Not to mention that the civil war was lost through the presidential election of 1876 even though it was won in battle before that. That election was so corrupt that the Union conceded a lot to get their president, including removing Federal forces from the South on the promise that the South would protect Federal rights of minorities, blacks, etc. (among other things) The North pulled out and the south reneged without consequence (the KKK was the strong arm then) until the Civil Rights act in the 60s. That’s only roughly 60 years ago. Most of the institutional segregation from before then is still firmly in place.

Heaven forbid we would have to compromise instead of ramming legislation only we like through to pass.

I know what it means. I guess I didn’t make my point clear enough, that’s on me. I didn’t think I had to write it for an eli5 audience.

Religion didn’t prime them. Religion merely exploits the same human psychological weaknesses. This is why they go hand in hand.

This won’t change. Democrats have to take a lesson in human behaviour. Republican tactics work. Embrace them. Exploit them.

You imply that Trump actually intends to govern and not rule.

I, for one, hope that this is exactly what we needed. Shit has to get dark before the light can return.

They all decay to fascism, if you haven’t noticed.

Yes, and the church went nuts displaying the “Holy Relic” that was his supposed foreskin for many, many years, in many churches… At the same time. It got so out of control that people started to wonder why the church was so obsessed with Jesus’s dick. So the Pope finally got a clue, commanded a stop to the practice, and threatened to excommunicate anyone who spoke about it afterward. Ah, Christianity. Good times.

Big feelings get smaller as you age.

Duh.

Only in Poznań 😔

Read a newspaper some time. You might learn a thing about that.

I didn’t realize all Russians were in the Linux kernel maintainers file. Silly me.

This is not collective punishment.

Good. Fuck Russia.

Nice. Fuck Russia.

Who do you think put it there? 🤔

Tried this game. It needs a lot of polish.

The problem with repairing the earth’s climate isn’t that we don’t know what to do. It’s that humans refuse to organize themselves in a way that achieves that goal. AI won’t fix that.