[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

So what is the UN predicting to happen in the next 76 years for the DRC (population 109 million) to surpass the US (population 334 million)? The DRC historically doesn't have the stability that would lead to explosive population growth, and with the climate continuing to warm and the DRC being on the equator it's going to feel the effects of climate change particularly severely.

Nigeria (pop 230 million) seems more likely, though it also is going to have the same problems with climate change the rest of the middle latitudes will have.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

The right has no appreciation for art, because art can be subversive and speaks truth to power. That's why they miss the subtext involved (or in the case of Born in the USA, the literal text).

It wasn't until the third season of The Boys before the right said "Wait, why is Homelander the bad guy? And why am I wrong for supporting him?" And the fourth season has the villains saying near-verbatim quotes from the right.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

Kamala spanked Trump so hard, he owes her $130,000.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

evidence-based

And all the evidence shows that, as the US is currently, voting for third-parties hurts you far more by allowing the major party that least represents you to win. You can't claim to adhere to "evidence" if you don't acknowledge that fact.

Also, I'm going to let you in on a little secret: I don't want any of the current third parties to win. None of them are serious beyond being spoilers for the major parties- they don't host voter drives, they don't campaign for local and state elections, they don't do anything for four years then show up and expect to have the same shot as the major parties.

I'm perfectly happy voting for a party to win who agrees with 60% of what I want than getting 0% of what I want, because it's the rational choice to make.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

...huh. TIL.

The last time I had to download the unifying software it was more obvious than that.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Hmm... I'm gonna guess that water was much hotter than 4°C, what with being used to put out a fire and all.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Can you drown from butt chugging!?

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

Other work honoured on the night included US research to house pigeons in missiles to help guide them to their targets

"The pigeon knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't..."

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

And the sooner you swallow that pill, the sooner you'll realize that politics is not about emotions, it about strategy, and voting for third-parties isn't a winning one.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

How did this one go from leftists in the early 2000's who thought Bush and Cheney ignored intelligence to let it happen to unhinged conspiratorial right wingers spouting the same bullshit.

The exact same way that both the left and the right agree that Epstein didn't kill himself, except one side thinks the AG of the then-current President who oversaw the DoJ and had connections to Epstein was responsible, and the other side thinks the presidential candidate that lost to Trump and retired from politics and has zero connections to the administration of the prison did it.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Nobody is saying the US system can't be changed to accommodate third-parties.

What they are saying is that third-parties aren't viable the way things are now.

You can't elect third parties to change the system; the system has to be changed to elect third parties. Until then, voting for a third party is wasting a vote and advocating for others to do so is telling them to vote against the major party that is both more likely to win and also the one that more closely represents their values.

The exception, of course, is if one of the major parties suffers an implosion like the Whigs did in the mid-1800s. But the Dems are more unified than ever and the Republicans are brainwashed by right-wing media, so I don't see that happening any time soon.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

May as well campaign at a graveyard.

Given the number of boomers who live there, you might be more right than you know.

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