Found my fetish
makyo
joined 1 year ago
A quick search says 150m so it might be close, maybe be a bit too big?
A quick civics explainer for you:
Journalism is one of the checks and balances on a democratic system - IE the 'Fourth Estate'. For a healthy system, we NEED them to hold the rich and powerful to account.
Yet somehow the rich and powerful have managed to convince a lot of people that journalistic independence means treating both sides the same. IT IS NOT. True independence is having the freedom to speak honestly about the most important issues of the day.
That means not only is it important but imperative to make an endorsement and sound the alarms when a corrupt unhinged disconnected traitor of a billionaire has a real chance of taking command again and running democracy into the ground.
We won't forget this
We won't forget this
I always wonder now how his wife feels when they're ready to relax for the night on the couch
I always think about this when this topic comes up. 9/11 happens and Bush says 'Drill baby drill'.
What if we had a president that was like 'hey maybe we should get over our addiction to fossil fuels and sever this toxic relationship with the middle east?' All the lives and money and time wasted on wars, and the destabilization it lead to in the USA and Europe which pulled people even further rightward toward this autocratic environmental suicide pact.
I wonder how different things would be if 1% of the people in Florida got off their couch and voted Gore.
EDIT I get y'all and agree but the point is that if Gore had won but just a bit more they wouldn't have been able to stop the count and send it to SCOTUS
Exactly! They're putting in the work there and getting some fantastic things done. Lots of other great stuff on that ballot too.
Shoulda happened four years ago
They should just make all plays reviewable. The point of limiting reviews was to limit the time wasted in instant replay and the system we have now does that marvelously as well as making it an interesting element of the game. I realize they want to keep from calling officials calls into question but they show the replay of the call on the field 100 times anyway - we can all see if it's right or wrong and if it's an important enough call to challenge, the officials should have the opportunity to get it right.
One of the great pleasures of aging is discovering the greatness of things you were too dumb to enjoy when you were younger
Got sort of a Night Vale vibe to it I think. I'd love more of this kind of stuff!