And is Melania’s patois really any less grating than Jar Jar’s?

People who don’t understand the consequences of their votes: Let’s not vote for the better candidate in the general election because they’re not perfect. Then the Democrats will be forced to run a perfect candidate next time, but not the Republicans — they won’t care because they’ve won.

Democrats: Vote for an imperfect candidate in the primary for the following election cycle.

People who don’t understand the consequences of their votes: Third time’s the charm.

I’m further left than you are, but be realistic about what you’re actually accomplishing.

Nothing working class about Luigi.

At least six people have been arrested so far. Epstein, Maxwell, Mountbatten-Windsor, Mandelson, Rod-Larsen, and Jagland.

And respiratory and cardiovascular disease.

How do you know that? To this point, they have only run the winner of the primary in the general election. In 2024, they ran the winner of the primary, but when he dropped out, they ran his running mate instead. What did you expect them to do?

If you want change to happen, you need to convince the voters. They control who the Democratic Party runs.

It looks like they aren’t ignoring you. They proposed a resolution, and they didn’t have the votes to get it passed. If you want change, vote for the ones who supported the resolution and primary the ones who didn’t while convincing voters to vote for the other candidate in the primary. Getting Trump elected just makes things worse. No Republicans are proposing these resolutions.

Because nonsense I know that throwing a punch won’t solve the problem, will gain sympathy for the attacked, and will put me in jail. Smart shit.

Maybe? No, we know the answer to that: definitely not.

There weren’t enough votes to do that yet, just like there weren’t enough votes to legalize gay marriage in 2008. In the reality we live in, California amended its constitution to ban gay marriage in 2008 by direct voter initiative. People who support gay marriage had to work to shift public attitudes while voting for the best option available, who said he didn’t support gay marriage (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/10/obama-frustrated-same-sex-marriage-david-axelrod-book) but then directed the DOJ not to defend DOMA in order for it to fail court challenges. Similarly, people fighting for civil rights had to shift public attitudes while voting for the best option available.

In the reality we live in, 51% of Americans said their sympathies were with Israelis and 27% with Palestinians in 2024. In just the same way, people opposing genocide have to shift public attitudes while voting for the best option available.

Doing otherwise means genocide stops later, and more people watch their friends die, as evacuation orders now cover half of Beirut. You didn’t have to let Trump win and kill schoolchildren in Iran with a triple tap strike. That was your decision made from not understanding the consequences of your actions.

Biden told Netanyahu U.S. won’t support an Israeli counterattack on Iran https://www.axios.com/2024/04/14/biden-netanyahu-iran-israel-us-wont-support

Hey, maybe we could have gotten that in the next election while reducing casualties in the intervening four years by increasing Biden’s sanctions on settlers and his aid to Gaza instead of removing those on day 1 like Trump did, bombing Iran, and then pretending that the ceasefire agreement didn’t apply to Lebanon when the country that brokered the ceasefire agreement said it did.

Lincoln also said blacks should be segregated and that he wouldn’t force an end to slavery, but if you voted for his opponent based on that, you made a bad choice. Always vote for the one who is better.

as if genocide wasn’t a big deal.

The point is if that’s your issue, your choices haven’t made things better. In fact, it made things worse. On day 1, Trump removed Biden’s sanctions on West Bank settlers. On day whatever it was this week, Trump said that Lebanon was not part of the ceasefire agreement despite the country that brokered the agreement saying it was.

I want to stop the genocide too, but I’m smart enough to know what my choices are. There isn’t a choice to stop the genocide immediately, but there is a choice to slow it down and get on a path where we stop it faster.

if you’re too much of a feckless hand-wringer to do anything to defend your community from predators.

Unlike you, I do things that work instead of just putting myself in jail. I was lucky to grow up in a household with education and without violence, so that’s why I’m more likely to make correct decisions.

the will of the people is ignored

News to me.

your advice

is to call for his resignation, raising embarrassment until he does. I’m active in local politics, so I know what works. It’s the people who aren’t active in politics who think action movies have all the answers. Rand Paul is still in office. Tony Gonzales will not be.

Whatever you say, Batman. Are you the one who’s going to deliver the punch?

Plenty of other countries have more vigilante justice and still have corrupt leaders, so clearly that doesn’t work either. Maybe instead work to make your government better. In a democracy, it represents the will of the people.

In the video, ChatGPT was actually being used as a stopwatch instead of a countdown timer.

This will actually be solved in a week. All it takes is to add the current time to each input.

They aren’t being economically prevented from getting an education. As I said earlier, most have access to free education within the prison system, and 42% complete an additional level of education while incarcerated https://www.newamerica.org/insights/equipping-individuals-life-beyond-bars/results. I don’t think you understand the huge difference between that and having laws against teaching you to read.

You say that in safety while others suffer the consequences of your actions.

Yes, you made several incorrect claims about education. Not only are they not denied higher education like you originally claimed, but they are also given free lower education. Slaves were legally barred from being educated. I don’t understand why this stark difference is so difficult to understand.

What does the age of my account have to do with anything? I would not be at all surprised if you made as many incorrect claims when your account was one day old as you make today, but I also would not be surprised if you made fewer incorrect claims then either.

You nor I said they were prevented from being taught to read

It was illegal to teach slaves to read. It is not illegal to teach prisoners to read. On the contrary, most prisons have adult basic education or high school equivalency programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-literacy_laws_in_the_United_States?wprov=sfla1

By saying that chattel slavery is the only real slavery, you are absolutely minimizing the horrors of today

I never said that. I said that imprisonment is nowhere near chattel slavery, and saying that it is whitewashes how bad chattel slavery was.