There are millions of Americans that desperately need and deserve respect and empathy, and receive none. Adam Sandler isn’t one of them.

He’s an obscenely rich douchebag who voted for Trump despite having all the means to know all the people it would hurt, including children that conveniently aren’t his.

Most prisoners on earth, homeless populations being harassed in every population center by our law enforcement with literally nowhere else to go to die of exposure in our name, but the Sandman doesn’t like to have his picture taken at dinner despite having sought out celebrity and having been handsomely rewarded for it, jfc.

Imagine thinking wealthy republicans need to be harassed even less.

You answered your own question.

In a nation where money decides election wins, you’ve already completely lost. There is no longer a way to make a society here that focuses on the wellbeing of the citizenry as long as the correct framework remade to prohibit it exists. .

The best we can hope for, if literally anyone gave shit one about there being a future here, is painful but necessary collapse, this system is completely corrupted and cannot be repaired. To not see this just makes one blind. The owners use the media they own for exclusive private benefit to divide the populace and maintain perpetual control.

I voted for Harris out of harm reduction to attempt to mitigate some cruelty, but not with hope. Rejecting Reagan was our last chance, and we utterly failed, now the corruption is baked in generationally.

The DNC is fine with Republicans being in power. Neoliberals and Fascists agree on the most important thing: Economic growth for the owners comes first, then they bicker about how to or if to address the social issue symptoms of that crony market capitalist economy for 4 years.

Neither party would be so civil if a democratic socialist administration or better was about to take power. That would be a bipartisan emergency both sides would use every second to undermine before the fact.

Don’t worry though, neither of our two power sharing parties that matter would ever let that get close to occurring. The DNC/RNC would have too much to lose. They need eachother to point at when the owners need to turn the screws on their exploitation livestock while convincing many of them that their party tried to stop it.

Good. Release it.

Fuck whatever this necrotic oligarch owned cesspool doesn’t want the peasants to see.

The owners and the bigots blew up civility and process. No reason to heed either at this point.

If it’s true that you can’t fix stupid, there really is no hope in our lifetimes.

Oh look, a broken clock.

How many times do we need to keep this nation “united” at gunpoint before we acknowledge that the science and reason people are incompatible with the supply side Jesus and racial hatred people? We can’t stand one another, and time only deepens that division until bloodshed, over and over.

You can’t educate those cultures that refuse to be educated or have their children educated. That kind of change, born of desperation and constant struggle inflicted from your own culture’s values needs to come from within. The Red States need their Martin Luther “maybe we shouldn’t punch ourselves in the face every day” reformation moment, and it isn’t rational for those that see beyond their ignorance and superstition be dragged down with them for generations until they get there. Blue states propping them up only prolong comfort in their ignorance.

You can’t force cultural evolution or save the willfully ignorant from their own willlfull ignorance from outside on Alabama any more than you can on Afghanistan, all you do is create a common enemy for them, as we continue to experience.

How do you construct a worker’s party in a country where corporate bribery has been made legal and there is a class of billionaires ready and eager to squash any legitimate improvement to worker’s living conditions with their nearly unlimited power/capital? They literally own the means of state and media propaganda, and the means of state violence to protect our beloved economy from the society that exists in subservient subsistence to it.

I vote blue out of harm reduction, but there’s no escape in the US without necessary complete governmental and economic collapse. It is too well corrupted into protecting capital over people. I think in the desire for perpetual stability for the sake of commerce/profit, something vital was simply discarded in the modern nation state model:

The renewal that can only come from the collapse of the past.

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Men lust after women and women lust after men. Hating one another for that is ridiculous and denies that reality.

Women are simply more selective, but their jaws tend to drop to the floor and their gazes tend to linger into creepy lengths of time over a Hugh Jackman bod or a broad shouldered designer suit that screams high net worth.

Its quite sad that people can’t except one another as imperfect animals with biological baggage.

🇺🇸Glue tastes yummy!🇺🇸

Then you have to ask yourself, does that happening, and a couple million Americans being killed by the American Military to get the other couple hundred of million in line, is that a nation that worth continuing? Basically being held at gunpoint to keep laboring for the owners as the point and pretend everything is fine?

Things may somehow end up even worse upon collapse initially, but given our people’s apparent hatred for one another across identity lines and clear geographical lines, I have to believe maybe collapse, divorce, and reformation into several nations would be for the best long term.

They say the history bends towards justice, but maybe that requires something that the modern nation states, made in the pursuit of perpetual stability, left out an essential component that may also be absolutely vital in nature: the renewal that comes from collapse.

It sucks, it will hurt if it happens, but I try to take a larger view than that, generational suffering.

Maybe this stranglehold by the owners is inevitable when things become too intransigent. Maybe the information age accelerates the decay of an empire. I don’t know.

But I’m hesitant about maintaining this union at perpetual gunpoint again. It’s a fucked situation, maybe indicitive of a reality we just aren’t open to hearing, that the science and progress people need to be separated from the god and racial resentment people.

That said, ecological collapse is decades away however we rearrange this deck chairs because people still want their fucking POP figures, smoke em if you got em, TB.

I’m not the way I am to be sad, BTW, it’s just how I get to peace instead of horror, disdain, depression, and anger. I zoom out enough until the soap opera of my fellow self-sabotaging monkeys floating around the nearby star becomes academic. It’s a viable coping mechanism that isn’t born out of willful ignorance (which I despise above all) but intential detachment, for what it’s worth.

“Self-plagiarism is fraud and goes against the core principles of ethical writing. Papers are assigned for students to demonstrate evidence of learning. If a paper is reused from a previous class, the student is not demonstrating new learning.”

https://azhin.org/cummings/plagiarism/self#:~:text=Self-plagiarism is fraud and,is not demonstrating new learning.

Gemini AI’s pro argument that self plagiarism is a problem: Misrepresents effort: It’s an act of trying to pass off old writing as new and original. Misleads readers: It can mislead readers, colleagues, or supervisors who expect fresh insights and updated information.

These are consistent with my old philosophy of law Professor’s opinion on the subject, but other academics I’ve discussed it with since seem kind of split.

Why would you include both caps lock AND shift but omit A and Z?!

If we had 50 million more like you, this nation would be lovely.

I’ve voted blue for decades, just so I can say I did the right thing: harm reduction.

This nation’s last, last, last chance to improve its course would have been to soundly reject the supply side, trickle down Reaganomics grift, but when they lied that YOU could be one of the rich ones one day, Americans giggled like schoolgirls and the former party of labor went full neoliberal to take the larger corporate bribes unions just couldn’t match. That is when any hope for the US to become the benevolent nation it never was but claimed to want to be died.

Citizens United was just a victory lap for the capitalists to piss on its decomposing corpse.

Anyone who wants to claim this country was over a couple of Tuesdays ago, hasn’t been paying attention.

And it wasn’t the Neonazi scum that killed it either, they just see opportunity in the cultural vacuum and chaos. Twas unchecked capitalist greed that killed the beast.

Do it. You’ve earned a drink my friend.

We don’t need to be such downers about it.

Let’s just celebrate this as the age of facilitating future dolphin supremacy!

We sucked hard, I have faith that they can do better because I can’t really imagine how a sapient species could find a way to do even worse.

We’ll cling to life like cockroaches despite being so fragile.

Our wealth class has littered and is littering this Earth with climate controlled luxury bunkers to escape the consequences of their own fine work, which will buy some sad bastards the honor of sipping expensive whiskeys in concrete tombs below the scorched surface for a few decades before we finally, mercifully end.

It might be the family of the perpetrators we know like the Bezoses and Musks, but I can only dream it will be their service/security staff that will have murdered them the moment the security doors closed and took their shit.

Imagine explaining this headline to the very last somebody reading it in an old internet archive in a bunker in 2090!