Even if you take what he says at face value, his conclusion still doesn’t even follow logically.

You guys ever feel like everything should just be deprecated? Like fuck everything and start over?

I actually think this is an above-average implementation of brutalist architecture. It is at least visually interesting.

I hope he manages to appoint MTG as Fed Chair.

It fits on with what I thought would happen when all the genocide Joe people were insisting things couldn’t get worse. Netanyahu has a direct interest in involving the US as deeply as possible into his conflict (yes it can get deeper) while maintaining a stranglehold on US politics . Ultimately this is a short term play. He helped Trump win , but Trump is destabilizing the US to the extent that long-term Israel is going to lose its one absolute ally.

They also have to stop calling Kurtzman for literally anything related to Star Trek .

His base turning on him 1) requires that they admit they were duped which they can’t since their whole identities are tied up in MAGA and 2) barely matters at this point. Despite his bullshitting hes not running again. He doesn’t need them anymore. None of this matters.

If you watch Nixon interviews from back in the day you can clearly see he’s very intelligent so I’m not surprised he had a few good ideas. He was just also a corrupt crook.

I’ll make a counterpoint, honestly, conservative spaces aren’t handling the stopping all federal grants things well.

Lots of fiscal conservatives are suddenly having their stomachs drop realizing that Trump could actually cause a depression doing this kind of dumb shit.

I’m actually beginning to be skeptical of how much of this kind of insane shit they’ll actually put up with, because a lot of conservative people seemingly are actually loudly saying “Wait a minute, this could actually be really bad…”

They always, always fall in line.

Even if they continue their idle consternation, if the election were held again today they would all vote identically.

I’ll be happy to be proven wrong.

Oh good, more news that doesn’t matter. Trump doesn’t need high approval ratings. This has never mattered less.

Internet forums have always been full of contrarians who want to be the only ones to know the “real truth”. That explains a lot of it. Others just get lost in the logic of it. I’f I can’t prove that he held true Nazism in his heart when he did it, does it count as a Nazi salute?’ This is sort of futile question they ask. The fact that there’s broad consensus on what this was makes them more likely to try to logic their way into a special minority position.

Cool sentiment, but they all vote every time and we don’t so it doesn’t matter. Or you can become a 2nd amendment person.

Making the German state officially state that this is Nazi imagery would be a worthwhile win lol.

To some extent, political parties are naturally occuring . The group dynamics of a legislative body will naturally result in groups forming around specific issues and even philosophies. But there is definitely a strong argument to be made that we’ve made them far too official, and far too entrenched.

Cool, but half the country supports this shit. And no, people who don’t vote don’t matter in this context.

America collectively doesn’t deserve Bernie as president. People go on about how the DNC shafted him in 2016 but honestly, I don’t think it would matter. I don’t think he could win. The same country that elected a wretched sack of shit like Trump (twice) could never elect Bernie. Not to mention that if he got the nomination, the forces that would align against him (every single rich person and all of corporate America, and 95 percent of the media) would ensure that he wouldn’t win.

Next time they won’t announce it.

Others have explained it (places where social interaction is the primary intent - not home and not work) but I’ll add - old European cities (and most smaller towns) have some sort of public square. Many have lasted to this day and are still used. We can still build them, we but our chosen form of urbanization isn’t that conducive to it so we don’t. In North America in the 80 and into the 90s, malls we’re 3rd place. Then they started aggressively going after loitering in malls since simply sitting in a mall doesn’t produce economic activity. Many malls died and many are still dying. Those that survived achieved the - nobody goes there to chill anymore. Just to buy what they need, maybe eat, and then leave. Nobody plans to “meet at the mall” anymore.

It’s dead in a similar way to Latin where nobody learns it as a first language. Everyone who learns it does so for a specific purpose.

In Canada there are large organizations (including many in the government) who subsidize college courses on Cobol just to be able to get some fresh talent to learn it. In some cases they’ll pay the tuition for the course entirely. Huge systems at the center of critical government functions still depend on Cobol .

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