JonEFive @ JonEFive @midwest.social

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True, my reason for using those states as examples had more to do with people's expectations than actual numbers.

I've made a very similar point to some of my friends about how the two sides of the political spectrum are no longer geographically separated. A civil war today would be very different from the US Civil War in the 1800s. It won't be a physical war like the Russia/Ukraine war because it geographically and logistically can't be. I think we're likely to see acts of terrorism as the tension continues to grow, but not geographic borders being drawn and guarded.

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Too many

In buildings in some cities, entry ways for big buildings often have an emergency access box somewhere near the door. If police or the fire department need to gain entry, they have a master key that will let them access the lockbox and the lockbox will contain keys to the door.

Hate to say it but I doubt it. The people voting republican bought heavily into the idea that McCarthy was some kind of traitor and started calling him a RINO. They seem to live for this kind of chaos. They want things their way, and if they can't have it the only alternative is burning it all down. Compromise is completely unacceptable to them hence McCarthy's ouster.

This raises an important point, especially as it pertains to the civil war. This country nearly split itself in two because there were two very different ideologies that simply were not compatible.

The US is a fairly large nation geographically with no shared cultural heritage to speak of and greatly differing political beliefs. I don't know the answer, but we really need to at least think about how we can expect all US citizens from liberal Californians to conservative Texans to ever be satisfied with the state of the national government we share.

In terms of commandments and how one is expected to follow the rules, I would argue that some do. In terms of attaching spiritual beliefs to it, no, not so much.

But yes, your point is true - it boils down to governance and how people want to be governed.

It's more a "don't throw stones if you live in a glass house" thing, but fair enough.

I think one thing that some people seem to miss is that liberal voters didn't necessarily vote for Biden, they simply voted against Trump.

You're absolutely right in your assessment. Our system is stacked against us. I wish we had a system that could support multiple parties. But all we have to choose from is one extreme or the other. I'm not exactly pleased with it.

And if you want to see what happens when a politician breaks ranks to get things done, look no farther than McCarthy getting ousted as speaker of the house. I don't like the guy at all but he did the right thing this one time by getting bipartisan support to get a funding bill passed in order to avoid a government shut down. His party crucified him for it. So yeah, we are fucked.

Entry level doesn't necessarily mean literally anyone can do it. What I meant was basically first job out of college. Except you could apply while you were still in college. If that isn't entry level, I don't know what is.

Yes. This wasn't an open "literally anyone can do it" job. It's entry level as in starting a path to a career. A certain aptitude is definitely necessary.

Let me ask you this, is a job that requires a two year degree and zero years of experience entry level? Because our requirements were even less than that.

Thank you. This wasn't a joke where we were like "entry level; requires 5 years of experience". This job fair was at a community college... So it wouldn't have been unreasonable to think that maybe someone there had some interest and at least a minimal level of training. Like I said, a class or two.

I've been on the opposite side. A company I used to work for did a table at a job fair once. The candidates who showed up to talk to us were mostly under qualified for the entry level position we were trying to fill. And by that, I mean that people with zero knowledge, training or experience in our industry. Even one class or a little knowledge might have sufficed.

We had one guy lingering near our table who really seemed to want to work with us even though his skill set didn't fit our needs at all and we told him as much. The whole thing was a big waste of time for us, we never did another one after that.

You guys are really taking that whole "America is a continent" thing seriously. Usually it's just some pedant pointing out the name of the continents as if a Brazilian would ever say "I'm American". Canada went a whole different direction with it. It's like the thought process is: Canada is in North America, North America IS America and America is the US. Therefore, Canada is the US. Checkmate! You now have protections under our constitution or something IDK.

It's amazing to me the way we've elevated the constitution to near biblical proportions. And just like the Bible where every church and pastor interprets it in their own way, so too do our 9 oracles in black robes interpret the will of our village elders from ages past.

I can see how 9 out of 13 colonies (or equivalent votes in congress) might be more plausible than 34/50 states or 357/535 congresspeople (house + senate) considering the state of politics today.

I love completely unaware comments like this. President stable genius wasn't really all that stable nor all that much of a genius. Dude bragged about memorizing 5 words in a TV interview.

If you're willing to mention one as a disqualifying factor, you should really take a long hard look at the other candidate through the same lens.

And in other parts of the world where it's just a standard. I was surprised when I saw WhatsApp numbers on advertisements with the WhatsApp logo. Hard not to be on WhatsApp in those places.