On the right side candidates can’t not be perfect - so it’s always easy for them to vote for their candidate

On the left side candidates will never be perfect - so it’s always easy to not vote for their candidate.

Or we could all just be a bunch of “tourist” visiting a city - just like all the “tourist” that “just visited” the capitol on January 6th 2021.

I think one of the reasons he did it was an executive from McDonald’s had stated that their food was healthy and someone could eat it everyday for a month without health consequences. His goal was to prove this was an obvious lie. Secondly how many low income people are stuck in a system where this is the only food that is conveniently available and how that is making generations of low-income households sick.

Not sure about the alcoholism - but this wasn’t a strict scientific trial so…

People in the MAGA world genuinely believe that most people think like them. The difference is that they are the brave ones that speak truth to power, everyone else is just a timid sycophant the bows down to the “woke” mafia.

The Comprehensive 2024 Election Theft Fact Check is a well researched take on all of this. Have to admit that sharing it feels like a blue-Q type thing (Trump and the MAGAgats have done a great job poisoning the well when it comes to questioning election integrity) but if you can get through it all, it does line up with a valid take on the 2024 election.

In October, he published a list of donors to the project. Alongside tech companies and weapons manufacturers was a Russian-born US businessman, Konstantin Sokolov.

Sokolov is building a £1.8bn AI datacentre in Gibraltar, the enclave’s biggest outside investment.

just adds more to her theory

Do you want a protracted guerilla war? because this is how you get a protracted guerilla war.

well they’ve always been know as the “Me” generation so it makes sense they would say that about themselves

They experienced the beginning of the internet and computers becoming a main part of people’s lives

They experienced the height of the cold war and experienced genuine concern for nuclear armageddon

They experienced the end of the cold war and a few years of peace

They experienced the beginning of grunge, hip hop music, heavy metal, MTV , and the peak of Michael Jackson

They experienced 9/11, the dot com bubble burst, the housing crash of 2008, the pandemic of 2020

They lived under the thumb of the silent generation and the boomer generation dominating politics for their entire life (as we all still do today) so there voice was never really heard.

Remember that these CEO’s are the ones (along with their pay-for talking heads in the media) that will, with the zeal and energy of a pentecostal minister on crack, tell us all that socialism will destroy innovation, reward the lazy, and put a bigger burden on the middle class tax payer. All while doing everything their bank accounts can do to build a system where they get more and more of our tax money - because of reasons.

How dare the people get a say in OUR government

• those in power

yes. I specifically chose that time because it was still modern enough to “get” the music of today

And yes that works to slowly trickle money up the wealthy while the poor get something for their spending.

But today that doesn’t need to happen. Now the billionaires have bought enough politicians so that they get all the money without having to deal with the poors. They just get bills written (and passed) that trickle up everyone else’s tax money directly to them.

Sounds like a man that is running from his demons

Yep, senators and congress people are not afraid of Vance like they are of trump. It would/will be an interesting turn of events if ol’ couch fucker gets a shot at the big desk.

That’s kind of an impossible question to answer because the “they” is unknowable in your question.

But maybe they buy alcohol and drugs with it

Maybe they buy some medication they need to survive

Maybe they have a dog they want to buy food for

Maybe they have a family that could use the $50

Maybe they go to a thrift store and get newer shoes and socks for the winter

Who knows what they do with it but really $50 can help a great deal and unless you know the person well it’s difficult to know what they need it for. This isn’t to take away from what you and your wife have done, that is admirable and needed help too

I had a lady come up to me in the grocery store with her child and ask very quietly in very broken spanish/english to help her buy food for her and her daughter - who looked to be about 2. My first reaction that I acted on was to say sorry and walk away. Then it hit how cold and callous that was. Even if she was a scammer, that is not an easy way to make money. So I found her gave her $20 and walked away. A few minutes later I saw her with a cart and some food with a smile on her face.

My opinion is that if I have a bit of money that I can do without there is someone that could do with it I’ll let them have it. The money may go to a scammer from time to time and I know in the past it has, but if I can help one genuinely needy person I do what I can, not going to let the shit bags (both scammers and politicians) keep me from trying to help

I think it’s more that Buddhism states that because we suffer (attach ourselves to emotions, feelings and stuff) that we can be Content. That when we no longer attach to these hindrances then you’ve reached Nirvana (Contentment)

isn’t this Buddhism in a nutshell?

taxes the government steals from us

No it’s not the government that is stealing from us its the Uber wealthy that use our tax money (that should be going to the greater good of the citizens of the country) for their own gain.