Yes, exactly yes to all this. There are still a few third party people lurking and all those plus the astroturfers can fuck off

Well yes. I guess I was just assuming here on lemmy most people making that argument are claiming to be on the left, which is a smaller part of the problem.

Thank you

Yeah that's what I figured. Bizarre all around. "Femoid" was too long for these pricks.

Can't view the original link due to paywall and the archived link never loads :/

I hate how there's always some bizarre new term people are using for weird and bad reasons. "Foid". I can guess it's some weird demeaning term for women but still what the fucking fuck.

I agree with most of what you wrote here but I have a response to one phrase..

how can you blame people

I mean, for me to not blame anyone, I'd have to assume that the vast majority of people are way stupider than I ever knew, or had no access to information to the contrary. And I've always thought people are dumb as fuck.

How can I blame people? Well, even if we assume that people knew nothing at all about the past decade, republicans made it blindingly obvious what a shit option they are. The democrats could've come on the stage drooling and babbling about space lasers and only in that case should the choice have been unclear.

You're right. It's sold as "believe X if you like freedom" when the reality is "believe X to keep the rich's boot on your neck, necessarily decreasing freedom". It's not a freedom for your kid to die by a school shooter, but somehow millions believe it is.

Thanks, yeah I'm not sure. Maybe my wording is confusing.. it's early here. And I'm pissed. I don't want to live in a world where a person is rewarded heartily for being all the horrible shitty things we were all taught not to be. It almost feels like morality was invented to keep everyone from having the balls to lash out against these absolute sociopath types.

But don't you understand? The genocide totally would've been worse or even the same. Something something duopoly! /s

Edit: to be clear, if you argued against voting for Harris, this is partially your fault. And I'm done with you. Write me a shitty reply here to be added to the blocklist. I'm all out of patience for your types.

Even if you could vote, our system is designed to prevent your vote from having an impact in multiple ways. Fuck this country.

To be entirely honest, this makes me doubt we will make it as a species.

On election day when he didn't lose by a landslide I had the same thought even before all the results were in. The level of idiotic selfish spitefulness required to keep him from losing by a country mile after all that's happened is absurd.

Seems a little fucked up.

Yeah it seems like a typo. There -> there's

I really like the colors from the rainbow. Well done!

What a remarkable shot!

Thanks for that. According to the water enthusiast people, I'm incredibly dehydrated all the time, but not according to this chart. Hydration is definitely something to be aware of, especially if you're doing things that cause you to lose moisture, but honestly most people have no issues staying hydrated today. Turns out sitting indoors and hardly moving doesn't cause a lot of moisture loss.

That makes sense to me. I'm just spit balling here really, but it's based on the uncertainty around the cause of kidney stones. There are certain risk factors but I think genetics play the biggest role, iirc

What a persuasive method