Are you suggesting that Liberals aren’t blind to the realities of life cause literally everyone I’ve talked to on the Left is convinced they are. If both Left and Right thinks Liberals are blind to reality shrug

Earning a living implies that you’re not using passive income to mooch off people. It’s contrasted to land lords and nobility who were simply entitled to money.

I think you underestimate how far to the Right establishment Dems are

He has two occupations: grifting and being a hype-man. This fits with him being a hypeman

My carbureted v-8 feels called out

It doesn’t cost the economy at all; great efficiency frees up resources for other purposes. The only downside is to the companies that make the devices and rely on planned obsolescence for profitability. The stock market and “the economy” are NOT synonyms.

It’ll be an uphill battle since Ranked Choice Voting would weaken the power of both Democrats & Republicans and party leadership knows it but I also support it strongly for just that reason.

Can’t win them all. I ascribe to the saying “if voting didn’t work, they wouldn’t try so hard to stop people from doing it” though I am realistic about it’s limitations. Voting each year is the bare minimum people can do to change conditions.

I think the quote is saying that leaders aren’t being picked for perceived merits, rather we’re just shitheads picking shitheads

The fact that these even consume water is madness. Like running coolant to a radiator is just a few dollars too much electricity for these bean counters.

They dropped that many years ago

“Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders." -George Carlin

My machine was once VERY capable. It’s not a top of the line gaming box but it’s still capable and shows no signs of crapping out yet. Can’t run windows 11 but it’s not worth throwing away my computer over.

I read that if it wasn’t for the US dumping it’s strategic helium supply, the price of a party balloon would be $50. Yes, Helium 3 gets attention for Fusion research but regular Helium is used heavily in imaging equipment like MRI’s. The Large Hadron Collider needs 130 metric tons of the stuff.

It’s an older trolling sir, but it checks out

DC will burn the shit out of you but not stop a heart like AC can

In a similar vein, slaves weren’t used to build the coliseum but people were sold into slavery to raise funds to pay those workers. Also, it was my understanding that most people working on the pyramids provided their labor as akin to paying taxes. I

Sometimes that may be true but neurologically, empathy is often driven by experience and most people have a relative with diabetes and many people have a diabetic relative who struggles financially with it. This would be hard to demonize.

“I deserve-it/actually-need-it not like those other free loaders” is a very real attitude that many Americans have.

Netanyahu is still unpopular and faces prosecution if the war ever stops. Israelis just support Genocide because it’s gotten more and more religiously conservative over time and their religion states:

Deuteronomy 20: 16 However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17 Completely destroy[a] them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you. 18 Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God.