Hey, that’s my sons name!

Yeah, but to them he’s the “anti-government”.

It flies in the face of rationality, of course, but so does most conservative ideology.

These days “conservatives” despise anything that has a hint of government smell on it. Not because of anything meaningful or anything, of course, just that “government bad”.

The world has been ending for a long long time. This is just the latest speed boost we’ve run over.

Forgot to opt in maybe?

Or, for the more sinister approach, forgot people had to opt in to organ donation and was just taking organs willy-nilly?

Probably for the same reason so many terminally online “politically engaged” people insist that they’re clearly morally and intellectually superior to everyone else despite the fact that all they do is whine about how the “lesser evil” (in just one of thousands of elections, no less) isn’t good enough for them.

Maybe if you stopped focusing so much on the negatives, and started promoting positive change, people wouldn’t argue with you so much.

There’s no one issue that, independently, could have change the outcome that no other could have as well. Blaming it on just one thing is just as ignorant as blaming it just on voters.

It’s as much on the Harris campaign as the American people who didn’t fucking show up, despite all the evidence that it’s going to be so much worse with Trump.

Trying to say “It’s anyone’s fault but mine” at this stage is pointless, though… because what’s done is done. We’re fucked. Doing nothing but point fingers only damages us in the long run, because it’s that much more energy not spent on fixing it in the future.

For Palestine? Probably. In so many other options? It’s laughable that people think that the two candidates were in any way similar.

Biden, and by extension Harris, have not waved their hands and saved the country (even if they could, which they can’t, because we elected politicians not magicians), but they have done leagues more for people than anything the Trump crowd has.

Being ignorant of that is dangerous, but spreading that ignorance is borderline manslaughter for all the people who are going to be hurt because millions of people decided not to show up for this election that did for the last.

I’ve absolutely still seen people making those arguments. It’s fuckin’ wild.

Doing a real good job of building bridges to convey your ideas, I see…

Unless of course you don’t want to share thoughts and just want to be right.

With banks there’s a financial incentive for private institutions to provide barriers. Barriers that can still be bypassed with the right tools and initiative. That incentive doesn’t exist for media providers. They just want their content as accessible as possible. Meaning any roadblocks they’re forced to utilize will be half-assed at best.

Not to mention it’s a stupid idea in the first place. Banning something doesn’t make it better, it just makes it more tantalizing. Just look at prohibition, or abstinence only education. All it does is create a more unsafe environment for those outlets.

I had a bank account when I was 11.

Being human doesn’t make you good. Plenty of humans are monsters. They’re not some eldritch evil that simply started existing hating, they chose this.

That makes them worse, of course… but still very very human.

Simply destroying something is the easy road. Because it means you don’t have to think about what the problem is, only know that it’s bad.

It’s definitely harder to build something from nothing, but that’s not the “solution” being offered. It’s tomorrow’s problem that you don’t have to worry about yet.

It’s not the easier solution, but it is the easier thought.

So you’re saying it can get worse?

Cooking takes time, ingredients, and if you want it palatable, ability. Fast food takes driving up to a location and saying “give me something easy”.

It’s not as fast as it used to be, but it’s still relatively quick, especially if it’s on your way home from wherever you are. Any extra time is just spent doomscrolling on your phone or listening to your preferred media pundit.

A genocide and a war with another country, which they’d probably like to turn into a genocide as well?

There’s also a whole other population of Palestinians they’ve barely started genociding. Are you saying it’d be no worse if they started killing off people in the West Bank in the same way?

It makes sense to people who want to use the deaths of their ancestors as an excuse to do whatever the fuck they want.

The implication is that 11 is as bad as it gets. Unless you’re like a hundred, you’ve never seen 11. It can get so so worse.

Yes, people are dying. And it’s horrible. But acting as though this is the worst it’s ever been or will ever be is laughable.

Don’t forget his terrorist fist jab.

That’s where that comes from, yes.