Do you have the same problem with all adjectives that describe a majority? Heterosexual, right-handed, etc.?

A law that virtually everyone breaks and is easily selectively enforced is extremely valuable to authoritarian regimes. It’s a wildcard to imprison whoever they want.

Trains are extremely convenient. You optimize them for convenience by adding more trains.

It all makes sense when you realize they have no intention to actually run the country in good faith. They intend to do two things, plunder everything they can, and irreparably destroy the country’s future to get revenge for having the audacity to try to move forward.

That just means you value your own ability to evade blame over the lives of real people.

Oh he’d act. He’d assist Russia and be the other Axis power.

Fuck embargos, invade and liberate us. Return the favor we did for Germany 80 years ago.

2 years. Immediately after the midpoint of the term, he’ll get 25th’d, giving Vance the remainder of the term and leaving him eligible for two more, which he’ll win due to the 2028 and 2032 elections both being North Korea style shams, intended to compile lists of suspected dissidents rather than decide anything.

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It’s been in hospice since 2000.

Trump is just the useful idiot to install Vance, who’s essentially a Musk proxy.

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.