Except that what we are living through isn’t the collapse of the Roman Empire. It’s the Birth of the Roman Empire and the collapse of the Roman Republic.

Counterargument: the leadership change is well thought out, but the economic part isn’t at all. The US system is built on consumption => the first thing people cut back under existential duress is consumption. I still don’t see a well hashed out plan on replacing consumption with something else to drive the economy. Of course the US could go and start annexing new territories to maintain “growth” but I suspect it isn’t really a sustainable approach, and thus far they just let trump talk shit about it as a tool of distraction rather than a concrete plan.

TL;DR: empires need to have viable economies. The US isn’t ready to switch away from a consumer society, and scared people don’t consume.

Ok, apparently i missed the placement of the mandatory /s

Because in one case Epstein decides himself to be dead.

I guess the difference is consent. Something his victims didn’t get to provide either.

I used to watch his show 2018-2020, but I put in on my never-watch list after he invited a bunch of antivaxx “researchers”, who were low-level PhDs (meaning recent grads, who left academia/research for blogging[!]), and said stupid things. Also, in general BM’s takes on medical issues tend to be highly misinformed, bordering the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Maher being the aging narcissist cliché, always reminded me of some of my high school teachers and some of my med school profs when they bashed my generation [they raised] for being dumb and lazy. It takes a narcissist to not realize that dissing a generation raised by yours is always self-criticism. BM is even more pathetic about this because he both manages to diss millennials (and now GenZ) about being terminally on-line, and consistently make all his young generation bad references from Twitter.

It’s nice and all, but Dems still haven’t learned the lesson. You can only capture the republican voter with raw emotions. This is 100% worthless if it doesn’t elicit raw anger from those voters, and as we’ve learned it doesn’t. It’s stuff they experience and get frustrated by daily, like healthcare uncertainty => Dems promise expanded access <= Reps will cancel it out by claiming “illegals” will benefit from it.

The grocery prices thing was a good rep strategy to rile people up because most shop for groceries at least weekly so you can remind them how pissed they are every week. same thing applies to paying at the gas station. Dems need to find something similar and pound it in. Good luck with that.

heir phones. Like phone on their head, not with the fancy bordcomputer. And because they are always on their phone, they can’t use turn signals. And even that aside, most tesla drivers seem to have a lot of trouble driving.

the tesl driver demographic really changed since musky started coming out as racist

Bill Maher is pretty damn conservative tbh

nah, he’s just an aging narcissist cunt

This is called ‘stochastic terrorism’.

It’s carefully timed and targeted, thus no longer “stochastic”

Hazard warning lights - button

https://youtu.be/Vk3d-gHdhrE?t=30

It might be a push button, but it’s literally in the worst location I’ve ever seen it in a car.

A headline without calling it an “Artificial Sun”?!