They make universal flappers now that are actually universal.
And most arms are extendable and can have angle adjusted multiple ways, so basically universal.
If you replace anything else, you might as well change all the internals at once with a set
You forget why trump is even a thing in national politics…
In 2015 when the primaries happened Hillary’s campaign controlled the DNC and pushed for trump because he was the worst possible opponent and they thought it would scare people into voting for Hillary despite her being wildly unpopular.
They’re 1 out of 3, but the DNC leadership loves trump because he lets them run even less popular moderates and take bribes from even worse industries/billionaires while still having a 33% chance of winning.
To them, it’s a smart bet.
Which is why we shouldn’t let them anywhere near the DNC.
They could have easily beat trump, but the want the awful “compromises” they say they have to do to win elections. It’s why they keep saying it despite it never helping
But compare this post to when they’re mad about Anti-Jewish picks:
No shade at any Jewish voters who voted for trump strangely…
They’re surrounded by nations who are calling for their extermination
They’re surrounded by countries they constantly attack and stir shit with…
And by “stir shit” I mean commit war crimes, human rights abuses, and outright genocide.
Yet you’re surprised the neighbors don’t like them?
The word has lost its meaning now for a lot of people.
Decades of genocides can make genocide feel normal
Your comment is a perfect example.
How does that make any sense compared to moderates going to the Republican party?
Like, the current Dems are “progressives” who want what every other 1st world country got decades ago, and “moderates” who want what Republicans wanted decades ago…
Why are the “moderates” trying to moderate the Dem party instead of the one that’s so far from center they’re openly fascist?
If they had stayed where they were in the 80s, then the furthest right we’d have been in 2024 was Kamala
Do you understand how ridiculous it is to say everyone to the left of them should go R?
Absolutely best case scenario we end up with two modern Dem parties and that fixes nothing.
But if the moderates go to the Republican party?
They’d get what they want, they can be pro-fracking. They can be for genocide, they can be for politicians using insider knowledge to make millions off the stock market, they can be for the end of political donations regulations.
And have total party unity on all those topics, while moderating the Republicans so they run McCains instead of trumps.
But that’s hard.
And moderates have never been fighters.
The only way they’ll go moderate Republicans, is if Dems kick them the fuck out of running the party.
They did it in 08, they’ll do it again if we get a progressive to the general. It’s not a problem either because we’ll gain waaaaay more votes than we lose.
I am getting what you are saying
And then you go on to say you don’t get it…
I disagree that someone with k+30 IQ feels the same about someone with k IQ no matter the reference IQ k.
Have a nice life bub, it’ll be less frustrating than it is for some of us at least.
Nah, if they didn’t have nukes and US backing (which is likely how they have nukes)…
Then they wouldn’t act like they’re untouchable and wouldn’t commit so many genocides against neighboring countries…
Like, what you’re doing is saying the schoolyard bully has to be a bully because no one likes them. Ignoring the fact that the reason no one likes them is they keep beating up smaller kids.
They can stop being a bully anytime and the situation would improve. Getting mad at the bullied kids because they don’t like the bully makes no logical sense.
Like, you expect people to just ignore when a different country attacks yours and kills your children?
That’s just water under the bridge and they should get over it?
It’s their fault for responding to violence with violence instead of meekly allowing themselves to be exterminated?
Do you even read what you type?
Or do you legitimately just not understand what’s happening?
The International Atomic Energy Agency is expected to vote on a censure resolution against Iran for its lack of cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog.
Correct me if I’m wrong…
But aren’t Israel’s nukes “open secrets” because they’re not legally allowed to have nuclear weapons either?
Everyone knows they have them, we just pretend they don’t
I read the books so I already know what’s gonna happen…
But I still might wait for more episodes to be out.
Season 1 is probably one of my favorite book adaptions, they nailed it.
Nope.
30 points is 30 points, and that’s the round number around the point where the difference is very apparent to the person 30+ above the other…
If you’ve never experienced that before, most people never will. If you’re the one talking to someone that much higher than you, if you did notice you would just noticed you’re not understanding and you’d likely blame the person talking.
Exactly like Idiocracy.
Ignorance is bliss, because you never deal with someone that far below yourself, and you don’t notice the other person being that much higher.
If you’re 100, only 2% are 30+ below you, and depending on your country you’ll never really run into them.
But if you’re 145, it’s around 84% of the population, and the vast amount of people you interact with in public will give you that feeling.
I understand you’re not getting this, but it doesn’t mean it’s something I just pulled out of my ass. You’re just not understanding it
You think bell graph distribution should be linear?
I’m genuinely curious what you’re trying to say here
Statistically for some of us it’s always been Idiocracy…
It’s only takes two standard deviations above 100, before the difference between you and the average person, is the same as average person and someone with an intellectual disability.
If you’re really unlucky you’re 3 standard deviations above and then like 80%+ of the population would be classified as having an intellectual disability if your IQ was the frame of reference instead of 100.
And our own IQ is literally our own frame of reference…
So yeah. At any given point in human history, roughly 2%, definitely 0.1% have been living in fucking Idiocracy, and nothing will ever make it better for them.
Ignorance is bliss, because you never deal with someone that far below yourself, and you don’t notice the other person being that much higher.
But 30 points is the line, because that’s where differences become apparent and one sided frustration common.
Yeah, kind of went on a rant there…
I think I took your comment as rationale for Dems who resign from the federal workforce in “protest”.
But now I’m thinking you meant that’s why Republicans don’t.
If that was the case, then yeah I misunderstood and my comment would seem like it came out of nowhere.
If you stay in and Trump is elected and everything you’re warning about comes to pass, how will you feel in January?" Stephanopoulos asked Biden.
“I’ll feel, as long as I gave it my all, and I did as good a job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about,” the president responded.
People give Republicans shit for not knowing about things trump said he would do…
Yet moderates continue to not know how Biden said he would things…
He was never built to fight fascism, we wasted four years of what could be (but probably isn’t) our last chance.
And people still want to claim we need to move further right in 2028?
I’m struggling so much to understand what kind of logic those people are using. Even when it “works” it doesn’t actually work, it’s a brief reprieve at best.
Oh ok…
You’re right, historically it has been best to bow to far right extremists making terroristic threats so the only members of the government are ones that agree with them.
/s
Did you know we’ve literally tried that before?
It’s what ended reconstruction and was the original mission of the KKK.
People did what you’re supporting back then, it worked out fucking horribly. Seriously, people taking your current advice back then is one of the forks in the road that led to the current fucking shit show. But first it led to Jim Crow laws and massive civil rights setbacks. Because people cowed to just not threats but actual murders.
I swear, the vast majority of the reasons we can’t fix the same problems, is people refuse to remember how many times something has happened, what failed last time, and why we shouldn’t keep fucking doing it over and over.
And I’m not coming down on you personally, it’s just no one knows this shit anymore.
Fighting isn’t easy, we don’t just get to sit on the couch and make social media comments and call it a day.
You want to actually do something to help the government resist?
You might not want trump to be your boss, but again:
Fighting isn’t easy
If only trump sycophants work in the US government, he’ll break a lot more shit
Scuttlebutt is already record breaking retirements across most federal agencies for January, and there’s going to be lots more that try it but dip out after a few months. And I’m not talking people discussing the possibility, I mean the process has already started.
Which is a really bad thing…
A lot of the goverment is perpetually understaffed, and all these ultra conservative department heads are just going to do hiring freezes, keeping it even smaller.
Republicans don’t have to cut government staffing when everyone always runs away rather than stay and do what they can.
Republicans sure as shit don’t resign when a Dem shows up. They stick around and obstruct what they disagree with and try to maintain any ground they can.
I don’t understand what you’re trying to say, but I’m not expecting you clarifying to help
Years ago they tried to pass a minimum amount of time you had to hold a stock before selling…
It was a fraction of a second and neoliberals and Republicans immediately united to tell everyone how antithetical to America that was.
For some reason, that wasn’t enough to show people that both groups have the same priorities and we can’t fight an oligarchy with fucking oligarchs.
We’ll never win if only a handful of politicians are actually on our side.
But it’s almost impossible to compete against dark money in a primary, and the people running the DNC know that. So they’ll never agree to get dark money out of primaries. It’s the only reason they’re still holding back progressives.
Fuck DWS, she’s a big reason we’re in this fucking mess…