So in other words, you think the president should be a puppet?

No, I think their point is that most of the “work” goes to the cabinet - you don’t have the president out there doing the legwork for everything.

I’m a project farm man myself.

Can you explain what you mean by your first statement? It seems like you’re arguing that citizens won’t be affected, then you linked a post by an Arab American citizen who is saying how general sentiment towards Arab Americans has affected their life. It stands to reason that electing trump will only further deteriorate the general sentiment towards Arab Americans, affecting us citizens.

If anyone needs additional confirmation of what trump wants.

“As president, I would end once and for all the mass importation of antisemitism into the United States,” he said. “Just as I did before, we will keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country. We were keeping them out.”

“On day one, we’ll restore our travel ban. We had a travel ban because we didn’t want people coming into our country who really loved the idea of blowing our country up,” he said. He called the ban an “amazing success.”

“We didn’t have one incident in four years, because we kept bad people out of our country,” he claimed.

“I’ll also be implementing strong ideological screenings for all immigrants coming in,” he said. “If you hate America, if you want to abolish Israel, if you sympathize with jihadists, then we don’t want you in our country and you’re not going to be getting into our country.”

Trump also said he would cancel student visas of Hamas sympathizers.

“The college campuses are being taken over, and all of the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests this month, nobody’s seen anything like it,” he said. “Come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you.”

I need a remindme bot for a year out, lol.

I feel like you’re technically right that there is a (highly improbable) chance it will not be between Biden or trump, but it’s not something I’d lean on this hard, haha.

Afaik, that’s simply not true. Take a look at the margins that Biden won by in 2020 in a few key states.

You’ll notice that the third party votes could’ve easily swung the state outcome either way.

Finally, you’ll notice how far behind third party votes are. The conclusion I’m drawing is that the possibility of third party votes influencing the outcome between the two candidates is greater than the possibility of a third party candidate winning.

It’s not controversial, it’s misleading. Clarify that we’re saying “shoot with a BB gun” and it’ll be a lot clearer.

Righto, I have changed my comment to reflect your input.

Informal, modern society understands it the way you do, the term is just different here on Lemmy lol.

This is my favorite visualization of how obscenely wealthy the mega rich are.

So you’re saying I can get there…

I guess my clothes look like shit, or I dress like a toddler.

The great thing about being an adult is I don’t have to give a fuck what others think about me.

Thanks! That’s a different way of looking at the problem that I hadn’t considered.

I’ve opted to wait a year to change insurance companies so I could resume seeing my old doc instead of starting the process as a new patient under someone else, because honestly I’d be seen at a comparative time.

This is quickly becoming beyond my knowledge pool, but does this assume that all life is intrinsically linked to oxygen?

Earth has been quite obviously life-bearing for at least 2 billion years. We should have been wiped out long ago.

I believe the theory is that as civilizations broadcast a signal indicating life exists strong enough such that it is picked up by other civilizations, the dark forest theory applies. Essentially we haven’t broadcasted a signal loud enough to be picked up

The thumbnail makes this look like a weird taxidermy floor jack

It definitely was the last chance I saw a lot of folks.

Yeah, I know, that means I wasn’t intentional enough yadda yadda yadda, but high school really was the last time a lot of folks are in an environment where social interactions are so passively encouraged. After high school, you’re no longer pressured to keep in touch with folks that you’ve known for 4, 6, or even 12 years, and a lot of people do naturally fall out of touch.

Is that really what convinced people though?

Don’t imagine the folks with megaphones actually convert many folks.

Let’s be honest, Lemmy is not a good sample of the general population. We’re all atypical in one way or another, it makes sense that niche extremism concentrates here.