Oh yea for sure, that I’m behind 100%. “Strategic voting” is just silencing your one chance to have a real voice based on whoever’s PR team is doing better.

Haha I literally had Ben written in but opted to remove it. Fuck Ben Shapiro.

Is there something I’m missing? They won because they got the most votes between three parties(but not a majority) and then the most again during the second round of voting between the top two. They won both times.

Ideologies aside your comment is written like you suspect foul play or something. “It’s broken because they could never win if there was competition” is just a terrible take so I assume I must be interpretting it wrong, right?

Also that argument is dead on arrival because they expect you and businesses and the entire city to pack up and leave as if it would cost nothing. They also have literally said “just sell your house and move” but like TO WHO?! Who would buy that house if it’s in such a fucked area?!

If anyone ever says “just move” you know they have zero concept of the word “community” or “moving costs” or “nuance”. They just don’t want to address the cause of the problem because they’re, at best, cowards.

The thing about the trolley problem is that the onvious answer is, when going purely by the numbers, to pull the lever. Too many people don’t pull it(don’t vote) and act like they did the morally correct thing while the several people get smushed.

And the thing about it is that it’s not a trolley problem at all but simple harm reduction. It’s the same pool of people getting hurt, not two separate tracks. One party won’t protect as many as they should, sure, but the other party will happily throw gasoline on the lot and light ‘em up to keep themselves warm while they wait for the train to come.

Trump did cripple the U.S.’s steel industry if I recall correctly. And he just wants to put more tariffs up which completely fuck over a lot of people.

So yea, the U.S. is not exactly going to be a utopia under Harris but Trump will absolutely be a nightmare for everyone.

People on the right still believe he was defending himself or just a kid or whatever whatever. This news shows that it was totally planned, that he willingly put himself in harms way to murder people like he was judge, jury, and executioner over some shoplifting.

It’s important that we go “oh look, he really is, undeniably, a rotten piece of filth” and can throw out all these notions of “well-intentioned” people who end up killing people like this.

$100 is expensive…because everyone like him fights tooth an nail to make sure that the poor stay poor.

Well that’s super broken what the fuck.

Also I hate every single person who buys a house or whatever for x amount, watches it jump to 3x, and then bitches and moans that they’re “losing” money when the value threatens to go to 2.5x. Like, you GAINED money!

Mine asked “so when are you two coming back here” and then shortly after we returned they said “well I’m off to do art in the park for a few hours anyway bye wink”.

Fuckin’ legend.

That’s a different person. They’re passing on the message.

It’s no wonder conservatives and zealous religious folk are the same people: Both require not reading any of the source of material and just opting to just go on vibes(and the vibes are ass).

Renting is valuable when one needs short-term access to something. Students travelling from afar, someone working abroad temporarily, or even someone just needing a car or a tool all make sense. But exactly as you quoted once everything is rented it all falls apart. There’s no competition anymore, no incentive to improve the building, no nothing. It’s not an easier avenue towards a solution to a problem but a necessity.

Fuck capitalism. This whole thing’s a sham and anyone who can’t see it is willfully blind. It does’t even hide it and never has.

My favourite is when an old building raises prices to closer match new buildings. The property tax didn’t go up that much but now the same complex is renting units for twice as much as only a few years ago? The price they paid for the building didn’t go up so how are they justifying hundreds more per month as if anything has changed?

It’s not even starting to be hidden, it’s just straight theivery.

Hasn’t stopped them before. JD Vance straight-up admitted to lying about the cats and dogs thing and yet there they are, still supporting him.

Can just give it a simple code. We don’t need fun names for this stuff.

These words include abuse, consent, domestic violence, fluids, gender identity and LGBTQ information, she said.

Bro what. Ok ok I understand, no matter how much I disagree with it, why they think pictures of stuff are icky but c’mon, people.

Things being worse don’t make that good, though. Whatever, I’m not going to change world politics over here but I still think it’s all kinda fucked.

I’m sorry the hwhat?!

I know that a nuke would literally create a hell on earth but there’s no way you can name the fucking thing Satan and not be the bad guy.

It still sounds weird. Like how is it that in a country like the U.S. these parties can wait to choose who will be the leader of the fucking United States as far as only two months before an election? Like, should they not have planned that shit ahead of time? I know the U.S. is a shithole but it’s a shithole with a tonne of power and influence and that feels…wrong. A bit “fast and loose” with democracy, ya know?

I’m glad it meant the Dems could swap out Biden for someone with a pulse but fuck that’s weak.

Gamers and still buying the same old tired shit while bitching about it, name a more…

You’re absolutely right. The number of great games to play is absurd and the access to them has never been better but for some reason most people just play mediocre games that should have been put out to pasture years ago.