My funniest prediction I've had since like 2 years ago was that Trump wins the election, Biden dies like a day later getting Harris sworn in as a lame duck....and then Trump dies 2 weeks before taking office and JD vance becomes president.

...I feel like we don't live in that timeline though. As of right now I think Harris just clinches it with the popular vote and the EC...then we spend the next few months litigating it both publicly and in various courts. Would be wild if the supreme court pulled a 2000 thing again...but I feel like that probably won't happen.

I've already seen conservative memes about how they removed the lead in gasoline and house paint because the lead is what protected us from their radiation (I'm assuming that's how they spread wokeism).

Guaranteed if there aren't already: there will be people who start selling lead additives so you can start mixing them into the paint and gas yourself within the next 4 years.

Still lives rent free in my head

Cowards disable your trigger button. Auteurs let you create time paradoxes!

Damnit...should have just wrote in PSL. I'LL try to be better next time. Will y'all forgive me?

I got some really bad news for you about building socialism...

I have a 9 year old I have 50/50 custody with. We don't do much youtube, if any, in our house but his mom is extremely Laissez-faire with electronic devices so I think he's basically freebasing youtube over there.

Both logistically and ethically you can't really keep your kid in a perfect bubble and its unavoidable they're going to get exposed to stuff like this so unironically: do talk to your kids about it. Especially with the future of AI: I believe Media literacy is going to be INSANELY important to start grasping as soon as possible. My partner and I have used Mr. Beast as a starting point to have conversations about how people can be playing themselves as a character or presenting things as reality even though they're scripted. We've also used it to engage in conversations about how liking/enjoying certain content isn't a value judgement on the people creating it and how we all enjoy things written and created by people who weren't super great humans. I encourage checking out "making of" docs also. He's 9 so I can't say how well this all plays out long term...but I have observed him noticing recurring tropes in some of his media so I feel like there's something to it.

"Reddit Atheism" is Atheism with debate bro characteristics. Its what happens when you try to substitute not believing in god for an actual personality. Also its largely undergirded with un self-aware (sometimes self-aware) western and white supremacy. They are more interested in being abrasive and irreverent than actually learning/understanding any sort of greater truths or why people believe them.

Right now it’s Harris vs Trump neither of those options offer any help to those suffering. I’m wondering what I’m not being convinced of.

If this is the limits of what the system can offer or even tolerate: then the system should be destroyed.

However this all concludes whether it be: the worst case, best case, or mixed case scenario I honestly have to wonder out loud how anyone is expected to take phrases like "rules base international order" and "human rights" seriously ever again going forward?

Like I'm not naive and I know it was always bullshit and the rules have always been whatever we say they are but like...is this really gonna just be a case where everything is memory holled and everyone just tried to act like it wasn't all exposed as a fucking sham for everyone to see?

I'm struggling to be cynical enough to believe it will play out like that...so I worry I am naive.

I could be wrong since I wasn't there...but I have a stinking suspicion that the majority of successful leftist movements in history didn't happen on account of a highly literate populace who all individually read karl marx and decided they needed to do a revolution at the same time.

If a third party candidate and their voters represents a threat to your election bid then here's a wild thought: Maybe you should court that candidate and their supporters, figure out what the key issues are they most care about, and consider adding it to your own platform?

Oh no, silly me: third party candidates are always jokes and illegitimate people not worth giving attention to right up until they become a convenient scape goat for all your own failings.

"I'm a PC!"

Nah, I think that that goes too far. I voted Green and support everyone else's decision to do the same but even when Trump was president and the "resistance" was always largely performative.

Its really sad she and Jamie are so low tier because they are both insanely cool additions to the whole series and I really hope they stick around for a long time.

This. Its all performative but guaranteed they will be unbearably self righteous and smug about not only how much they care but also about how Harris could have brought about a cease fire if the radical left would just be adults. Palestinians are just a fucking prop to them whatever they claim otherwise.

Quite plausibly (by complete accident, but nevertheless) the single most moral thing Trump has ever done in his life was dodge the fucking draft.

Oh yeah, because this fucking administration totally didn't crack down on student led protests or break workers strikes. Shut the fuck up!

They are basically one step removed, at best, from outright saying: "Palestinian lives don't matter." Thank you, I'm happy I voted green earlier this morning.

JugGOlo TO THE POLLS!!!!