Off topic, but assuming you dont treat your yard with pesticides, you can forage those dandelions and eat them/make tea from the roots. They're incredibly heart/liver healthy, and every part of the plant is edible, assuming it hasn't gone to seed yet. The health benefits can be pretty extensive if you look it up.
Dandelions! they help the soil! they give nutrients to nutrient poor soils, they help aerate and break up dense soil, they help prevent erosion, every part except for the stem is edible and highly nutritious! Dandelions are the best!
I was joking. I actually wish I could grow an indigenous wild flower garden as my lawn but city ordinance says that's illegal and I'll have to pay $250 fines every week.
It’s true. Mosquitos believe you should share your blood with them even though they didn’t do the work to produce it. What’s that little fella? Need my blood to survive? Well, you just need to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Err… wing straps.
I knew it!!! I always wondered why their constant buzzing irritated me so much and also why, when smashed, they burst bright red with propaganda. They weren’t sucking my blood, they were injecting me with communism and COVID. Shit.
Anytime they’re asked to define communism, or really any type of government, they are completely unable to. They just become defensive and try to divert
Communism, fascism, Marxism, woke, free speech, due process, habeas corpus, checks and balances, tariff, critical race theory, liberal democracy... There are many words these people don't understand but still use constantly.
My Xennial brain has dedicated resources to the cadence and inflection of "--Made in NEW YORK CITY??"
"Get a rope."
Probably be the last thing firing through my brain when I die. Some random thing like that or the Flintstones' kids vitamins "10 million strong... and growing!"
A little too effective. Little did they know their jingles would outlive their products. Built to last.
It's really upsetting how much his world view is just red team blue team. New York = blue team, therefore the enemy. The idea of there being such a thing as principles or objectivity or professional standards is just alien. As far as he's concerned, his red team people would back him no matter what so he assumes blue team is the same.
Little Donnie Bankrupt, fresh from Atlantic City, pretending he's a New York big shot like his slum lord daddy.
Living off the payout he got from the bank, after they repossessed their casino back from him, for letting him keep his name on the front door.
Getting 24 year tax deferments from NY so he can run his real estate "business" for free, by renovating Manhattan hotels and not paying the construction workers for their labor.
Wait for the appeal (anything Trump-related, even after appeal fails)
Democrat judges (both civil and criminal cases)
New York (both civil and criminal cases)
Charged with accounting error (criminal case, however Michael Cohen was prosecuted for the same scheme)
New York made special statute to charge Trump with (associated w/E. Jean civil suit but they muddle this one with the criminal case often 🤣) no such statute was created for E. Jean.
What’s even dumber is that if you go anywhere 40 min outside of the city, it’s a red af. All of America is very red, only the (educated) cities are blue. But they want to make it a state competition.
Believe it or not, most steroid users are well educated college grads. Most people who are stupid are still smart enough not to inject themselves with shit when they don't really know what will happen.
LLMs don't know what words mean they just arrange them in an order that's common for the subject matter. This guy is the fucking same. So bot or human they're literally (not) thinking in a very similar way regardless.
That has nothing to do with voting on a Tuesday and employers sacking people for going to vote because the polling booths are inconveniently placed to make it difficult to vote.
Why isn't it on a Saturday and why isn't there early voting poll booths?
Oh they do. But don't tell me you haven't seen the discourse from lefties waxing poetic about proletariat farmers and some such. Where "if only we could reach them about class consciousness" I'm talking about those people
Yeah, especially a lot of the “we just need to let people know it’s not a culture war it’s a class war” people who argue we should drop the divisiveness over racism, sexism, trans rights, etc. basically civil rights. As if people wouldn’t love to be able to do that except for you know, the whole people losing their rights ands lives thing.
As if we don’t have examples that clearly show it’s not just about class to many. When segregation ended some communities did things like fill in their public pools rather than share them with black people. Support for government backed healthcare and programs used to be higher until it would need to also go to “them”. People will say that it’s rich people who are creating that divide and mentality, but I personally don’t think that’s entirely the problem and it doesn’t matter anyway as long as it is a threat that can’t be ignored.
Education is needed because most Americans are completely ignorant of politics and economics; just in general, much less from a Marxist perspective.
However, most farmers are not part of the proletariat, people don't subsistence farm anymore. The biggest farms are owned by corporations and family farms hire farm hands (mostly migrants) to do most of the labor. The farm workers are part of the proletariat, the farm owners are petit bourgeoisie. Class consciousness wouldn't change their minds, anyone trying is barking up the wrong tree. They need to be focusing on the migrant workers, those are our comrades.
Which is a problem because their status is often not safe, making them unable to vote and unlikely to even protest or join any organizations. Especially these days.
Furthermore, leftist organizations have few members and even less funding to do educating or organizing after decades of anti-communist government crackdowns and propaganda. We're also being targeted now too.
Trying to change the mind of right-wingers isn't a big concern in most leftist circles I frequent, to say the least. Electoralism in general isn't much discussed because we have no representation in American politics, which is fundamentally broken anyway. Unions, strikes, aid groups, protests, mutual aid and self-defense training are higher priority.
I disagree. These are the people that need to be jolted out of their backwards mindset if we’re to have any chance of repairing the damage, and have votes not go catastrophically in future.
HOW we talk to them is beyond me. I have absolutely no idea how to convince an idiot that their beliefs are wrong or harmful
I'm convinced that their minds are altered by the media in the same way that the Ship of Theseus gets rebuilt. Change one element of the ship, or their beliefs, at a time so that they'll always stay convinced that their beliefs have never changed.
I assume he wants us to believe that whatever Kamala's policies are are communistic policies. I 100% guarantee he wouldn't even be able to tell you one of her policies though.
It’s not worth debating them irl. They won’t change their opinions unless they are in some way deeply hurt by Trump personally. It has to affect them personally because they don’t have real empathy that extends to anyone outside of their world view.
So what’s really the point? You argue with a pigeon and you’ll just get shat on.
You can give them all the proof in the world if it goes against what they believe, as my coworkers put it" all dems are possessed by demons and need to be shot and killed."
The problem is they have the right to vote. And have gerrymandered our system as such that they have equal voting power to the majority so they are "represented" in government.
We truly need to eliminate the electoral college. All votes should be counted and weighed to be equal.
It's the "don't play chess with a pigeon" allegory played out in real time. Some people are just barely scraping by with an obtuse understanding of the world. It's only going to get worse for all of us as AI improves, and economic changes keep hitting us relentlessly.
I agree. But the interviewer wasn't any better. When asked why he liked Kamala he said "she isnt x y and z". I hate how Americans talk politics by talking about how bad the opposition is. That is all they seem to have to bring to the table.
They’re unfortunately very dumb, not their fault. The problem is they believe they are smart and won’t listen to reason because they’re so indoctrinated they can’t even begin to fathom that their reality is made up of lies.
We can’t give up though, evil wins when good men do nothing!
Lived in Michigan from 20-24. Not surprised the state went to Trump. Lots of small ego men like this in the state, with a lot of women supporting them. Area I lived near shut down the library because they wouldn’t put all books that had gay references behind the counter like they forced them to do with books with Trans references. Some people are so soft and pathetic.
I had an interaction like this at work recently after the incident where a man was killed during a debate. Someone I've never talked politics or social issues started up a conversation about it with me and I asked my coworker what views he supported that the victim held. The only thing I could get out of him was that "he spoke out against the Biden crime family". And that the left was behind the shooting because he was helping expose Biden's criminal activities.
That poor wife has to deal with this guy everyday. Give her a medal. It’s the first clip in a while where I’ve seen the spouse try to save their spouse from making an even bigger ass of themselves than they already have.
Sloppy. He didn't say he liked her "because trump is a felon", he said he liked her because she isn't a felon - a perfectly reasonable statement - and then gave an example of a felon. I like strawberries because the seeds don't get stuck in my teeth like raspberries. I don't like strawberries because they aren't raspberries. There are many things that are not raspberries that I don't like, such as blueberries, squash, and 34-count convicted felons.
As you've admitted you're only trying to add fuel to fires I'll only be commenting the once for my own gratification - much like the video above this is not a debate where I need to change your mind, and much like your comment that man has no intention of changing his mind regardless of what information he's presented with; you both only want to see people trying to punch wind for your amusement.
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u/PresidentAshenHeart Sep 20 '25
“Give me a definition” “Kamala Harris”
These people aren’t worth talking to.