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they keep doing this psycho shit , bragging about brutalizing immigrants to try to get Pennsylvania, and all it’s doing is pissing off their base in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado.

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I hate the 21st century I hate the 21st century

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There was a period around the 1600s where, relative to their neighbors , they could be described as a pretty well run and meritocratic state. Social mobility generally existed for men who had valuable skills and were willing to convert to Islam. There was a pretty effective administrative state , general internal stability, and the food supply was generally secure.

Your other options in the region at that time were ;

Europe - saw about twelve million dead in the 30 years war and the wars of religion. Widespread hunger as the falling temperatures of the little ice age lowered the crop yields. Glaciers started expanding again, and the altitude at which wheat could be grown decreased by about 200 to 300 meters. Also widespread religious hysteria and witch hunts as the black plague returns to Europe.

Russia - Absolutely wrecked by climate change. The combination of the little ice age , a bad volcanic winter and foreign invasion sees 30% of the population dead in the Time of Troubles, followed by regular famines afterwards. The general collapse of the old feudal relationships sees an increase in serfdom and more exploitation of the peasants.

Persia - Having problems from the rise of the Ottomans and the disruption of the silk road trade, and with some regions only just then recovering from seeing their cities, infrastructure and population almost annihilated by the Mongols 400 years previously. Though still a pretty ok place to live at this time , all things considered.

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It is weird that so much of the Trump campaign was built around Biden and Hunter, like IRL years of effort, millions of dollars worth of merchandise, all the attack ads lined up for months in advance…

with literally no one noticing Kamala or even doing opposition research on her, and now the GOP is trying to switch gears overnight in an election where they now need to really compete for women voters while desperately not mentioning womens rights or the abortion bans, or all the women that died in agony from ectopic pregnancies and septic miscarriages.

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I think they might be afraid to get the chuds riled up too soon, because they will jump straight to misogyny and racism. The GOP’s biggest weak spots right now are women pissed off over losing civil rights because of Trumps judges, and also a fear that the minority voters the GOP has been picking up will be turned off and go straight back to the Democrats.

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Why is RNC research trying to make Kamala more popular with the average American boomer.

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well, whatever absolute ghoul is going to be parachuted in as her running mate, they can’t be worse than genocide joe

the lathe turns

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Kermit the Frog voice “You must slay the dragon of chaos by emptying your piss bottles.”

No , but really, it’s the depression that makes you not care about the garbage. You have to trick yourself into having motivation, try putting on some music or a tv show so you have something to focus on, and spend fifteen minutes forcing yourself to throw that stuff into a garbage bag. Even if you only clear out half , or a third, you’ll feel better for having gotten up and done something.

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Well, violence was already normalized in every other sphere of American life, I guess it was only a matter of time. Look at the Trump shooter, by American standards, the only weird thing about him is that he went after someone important instead of just shooting up his local school or walmart.

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It’s not like anyone is actually voting for him. No one is Biden or bust. People are just voting against Trump, same as last time. Nothing is actually gained by keeping the 81 year dementia patient on the ballot.

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