Blaming the people for the predictable effects of the dem’s actions deflects away from only entity that had the power to change the outcome and the only entity that will have the power to change this in 2026.

It’s not constructive to go “Damn, I sure wish genocide didn’t decrease turnout for the dems”

Just like in 2016, the dems deluded themselves into blaming the voters (specifically black people and/or the left) and bernie sanders instead of themselves, and we are watching them do it again in real time.

I just have a fear I might mess up somehow and start a fire or something

It takes some effort to start a fire. Most oils flash points are >600 F, which you might get a pan to to sear a steak, but to heat a pan of oil for deepfrying or something to >600 F, which would be a dangerous situation, requires you to continue heating it after it started billowing smoke between ~350F and ~525.

In any case, if you manage to have an oil fire, say by spilling some on the burner, just let it burn out if it’s a small amount or turn off the heat and throw a towel over it if it’s like a cup’s worth.

Minor burns aren’t uncommon when you’re learning, but that’s just a very quick way to learn “wrap the handle of the cast iron you just took out of the oven with a towel so you don’t grab it like a moron” or “use tongs to place things on hot oil so it doesn’t splatter on your hand”

Biden sent Netanyahu every weapon he was allowed to, and had the military protecting Israel.

If the Biden admin didn’t want Netanyahu to do this, they could have just not actively supported his efforts to do so.

This was obvious to everyone from the beginning.

Even blue MAGA were doing “But you still need to vote biden, even if the dems never stop facilitating genocide” since Oct 8th, because deep down, they understood the dems wouldn’t listen, even if it was going to cost them the election.

2030 is incredibly optimistic. Musk has been promising your tesla would be able to function as an automatic taxi when you’re not using it for a decade.

I voted, but I have no power to change the outcome of the election. Only the democrats had this power, the blame lies only with them.

Genocide lowers turnout. Saying you’re going to appoint republicans to your cabinet lowers turnout. Pledging to shut down the border and build the wall lowers turnout. Means testing all of your campaign promises lowers turnout. Running tough-on-crime campaign ads raises turnout FOR THE REPUBLICANS!

We’ve been yelling that the dems will lose if they continue to go right for the last 4 years, but the dems either chose to move to the right on every issue either knowing it would lower their performance, or ignorant because blue maga like you helped shield them from the reality unfolding infront of all of us. I don’t know which is more damning.

They’ve been saying that for the last year. And bombing the west bank. Hell they bombed Bethlehem on Christmas.

The democrats can not fail, they can only be failed.

IQ only measures how good you are at taking IQ tests. They recalibrate score every year to maintain the same distribution of scores within a year. (they change what each question is worth so every year 50% of tests get above 100, 40% of tests are between 85 and 100, 40% of tests are between 100 and 115, etc.)

The impact is that they have to make the tests harder every year. If you applied modern standards to 1920, the average score would be ~70.

What makes more sense to you, that 8/10 people today would be considered near-geniuses 100 years ago, or we got much better at taking IQ tests?

How strong were particle accelerators back then?

The only case I know of a dude sticking their head in a particle accelerator was in 1978. His head became quite swollen and he had radiation burns. He’s still alive at 82.

There’s also the Therac-25, that was pretty noticible.

Where do you see frequent trash cans and people regularly throwing trash out in the street?

Typically trash in the street means you don’t have enough trash cans, or a bunch of youth or homeless people whom society is failing.

Despite being a video-essay channel, this channel has good economic analysis of the conflict.

tl;dr current indicators suggest they will continue to increase production as they build domestic production to deal with sanctions, but if it continues for more than a couple more years, it will decrease 10 year growth projections.

Dick Cheney, aghast that Americans could allow someone as Islamophobic as Trump to represent them.

If you understand it as a trial where a president who has done something wrong is held accountable according to the law, then no that’s idealist nonsense.

If you understand it as a mechanism that allows 50+ senators to replace the president with the VP if they want to, yes.

Their role is entirely dependent on maintaining the cult of personality and calling for the blood of those who are accused of dysloyalty.

You’re not looking at this from a systemic perspective.

Their role is winning their own elections. Everything else must be secondary, since if it wasn’t they’d be replaced by someone else who does.

I’m talking about the people who run the machinery of the evil empire that turns the suffering and continued immiseration of billions into profits for the shareholders of the most destructive companies, I’m not under any impression that these people have morals I can recognize.

The US party system is extremely effective at keeping threats to capital out of power.

The country is 3 corporations in a trenchcoat. If Trump threatened the corporations those same republicans campaigns need to get elected, those republicans would have to either lose their seats or get rid of Trump.

How many of those senators depend on MIC lobbying to keep their seats?

There’s lines a president can’t cross, threatening the jobs 50+ senators is one of them.

Lotta scratched liberals around these days.

Successfully removed from office, not the ceremonial bullshit the dems do for the aesthetic.

Can you think of any precedent where something like that has happened before?

In the US? The closest you’d get is JFK, if you think Allen Dulles was behind the assassination, and not just the coverup.

Outside the US? Constitutional coups after a country goes against US interests happen so frequently that it’s not even noteworthy.

What would that do, exactly?

Replace Trump with JD Vance, who I’m sure will be more amenable to the interests of the capitalist class.