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The worst part is that you know she doesn’t understand what happened, and thinks her grandson “sent” her the preview.

No! Argue with the porn! Haha, yeah, definitely block that kind of crap.

Yeah, even in instances where one side is clearly right, it’s still important to be challenged often enough to know exactly why it’s right. As soon as you’re comfortable enough with “knowing” something is right without being able to explain why, you risk believing things that “feel” correct but might not be. You don’t have to actually argue with trolls, but you should still see and process their arguments enough to formulate a counterargument in your head that would stand up to a hypothetical person arguing in good faith.

According to Wikipedia, with various sources, allied forces in Italy would often ask for bacon, eggs, and cheese on noodles, called “spaghetti breakfast,” so Italian chefs would modify the existing recipe for “pasta cacio e uova,” which was originally without meat, to feature cured pork, thus creating the original carbonara.

I didn’t see anything to specifically say whether they originally used bacon as the allied forces asked, or used other more traditional forms of cured pork from the start, but now guanciale, a cured pork jowl, is considered the traditional ingredient, though bacon is a common substitute outside of Italy.

Binging movies wasn’t much of a thing back then; I can’t remember a single time when I wanted to immediately put another video in after just finishing one. Plus it took like 5 minutes to rewind one - I’d usually run to the bathroom and grab a snack and it’d be done by the time I got back. It wasn’t any longer than a commercial break, and we were all used to that back then. I remember I once mowed the lawn 5 minutes at a time during commercial breaks because I didn’t want to miss the show I was watching, haha!

A few years ago a piece of snow that had hardened from the cold flew off of the top of a guys car and hit my windshield so hard that it spiderwebbed. Snow flying off of a car can also completely blind you for several seconds, since it often comes off all at once like an avalanche.

Growing up I always held onto the previous Gameboy model whenever I upgraded so that when my parents would take away my video games I could just sneak into their room when they weren’t home and swap out the latest model for the older one. They never noticed.

It’s not going incognito from the browser and websites, it’s going incognito from your computer and the other people who use it. Did people actually think incognito mode was some sort of vpn?

Small towns often have a place with free air. My local fleet supply store has one.

Well, they have to say “we’re training a music AI” while slipping several million dollars into the pockets of the right people. Rich people don’t win legal battles by actually proving what they did isn’t illegal, they do it by discreetly paying people to say they did.

I live in the midwest and collect old cookbooks. Every “salad” section is about half recipes comprised of mixed vegetables and the like, and half recipes that sound like someone took all the desserts in their house and mixed them in a big bowl with some whipped cream and jello.

Elon doesn’t work, though, so he doesn’t deserve to be alive. It’s not about money, it’s about effort to contribute to society. My favorite saying is “community is uncomfortable,” because it portrays the work that it takes to be there for your fellow person. Even someone with a disability or other issue that prevents them from doing traditional work is already working plenty just to get through the day. Elon is the exact opposite of that.

“Character” was always just “beaten down to the point where they don’t talk back to their ‘betters.’”

The non-voters for local elections that I’m talking about are the people who turn up for every presidential election to vote for the people their news show told them to. They’re the tens of millions of 50+ year-old people who think Trump is just another republican who needs to be replaced by just another democrat, and the world will be perfect again. Those people don’t care about local elections, because they specifically enjoy the current political system, and don’t care what new faces enter the political scene.

The people who turned up were the 20-somethings who are politically-minded and are going to change this world for the better if they can keep showing up to polls that the 50+ people ignore.

There’s no middle ground where we can minimize the decent into enslavement by biding our time until the revolution comes.

Nobody is “biding their time” for a revolution; we’re getting angrier and angrier by the day - it’s nearly inevitable. Unless a political change happens, and quickly, it’s coming. But still, it takes time, and voting will happen in the meantime. To ignore the entirety of the voting system simply because it’s going to be overthrown anyway is dumb - these is a modicum of good we can do by making sure the country is in the least-terrible position that we can when we finish preparing (note: not waiting) for the revolution, and it’s pretty clear that one side is better than the other.

However, the original poster I responded to has made me aware that the 2018 election in Mexico was actually a lot more similar to a US election than I first thought, and it’s made me wonder if rallying people around a new party may actually be a viable choice. I’m still looking into it, but there may be a 3rd way to get ourselves out of this. Regardless, ignoring tools at our disposal simply because they won’t fix things on their own is not going to make things any better. Even if the world is only a fraction of a percent better with a democrat in charge over a republican, it’s a better choice than nothing. Hopefully a 3rd party option is more viable than I initially thought, though.

Damn, I looked into it further, and you’re absolutely right. I knew it was an upset win, and when I saw that there were 4 major parties in the election, I dismissed it as a more variable political system, but it’s first-past-the-post, just like the US. This will definitely change my thought process on what our chances of making real current-day changes to our political landscape would be. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, and for powering through my hardheadedness.

Cope? I’m ecstatic! I’m so glad that we managed to get politically-minded people to rush in under the larger group of “keep everything the same” voters’ noses! But to ignore that group, who accounts for the majority of voters in every presidential election, and is the reason 3rd parties never make it even close to being viable, is nothing short of ignorant.

The message isn’t “Democrats cannot be trusted to represent our interests, they are our opposition to radical change……” it’s “Nobody within our government gives a shit about our interests.” And they won’t until we get new blood in, but that doesn’t happen at the top, it happens at the bottom, and we force it to the top through years and years of consistent voting. The liberals who make up the democratic party aren’t going anywhere until they’re replaced, but even their replacements are liberals. Again, we need to change the bottom to change the top.

But, what do we do as we’re getting to the top? Do we just abstain from voting and let the Republicans pump more and more money into ICE for the next decade or two? Or do we vote for the weak, spineless liberals who won’t fix anything, but also won’t make things as bad as the Republicans would? Or do we vote for the 3rd party voters who 90% of the country hasn’t even heard of, much less intends to vote for? We’ve seen what happens when people do that, and it’s just as bad as voting for the Republicans themselves.

So please, tell me who I should actually vote for for president in the coming years, between the times where positive change hopefully starts to grow in the local elevations, but before it can reach up to the top and actually put forward a viable presidential candidate that even the people who aren’t paying attention will vote for. Because the people whose family members got carted off to the next Alligator Auschwitz will want to know if we let the tyrants in on a technicality, or if we at least voted for their asshole younger brothers instead, since nobody else stood a chance of being in charge otherwise in the meantime.

I don’t care if some liberal, who is never going to change one way or another, gets a big head because people voted for them, I care if they’re going to be as bad as their republican counterpart during the time it takes for us to make the changes that we need to make that will actually change our government for the better, because the government itself is never going to do so.

Correct, and that’s what the democratic party is about. We only change that when we’ve swapped every candidate out from the bottom up. The democratic party had Cuomo. That’s who they backed, and it will be who they back every single time. We need to vote in the Mamdanis of the world at the bottom, then in the middle a few years later, then at the top years after that. Then we will get a leftist presidential candidate, because there won’t be any centrists left for the DNC to put forward. If even one centrist remains, that will be their candidate, and that is who all of the “not into politics” voters who think Mamdani is going to turn New York into a “socialist hellhole” will vote for.

Democrats in office right now will never, never put up a fight. Ever. And neither will republicans. People can scream all they like - nearly all high-level American politicians today got into politics for their own benefit, and are happy to continue receiving “lobbying” money in exchange for the destruction of the world. Vote for them, don’t vote for them, they don’t care.

The lesser evil proclamations are not at all about reversing the trend, because it won’t be reversed. The only thing that will reverse the trend within this generation will be outright revolution. Voting for the lesser evil is about minimizing the damage in the meantime while we organize the revolution.

If we decide to go the route of changing the democratic party slowly from within, like with Mamdani, then it will also work, but only by the time local city council and mayoral candidates advance in the government enough to become presidential candidates, which will be decades. And even in that case, we need to minimize the damage to make sure the country survives until then.

The democratic party won’t ever put forth a leftist candidate until there are literally no other candidates for it to choose from, so we either wait until we’ve swapped everyone out, or we revolt.