<sigh> Four more years of this shit. But oh well, it’s worth it if it spared a few people of superior moral integrity from compromising their principles to vote for Harris when she didn’t measure up to their requirements and the Democrats didn’t run a good enough campaign and besides it was kind of cold that day and it would have meant putting on pants.

100% agreement here.

There are a lot of people who don’t understand what they take in.

Sorry, that went way over my head. /s

Now that I think of it the whole 90s didn’t start getting political until around 1991.

Absolutely, there are useful group names that were intelligently thought out, and there are ones where somebody said Oh this would be cute - a stitch of knitters…

I liked the image of the Titanic nosing down into the water, and deniers up on the stern end saying, “If we’re “sinking” how come we/re up so high?”

Because science, bitch!

LOL yes I’m all for mocking species-specific group names. Just say “bunch” or “group” and everybody knows exactly what you mean.

Our new sucker-tentacled overlords.

+1 Insightful

It seems like most big changes are set in motion by elites who benefit from them, with the teeming masses convinced a) to go along and b) that they’re driving. Historically this could be because elites have had a pulpit, either from holding office or having access to publishing and more recently broadcasting. In really recent times the masses finally got access to a broad audience via the Internet, but since they mostly use it to post boobs and complain about game companies, elites are still in the driver’s seat.

It’s possible that being led around by a privileged few is just how humans work, and it’s up to enlightened individual elites to make parts of the world better for short periods while they’re alive.

That actually sounds like a good personal motto. For a long time mine has been, “There’s always more than one way,” but you’ve got me thinking.

No, the salutes happen after people already let it die.

Reminder: Be sure to flair it as “Solved”!

Oh good point, tbh I didn’t even remember it was also MLK day - but I thought that a National holiday? Maybe only in “woke” blue states IDK.

They can indoctrinate for a while, but education (as opposed to vocational training) inherently encourages critical thinking skills that make people progressively more resistant to the indoctrination.

Investing in education is the mark of a rising nation. Imposing lifelong debt for it is the mark of a falling one.

By “new aristocracy” I think you mean “entrenched aristocracy getting worse”.

Needs a tattoo that says “Real snake, do not touch!”

I just noticed on my calendar that Inauguration Day is a “regional holiday”. People get a day off for this, but not to vote?

Turn it into a curry.

Doesn’t really matter - eventually every generation gets blamed for all the world’s problems.