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"Your" party didn't even show up, why would anyone listen to them?

Edit: hey at least a couple of you learned how to vote! Maybe try doing that irl and not just on the internet!

And leftists vastly overestimate their popularity and numbers.

"Thought terminating cliche"

This seems like a good place to link Robert Evans BTB episode: "How Conservatism Won" in which "Robert sits down with David Bell to discuss how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all)."

Our current situation really is the culmination of almost 70 years of rightwing efforts. They've mobilized their base and that base turn outs to city councils to set up Nativity scenes and school board meetings to ban books. There are dozens of "grassroots movements" with varying interests, (some funded by shady thinktanks but some funded by low level true believers). At the end of the day they all show up to vote for their guy(s) to push their party the direction they want, it's worked and that party has mainstreamed extremism. Their judges and policy wonks are all Foundation Vetted and Approved ideologues.

The left lost, now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety.

Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could happen here.

tl;dl the rich hated FDRs New Deal and immediately set to work to undo everything he did and have been pretty successful, it'll likely take decades of work to undo the damage that's been done IF "the left" can wake up.

I legitimately know a woman who's divorcing her husband, finding out he was a Trump supporter was the final straw. They've been in a rough spot for the last year or so, he doesn't cook/clean at all.

She was going to leave him a year ago but tried to make it work, finding out he was a secret Trumper sealed the deal for her.

Traitors should've been hanged. Their lands should've been confiscated and given to newly freed peoples, 40 acres and a mule and all that. Reconstruction failed in large part because the traitorous, racist losers were allowed to go home and start implementing Jim Crow laws instead of being held accountable.

That they and their descendants were allowed to live out their days peacefully pretending their cause was somehow noble and honorable and not just chattel slavery is a crime that persists to this day in the systemic racism throughout our government.

The body is Rottweiler-sized, segmented into overlapping hard plates like those of a rhinoceros. The legs are long, curled way up to deliver power, like a cheetah's. It must be the tail that makes people refer to it as a Rat Thing, because that's the only ratlike part - incredibly long and flexible.

The grass under the Rat Thing is beginning to smoke.

"Careful. Supposedly they have really nasty isotopes inside," Hiro says behind her... "A radioactive substance that makes heat. That's its energy source."

"How do you turn it off?"

"You don't. It keeps making heat until it melts."

The body converges to a sharp nose. In the front it bends down sharply, and there is a black canopy, raked sharply like the windshield of a fighter plane. If the Rat Thing has eyes, this is where it looks out.

As part of Mr. Lee's good neighbor policy, all Rat Things are programmed never to break the sound barrier in a populated area. But Fido's in too much of a hurry to worry about the good neighbor policy. Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.

Also while some peoples definition of criminal is "murderer" or similar some peoples definition is closer to "you did or a relative did something not 100% legal in the last generation or two.

edit: some peoples definition of criminal will definitely include unhoused or non-land owning eventually

That already happened to like 90% of us thanks to the same cultists.

Don't you think that into existance Matt! Take it back!

Assuming this is real (it's not) the art teacher might possibly be right in saying dial it back. Subtlety and nuance are great in art. People like to interpret artists meaning (even if it's pretty obvious). If they're anything like the art teachers I've had they were familiar with feminism and trying to help the student grow as an artist.

I'm happy to see you're not talking in the 3rd person anymore though.

100% spot on, pump and dumps are especially rampant in crypto because a couple of people can generate a ton of coins and own the entire market for that coin. If they can get that price to rise even just a fractional amount through whatever completely unregulated means they can dump it to the suckers buying and cash out. It's like printing money but the printing presses are stupid people.

King? He makes his money from knowing how to use words not how to use plastic surgeons.

I think so but it's probably paraphrased from something I heard once upon a time, feel free to use it.

They absolutely coddled and voiced all his insane rantings while never refuting any of them.

I hope their 30 pieces of silver are heavy in their pockets as the rope is put around their necks.

Work smarter not harder is the best advice.

I didn't say the kid suffered?

It's a shitty spot for bio-dad to be in. Kid may see it for what it is and may not. If I were the dad I simply wouldn't put myself in that sitatution. They can go enjoy their vacation and I'd spend the time with my son after.

Why did you assume I was talking about the dad?

You know a whole lot of parents don't love their kids and don't want to spend time with them, right?

I'd absolutely assume mom & new dad would have several romantic dinners and activites alone while bio-dad entertained his kid.

edit; oh I see someone grew up in a loving household and assumes they're all like that

Dude was probably burnt to a crisp by the UV.