That’s pretty neat!

Ah damn maybe my nana has been having mad fomo over my shits for years and I didn’t even know

What is the point of this reply? Lol everyone takes shits too but I don’t want my grandma to hear all about a nasty smelling pure liquid shit I took the day before yesterday or something… Just because everyone does something doesn’t mean you want everyone to know all about it…

Source?

Dr. Wilson! That dude is absolutely awesome. I first saw him on a debate where he and professor Dave completely embarrassed a pair of vaccine sceptics. All his stuff is awesome.

The problem is the people that voted for the Republican candidates are (mostly) absolutely thrilled by their voting history. Even if they aren’t, there are tooooons of Republicans that would rather eat a mile of shit than ever vote for a Democrat. Welcome to the world of ultra polarization. We’re divided beyond recourse.

The reasoning is so obvious it doesn’t need explanation. Science disagrees with a ton of their rhetoric. So science = bad. The way we change that is get rid of all people that know/study science, and replace them with people that will say whatever you want until science becomes what you want it to be.

Climate change is the best thing ever to happen to both earth and humans will be an upcoming headline I’m sure.

It’s so so much better when you see the full quote. He thought he was the normal one in his family lol. Keep in mind this is his own words from his diary.

“I was standing in front of my parked car on I-684 cutting the penis out of a road killed raccoon, thinking about how weird some of my family members have turned out to be."

Crap is also friggin shrinking too. A bunch of packages of things I buy are now a little bit smaller than they were like 5-10 years ago.

Yet. There’s still more juice to squeeze in the exciting world of trains.

I’m not going to pretend I’m a political expert but from everything I can tell you are spot on. The right here is moving farther right at a much faster rate than the left is moving left. The other interesting (and depressing) caveat is that people that lean right, at least recently, tend to be much more staunchly right in their beliefs. People that lean left are often times more splintered. Which is why you get people like Bernie Sanders that are outspokenly independent but run as a left Democrat because they have a much better chance of winning if they join up with one of the two parties and they find a good amount of support on the left but virtually none on the right.

And yes! From the rooftops yes! I agree with you that it’s on the Democrats (or either party really but since the Democrats have ground to make up we’ll go with them) to move the party and meet the voters but so far they absolutely refuse to do so. This is why you are seeing such a high degree of dissatisfaction within the democratic voter base. The party is forcing candidates out that the people in their own party don’t really want, much less people that are undecided. It is truly surprising how out of touch they are with their own voter base. Which stinks because the right is (at least until very recently) very strongly united behind their movement.

Because people like you…

Ah damn. I thought there was a decent chance at a constructive political discourse. But I see I we’re just skipping straight to finger pointing (which is quite entertaining as all signs point to us being at least ostensibly politically aligned). But you are right. I concede. This is all because of me and evil people like me. You’re 100% right. Surely it has nothing to do with the system that has all of us boxed into nicely manicured corners.

Just remember the 1st and only rule of political finger pointing in the US. Keep it eye level or lower. Don’t look up.

I mean yeah of course. But look at how many people in the country actually are 3rd party. Like I said if the country wasn’t very clearly and decisively divided into 2 parties it would be different. But the fact is people in the US now are typically either pretty far left or pretty far right. The amount of people in the middle (like truly in the middle) is absolutely miniscule - less than 3% last I checked. If 100% of the 3rd party people voted 3rd party, it wouldn’t amount to much sadly. I would absolutely love for that to change but we are wedged so far into these two parties that it will be a loooong time before that happens.

Your opposition party would be absolutely thrilled if you voted 3rd party. There is no conspiracy to stop you from doing so. I’d argue the bigger conspiracy is against changing how we vote and how a winner gets chosen as that would make it much easier for a 3rd party candidate to make headway. As it stands, the more people they can get to throw their votes away instead of voting for someone that actually has a chance of winning (unless it’s their party of course) the happier they’ll be.

I would be so happy to be wrong here but over the years this has only gotten worse and worse, exacerbating the problem and pushing us farther into this hellhole of diametrically opposed political theatre. But at least we are HOT HOT HOT as a country now right?! 🔥🚒 🔥

I’m right there with you but until there’s an alternative voting system (like RCV, STV, or STAR or something), a vote for a 3rd party is as good as a vote for the opposition party. It sucks but that’s the price of a ridiculous divided 2 party system. Well, there’s many prices to pay for that actually but that’s one of them…

This was my first thought. It reminds me of the highway tolls in Illinois. They were originally announced to be temporary until they paid for the highways’ construction themselves… in 1958. They discovered they like money and made them permanent.

I can’t help but feel like a huge, huge problem is that like half the country, and the most rich and powerful of us, are fully behind the same things that everyone else wants to gather up and blow up DC or something over. This is not like the country is united at all. Its more like half of the Americans (the poor half) are super unhappy with what’s happening and the other half absolutely love it. Makes things a lot harder.

What are we doing? What’s going on?

It’s trickling down any minute now!!!

I feel like it would have to be state level or nothing right? I can’t imagine she won’t get pardoned for anything and everything on the federal level unless she crosses Trump or something. She bent over backwards kissing his ass more than anyone. I gotta imagine she has a pardon waiting for her.

This was so bat shit insane to me. I spoke with multiple people that swore up and down it was a heart warming gesture and everyone was being ridiculous for even suggesting it looked like a Nazi salute. If there was an Olympic event for sig heiling, this shit would have gotten the gold medal. Perfect 10’s across the board. The second one was a little weak tho. Maybe like 7.3/10