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KSP2 is such a disappointment, I was on the hype train for years prior to release. Couldn't be more disappointed with what we wound up with

This has always felt like one of those arguments that just kicks the can.

Yes, there are 100% some homeless people who are in such a bad place that they'd outright refuse a home even if you gave it to them free of charge (or would immediately sell it for drug money/burn it down because it's filled with alien Spyware or something), but I'd wager that if you actually gave a lot of these people a stable home, and food in their fridge so they weren't literally fighting for their lives on the street, they'd be able to self improve a lot more than people give them credit for.

A lot of homeless are just people who had one bad turn after another and are just unable to break the cycle because our system really isn't built to let them do so. I think we should also be providing mental Healthcare and addiction support to these people, but saying that should come before giving them a sense of stability and safety is ass backwards imo

I don't pretend to be an expert on thai food, so I can't speak to the "traditional" way to prepare it, but in my experience pass thai being spicy is about 50/50 at restaurants I've been to, and there certainly isn't anything wrong with asking it to be made spicy

We see that it's good for the individual politicians in the short term. But frankly I don't know how anyone can look at the long term effects trump has had on the party over the last decade and not see that he's utterly destroyed their party cohesion.

The GOP has never been more divided, more without unified purpose, and it's more or less entirely in the control of one highly unstable demagogue who clearly only cares about his own personal power, not the party at large.

Trump turned the GOP into an absolute joke on the international stage, and has driven more young voters away from the party than any other conservative figure in recent history.

And all that's before you even start to get into the damage being done by the "Trump wannabes" like MTG and Desantis while trying to emulate Trump

The better question in, why can conservatives not see that Trump is the rot at the head of their party, and their only hope for a future is to cut it off before it spreads

Idk about you, but a really spicy pad Thai is 🔥

And yet people wonder why I'm not "patriotic".

We're not the good guys. And I really don't think we ever were

I can guarentee you that if #2 happened, conservatives would be in absolute uproar

Even back in those days, the leaders rarely put themselves in any danger

No one will convince me that there isn't money laundering going on there. There's just no way an actual person looked at that and thought it is worth that kind of money

And yet this sounds exactly like the kind of "more righteous than thou" condescending comment I saw on reddit all the time. But when you're doing it, it's alright, yeah?

The job of an elected representative isn't to do what they want, it's to represent the people who elected them. The people elected a Democrat as a mayor, and no they have a republican one.

The two parties operate on fundamentally different platforms, so I don't see how he can both switch parties and stay true to what he promised voters when he was elected

I think a big part of the difference is that most people get addicted to cigarettes just by being around it, rather than seeking it out. Cigarettes don't get you high/drunk (well OK, you get a small buzz early on, but nothing like weed or alcohol).

People will seek out weed even when it's illegal because the risk is worth the reward (to them), because it comes with an intense high you can't really get anywhere else. I don't see nearly as many people seeking out cigarettes in the same way, unless they're already hooked.

I don't think it will "solve" the cigarette problem, but I do think that prohibition for cigarettes won't go quite the same route as prohibition for weed and alcohol.

Now, whether I want the government to be able to ban recreational substances just because they think it's bad (or use that as an excuse) is another question