silicon valley is here and their profits demand sweet data… so yeah uphill battle on that one. i hope we can get them to fuck off though.

the other person is giving you pretty biased information. there are two parties. primaries are elections to select who each party will support for a given election. there is one for each party. so the democratic primary for a senator would be an election between several people, usually democrats but they arent required to be, and the winner gets to run in the election for the position. the purpose of this is to prevent splitting the vote, which is a major flaw of first past the post elections.

who votes depends on the state due to differing election laws. usually you vote in the primaries of your party, so all democrats could vote in the democrat primary. some places you dont need to be affiliated and could even vote in both primaries, and some people actually do that.

there is disparity in views partly or maybe mostly because of us only having two major parties because of first past the post. you can be a democrat and rub shoulders with both socialists and corporate stooges, or you can be a republican and support fascism and worse fascism. being a democrat is the lesser evil for a lot of people, so you end up with basically everyone even a little left leaning in the democratic party or at least trying to work with them. the diversity in left leaning people in the democratic party causes lots of problems and infighting, usually with corporate democrats ultimately in control of the party working to make sure nothing actually happens that their corporate donors didnt tell them to do.

the significant thing here is that the democratic socialists, a group within the democratic party, has historically been heavily suppressed by the corporate democrats leading the party. stuff like them blocking bernie from getting the presidential nomination in favor of hilary even though bernie was much more popular. the fact that mamdani got elected at all was a minor miracle, and now 3 more democratic socialists got elected with his support. in theory it represents a shift in the party and voters, but time will tell if we can build on this momentum. given the state of the rest of the country its an uphill battle.

i hope this was helpful. im sure some people will come out of the woodwork to tell me im wrong and spew some propaganda or another. politics is kind of fucked up here right now…

i thought it was from the decades of drug abuse

this stuff usually comes from republicans so im going to invoke that every accusation is an admission of guilt. republicans were/are giving all kinds of hard drugs to children. damn that makes me sad because its probably connected to epstein…

dont forget the people who wait until everyone ahead of them is off the plane before they think to get up and get their crap out of the overhead. or the the ones that drag their feet in the walkway. or the ones that stop right outside the gate. like holy shit we werent crammed into a tiny tube together long enough? get the fuck off the plane i want to get out of the fucking airport.

even if we fixed those problems we’re still perpetually sliding further into oligarchy. we have to bring an end to the current top down hierarchical economic system that creates billionaires, and get money out of politics. any achievements short of that is a bandaid that will eventually get peeled off by some rich cunt trying to make a few extra bucks.

when you watch the big lebowski and think you could probably pull it off

it really speaks to the all encompassing greed of these rich cunts. its not enough to own a propaganda factory wearing the skin of a news company, it has to be profitable too.

i think it might be more useful, just maybe, if instead of giving everyone an individually meaningless amount of money, we take his money and use it to buy stuff that we all need. maybe we could set it aside to pay for medical expenses for everyone, or maybe to update schools, or buy homes for everyone who needs one.

its about uncensoring hate speech im sure, so they can go on tv and spew their vitriol and sue if their hate vomit isn’t aired or aired in full or some shit. they want to be able to go on the news and openly call for killing brown people and trans people. its obvious nazi shit. tolerate the intolerable under the guise of “free speech”.

Nope, thats Chuck Testa

in order to achieve that they’d have to hire pretty much the entire aerospace industry. everyone in the usa with any expertise in rockets or satellites. im doing my part by never working for that fucking fascist piece of shit.

just want to note that trans masc athletes are de facto banned from all competitive sports because they take testosterone, a performance enhancing substance that disqualifies them from competing. thats why no one talks about them. as soon as you think about including trans mascs in mens sports you open up a whole messy can of worms about policing hormone levels, which spills over into womens sports and leads to a fundamental reexamination of sport as a whole, leading back to your point about sports rewarding inherent genetic advantages.

honestly i think sports and structured competition in general is fundamentally flawed. taken to its logical conclusion it becomes a technological competition, which people introduce more and more convoluted rules to prevent, ultimately undermining and corrupting the original purpose of the competition. you can see it in every single sport; swimming banning fancy suits and swimming underwater too far, cycling banning aerodynamic optimization, running banning fancy shoes, vehicle racing banning all kinds of technology, etc. every sport runs into it eventually, and our bodies are just the next untapped frontier for technological improvement. taken to its logical conclusion one questions why we bother with sports at all, if we aren’t going to seek ever greater improvements.

ugh let me finish!

he works so hard he burns up all the poop inside

and convinced half the ceos that forcing their employees to use it would improve Productivity^TM

there being money and commer

yeah the problem is capitalism. line must go up, forever.

wait so you mean bankrupting people for being hurt or sick and materially harming literally everyone involved except the pedos in charge is bad medicine?

dont forget child murderer