“To impress a chick…”

It’s about permission. These guys have always been there harbouring their evil thoughts but the system never allowed them to indulge.

Now they have permission.

Maybe I was not eloquent enough, but I don’t object to the research being done. I think though that the result is the expected one and therefore it is not noteworthy enough to post on here. Doubtless this paper with end up highly cited.

I mean this feels like an obvious result. Are we thinking this is ground breaking?

Like comparing 3 ways of making a table, hand tools, power tools or paying someone to make it for you. Then asking which required the most effort.

I mean I know it’s important to confirm even expected results but this feels so intuitive.

I meant that I was being sarcastic in my first post, not you. I was copying what Trump said about Greenland and Denmark landing a boat there and applying it to california to try to show how ridiculous his position is. I was not trying to be factually accurate. I was trying to poke fun at him. It seems it was either not as obvious as I thought or just a bad joke.

Ok, I’m not trying to be factually accurate. I’m trying to point out the idiocy of trump’s comments

Ah I see, you were thinking the sarcastic response to trumps factually inaccurate statement should be factually accurate. Got it.

I mean by what right does California belong to the USA. I mean all they did was roll a wagon onto the land 500 years ago. Who’s to say the Danish didn’t around the same time too?

(sorry indigenous Californians your righteous and original claim doesn’t help me make my point)

Now this is a proper answer, thank you.

I’m not assuming anything. I’m asking a question about why the official, legal route can be bypassed.

I’ve been thinking about those guys a lot lately. Especially when the articles about AI making us dumber started coming out.

It was actually a very insightful depiction of future humans

It is brain washing. They have been convinced that Democrats are so much worse for so long that they think of they had voted another way, somehow they would be having an even harder time.

It has become a matter of faith not logic. This is just a test of their faith and it will all come good in the end.

I think they are more like cell mates. Stuck in the same small room. Can’t leave. Warden checks on them periodically and gives them terrible food to eat…

When you shit your pants regularly, having lots of the same suit makes it easier to do a quick change and not have it noticed.

Strong “don’t want to pick sides” vibes

Yeah the logic always stuns me.

“If I vote for a Democrat they’ll probably take some of my money through taxes and I’ll be poor”

Trump wins and ruins their business, they lose all of their money.

“At least I’m not poor because of evil Democrat taxes”

They have truly been brainwashed. Whatever bad shit republicans do they still believe the Democrats must be worse, because the republicans told them so. Even though the republicans have provably been lying to them for years.

If you give people no credit for admitting they were wrong or give them no chance to atone, then you give them no reason to do it and they will continue down the path they are on. To me it is preferable that she stops being toxic vs her continuing if those are the two choices.

I am not saying she should be forgiven, but if she is genuine, and that remains to be seen (she has a lot of work to do to prove that), then continuing to punish or otherwise vilify her, sends her the message that she’s damned is she does and she’s damned if she doesn’t so why not continue being toxic. Why should she try to be better?

If she continues to atone and does some very positive things in future (again doubtful) there should at least be some consideration given that she may have changed.

I didn’t actually say she was deprogramming anyone, just that she is in a position where she could.

That said, the fact that she is speaking out against him has unquestionably lead other people to doubt him.

Whether she is trying to take his place is not a point I tried to address directly, but I do believe she is behaving this way because she sees it as a way to further her own political career.

Always felt like we are too good at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Scotland are consistent only at being inconsistent. It has been like this for decades, through complete changing of the guard. What is it about our nation that makes it such a comical inevitability that we can make it to the quarter finals of the world Cup one day and screw up the four/five/six nations the next?

My most charitable thinking about this is that she s always just playing to win. The way she acted was just that, an act. She did it because she knew it appealed to a particular segment of society that could get her elected. Now there is a sea change she is smart enough to know MAGA is doomed and she had jumped ship early because she thinks it will be more politically advantageous in the long run.

She may be genuinely remorseful if she is good for her, but it doesn’t erase the things she had voted for, against, and the things she said that harmed people or incited violence deliberately or accidentally.

That said, she is somewhat uniquely positioned to assist in the deprogramming of MAGA members so, though I don’t trust her, the things she is doing and saying today are leading people away from Trump, and that is the most vital mission right now.