Yeah, it signals to every both sider that they were right all along, and all the people they’ve been prosthelytizing to might actually start believing them.

If you want to be on the side of democracy, you don’t just decide to stop being democratic unless you’ve given up.

You’re not going to solve anything by playing by their rules, you’re only going to galvanize them. They are the party of “government doesn’t work”, doing this just gives them more ammo.

That’s why randomly drop change into the bowl to make people think I’m doing a twozy.

I would have thought trough over tub… but i guess that depends entirely on the type of multi-user you’re going for…

They clearly don’t want to have any say in the matter at all.

No, the Democrats didn’t do enough… but they’re hardly alone in that. America is a country of “I want what I want, and fuck everything else”. You can see it in the people who vote conservative against their own interest… but you can also see in the people who’d rather stay home than fight for something that’s a little better instead of a lot.

No answer is perfect. And waiting for perfection to land in your lap so you can start acting on it is exactly what the GOP and Trump coalitions are capitalizing on.

The system sucks, but refusing to participate, or pretending you can change it by force, is only going to make things worse for you and everyone around you.

Congress is mostly Republicans.

Or did you think that the presidency was the only thing that mattered in the US?

Try telling someone working 40 hours a week who can afford to go to Disney every year that they aren’t.

The system is unfair, but that does not mean all unfairness is equally distributed. It also doesn’t mean that all systems with unfairness are the same. Telling people that they are is lying to their face to try and justify your own inaction.

No, but they do have an effect on emotional states.

What’d you call me?

I want to eat

I want to have shelter

You know… I don’t think it really works for all things.

I suppose it’d make more sense if it was Chun Li

Ah, right, it’s a Tuesday.

Did that have to do with his comfort and safety, or just some hobby he uses to trick people into giving him money?

These people use their power and influence to stave off time and death as their prime motivator, just look at his hairline for the best evidence.

You do understand that, unlike most wild animals, humans change at a much faster rate, right?

The point isn’t “humans did this (though admittedly I did throw a little jab in there)”, the point is “drastically changing an environment can have devastating consequences”.

Cooking takes time, ingredients, and if you want it palatable, ability. Fast food takes driving up to a location and saying “give me something easy”.

It’s not as fast as it used to be, but it’s still relatively quick, especially if it’s on your way home from wherever you are. Any extra time is just spent doomscrolling on your phone or listening to your preferred media pundit.

So… a predator it was unfamiliar with and had no defense against?

Tell that to the Northern White Rhino.

Don’t forget his terrorist fist jab.

In after someone gets irrationally angry about people getting irrationally angry.

Because their evolutionary defense is literally defense, and not just having enough numbers to overcome predation.

Sure, there are species that exist without predation, but introduce predators (like humans) and oh, would you look at that… extinction!

Life is complex, and doesn’t have any one single explanation for how it exists.

Indeed, he didn’t create the party, he just says the quiet part out loud.