Agreed. Heard a quote a while back, don’t remember it verbatim but it was something along the lines of “there’s no point in trying to make someone understand when they’ve already made up their mind to not understand.” Makes a lot of sense, and having that mindset saves a lot of frustration. Doesn’t matter how many facts you shove in their faces, they’re not going to change their minds.
I do. In fact, I have very little forgiveness for anyone who was stupid or shitty enough to even vote for him in 16. Pretty much anyone who has voted republican since the tea party got loud gets no respect from me. What happened, and is still happening, in Gaza, as well as the international response to it, is disgusting and shameful to our entire species. But one could make the case that standing impotently by while a country you support commits atrocities is still different from jumping in at the start to commit those atricites yourself on behalf of that country.
My eternal contempt and loathing.
Thank god none of those things could ever happen under good old US democracy!
I’m just holding everyone who voted for trump in 24 responsible. By that stage nobody could legitimately claim ignorance, they knew what they were doing.
His hands are too big.
Reminds me of a lot of the prepping videos my algo suggests to me that are titled something like “5 essential prepping tips” so I click on it and it starts off with “here’s what we’re doing on our 700 acre homestead…”. Super helpful…
After predicting Obama was going to do it to stay in office 30 times he convinced himself it was a good idea.
We’re in Australia. The idea of home ownership is completely off the table, and the prospect of retirement is laughable, but we have some really bloody nice beaches!
I moved my American wife and our US-born daughters back to my home country in November 2015. Ultimately the decision turned out to be financially devastating for us, but I haven’t had an ounce of regret since November 2024, I’d rather live in poverty here than any kind of life in the US, especially with teenage daughters. My wife says she’ll never set foot in the US again and would also happily remounce her citizenship.
Unlikely, they’ll just make it illegal for people like you to carry a gun or stand your ground.
Have these experts not heard of America?
Funny how republicans never have any problems finding enough democrats to support their shitty policies.
Fun fact - when Obama declared that he was going to close Guantanamo Bay, mitch mcconnell decided that he would do whatever it took to keep it open, because his sole purpose for existing at that time was to obstruct Obama’s policies. He did that in part by pushing legislation that made it illegal to transfer foreign detainees to American soil, effectively making it so that there was nowhere else to keep them. It was less to do with people tolerating detainees presence and more to do with mcconnell just gumming up the works because fuck Obama.
You’re just too scared of getting even more evidence that our glorious god king heals faster than wolverine, like that time his ear and 37% of his head got shot off, and then the next day he played a perfect round of golf and cured cancer!
(Have to add /s, because that actually sounds like something a magat would say with a dead straight face… 😒 )
Go and have a look at property prices over the last 50 years and see how risky it is.
It didn’t seem very cool in the movie. Or maybe that was your point… 🤔
That’s the big question for greater minds than my own. There was a time not too long ago when it was almost universally agreed that fascist authoritarianism and genocide were horrible, and people who subscribed to those ideals did so secretly because it was shameful. Now there are proud supporters of Nazism, and people being openly racist, bigoted, and hateful. Getting our society back to the point where those people at least hid in shame would be a good start. Of course it doesn’t make it go away, as we’re seeing right now, but there is no way to truly eradicate this type of thinking. As you said, you can’t forcibly educate those who are resistant to it, and anything beyond that gets into “thought police” territory.
I don’t know what sort of societal engineering that would take, or who would be in charge of it. I think we were all kind of relying on the fact that most people are overall inherently decent enough to instinctively oppose that kind of shit, but it turns out we were wrong.