I mis-typed, I meant to say that “war is bad” is a higher bar. If this genocide can’t make you take a stand against something then you don’t stand for anything but your own pocketbook, as these people have proven over and over.

Not even as high a bar as “war is bad”, because even that can have some nuance, but it was “verifiable genocide, an explicit extinction of a group of people by another, in one of the most one-sided conflicts in history is bad.”

This genocide is like watching a roided-up bull kill several babies on purpose just because they were there, and also also saying nothing about the people who put the fucking thing in the daycare and gave it the drugs after it already attacked people. (Note: I am not saying Palestinians are weak babies and if anyone needs to have the conversation then they don’t have the literacy level to make it worth anyone’s time).

No representative can be expected to be an expert on everything. Their main job is to listen to people and be the central authority figure which brings those experts’ consultation into law. They do that pretty well, except that the only people they listen to are the ones who pay them a lot of money instead of to the bulk of the population who elected to them.

At some point, you’re putting your faith in someone you think is an expert. That’s ok, except when the people you’ve chosen are so clearly the worst possible people to choose of the bunch. The conflict of interest issues alone are enough to write the whole thing off and the ideas are terrible to boot.

Bro has enough money and fame that he’s set for life even if his contract said that he had to hand over all his money if he cancelled the rest of the tour. Even if he was set back so far that he could only play local pubs and small venues, and give lessons, he’d be golden.

Zero reason to keep going on the tour. He could stand with Macklemore and throw his weight around or just give in like a little baby.

Who needs a tool? He and the other GOP members have clearly broken countless laws, they haven’t even tried hide half of them and the other half have been hidden incredibly poorly.

The due has felonies and just straight-up wasn’t punished because it might have been difficult for a guy accused of fraud and bribery and manipulationa and a host of other things to be the fucking President of the violent toddler country.

Investigated? Prosecuted? Yea, and like his felonies, at the end they’ll say he’s not gunna be punished in case that makes his job of being a super criminal while in charge of that country difficult.

The only people who were “tricked” by Trump were the hateful and stupid. He learned a lesson, sure, but it was not a difficult one to learn and yet he it took this to finally make him figure it out.

And like most of them, he still won’t truly learn why what he did was bad and will likely do it again.

Right? Same problem in Canada, we bitch and moan and will spend so much energy on so many things but our turnout is dogshit. The last Montréal municipal election had 36%, the last couple Ontario provincial elections had less than half, and the last federal election was only 69.5%. Last time the federal election saw more than 70% was in 1988.

The honest fact of it all is that votes are currently not weighted differently. No matter how fucked things get, if populations said “NO” to these openly corrupt assholes then that would be the end of them. Instead, it feels like nothing will stop idiots from voting for pure evil and nothing will get 30+% of the population to actually pay any attention at all.

Bet he was a huge fan of corporate subsidies, especially when the business was experiencing the consequences of management failure and the reasoning was essentially that they were holding their employees’ well being hostage.

My friends dad is like that. We had a whole conversation/argument one time over a corporations right to basically do whatever it wanted because they had the position of power/ownership. The energy there has been chill since then, but my friend also just moved out into a house, so it’ll be less of an issue.

It’s interesting, with those people, where even the faintest possibility that something positive could maybe be misused is enough to gut the whole thing, but you show imperically how capitalism is used for evil fare more often than for good and they’re chill with that.

3M and DuPont could poison a whole town, cover it up, and then get no real punishment, but if they even THINK about their porn-hungry, homeless strawman that’s enough to burn down their local library. Conservatives are deeply unserious people who cause deeply serious damage.

Honestly, look at the people who voted for him and look at his dementia and his general contempt for anyone but himself. The Russia thing may or may not be true, but either answer does not absolve US citizens of their responsibility in how this has all unfolded.

“Anyone normal” and a side-eye emoji. Not “for the layman” or “in case anyone doesn’t know yet”, but “anyone normal” with attitude.

God, I know literacy levels are in the fucking toilet but are you serious?

Dumbing the world down for Benny is only hurting the both of you. I truly believe that some people are just shockingly stupid and that’s the end of it but you say Roberston enough times, without being an asshole, and even they will figure it out.

So, I wanted to go at the guy for not reading your article but in reading it myself I did find possibly missing something. Like, they talk about them fitting within one another but then show that there are definitely differences. Maybe it’s a case of the same number screwdriver not being equal but +/- 1 number gets you back on track, I dunno.

The article definitely isn’t fully selling me on what they’re saying, though. I own a 1986 Ninja 1000 and have done extensive work to it(engine in half, whole bike in pieces at one point) and there was definitely something up with the bolts. I replaced them all with new button-head and socket-head hex bolts and life was much easier.

Robertson = Robertson. “Square-head” is not clear enough, same as saying “hex-head” and not being able to say definitively whether you need an allen key or a socket. It’s not that difficult, just learn things.

Explain how what I’ve been doing has been haopening for decades. I’m specifically saying that way too many people have been scared into strategic voting and that we all need to start voting FOR things instead of against them. Literally said it’s not been happening, because it fucking hasn’t been and I would like to stop being so alone in standing by my convictions.

Ranked choice would be sick and I know it’s the way forward. Here in Canada the centrist LPC was elected largely on updating our electoral system IN 2015 and then nearly immediately went “it’s too haaaaaard” when they realized that they would probably never win another election. That was blatantly anti-democratic and should have led people to never vote for them ever again, but they are STILL in power because we’re a bunch of spineless cowards. We TRIED to do what you’re asking and it DID NOT WORK. The only times we’ve seen the LPC do anything good are when they’ve had a minority government and the progressive NDP could use their leverage to force them to do the right thing. The NDP, I might add, used ranked-choice voting for their recent leadership race.

Go take a long walk off a short pier. The cold water might help clear your head.

Bro, Canada and the US have been doing the whole “vote centrist and tell the progressives that we’ll get to their utopic ideas ‘just as soon as we get to these goalposts we totally won’t move’” thing for decades and it’s only gotten us massive delayed, half-assed progress at best, but mostly just contributed to the ratcheting effect. It doesn’t work, we’ve seen it not working in real-time, its time we gave up on that crap.

If you don’t vote for what you want, you aren’t going to get it. If you the people you vote for learn they only have to be marginally better than another boogeyman party then they are also going to learn that they don’t need to listen to you. As fucked up as the system is, no party actually gets votes that are weighted more than another’s. It’s not like votes for other parties’ are literally counted at half the rate; we can turn this shit around tomorrow if we actually did something about it. And there IS something starting, progressives are getting more power and attention, and people are getting energized. Don’t kill that momentum, lean into it, show that you support it and let others feel comfortable to show their support, too.

The simple reality that I see when I talk to “strategic” voters is that they’re scared, and they worry about everyone else being scared, too. It’s always “well, maybe next election…” until it’s “ok well this time I don’t think it’s the right time to…”.

I am, because that is how it works. I’m from Canada, one party is progressive, then we have two other parties which amount to northern copies of the DNC and GOP. We have other small ones. People’s main excuse for not voting for the progressive party is “they can’t win” and we refer to their seats in parliament to show that because we’re largely cowards.

People have a hard time seeing what “support” is, but everyone can see the spread of MPs(member of congress, essentially) and they make choices based on that. People will look me in my real face and say “I wanted to vote NDP but I neeeeeeded to vote against the Conservatives” and now our forests are on fire and our Prime Minister is sucking Trump’s dick, fighting our unions, and handing over taxpayer money to oil and gas companies or real-estate developers(don’t worry, they’re not doing anything to ease the cost of living).

If you do not vote for something then you are voting against it. Maybe you’re ok with that, maybe you deem it worth it, but you need to accept that reality and what it shows everyone else.

Literally jusy start with the first sentence, dude. It’s ok, take your time, but maybe next time don’t come at me with your raging first grade reading level(is it even that? Their comment was pretty clear).

Another one! I feel the UK changes PMs more often than most people change their underwear, and that’s not a dig at their personal hygiene. I guess it’s good that people still step-down or are removed when they aren’t performing but uhhhh