Suffering is a core part of the conservative philosophy. Conservatives despise the idea that life can be easier, despite other countries showing us how to do these things.

Suffering for those they disagree with. Hard lives for those they dislike, while conservatives pay lip service to their hardships and buy off their problems with indulgences.

The gun people are expecting the guns to be pointed at the libs. They’re all for it.

They are absolutely clueless that any dictator strips guns from people because they can’t bear any threat.

He also said that it would result in an “age of abundance” where the cost of everything would drop dramatically.

This never, never, ever happens when they say it will happen. It’s always the opposite. Prices go up, jobs disappear, new subscriptions appear, etc.

Gonna need some details on where they went.

I pointed out to someone that the SSP money for helping migrants was separate from the billions in the FEMA budget.

The response I got?

'I don’t give a shit. We shouldn’t be spending any FEMA money on illegals and should be helping Americans instead."

They don’t listen. They don’t care. They don’t want to know.

The fact that we have to watch a video about it is emblematic of the problems with Google and internet search.

Shaken?

And?

He will forget about it quickly. Until it comes back to haunt him. Then he will engage in mental gymnastics to justify it.

The founding fathers got a lot of things right in a broad sense. However, the lack of details really screwed us.

Because democrats value egalitarianism and education. Good education is expensive. The businesspersons that have expended the most effort to offshore our jobs to the serious detriment of working-class America have had some of the most expensive and exclusive educations of all, and they are some of the wealthiest people on the planet… (conservatives fullstop here and ignore the rest: …who are also likely voting conservative). Couple that with the fact that expert (educated) advice and direction is often in direct conflict with the myopic goals and views of the uneducated. Don’t dump shit everywhere (but it’s cheap, easy, and fun to roll coal and pour used motor oil on the ground!), don’t cut down all the trees (but mah lumber is more expensive!), and maybe wear a mask (grandma was gonna die eventually anyways, at least I can bring her Covid from the Applebees take out!)

So it’s really easy for the conservatives to paint education = evil, and then of course they couple that with feel-good bullshit like “common sense” and small-town American wisdom that is completely meaningless but makes the uneducated feel smart or like they have control of their situation.

Probably. Willful ignorance.

Yep. Hurricane info is available from official sources for free.

However, I can’t help but imagine some tiktok of someone finding themselves trapped on a rooftop crying because their preferred app wouldn’t show some critical info.

The only reason to not make voting day a holiday is because the very people preferring you not vote are losing profits and power don’t want the people worked the hardest to have a say in changing the system.

Unless the day off can only be used on voting day I think people will use it for their own purposes.

I really despise the fake images and stories that get taken up and spread. Then they get called out and shown to be fake and people don’t care, they say pretty much what you see here:

I don’t care if it’s fake, it feels real, so I’m going to treat it like it’s real.

Some states require front plates.

Blocking a plate with a bike rack isn’t a bad idea, except - a) the rack will wear your paint, b) any automated toll collection based on license plate reading will also be blocked. Probably NBD once in while, but if someone regularly skips tolls and is caught it’s gonna hurt. They just had a toll-skipper sting near me where they caught a crapton of people who regularly skipped tolls with license plate blockers and temp tags. They lost their cars instantly, a few got slapped with 6-figure fines and fees, and I imagine jail time might be on the menu for some.

Riiight. I’m not the Chinese government.

https://www.reuters.com/article/business/theft-of-f-35-design-data-is-helping-us-adversaries-pentagon-idUSL2N0EV0T3/#:~:text=China was suspected of being behind a reported,Martin officials said no classified information was taken.

The government sucks at keeping secrets despite what the conspiracy nuts say.

I’m sure the taxpayers will never be on the hook for that loan.

“Jailbroken”

“You told me I could tell lies unchecked!”