Not My Circus Not My Monkeys

They played down wealth as a tactic to trick working class voters. trump figured out they fuckin love billionaires. As long as the billionaires are clear about their lack of moral compass.

This is one of those things that reminds me the left is not as evolved as we might wish.

We should not put people in prison as vengeance. We should not torture people. We should be better than that.

Give ALL prisoners gardens.

This woman should never have freedom, but torture is wrong.

"It is only Monday and already my team has sued Montana."

I don't even know what this is about, I just think this sounds amazing without any context.

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We definitely used an older tv at first! I don't think we bought a "computer monitor" until the C-128 offered twice as many text columns only for monitors!

I just saw somebody call Karoline Leavitt "The Mouth of Sauron".

I understand I'm late to this joke but I still found it hilarious.

I have never allowed push notifications through my browser before. Congratulations on figuring out how to make me accept push notifications.

These people need to be set adrift in the pacific ocean with the rest of the garbage.

You have no clue what you're talking about.

The most wealthy of the ultra wealthy don't care about the country or industry leadership. They care about their wealth. That's why they're the most wealthy, and not the most highly regarded social benefactors. Recessions are harvest season for the rich.

Next step is ballots with only one candidate.

This is much more what I expected of the legal system under trump. I was shocked to see Republican judges mostly siding with democracy so far. This is more in line with Conservative goals for the US. People need to wake up to what Conservatism truly is: Authoritarianism wrapped in a flag.

Public transportation gets more safe as more people use it. Of course you can find bad incidents anywhere if you look hard enough, but there are far more deaths in car accidents than on public transportation.

Spot on. Black and white thinking is some serious brain rot.

North Koreans vote in 'no-choice' parliamentary elections Voting for the Supreme People's Assembly is mandatory and voters don't have a choice of candidates.

Bro. Their elections are ceremonial. They only have one name on the ballot!

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And don't come at me about "propaganda" without serious sources with evidence to the contrary. I know there's a lot of propaganda, but NK is clearly an authoritarian dictatorship.

They also murdered all the socialists in their group when they achieved the level of power they wanted.

Also, people on the left are perfectly fine with prosecuting the Clintons for any actual crimes they have committed. Bring the evidence to court! Happy to put it all in front of a jury!

But no. They're not interested in justice at all. Just power.

I was so turned off that series with the horrible unnecessary changes in the first episode that I never watched another. But if people are still enjoying it, more power to ya. We need more high fantasy tv shows.

Who can afford to retire?

The current incarnation of the Democratic Party does not exist to win elections. It exists to block leftist policies.

And the election system we use, Plurality Voting, prevents third parties from being viable alternatives to the established and highly funded duopoly.

She's such an idiot, but that's standard right wing nonsense, acting like being a biological parent makes someone wise in the field of medicine or education or *anything at all* really.

We know what makes people experts. It's education and long hours of research. Not forgetting birth control.

Because most people who work to become powerful are either sociopaths or they are driven by insecurity.

A lot of people throughout history have said that the people with power are almost always those who don't deserve it.

What is your point?

It *sounds* like you are arguing that we don't need to change/improve anything. Which would be a genuinely crazy opinion, so I hope that's not what you're trying to say.

What dick comment?

I'm wondering who these so-called experts are.

Because actual experts know that DEI initiatives increase merit-based hiring, because the alternative is hiring only people from your social circles, like Trump does.

And I don't mean this in a partisan way. I've seen an awful lot of people who vote the same way I do who are repeating the most nonsensical things, whether it be propaganda or conspiracy theories.

Nobody is immune, and I include myself.

The fact that *you* learned how to think critically (assuming you really did) does not mean that others do.

All you need to do is look at the state of politics in the US to see that most people are far too gullible.

First, I am most certainly not blaming teachers, not sure where that came from.

Second, I acknowledge that much of (high quality) education employs critical thinking in some ways, but it is NOT ENOUGH.

We are drowning in lies and propaganda that most people don't even know exists!