And therein lies the problem. People who just want a simple, sane political system feel (correctly) that it's not something they should have to put in a lot of effort to get or maintain. But the horrifying extremists have all the energy in the world to get their nonsense through, and won't expend any energy at all to just step back a bit and consider that their policies might be hurting themselves as well.

But yes, at the bare minimum people should put in the effort to vote and not nope out after buying into the nonsense that politicians are all the same.

It's the difference between a communist state where the government is forcing their people to head in the correct direction on this and a democracy where the people are choosing the wrong one time and time again.

I'm all for democracy. That's why I'm hoping its citizens will improve enough for it to survive.

Indeed. And yet Stephen Miller is still gonna have a tremendous fit. Probably more so.

OK. But I'm pretty sure that generation could have gone to the moon 11 years after without the spousal abuse as well.

Races are not competing teams you neo-Nazi moron. Wake up.

There was a whole world war regarding this. The idiots fighting for the broken ideals you are espousing were eventually granted the death and suffering they deserved. There were lessons that most of us have taken to heart and then moved on. Why useless fools such as yourself still exist given all we know is beyond me.

The problem black people have with the statement, "It's OK to be white" is not because they don't think it's OK to be white. It's the implication that there's some big movement saying it's not OK to be white, with the demographic holding the majority of power playing the victim. It's the same mentality as neo-Nazis claiming that white people are at risk of being "replaced".

I don't see any issue with me being white myself. But I was never deluded enough to think that made me part of some team that had to be defended, or else.

One of the things you should have said is that you never believed in this country in the first place. People have the right to be Communists. Regardless of your negative views of them, regardless of whether those views are correct. An important part of democracy is allowing people to believe and act as they feel fit under the law - even in things you don't like.

You're correct. The left should have fought against this nonsense much much harder.

You can quite quickly see there's a strong correlation between solar activity and the status of our severe weather events, too - it's well known and established fact -

It is? That's funny, I've been having trouble finding anything like that. Where is the evidence for this "well known and established fact", exactly?

The best I could find on the topic was this graphic showing solar activity and global temperatures together. The two do not correlate.

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.