Triasha @ Triasha @lemmy.world

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Have you seen episode 1 of "the Pit" average wait there is 12 hours.

It's not even faster here.

Off the top of my head? 30. I was fully transitioned but my chronic illness has not taken off yet.

Currently 40

Yeah there aren't any good guys to root for here.

If you want to abrogate your responsibility as a citizen that's your choice.

I will not be an unthinking cog in a deeply flawed legal system.

Not all. Pre industrial humans where I live ate a lot of slow roasted cactus. After 2 days buried with hot stones the cactus hearts were caramelized. I've tasted it prepared in the traditional manner and it's just syrup in a leaf. Delicious, and I have no doubt it was great energy for people that had to walk miles every day.

Anyone that lived past 30 had their teeth rot right out of their head, according to the archiological record.

If I am on a jury, part of my job is to consider the justice of the law.

Yeah the British and French made some serious mistakes early on.

The Democrats should negotiate things they want I. Exchange for their votes. If the reps don't want to play ball then they can pass their own bills. Blaming the Dems now is fucking nonsense and if Americans don't realize that we deserve to rot.

They would mostly wear hats.

We would vote and then make Canada as shitty as the US is.

Hitler put the military on the border of chekoslovakia, made noises about protecting the German minority in the Sudetenland. British Prime minister negotiated the transfer of the Sudetendland from Chekoslovakia to Germany. All the fortifications the Checks military had built were in the Sudetenland. A few months later the Germans rolled in and took the rest of the country nearly unopposed. Germany signed a deal with Austria taking political control there, then they made a deal splitting Poland with the USSR. The Poles saw what happened to the Checks and resolved to fight it out reminding Britain and France that they have a defence pact but they didn't know about the deal the Germans had with the Soviets, so Poland got invaded on both sides.

Britain and France declared war but they needed time to get their militaries rolling. Germany brought the army over to the French border, then the Germans invaded the Netherlands and Belgium. Went around the French defences and took Paris. Britain got their people out of France at Dunkirk. Germany bombed Britain but didn't have the navy to invade so they turned around again and attacked the USSR, and that's where it started going to shit for them.

Honest endgame here.

And if the coastal states are doing it you might even get a left-right alliance in Texas to support secession.

Trump can be talked down by people that understand reality, but not always. Putin, a much more intelligent leader, thought his invasion of Ukraine would be over in a week and look how that worked out for Russians.

There would be insurgency in the lower 48 as well.

They are terrified. The US got Texas with great replacement in the 1840's. White people came legally at first and then streamed across the border overwhelming the natives and Mexicans and they brought slaves and when Mexico told them slavery is illegal they declared the Texas revolution and more white Americans came to help fight it (including Davy Crockett) and they won and a few years later the US annexed Mexico

They fear Mexicans doing the same thing back. They won't, but conservative white people don't believe that.

This would work in the US on the coasts and in the cities.

Even the eastern parts of the west coast states the math gets bad. Running cables over/mountains to service the poorest 10% of the states population.

Getting into the square states you have 10s of thousands of miles of mountains and deserts to get to a vanishing small number of people. There are twice as many people in my city as there are in the entire state of Wyoming and we are the third largest city in Texas.

Are you really going to run cables all over an area of the alps but the size of France to bring service to a number of people equivalent to one midsize city? Most of it is protected national Park people don't even live in.

Most of Nevada is uninhabited desert with some of the hottest temperatures on earth.

We can leave half of Texas empty and still have service for 95% of the population.

It's not as simple as "just do it" over here. We have huge problems, but the challenges are legit.

The founding fathers created a good system and bipartisan politics have corrupted it

Only when compared to monarchy, or the Soviet Union.

It was always going to be corrupted, and if you think the electoral college will ever prevent a demogoge from taking power, I have a bridge to sell you on Pluto.

You can be against the established paradigm when you know what you want and how to get there.

We want to take the money from the few, and give it to the many.

I was really curious. Hopefully they will come back.

Milei's performance really does depend on your metric.

If all you care about is inflation and regulations, then he's doing all right. Somewhere between fantastic and "eh, he's getting there" depending on how you squint.

If you care about how many people are in poverty, or struggling to eat, he has been a disaster.

Conservatives don't care about suffering. The suffering is natural. Life is hard. Lots of people are losers. Trying to stop the suffering just moves the pain from people who deserve to suffer (the poor) to people who don't deserve it. (The rich)