Dragonstaff

I'm not terribly bright, but I've never understood the original statement.

If I bash my right hand on a typewriter an infinite number of times, that will never turn into the complete works of Shakespeare. If we assume a monkey will enter one random letter at a time, that probably would, but that is a big assumption that a monkey would be actually random.

the person has to be able to fill out and sign it themselves.

This. If she voted, but it is postmarked after her death, it will probably be flagged, however, you haven't broken the law.

This is exactly what America is and always has been.

That's not an argument that being filmed at a polling place is dangerous.

Austin Powers was a war criminal!

I'm sure this guy operated his bulldozer with all of the due care and concern for innocent human life as the IDF bombing campaign that by their own reports have killed twice as many civilians as militants.

Both major parties and most US citizens absolutely condone this shit.

I went to private religious schools until my second year of college. None had the 10 commandments posted anywhere. I know we're all in agreement that this is a severe violation of the first amendment. As a Christian I hate that these idiots are using my faith as a cudgel (as has happened far too often).

But also, this is incredibly tacky.

I'm not sure a good argument can be made. Being at a polling place doesn't say who you're voting for. I don't see the danger.

Having two different realities is not good. I'm not sure what is to be done about it though. Some people will always choose to believe the easy lie over the difficult truth.

Ignoring Fox and the crazies for a moment, how often have mainstream networks given equal time to climate change deniers and actual scientists, pretending there was a debate where there wasn't one.

I want to push back a little on "we all agreed on what was and what was not reality." When there were three TV stations, did any of them highlight police brutality? Overincarceration? The military industrial complex? Anything that would hurt their sponsor's bottom lines?

The news networks we have today are all owned by large media conglomerates. They range from pro-corporate to pro-fascist. I'm glad that there are enough independent voices that we can hear from people who don't profit off of the status quo. It's unfortunate that right wing media is so prevalent and well funded, but if there is an answer to that, it's not going back to the days when Walter Cronkite, CBS, and Gulf+Western would tell us "That's the way it is".

I can't respect conservatives because lying is their first go to on any issue. Instead of trying to convince people that their plans are good, they just lie about their plans. (Which is unsurprising, because their plans have been proven not to work.)