June in London looks pretty atypical.

Yeah, that's fair.

The FDA was already fucking worthless. I got severe food poisoning from some grocery store pre-boiled eggs some years ago, and when I asked them to look into it to prevent other people getting sick, they just connected me with the grocery store lawyers who were just useless and defensive.

Interesting. That's an angle I'll have to consider. It seems like democracy with fixed terms and term limits has a similar problem to capitalism: myopia.

I don't believe I am talking about two different numbers when I'm talking about the same voting bloc for both.

The "we" I used was probably misplaced, since I think you are making a distinction between your position and "leftists", who are the people I've seen on Lemmy advocating for destroying the system.

I'm not sure I follow your point about political engagement, I don't think I mentioned anything about that. I was commenting on the size of the group of third-party and non- voters. If that group wasn't big enough to change the outcome, I just don't see how they could be relevant at all.

I think we must be in agreement, though, since you suggest that Democrats need to better engage with the working class. Maybe we need a dedicated labor party, though without a more parliamentary system, the parties can't really be single-issue in the US.

This all presumes your arrogant take is correct. But please, continue your lonely war against platitudes by using platitudes. I just won't see it.

Hmm, that's a good point. Washington finally relented, they were a hold-out for a long time.

This will be the basis of a wildly disproportionate, violent response aimed at anyone they want.

I was with you right up until the unique passwords. I do use a different randomly generated password for each site.

While true, the growth of the economy has been wildly outpaced by the rate of hoarding at the top. After all that extra work, how much better off was your dad after everyone above him benefitted?

I guess you're completely right if you just assume your own conclusion.

Touché!