Rhaedas

Jesus didn’t say to force religion on people

Simple to understand, but these Christians would be the first to set upon Jesus if he came back and put him on another cross. Blood cult, they should stop using his name in theirs, it’s literally sacrilegious.

I wish more actual Christians would rise up against their “brethren” who talk like this, if nothing else to say that it’s not what Jesus taught. Defend your religion.

Which third party? There’s always more than one, so now the vote is even weaker. And realize that you just also blamed the non-voters. Pointing fingers is very much a keyboard warrior, and it’s what’s always done after a loss caused by third party spoiling. Go ahead, say you didn’t, but the numbers historically show in close races where a third party vote would have settled had they not thought “this time, it’s different”.

To think that a third party could ever win a national election in a Republican/Democrat owned system is fantasy land. At best you do exactly what resulted in MAGA, you splinter the group from within and force the moderate part to follow the radical. That means not playing by rules though, so Democrats have division within but no clear radical that is forcing changes.

As for causes of “this”, meaning the current administration, there’s so much more long term decline damage and not just votes that caused this. Things were not fine before. More fantasy.

Yep, we got shit thrown at us, and in some ways it built good traits in us. But there was still some hope along with the fears in our time. I don’t think we passed much of that down.

Isn’t that how we ended up with Trump the first time? Lots of choices, total chaos, and the media jumped on Trump because he was a familiar face thanks to his show and not because they thought he had a chance?

Oh, and the Democrats having a clear shot at it, which usually means they completely fumble it.

I didn’t realize I was advocating for voting for one of two parties. It almost seemed I was pointing out that we’re stuck in that trap without a change of voting system. Let me reread my post… yeah, that was the point.

As for the rest, you’re sort of right but very, very simplified what was going on. And of course with a different system from the start history would be different… maybe even avoided a Civil War and/or repairing its causes and damage. Oh well…

He’s talking about the rebranded AI. Why? Because ASI wouldn’t be “in the wrong hands”, by definition it would be determining things. Dangerous, but for a whole other reason. AI as we have it now, not intelligent, is dangerous in the wrong hands. And right now, it’s in lots of wrong hands. Good luck everyone.

250 years. We’ve had a form of First Past the Post for as long as we’ve has government, and mathematically that always results in two parties, aka lesser of two evils. Without changing that, we can point fingers of blame wherever, but the people don’t get a real choice.

I wonder if this sticker is on the car of someone who always voted third party or abstained? Clearly, since it’s “you” and not “us”, so not taking responsibility for generations of voting. Do they realize that their choice might have caused this outcome too? Probably not, since they’re using a bumper sticker to blame everyone else.

They will be receiving a sternly written letter in the mail.

And that, friends, is why punctuation is important, and why a hyphen can not take the place of an em dash.

I know long standing fans will roll their eyes, but I’ve always objected to the idea that because of the name we’ve seen the images commonly projected. They lived on a planet they called Furl. Like our Earth. Has nothing to do with their appearance.

I think they were probably reptilian-like myself. Based on absolutely nothing, because there is nothing. Damn Asgards went to the grave not telling anyone, and the Ancients are so stuck up they never say anything. I’m okay with the Nox not telling us, they’re good people and would tell us if it became important.

But yet won’t listen to actual experts in different fields. Thinks he’s an all around genius. I’ll bet he only listens and consults Grok because Grok tells him how great he is.

And the takeover of media and other ways to control how people think, creating the echo chambers to tell you what is real and what isn’t. There are echo chambers everywhere, it’s human nature to settle where you feel best and confirming of your world views. But the Fox News et al is a totally artificial and heavily walled version of this, for that purpose. “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Depends on the topic and how much you were invested in it, I suppose. Definitely have a time limit.

I try to look before submitting, ninja edit if fast enough if I catch it, but if not, or if I need to correct myself because of later replies showing I’m an idiot, I’ll do an EDIT: at the bottom, and depending on context, also reply to the person that I changed it due to the discussion. That’s the part that annoys me and not much can be done about it - all the people who read your mistake but never replies or came back to see the edit. The last thing we need is some push notification that “UserX has edited their message that you read three days ago”. Let it be.

I had seen that on rare occasions. Having worked decades with aircraft arrivals, it was just wrong to me to use that, and I thought it was a mistake. Never saw it spelled out, now it makes sense. Learn something every day, if you’re not careful.

Image of Karl Rove during election coverage: “No, these numbers can’t be right. They should be different.”

When your election manipulation doesn’t work out as well as you thought it would.

The canon relationship?

Because some of the relationships changed around or created are between two different sexes? Sure, a lot of it is gay, but some can be a different girl that the main guy isn’t with. I was trying to be all inclusive.

There’s he problem. They have the power and money, and we don’t have any of that nor any organization to push back as a single group. Just how they wanted it.

Not that it’s an equal comparison, but maybe that’s why they’re so against medicare for all? They think more people paying into the system is worse (which is the opposite of reality).

No, I realize they’re against it to hurt people, just trying to find rationality where there isn’t any.