I agree, but only about the star of Earth in that series. The Epstein drive, protomolecule, even the colonization of Mars are all not guaranteed futures in my view. But if we keep going to way we are, yeah, I can see a 50+% unemployment rate and lots of brutalist architecture.

I don’t care about leaving a legacy. I’m here to enjoy myself as much as possible in this very fucked up world.

Maybe the next president can shoot Trump in the dome and say it was an official act to protect national security secrets.

Joking, obviously, but it’s fun to fantasize.

Seriously. If all of Western Europe ganged up on Russia, it would fold instantaneously. Bullies isolate their victims. Don’t let them do that and they show their true colors.

That’s not a counter argument. “They” don’t call China a communist state; China does. Nowhere does the United States call itself a straight democracy. It refers to itself as a republic.

No, it’s a republic.

No, see, what you’re doing is making a No True Scotsman argument. Nothing is communism to you unless it achieves the pristine results dictated by the ideal, so any actual attempt that fails, you dismiss as “not communism,” rather than admit that communism is a flawed system that has always produced bad results at scale.

Communism mandates a single-party government, which inevitably becomes a corrupt dictatorship that does not follow the idealized plan. But that’s the problem: the plan is too idealistic and doesn’t account for human psychology. So, you can’t just say, “oh, that society isn’t communist because the outcomes aren’t right. Name one example of a communist country that actually produces the results you expect to see.

Of course he would disapprove. And, hopefully, learn something about human psychology, its relationship with power, and why single-party governments are a super bad idea.

Username tracks.

It has nothing to do with what he “would have” thought of Kirk. What’s established by his family’s testimony is that he broke from their conservative ideologies not long before his heinous act and expressed sympathy for Leftist views. Yes, he absolutely was Left-leaning, but came from a Right-wing family.

Ultimately, it doesn’t really matter. The statistics still show the Right-wing extremists are more violent on average, and by a long shot.

Adults are just large children. Accept this and move on. You will never understand anything, really. Those that seem to are just pretending.

Bah-hah-fucking-hah!

No, they’re not. They’re getting something out of it. I don’t know why that is precisely, but they’re getting something. This was never about caring for their constituents.

But let’s not forget the only important part: the child wasn’t murdered by a doctor. It died when its mother died of entirely preventable causes.

That’s the only thing that matters, because my fucked up religion told me so.

I’m an intelligent, rational human being who bases their entire life and modern choices on an ancient text, which I believe was written by a divine source I am incapable of proving exists.

FUCK RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS PEOPLE. YOU’RE TRASH HOLDING CIVILIZATION BACK.

I think statistics is far more important for people to know than calculus.

That’s because this is and always was about racism, not immigration. The strongest supporters of this shit are all White people who believe in the White genocide conspiracy theory, and more supporters who don’t believe in the conspiracy are still scared of White people becoming a minority in America.

The DA cited a lack of evidence as the reason for not charging him, but the article then goes on to detail that the allegations involve him making various female employees go on overseas trip with him and play the role of his wife (including sexual activity) in order to fool sex traffickers. Surely the DA could have interviewed all the women involved to verify the accusers’ testimonies, no? Makes the lack of evidence argument seem very flimsy.

Well, the victims should sue the hell out of him at any rate. He lost his job over this and they should try to financially ruin him.

Hey, you people whose land we stole! Can we use some your little remaining land we so generously let you keep to detain people we want to kick out of what is now rightfully our land, and definitely not yours or theirs?

No.