Hey now, it was slightly more than a third, not half!

Isn’t the implication that he’s saying Tesla will fail if America fails, not that America will fail if Tesla fails? He’s basically saying he has tied his fortunes to America’s future, not necessarily the other way around.

He steps down, then it’s Vance. If Vance steps down it’s Johnson. It doesn’t really get better from there.

I don’t recall Hegseth being any ballot I’ve used.

Not nobody, just not the 85 million people who decided to fall asleep on election day.

That’d be easy, wouldn’t it? That we could just find all the people with bad thoughts and stick them somewhere they can’t hurt anyone. Sadly the real world doesn’t work that way, were we can divide everything into “good people” and “bad people”.

Sometimes it’s as much, or more, about nurture as it is nature.

Crutches are useful tools. Do you advocate that someone who’s broken/sprained limbs to just suck it up and walk it off? That’s needlessly toxic.

Religion is not a solution, and I never said otherwise. I said it was a tool, nothing more or less. It’s effectiveness as a tool is questionable, I agree.

And of course, instead of solving underlying issues, we should just blame and ban surface level problems so that nothing ever changes.

Religion is just a tool, not a cause. The cause of all the problems you quote are ego and power-mongering. Those things twist anything they touch, not just religion.

The solution is not more vapid reactionism.

Hamas is an exploitation of reactions to evil.

Surprisingly enough, it doesn’t really stop them from trying, it only stops individual occurrences. And if the piece of metal only grazes, it often invigorates and galvanizes them

An additional note: for all the people who advocate this approach, very few have actually gone through with it. Perhaps it’d be more successful if all the people who advocate for it actually did it instead of trying to get other people to do it for them.

Start? You mean increase?

In what world isn’t Canada fighting back?

Which isn’t to say they shouldn’t, but they are pushing back to all the shit Trump is throwing at them. Just because they’re not launching missiles doesn’t mean they’re not fighting back.

… for now

Not as much as the US likes fucking itself over!

And people say theists are contentious…

Is this the new seven minutes to midnight? We’re 1.5% to asteroid.

Probably someone even worse.

“Trump’s plan”

As thought it’s not something he was whispering in Trump’s ear.

I mean, when the human element is literally not doing communism, yes, that would be a problem.

Tools do not have morality or ethics, only people do. Some people use tools in a morally and/or ethically questionable manner, either for profit or because it amuses them.