vapordays

I agree but who knows if that will be in 3, 10, or 20 or 50 years

I'll chip in as long as I can fly it -- I have 1000+ hours in flight simulator

I do vote in the primaries and it still doesn't amount to much, especially considering the most well funded (corporate and welathy backed candidate) almost always win because it's a name recognition game, and money buys that message into people's brains for when they get to the booth.

And guess what, Harris didn't even have a primary, she was appointed.

Then there is virtually no method (thru established channels) of public accountability once a politician gets into office. That is why in reality almost all of them succumb to money interests, for the few who didn't already before getting elected.

You place way too much faith in the process of capitalist "liberal democracy" which is the shallowest shell of democracy. The architects of the political system are the rich and powerful themselves. It is an elaborate maze designed to keep the ones in power in power. You blame and direct your ire at the wrong people.

You are not voting against Fascists by voting for Democrats. You are voting for delaying hard fascism in favor of a more subtle fascism and setting up a harder fascism for the next Republican administration. That is how it's worked this whole time, that is the progression of electoral lesser evil politics in this country.

Reiterated, you don't understand the systemic problem if you blame virtually powerless voters in this fraudulent "democracy." If you don't agree with this, I personally don't give a shit if you take me "seriously."

And you can blame me and other voters/non-voters all you want, but that won't fix a thing, and not only that, it is pointing a finger at the non-powerful instead of the powerful, the individual instead of the system itself, and in this way you are perpetuating "the problem" more than nonvoters, or people who vote their conscience (like I did for Cornell West, the best option in the recent presidential election). Hey, why didn't you and everyone else vote for the real lesser evil? The better option than Harris? By your logic, I blame all of you for not having a better Administration and better things. "We didn't vote for the better candidates because they had no chance." Yeah, because you didn't vote for them. After all it is everyone's choice that they could have made. But see how dumb it is for me to blame you for all the problems today?

Oh and maybe you should consider blaming the Democrats for being absolute ass and totally captured by corporate interests, and nobody really wanting to vote for them because they suck total ass and are not a serious opposition and have mostly been in league with the Republicans. Why aren't you blaming the actual powerful?

Whether you think voting is any kind of solution or not, people who don't go to the voting booth are definitely not "the problem" -- saying that things are bad because of people who don't vote in a game of shitty choices is a real misunderstanding of the problem

In this episode of, "The population is sick, I wonder why"

It is to protect themselves by gradually removing people's ability to spread information and organize pseudoanonymously

Minimalist is not how I'd describe the endless amount of spectacle and triggering but useless "features" on everything

Republicans turn the ratchet to the right, Democrats block movement back the other way

"These are opposing forces"

Nothing they would actually do. Correct.

"Online options or other locations will maintain existing passport design"

and

they will be "releasing a limited number of specially designed U.S. Passports to commemorate this historic occasion"

from the article

heyyy no need to drag the Grinch like that...