They think it’s better to make things worse if you personally can avoid blame for it on a technicality.

A fire hurricane would be terrifying.

Not just COVID, Trump’s main strategy in 2020 was to turn “taking the pandemic seriously” into a partisan issue in order to make it so early and mail voting become disproportionately blue (there was no significant correlation in the past) while poisoning the well on those ballots’ legitimacy.

We’re only yelling “Nazi” because the other side is yelling “heil Hitler”.

You’re asking the question in bad faith. Yes, you are correct that there exists a way to make our current system less democratic than it is. This is why Trump has openly stated he wants to use military force to murder his political opposition and create a one party state. The fact that it could be worse doesn’t mean we should be thankful to the Republicans for giving us a choice, that’s like thanking someone who robbed you at gunpoint for the generous choice of your money or your life.

This is what’s called sophistry. The current system is the second least democratic option possible. There are countless ways to make it better and only one way to make it worse. So why, if you’re truly asking in good faith, fixate on the one way to make it worse as the only possible change?

I forget the exact name of it, but there’s a game theory problem adjacent to but not exactly the Prisoner’s Dilemma. Everyone votes yes or no, and if yes wins, everyone loses $20, but everyone who voted no loses $200. If no wins, nothing happens.

This is basically a variation of that problem.

It’s also why they’re opposed to lead pipe removal. They’ll never admit it, but lead poisoning is a major contributor to why people are stupid enough to vote for them.

In the same way that a Ponzi scheme failed to pay its bagholders. It’s by design.

90 F to Kelvin, halved and converted back, is approximately -190.

It’s difficult to find data on what exposure to that temperature would do, the threshold for an extreme cold warning (meaning absolutely do not go outside without heavy protection unless you want necrotic frostbite) is about 150 F warmer than that.

Oh, of course, doing that would be highly irrational. Asinine, even. Only a complete fucking idiot would do it. But you remember who we’re talking about, right?

Which raises the question of why he would create a planet with the illusion of age and send you to hell for falling for his own trick.

But it’s very funny to respond to babies babbling nonsense with “yes, I see, an intriguing point.”

Kicking is our natural unarmed attack. Still a last resort compared to throwing rocks or whacking with sticks though. We evolved from ancestors who already used tools to defend themselves.

They’re the only ones left on that dumpster fire. Angry divorced cops, crypto scammers, propaganda bots, and the occasional normal person holding out in hopes that it’ll blow over (it won’t).

There could be definitive proof that Trump orchestrated 9/11 and his supporters would still vote for him.

Are horseflies a lie because they don’t eat horses?

The difference is back then, it was relegated to the insane fringe. The premise of the X-Files is “what if all those farfetched conspiracy theories were true”, evil FEMA was in the same category as cryptids and alien abduction. Now it’s part of the platform of the second largest political party in the country. It’s roughly equivalent to campaigning on killing Bigfoot, if not worse because at least the latter is harmless.

Yet you participate in society

As frustrating as propaganda victims are to deal with, they’re still victims, not perpetrators.