My go to when I hear this is to ask "Do you think it was consensual? Cause ya know what we did to those people, right?"

Lol, nah, just point out how crazy it lines up with the election that gave us trump to begin with.

You're probably right about that point. The incel victimhood mindset is probably a primary factor. The word incel is often used pejoratively, but it is short for "involuntarily celibate", meaning they want sex but there are no willing partners able to consent... But that won't stop them if they get a good opportunity... Yikes.

I mean, they kinda got it figured out. They don't even have to acknowledge climate change, if hurricanes threaten Florida they can simply redraw the path of the hurricane with a sharpie. Checkmate, liberals.

I would love to see a viable third option, but you know it's wishful thinking at best for 2024. Trying to send a message with your vote is not worth it, and I say this from personal experience.

I'll say the same thing I just said to the other guy. I truly hope you don't get the chance to regret your inaction contributing to a second Trump presidency, the same way that I regret my inaction that led to his first.

If you're American, your credit score affects a whole lot more than your creditworthiness. A bad, or even not as good score can affect your chances at getting a job, getting a place to live, and more commonly, how much you pay for car insurance.

We give a lot of shit to China over their social credit score, but we've had ours for years, we just pretend it's only for creditworthiness. When your job does pre employment checks, they can also do a credit check. Many apartment complexes do the same. Hell, even utility companies can check your credit and decide you are a risk and ratchet up your deposit.

It's not a guarantee that anyone does this, but it is a possibility. Be on your best behavior, citizen, the credit bureaus are watching.

Haha, right you are. It just goes to show how silly this "historic border" talk is as a justification for land grabs. Why would the argument exist for giving up Crimea if it also didn't come with the other historic borders. Did Russia even offer their portion of historical lands? Rude lol.

With America this cursed you would think it's built on Native American burial grounds.

Cool. We would like less millionaires and billionaires hoarding wealth until the minimum standard of living in America isn't homelessness and food insecurity. So why is it a bad thing to tax the hoarding of wealth?

This trickle down shit hasn't worked in 40 years, restore the tax rates to before that started fucking up our country, give them the incentive to pay their employees rather than the government.

"Look at these folks on the violent left, threatening a Supreme Court justice."

-Trump probably

Democracy and civility was fucked to death the day Nazis stormed Charlottesville and executed a counter protestor, and Trump called them "fine people" and still got elected. It was necrophilia when he told the Jan 6th terrorists to go home in peace and that he loved them.

I'm of the same opinion as you, though I hesitate to outright call it an echo chamber. Or at the very least, I doubt that's their intention, even if it is the result.

I'm honestly rather surprised we haven't seen more ideological pacts or groupings start to appear. Akin to having a group of folks that think similar enough that they choose to federate with each other rather than the fediverse as a whole. We have the "fedi pact", which is generally more of a "fuck Facebook and it's history of destruction and control" sentiment rather than ideological, but that's the only clear organization that I have seen so far.

Someone once showed me sl. Bless them.