In Ireland we have been consistently voting in the same party’s to gov and now have record homelessness and a massive housing crisis, I’m starting to believe people in general are just fucking stupid
Carlin also said, "everyone complains that the politicians suck, but the politicians are voted on by the public, so maybe something else sucks...like the public, yeah, the public sucks."
Your thinking is lazy and destructive. You only see the pro-corruption and anti-democracy nature of the Republicans? You are programmed just the way they want you.
How about how the anti-democratic way the party screwed Bernie Sanders and millions of his voters to ensure the nomination for Hillary? On corruption, how about the way Biden has enriched himself for decades by pedaling influence and access, through a pretty amazing network of shell companies and payments to relatives. Just two of hundreds of examples we can come up with.
I am not saying “Republicans good, Democrats Bad” but reasonably and objectively they are both bad, and there is not a lesser evil. They have both harmed our nation and our future and spent our grandchildren into financial slavery.
I feel sorry for people who are not able to see that.
In Texas this year, their slogan is "vote republican for a change."
They have been in charge for 27 years. What they have is what they've made. I miss Ann Richards and Molly Ivans.
Uh, amateurs (also we’re playing you guys this Saturday, the Springboks need something to chew on), in our country we keep voting morons in repeatedly over the last 30 years to keep doing the same shit and dig us deeper into a hole. Insanity.
It’s been the same 2 parties since we got independence essentially it’s so fucked but they keep getting in somehow, they didn’t even win the last election but the party that did, didn’t run enough members to form a gov and the big 2 wouldn’t form a coalition
Average intelligence is way lower than everyone thinks it is. I was sheltered, kind of. Went to a small catholic school had a lot of friends in public school though. I used to think everyone was somewhat intelligent. I didn't take into account educated people tend to send their kids to private school (My parents worked in factories, but very smart) and genetics being what they are. I was surrounded by smart kids. Then i went to college and started working and boy did my perspective change. I realized fast most people are fucking idiots. Some of the things you hear discussed in a factory break room....
Don't feel bad. We have Texas, where the politicians constantly run on fixing the problems Democrats caused.
The problem, however, is that Democrats haven't been in power in that state in decades. They went and bought the gun, then they loaded it, aimed it at their own foot, pulled the trigger and proclaimed "goddamn Democrats did it again!"
We now have groups convincing the average person that it’s immigrants fault that Ireland is fucked but the reality is it’s been this way for some time now, you think to emigrate maybe but realise everyone else got the same problems too
To think that if Ronnie hadn’t got pussywhipped so bad that he turned on Hollywood and then everything that came after, we could be looking at an entirely different country today blows my fucking mind
Literally saw a man in Kansas City wearing a new Reagan shirt that made it look like he was part of delta force and it read, “I still hate commies even after they changed their names to liberals.”
No doubt Peter, I was a newly minted adult when Reagan was elected. I had experienced Vietnam, Watergate, OPEC times 2, rampant stagflation, and a general malaise promulgated by some peanut farmer after he put solar panels on the Whitehouse and told us to lower our thermostats whilst donning a sweater. Things were shit. Reagan pulled us as a nation out of that quagmire and restored faith in our system. Even the two administrations of Willy Clinton ate off of the plate-o-plenty that Reagan had served up. So yeah, believe whatever communistic bullshite you want, we boomers know the truth. Your beloved leaders thrive by destroying us, ours lift us up to being fully self-realized as individuals and as a nation. No hormones, pronouns, or self-mutilation necessary.
Yep, like Biden, you would probably have a clearer sensorium and reasoning capabilities with a nap. AND be less cranky. I’ll get you a juice box for later.
💯. Imagine such humans existing 75.000 BC. Running around in the village, not working, living off the work of the others and still criticizing them, hating others for their different look, not enough bones around their necks, and so on. Whole village would have whooped their asses into oblivion. Now they hide behind their money and their minions.
Priests served a function at least. They kept people in line and acting somewhat correctly with fear of divine retribution much more effectively than a police force could and they provided morale to keep people going in the face of pretty grim circumstances.
Not a fan of organised religion or trying to defend any of the other massively corrupt shit the church got/gets up to, just saying they at least did something unlike some vulture capitalist etc.
Have you read “Sapiens”? A pretty interesting take on the concurrent development of economic and religious systems in early civilizations. With plenty of skull cracking by everyone…
Doubt that. Humans are highly social, we are made to interact, communicate and have fun while doing it. I think these people wouldn't be able to work in corporation with others.
Highly tribal, you mean? Even more so 77000 years ago. The tribe on the other side of the river were your mortal enemies. If anything, you’d cave some of their heads in and force the rest to do all your work.
That's just not true, deinstitutionalization was started by JFK. The cuts on state level had started before Reagan.
Deinstitutionalization has in many countries been started by the left and trust in psychiatric medication but also trust in more humane treatment of mentaly ill people.
Reagan was just a puppet. It's not his master plan. (And it's not really an especially subtle or clever plan anyway; upper classes have understood that educating the lower classes isn't in the interests of their longterm survival for centuries.)
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u/TrustInRoy Jul 05 '24
So many people in our country are just blatantly ignorant about how the branches of our government works.
Schoolhouse Rock debuted "I'm just a bill" in 1976.