it’s easier to win elections with shitty candidates if you’re not worried about the opponent winning.

gerrymandering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky's_congressional_districts

you’re completely ignoring that a large portion of our populace are racist rednecks who fanatically support a guy like trump. it’s not just a systemic issue, we are a highly polarized nation and overthrowing the government won’t change that, it’ll only make it worse.

“no reason”? if the alternative to a hand or arm amputation is death, yeah, i’m gonna choose a hand amputation.

that’s what our alternative is in your analogy. remember the US is highly polarized right now, so one (sane) group taking over the US govt is likely impossible, and even if successful would end up in a massive civil war. that would not only destroy life in the US for the foreseeable future, but the entire global economy and geopolitical equilibrium.

blame is irrelevant. what is relevant is choosing who you think will handle it best (or less bad) in the next 4 years. if you think that’s trump, you’re delusional. if you think trump would have handled the last 11 months better, you’re delusional.

that’s not true. see the very first charts here and here.

also, Trump didn’t HAVE to send much aid to israel because 2017-2020 just happened to be a relatively peaceful time with israel/palestine, unlike Obama’s and Biden’s terms.

Trump:

• moved the American embassy to Jerusalem
• has never once uttered the words “cease fire”, only called for Israel’s “victory”
• as far as experts are aware, Trump has never expressed any concern over humanitarian aid in Gaza
• reversed US’s position on Israeli settlements in Palestine, which Biden has again reversed to the original position in accordance with international law

while kamala is getting hit on this issue, it’s important for people to keep in mind (or learn if they didn’t know) that Trump has historically been a fanatic supporter of israel and netanyahu. way beyond any other president, D or R.

the man demonstrated integrity by not giving in to pressure. if he never cared about corruption he would have just said fuck it and let all the offenders off like his peers asked him to. then yes, after all that he filed suit for retaliation, as he should have.

I wouldn’t even say it’s half finished, it’s just a fundamentally flawed game design. I too am a huge Bethesda fan but their implementation of an open “worlds” space RPG is just awful and there’s nothing that can be done to fix it without making a whole new game.

so what else was he supposed to do?

do you want all the decent cops to quit?

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Forza 3 was peak racing in my world. Forza 4 killed my interest in the genre.

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I’ll preface this by saying I pirate everything and don’t fuck with streaming. But for those who don’t, isn’t the best practice just to rotate a service or two a a time? Do you really need to sub to every service perpetually?

Streaming is getting shittier for sure, but even at its worst right now it’s still a lot better than cable ever was. Packages/services are more granular to choose from, signup and cancel on a monthly basis, no customer service rep hell bent on not letting you leave, and no hardware to install/rent/return.

Yeah i have a soft spot for RT but i agree it’s not as good as i thought 20 years ago. I much prefer Moonrise Kingdom and Grand Budapest these days.

OP joined 54 minutes ago. smells like a troll farm.

he was so sure he had an argument winner with Maduro sending his criminals to the US, he couldn’t let it go.

better practical compatibility for sure. Of course not literally the entire back catalog of old legacy smartphone apps are still supported but probably like 99.999% of apps people still use are supported on 99.999% of phones people use. 32-bit app devs have had 10 years to update to 64 bit, and most managed it within the first couple. Also the kind of major compatibility jump as with 32bit>64bit should be fairly infrequent, not like every console hardware generation.

compare that to game consoles where the last gen could be cut off from new games at any given time, and next gen is a crapshoot whether the manufacturer will support backwards compatibility.