A 144hz monitor has been the biggest upgrade to my computer since switching from an HDD to a SSD. It’s that big of a difference.

Same punishment as a brick, or acid, or a bunch of razors. Really makes you think.

Sorry, they’ve been defunded. Best they can do is have a guy from Fox News with no scientific background waddle out and claim Climate Change is a hoax made up by the demoncRATS. Maybe blame it on the Jews too, if AIPAC hasn’t been donating as much lately.

Because it’s the New York Young Republican Club? It’s not any actual politicians calling for this. It’s a bunch of incel trolls jerking themselves off to videos of Andrew Tate and having wet dreams about how fucking funny it is for America to do a fascism.

No they aren’t.

They are untouchable. They may lose power. In a fantasy scenario, they may even be barred from office. But there is no scenario, even in fantasy, where these rich fucks will spend a single day in prison. The best we can hope for is them dying from old age, or quietly fading away.

They’re not going to be held accountable. There is no scenario where they do.

There is literally nothing that he could release that would affect MAGA. Nothing.

a lot of American soldiers will refuse to commit atrocities against their fellow citizens

Tell that to Kent State.

American soldiers are soldiers. Soldiers follow orders. Soldiers without critical thinking skills follow orders without question.

There is no real history of holding the forces of fascist regimes accountable. If you’re thinking of the Neuremberg Trials, I urge you to look up how many people actually got prosecuted and faced justice compared to the total number of Nazi officials. Spoiler: it wasn’t many.

Thinking that members of ICE or supporters of this administration will face ANY legal consequences for their actions is delusionally naive. They won’t.

Even in a magical fantasy scenario where MAGA loses all power, progressives get into office, and enact wide sweeping change to undo all of Trump’s damage and ensure it can’t happen again; the only thing that would happen to these people is that ICE loses funding and they have to find a new job. That’s it. And in reality, even if a progressive takes office, ICE funding is never going away. Just look at the TSA, we were promised it would be a temporary thing in response to 9/11. Does anyone really believe it’s temporary anymore? Does anyone expect even the most progressive politician to push to defund them?

Yes, everyone knows if the majority of the military is untrained and lacks critical thinking skills, they could never successfully oppress their population.

That’s why African Warlords with armies full of child soldiers famously never commit unspeakable atrocities on their citizens.

I would like to see a random person. Put the entire adult population in a lotto and draw a name. Congrats, that person is now president.

The knee-jerk reaction is to be horrified by this prospect, but I want you to stop and really think about this for a sec. I think we can all admit that most of our leaders/politicians are, to put it mildly, fucking monsters. Those positions attract personalities that fall firmly in the Dark Triad (machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy). And those that are capable of getting themselves elected are pretty much guaranteed to have at least one or more of those traits.

But these traits are relatively rare in your average, everyday person. Although the media tries it’s best to warp our view of the world, individual people are, for the most part, good, decent folks who want to help those around them. It’s practically built into our DNA. The problem is it only takes a small handful of selfish jackasses to ruin things, and our society tends to listen to those that are being the loudest.

By this metric, if you take a random person off the street, you have a higher chance of them being a good person; rather than if you selected from a pool of politicians.

Another benefit to this is the person entering office has zero ties to any company or billionaire. Lobbyists spend billions to ensure that anyone elected is already in the pockets of whatever big industry wants to fund them. By the time someone is elected, it’s already too late as they’ve already had their hands greased and have accepted gifts, officially or unofficially. That’s just the way the game is currently played. But a random person? They can’t bribe someone ahead of time if they don’t know who that person is going to be. Oh sure, I suppose they could try to appease the public as a whole so that your average person already has a positive opinion of them; but would that be such a bad thing?

Is it a perfect system? Hell no. Leaving leadership up to the whims of chance is a dangerous move to make. But is it a better system than the one we have now? I say yes. I truly believe we would be better off with a random person as president than any known politician or talking head.

That turnout is depressing.

Until we start seeing some socialists in positions of power, passing socialist policies, I’m going to respectfully disagree.

They’re right that capitalism is out; but look around. Socialism isn’t in. Fascism is.

Then don’t drink. Why would you mix poison with medicine and think that’s an ok thing to do? No shit that’s bad for you.

If you are taking any kind of medicine, don’t drink. If people are too stupid to realize that, then they are deserving of the Darwin Award.

Also, don’t eat grapefruit when taking medicine. That one is more forgivable because it’s not obvious it’s a problem.

A combination of ibuprofen and acetaminophen (paracetamol) is a crazy effective painkiller. It’s been found to be even more effective than some opioids. Watch your dosage, know what you’re taking, and it’s perfectly safe.

Pretty much all of the original Anonymous were caught, hired by the government, or disappeared. They haven’t been a real thing in almost a decade. If you see anyone claiming to be them, it’s a government PsyOP.

They say that whenever a media station dares to present the facts on any situation.

Man, I am trying; really, really, trying to force my brain to see them that way and it just refuses to. Those are way too wide to be a nose and the “mouths” are way too low and weirdly off center. I can only see frowny faces.

Look up the group Indecline and see if they have any suggestions for civil disobedience around you.