This is what we expected to happen. They should have not taunted the bear with that whole “library rental” model a few years back.

Now, an important resource is going to crumble under the weight of lawsuits because of one domino.

This is totally a “Not sure if serious” pic.

Their leaders just haven’t figured out how to ignore protests yet. Protest something in the US, and it always falls on deaf ears, while politicians walk on their backs on the way to work.

Having said that, I guess we’ll find out when Trump does something as brazen as this… oh right, that was Jan 6th.

Because this is a shit article that is just trying to push clickbait.

Not a fucking minute of police work more, not one fucking dollar of resources more, not one fucking article more, not one fucking minute of airtime more than any other person.

Is this sarcasm? I’m going to assume this is sarcasm.

Yes climate change might bring famine, destructive weather events, or plague but in the meantime we are living in the safest, healthiest, and most technologically advanced era of humanity up until now, especially for those of us living in democracies.

Don’t take your democracies for granted. If people aren’t around to fight to keep them that way, they don’t last.

The thing is, it’s not the fear of injury or death, it’s the fact that people have forgotten the idea of public engagement.

Like I said, gradients. If people have a fear of public engagement, they certainly can’t get far enough to get past the fear of injury or death.

Any ethos that includes the phrase “dictatorship of the proletariat” cannot possibly call itself only a “economic theory”. Reducing it to that kind of category alone is inherently dishonest.

Communism makes it so, in principle, you have no reason to overwork yourself, other than if you enjoy what you are doing.

“In principle” is doing all of the work in this sentence. In practice, communism is nothing more than a dictatorship, dressed in fancy idealism. We’ve seen this lesson repeated over and over and over and over again during the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

Communism doesn’t work. It will never work. It’s not realistic, and it doesn’t factor human nature and social instincts. At. All.

The fact that you think that’s sarcasm is troubling.

Name a social problem, and I will tell you how it’s definitely and sanely-proven to be caused by capitalism.

It doesn’t help when you have to share the planet with people who have the same power as you and are half as intelligent, who actually enjoy getting fucked by capitalism.

There are gradients to risk-aversion, and that’s certainly on the low end of the spectrum. But also, those same parents were the ones who were actively rebelling in the 90s or in the 60s and 70s, in some cases for very good causes that were worth risking injury or even a chance of getting shot.

We need those people, now more than ever. And despite it being a natural personality trait, risk-aversion is more pervasive than ever. We risk losing our freedoms to people with far more power than us, because we collectively decided that it’s too risk-averse to fight.

We are frogs boiling in water, unwilling to fix our situation, because there’s a risk of injury or death.

Well once the nuke is dropped, anything related to Geneva Conventions or any other Conventions go out the window.

Trump just got re-elected. Russia won’t face shit.

And you think that matters when there isn’t even going to be a fucking center-right any more?

No, I chose to teach them a lesson.

The only lesson you taught them is that the general public wants more right-wing ideas. What you’ve done is teach trans, blacks, and other minorities a lesson, the lesson that they should be beaten and driven out of their country. You’ve taught that women should be submissive, treated like property, like they are in Saudi Arabia.

Good job. I hope you reflect on your “lesson” in the next four years, as your right to vote is systematical dismantled.

Not any more there isn’t. And soon, in the next few years, we’ll see a systematic elimination of any remaining opposition, by means of oppression, suppression, and even more violent means.

I also guess Americans don’t want a woman president and they do want a hard crackdown on migrants. Especially Latinos, who apparently overwhelmingly came out for trump.

Latinos voting for hard crackdowns on immigrants is the biggest “fuck you, I’ve got mine” energy I’ve ever seen.

they intentionally waited until the “primary” was over so that Biden could get the incumbent automatic primary votes and then let him drop out so they could rush in Kamala without having a real primary.

If that was the case, they would have done it sooner. Kamala stepping in was definitely an unplanned, and unprecedented, move. It’s a huge risk to drop the incumbent in favor of somebody else.

Good job to all of the fucks who stayed home because of Gaza, thinking that not voting and letting the GOP rise to power would actually help the situation.

Yeah, because Netanyahu’s extreme right-wing policy was a problem with the US’s left-wing party, right?