My take is that societies became too big. In small communities like families, people don’t act capitalist. Humans typically moved in groups of a few dozens for most of their existence. Go above 150 or so and it starts to be less personal and less communist.l

Is it? My instance only has a handful of users, but it runs on a Raspi 4 and RAM or CPU are never a problem

What if you’re an adult without a driver’s licence?

Wait, you submit a photo?? Is there no electronic ID card in the UK?

You must be very privileged or very ignorant to see things this way.
The Democratic Party is somewhat conservative and stand firmly behind capitalism. But they aren’t fascists. Not at all.

You don’t have to chose between those those two, you know?

Me and everyone I love could live without financial struggles and I could still use a few hundred billion for humanitarian causes.
I’d at least try it.

Why is it that female candidates are addressed by first name?

Yeah he’s a conservative. But that’s not enough for Republicans anymore, you need to be a full blown fascist or you’re not acceptable.

The US needs a proportional voting system first and foremost

I see it the other way around. Respect can be lost.

Treating people with respect is my standard setting. I may stop that if they lose my respect.

Also Stormseeker

Is that really a good thing for the animals though? Instead of being killed right away, they will suffer a short miserable life, then be killed.

Suffering is not a binary. It will massively increase under Trump compared to any democrat.

Harris and Biden are conservatives. No the conditions didn’t improve. But they sure as hell will deteriorate under Trump. Poor people, LGBT folk, women will all suffer greatly. And none of it has anything at all to do with the suffering in Palestine.

You’re not listening to me. In politics, there’s rarely “stopping the evil”. It’s not an all or nothing situation.

You act like there is no difference in outcome whether democrats or republicans win elections. You must either be very privileged or very ignorant.

And yet you didn’t fucking stop anything. The only way for you to improve anything was to vote for the lesser evil. Even in a more functional democracy with proportional voting, there is always only the lesser evil. The perfect choice doesn’t exist in societies as large as ours are.

If the options are evil and lesser evil, you are morally obligated to choose lesser evil. There is no neutral stance. If you didn’t vote for the democrats, you strengthened the republicans. Don’t call people morally bankrupt when you don’t know what you’re talking about. The US will regress into autocracy and people like you are partially responsible.

This is exactly what I would expect a Rush fan to answer. But seriously, they are great. Sadly I’m too young so I never had the opportunity to experience them live. 3 hour shows of that quality after 40 years of touring is absolutely amazing.

The greater good.