no dispute there. The thing is, it wasn’t advertised like that. It was advertised as: Here’s this scientifically sound tool to measure your impact and judge what you can do. Which in and of itself wouldn’t be a bad thing if it wasn’t burying the lead.

They didn’t fail. They didn’t even try. Not even with a super-majority.

I am sick of such important issues like health of people, let alone half the population, being used as mere strategic play. So please push them to do the right thing, after they’re elected. They don’t seem to respond without pressure.

Huh, that looks suspiciously Musk related. If you know any Jewish people in your area, ask them whether they’ve received a message of being a Hamas defender.

Never forget that in 2016 13% of Trump voters voted for Obama in 2008/12. Maybe the Democratic Party can share some blame, instead of just shaming the voters.

Hate to be that guy, but it is also the present (hopefully not future) the Democrats have allowed Republicans to build:

Bill Clinton promised to codify Roe v. Wade into law. He didn’t.

Obama promised to codify Roe v. Wade into law. He didn’t despite having a super-majority in his first two years.

Biden promised to codify Roe v. Wade into law and didn’t. The Dobbs decision was taken in June 2022, so before the midterms when Democrats still had a simple majority in the house and a tie + VP in the senate. When there were rumors/leaks a month or so before the decision that the USSC would take that decision soon. Again: Inaction.

I’d add an overlapping step sponsored by BP in 2004: “Climate Change is real, and here’s a calculator to show you, that we have nothing to do with it.”

For the uninitiated: The Carbon Footprint Calculator was introduced by BP in 2004 as what can only be described as a successful attempt to shift attention and blame to the general public.

Many reasons. One major factor imho is the belief or illusion to be living in a meritocracy. Which would mean, that someone who’s rich has to have earned it and therefore criticism must stem from envy or jealousy. The same belief fuels the ideology of thinking of poor people to just be lazy leeches on society.

No way! The nation

• not leveraging their weapons assistance (unlike even Reagan in 1982)
• giving diplomatic cover (not only through vetoes in the Security Council, but through threats against others willing to boycott or sanction)
• undermining talks of a cease-fire (or they’re just the most incapable people ever to hold talks)
• actively bombing those opposing the aggression (e.g. Yemen)
• still peddling the debunked lies of the perpetrators (Biden’s 40 beheaded oven-babies much?)
• never having cared about international law, if it is not to use it against an enemy (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Venezuela, Cambodia, and so so many more)

is actually content with what is done with said weapons? What a surprise!</s>

Tim Walz during the debate also let the mask slip: “The expansion of Israel and its proxies is an absolute fundamental necessity for the US to have the steady leadership there (…)”

It is part of the dehumanization of the native population. “They were all primitive and savage and now look how we’ve civilized the place.” To propagate the myth of a land without a people, just the same as the Native American or the Native Australian populations who have been conveniently ignored so you could displace and/or kill them.

Never have I ever watched/read anything relating to Lord of the Rings.