This. Along the same lines, I have to make myself little notes, using real stickies, computer stickies, and phone reminders I or will almost always forget to do or go to whatever it is I am trying not to forget.

The suspension of disbelief that this giant orange milksop would ever enlist or fight for anything is too great, sorry.

United States

Land of the free, home of the brave - UNTRUE

Separation of church and state - UNTRUE

With a little hard work and determination anyone can achieve their (American) dream - LAUGHABLY UNTRUE

Ridiculous amounts of wealth very unevenly distributed - TRUE

I hope the orange shit-baby removes tax exempt status from the Catholic Church over this.

He is like a spoiled child, just like his shitstain cabinet. I wish there were some way we could identify those who voted for him in 2016, 2020, or 2024 and tattoo an orange T on their foreheads so they could never go anywhere again without ridicule and harassment.

So, of the (apparently) 7.4% who do want unification (either right away or after waiting some unspecified period), what percentage of that 7.4% mean unification under PRC and how many unification under ROC rule?

The graph also shows that (since 1994) those two groups that want unification (whether now or later) have fallen from 20% to the current 7.4%.

The number who want independence at some later date has almost tripled since 1994 (8.0% ti 21.9%), whereas the number who want independence immediately or a.s.a.p. is very small and has barely changed (3.1% to 4.4%).

It suggests to me that whatever else most Taiwanese want they do not want conflict or violence with mainland China.

It certainly doesn’t suggest that any significant percentage of Taiwanese want reunification with the PRC today. Anybody have any insights into the nitty gritty details of the 30 years of polling or whether or not we should be suspicious of the Election Study Center at NCCU?

Like dogs begging for a treat…

Serious questions, not snark: Why does it matter who came in 2nd vs 3rd and why is the story being titled “Greens crush Labor” almost everywhere I see it? Is there something transformational about this single MP election?

I don’t think I would be able to keep myself from destroying it…accidentally, of course.

An '84 manual diesel 4-cylinder Isuzu pickup

Maybe some extra-judicial trials followed by “sentencing”?

“Gloom, despair, and agony on them…wooooah!”

Gilead is coming. That’s not hyperbole.

I hear you.

You can’t be yelling at me. I most likely agree entirely with your position on all of this except for what non-shitstain human beings will do once they are alone in the voting booth on election day. You probably need to make a little more effort in figuring out who essentially agrees with you for the most part and who is actually a shill for the DNC (or genocide).

I think you may have missed my point. I am saying do exactly as you do up until you are alone in the voting booth on election day, at which time you still vote for harm reduction, even if it is done in secret and you never admit it. It isn’t that hard to understand.

No, I am not talking about primaries. If a candidate holds a position which will prevent them from winning a general, in the context of election like the previous election, you have the responsibility to take whatever actions are necessary to move that candidate, including threatening to withholding your vote right up to election day if they don’t change their position, after which, you need to pull the lever for the Blue candidate once you are in the voting booth.

FTFY.

Hell, even do it in secret and claim even after voting, that you didn’t vote for the Dem because they wouldn’t take a stand against Genocide in Israel. You can even still claim today to have withheld your vote, for all I care. If you didn’t actually vote, or voted 3rd party, or even (God forbid) voted Trump, even though your vote is private, then you are a piece of shit, and the criticism being levelled at you is appropriate.

I have enough time to do both, thanks. I am not content to just sit around and do nothing but punch down until election day and happily vote for GOP-lite every fucking time.

Beyond Good & Evil 2?

You won’t have Nixon to put in graphs anymore!

I disagree. They asked to add an additional election to all the atoms, not each atom, so the genie could interpret it as adding a single electron to the universe.