An over correction. Previously, the two parties would decide on a candidate behind closed doors then start campaigning in August.

Then, some good faith people and some corporations stood up and was like "Hey, that means we have no say in who the party selects to be the nominee" so they have their whole primary system to allow for corporations and weirdos who vote in the primary to participate in "democracy"

But then in those days, people had to go around in hot air balloons made out of racism and asbestos as their main mode of transport, so each state's primaries are spaced out because candidates had to take forever to go from state to state (except some that happen on the same day).

And because running a candidate is expensive, each of the potential candidates have to allow time to get corporate donors (or rarely, grassroots support)

So the process went from 6-8 weeks to several months.

And then the capitalists saw the revenue generated from simply covering the primary races. Those ad spots from the campaigning candidates themselves aside, they could run ads next to reports or footage of the debates.

And then they thought "wow, wouldn't it be better if we started covering the race even earlier in the year??"

And now the circus is in town for basically a whole year every 4 years, meaning libs and chuds spend 25% of their time on earth pretending they live in a democracy when even outside of this absurd system, they have gerrymandering, an electoral college and your vote generally only mattering in a swing state. The other 75% of the time is for treats, which is increasingly consumed out of spite for the voters of the other party.

This type of """political engagement""" is not only accepted, it's promoted by the system because other types of engagement such as direct action actually get things done and the system likes the status quo.

I'm assuming the reply is in Arabic because the chud in OP's image is named "Templar" and has the Christian Cross and the English flag.

Burger implies the poster is also unhealthy

If America does a purge, do you think all the low level government employees would be too busy hiding in fear that day to notice the warnings that several dozen Dong Feng ballistic missiles were fired directly at Washington DC?

Glassdoor posts shows CrowdStrike doing layoffs of software engineers in 2023. They made 3 billion in revenue YTD.

Just gotta urge Shaun and Hbomberguy to migrate to Bilibili

There's a distinction between those who aren't as educated and those who are actively antagonistic/reactionary (which Mao was definitely not a fan of).

In Fediverse terms, it's the difference between a lib walking in and asking "Why is voting for Biden bad if Trump would be worse?" And a lib walking in and stating "If you don't vote for Biden you're a republican".

The misinformed and the outright reactionaries may sound similar at times, it is the nuance that we must address.

Pale Comparison.

This will somehow cause 4th generation Japanese Americans to be rounded up in internment camps. Again.

The part of my brain responsible for shame/embarrassment? It was Hamas so I had to have it removed.

Death to the imperialcore

Sometime in the next few years, an F-35 will crash directly into the South China Sea because the engine spontaneously turned off mid flight.

The liberal media will go onto a news cycle for how the plane should have continued to be able to fly without thrust despite being heavier than air.

The US military will then launch a full scale ground invasion of Isaac Newton's grave, with the justification that gravity is in direct opposition to US state interests.

Rookie mistake, he was also wearing his ghillie suit inside out, which instead of adding +5 to your stealth modifier, is bright orange and neon green, which gives a -5 to stealth instead.