2030 is incredibly optimistic. Musk has been promising your tesla would be able to function as an automatic taxi when you’re not using it for a decade.

That’s a damn lie. Oysters being hollow give them a perfect crunch, crackers you crush just instantly turn to cardboard

It should, but it absolutely isn’t.

No, fascism isn’t when you break rules to be effective in government.

Would you call FDR a fascist?

Republicans care more about open-carrying to committee meetings than to get anything actually done

So go around them. Did you learn nothing from Obama giving the republicans half of the discretionary budget to appeal to their better nature, which the republicans voted against anyway? Or the compromised republican healthcare plan, Obamacare? West wing-brained libs claimed this was a stroke of genius, because everyone would see how civil and reasonable the dems were by reaching across the aisle.

And then the dems got blown the fuck out in 2010 because republicans saw their representatives fighting for them, and dem voters saw their representatives unilaterally passing republican policy despite having a super majority in the house and senate.

So either Dems have to go low, and lower the bar further, bend the rules more, and be just as guilty of breaking democracy

If you were elected to do X, and the rules get in the way, it’s antidemocratic to let them stop you.

Every time the democrats used the parliamentarian or the villain of the week or the republicans or norms or rules they themselves set in the senate as an excuse to do what their voters want (and their donors don’t want), they are breaking democracy.

Democrats don’t have to be perfect, they have to be effective. Republicans are effective, but only to do bad things. Democrats do manage to be effective sometimes, but only to do bad things, such as when Biden went around congress to keep arms shipments flowing to Israel.

Kyrsten Sinema is in her 40s, Bernie Sanders is in his 80s.

Age is not the factor here.

if the federal government just hands over money with inadequate oversight it will just enrich the companies.

The worst part of this is that that money is not just wasted, it’s used to lobby politicians to make it worse.

And to be clear, the railroads don’t need more money, back when Biden banned Warren Buffet’s railroad from striking, I did the math, they could afford to double their work force, giving them all half the year off, and pay each one of them 100K/year, and still give the shareholders multiple billions a year.

There’s 13 other werewolves chained up in the basement.

Except for the bourgeoisie, most fascists are tricked or indoctrinated into supporting fascism though. Grandma doesn’t support fascism because she will benefit, but because she’s been told the most marginalized people in society are exploiting her and the fascists promise to stop that.

She must give the best hugs, 8 legs holding you tight, those mandibles wrapping around your head as she nuzzles you

Insects which undergo metamorphosis are kinda born full sized.

The westerners ARE wrong though, like the story I and I’m sure many others, including OP learned is directly contradicted by the evidence.

The British government’s public releases about China are not credible, even less so when they conflict with evidence.

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Sorry, all evidence was censored and everyone who knew those people were disappeared too.

Same with anyone who knew those people and so on.

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A handful of protesters killing cops and soldiers does not justify indiscriminate murder, particularly when you consider it the government’s responsibility to make sure protesters never get to the point that they feel the need to employ violence to achieve their aims. I didn’t think I needed to spell that out.

There’s a huge difference between “the famine never happened” and “The widespread crop failures caused famines in some regions due to ineffective policies, bad estimates grain production, and local conflict”.

The former is just as wildly ahistorical as the “Stalin did holodomer because he was evil” that’s taught in schools.

While that might work for someone whose only interest in the event is demonizing (or eulogizing) the USSR, if you actually want to know how and why things happened, a deeper understanding is necessary.

My take doesn’t begin and end with “china bad”.

As with any historical event, the context and events proceeding and following it are vital to be able to actually understand it.

No AES state is or was a utopia, and we can’t learn from their mistakes if we don’t understand how and why they made them, and how they responded to them.

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