Last I checked there were about 50% more registered Democrats than registered Republicans in the USA. Given those kind of numbers, it’s actually impressive that the Republicans ever win any elections at all; and it takes a lot of both Democratic incompetence and Republican gerrymandering.
Yes! IMO the ‘evil geniuses’ had no effect whatsoever. Trump just wins by default when the Democrats run unpopular candidates.
I’ve been saying this for almost ten years now. Trump is not a popular candidate and never has been. In '16 he got fewer votes than Romney did in '12. If everyone who voted for Obama had voted for Clinton, Trump never would have won. The same is true with '20 vs. '24: if everyone who voted for Biden had voted for Harris, Trump never would have won the second time.
I also don’t think Biden was ever that popular; I think any of the Democratic candidates would have won in 2020. I told anyone who would listen at the time, “Biden is a bad choice, some shit could heat up in Israel, and he’s very out of touch with the Democratic base on that issue, and it could prevent him from getting re-elected.” I will say, I didn’t think Trump would get re-elected after J6, I thought it would be some other Republican. But, it also felt like the Democrats also never really went after Trump for what he did on J6 so.
Anyway, I guess what I’m saying is I agree and I’m glad to hear other people say it. The Democrats are too willing to compromise with Republicans who never compromise with them, and it keeps losing them elections. So even though Americans as we actually exist are reasonably progressive on most issues (legalizing weed and having universal healthcare poll higher than any sitting politician, there are about 1.5x as many registered Dems as Reps in this country, etc), we’re stuck with an extremely regressive government. That’s the context that leads to progressives like Mamdani winning in “upset” victories and the Democratic leadership is all surprised.
Nah, he’s always sucked. I first heard about him in 2007, shilling Hyperloop, and I was like “wow this is such an obvious grift!” The tech was totally fake and experimental compared to just buying off the shelf HSR tech. Hyperloop was so obviously bad, on its face, that ever since then I’ve been judging everyone who gets into him.
It’s unfortunately definitely a counterproductive thing if it makes you believe stuff like “capitalism is when people use money.” People still used money in the USSR. Capitalism is about transnational social control, accomplished through use of surplus value accumulation & compound interest to acquire controlling ownership of international corporations (which can then use their international nature to dodge legal accountability from the countries they operate in, typically in a highly colonialist way).
Capitalism is not a bunch of farmers at a farmer’s market. It is an act of strategic class violence.
Pickpocketing is not a thing in America. Too subtle. We are a mugging people. However, I will say that your chances of encountering gang violence as a tourist/traveler are quite low. The main danger when visiting here is the government/police.
I wonder if short hops in electric propeller planes are gonna take over everything in a few years. Like it will be the cheapest option for any trip under about 800 miles. Cheaper than driving, even in an electric car. A few Canadian companies are already doing this with seaplanes, where most of the trips are under 30 minutes anyway.
This tech is mature, in the US we’re just waiting on the FAA to certify it.
“The death of one man is a tragedy; the death of one million, a statistic.” — J. Stalin
Yes. Thank you.
The treaty was certainly fucked up, and also, the Nazis used that as propaganda to enflame their base with the “stab-in-the-back” myth.
Also, we can keep playing this nationalists game. One could also argue that France had “legitimate reasons” for being so punitive in the treaty, like, for instance, how they didn’t start WWI.
Actually Hitler and Eva Braun got married in the bunker right before they killed themselves. Why do I know this?! Fuck
Just use grok to summarize
Whatever they build, it needs a plaque that says “I built this monument before Elon killed himself”
Fuck it, I’d vote for him once he turns 35.
I’ve just been saying “go woke or go broke” for a little while now.
I think we’ve “been there” since at least the 1930’s in terms of “the majority of people’s lives suck for preventable reasons,” but there’s a lot of propaganda convincing people that their lives are actually awesome.
I will never get over in early Covid when the governments and militaries of the world were sitting around with their thumbs in their asses, unsure what to do.
Meanwhile, ICP straight up canceled the Gathering of the Juggalos. They lost a bunch of money in the process, and said, “We refuse to risk even one Juggalo life.” I don’t really care for their music, but it gave me a huge amount of respect for them.
Like seriously. Why were the guys who rap about murdering people providing better pandemic leadership than the entire government?
Fucking rainbows after it rains…
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I like the part where nobody mentioned the USA until you did 😂
As an American, it seems to me that you appear to have the economic beliefs of a middle class conservative American (“these people’s lives suck because they are lazy! How dare they complain?”). Maybe it’s time to self-reflect.
EDIT: Doubled down in the replies lmao. Yes, pity is a common conservative emotion.
USA population in 2024: ~341 million (according to the US census)
Trump votes in 2024: ~77 million (according to Wikipedia)
That’s only about ~22% or a little over 1/5th of the country that voted for him.