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And that their actions of not supporting the "lesser evil" (actual good) means they played a part in allowing the greater evil to kill them.
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BREAKING: TRUMP'S NUTSACK TASTES LIKE AMBROSIA LA CROIX AND CURES CANCER - WaPo
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I like to tell myself that the WP isn't entirely a tool of fascism, so it bothers me when you keep shoving the reality in my face. My only consolation is having canceled long ago.
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Women yelling at women. Nothing stops genocide like 100s of thousands of preventable deaths, handing the keys to the world's largest military to a fascist crew, and accelerating the genocide. So many are going to die needlessly in order to accomplish nothing. That's humanity sometimes I guess.
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People that didn't vote or voted third party will never be able to grapple with the consequences of that, they are so horrific. But at least I can tell some of them to fuck off while I watch the military vehicles travel toward LA.
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Turning Gaza over to Trump and Bibi was definitely pro Gaza all the way. I'm sure the people dying there, and the people starving elsewhere, and the Americans dying and being kidnapped are happy to do that for your ego. It must be nice to feel so important.
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When I'm given a choice between more genocide and less, I save the lives I can instead of having a tantrum and giving a fascist control of the US govt. The death toll is already in the 100ks from the destruction of usaid alone.
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Trump is epically worse for Gaza. But some people felt like feeling pure and refusing to engage with choices they didn't like was more important than the people of Gaza. MAGA voters also vote in a way that harms the vulnerable but makes them personally feel empowered.
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Got it. I've never interacted with AI like that, so I am probably prone to conflating it with all the actual people that only exist to me as text interactions, but who are choosing words with intentions, and intentions I could come to understand.
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I hate AI but, by "architecturally" is it saying that if you believe you can fly because you know you are physically capable of flying then, yes?
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You're talking about different time scales. Research is showing that Europeans were mostly brown until about 3k years ago when lighter people from elsewhere displaced them. It's a quirk of history that a lot of Europeans are pale. A range of skin tones work fine in that climate for survival.
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I'm guessing evolution has nothing to do with it. A sudden change like that is the result of immigration. While tropical peoples may need the pigmentation, in Europe it doesn't really matter much either way.
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Unfortunately, the US doesn't have capable leadership to make decisions about what the US wants or to take action that could be resonably expected to achieve such goals. Might as well be a magic 8 ball in the White House.
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I didn't say I was useless or that my job was fake. I said it much was easier and required less training than jobs that pay less money. Even someone with your reading comprehension could have done it.
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Too bad about that hard work thing then. Guess the "losers" were right. Weird that I required almost no training to do basic office stuff, but made so much more. It's almost like power dynamics have a bigger influence on pay than other factors.
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And ag work is skilled FYI, just like most blue collar work. I've been an office worker my whole life. It's not rocket science, but it makes tons more than many more challenging jobs, it's just less accessible. I use the big words, but I'm just smart enough to know that doesn't mean I'm smart.
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So the goal posts are moving now. Lol. Classic.
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I was born in the 70s so purchasing power has been flat my whole life. My grandparent's generation were all homeowners on one income, blue-collar work. That's not even a fantasy for my kids.
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The hardest working people I can think of are farm workers. It's pretty clear that wages are not based on how hard a person works. The determinant of how much a person is paid seems to have more to do with whether you have the status to access white collar jobs and avoid doing actual labor.
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www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/....
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The hardest workers are some of the lowest paid. Any "loser" can see that. Wages have flatlined my entire life while necessities have headed for the sky. As more and more of the nation's wealth is funneled to a few hundred people, we're going to see more infighting over crumbs and status.
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No, it's racism. That's why Trump made a big publicity stunt out of welcoming white immigrants from South Africa knowing it would please his "anti immigration" supporters.
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A lot of people are this way. Or they get defensive at you because they think they should bike to work and they don't. I immediately think, you don't have to make this other people's problem. You could just be cool with yourself and your own choices.
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this was good! thepointmag.com/examined-lif...
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I think the violence in Gaza and Dem unwillingness not only to halt it, but to stop to stop US funding/making it possible depressed Dem turn out enough to matter. So if this is true, then it's not Dem voters whose opinions determine one's future career and that seems off.
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I miss their dark chocolate almonds, but I'm not going back.
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The way legacy media had responded to this nation's authoritarian crisis has been part of the trauma. It's like they are reporting from another planet or are some sort of dying machine from a time past that is tragically absurd in the present apocalyptic moment.
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People who make decisions about what to value or believe primarily based on whether their behind feels smooched as a result were never going to vote based on whether something uplifts others.
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Yeah, when people talked down to me as a teen, all I could do was like slam the door really hard. Now I can burn down civilization. Take that assholes. You'll be sad without your avocados and drinkable water while I'm thriving on liberal tears.
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I think there is real evidence that what we are seeing is males refusing to participate in things that are not male-dominated, and not institutions "failing" them or that factual reality is too "mean" to them.
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Based on the articles I am seeing in Forbes and the WSJ, the GOP is no longer serving the owner class. Authoritarian regimes serve themselves. The Democratic Party used to be the party of the enslaver class. To pretend it can't be transformed is just an excuse for not doing the very hard work.
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Trump and evangelicals remade the GOP from the inside. What's our excuse? It's cynical to act as if we have no power or responsibility in this scenario. Whining is fun and self involved, political change is work.
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Horrified to discover that studies are showing that men and boys abandon anything that they see a lot of girls doing, like, say, doing well in school, attending college, science and medicine. Democracy? Better to rule in barbarity than serve in equality.
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Inspire me. What are you doing in the real world to resist?