Damn, that's high praise, thank you! It makes me feel better because I woke up fighting myself on "Oh man I wrote way too long a rant" and "DAMMIT! I didn't even mention the Evangelicals worming their way into politics!"

To everyone else, reading this... read about history folks! I, like everyone else, thought history was boring in school. If I were to put on my tin foil hat, I worry it's done on purpose as it helps realize nothing happening is actually all that new. And it's rather easy to do, put a coach as the history teacher who just hands you a textbook and makes you regurgitate names and numbers that don't mean anything but meets criteria (No Child Left Behind, Bush Era for me) just makes everyone hate history.

Yes, I did drop names, policies, and a few dates, but those are examples to point to and you better believe I don't remember a single one of those by heart, I have to look them up when I reference them. The theory is there, and once you get into devouring the actual meat of history it is absolutely bloody fascinating.

the right’s attacks on her are likely to be a lot more openly bigoted

They're already dusting off the ole Obama birther playbook and asking if she's qualified to be President due to citizenship.

I have one for those that worked at Disney World. "What time is the 3 o'clock parade?"

I'd get a block of houses, not mansions, just 6 small houses where the backyards are all together and make that into a little community where I can get the people I'm closest to into an area with a shared community space in the backyards. That's my expensive one.

Rav4 hybrid. I just want a fuel efficient car I can go camping in.

Set up a trust to make sure that I don't have to work if I don't want to, get to retire.

Then the rest... I'm stuck between which is better, dumping it into becoming a non-profit to get as many homeless people housed as possible, or build into a superpac specifically meant to bring down Citizens United.

Gee... wonder if this ever could have been predicted when Patriot Act was brought out.

I remember an old reddit post about what it's like to not like football by replacing it with archeology. I felt that in my soul.

Your unplayed games will remain unplayed forever.

The trouble with every "vote" argument on the left is always about the POTUS. The Republicans had a mission for decades that not a single non-Republican would run unopposed across the entire damn country no matter how small the vote was. Is it a sheriff for some backwater town? Yup, better make sure a Republican is there. How about a superintendent?

From the ground they have worked absolutely hard to make sure they had control of as much of the government to control every vote.

To use your analogy of fighting a war. As you said they're celebrating taking a hill in an attempt in every four years. But that's because one group is only doing the charge every four years and wondering "Why are we losing?" when the other side is digging the trenches advancing every year. Yes, this is the Democrats fuckup because they certainly aren't investing in them like the Republicans but then among a supply of left wing friends I'm the one informing "Here's the important fucking local vote about abortion/taxes/who's running for x seat" and finding out often that I'm the only one who was faffed to vote.

Start?

US here... it has less to do with the 1% being fucking morons and more to do with the only infrastructure we actually pay any attention to is cars. Sure we're having a bit of a bicycle revolution but at least in my area the bikes aren't being used for transport but for fun, but then that's with a metro that's sprawling with a city that's only 100 sq miles smaller than NYC, with 8,000,000 less people in it. Add that the auto companies were allowed to buy out things like the streetcar that was local and able to tear up the tracks to get rid of competition, it really isn't a shocker.

But we're now stuck in a cyclical spiral, of no investment for things like this are happening because it's not seen as profitable enough. Which means a constant problem of using something like a bike for commuting is "But then I have nowhere I can put my bike where it won't get fucked with." so people don't commute with it, which leads to no investment to the infrastructure.

Dunno how to fix it. It just sucks.

I watched an extremely drunk dude kick his own ass at the nightclub

Greatest thing I've read all night.

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