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me and my large mama...

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Smush

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Hate to be the annoying commie but the elections never mattered.

That's just statistically true, a study from princeton found near 0 correlation between the wants of the majority of the population and policy outcome.

It's just been beneficial for the ruling class to convince the average liberal that they have some sort of choice, and now they no longer care much about it.

Sure, trump is more openly fascist, but obama bombed Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Somalia. Biden helped spark the war in Ukraine.

Both parties serve the same interests.

Idk like, you're way closer to realizing the lie of western democracy than the average liberal, you just need to abandon the notion you ever had any choice. It's not getting worse, it's been like this all along.

That's not what I meant. This is an independent axis of what I was talking about.

What I'm talking about is that Trump specifically has been flagrantly acting as if he doesn't give a shit about public approval anymore, which, combined with what is slowly coming out about possible election rigging, is making me slowly think that something is deeply wrong with the election system. I wasn't talking about what you're saying at all.

To respond to your point, though:

"both party" doomerism is a horrible mentality and tbh makes me think you're shielded from the effects of one party over the next. Fuck the democrats, of course they're not serving my interest... But they're damage control. At the very least. Were we headed for war with Iran no matter what? Yeah. Probably. I would've fucking hated it not matter what. Do I want someone with the mental capacity of an infant trying to hit a button on its new shiny toy with his finger over the nuclear button? God fucking no.

Saying "all sides are bad it's the ruling class all the way" is true, but do NOT use it as an excuse for political ignorance. Trump organized an order for an airstrike, without congressional approval, likely coordinating with Netanyahu over any government officials, with flagrant disregard for geopolitical effects, good or bad for anyone involved. If you can't accept the basic idea of "the American empire is horrible but Trump is uniquely negligent in top of that" then you just seem politically illiterate.

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So-called "free thinkers" when their friend has to pee

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much less alarmed by the 'cognitive impact' of LLM use than I am by the fact that so many people apparently believe your brain can atrophy or permanently lose function in the space of four months because you used fancy sparknotes to write a couple of essays

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yall I know that chatGPT arxiv paper confirms everyone’s prior beliefs but can we take it with a grain of salt please. I’m a big AI hater but i feel like there are a lot of red flags

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not to be an american but like. air conditioning is the greatest invention of all time.

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Lets go All Over The Fucking Place with mama

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really everyone you love has something miserably wrong with them or an obvious flaw that won't ever be fixed but like it's up to you what kind of person you can and cannot deal with. someone in my family has anger issues which I can handle and diffuse with no problem, but a person who can't tolerate yelling could not be close to him. another person I know is very anxious & needs constant reassurance and she gets along famously with gentler and more straightforward people than myself, but I can't handle being second guessed all the time. someone who is loosey goosey with their morals wouldn't bother me, but a person with a profound sense of justice makes me feel afraid of getting on their bad side. none of these traits actually make someone a bad person & just because there are personalities I can't handle doesnt mean I'M a bad person either. litany against callout posts for stupid shit and simple incompatibilities we all have to live on this earth together & need to learn how to deal with each other

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i LOVE that secret base just lets jon bois do whatever he wants. multimedia webcomic only tangentially related to sports? sure! 30 minute video about slipping on banana peels? 45 minute video about a movie character? 3 hours about a basically defunct political party? you got it jon!

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oh for sure

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so many of the best foods in the world are created by leaving some shit in a jar and letting mysterious and terrible things happen to it

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Oh, boo-fucking-hoo. Let me play you the world's saddest song on the world's smallest iPod Shuffle.