That’s utterly disgusting. How can they like hot chips?

/S

“Can you explain some of the issues with the current administration?”

This guy: Hold my beer.

What a legend!

Usually pedantic grammatical corrections are obnoxious, but somehow this was informative, and respect for translating the meme.

You politely break the dumbass’s windows, the mob yanks him out of the car and press his face into the concrete until the police arrive to save him arrest him.

These jackasses think they’re immune to consequences, and that libruls snowflakes are push overs. They’ve been right.

If we don’t defend ourselves, nobody else will. Not the police, not the courts, not the politicians.

This thread hurts my brain.

Are you arguing my point for me? Indeed, Sanders is exceptional, truly one of a kind - I’m not being sarcastic here, he really is a remarkable person.

But how many times did he get to run for president? Zero. Both times he was shut down. In any normal country, I have no doubts he would have been president.

What conclusions you decide to take are up to you, don’t make that my responsibility. You can take it lying down if that’s what you prefer, we tend to go out and make a bit of a mess around here.

Your conclusion is wrong, in that I didn’t say they’re fake, I said that they serve as a way for different mega wealthy people to take turns at serving their own interests. Which may be a synonym or not, depending on your perspective.

But I did imply that non-plutocrats have zero sway in elections, because of how the system is stacked for the two parties because of many different aspects, but one of the obvious ones is just how much money you need to run a successful campaign.

What part of it is theory? Citizens United was the final confirmation that made it legal and ever since it’s done in broad daylight.

You’d be better off asking that to a republican, but to me, no.

From a diplomatic perspective, they don’t seem closer at all because of the tariff escalation. Going forward, depends on how well the heads of state get along.

From the kind of government perspective, they seem very much apart as well. China is your typical autocracy, with all power centered around the president. In the US, corporations and billionaires have too much power for trump to pull all the power to itself, so it’s an oligarchy in a trenchcoat with trump’s head peeking out (and Musk’s also showing…).

This. Bro over there don’t be looking healthy.

This idea of treating people differently based on little more than appearance annoys me a lot. Even with something as stereotypical as genders, it’s just wrong to me.

No two people are alike, even if they share a number of traits with others, so approach people as individuals. Talk to them, learn what they like and dislike, and act accordingly. It’s just basic common sense, how can this be hard to grasp for what seems to be a growing number of people??

Optical illusion. Plutocrats sharing power among themselves is not democracy, friend.

Unlikely.

Both Butch and Suni are seasoned astronauts, and they were certainly aware of the risks of flying a new Boeing craft.

Their return now is something that has been planned ever since NASA decided to bring the capsule back empty, way back in September.

They have, and the results of their soul searching are as clear as the last time they lost to trump: nothing.

If anything, they’re more likely to double down and compete with the republicans on the corporate dick sucking, making it even more apparent to the working class that, with how bad the republicans are, they’re just not an alternative…

Instead of splitting into a multi-party democracy, the US is just devolving into a single party state

Expecting the courts to save US democracy? How’s that been working so far?

I don’t know… The fascists are much better at controlling the narrative, the most likely and by far the scariest scenario is that they find a scapegoat somewhere and unleash the unruly mobs on them.

It’s still up +10% over the last 6 months. Hopefully with how it’s going, not for long.

I’m really happy about that one. They haven’t announced what the alternative is going to be, probably either Rafales or Typhoons.

Or we make like, many more clones and give them blasters?

EDIT: since mods removed the post I was replying to, I’m adding context - it was accusing the poster above from spreading misinformation.

Clear as day.

How to tell: disinformation 101. It’s presenting an utter lie as a fact. This is easy to check, just give the article or even the summary a quick read, or better yet actually listen to what Bernie said.

Why is such a blatant lie effective? For most people here it won’t be effective. But if you’re already “preconditioned” by seeing these kind of baseless claims elsewhere, this will serve to defuse your critical judgement and “save you the work” of thinking it through.

Same. Especially as a European, I wish we could avoid critical dependencies on American companies.