His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy.
There's horror in his head already, mom's spaghetti
Sergio
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Take a look at the movie "Threads" about the effects of a nuclear war. It's from back in the cold war, but a lot of it remains relevant:
Trump election win: They turned against Kamala Harris. They’re about to find out if it was worth it.
They didn’t lose the election for Harris.
Right... I don't think there are enough Arab- and Muslim-Americans in PA to swing it, and she needed that to win the election, even if she had won MI. I suspect it was her failed messaging on the economy that made the difference. But we don't have final numbers yet so it's hard to tell.
Trump election win: They turned against Kamala Harris. They’re about to find out if it was worth it.
The article is a lot more nuanced than the headline. Arab- and Muslim-Americans knew that neither candidate cared about them, and the article explains various ways that affected their thinking.
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Hmmm... "A Passage to India" takes place during the Raj (which is when the Crown took over from the East India Company) but a lot of the attitudes and issues are the same
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087892/
- the novel on Gutenberg: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/61221
Similarly, "Conduct Unbecoming" takes place right after the Crown takeover. But hey, it's free on youtube:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gzE8HkRrz0
- description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conduct_Unbecoming_(1975_film)
Finally, you could look here:
It's like calling tech support and having them say "works for me! try reading up on the problem" and hanging up.
Unpopular opinion: blaming the voters is counterproductive. It's important to understand why they voted (or abstained) the way they did.
Yes, some percentage of voters are indeed racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. But hypothetically, another percentage are people who were unhappy because of economic reasons and felt they were presented with two bad options:
- an unreliable candidate who acknowledged they were unhappy
- an unknown candidate who said they were wrong and should just be happy
Is this hypothesis correct? I don't know, but just assuming the voters are ignorant, or just saying that leopards will eat their faces, isn't productive.
Hmm... I've dealt with elderly relatives, and it can be hard to tell when someone's no longer capable of doing something... so I have a bit of sympathy for him there. It's possible that a year ago Biden was up to the job and really was the best chance at defeating Trump. And he gets credit for stepping down when he did. However I'm a little more skeptical of his sticking VP Harris with the job of solving the border crisis, which is a notoriously unsolvable problem.
I suspect that given 3 months to jump-start a campaign, NOBODY could have won this election against Trump. Biden was headed towards Dukakis and Mondale levels of defeat, and Harris at least brought it to a couple hundred thousand in 3 states. (I wish I could post my argument to "unpopular opinion", but apparently they prohibit political posts.)
The poachers just taught gorillas how to make traps. Now the gorillas are gonna go full Rambo on them.