Did you reply to the comment that you intended to here? I'm not sure I understand why you've said what you said. If that's just me being thick then please clarify for me, I'm lost
I think you've misunderstood me. Last time the Democrats lost an election, you got Joe Biden as the next candidate. Why would making the Dems lose this election produce a more progressive candidate?
The UK is having a general election in a little over a month, and we have a similar electoral system and a similarly miserable political landscape. It's fairly applicable here too.
The fact that trump has won 50% of his elections and looks to be 2/3 in a few months should make everyone reconsider the quality of candidates we’re running against him.
After the Dems last lost an election, you got Biden as your next candidate. Why are you expecting this approach to suddenly produce a candidate you would like?
I think you should vote for someone you believe in, rather than voting for someone who is not someone else
This would be the ideal situation, but for so long as we have first-past-the-post it's a fundamentally ineffective way to vote. Thanks to Duverger's law, unless one of the two big parties just so happens to coincide with your views then the best you can do is to vote against whichever of the big two you dislike most. "Big two" here depends on your constituency - it may not be Labour and the Conservatives locally, but it is true that virtually every constituency has at most two realistic options. Labour may not be very good, but if they're in power it's probably at minimum going to make this a better place for asylum seekers and trans people (or whoever the Tories would go after next), and Labour's voting record on the environment really is far better than the Conservatives' too.
China isn't that big for domestic cobalt extraction, it's Chinese companies working in other countries. The biggest reserves are in Congo-Kinshasa and Australia, but Australia doesn't extract much
Weshesh, one of the groups Ramesses III said he defeated when the Sea Peoples attacked Egypt. As far as I know, though, they're one of the groups that we have basically no other mentions or evidence of, so we have no idea who they were
The article says that the Ministry has suggested students use other programs, so it sounds like it's just something students often use rather than something that's actually required. I've not been in school for a long time, but I am doing a distance learning course and when I had to submit some written stuff I definitely found it more comfortable to type it up in an actual word processor than the web platform that only showed about a paragraph at a time, so I did that and then copied it to the web platform.
It's honestly got a lot in common with your politics, in many ways. Our Labour party isn't looking likely to do much good, but holy shit it would be nice to at least making everything worse in the sleaziest way possible all of the time. I personally put a lot of the blame on FPTP voting, although that is clearly not an instant fix in itself; the Dutch are doing a fine job of demonstrating that
If neither winning nor losing does progressives any favours, then there's no issue with trying to make the least bad realistic option win