Agreed.

I see people posting questions about life in the 1970s and wonder, “Don’t you know any one who was around then?”

So, Trump gets a pass on what happened to the Kurds?

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-09-17/kurds-have-paid-dearly-for-trump-s-reckless-withdrawal-from-syria

That’s kinda my point.

Or, people could look at the situation as it is.

Trump and his MAGoos are going to do everything they can to take as many rights away from people as they can.

In the real world of 2024, the only option is Joe Biden.

There’s no magical super candidate that’s going to pop up between now and November.

With the latest Supreme Court decision, re-elected President Trump could deputize 5 million of his followers on Inauguration Day.

You don’t have to love Joe Biden, or even like him. Just realize that Trump is for full on fascist takeover of the US and Biden isn’t.

Keep at it. You learn by doing something; making a mistake; then doing it again a little better.

The only way to change the conditions of the test is to get out and support Left-leaning Dems in primaries.

And no, not all choices are valid. Voting doesn’t just affect the voter, it affects the whole country.

The one I mentioned is a 2010 series from the BBC I just saw on BritBox streaming service.

I saw that one after I saw the 2016 version with Elijah Wood.

So the older version was ‘new’ to me.

Sorry for any confusion.

I’m going to assume that you’re being sarcastic.

For those who think this is an option, remember that the MAGoos vote in every election.

You’re ignoring the fact that people have been opting out of voting for decades.

People in 1968 couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Humphrey, and we got Nixon.

They couldn’t bear Jimmy Carter, and we got Reagan.

“Both sides are the same” is the Right’s best pal.

The latest version of Dirk Gently has an episode where the Pentagon is desperately searching for the most powerful computer program on Earth.

You type in your conclusion, say “I want to invade Switzerland” and the program will search the entire interwebs to come up with a logical, fact based analysis that explains why it’s a reasonable thing to do.

So, explain how not voting assures us that we don’t get Trump again.

A lot of what people call maturity is really just being too tired to try something.

A while back, someone suggested that only women should be allowed to own handguns, and that the guns should all be painted baby pink.

That’s why I stick with real world examples.

For example, the minimum wage in 1960 was $1.00/hour. The cost of the average home was $11,000.00

The strain was too much, man.

Stop looking at those ‘inflation adjustors’ and look at what you could actually buy.

Average rent per month in Los Angeles in 1990 was under $600.00/month

Today it’s over $2,000.00

If he paid her five months rent today, it would be $10,000.00, not $7,000.00

The problem is that I can’t just explain to the technically uneducated people that I changed mail providers. How should I go about doing this?

Speaking as a nontech person, I can assure you that none of us care in the slightest.

Just give us the new address and we’ll change it. We might curse you for making us do the work, but probably we’ll feel like badasses when we do it in only three hours.

Wine mommies have entered the chat.

Back in the 1940s, there was a Captain Marvel story where a scientist tells the Big Red Cheese that the entire universe is actually a dream and the sleeper is getting ready to wake up…

The funny thing is that I intellectually knew that there were plenty of non-English speaking scientists, but that knowledge was never considered.