Stocks are down all over the globe, not sure if you noticed.

You’re like 6 levels deep into a thread, being vague like this is completely inscrutable.

I didn’t act like it was nothing. It was a band-aid on a gushing artery that further cemented health insurance companies into our lives. It briefly slowled the continually rising costs people continue to struggle with today. But they pretty much called it a day for the next decade and a half-where now those same companies are auto denying 30% of their claims hoping no one fights the ruling. Without the public option Obamacare wasn’t the solution we needed. It just kicked the can down the road to our current disaster.

If the goal was actually stalling things, he’d have gotten more mileage not starting it at night, after all the real business had included. Could squeeze an extra half a day of RESISTANCE in there before…checks notes the Democrats help confirm yet another fascist piece of shit appointee into power.

Like I said. It was performative.

You do realize you just admitted to this being an assumption on your part, right? This is YOUR racism projecting onto this whole thing.

The fear of sexual assault that women share is not limited by skin color. They’re not feeling at ease walking to their cars in a parking garage just because the man they see is white.

Seriously, do you even talk to women?

Decades? They had the presidency and both halves of Congress for the first two years under Obama and all they gave us was Mitt Romney’s health care plan. And again during the first half of Biden’s term.

The Democratic leadership keeps actively stopping attempts to corral the ability of congressmen to get rich off inside trading. They spent the whole campaign season last year supporting and assisting in a very public genocide. Trustbusting has basically been forgotten - we only have the illusion of choice in our much each industry from the media to even our food products are dominated by like 3-4 companies within it.

Whenever they do happen to get power, they do nothing with it, and then act surprised when they immediately lose it again.

Yup, you’ve realized your plan is stupid but decided you’ll act haughty and bow out of the conversation all together to avoid admitting it.

Why would anyone make a movie if they couldn’t at least support the cost of making the giving movie to begin with? Like, try thinking one step through your own idiotic idea.

MY wording?

You were the one claiming marvel movies weren’t.

If it’s still dark out and you haven’t yet gone to sleep, it’s still night.

I think they bumped up to 5th recently

Or, better idea, no parties like the founders intended

Breadlines ? That’s socialism. Can’t have that…

Your ideas got us here. With democracy hanging by a thread because both the corporate Democrats and Republicans spent decades weakening the lower classes to enrich themselves. How many 70-80% approval rating policy idea have the Democrats spurned over the years because it would mildly inconvenience their mega donors in the short term?

I think the gutting of school funding, and the adoption of an idiotic non phonics based reading curriculum that was sold basically by some grifter over the last few decades is more to blame. Also Bush’s no child left behind Pass All the The Failing Kids Anyway plan.

I’m not sure what these numbers are measuring, but it looks like less than 85% of schools in the US reported their data, could be a sampling bias there. Also, this is maybe at age 15, when many of the worst readers have already dropped out of school.

It looks like most countries have shitty literary levels, then. I was unaware other countries were just as bad. A quick Google showed a few results not quite in agreement saying the average for adults was 7th-8th grade in the US, or that half were below 6th.

No, the uniformed idiotic women hating fake rationalization you can see continuing throughout this very thread may have been spread to the Andrew Tate following incel crowd to further stoke their anger. But that’s them capitalizing on their gullibility and refusal to speak to actual women about why they feel that way.

You probably said this thing was STARTED as a racist othering campaign. That’s very different from someone trying to CHANGE an already existing narrative to suit their own ends. And none of those narratives were ever about race, it was always a gender thing.

Why do so many people on the Internet default to a completely unnuanced worldview? Like there’s more than two diametrically opposed options that can be taken.

Everything done with skill is art. From Citizen Kane to the design of a candy wrapper.

By having the resources to create and distribute a product with polish.

Acting like you’re smarter than the people you’re talking to while missing the very obvious point that we’re not starting from nothing. Being pedantic about me referring to piracy by what it’s called now doesn’t change how impractical it would be to have no ownership at all of ideas. Why would anyone pay for content at all?

Your “solution” means no one can make a living doing creative things. The current system has flaws that can be fixed. “No system at all” is worse for literally everyone involved, both creators and consumers of said content.

You should stop publicly felating yourself over how unshackled your mind is, since this idea is so incredibly stupid.

Having been permabanned myself from reddit after 14 years, I’ve never seen that text used as anything other than a mocking tone for the thing being said.

You may have been reading it wrong this entire time.