and that meme where Qui-Gon jinn brings back both Anakin and his mom instead of just Anakin?
is a very legitimate point.
the Jedi council chose to keep a jedi's mother in slavery instead of reuniting their family, freedom which would have come at a truly insignificant cost to the council.
when people ask me how Trump won, I explain that Americans care so little about women as a group that they're letting them die in front of hospitals rather than allowing them to have health care.
"allowing" them.
so the party hoping to elect a woman president is at an extreme disadvantage.
I also think domestic and international election interference election interference plays a much more significant role in American elections than people think and in hindsight and future history textbooks, people will be shaking their heads, not just at the electoral college, but at direct election interference securing Republican victories.
people don't think election interference is important because we hear the word gerrymander or social media bias or "Russian troll farms" and since they're omnipresent, they're dismissed, although they have direct practical influence on campaigns and election processes.
I've learned many languages from many sources, and rosetta stone is the fastest and the most comprehensive.
you can move at your own pace, they have audio, written and reading positive reinforcement, speaking exercises, it's pretty fun overall, and extremely practical and encouraging.
it is also by far the most premium experience, nothing else comes close.
you can tell the devs and linguists put a lot of work into developing the course and it really shows when I compare it to any other app or program I've used.
Spanish was one of the first languages I learned, and I used Rosetta stone for it and can testify that spanish in particular is fantastic, although I haven't really come across a Rosetta stone course that isn't highly effective.
for when you're walking around or you don't have a lot of time to sit at a computer, pimsleur audio courses are the best runner-up
they're amazing for training your ear to acknowledge foreign languages and feel comfortable with unfamiliar cadences and speeds.
either one will help you get used to the language, but you will learn more words and phrases quicker with Rosetta stone; it's the best language program out there.
I should have stuck with the original open letter from eight credible ecomputer scientists and election officials, the court-documented testimony, confessions from Trump lawyers and video footage rather than including the article featuring the other scientist that scares everybody.
this is the credibly sourced open letter to Hatris I read first, from eight computer security experts and election officials coming to the same actionable conclusion without extrapolating any numbers:
it looks like mom's fried rice is a separate dish that has more ingredients, you can add mushrooms and meat and a bunch of vegetables, but the recipes for this "kids" mom's fried rice only have egg, rice and cabbage, plus sauce:
these are the facts Jack, and facts don't care if you don't like them.
also, conspiracy does not equal untrue.
a conspiracy is a group of people planning to carry out or carrying out a scheme.
that happens in the real world everyday.
it's fine if you don't like that one guy, ignore that one guy.
Focus on all of the other computer security experts stating that because of trumps lawyers admitting they hired a group to steal voting machine software, and their stated intention to interfere with the election, we should do a manual count to make sure that all the ballots are legitimate.
you can ignore that one guy and listen to all the other scientists you don't have a problem, who you claim to agree with, with who have 19 credible sources supporting the electoral obligation for a manual ballot count.
The only way you can think civil rights are futile is if you have already given up.
If that's the case, then take yourself out of the equation and stop talking about issues you don't care about.
If you haven't given up, explain how making sure people have civil rights is futile.
"it assumes..."
no, it doesn't. you're making assumptions, don't do that.
"special interests" (it's the capitalist class..."
Yes, those are special interests.
"I don't think a qanon style campaign to stop the steal is realistic"
this is literally what I'm telling you. step away from qanon, Focus on real evidence and making changes that benefit people.
you're fixated on the futility of everything, but you are incorrectly assuming that nothing can be changed because you are not willing to fight for that change.
that is simply incorrect.
people thought Trump was going to have his second term 4 years ago, and then he was voted out.
change happens all the time, you're complaining that it can, despite overwhelming constant evidence that things are always changing.
Regardless of the outsized influence special interests have, Americans have had and still have a say in who they elect.
you are fixating on how difficult change is instead of understanding that things perpetually change and it's the fight to change systems that changes systems.
you're fighting for futility, I'm advocating realistic change.
you might be bummed out because of the election results, but that's no reason to stop making things better.
you're still here and so is everybody else, and in the Cassandric words of steve Harwell,
as long as you're choosing to be in that system, the will of the electorate should be exerted to its side host when choosing their president.
the alternative you are suggesting is that because there are outsized special interests influencing you a selection, people shouldn't have any say.
which I cannot agree with.
it's a popular, simple opinion, doesn't require you to do anything but it certainly doesn't change anything for the better or have any positive benefits.
nobody's arguing that the fix you're talking about isn't in, those computer scientists and I agree that we should try to fix the fix.
yea, the jedi were ideological conservatives.
and that meme where Qui-Gon jinn brings back both Anakin and his mom instead of just Anakin?
is a very legitimate point.
the Jedi council chose to keep a jedi's mother in slavery instead of reuniting their family, freedom which would have come at a truly insignificant cost to the council.