Yeah I'm in the same boat with lengthy scrapped response. We're at a point that's demonstrated there is no solution to arguing with idiots, short of buying media outlets and correcting the narrative globally. People aren't willing to be persuaded by discussion, even with their own families. It's a signal-to-noise issue where the noise is all of the media propaganda that overpowers the signal of real world around them.

Being a gay ambassador isn't going to change any minds when the recipient gets bombarded by hate speech 24/7 on their favorite news outlets. So I think people should just be themselves and society has a responsibility to fix itself.

I know it's not a good answer, I don't think anyone has one or there wouldn't be a global rise in fascism. But it comes off as victim-blaming to put the responsibility on the oppressed, rather than the rest of society to fix it.

Apparently the balance was supposed to be one person with good faith checking one without. Now we see what happens when every dumbass stands on the corrupt side of the balance.

I was just coming to terms with that, but now knowing he has 3 more days per year to plan than I do... I'm starting to get concerned again.

You're right if the goal is to convince someone of something. But why is it the job of the gay person to talk to the conservative village in "the right way" to justify their existence?

More generally, why is it always the oppressed who have to try to rationalize and normalize themselves for a chance at being accepted in what is also their society?

I have no room to speak since I'm not fighting any of those fights, but even I get infuriated thinking about people needing to talk rationally about why they should be accepted.

You can tell it's a crazy sci-fi galaxy because the year is 3 days longer than ours. They really went wild with these ideas sometimes.

Why does her face look like she's about to milk us too?

All of this hopefulness assumes they don't erode voting rights over the next 4 years. And they've had plenty of time to stage exactly that, including captured courts when anyone fights those new laws.

Aw man, I want giraffes playing poker.

I'd argue against the word "earn" even. One cannot earn one billion dollars at all.

Nobody deserves $1 billion when it would take a teacher about 20,000 years to make the same amount. And it's not earned if it's not deserved.

But that's just semantic ranting, you're right.

https://kamalaharris.com/issues/

She has a website that very clearly explains her platform.

Except that he's explicitly choosing to be a political candidate for the purpose of avoiding the lawsuits. A lot of these allegations occurred before he announced he was re-running, and then the lawsuits got put on hold.

Your scenario creates a method for anyone to delay consequences by running for office. Although we both know it wouldn't really work for anyone. Trump gets his special treatment.

With how trigger happy police are, the false positives would lead to more deaths than they prevent. And police would claim it's justified because the machine told them so.

Having no knowledge of the situation: If a meme has a risk of being interpreted romantically, you might be in too deep already.

With #1, strong leader probably means the strong-handed over-enforcing leader who's tough on crime to solve problems. In your example I agree, but I'd also argue the leader is guiding society in that case and it takes everyone to solve problems.

With #3, I think it's referring to a subset of actual citizens who are treated like "real" citizens over other citizens. Whether it's by race, class, religion, etc. Some minority of the population is made the boogeyman.

20% off $69 makes it $55. $190-$55 is $135 savings.

The savings seem correct, it's just really confusing.

It's bumper stickers for your house, but pretending to be fancy.

I think it'd only be 2 squares for the rectangle of the traffic light.

I've been doing a lot of captchas lately and they always seem to want less outer edge than I expect as a probably human. Like if only a small corner of a bus is in a tile, I just ignore it.

Of course it's insane! To threaten these absolute gods who wield the power of nature (and also accept part time work explaining their plots on television.)

Is their plan to shoot someone who can summon hurricanes?

Was that song in this game too? It's been stuck in my head for decades from SSX Tricky on XBOX.

Formosa’s emissions could more than triple the cancer risk in some St. James neighborhoods.

I hadn't heard of this area. It's insane that any of this was ever allowed, and especially directly next to a residential area.