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Democrats need to take note.

The right promised the religious base they'd ban abortion. It took them almost 40 years, but they packed the court and got RvW overturned.

They came out, they promised, they did it.

Every democrat that promises M4A and doesn't deliver, i don't care why, needs to be voted out. Since Clinton M4A has been sidelined, and millions of Americans have died earlier than they should have and lost their lives earnings and their families being gutted generational wealth and inheritance. Besides the cruelty. Besides the insane wealth transfer from the bottom up, it's guaranteed no economic mobility. It's created a caste system.

The centrists are just as beholden to the 1% as the right is. Yale and Harvard have both dropped studies showing that public opinion has 0% effect on whether a bill gets passed.

Dems either stop holding a carrot in front of progressives and put people over profit or I, a fucking nobody, will file papers to start a new Progressive Party, with the Bull Moose as the mascot.

Dangle the carrot long enough, you'll find you end up getting the stick.

Look up Teddy Roosevelts platform from when he ran for president as a progressive.

we still have the SAME FUCKING EXACT PROBLEMS 100 YEARS LATER

no more carrots. Start grabbing big sticks.

Y'know, I stopped on it when I was typing and thought to double check, but I figured if I wrote it out intentionally wrong I'd get corrected.

I do appreciate it, tho, no joke. Thank you

Samesies. You aren't alone. We have a support group.

It's amazing that they calculated it down to that detail in the 1700s. Before that they were just a hares breath off for 1000 years (Julian calender -> Gregorian calender). It became a real issue for the church that the start of spring didn't align with the calendar anymore, and they needed to know exactly when Easter was to be held.

It why George Washington is credited with 2 birthdays, depends on which calender you're going by. I think Russia was the last major country to adopt it.

But the earth is flat and pyramids=aliens. Uh huh. Yup.

It's necessary to clean out all the lactic acid buildup from thinking.

Ive suffered insomnia. It's wild how after long enough you stop developing short term memory. Which; when experienced, translates to; it's 10am. You just got done cleaning the garage cuz...cuz. You're drinking coffee watching clips from the today show on yr phone. You look up. It's 9pm and dark outside. You're sitting on the couch. You felt no time pass in between. You ask yr wife about dinner with her grandparents that you were supposed to go to. Oh. You did go. And you drove (wait....WHAT). Apparently you were as charming as ever. No memories of it.

It's like someone else is living your life.

That's when I went to the Dr. for sleep meds. I trust myself to be myself... but naw fam, life's too short. I never blanked out work so fuck that

Assume the bank opens up to a long line and it makes sense.

No man. But I'm not naive enough to believe benevolence without strings attached. Altruism only exists as a definition at the end of a spectrum, not in reality. It's a parameter, not a real thing. Let's assume that once again, just like in 2008, the bankers fuck up the American economy, that in conjunction with BRICS; the value of the dollar tanks.

What happens when a bank is considered suspect? A bank run. Everybody comes trying to collect.

So China comes calling for it's money, how do you think it gets paid? With another IOU? When China has 55million more extra fighting age men than women? Naw bro. It's pay up, now.

Historically, that's loss of land or war. Or both. But if the dollar is dead in the water, so it's paying our military, so so are we.

He who controls Pearl Harbor controls the North Pacific. It's a perfect deep water harbor, countries are lucky to have a SINGLE deep water harbor, America has them in spades.

Honestly if the dollar collapses, we'd be lucky if losing Hawaii would be enough

I'm with ya but I think a distinction should be made for non-exempt, hourly employees, just to fuck with their exploitation equation in how to properly fuck someone to economic death.

Looks like China prepaid for Pearl Harbor.

How else do you rationalize giving corrupt bankers more money? You know how they use it...what else do you expect to happen?

Metal has no taste tho. What yr tasting is you. VSauce or Nilered did a video about it.

You can test it yourself, just degrease and wash a coin. Once clean, no taste.

I had a conversation with my neighbor along those lines. He reads his Bible everyday. I asked him if he knew that God were real, 100%, something/someone he could reach out and touch, if that would change how he lives his life.

I answered before he had a chance and said in no way would it change mine. I live my values. He said it wouldn't effect him either, and I believe, he is a genuinely great guy. But the fact that that would change soooo many people is either terrifying or makes me super grateful that they have their reasons to not indulge their worst instincts.

Both are unsettling, really.

Ty for clarifying that for me :)

I think Camus might have summed it up best when he said the only real choice (therefore, freedom to exercise will) humanity has is whether or not to commit suicide.

Hmm. I was under the impression that the governor couldn't even pardon someone in GA unless they had served out 5 years of a sentence, thus guaranteeing jail time.

Yo OP. We're carbon based, which you accept. Diamond is stronger than almost all metal, and it's pure carbon. Why wouldn't we have metal in our veins? We atomically won that round before inflation was even over.

I'm just playin, carbon under high enough pressure is metal too.

Twice over, my favorite fact is that humanity has only existed during the time frames that the moon and the sun have been the same size in our sky, this allowing total eclipse - which is so obviously ridiculously rare I don't see the point in quantifying with maths.

I think it's bizarre to think we have free will. Everywhere around us, in all our tech, tools, toys we see the realities of determinism. Cause and effect. To think that our minds are somehow not governed by this in a universe that unequivocally is is beyond Babel levels of arrogance.

Beyond that, the idea that's gaining ground about shared consciousness I find really intriguing. Rather fascinating stuff.

Consciousness is the biggest mystery of the all, after all.

In the same vein, I like to remind myself that every field in physics is literally happening all around me, right now, and it always has been, in fact, I've never seen anything without these invisible fields in it and for some reason, that really makes me super aware of our place in the order of magnitudes.

It's wild we can see so much further down than up.

America™; as much freedom (and justice!) as you can afford.

Ok. You've got my interest. How exactly did China fix our economy? Any specific laws or bills they passed that I missed?

Lay it out for me. If I'm wrong and you're right, I'll admit it, idgaf what other ppl think about me, I just want to be truthful as much as possible

It started with Reagan and the rise of Neo-liberalism

Every president we've had since has been neo-liberal. It's what Clinton meant when he said he was a "third way" democrat.

Obama promised change but then nothing changed. He got us out of the Great Recession, sure, but that was cuz he loosened the rules on corporate property ownership, and look at us now, with corporations buying entire neighborhoods to rent out. They actively hold houses empty rather than reduce the rents, while financing against any efforts to build more "missing middle" housing or density of any kind.

That's a big fucking poisoned pill if you ask me. Biden's done alright. Sandbagging the railroad workers was/is bullshit but, I guess we're back to the status quo.

I just don't think it'll ever get better than this in America. Not with the law how it is now, and not while we play the NeoLiberal game. Neo-lib, or Corporatocracy, is just a stop on the road to Authoritarianism or Fascism.

Look at the organizational structure of a corporation. An hierarchy to the CEO. That's exactly how the world will look like underneath their thumb. There's no other option, you can't make applesauce from a bag of oranges.

Techno+democracy=a further dilution of power. And I will always, always, support the dilution of power to the masses.

There's no reason we can't vote on individual bills ourselves. We have the tech. We just need to remove entrenched power.

Man I would loooooove to find an old like 95 Regal. Totally a grandpa car, but all the freaking amenities, better cushioning than your couch, leg room, bench seat half the time, a V8 that can't dump power and you can hold like 5 half racks under the hood if you needed too (tho pls don't) there's so much room.

Not a knuckle of blood anywhere to be found.

One thing I love about older cars from Detroit, definitely not the gas mileage but I can keep my spare fluids in the engine compartment lol