I never sit it out. I don’t believe it makes any difference, but I do it anyway. Our leaders are all “fashy types” no matter what. I’ve been voting and active since '96 and every president has been a war criminal. Every single time, I watch people pretend like one is the devil, and the other is an earnest agent of good. They’re always both the devil.

Democracy (if we ever even had it) died a long time ago.

Yeah, these are video files, and they’re missing random bits within the file. I was just thinking that with such small gaps it wouldn’t be too hard to extrapolate something close to the missing data, and just “make them playable” as you said.

I mean, is it that different from “upscaling” or “interpolation”?

Trump would kill them twice /s

Good.

Probably a better idea to invade, spend a trillion dollars occupying it for 20 years and then leave, having accomplished nothing.

Why does anyone give even a shred of credence to what Israel says anymore?

Damn, full support for a genocide that is unpopular with their own electorate, and this is the thanks they get? If you’re willing to lose due to principles, at least make them good principles.

On the bright side, liberals would finally oppose the genocide!

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The DNC still has time to win over these voters. Does the DNC want to win the election badly enough to stop a genocide?

It doesn’t matter why the republican base believes in their party. Incidentally, you’re not entirely wrong about why, but they’ve had rebellion too: see the TEA party.

The democrat party strategy is different. Their base isn’t aggrieved axe-grinders. They’re earnest believers in the system. The problem is that the leadership doesn’t actually want to accomplish anything that would threaten corporate profits. Trump is great for them, since all they have to do is not be him! Policies be damned.

It’s because democrats are unwilling or unable to deliver on real policies for working people. Of course, republicans are the same, but they more or less don’t even pretend to, choosing instead to whip up their constituents with culture war nonsense. Nobody has any faith in things improving. Repubs just want to get revenge on their cultural enemies, and democrats (voters) just want to prevent a total slide toward the far right.

Dem politicians can’t whip up excitement because it is impossible to get people excited by neoliberal policies, but that’s really all they have. Vague platitudes only work so many election cycles in a row before voters just can’t even pretend to be excited anymore.

tl:dr republicans are awful but at least their base believes in them.

They definitely lied about finding the scissors later.

Thailand keeps having elections, and then disqualifying the winners. The real power lies with the monarchy and a small group of plutocrats.

Lol

Curious to know how many of the arrested are these fascist scumbags, and how many were the good people bravely standing up to them.

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If they were interested in doing the moral thing, they would have done it by now.