The trick is to get an entire neighborhood in on it. That way you can schedule shouting matches in the front yards of the houses neighboring the open houses as well.

A lot of these minorities also always think that they’re different because they’re “one of the good ones” and will reap the same benefits.

My friend told me once about how people in cults have a sunk-cost fallacy to the cult’s beliefs that makes it harder to get them out the longer they’ve been in.

People are more likely to double down on their beliefs when proven wrong because they’d have to admit that they were wrong and so were all the things that they did following those beliefs. And nobody likes to admit when they’re wrong, because nobody wants to believe that they’re the bad guy.

Forget the past 12 months, the industry has seen record-breaking layoffs worse than the 2008 recession for 4+ years now.

I think we’re in the early stages of an 80s style collapse of the industry.

Fox News legally can’t call themselves a news station anymore because of how little of their programming is actually news. It’s always been an opinion broadcast, at best.

There’s also the fact that many of those houses have sat vacant and have been left to rot for many years, meaning that plenty of them need to be demolished and rebuilt before they can be lived in. Small towns have been dying for decades as suburban sprawl consumes ever-increasing amounts of land and bleeds our cities dry of tax revenue, forcing them to continue making more suburbs to pay off the previous ones.

I would assume that figure takes into account not just how many homeless there are, but renters and home prices vs wages as well. There isn’t a single county in the US where a worker with the average annual wage can afford to buy a house at the average price range in that area, for example.

See also: anything that challenges the status quo and/or my worldviews.

Because they think that one day soon, they’ll own the boot and be the ones doing the stomping.

Republicans never consider themselves to be poor, they’re just “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” who are gonna make it any day now. Just you wait, any day now they’ll win the lottery, or get an inheritance, or…

What the fuck are you on about? I never said that they started street brawls with the church. I agreed with you about them hating and attacking socialists, added that they only kept the name for the party because of the recognition factor/popularity of socialist policy at that time in Germany, and then said that if I remember correctly, Hitler made agreements with the church for funding and support despite his personal feelings on the matter. Nowhere did I say the Nazis beat up Christians or members of the Church.

Yep. Hitler also hated Christianity IIRC, but allied with the church for their financial aid and the support of religious voters. They definitely weren’t above using the name of something that they hated and actively attacked to allow them to grab more power, and it makes them neither socialist nor Christian to have done so.

Socialism was also popular at the time and they were using that to increase their appeal.

And this is why they’re making it even harder to get access to mail-in ballots. In places where Dems have made it easy to get and use them, they get tons of use. In Republican-controlled areas, they make it hard to get them because they’re used largely by left-leaning voters.

You know why the Dems only get 20% attendance? Because election days are days that people have to work, and older people are much more likely to be in a more secure financial position and job, increasing the likelihood that they can take the time to vote. And that’s before you even get into voter suppression tactics that are all designed to make it harder for leftists to vote, and then on top of that you can add the piss poor political education we get here (in terms of everything from candidates and what they stand for to when voting days are and where you go to vote).

The system is built to make exercising your right to vote as hard as possible, and the MAGA cultists have pushed it as much as they can in their favor. Another perfect example is the fact that I need an account to view that NYTimes article, but I can view as many Fox News articles as I could ever want for free (not that I would want to).

The people who only turn out once every four years are one thing, and the systemic issues that hurt voter turnout are another, but the fact remains that the Dems criticized Trump’s cabinet picks up and down, but still voted 100% in favor of the first two and it wasn’t until they got thousands upon thousands of angry phone calls that that started changing. It wasn’t until like the 6th cabinet pick that the Dems were voting 100% against.

When a black man got into office, the Republicans stonewalled and shut down the government over and over for a decade. When a fascist got into office, the Dems clutched their pearls over the handful of their own willing to filibuster and call a spade a spade because of “decorum.”

“Quiet quitting” would be 37 or even 38 in your example. Basically doing what’s in your job description, but nothing more. Setting clear work/life boundaries where you aren’t accessible to do work for your boss/manager outside of working hours (even if they just want you to answer some emails while you’re on vacation or whatever), and not doing stuff that you aren’t qualified for/isn’t in your job description and that you aren’t getting paid extra to do.

People have started refusing to let companies expect more than they’re paying for, and it’s pissed them off, so they’re calling it “quiet quitting.”

They were voted in to oppose Trump, among many other things. They voted 100% in favor of Trump’s candidates. How is that “doing their job”?

Assuming that the party will still exist in 2 years, how can we replace them when they refuse to entertain any candidates that don’t follow the old guard party line of minimum effort to keep their seat? They outright said that they didn’t have to primary Bernie in 2016 and that they wouldn’t, despite him polling better than both Hillary and Trump.

They don’t respond to the many issues that their voters have, such as trans rights (which they said should be sacrificed to win the election this past time) or the housing crisis, low wages, and a myriad of others that Millennials have been fielding for almost 2 decades now.

This isn’t people suddenly being angry at the Democrats. It’s 40 years of frustration finally boiling over as many in the party leadership put up the barest of resistances against a fascist regime.

100% of Dems voted in favor of Trump’s first 2 picks for his cabinet, despite spending hours upon hours grilling them and talking about how unfit for the jobs they are.

It was only after they started getting outraged calls in the thousands per day compared to the usual 30 that they started voting against Trump’s cabinet.

Look at Schumer and Pelosi. Or the party appointing a man practically on his deathbed over fresh blood to one of the most important positions in the party. A man who had to resign 4 months later, IIRC.

The Dems only offer up any real resistance when they’re forced to by us. Otherwise, they vote no, voice a few complaints, and then go about their day like it’s any other.

Unfortunately, the “used intelligently and responsibly” part is why people dislike AI - they don’t trust companies or people to use it that way (and for good reason based on the results so far).

Plus, it’s not gonna put everything back into Pandora’s Box. What we’re in is a societal and cultural arms race where AI is just another escalation that’s being used by both sides.

Also, resistance to air pollution isn’t as crucial as it once was due to better emissions technologies.

Tell that to the recently defunded EPA…