And despite all the faults you listed of the Democratic Party, it was still blazingly clear to anyone who paid attention that Harris would have been better for the country than Trump. But people chose not to pay attention and we got stuck with the looming threat of idiocy-powered authoritarianism.

I don't know how we can put the blame on anyone but the voters. I think you were dead on when you mentioned "moron progressives that didn't vote". If there's one specific group to blame more than anyone else, it's them.

Absolutely this. I can't count the number of people I've seen who believe the "mainstream media" is untrustworthy, and then whole-heartedly embrace alternatives that are magnitudes more untrustworthy if they ever cared enough to check. A bunch of gullible dupes who fancy themselves as bold individualists, all the while too edgy by half.

Because if you're just new'ing an object for the lifetime of the project then its destructor isn't going to be called when the program ends. That would be unexpected behavior.

I'm part of the 1/3 that voted against it. I'll bitch as much as I want.

You can go ahead and take the quotes off of "fascist".

Here is an excellent video where a history professor addresses questions regarding dictatorships, including fascist ones, which shows some telling parallels with the current Trump presidency. It talks about how they like to dismantle certain functioning aspects of the government for their own power as well.

Understood. Which is why I believe any effort to take on illegal immigration should target the people hiring them for exploitative wages much more than the immigrants themselves.

I'm sorry, but when it exactly did this fascist nonsense become so popular?

Maybe this might not apply as much as I'm not thinking of the UK, but here in the US as a white dude I've always enjoyed the fact that we're made up of so many cultures due to immigration over the years. From different foods, religious beliefs, ideas, I find much of them fascinating. And I'd hate to see what we'd be like if only white Anglo-Saxon Protestants had been welcome. And I'm not saying that group of people are bad or anything either, it's just by welcoming others also we became so much more as a culture.

People from the right often criticize the left for being hesitant to listen to certain speech or ideas, and instead having to run away to "safe spaces" to cope. I'm not sure about all that, but if one has those beliefs it might also be worth wondering if they run to cultural safe spaces to cope as well.

Well MAD may help keep the peace to an extent. But one important point to consider the possibility of an "oops". IIRC there have been a couple times in history we came close to nukes being launched between USA and USSR due to a faulty reading or a misunderstanding. Dangerously close, too. The story quite possibly could have ended a different way.

The issue with Soy and other products containing them is that in combination with other phytoestrogens, coupled with the more sinister endocrine disruptors like Bisphenol A, and plasticizers like the Phthalates, and pesticides and herbicides there are not insignificant problems. Has nothing to do with the criticisms of effeminate young men as soyboys. It has to do with endocrine disruptors in toto.

Sure. One thing I'm having trouble getting a sense of from your references, though, (and I could very well be missing something here) is just how big of a concern the phytoestrogens we ingest from certain foods should be in comparison to other chemicals that may disrupt the human endocrine system. Your last article lists many of these. It would seem that newly introduced sources such as herbicides and manufacturing-related chemicals would be the heavy hitters in recent upticks of these issues. With chemicals that have been already been present in our foods for a while being far less likely sources.

Yeah, you should probably look more into the whole "soy-boy" alarmism. Under further scrutiny it doesn't really pan out.

Apologies if you weren't aiming the criticism towards me. I'm a bit too tired to be writing comments now. LOL

Huh? All I'm saying is the extreme left (the actual extreme left) is communist, not fascist. There's a difference.

I'm again all authoritarianism, whether it be communism, fascism, theocracies, etc. Not sure what would make this a right-wing thing.

You know, I always find it funny when within someone's hysterical rantings they deem who needs help.

Your exaggerations continue as you compare a child checking out a controversial book from a library to smoking, drinking liquor, making porn videos, or buying guns. These things are not comparable, not even to the point that it supports your argument.

And you know it.

As you also know that there's no such thing as a "lefty fascist". I mean, really dude - the actual extreme left is bad enough with Communism. No need to make shit up.

Equating librarians making controversial books available to all, to them "wanting to control how you raise your children" is one of the most disingenuous exaggerations I've ever heard. They aren't forcing children to check out the books. Adults can still supervise their children. And I guarantee your kids will hear things you don't want them to at some point in their lives apart from what they see in libraries. It's just part of growing up.

You're picking a strange hill to die on.

Nah, Musk is just a shithead.