Lmao fair!

Americans are dumb because the system works as designed. The rich remove value, the populace feels like they have a say in things when really the decisions are made for them at a much higher level.

The party leadership isn’t stupid, the parties themselves act like corporations with diffusive responsibilities and agendas that lead to the same ends, the party leadership is agenda driven on maintaining power. Much like the party is.

The state of American voters and voting is a result that was arrived at on purpose. The populace doesn’t actually have any power in this representative democracy at the highest levels. It’s pure oligarchy.

The DNC isn’t stupid, it’s evil.

It was in 2008, DNC went hard on fucking over Obama, and rather than reform the DNC when he won, he washed his hands of them. Now we’re here, with a group that cares more about controlling the field of candidates rather than winning a general election.

They (the Biden admin) purposefully withheld polling data that showed he had 0 chance to win, him and Kamala. Rather than attempt to find a candidate who would be popular in the general, they canceled the primaries.

Biden admin all but promised they would run 1 term in 2020, it was strictly an anti trump ticket in a post-covid world that was sick of him.

Trump was very simply a more popular candidate in 2024 who ran a much better campaign that wasn’t hamstrung by NOT talking about Palestine, the biggest news story at the time. People entirely forgot how bad he ratfucked us on covid, they remembered the name on the checks.

Any facist who follows that playbook within the general election will do the same, especially if there’s a opposition that quite literally knew they would lose and ran anyway. American elections are a joke because the American populace is fully captured by advertising and thus remain uneducated and ignorant.

Kamala could have won if Biden left later. Her best performance was immediately after he stepped down because they kept her from talking the entire Biden campaign (she was very unpopular). The second she had time to talk it was over, Kamala is a bad public speaker and terrible on the spot.

I’ll even tell you the moment she lost it. When she said the wall was a good idea on national television to Anderson Cooper. That was it. American elections are a popularity contest, we (the American populace) don’t take them seriously.

I would love to do the super spicy small ones. I fell in love with pickled radish in Korea. It’s a side dish for every meal. For maekju (chicken and beer), it is THE side dish. They do the big ol daikons tho.

It’s total bullshit. They don’t need to do anything to the factory. They haven’t made X and Y in Fremont for 2 years. There isn’t anything to retool or any space to reuse.

The factory already frequently takes manufacturing breaks for days at a time. If he had a robot to build, they have capacity, but let’s not fool ourselves. There is nothing to manufacture or deliver.

You’re dead on, this is just him hoping he can fool people into thinking they still even need his factories at full capacity. Pretty sure they don’t.

I think that’s what their saying, since coke/cocaine and coke/coca cola are both named coke because of the same chemical.

I dunno which came first tho, far as I can tell cocaine in both drug and drink form started getting called coke around 1900-1910. The coca-cola company didn’t like the nickname, they advertised you saying the name in full, they didn’t actually copyright “coke” for coca-cola it till the 1940’s.

Some people need it, fuck.

This is a you’re not wrong, just an asshole situation. There was actually a cluster of free solo deaths in 2024 in Colorado cause this shit was getting popular.

Free solo climbers used to be an incredibly small group with a death rate that rival people who use those gliding suits and thread the needle under bridges. It’s a community of people like cave divers, they understand death is a likely part, the people attracted to this (no matter what they personally say) are either ok with dying or have disassociated the risk so much that they don’t take it seriously enough.

Alex Honold will get more people killed by getting them interested in free soloing, traditional rock climbing by comparison is like tennis level safe.

Your van/rv is a weapon, the driver is using the weapon. A squeeling, jack-booted piglet will put themselves in front of your vehicle and even if you are turning, they will kill you.

That exactly what happened to Renee Goode. Please be careful out there

That’s fair, this is gonna be long, this is a particularly interesting tpoic to me. Although Japan has been very much removed from the world through much of its history, isolated. Even pre-Sakoku the nation rarely showed an interest outside of the islands around it, and Korea a couple times. Japan is a fascinating country when you look at the education and militarism.

It’s helpful to understand the Japan of the period around the world wars to understand Japan now. Japan had their arms forcibly removed from them after a period of extreme imperialism, which lasted from the period post the Sakoku policy beginning in the 1850’s until the post ww2 period.

Japan went from a nearly pre-industrialized fuedal style system to a fully industrial nation with a modern military during the Meiji Restoration over a period of like 40 years. After the first Sino-Japanese war they attained an incredible amount of power, resources and reputation. What followed was a period of colonial effort with a sort of Japanese supremacy bent to it that was notable in it’s cruelty and effectivness.

The last 20 years Japan has been re-militarizing. They started on the 1950s, but truly didn’t start building real capacity until mid 2010’s. Since 2022 they’ve been building a full military in earnest, to the point where China is treating them like the US is trying to treat other countries, not selling them the really good stuff for aggression and defense.

Much like the US, Japan doesn’t exactly see itself as the bad guy in all of that, they teach that aggression had consequences, but the amount they omit about what Japan DID over there during from 1890-1940 is vast. They are still a resource poor country that relies on trade, but unlike the Japan of the past, the current Japan seems terrified of conflict, with a youth who seem unwilling to die for the country.

But again, even at the heights of their aggression and colonialism, they were a drop in the bucket compared to the West (including the US), or China, or Russia (in all it’s forms). It’s not even a comparison to the US, the US is still and has not stopped being bloodhungry imperialists.

Check out what they did to China and Korea and for how long (first and second sino-Japanese wars). The Japan of the late 1800 and early 1900’s were bloodyhungry imperialists. But they were a lot smaller and had a much smaller imperialist footprint than any western country by a country mile.

They started late and were actively thwarted by western nations to keep and exploit military conquests. Can’t even compare them to the vast imperial footprint of the west.

The only true segregation is wealth based, the last civil war had astoundingly clearly delineated lines and you still had brother killing brother. Modern war isn’t like that. It’s city by city with things totally calm 30 miles over. Moving like a cloud of death from community to community. Old grudges, family issues, bad neighbors, bad bosses, anything will get you killed.

Not a world i want to be in, no guarantee what this place looks like after, there isn’t a good guys win scenario, we’re in an oligarchy. Maybe it’s that shit Marx talked about, but i bet it’s Gilead.

They don’t turn this around on Ashley Babbit.

Sometimes for the Japanese, the person you are replying to is right. America had a super sketchy relationship with Japanese POWs, the largest sea rescue was like Midway, I think America saved maybe 2 Japanese pilots who would end up being POWs and like a few dozen Japanese ship engineers.

That’s with us really looking for Americans in the water, because the according to reports (you gotta take these with a grain of salt, maybe a whole silo sometimes) the Japanese got ahold of 3 Americans, tortured and killed them.

Americans were absolutely going out of their way to capture nazi POWs, and other axis groups. Not the Japanese tho.

Your overall vibe, I’ve seen it too but only when someone realized they’ve been throwing their time in the bottomless pit of a disordered mind. Like a fedora on the side of a trashcan, it’s a sign someone took control of their life back.

Seems like you might be encountering it enough in response to your responses that it’s annoyed you. Otherwise I can’t imagine any other reaction than moving on with my life.

It’s legit offputting, but when you’re on YouTube it makes sense to play that game. Following a thumbnail meta will get your video more engagement, they even allow A/B testing of thumbnails to find the best performing one. YT is as much a thumbnail platform as it is a video one, and I’m only being slightly hyperbolic.

Huh, you might be a loser who keeps getting blocked then.

It’s still occasionally used, but man it’s an archaic reference!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner