I’m not telling anyone to shut up. I’m saying you should be frustrated more with Republicans for doing evil shit than Republicans for not fighting evil shit as effectively as you would like.

It’s not a matter of questioning. Every third comment is saying the Democratic Party is pointless.

Is it not positive to criticize the government for blocking funding to his political opponents?

You have to wonder if they genuinely believe their accelerationist bullshit or if they’ve just gotten so into the habit of doing it they don’t really have a goal anymore.

Elections won by Democrats in the United States: Thousands

Elections won by Socialists in United States: Twelve

I sometimes wonder if the people who reflexively whine about literally everything an elected Democrat says actually believe their own crap, or just don’t ever want to win an election.

There are about five socialists elected at the federal level. What basis do you have to believe that hundreds of millions would vote for a socialist leader when most of them haven’t ever voted for a socialist anything?

A theory of mine is that one of the reasons people don’t take the various crises threatening to destroy civilization seriously is that we’ve lived through so many crises that were solved without the average person suffering that much.

Y2K, overpopulation, the decay of the ozone, acid rain, all major problems, which received major attention from government, media and the scientific community…and were solved, by the scientific community through incredible efforts that were unthinkable a generation before thanks to advances in science. But things didn’t really change that much for your average schlub on the street. The change in fluorocarbons in bug spray or air conditioning units may have changed the price a bit, but not enough to really hurt the ordinary person’s wallet.

In World War II, everyone participated, everyone did something, be it as big as risking their life on the battlefield, or as small as collecting old newspaper to recycle. Nothing in the past eighty years has demanded that kind of investment or sacrifice or commitment. A great swathe of our population simply cannot believe there is or can be an existential threat to life as we know it.

I have a similar theory about politics, that most Americans thinks of the modern American democracy as inevitable and irrevocable, thus don’t take it seriously when the President’s platform seems built around totally destroying democratic norms.

I remember reading somewhere that one of the reasons the War in Ukraine has gone on as long as it has is because of how much of the conflict has been taken up by the use of militarized drones, cutting down on (but not eliminating by any means) the amount of people getting killed.

Which is good in that it means fewer people dying in a pointless war for Putin’s ego, but bad in that in that it dulls the human cost that has been known to really kill war efforts, even in dictatorships.

Yes. Which is part of my point.

In no way does that answer my question.

Is it possible that people driven out of their homes by war and disaster might understand the promise of America better than you?

Miranda warnings are required before interrogation.

He matched the description of the suspect. That’s probable cause for arrest.

You don’t need a warrant to search the belonging directly on the person of someone arrested.