Yes, ‘we’ do. Not as a majority. But as part of a system that is deliberately slanted to give an outsourced amount of power and control to the wealthy manipulative minority. Because that system was built by that manipulative wealthy minority, for the wealthy manipulative minority. Of the (wealthy) people, for the…

And nearly all of the world’s major governments and businesses all *shrug* at the problem. They’ll happily kick the can down the road to future generations, who will ultimately be unable to avert our self-inflicted, terminal-velocity impact with reality. Because the time to use a parachute is not just before hitting…

True, but voter suppression and gerrymandering go hand in hand — one being used to fuel the other. And Republicans have made an art out of making sure the only votes that get counted are from Republican voters as much as possible.

The Venn diagram of bad officers and anti-vaxxers is two perfectly overlapping circles.

You know the spuds the grow off a potato left to its own devices? Yeah, ya know, the dick-taters. That’s also Trump...a dick-tater, a little spud growing off America’s conservative ass from being left to its own devices for too long.

You didn’t come from there, from these other countries. Your life and the society around it didn’t enter the digital world alongside Facebook. Your understanding of the world is colored by the way YOUR society built up its communications infrastructure, how it viewed and used communications. For much of the world,…

Because a *MASSIVE* amount of its users are international, and Facebook has effectively replaced all other forms of communications and media in many of those countries (if they ever had any real alternatives to begin with). For those people, being without Facebook effectively cuts you off from everything. Facebook *is*…

At this point it’s not sarcastic to say the greatest threat to humanity is rabid conservatism — like a WV senator refusing to let go of coal. And while America’s brand of conservatism is...more batshit crazy that most of the rest of the world, it’s certainly not on its own either.

This is like the House impeaching Trump. The Brazilian ‘senate’ equivalent will still protect him.

Why, it’s almost as if putting awful, monstrous people in positions of power results in really bad decisions being jammed down the people’s throats...

So, sober drivers are 100% safe all the time, huh? Oh, wait, nope. Your desperate attempt to justify an inexcusable attitude is still showing.

‘God’ will not do for man what man must do for himself.

I was going to say, “How can you tell the difference??” but that’s pretty much the same thing.

And that foolish, gullible person’s vote has equal weight to your own. Probably more, in fact. As if we needed further evidence that America’s rough-draft version of democracy is in dire need of a substantial overhaul.

Oh! Good to know! All I have to do to protect myself from drunk drivers is don’t be one myself!

Yup. It’s not an either/or scenario. It absolutely can be both. Furthermore, with evidence this damning, the officer should have been immediately terminated and charges of assault or (more appropriately) attempted murder filed against him.

Two centrist Corrupt Democrats

Not really. Because we’re going to have a massive surge of transmission vectors to bring covid right to everyone’s doorstep. Again.

And I’m sure you’re one of those people who thinks that drunk driving is no big deal either. Because how dare police officers pull people over for driving while under the influence! It only kills ~10,000 people per year.

It’s not that he’s walking away from it that’s the problem. It’s that the bullets are just magically stopping on impact. The best armor in the world doesn’t stop the kinetic energy of a bullet. It might not *penetrate* the armor, but that energy still has to go *somewhere* — a person wearing a bullet-proof vest most…