As long as it needs to.

People need to feel empowered to actually rebel.

The louder and louder the vocal discontent grows, the harder the regime cracks down. The harder they crack down, the angrier people get, and the louder they get. Volume is equated with numbers. There is a point, and we can’t really predict when, that it will break.

Remember, the US is huge and not very densely populated save for some big cities. We have centuries of propaganda instilled in us that we are powerless beside our vote. As soon as a rebellion occurs, people can expect that their quality of life will drop off a cliff. We have to make sure we are prepared for that, and with most of us living paycheck to paycheck (by design) it’s a lot harder to do.

Coincidentally when we met in highschool we were both toothpicks and she was 90lbs and I was like 115lbs.

Can confirm. Separated a year ago. I’m down 90lbs

There we go. Now we’re looking at the Star Trek dystopia that we expected last year.

Just a bit delayed

I don’t understand how that forces me to buy a Tesla

JWST is fine. It’s not going anywhere, and unless it is purposefully destroyed it will keep sending us data.

The NASA Deep Space Network collects it and distributes it, but Europe could just as easily set up their own interface to receive the data. DSN was already in place, so it made sense to keep using it.

Oh, this is shaping up to be more exciting than I anticipated

Yeah, but they’re really going to have a tough time getting me to put in any financial information if they do arrest my ass and bring me to the Tesla dealership

Wait what

How the fuck are you gonna force me to buy a Tesla

But you and I aren’t the person Trump is trying to excite.

It’s the 25% of Americans that equate critical thought with torture. That is the chunk of people you can’t reason with. So you have to have a way for them to care at all. Unloading garbage nonsense that has the occasional inflammatory rhetoric is exciting.

Talking about football? Not exciting to me, but these 25% of Americans? You better bet your ass they like it. They like beer and they like the idea of not having to worry about finances as well.

It’s not something we are going to change anytime soon. Far too many people to change to counter that.

Instead, we need candidates like Walz, who have a brain on their shoulders, and have a way to excite outside of putting on a show.

Bernie Sanders was another example of it. AoC is as well.

It’s far easier to have a better candidate than change how 80 million people think.

One problem the DNC has is that they keep throwing boring ass lawyers into a game that isn’t about law. It’s about being a face the country knows to run the government.

You need charisma, you need to appeal to people, and you need to be human. Obama did this perfectly. Bill Clinton had it in him. Biden at least had such a long record in politics he could wing it his first term. I don’t know how he managed to win, but he did.

Clinton, while being a lawyer, had already been the governor of Arkansas. Meaning he had the experience being that executive. He could convince people to work beyond their own interests. Al Gore, we all know, won the 2000 presidential election, but the supreme court let everything get fucked up.

Kerry? Never stood a chance. Hilary? No chance. Kamala? As much as we needed her to win, she was unappealing to stupid people.

Lawyers, by nature of their career, have to read and understand the most boring ass shit and then convince others that the boring ass text supports their side of the case. That means a lot of them are boring people.

You wanna know why Walz is popular? He fucking loves football. He can connect to highschool students. IDK about you, but if you’ve ever met high schoolers, they aren’t the brightest, and bored easily. He’s progressive, but he won’t shove it in someone’s face to be more righteous. Not many people can do that.

To win an election, you have to excite people. Trump, despite his rhetoric clearly being terrifying, was, unfortunately, exciting.

Ok what’s the benefit Trump gets if Google is broken up?

Forethought? No, it’s just his nature as a con man.

Hitler threw so many of his allies that helped him to power he invented a car company so he could profit off the roads the corpses made.

I felt this one

And they’re all more likable than the real thing

I mean, when you fuck a couch, people are going to be a little weirded out and pay a bit more attention to your problems.

I thought they were all IVF

Yeah I would definitely use it to describe Putin and Trump. Seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree