It makes total sense. “He says you treated him well and that you’re friends now, but don’t you fucking try that again”

The thing is, even if that was true, massive amounts of unpaid labor with long commitments done solely for the love of it, are the first things to go when it’s looking like you’re gonna need to pick up more paid labor

If she hadn’t become a vociferous anti civil rights activist the reality is a lot of us would still be tired of the books and frustrated with elements of them, but there’d be less anger when they come up. There were plenty of people getting real sick of how popular they’d remained in the mid 10s.

I read them all as a kid and loved them, but I was definitely tired of how much cultural space they took up for so fucking long. And the criticisms are valid, the books did an amazing job of inspiring obsession in a kid of the time, they felt like they grew with me, they had so much room to imagine in, and they were also full of holes, bad prose, and the sort of issues I’m kinda shocked my parents didn’t feel the need to have a conversation about.

But also, would people be as vocal about these issues if it wasn’t the largest media franchise under individual control and controlled by someone who has funded massive rollbacks in rights for a group she’s bigoted towards? Obviously not, we’d just still be saying to read another book, not arguing not to continue purchasing products from the franchise.

Also cable was absolutely an anti consumer monetization system.

I don’t think your wife having sex with someone else (idk if they were together yet at the time), especially a serial rapist, makes you necessarily gay

Yet invokes feelings of tragedies past and future dangers

Yep, white people have an incentive to claim we aren’t racists, our egos and social statuses generally benefit from these claims. Because of that we can’t be taken at our words on the topic. Only our actions can be trusted

Yeppppp as Dr. Angela Davis says, in a racist society it’s not enough to merely not be racist, we must be anti racist.

If the house goes how you suspect gerrymandering will backfire. Pack and Crack gerrymandering like republicans have been doing is the art of building as many pretty safe seats for your party as you can then attempting to shove the rest into as few as possible extremely safe seats for your opponents (if you can ensure none of your voters are in those districts you do it). It’s finangling safety of seats vs number of seats, and republicans seem to be leveraging themselves a bit heavily at the moment.

If it’s a bloodshed election, the gerrymandering will be most analogous to a dam that’s bursting. What it had been holding back it’s now providing an excess in its failure.

Medicare has been thoroughly fucked with and partially privatized. Medicaid on the other hand is no copay (even on prescriptions), free at point of use, and still privatized, but less so.

Fundamentally what we actually need is a “federal health insurance corporation” which receives full funding from the federal government to provide single payer health insurance to all citizens and to interface with insurers and payers for healthcare of visitors. Something more akin to the NHS but independent enough that politicians can make them cover something, but can’t make them not cover it. Currently we just really don’t have anything like that. Though Washington, Colorado, and Nevada do have public option health insurers now.

Robert F Kennedy Sr., brother of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy Sr… He was expected to be the next president after JFK, then later he was seen as likely to be the next president after Lyndon B. Johnson. He was assassinated during the democratic primaries, in which he was the primary anti Vietnam war/pro civil rights candidate.

Johnson remains the last president to oversee major expansion of infrastructure and welfare. Biden tried for the infrastructure, but it was largely repairing as opposed to Johnson doing The Great Society which included everything from the civil rights act and extending constitutional protections to native reservations to Medicare and Medicaid to funding metro rail in several major cities and so much more. Kennedy likely would have continued down this path but with much less killing south east Asians

And here I was confused why coulombs were being used as a charging rate…

We need to abandon the “use a letter for this unit/property” crap and accept that the alchemists and accountants had it right.

Yeah atomic weight of 3 vs 11. Lithium is the lightest solid at stp

Yeah batteries have been one of the main areas where the real technological advances have been happening in the past decade. That and photovoltaics

I’m pretty sure if there’s a country that invented Islamophobia it’s either the Papal States or somewhere in central Europe and did it before people were aware that there were two clusters of continents on different hemispheres.

America absolutely got really in on it, but at our founding we were generally ok with Islam. But yes we were built on genocide and slavery.

Usually it isn’t really legally separate anymore and is just defamation regardless of how you do it

Yep, I for one am glad that someone smart and with good politics won the senate primary and that it’s even better to have him be Egyptian American, considering that’s a group that faces discrimination and deserves representation.

John Adams told one of our earliest friendly nations (Morocco) that our country is just as much for Muslims as it is for Christians, and while I may have a lot of disagreements with the founding fathers I think they nailed that one on the head

It’s also devastating for people’s willingness to be ruled. There’s a brief wartime popularity boost in some circumstances, and defensive wars tend to remain popular, but eventually people get sick of rationing and of people they know dying.

She’s a far right propagandist against queer and liberal people despite being an American Jewish woman. I don’t know how much dumber I can be convinced she is unless she regularly forgets how to breathe