In an anarchist society, any system of communal sharing would be compromised of voluntary membership. There is nothing voluntary about communism. It is fundamentally opposed to anarcho-anything.
Yes, that's why I called An-Coms "useful idiots" and pointed out what would actually happen in an anarchist society (revert to tribal mentality and "Might Makes Right" hierarchies) in my earlier comment.
I didn't always enjoy this feeling. I only started enjoying the sense of schadenfreude after I got betrayed by people I thought were my friends and falsely accused of being both a racist and a Nazi by them.
The entire group of social activists are a bunch of bullies, and it's a good thing watching bad people get their Just Desserts/Karmic Justice.
That's fair enough. While you're speaking with them, you can often get a feel for their current stance, and at that point you can decide whether you want to play the Trump card. Better to miss one or two potential new MAGA supporters from being overly cautious than to have a target put on you for being too pushy.
Good point: Anarcho-Communists wouldn't be calling for the implementation of an authoritarian government.
If that comment was within the past week, your in-law's neighbor likely watched Trump's "town hall" and misunderstood what the """"moderator"""" was saying about QAnon.
I would leave out the "vote Trump" part, since the farther-left Bernie supporters would be more likely to associate that with "HEY you're trying to trick us!", and it may be enough to re-motivate them to support Biden.
If they want to support Trump, let it occur naturally. If they're unmotivated to support Biden, don't give them a reason to do so, just remind them that there are ways they can stay true to their beliefs without voting for Biden just because he's the Democrat candidate.
All they had to do was "not riot", "not push Marxist ideology", "not try to turn violent life-long criminals into martyrs", "denounce any anti-cop violence", and "work with similar groups like #AllLivesMatter and #WhiteLivesMatter".
Instead, they basically did everything possible to lose support as quickly as they could...
Here's the good news: The propaganda only works in a bubble. Once you wake up to the truth in one area, it becomes much easier to spot the lies and spin elsewhere.
Do what you can to help your friends see the programming, but make sure to LET THEM DO THEIR OWN RESEARCH. The Red Pill only works if YOU PERSONALLY CHOOSE to take it. Trying to force someone else to take it can lead to severe backlash, or even a total rejection.
The propaganda gets worse in college, so the sooner you can wake them up, the better chance that they'll avoid falling for the Marxist BS while working towards their degrees.
Final recommendation for the night, DO NOT try to combine the water/electrolytes and drink salt water (at least not without a good blend of flavors to make the mixture more palatable, such as you'd find in Gatorade or Powerade).
Source: I gave these instructions to one of my college friends via text message, his half-drunk/half-hungover mind skipped a few steps, and then complained in the group chat about the "salt water" idea being terrible.
Sorry for just taking beer/hangover with you, my parents are in their 60s and still like to drink themselves to the "Stumbling Drunk" phase without even having any water/snacks nearby, and I don't tend to hang out around bars, so I don't get to share my tips often.
If you really want to minimize the hangovers, make sure to have some water alongside your wine. Your body's way of detoxifying alcohol uses up water and various electrolytes (AKA "salt, calcium, and other essential minerals"), so if you replenish it with a modest amount of both throughout the night, then you can have all the fun of drinking wine with minimal problems the next-day.
EDIT: Here is a list of foods high in electrolytes.
It might be good to get some salty snacks as well: it'll help minimize the coming hangover, and together, the salt and whine will also symbolize the inevitable left-wing meltdowns to come.
Corn Pop was a bad dude, so his comments got posted multiple times to show off just how bad a dude he was.
The Germans call it Schadenfreude, which roughly translates to "pleasure from other people's pain".
I fully agree, I was just pointing out that the "extremely dogmatic libertarians" who actually want full An-Cap policies to be implemented in our government either have not learned about the Articles of Confederation or don't understand its implications.
LEANING Libertarian (particularly in response to massive pushes by the other side to implement socialist/Communist policies over the past few decades) is completely good and normal.
Trying to institute/run a fully-Anarcho-Capitalist society is just as retarded as the Champagne Socialists talking about how "the world would be better ONLY IF I PERSONALLY control EVERY ASPECT OF IT" (hence why even in fictional settings, the An-Cap system usually only appears in the immediate aftermath of THE GODDAMN APOCALYPSE, and is quickly replaced by some more-centralized system for maintaining law and order).
It's simpler to refer to the "left libertarians" as what they truly are:
"Anarcho-Communists", the useful idiots who think that Communism would work if we erased all government and had everyone start from scratch (no, we'd revert to tribal mentality, complete with "Might Makes Right" hierarchies). The only people who don't realize what their ideology truly is are the people who are still asleep to the Marxist propaganda they've been fed for their entire lives.
In any Communist revolution, as soon as the Communists win the civil war against the original government, the Anarcho-Capitalists and the Champagne Socialists are the first ones lined up against the wall and shot, because the people who either helped fight or fund the first revolution could easily do it again against the new government.
We tried a full-libertarian government.
It was called the Articles of Confederation, which left the federal government so weak that it couldn't even collect taxes, and nearly fell apart when the unpaid soldiers started organizing a coup (only stopped when George Washington personally came to their meeting site and talked them out of their revolt).
Our current Constitution is the result of our nation's founders coming to a compromise in order to make the American Experiment work.
That's the thing about extreme ideologies: just like any other thing (including "breathing oxygen" and "drinking water"), too much or too little can be deadly. It's all about balance, and finding the compromise that best works to match our needs.
On your first concern, it looks like Democrats are under-performing in early voting, there are many recorded instances of those mail-in ballots being lost/invalidated, and there are theories that early voting and mail-in voting discourage people from doing other Election Day activities (encouraging friends and family to vote, donating money, volunteering at the polls, etc.), but we won't really know the full impact until after the election. Just know that California Republicans have found a way to counter the Democrats' "ballot harvesting" strategy: conduct their own "ballot harvesting" in traditionally-Republican places (like gun ranges, churches, etc.) and beat the Dems at their own game.
On your second concern: Trump largely was able to win because of people who voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012, and then flipped to support Trump in 2016. A large part of Hillary's defeat wasn't just because voters hated Hillary, but also because voters either hated Obama or just felt that he hadn't lived up to his campaign promises.
Hillary served as Obama's Secretary of State from 2009-2013, and she was endorsed by Obama in 2015/2016.
Biden served as Obama's VICE PRESIDENT for both terms, and he only got Obama's endorsement much more recently in 2020 (literally only after EVERY OTHER CANDIDATE HAD DROPPED OUT).
In 2016, when Obama held rallies for Hillary, he still filled stadiums.
In 2020, when Obama held rallies for Biden, HE CAN'T EVEN FILL A GODDAMN PARKING LOT.
The record-breaking Trump economy (and the slow drip of reveals/revelations about Obama's many unconstitutional actions and many crimes) has turned much more of the US population against ALL of Obama's administration, as well as all the socialists/Communists hating Obama for essentially blue-balling them with all the time he spent pandering to them without actually giving them anything substantial.
On your final concern, there's a few peculiarities about brainwashing: 1, it only works when you control ALL forms of information, as even a small gap in the coverage can allow the truth to spread; 2, after one crack in the propaganda is discovered, it's much easier to see the lies elsewhere; 3, you can fool SOME of the people ALL of the time, or you can fool ALL of the people SOME of the time, but you can't fool ALL of the people ALL of the time; and 4, the more layers of propaganda you have to create to hide the truth, the harder it is to maintain the lies without the target's mind recognizing the inherent cognitive dissonance and waking themselves up from the propaganda (example from the recent debate: Biden saying in January "Trump's travel ban against China is xenophobic and racist" vs Biden saying in October "Trump didn't lock down soon enough").
Don't believe the polls too much, young Padawan. In 2016, the polls showed Trump behind by double-digits in many states that he would go on to win.
I feel a little bad for any Trump supporters who will be between 14 and 17 in this election cycle: they likely were first getting into politics while Trump was President (since elementary school students usually don't care too much about politics), but they'll never be able to vote for him. At best, they'll only be able to vote for whichever 2024 candidate gets Trump's endorsement.
At around 0:30 in the video, she steps back far enough for me to read the bottom word, Nutrishop, which brings me to their apparel shop. The specific logo on the shirt appears to be a match for their camo training shorts, so I suspect that the shirt was purchased from the same company. Since their products seem to appeal to a "pro-Americana" stance with American flags on their merch and multiple "military"-themed items and many different camo patterns, the shirt probably does say "United We Stand".
TL;DR: The shirt likely reads "United We Stand", and she's enough of a regular shopper at Nutrishop (a vitamin supplement store) to buy a shirt from them with their logo on it.
I thought it was 30-something years, and 8 years in the White House as the VP.
Either way, that's exactly 0 days of earning an honest living with a real-world job.
Question: anyone know what the MAGA woman's shirt says? It's hard enough reading the MAGA hat since the TikTok-style "live reaction" camera feed is flipped, but it's even tougher to see as she moves around due to her long hair, her big (beautiful) curves, and the bottom of the camera feed cutting off the bottom of her shirt as she moves closer to the camera.
It literally just loads a certain number of entries and gives up, always starting with the top-left-to-bottom-left portion of the map.
If you're willing to wait an eternity, you can slowly force the map to fill in by zooming down to the neighborhood level, telling it to search in THAT area, letting it load, and moving the map to the next blank space.
It largely depends on the specialization of the degree ("Creative Writing" and "Black Transgender Quadruple-Amputee Literature Studies" don't really require much knowledge of the language's technical syntax, while "Technical Writing" [manuals, textbooks, legal documents, etc.] and "Editing" usually require a fuller grasp of the language's intricacies), the size of the college (to an extent), and the amount of Marxist BS that has been shoved into the curriculum over the years by teachers and/or unions (the more time spent brainwashing students into believing Identity Politics, the less time spent teaching them how to actually read/write/understand English).
I had entire classes where we learned nothing BUT grammar, usage, syntax, and the like, all the way from elementary school through college (with the college textbooks even being usable as guides when rewriting actual technical documentation, such as legal documents, pamphlets, and instruction manuals). It varies for everyone.
It'll soon be four peace deals: Sudan is moving to normalize relations with Israel.
They say that when you share your problems/traumas with others, it helps you cope with them better than if you tried to keep them to yourself.