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fierce debates continue over whether the moment has arrived for serious comparisons with fascist regimes.

Ah yes, fierce debates akin to such classics as “is the sky blue?”, “do bears shit in the woods?”, or “does the pope wear a funny hat?”

E: jokes aside, this is actually a pretty insightful article. Im just tired of the mollycoddling

Its a little bit late to be chickening out here, as Texan farms report they have lost 100% of their workforces already, and Californian farms (where most of our food is grown) have reported losing over 75% of their workforce. You cant just undo the fear that has already been struck into people, no one has faith they wont change their minds again in 2 weeks…

This guy has massive “my dad will sue your dad” energy

Its hilarious to me that people think that the founding fathers, who ostensibly designed this entire country specifically for the benefit of the land-owning gentry, would hate maga politics.

Im like 99% sure that the founding fathers would probably hate legitimately democratic politics. They were never interested in actual democracy in the first place. They were interested in entrenching their position as the ruling class of this country. Thats it.

“They stood against monarchy!1!1!” Yeah, they did, they stood against one guy having the power because they wanted that power for themselves. Not because they wanted that power vested widely amongst common individuals. “No taxation without representation” wasnt really about representation. The colonies could have easily argued for representation, people like Benjamin Franklin were vocal in trying to push that as the best choice for their future, and Britain was not an absolute monarchy by any means. They simply didnt give territorial/colonial subjects the same rights as citizens, which is exactly what the United States has done the entire time it has had colonies itself. US territories have no say in the government that unilaterally controls them.

The majority of the founding fathers were basically a bunch of libertarians who just wanted to not pay taxes. British colonists in North America were the richest and least taxed people in the entire world at the time, and they were severely spoiled by it.

People seriously need to get over their views of historical actors as these benevolent and infallible characters in some fairy tale story of them envisioning a country built for the good of everyone. These were the same guys that relied on indentured servitude and slavery to make their money. They believed quite strongly in themselves having superiority over the commoner, let alone their opinions of peoples who werent white.

I would bet every dollar I have that if the founding fathers snapped back to life right now that they would be no different than the maga morons or libertarians that want to run this country into the ground

Democracy doesnt have to, and usually doesn’t, involve giving everyone a say in literally everything. For example, in the US people did not have the ability to vote for their senators until we had an established public education system in the early 20th century. So our original senate was much closer to something like the house of lords in the UK.

While allowing people to directly elect all their congressional representatives didnt go bad right away, 100 years later its pretty clear that the average person is far too incompetent to be voting for their senate representation. Public education, good as it might be compared to having none at all, is compromised as hell and does not inspire quality civic engagement.

Honestly our country would be far better off if only people who’ve earned some degree of higher education could vote for their state’s senators, but of course that would be billed as undemocratic and elitist quite easily by anyone who opposed it. There are plenty of morons with a college education, but it would be better simply by virtue of not having both houses of congress able to be captured by the exact same stupidity

I think you meant inter-family, but the actual proper term would be intra-family as in within the family unit

These machines are capable of running high-demand games in the sense that a program crashing presupposes that the program loaded to some extent in the first place

Yeah, Im sure people are thinking so much about that line as they pop the top off their 14th bottle of bud and watch their 6 year old fumble a lit mortar shell

People just like being dumbasses and blowing shit up. In my city one of the more common activities is firing live rounds from handguns into the air. People get hit every year by falling bullets. Its just dumb shit plain and simple. Im so glad to live in a place now where the fire danger means no fireworks on the 4th every year. Its legitimately a more enjoyable holiday even if you cant blow shit up

For a guy who hates his transgender child, he sure loves naming his kids the most gender-fluid shit possible

And Im not trying to hate, Im just saying its weird for someone to hate having a kid who doesnt follow rigid societal norms while simultaneously cranking out Striders, Exa Darks, and Techno Mechanicuses. Like he goes farther afield with names than most gender-questioning or non-binary young people do. Ive known people who went by Toaster, Salamander, Rabies, etc and those all seem pretty tame compared to X AE A-Xii

Today’s topic is self destruction, and I aint talkin about the KRS One discussion

Im talkin bout the one-too-many ignorant suckers, lying on the mic to my sisters and brothers

Every time you listen to the radio all you hear is nonsense, they never play the bomb shit

Everything that glitters ain't gold, and every gold record don't glitter; that's for damn sure

why not just get consent for the thing that you’re doing

I would imagine because consent would require opening the door to paying someone for use of their likeness, and if they were going to pay someone fairly they could just pay a voice actor. The whole thing is a means of getting what they want without paying for it