Yeah, conservatives don’t think of the future except through the lens of the present. They can’t imagine a world with EVs and batteries because they have oil brains. They are looking for solutions to problems with an oil first mindset. Sunk cost is everything.
He needs a bunker and a gun with one bullet.
Oxfam putting numbers to what we all know. At least someone is keeping track.
I have personally witnessed the MAGA turn to progressive of a marine friend of mine after school loan forgiveness. The issue personally touches so many conservatives that it will actually change voting behavior.
Conservatives only care when the issue affects them personally and suddenly losing money to garnished wages will rupture the right wing loan saddled voting base.
Timing. Saying common sense stuff before others gives you an edge and being the first to say it with any eloquence, in a way people want to listen and are accepting of what’s being said. A lot of what Cory Doctorow says can be hard to hear or hard to deliver without sounding condescending like NDT. His talent is in the delivery.
Many see things and ask “why?” Some dream of things that never were and ask “why not?” - George Bernard Shaw or RFK Sr.
How fucking poignant would it be for the school shootings to be at all the white only schools by white students? Certainly would be reflective of the last decade of this shit.
You’re about the journey and not the destination. Ditto.
Midterms are coming up and if he bankrupts all the voters they will spite vote against everything MAGA and undo the changes.
The thick blue line
Trump is looking to push this into an armed conflict so he can invoke martial law and cancel the 2026 midterms. The only way to save democracy is to not fight. We can get the entrenched child rape apologists out of their seats and put in a class of politicians who will be scared of the raging public sentiment against Trump.
As much as armed conflict sounds inviting, it would play to the strength of the bigger organization with better logistics so the People will lose that fight. And bashing ICE skulls doesn’t deter from other psychopaths looking to kill signing up with ICE. Hunt ICE where they sleep. Keep them from rest. Make them paranoid and scared from sheer exhaustion. Passive pacification will then trigger them to have an armed response which will massively polarize much of the People into dissolving ICE.
Heritage Foundation is a terrorist organization
Racism and prejudice are missing from your equation. The sorcerer is different but only treated special in character creation because they get free shit. In the world they would be hated and feared as the person who started fires as a child or drowned a local cow. They would have a rumor of death or destruction follow them wherever they go
Good on your for not thinking of how much your personal frustrations would impact the behavior of the world. It’s hard to think beyond prejudice and racism.
People hate different people for existing and different people exist: they can be called “special” but they are still different. And special people exist. That’s what makes Einstein and Mozart and many others stand out in history. Differences exist. How your world treats them is what makes a good story.
Gleisner, Seymour Asses, and New New York. Want some anchovies?
Such a lazy answer to the problems of the day. Banning is dumb. Teach how to spot misinformation, enforce empathy, and fucking get rid of the class system to remove interpersonal inequality. But England loves being an authoritarian structure that apathetically steers the lives of others, actively disregarding all consideration of what an individual is experiencing.
friend-shaped but we without friend personalty
The last few years California has been hit by the atmospheric rivers that once blanketed the PNW 8 months out of the year. The result is the cyclical droughts have vanished and this is the 3rd year in a row California has been drought free in all parts of the state. Even the Eastern Sierra and Central Valley too.
Climate change is real but not bad for all places. The climate is shifting.
Save money and skip AI