Majority is over half or 50% + 1. And we have a very high level of purposeful disenfranchisement. Gerrymandering, restriction of voting places, removal of mail-in votes, no voting holiday, voter ID laws, purging of vote roles with no way to renew your registration in time, two parties that are ever marching rightward away from most American’s policy preferences.

Like, be mad at the people who voted for this, but it’s not even close to most of us. They’re unpopular, and most people don’t want this shit. There are more of us than there are of them so stop acting like you’ve already lost and that we deserve this. We didn’t and we don’t.

I mean, it couldn’t be better either. It makes it look like the protest has more reach than it probably actually did

Trump didn’t receive a majority of the votes, and 64% of eligible voters voted. So, not even a third of voters voted for this.

Yes, it’s how Mamdani won in New York.

Most people with limited political savvy heard Trump talk about the economy when Harris said she wanted to keep things as they are. And everything got fucked under Biden, but things were good under Trump, right? Let’s go back to that. Plus he was funny.

There is a dedicated group of shitheads that support everything the Republicans shit out, but they’re by-and-large not the majority in most places.

Used the same process for both, so that’s already accounted for. Both are total population vs those that voted for the regime.

Wrong. Cover with the crook of your arm, not your hand. The point is to reduce the contact between your phlegm and other people’s faces. If you cough into your hand and then touch something, you’ll get others sick.

Honestly, this disinformation makes me sick! /s

Kelly was brave for standing up to Trump, but I don’t think he’s a good choice.

People want concrete policy, economic fixes, and the end of culture war shit. Kelly is just “I’m against Trump” which didn’t work the last two times it was tried. You need a candidate to stand for something, and Kelly ain’t it.

Yes, we have a disenfranchisement problem in the US. Between voter rolls being purged, people losing their right to vote due to felonies, gerrymandering out the ass, voter ID and other such nonsense trying to stop legal votes, and purposeful locking down/ limiting of voting places, it’s honestly impressive so many were still able to vote. Doesn’t change that what you said was wrong.

And it’s 188 million, unless you think a vote for Harris wasn’t voting against Trump.

Approx. 17.3 million people voted for the nazis in 1933, total population was 67.7 million, for 25.5% of the population.

Approx. 77.3 million people voted for trump in 2024, total population was 340.1 million, for 22.7% of the population.

No, the fascist gained power here with even less of a mandate than the nazis.

The problem is that the consequences aren’t balanced. If you disobey an order, the consequences are immediate. If you obey an illegal order, you might face consequences at some point in the future. If you disobey an order because you genuinely believe it’s illegal, there’s no protection for you if that happens to not be the case. Meaning the only way to know that you’re safe to disobey an order on the grounds that it’s illegal is to know exactly what law is being broken. Not a thing that soldiers are trained to know.

That, plus, in that moment you have to have a mountain of conviction to resist doing the thing they’ve been drilling into your head since basic, follow orders without thinking. Which is why I’m saying it amounts to nothing more than “the common soldiers aren’t supposed to follow illegal orders, this is all their fault for not stopping this” as a justification.

Should’ve masturbated more when you were younger. Kept that prostate lean and tight.

It’s the same in the US, but you have to be court-martialed to prove that the order was unlawful (ie, you fail to obey a command, you’ll be arrested, and only let go if the military tribunal determines you were right to not follow that command).

If Germany’s system is the same… then you’ve got the rule on paper only. Soldiers don’t question orders, it’s how they’re taught to act. This is a post hoc justification for punishing regular soldiers for unlawful acts, rather than anything actually actionable in the moment.

People don’t learn that from consequences. Is this your first time being human? They have to be taught that lesson the hard way, by having it explained to them until they internalize it. It can take decades.

I’m neurodivergent as fuck, but I think this post is supposed to be sarcastic. So stating that you see it sincerely rings odd.

Game Freak isn’t Nintendo. It’d be like seeing a Playstation reference in a Square Enix game.

“But we gotta whip both sides into a frenzy. Bigger news makes for bigger profits!”

Really? That’s why I got a down vote? Dude, my metaphor in the first comment was likening it to “if we (Americans) called First Nation land ‘Indialand’”. So, no. If you map the metaphor back onto to the counter, it’s the UK’s fault, not America’s.

Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd

Edit: special interest rant, it’s actually very interesting how they got these two to interact on screen because Rita is from the Japanese show (Super Sentai) and Zedd was an addition solely for the US version (they used a double for Rita while the voice actor continued to dub over her in post)

Thank you. Papers, Please isn’t the ending we need to run to. They can’t treat us like criminals cause they feel like it

Ghosts must remain close to the place where they died. Dinosaur fossils are underground, therefore dinosaur ghosts are as well.

Since you don’t follow your remains after death (people ghosts tend to haunt houses rather than graveyards) it means we have no method to excavate them. They will always be underground.

This is the fate of all ghosts, to slowly be buried by time until you wander the dark abyss alone.