Yeah…pretty much

It’s no surprise voter apathy is so high in this country

Hillary in '16

My entire voting life has been votes against over votes for when I think about it :(

Isn’t that a self-propelled artillery piece? I wanna say like an M109 or something

Premise reminds me of The Integral Trees a lot

I don’t wanna get banned for saying China does bad things too lol

I guess the logical progression is to go after the most accessible level…meaning eventually the office workers would probably be a target, which isn’t great.

That, or people go after, like, their extended families instead…which isn’t exactly great either…

Maybe flooding a country with firearms and putting them into its constitution isn’t such a good idea

Its my understanding that subsonic ammo sometimes won’t have enough gas to move the slide fully and must be done manually like this

I think we can both guess why our friend here is mad about this story…

Scientific advancement in space experimentation leads to breakthroughs in other areas - all scientific progress is interconnected.

“Pushing science towards solving the most immediate and important problems” is sort of a nonsense statement, as there could be new efficiencies/strategies that are discovered in fields that are completely unrelated to what would normally be associated with “the most immediate and important problems.”

Its going to be interesting seeing the Republicans do their batshit policies, as people REALLY hate having their bottle taken away (“bottle” in this case being the ACA, prices of goods, abortion access, etc.)

The United States just needs a reminder of just how bad things can be. They’ll learn if you keep hitting them hard enough…

They can be satisfied they did less than nothing when Gaza is turned into a parking lot for the newest Israeli Megamall.

Then again, since it apparently didn’t matter either way, I guess there was no hope for the Palestinians. Maybe they’ll all be reincarnated as white people next time around as a universal consolation prize or something lol

Love me some niche political RP scandal write-ups

My musing is not the sole reason why I’m voting for Harris, but you are correct that it is not exactly up to her (which of course kind of undermines the continuous claims I see from people saying she could end the genocide right this second).

I actually wonder if she has a different stance on Israel but simply will not/cannot talk about it because she is also the VP and it’s a “bad look to go against the boss,” so to speak.

Yeah…at best they’re just useful idiots for the powers that be to exploit/point out as “look they are all crazy.”

Having dealt with them, they seem utterly committed to both parties being bad because they both serve capitalist ends and the ruling class (which is true tbh), but then fail to grasp that while both sides aren’t great, one side is at least doing SOMETHING positive while the other is actively trying to destroy things.

Just from a climate standpoint, at least the Dems are passing some kind of legislation about green energy and agree it exists, whereas the Republicans deny it and want to cut all remaining protections. This leaves us with two options: either these people want things to get worse out of some desire for change acceleration (yikes), or they really are just that stupid and can’t see any difference.

But also, you are literally killing Palestinians by saying these things - join me in waggling my finger at the government to feel better about yourself!

The problem, of course, is that they have opted for the self-destructive course and lash out uselessly at people who want change but have been forced to look at the reality of the situation and try to reduce damage as much as possible.

What they are doing now, calling anyone who votes Democrat a genocide supporter, is a prime example of that useless lashing out, as it isn’t productive, particularly in a rather small online space.

It’s probably best not to bother - these people want things as shitty as possible as fast as possible to make the revolution happen sooner or some shit

Unlike the Republicans, I am of course being facetious in my statements, though, one could make an argument such a thing is already occurring with Police and minorities…

That said, the plans Republicans have put forward absolutely do include the outright killing of “pedophiles,” with “pedophile” being defined as "any person that distributes obscene content to minors or espouses “sexually explicit things to kids,” effectively allowing them to kill drag queens or LGBT+ people as their very existence is labeled as obscenely content for minors.

I don’t know why the Dems don’t drop some of their gun control policies, but its not an issue I’m really super concerned with either way compared to other things.

Yeah…its so obviously bullshit, which sucks, because I agree it is terrible what is happening in Gaza, but these mouthbreathers don’t seem to grasp that the world isn’t an easily defined place and solutions aren’t ever easy (inb4 I get one of them screaming “JuSt sToP vOtInG fOr ThEm” or whatever, lol).

“Fix your goddamn country”

Ah yes, let me just snap my fingers and fix all the problems of where I live lol