Don’t be so dismissive. Many still remember Obama quite well. It just happens to be the people that hated him the most

When have I ever worshiped those slave owners?

Also very weird take. The revolution was started by the wealthy. It wasn’t some grassroots rebellion. It was backed by the authority of the individual colonial governments. So each state’s colonial government joined in to rebel. That’s a lot different than expecting some protesters to start a sustained rebellion.

To be clear my previous comment wasn’t talking about The American Revolution. It was talking about the general concept of revolutions. Historically they can work, but as I explained that’s a lofty thing to expect an individual to start

I’m not saying revolution doesn’t work, historically it does. But your judgement is not very practical. If you act as an individual you get arrested for terrorism and the state charges you with the death penalty. You riot the state brings in the riot police to bash your face in. You truly revolt and they bring in the tanks and declare martial law. Martial law would greatly benefit the current administration.

I don’t know how to get around these obstacles, and I suspect neither do you. I have a whole hell of a lot more respect for those that leave their homes to protest injustice than those that stay at home and do nothing other than critize people for trying. I don’t see you volunteering to fire the first shot in either my country or yours. So until you are ready to take that leap maybe don’t critize those trying to do something. Or come up with a criticism more constructive than “why don’t you just commit crimes and risk everything including your life”. That’s a lot to ask of anyone

Very eloquent point

Funny how every state that succeeded listed defending the institution of slavery as a reason for leaving the union and subsequently joining the confederacy.

I think the most accurate statement is the Confederate states left the Union to preserve the institution of slavery. The Union originally only sought to bring back the Confederate states and end the open rebellion. Lincoln was much more interested in restoring the Union than ending slavery, and in the early part of the war would have absolutely allowed slavery to continue if it meant ending the rebellion. Thus, restoring all states to the United States. However, as the war progressed it became clear there would be no easy resolution. Through the Emancipation Proclamation he was able to break the power behind southern production, the slaves, and push forward abolition. A cause he personally was always favorable towards, but unwilling to sacrifice the Union for.

Funny, because I’ve been seeing some of the largest protests my city has seen in 20+ years

No reason to reconfigure anything. They have droves of people willingly agreeing to and gobbling this shit up. Our society is fundamentally broken

I had an account for over 12 years, they even offered me the opportunity to buy stock prior to launch for being a “power user”.

Too bad I like luigi, and here I am

This would have been legal forever, kind of a stretch to say it was a Nazi state while defeating the Nazis.

Now I won’t disagreee with you, but they’re irrelevant to the free speech stuff

Many skip voting because they perceive that their state will always vote for the opposite canidate.

It’s a big flaw with the electoral college. It should just be a popular vote

That depends on your country. In Germany singing this song on the street would be illegal.

In the USA where Kanye lives and produced this song it is perfectly legal to sing in the streets.

So you’re ranting about what exactly? Kanye has faced no repercussions from the government. The only thing that’s happened was backlash from fans and private entities not hosting his songs.

Still trying to find the “attack on free speech” you ranted about

I don’t know why this has to keep being repeated. It’s not hard.

Free speech does not mean you are entitled to have a private entity like a website host your content or speech.

He is welcome to sing this on the streets. He is welcome to publish this himself, be it hosted by a website he creates or in a physical medium.

He is not entitled to it being placed on retail shelves. He is not entitled to have it hosted on YouTube or Spotify.

This isn’t hard. The government of the United States has made absolutely no moves to silence this song. He can sing it and personally distribute it as much as he wants. But no one can be forced to distribute it for him

And the free use state of florida will continue to spread wide open and take whatever is given

And to the police that showed up to arrest their neighbors and enable ICE I hope hell is real because you deserve worse

And the mayor had the audacity to say they don’t agree with what ICE did.

That’s great, but maybe get your police force to stop enabling their actions.

I think they would have won if they did. That was the number one complaint I heard from swing voters I know. They were upset that Harris was appointed to run and felt it was undemocratic.

Of course they voted for the fascist or abstained from voting so the fascist could win. Not the brightest bunch. Sure you have a reasonable point with primary, but it really didn’t make Trump a good choice all of a sudden.

Right, but the anthropologist in me does have issues with that kind of data as applied to the US.

Living standards have not been significantly lower in any way to those countries, but we’ve experienced a sharp downturn in birthrates in the past 5 years. We were a 1st world nation by any measure for the past 100+ years, but our rates remained well above replacement levels.

So what is the cause for the downturn now for the US? I don’t believe that can be explained with Finland’s or Canada’s historical birth rates.

Yes that does tend to be the trend, but there’s also cultural effects on that as well. If we made more I would have kids, and speaking to my colleagues many of them would also want kids. But they can’t afford to live.

There of course can be more than one cause for a trend, and I accept this is anecdotal.

Honestly this is super common in many urban settings across the world. I think why this seems so unreasonable from the American perspective US due to the lack of public spaces/infrastructure/services.

Having a private lot seems less of a big deal when there are accessible spaces and easy ways to travel around town.

Like I get it, I also want a yard, but if I had an easy way to access other things and a safe place to recreate it would be less of a desire