It’s more to do with the fact that your living situation as an adult isn’t conducive to getting all your friends together regularly and playing games to relax. Kids have enough free time that they can easily overcome the stupid town planning we’ve given ourselves. Even then, plenty of adults still play pickup basketball, volleyball, and other sports for fun.
Yeah I whitelist as much as I can, but the default is to block because there will be sites that I visit once that would be unusable otherwise. If I find myself visiting more than once, I turn off the ad blocker to see if the site is still usable. If it’s not, sorry, no ad revenue for you, shitty site.
Lol I agree with you, but there’s other posts in here that will get you better traction than this one. I recently saw one about a lawmaker proposing a national registry of pregnant people. That one would have an audience more amendable to the point that they really do want to dominate and exterminate their enemies.
Though effective opposition requires organization, armed or not. The organizations that would be used for armed resistance when necessary are only marginally different from the organizations fighting for positive change within the system right now.
Oh trust me, I understand how fascism and these sorts of things works. The vast majority of people will be surprised if the US experiences some kind of genocide or civil war. But that’s just it, the average person has a hard time seeing it coming, so you can’t raise the alarm on things that seem innocuous. They’ll think you’re crazy. You have to point at the really fucked up stuff happening right now so they can imagine what would happen if those people got their way.
In any case, we still have time to change course, and this post would be a good one for getting people politically organized and fighting that way, since they have a hard time understanding how this sort of thing leads to violence.
The infrastructure bill is ridiculously big, but also:
Make trans people illegal
Ban anything that’s not “choose one” voting
Absurd gerrymandering
Trying to overturn elections
Deficit inducing tax cuts for the mega-rich
Trying to kill social security
Dictator for a day
Arguing the president can have political rivals assassinated
Trying to kill the post office
Trying to kill the IRS
Intentionally putting in incompetent leaders
Giving state secrets to Russia
Trying to hand Ukraine over to Russia
Yeah but a 250 average mag-lev is already possible from a technical standpoint. The Chinese and the Japanese have trains that can do it. Almost certainly the Chinese stole their design from the Japanese, but whatever. Plus, with that minimum it makes an overnight trip across the country extremely reasonable, and it makes a lot of medium day trips possible too. For example, Denver to Chicago would be only 4 hours.
While it’s to true that we too often talk about groups of people like they’re individuals, it’s also true that very few people actually bother to have underlying principles for their opinions, much less stick to those principles when they get in the way of a short-term goal.
Yeah I agree, arguably the proportional representation part is more important, but it’s easier to start small and then repurpose your organization for bigger goals. I push for approval because:
practically anything is way better than FPTP
It requires zero voter education to implement
it can easily be adapted to any kind of winner system
A whole bunch of other stuff that gets into graphs and voting criterion and shit like that
It’s not a legit text. The sender isn’t looking to gather information, they’re looking to push a dichotomy narrative to get people pissed at each other. It’s working even better than intended, we have people arguing in this thread!
Ehhhhhhh it’s pretty much always been the case that a single poll by itself is very sketchy data. You gotta look at multiple independent polls. If you want to actually predict the election they had all better be from the last few days before voting ends, because most voters don’t make up their mind until the last second.
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