The Republicans wrecked the world economy in 2008, destroying half the wealth in the world, and were only out of power for 2 years. No matter how bad it is, there is nothing that can pierce the reality distortion field generated by the right wing propaganda machine.

The difference in non-voters between 2020 and 2024 was enough to swing the election.

Huh, I had no idea Biden was Prime Minister of Israel. I’d always heard it was that Netanyahu guy.

They’re a news program. What exactly are you expecting them to do instead?

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all the party members who aren’t loyal to him get charged with corruption and thrown in prison. All modern dictators put up a charade of legitimacy. Even North Korea pretends to have elections.

Sure, but the vast, vast majority of the blame should be on the Republicans and their supporters. There were also a ton of people who kept acting like the Republicans didn’t control the House during 2023-2024.

That and all the bad faith arguments about “the Republicans did something terrible; this is all the Democrats’ fault”.

Also, despite how much Trump wants to pretend he’s a dictator, he’s not. Both Congress and the Supreme Court have the power to stop this tariff idiocy at any point if the consequences get to be too bad. Xi is actually a dictator and the likelihood of any other power base overriding him is slim to none.

I kept hoping the boomers dying off would change things, but it looks like the new generation is even dumber.

Perhaps you should ask why people didn’t give a shit when the US was supporting SA in Yemen but suddenly cared deeply when it was lose-lose for Democrats. Why did Netanyahu refuse to sign a ceasefire until after the election? Why was no one calling Trump Genocide Don back when SA was bombing Yemen or now that he’s announced plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza?

As for what I’m doing, I have zero desire to rehash the same script again and again.

Huh, let me check the ballot again. Nope, Netanyahu was not on it in 2024. It doesn’t look like he got a single vote.

I did find 2 candidates who both wanted to remain allied to a rather odious country known for human rights abuses and bombing large numbers of civilians. I’m talking about Saudi Arabia, of course.

I didn’t know Netanyahu and the country of Israel was running for American president.

The human brain has a pattern recognition system. It is not just a pattern recognition system.

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Then please enlighten us.

Just looking at them, they appear fairly similar to nebulas within our own galaxy. It took sophisticated spectroscopic measurements to realize they’re actually much further away.

Depends on the species of mold, but enough of them are toxic that the general advice is to avoid all moldy bread.

There actually are rules. They’re just complicated because English prefers to preserve the pronunciation of loan words without changing their spelling and English has a ton of loan words. If you ignore them, native English words are fairly consistent.

Not proud of it, but I saw a steroid clit instead.

Call me a downer if you want, but I think scientific papers should be above using clickbait titles. Scientific papers should be dry, boring and technical so that there’s no doubt that a paper is popular because of its content and not the personality of its writer.