If they’re anything like me, it’s that her policies are all rooted in maintaining the same capitalist structures that got us to where we are at the moment. More focused on ensuring equal access to the rights already given by political power structures rather than expanding the distribution of power that ensures those…

I don’t think political elites are concerned with what voters will do or think. At a minimum, I haven’t seen much evidence that they tend to think along those lines. They tend to come from districts that are rock solid in their favor and have a power base such that they have influence even if they left office.

Just wait til you hit puberty!

Harris has nothing approaching a populist approach. She might get some barbs in if there were ever a debate between her and The Idiot, but I think you’re under evaluating what his appeal is to certain voters.

“without the baggage of being another old white man”

You’re wrong about that last bit.

Is it really about being risk-averse?

“the less we should listen to all those brilliant political brains that said she was our best and only choice for speakership”

Weird combo of The Animated Series aesthetic and more recent interpretations... mixed with Fortnite.

Can’t say I’ve ever seen the indignant scold variety of trolling before.

Vader skull looks like something out of Warframe.

I wish more people thought about this rather than getting wrapped up in all the trivial day to day stuff and then freaking the hell out about death when they inevitably are forced to confront it.

“she is a human woman”

It’s hard to say. While the factors are different, India is experiencing a right wing resurgence at the moment. It’s not entirely out of the question that this ban is motivated by similar thinking.

Dude, bro. Come on. You’re hurting my heart.

Interestingly, even people with antisocial personality disorders (formerly: psychopaths) have empathy. Not only do they have a capacity for it but using it is entirely voluntary.

Maybe if the DOD didn’t have money to burn and existed in a system where manufacturers etc. didn’t have the support of congress critters they wouldn’t be seeing those issues?

This is an ahistorical perspective.

“Like, is it really in your corporate best interest...”

I mean, I’ve talked with people who thought the “pragmatic” thing to do when Bernie lost the nomination in 2016 was to not vote at all.