Soft disagree. A very old man can "get it" without being "Hey fellow youths! 76 skippity toilet bees knees." But the efforts needed to connect are harder as they get older (like everything else), and Senate is so old, insular, and entrenched its definitely not the place to understand up-to-date issues beyond being spoonfed talking points by an orchestrating team.

Roses are red
Earth is an orb.
Nevermind the work,
DEY TORK MAH JORB!

USA hasn't won a war longer than 2 months since ww2. They've gotten used to it.

Because the LGBT+ community (by it's relationship with the BDSM community) acknowledges even when they want this, it's ultimately bad for everyone on a whole. Any lesbian I know wouldn't want to normalize that situation. It's the worst of what the patriarchy tries to get out of women.

Consider her in a sex slave situation that starts consentually. He can affect the power structure such that she doesn't get to change her mind later (when she stops finding him attractive). Even if he was someone who actually ultimately cared about her, if she realizes/assumes she can't say no, has been conditioned to not say no, believes saying no jeopardizes her status & well-being, or has otherwise developed learned helplessness, then he doesn't even get to know when she no longer consents. There is no consent.

Then consider the power corrupts (unpredictably) and he winds up a real piece of shit and she winds up pregnant. Now she does have family and somebody to care about, but she set up the system to give her no control over what happens to her daughter she loves and wants better for. This event isn't even uncommon. That's why the BDSM community has all the ethical guidelines they do. Stay safe, sane, and consensual.

"You must have a large family to feed." "Ya." " Here?" "Naw."

They aren't exaggerating. They're modifying to fit the "cunning greedy" antisemitic trope face. Big nose is fine, they made his hooked. Tooth gap is fine, they made him look like he's been holding out on the dentist to chew gold. Long, flat side-pointy grin is fine. They made him look like a nervous Grinch contemplating the suffering of others with glee.

The difference is so stark one wonders if you were saying this in good faith, in contrast to the presented dirtbag devil's advocate (there's no reason regardless to give them a benefit of the doubt nor defend them given what their position and the points they're making, even if the art style were borderline).

Vote local, vote to end FPTP.

I always hold out hope for a comeback. If they can pull Palapatine super clone planet "it was really still Palapatine all along" plotline, they can do the same better with Darth Binks. They just need to have the goal in line of sight from the first episode, but never revealed until the third so it can be foreshadowed properly. Palpatine was always too eager to hold power directly, and that was his downfall.

And the potential to handle that with the grey Jedi concept they've been inching towards since forever (since the force ghosts), the possibilities are limitless.

It's a round about way of expressing that correlation does not imply causation. It was done so that everytime someone shares this meme of a guy wearing a T-shirt over his flannel, someone in the audience can explain that the graphs intentionally represent a fallacy.

The best part of being a wise giver of advice is that you become wiser with every advice.

I don't hate it. The most common bad-faith rhetoric you hear from the Right is "It'll kill the birds" because you know dang well they dgaf, but they know we do. They put any roadblock they can to sustain dependence on their economic interests in oil. This gets us past a few more of those roadblocks, if it anywhere near matches the efficacy of open blade turbines.

He killed (minimum) 300,000 USAmericans by dismantling the pandemic response team, and then willfully rejecting all support in restructuring it during a pandemic. Because Obama built it. He was "allegedly" (at the time) implicated in a literal pedophile cabal. Then he was voted in again. Those voting for him have such insane cultural cognitive dissonance they'll tell you "Well I'm hurting, but I'll sacrifice whatever I need to for AMERICA" asking them "America's what? What for America?" Doesn't even make a dent in the cognitive dissonance, it's so willful.

You're thinking about the whole thing from the "myth of the rational consumer" perspective.

In the right wing mindset the leader IS the group IS the persons. They cognitively need those three ideas to align. That's why their rhetoric uses monoliths for people - "The Blacks", "I am Christian", "Us vs THEM". 30% of any given society are RightWing Authoritarian Personalities. Another 30% are likely passive at best. How the balance of power shifts is about how your society structures it's discourse, politics, and community - and the narratives derived therein. Be careful, it can come for you too.

On the plus side, if the USA gets to vote again, it won't literally be him.

Edit: Opposing him isn't about just opposing a leader choice - it's about opposing the people and the whole system that valued putting a bad-guy reality tv host in power because it made them feel powerful when having a black president made them feel weak and not the in-group.

No, the idea of the antichrist knowing is a supposition of them being a servant of the beast. A cultural assumption of Satan's "human servants" having first hand communication like one does with a human boss.

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/...

Inasmuch as I could play with the idea of believing in revelations, I would believe that it's less about a "chosen one" antichrist, and moreso an "antichrist candidate" that when someone can fulfill the roll and obtain power; then it's a sign of times incoming. Also, (lego) Brick Bible Revelations is a fascinating interpretation.

One of the hardest questions; is it better to have clumsy representation, or less representation? Because no matter what, a greater effort requirement amounts to a higher barrier of entry. We don't owe an artist anything, but at the same time should we say "If you don't understand a group of people well enough to represent them, you shouldn't be doing art."?

JRR Tolkien notoriously has very few very impressively represented women, which kind of just gets a shrug from the fandom. But you can only tolerate so much of that before you just have a small selection of archetypes on pedestals. You get the sense from so much media produced by men, that they think women only (should) make up <25% of society. If they don't matter to a male protagonist then they don't matter. I think it should be fine to clumsily represent a group, as long as it expands representation rather than restricting it. And continuation should be dependent on an expectation to grow.

Case in point; The Apu Problem. Despite Apu from The Simpsons being the worst of both worlds, by virtue of originality he was acceptable at conception. Failure to grow with the franchise's popularity, however, means that he established his own stereotype and by extension The Simpsons created it's own racism. By the boiling frog effect, The Simpsons creators just get to dismiss is it as a product of it's time "Oh you know things that weren't racist are suddenly racist now shrug what're you supposed to do?" But they've had the power to do better for a long time, if they were willing to face the problem long enough to learn and address it permanently.

The USA still hasn't had a (official) female president despite multiple opportunities, because women in America don't want "that kind of representation". Society can keep representation from slacking, without letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

"I SAID, I AM A GIAN--" "I knew it!"

To make it clear how bizarre, The Elitzur–Vaidman bomb test has actually been experimented, and proven both do simultaneously exist and interact with each other. To expand the Schrödinger's cat joke, quantum physics allows that you may find a half-eaten dead cat in the box.

That is fully on me for assuming gender. There's always a Smithers.

We/They, or at least somebody, elects the person(s) who hires/chooses/manage the judges. I'd settle for a "rate your judge" jury system, even.

Obligatory "End FPTP" when I mention voting, because it's foundational to all voting issues.

Good riddance. Everyone wants to just half-ass in peace, society should reward the coercion of critical thinking...

Wait, am I the monster?

It's true you create more value for your work/hobby if you specialize, it's more true than you can just enjoy life if you don't spend most of it being socially dominated into a job you hate doing in an oppressive environment you hate being in. You get so much more value of yourself just living, or at least making wise trade-offs.