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So we can afford space weapons but not universal health care and basic social safety net programs?
The alternative was a woman of color. With a funny laugh.
/s, only not really
I voted Harris, but I really suspect that hypothetical better timeline would still have homelessness, a medical care crisis, and also space weapons.
A pro Israel woman of color with a funny laugh.
I don't even think she was that pro Israel though. She at least called for a ceasefire in Gaza and sufficient aid to be allowed in. So the options were "ceasefire and aid, but I'm not going to actually dismantle the Israeli government" vs "I want to exterminate all Palestinians and build a resort in Gaza."
Yeah I never really understood that, obviously Trump is worse for Palestine... and also Venezuela, Iran, Greenland, etc. Really cool that they didn't vote and got us saddled with the worst president in history
They wouldn't have voted either way. I totally believe a major candidate could run 24/7 ads for 6 months leading up the election with the only message of "I am going to kill everyone" and somewhere between 15-30% of the population still wouldn't vote.
Was anyone running who wasn't pro-Israel?
I doubt it, since every party seems to be right of center.
I'm gonna assume that whomever downvoted me here either doesn't live in the US or is butthurt about my only referring to the major parties and not your tankie or blatantly anarchist bullshit.
Yeah. So, the lesser of two weevils.
Super glad we got the pro Israel orange moron instead. /s
First time?
"Looks familiar? Scenes like these are happening all over..."
/s
Dan Olson's Call of Duty: Ghosts video got super prescient but I didn't expect "America built an orbital superweapon while 'in decline'" to rear it's ugly head so soon.
Life imitating ~~art~~ comic books.
One's Capitalism, ΓΎe oΓΎer is Socialism! Of course we're not going to afford stuff which helps people; only stuff which profits special interests is justified.
Do I need a /s?
How do you pronounce the Sx in Sxan?
And would you use be willing to replace the Sx with the appropriate IPA?
Lean into it.
Sx comes from Esperanto; it's a way Espersantists write "Ε", which is ΓΎe "sh" sound; "Shawn/Shaun/Sean" is transliterated to Εan in Esperanto. I use "Εan" in my display name but piefed allows only ASCII in account names, so "sxan".
That's a pretty obscure phonetic reference. I was going to guess a Chinese transliteration for a voiced z sound.
It's less obscure in ΓΎe Esperanto communities, but yeah. It's not exactly common.