LOL

Thanks for the laugh, buddy.

“An Unbiased perspective,” it is titled.

Lmfaaoooooo.

Jordan, you’re good dude. You’ve been fighting the good fight for a long time. Always easy for people to throw peanuts from the peanut gallery. This reads like a manufactured hit piece that cherry-picks out of context and ignores the countless times they, for example, defend trans. Looking forward to your full rebuttal, even though it probably shouldn’t be necessary. I’ve seen a lot of mods over the years, from Digg to Reddit to here, and you’ve been one of the more reasonable.

That user name-drops FlyingSquid to accuse you as being “flyingsquid 2.0” strikes me as VERY weird, considering FlyingSquid has said countless times they have a trans kid and they’ve been incredibly fearful of what would happen under Trump. So much so that word is that he emigrated his family to another country to protect them. So, sounds like that’s a compliment?

The mortality of my parents. My mind is often stuck in the future of what ifs; but this is an inevitable event that will come sooner or later and it terrifies me. I do my best to cherish the time I’m fortunate to have with them while channeling energy into my own kids. I know it’s the natural cycle of things, but still… Life is hard man.

“Violence is never the answer, but people can be pushed only so far,” Warren added. “This is a warning that if you push people hard enough, they lose faith in the ability of their government to make change, lose faith in the ability of the people who are providing the health care to make change, and start to take matters into their own hands in ways that will ultimately be a threat to everyone.”

That will be one piece of good news this year if he is dead. Fuck that piece of shit. We should’ve listened to our Syrian ambassador Robert Ford and fully supported the FSA.

Oil, tobacco (I guess you said drug) companies, Monsanto/Bayer, nursing home and hospice admins…

It’s almost like these folks are the real “enemy from within” (Trump’s words, not mine) the whole time.

“It could be anyone. Anywhere. Any time! God forbid my picture is plastered everywhere. All the bodyguard protection barely Donnie, protectafter all!”

lol Musk dumped triple this in PA on a whim.

After all, $60,000,000 to Musk is what spending $20 is to someone making 100k.

File that under when I care for your opinion.

If you had respect and do care, ask why.

Not quite the same gap but I grew to be good friends with a work buddy in his 40s when I was 25.

Throughout my life I tended to connect better with people older than me.

But if you have bad vibes beyond just the age then it may be worth talking candidly with your son about your concerns.

Carl Sagan wrote in 1995:

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance

While there were always idiots, they often lacked the capacity to engage or equip themselves with such a sophisticated web of lies to prop up their beliefs. As such, Joe Schmoe from Bumfuck, Alabama had a limited platform and so could go on his blissfully ignorant way without much harm beyond his county line.

These days? They all communicate together and domestic and foreign operatives can reach them all the same to stoke division.

Crazy to watch.

Honestly I’m all for it; then handing the keys to Trump lmao.

Or implement a No Fly Zone and fully commit NATO forces to air defense. See Putin squirm on what to do and how to react. Makes the Putin-Trump relationship tense. Trump backing down would be seen as weak. Putin wouldn’t retaliate because he wouldn’t risk losing his puppet.

I like this. Bonus: read children’s books and bilingual books; watch news or children’s shows in Spanish.

Find a good way to crunch vocabulary memorization with digital flashcard programs you can work during any downtime you have.

I’m mostly surprised by the “faces consequences” part.

✅- White

✅- Conservative

❎- Rich

❎- Male

Tough luck…

The more voter accessibility, the better vote turnout. It’s no different than going the opposite way with voter suppression strategy or Jim crow laws. Most states already utilize digital transfer of voting data to state secretary central branches to my knowledge.

Not only this but it (a) actually helps prevent voter fraud while (b) improving turnout by way of digital accessibility.

If we shot down every idea from the peanut gallery because it wasn’t simple on its surface we wouldn’t have a lot of things.

But what did I notice is that you’ve now twice dodged the fact that the thing you’re most scared about implementing this is already a reality.

So can you explicitly tell me what unavoidable downside it would bring that doesn’t already exist in reality?

Ironically, you’re accepting fascism is here by preventing us from advancing with a more secure election system that would permit a more responsible, accessible digital voting, are you not?

You’re holding us back for fear of what could be.

Even in the wake of what already is a practical reality as I showed.

Ok, Abed.

It’s no different than playing by the rules (or lack thereof) of the game like Bannon or Stone play in their strategizing with Trump: Perception is Reality. Ends Justify Means.

Maybe not along this issue, but yes Democrats must realize just how poorly educated and gullible the electorate is and start catering their message accordingly. In spite of moral reservations, fear & anger are powerful motivators.

Yes, Dems couldn’t pull it off because the coalition consists of a large number of ethically-bound and higher educated individuals who aren’t willing to play dirty as a means to an end… Even when that end is far superior than what the opposition seeks.

There’s a sizable number of people intentionally looking the other way because they think they can fight fire with fire, utilizing the same conspiracy theory thinking that the Right routinely gets away to shape public discourse.

I have to say, the thought crossed my mind. But Dems could never pull it off.