This is what happens when we let conservatives have any sort of power in society
Gonna get downvoted, but conservative ideals should be present to some minor extent to balance things out. I don’t mean modern conservatives or Republicans, but the concept of fiscal conservatism (e.g. preventing waste in the military). I’m not talking about the fIsCaL cOnSeRvAtIsM that current Republicans preach either, like hollowing out social programs to give tax cuts to their buddies. So yeah that’s of course not what we have now, but there should be a healthy balance for that kind of thing.
The people who say this tend to forget that if you only take the “good things” from conservatism it ceases to be conservatism. The conservative ideology is garbage and only leads countries to a sort of destructive cannabalism.
Basically what I mean is the mindset of doing everything possible in your power to be self-sufficient. I think I’ve gone so far off the left side I’ve horseshoed around. Everyone should be striving to be as self-sufficient as possible and not need to rely on external forces. I’m far from it, but I’m trying, at least given the past few years (and especially this month) I’m preparing for bad situations.
That is the mindset that got us here. Maybe it will help to double down, but the reality is we don’t know, we’re in uncharted waters
I’m not saying the government shouldn’t help the people who need it though. Bring back FDR. I think that’s the big reason why I’m not actually conservative. The help should be there, but people should have an internal desire to rely on outside forces as little as possible. I think many already have that desire, but not enough by far.
I think the atomization of society shows that its not just a desire but that independence is a social pressure. “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” is the air we breathe. Thats why business people like musk deny they got say, emerald mine money; the social pressure to seem self reliant is far greater than the social pressure to tell the truth
For sure, that’s definitely a big American thing. The entire irony is that the term “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” was coined to say how you can’t do that, meant to describe an impossible task. Somehow conservatives took it and then made it mean the exact opposite, which is exactly on brand for them.
Describing the good of the opinions that are more on the right side of the spectrum isn’t going to come across as good if you use conservatives to describe it.
You won’t get downvoted. Ideally you’d have both parties suck it up and work together and combine ideologies. But… well you know… Babies
Ideally you wouldn’t have two parties, but have an odd number of parties to figure it out. So three at minimum
Ideally you’d have multi-party coalition districts with RCV or STV to elect them. We have a duopoly because of FPTP.
Ideally people wouldn’t use abbreviations in general context. Searching for it on Ecosia doesn’t help that much either.
But coalitions are a mess on their own, just check politics in Europe. At least Geert Wilders is only an example for Trump and nowhere near as bas
Nah, I’m not talking about the actual current Republican party nowadays. They need to die out and form a new party that’s actually conservative. It’s the most corrupt swamp straight outta Uzbekistan or Russia at this point. The things they’re doing now, no Democrats should compromise on ever.
Nervous laughing … as the police keep pounding at my door
Yeah, it’s going to be hilarious to be fighting in WWIII while everyone tries to convince themselves that it isn’t WWIII
Hopefully it’s just Civil War II and not WWIII. The rest of the world doesn’t deserve to be dragged into our shit.
Even if it was just contained to US soil we’d still call WWIII like we do with the World Series.
japan can play too
Pearl Harbor 2: Electric Bugaloo 👍
And Canada
Rather not. Why do we have to be next door to this BS.
Whether it’s because of us or fascism is just trending globally, the rest of the world is already thoroughly dragged into our shit. We’re not the only ones having this fight, we’re just the most-visible and possibly farthest-along outside of Russia, Turkmenistan, North Korea, etc.
The US might be the biggest problem, but we’re not where this started.
It’s Civil War 2: Electric AI killing machine-aloo
It’s not like they can rely of self sufficient solar panels, they just lobbied them out of existance with climate change denial
It will be WWIII either way. A US civil war would leave a massive power vacuum, and a whole bunch of candidates trying to fill it.
… like I said WWIII while everyone tries to convince themselves that it isn’t WWIII
whats this from?
It’s a popular meme from this scene in Community.
Best episode of community: chaos theory
Community
“How many genders have you had to drink today, sir?”
At least 3
Shit was I sposed to count?
This is a joke right,? right?
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Wow, I must have been such an innocent child when watching the prequel movies in cinema, that I don’t even remember she was this busty!
Tap for spoiler
/s
That’s why they call her Paddme.
They had a hard time selling Keira Knightley as her double because of it, but then George Lucas discovered padding.
lmao well that’s just superior to my text.
Man that laughing nervously meme has been getting a LOT of mileage these days lol
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2 CH3NO2+O2→2 CO+3H2O+N2
That’s not balanced though
4 CH3NO2 + O2 → 4 CO + 6 H2O + 2 N2
also, why are we burning nitromethane?
burning
Well thats one word for rapid decomposition.
Nitromethane doesn’t explode on it’s own under normal conditions
Ok then. Why don’t you explain to the class what conditions are requires to sensitive, since you seem pedantically obtuse to getting the point of why people might leave specific details out.
First of all, sorry for the harsh response, I was in a hurry and I probably passed off as a dickhead
secondly tho, from the video you sent yourself at 9:43 “Nitromethane, all by itself, is a high explosive, but it is so inert, it’s almost impossible to set it off”
And that’s what I (probably in a bad way) implied in my first message, nitromethane requires to be sensitized with something like ammonium nitrate (to make ANNM) or with ethylene diammine (to make PLX) (or really with any basic substance, even sodium hydroxide you get as a drain cleaner can work, but it gets too sensible and can detonate on its own while you work on it)
Here’s another video that shows nitromethane just plainly burning
Edit: I originally had a very hostile response here because the “obtuse” comment struck a nerve.
Some people aren’t “obtuse” by choice.
Many people, especially neurodiverse ones, look at your behavior and find it “obtuse” if not outright disingenuous and obfuscatory.
I realized you may also be feeling frustrated and maybe didn’t mean to be uncharitable and hostile to differently operating minds.
I may not understand what you were trying to imply, but it crossed my mind that this may be beside the point because the actual point is that we’re living in a situation where, if people actually said out loud what was REALLY on their minds, it would get them in trouble. And this is because the world is extremely dangerous and volatile right now, we’re all probably feeling very much IN DANGER from it, and not being able to talk about it honestly and plainly is indeed VERY PAINFUL.
So I retract my reflexive and poorly considered demand that you explain yourself, and I merely instead suggest that the person you were responding to wasn’t trying to entrap you. I was just as confused about the implication as they were, I surmise, but merely knowing that the implications are … “Spicy” … is enough.
Sorry for being mean about it.
Start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Dz5THmfrw
And the above respondent also knows enough to recognize what has been left out. You not knowing what has been left out is fine. Its not fine for them.
I realized shortly after I posted and before I even saw your response that I was not being rational. I apologize.
Bad. All the bad. Going very very bad in America today. But hey… at least tomorrow will be a lot worse.
In my country you need to be accused of being a communist in order to be arrested. Well sometimes there were no accusations just arrests, but at least we were an official dictatorship.
Signed: anywhere in South America in the 80s. Thanks
ObamaMcArthurEpiphany: are climate scientists a tool of communist hoaxes? Dang, you’re all getting arrested soon aren’t y’all
What movie is slide 2 from
veep
