Worth noting that a BUNCH of votes got disqualified thanks to distributed, local efforts by Republicans, and the effort was targeted. The article I read pointed out that black people got their votes tossed 900% more often than white people, for example.
Yes, 100%, I don’t at all want to give the idea that no history was ever remembered, and I don’t want to sound like I’m shitting on oral history either. I just… really wish someone had written some stuff down. There’s so much that’s lost to time because of the pandemics that swept the post contact world and all of colonization that followed.
Well, staying in the same location? I’m in the US, so… I’d probably try to get writing invented. To my knowledge, besides some of the Central American empires, there’s no evidence or even claim of there having been any kind of writing or system for making information durable. I know there’s a lot of clay here, I’m pretty sure we could bake clay tablets to store down information. There’s also tule reeds here that were already being extensively used, and those could probably be made into a kind of paper as well. As to whether the people would accept that, I have no fucking idea at all; what we know of the California tribes suggests they were always semi-nomadic, but that’s all very well into the post-contact period and much of what we know was written down by the Spanish while being the biggest bastards they possibly could to the locals. I dunno how useful record-keeping would be to a nomadic people. It’s also entirely possible the people would be like “uh, yeah, we know how to write, dummy”, and it was just lost in the multiple waves of pandemics.
I think probably something that -might- be achievable is figuring out glass. I’m mostly sure that if the native Americans had glass, we would have seen some sign of it in the archeological record by now. I’m sure some smarty pants is going to come along and tell me “you can’t just throw sand in a kiln and make glass, you need a special kind of sand blah blah blah and here’s 99 reasons why that won’t work”. Yeah, you’re probably right, but I don’t know any better, so I’d still definitely try. I also remember reading that clear glass was a thing figured out near Venice when they started adding grass ash or some shit to the sand, so I’d definitely experiment with that, too. Glass is just dead useful -and- pretty, so I’m fairly confident I’d get some acceptance that way.
I would say metal smithing, but the only metal deposits nearby that I know of are mercury and gold. You can’t make nails and tools out of mercury and gold.
Also, maybe water wheels? To my knowledge, we have no record of native Americans using water wheels for work (I.e. grinding corn or acorns into flour). I think if I managed to put a basic water wheel together, I’d be pretty popular.
It’s a little known fact that the Nazis were turned back at Stalingrad by a weekend protest full of clever chants and picket signs.
Did Putin write this?
Until I can pour them into my gas tank, they’re not facing enough pressure.
Yeah, I still think that was the advisors. The DNC is really big on hierarchy and shit, and there’s a lot of high ranking people that would have shit their pants in horror if Kamala had admitted anything bad about Joe.
I mean, I literally didn’t vote for Biden-Harris in the primaries. I think I voted for Dean Phillips?
But yeah, honestly, if they hadn’t had Biden step down the election would have been an unmitigated disaster, like 1984 bad. I really think that they had a solid chance to win, but then they pivoted away from the excitement and new, raw energy in the Harris-Walz ticket and pivoted into “Look! It’s Katy Perry and Beyonce, wow! Look, here’s Obama lecturing down to black men, it’s not even a little cringe! Look, it’s Liz Cheney! Worried that we’ll say mean things about republicans? We muzzled Walz!” At some point, it reminded me a lot of the HRC 16 campaign, and it turns out there was good reason for that: they put the top HRC '16 people in charge of the Harris campaign. If anyone ever deserves to get struggle sessioned, it’s those folks. Maybe not killed, but definitely at least the public dunce hat treatment.
The democratic party is very big on hierarchy and pecking order from what I’ve seen. They believe that being a long time party member should count for much more than being an actually effective politician or persuasive speaker. To suggest that the ancient corpocentrists should be even remotely threatened is tantamount to heresy. That’s why they were so horrified when Obama “stole” 08 from Hillary.
That’s exactly the plan. Schumer has said out loud that the plan is to just let the republicans off the leash, let them sink their own poll numbers and hope they teach the voters a lesson.
That lesson, of course, being that you can put a Democrat in office to do nothing, or you can put a Republican in office and the democrats will still do nothing. These fossilized assholes need a solid kick in the pants. I would like to wish Schumer and his ilk a very merry get fucking lost.
Woah, there, enthusiasm?! Listen, buddy, we prefer our voters begrudged.
It’s still awful, jesus
Jesus Christ, this is awful
Ohhhhhh, that makes a lot more sense, yeah
Ehhh. I worked in EMS in the US for 15 years, people definitely thought worse of the homeless than the dead.
Well, yeah; if you’re dead, the government and society won’t go out of its way to kick you in the head.
B’s? Hmm, like B- designation aircraft, implying that they’re bombers?
Edit: I legit don’t understand, and this is my best guess at what this person meant.
alright, https://lemm.ee/c/close_encounters is hot off the presses!
There’s a thousand better ways to handle both tariffs and free trade. We fucked up the latter with NAFTA (and CAFTA), where the EU got it right. Bringing jobs home with tariffs isn’t something you just snap your fingers and do, shit takes a long time to re-align, it would’ve made a lot more sense to have it go through the legislature and say “hey, we’re starting out at a 10% tariff on this stuff we want to bring home, and we’re going to ratchet it up +2% every year until Congress doesn’t pass the law again.” Instead, we’ve got the most volatile president in history implementing tariffs by fiat:
10% 20% actually none actually 10% actually 125% for real this time. Yeah, in this situation, the best play is to just try and wait dumbass out, because there’s a non-zero chance he wakes up tomorrow and declares tariffs woke.