I’m not American. Can someone explain this to me? Why would you register a party you are aligned with? I’m Ireland we use proportional representation so most people will be voting for multiple parties in order of how closely they align with your views.

Where are you getting 93%?

Anna from No Such Thing as a Fish recommended an Australian podcast called Smart Enough to Know Better years ago and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying both since. And I would say if you get the opportunity to see No Such Thing as a Fish live go for it. They are excellent live.

This is a myth, but placebos can be powerful… https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/is-local-honey-a-cure-for-hayfever

Voting for a 3rd party is a vote for Trump. If you think Trump is less genocidal I have some magic beans to sell you.

So you side with the Palestinians then. The innocent people being murdered so their land can be stolen. Glad we got that cleared up.

Why are you saying Palestine? Israel are claiming they are fighting Hamas. Hamas aren’t interchangeable with Palestine. Israel are indiscriminately murdering innocent Palestinians, none of these people have “refused a ceasefire”. Whats worse about all this is Hamas wouldn’t even exist is Israel hadn’t funded them.

What part of “Netanyahu’s […] own reported statements — was to keep Hamas strong enough to counteract the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, allowing [him/Israel] to avoid a two-state peace solution” implies wanting peace?

Yeah, all those children murdered so that their parents homes can be stolen are war criminals…

I think a big part of the problem is that while Hamas are fucken evil, they were a tool used by Israel to destroy the Palestinian people. Hamas wouldn’t still exist if Israel didn’t want them to https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-security-forces-escorted-suitcases-cash-hamas-qatar-report-2023-12?r=US&IR=T

Israel has always had the goal of killing everyone in Palestine. Feed some rockets through to Hamas so they will be fired at them, send in an incredibly well funded military to level a few block (mostly with US taxpayer money), and use that military to protect the “settlers” who will just take the land.

The only change is they have expedited the process.

Raised by Wolves was killed by David Zaslav when HBO was brought by Discovery. The is the reason Discovery switched from educational programmes to reality TV. He ruins everything he touches.

If you haven’t seen it already check out Bobby Fingers on YouTube. Only 4 videos so far (all amazing) and is the other half of the Rubber Bandits. Very talented VFX artist

Smart Enough to Know Better - Australian podcast where two guys discuss things that interest then in a humorous way. Could be the latest astrophysics news, could be the location of stomachs and diet of a centaur.

What do you mean be rise up? What is the actual action you are calling for?

So what is your alternative? Don’t choose the lesser evil and accept the greater evil? What rising up are you doing?

"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet."

• Men at Arms by Terry Prachett

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For me it was how he would start his videos with asking people what he thought about something them basically going, I’m so much smarter than you here a video of why you are wrong you. Never included people getting it right because it wouldn’t fit his self centered narrative. I heard he’s stopped doing that but I won’t watch to find out.

It’s not really that contrary, most people don’t actually become more conservative as they age. It’s not quite a myth but very much over stated. Political orientations over the course of the life span are very stable. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1113&context=poliscifacpub

The US healthcare system is a victim of a lack of government regulation. An essential service cannot be effectively be privatised because no matter how ineffective or expensive people have no choice but to use it. Why do you think every EU country has a higher life expectancy than the US? Could it be an effective government…

You still haven’t clarified what you meant by “taught” in your previous comment, you still haven’t clarified what the issue is with the very clear breakdown of government spending.

Libertarianism is an utterly stupid belief. It doesn’t stand up to the most basic critical examination. You don’t respond with any facts because you can’t.

If you are worried about coming out swinging with insults try countering that with actually addressing questions. I know you won’t.