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You should only be able to vote if you pay taxes.

This seems like a very weird proposition to me. So if you’re unemployed, no vote, but if you are a legal construct without a soul or a conscience, but you pay taxes, you’re welcome to vote? How is this sensible? It’s kind of discouraging and a little jarring to hear regular people valuing their fellow citizens by the taxes they pay. Paying taxes is certainly not the only way you can contribute to society, and shouldn’t be used to gatekeep your participation in said society.

So basically what someone wrote above: “what’s important is that me and my family and property are safe”. Fantastic way to live in a society with other people.

Other people complain about the bright lights, but they get real quiet when you say you hit a deer and now you have to pay hundreds you can’t afford to fix your car.

What are you saying? Why would other people get quiet about what’s bothering them because you have to repair your car? Why is that everybody else’s problem? You are aware that you could slow down at night to avoid hitting wildlife, right? Blinding other innocent people at night is not “being proactive”, and it’s in no way morally comparable to ad blockers. The people being subjected to this aren’t trying to harvest your data to make money on you.

“The schools we go to are reflections of the society that created them. Nobody is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.” -Assata Shakur

If anything, Russia is using the long established playbook belonging to the US.

This clown just defended Israel’s genocide with a straight face while calling October 7 a genocide. How can anyone take this kind of person seriously?

Antifa is, as far as I know, the US abbreviation for Anti Fascist Action. This was an organization founded in the eighties in the UK with decentralized local chapters with the ability to mobilize. They were out in the streets violently confronting the fascists. It died out in the late nineties

Copy cat groupings had started appearing in other European countries by that time. In Sweden, we called them AFA. The antifa logo I’ve seen in US media is the logo of Anti Fascist Action. But that’s just my understanding.

I disagree. The US is ultimately responsible and should pay everyone else. The US has enabled Israel, its attack dog, to torture everyone in the region. Without the US, Israel would have had to adopt a different attitude towards its neighbors if it planned on surviving in West Asia.

Fetterman, Randy Fine, Trump, Lindsey Graham, Rubio, Ted Cruz. It’s amazing to think about how his gallery of absolute revolting ghouls have all received the majority of votes in an election in the US. The American public have preferred these freaks to whatever was the alternative.

I don’t know how the US can be salvaged. At the minimum, a massive portion of the country needs to be sent to reeducation camps.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00189-5/fulltext

reinforce North Korea’s view

I think you mean conclusively prove North Korea’s view to be correct

The assembly of experts choosing the next leader is staffed by only clerics, no military personnel.

Really? Have you not seen Stephen Miller? Ok, maybe for him we should go that final inch too.

From the article: "While teachers may be intending for these tools to be strictly educational, students often have different ideas. According to a 2014 study, which surveyed and observed 3,000 university students, students engaged in off-task activities on their computers nearly two-thirds of the time.

Horvath blamed this tendency to get off-track as a key contributor to technology hindering learning. When one’s attention is interrupted, it takes time to refocus. Task-switching also is associated with weaker memory formation and greater rates of error. Grappling with a challenging singular subject matter is hard, Horvath said. For the best learning to happen, it’s supposed to be."

The technology encourages task switching, which is detrimental in situations where one is supposed to focus on a single challenging task in order to optimize learning. So in this case, I’d say it’s the technology itself that is unsuitable for the task at hand. Clacking keys is fine, I went to university in the late nineties and computers were already an important part of my education. But I didn’t have access to the internet on a powerful pocketable device during lectures. The computers were in the computer rooms.