Catoblepas

If your conclusion is “non voters are just stupid” without examining what in their lives led to them feeling like their vote won’t matter or count (with reason, in some cases) you’re not really doing anything other than venting about losing.

We don’t only live in a nation that is heavily propagandized and with a suppressed vote when Republicans have the presidency, that’s true all the time. Until we fix that and other issues with our political system, a portion of voters won’t be able to be (or have a reason to be) engaged.

Damn, it’s too bad the average citizen is who participates in elections and not only political masterminds. I guess nobody could have known to account for that.

Wow, I can’t believe people weren’t more motivated to vote for “nothing will change no matter who wins.” Truly nobody could have foreseen and warned of this.

Thanks for the accurate info!

At the risk of becoming too anti-casual, anti-gay slurs were so common in the US up until the mid/late 90s, if you weren't there for it you just have no idea. One of the Bill and Ted movies (I think the first one?) just randomly dropping it in there as a joke, where the slur is the joke, is a good example of just how it was then. There's still bigotry but it's not as casual and pervasive.

The planned order follows years of campaign promises from Trump to abolish the federal Education Department, which was established in 1979, during President Jimmy Carter's administration.

Oops, mixed that up with the federal Education Department. Thanks for the correction!

I think they pretty clearly wanted the Democratic party to stop arming Israel, which did not happen, and probably wouldn't have happened if they were elected, either, given they made no promises on it and gave no real indications of course correction.

This is like if the guy on watch duty on the Titanic spent a year screaming about how they're heading directly for an iceberg, the captain did nothing, and then got mad at the guy on watch when the iceberg sank the ship.

I use the Voyager app and there's just a little accessibility icon you press after uploading the image that lets you type it in. I'm not sure how to do it through browser, though.

I had no idea the ~~DOE~~ federal Education Department was that recently created. Having grown up in a deep red state I feel like a veil was suddenly lifted from me, and now I can see how even more fucked up my older relatives’ education must have been compared to mine (already pretty fucked up!).

I think it’s from 30 Rock (TV series).

In California (and probably other states, but I know here for sure) they have “Spanish for Spanish speakers” classes in addition to regular Spanish classes, presumably so people can’t do that, lol.

* paid someone to play it for him