killed all those people before they killed anyone else.’

Literally the only expensive thing I’ve ever wanted is a 2005 Miata. What the hell are these people doing?

They want to keep the prices high. Idk why they are framing it as ‘climate sensitive’.

I keep seeing this ‘One-size-fits-all’ as an insult. Yes, in fact, having a plan and sticking to the plan with moderate variation is a good idea. Noone has ever said that ‘one-size-fits-all’, but some plans have actually idk, accomplished something?

Lol I remember that… Oh man what was it called, something about dark intellectualism or some such nonsense? Yeah they are on about getting the bag. It really is just bourgeoisie liberal feminism masquerading as conservative values. Very funny stuff.

The interesting thing is that there is evidence of Jewish settlement in Egypt (after the Exodus supposedly happened), but the evidence suggests that the community was composed of relatively wealthy administrators.

One of the jokes of existential comics is that your average gym bro holds themselves to a higher standard of academic rigor than your average academic philosopher.

You basically summed it up.

It’s more like once the money dried up for the socialist and progressive movement outside of some podcasts and the DSA, Dasha and Anna just decided to jump onto the next easiest band-wagon, which in the New York arts scene is Alt-right but hot because we’re ironic about it and everyone involved does cocaine and has money. Then Dasha got a bit part in Succession, and now has really leaned into the trad-Cath.

At this point they are basically on the same tired hot-girl podcast grind, except instead of petty DSA stuff it’s petty NY art scene and weird religious grievances stuff. They are just provocateurs and trend followers at heart.

Well yeah. It’s cheap. Can’t have the groveling classes saving money, that’s bad for the economy.

We make the mistake of actually saying the things the politicians want to have left unsaid, as that is the nature of politics is to say nothing while saying everything.