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It's a Catch-22. He's a contender for the presidency and the former president who has a real shot of winning. He's also under indictment in multiple jurisdictions. The things he says are news, regardless of how stupid they are, because he's saying them to become president and avoid jail.

The first time around they didn't have to give him so much coverage early on in the primary race. This time, they don't have a choice because it's actually relevant news. That said, most networks have toned down coverage of Trump significantly. Actually most news orgs are more focused on the shutdown than the recent debate and Trump's bullshit.

Styles change over time. I don't see you calling people slobs for leaving home without their hat.

People thought that was the case with finance until 2008, instead we had people left homeless and jobless for years. Wealthy people have a safety net when the system fails. Poor people do not. If the U.S. crashed, people would die from the fallout. People died in the last recessions and they weren't mostly the rich.

As someone who grew up with those stories, I'm also curious what are considered space battles since I don't recall any.

He's got an amateur's level of knowledge while presenting as an expert. The moment in the video about China's plans to invade Taiwan where he said he used Google Translate as opposed to asking literally anyone in DC who knows Mandarin to help him with translations was when I realized he doesn't really know what he's talking about for many of the subjects he covers. I think there are policy and IR issues where he actually does have some knowledge, but I don't think any of it goes to the level of expertise required to educate on the subject, which is what he purports to do.

Let me be clear: this specific third party is most likely a GOP-led operation to bleed votes from the left. They do not have real policy goals that align with what people on the left actually want. Their goal is for a Republican to win, not someone from their party.

OP said coworker, which I think most people missed. If you're privileged enough to quit your job over a coworker's political opinion, more power to you, I guess. I think that's letting the fascists win, since you've literally ceded ground. But I believe OP is looking for constructive solutions to discuss politics with a coworker to preserve the relationship, likely both for their sanity at work and because there's other things about the person they like.

Your response to someone noting that working for this office has inherent risks due to gun nuts existing and someone responding with "it's just a job" is to compare gun regulations to the Holocaust. You just followed up a sentence where you said this isn't about guns with two questions about guns. I think you either don't understand what the Nazis did or you're arguing in bad faith. My guess is both.

Also, I don't have to have a solution to gun violence to point out you're making a stupid and dangerous argument. Calling people who work on gun safety Nazis in response to someone noting that gun nuts make their job dangerous proves the point.

I think you're wrong about the car example. The reason people don't know how their car works now is because so much of it involves proprietary software that you cannot fix it with physical labor. You have to understand and debug the code as well. Additionally, the manufacturers and dealerships have made accessing the parts (both on the car and replacements) so difficult that there isn't really a universal approach to fixing the modern passenger vehicle anymore. Millenials didn't stop fixing cars themselves out of laziness, it was because the knowledge needed to do so was greater than the cost of having a professional do it and have the repair guaranteed.

Meanwhile, though I understand that touch screen and app-based OSes are pretty difficult to program for the average consumer, it's not the only option for computing, just a popular one. This also has nothing to do with whether what you're downloading is safe.

They're good sandwiches, Bront.

But that's not really a good reason to not have regulations. "People are going to steal your shit if they want to badly enough" does not mean theft shouldn't be a crime.

There's probably a few other things that can be done but that's generally correct. Frankly, the solution to gun violence is to remove all guns. Make the situation impossible. That won't happen and neither will appropriate legal restrictions to ownership with the country the way it is, so training and other preventive measures are the next best thing.

Wanting to prevent civilian gun violence makes you a Nazi?

You'd be surprised by how much oil companies hate the DOT.

While I like the sentiment, it doesn't actually address OP's question. My guess is OP also hates fascists but has trouble discussing their opinions on politics with their fasc-curious friend for whatever reason, whether it's because they want to preserve the relationship or generally have trouble keeping up in a back and forth (which is totally fine, being quick-witted is not a requirement to hate fascists). What are your tips for approaching the conversation?

It literally says on the package that Starburst has artificial flavoring. Show me the same on the Starbucks cup.

Falling Down is basically what happens when you mix cocaine with the specific type of male fragility that can afford cocaine.

*Multiple cops. More than one Capitol Police Officer died after and due to 1/6.

The third party here is a spoiler to try to bleed people from the left to think there's a legitimate other option when their motive is to get a Republican elected. People on the left may not be equally susceptible to bad faith arguments, but that doesn't mean they're immune.

History class would he the appropriate place, what other subject were you thinking would teach you about him/those events? Not trying to be hostile, genuinely curious.