Ugh, you know what, I think you're absolutely right. That's gonna happen sooner or later. I dunno when, but I entirely expect it to eventually (or maybe very, very soon).
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I think most republican voters simply care more about "other people can't get a free thing that I had to pay for" or "I don't want universal healthcare because I'm healthy and I don't need it". Which are both incredibly selfish mindsets. The GOP knows about these mindsets and does everything they can to encourage them.
I think they now are so far gone that they find it easier to convince voters by spreading propaganda than it is to win people with good policies. I think part of it is that on the policy front, there's stiff competition. But on the identity politics front, it's not even a competition. The GOP is massively better at propaganda and identity politics. They know they're better at it, which is why they've leaned so heavily into it while also having so little else to offer. Fixing problems often gets in the way of profit, so they don't have an incentive to actually fix many problems (at least not for normal people).
Eh, I don't think chronological order is the right order for this. That makes historically older rules have priority over newer ones even if they're outdated. The second amendment is the obvious example of amendments being outdated. Even if you are all for gun rights, I don't think you can argue that the amendment was written with modern weaponry in mind (and indeed, nobody argues that the average person should be allowed to own a fully functional tank).
And coming up with a better priority list would be impossible in the current political hurricane, as nobody would agree on the ordering.
Lol yeah. My cat will never let me forget to feed her. But I've killed so many plants. If I'm late with feeding my cat, I feel really bad about it. When the plants die because I thought I'd give gardening another go, I kinda just... don't feel anything.
I have a MacBook for work and I'm not sure it has ever updated overnight like it said it was gonna. It's quite annoying because OS X updates (or my work's custom stuff? Idk) are so, so bad. Big, focus grabbing prompts popping up to say I need to update, when I agree to do it, it has to download too (every other system I use just downloads automatically and only prompts about the restart), and it is the slowest OS update to boot!
I don't understand why that one has gone away. Like, the 3mm audio jack made waterproofing difficult and was big. But that doesn't apply to the notification LED, does it?
I really miss that feature because now I have no indicator of a notification, short of the major battery drain of setting the screen to always be on. I remember even customizing the colour so that I could tell when I had important notifications. Now I often have to double tap my phone just to check if I have any notifications. So dumb.
Uber does have a carpool option. But I'm not sure how often it gets used.
The fact that there is an organization of the same name does not mean they own the slogan. People using the slogan almost never do so in reference to this organization nor are necessarily even aware that such an organization exists.
BLM is more of a human rights statement. Anything is "political" if the right choses to whine about it. An example is putting pronouns on name tags. It's a great idea to ensure employees are addressed correctly and frankly shouldn't be any more political than a name tag containing your name, but the right choses to view them as political because they need a constant culture war.
To be fair, that's effectively passed, isn't it? This isn't the kind of bill where we'd expect a veto, so getting passed in the house and senate is practically all the work.
It has what appears to be Patrick Bateman and Homelander, who are both utterly blatant psychopaths. I'm not sure which Cillian Murphy character is pictured, but the Keeanu Reeves one appears to be John Wick, an assassin who kills about every other person in New York from the movies I've seen (they don't really have a plot beyond "apparently every single person is an assassin").
So really the only options are satire or literally the dumbest thing ever created.
They're far more powerful than a street gang. Street gangs are generally universally loathed by the general public and the courts are reasonably happy to lock up gangsters (though do tend to turn a blind eye when gang violence is self contained).
By comparison, the police have this significant chunk of the population bizarrely supporting them ("back the blue" and "thin Blue line"), a massive amount of media propaganda (it feels like every other show on TV is a cop drama), and the courts are heavily on their side (regularly refusing to even bring cases against the police).
I've never seen street gangs have any of those things. Even when there's media about gangs, it usually doesn't shy away from being clear that the gangs are evil.
Not just to literally recognize people who don't belong or to act as a financial barrier. Some of these dress codes I think are there to give a feeling of who belongs. They want people to feel stuff like, "wow, these people are so dressed up and I am never dressed up, so they must be above me".
Traditionally, politics has been a thing for the upper class and intertia on such things doesn't make it easy for them to change. Dress codes in politics is just another way to make the idea of being a politician feel like something only for the upper class. Low and middle class people aren't supposed to feel like they can be politicians. Politicians aren't supposed to be too relatable. Even when trying to be relatable, they still often act like they are better than you.