One thing I have grown into is to refuse to use my time to try to find prices for stuff, when the store fails to label it.
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...And that is how Trump became President.
The opening text image did explicitly say that the writers did come up with explanations.
Which is why the Republicans are directly helping the Green Party. Because every vote for the Green Party is one less vote for Democrats. Should give you a hint about who voting third party helps.
Solution is to abolish first-past-the-post first. Not to ignore mathematics and pretend reality does not exist.
The Republicans would never have been able to steal it, if third party votes had not made it close.
If everybody who voted Nader had voted for Gore instead, there would have been no wiggle room for the Supreme Court to butt in. And every Nader voter who was not an idiot know from the polls that Nader would not win.
With Gore instead of Bush, there would have been no Iraq War, for one thing. And the US would have taken climate change seriously.
Fighting back and occupying are not the same thing though. And where does self defence become aggression,
The solution here is incredibly simple. Hezbollah stops attacking Israel. That is what Israel wants - Israel has no interests in using money and lives on occupying Lebanon.
There is the nation-state equivalent of personal responsibility here. Lebanon can credibly commit to make sure Israel is not attacked from Lebanese territory, if Lebanon doesn't like Israel having to actively defend itself there. The overall moral outline is so clear it almost seems too obvious, especially for the Middle East - but as far as I can tell, the overall picture just is that one-sided.
there have previously been ceasefires in place, agreed to by all sides, that immediately fall apart.
Well - because Hezbollah are the ones who want war with Israel. Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1701 , which Hezbollah broke.
What do you imagine that Israel gains, by occupying Lebanon? There is no gain for Israel, except to stop Hezbollah shooting rockets into Israel. Whereas the goal of Hezbollah is to destroy Israel, because they are religious fanatic terrorists. If this is not as black-and-white as it looks to me, then please explain what the motivations really are?
Alzheimer’s is NOT the same as being stupid
That is just word games with the dictionary definition of "stupid". Having Alzheimer’s surely makes you hugely unqualified to make good decisions as President.
Until enough people do, and sufficient votes are taken from the purple party, that they lose.
Nope, you utterly miss the point. First past the post means that Republicans win when the anti-fascist vote is split.
If you don't like the current candidates of the Democrat party, then go vote in the Democrat primary.
Imagine if the people in USA got a system that helped them vote for what they want, not against who they don’t want. Imagine… :)
There is this little thing called "objective reality". First past the post sucks, but it is objective reality. You should try taking it into account, some time.
Anyone who honestly believes in supernatural religions is insane.
Not according to the clinical definition of insanity!
From both a moral and an economical perspective, price controls on oil in the US would make tons of sense right now.
- The US oil producers have done nothing to deserve the current arbitrary price windfall. So morally acceptable
- The US economy would do much better without the price increase
The US is self sufficient with oil, so technically there is no problem with shortages if price controls were put into place.
But as Krugman said, in the current political environment, such price controls are simply not being considered. The US is run by free market morons.
I am always surprised at how cheap it would be to save the world - for example decarbonize to stop global warming. $10 trillion is 1/4th the US national debt. That kind of stuff is payable, if we want to.