From the article …

“Without these standards of decency and morality, this planet may rapidly descend into anarchy, never-ending wars, and barbarism.”

AKA, “the center will not hold”.

I want to live in the alternate timeline, with President Sanders.

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I question whether you’ve ever actually participated in an election before.

Actually, I’ve voted in every election I was asked to.

The deck is stacked and the game is rigged.

First link is about someone on parole voting, when they can’t.

Second link is about someone who got caught when trying to do fraudulent voting activities.

The third link is a person with a prior felony conviction (that she pleaded guilty to), that is ineligible to seek office, trying to seek office/vote.

Those are three one-offs, in the margins. None of those prevent the system from working overall.

You’re grasping at straws.

Participate.

You don’t think if people stop just standing by the sidelines watching, but instead participate, specifically pushing back on their Representatives and their Senators, asking for change, that things wouldn’t change? At all?

Congress does what it does because we all sit on our asses and do nothing about it, except maybe go vote every once in awhile.

They have no respect for us, because they don’t see us as participating in the system, only companies that give them money are seen in their eyes to be participating.

“Democracy already failed.” is total bullshit, plain and simple, and it’s rhetoric that doesn’t help solve any problems.

Participate.

Americans don’t want to read the writing on the wall. Democracy already failed. We’ve simply refused to acknowledge we’re living in the rubble.

We’re not there yet, calm yourself. Your rhetoric doesn’t help.

Having said that, wake the fuck up people, participate.

Sounds hot.

You should see it in a bikini.

I sense a theme, when it comes to the sysadmins.

Its Ukrainian Russian conscripts press ganged into the meat grinder

FTFY

But when conservatives have their own big, invasive, and professionalized hatchet men teams, there’s a legit fear among Democrats that they will be more likely on the receiving end.

Which is why the Democrats should have put someone else up for re-election, someone who can defend themself well.

It shouldn’t take 20 panels to tell a joke.

Seems like it’s not telling a joke, but instead making a statement about Humanity.

(For the analogy: the octopus dies when their kids are hatching, would they have the ability to pass their knowledge along to them, today eight armed space suits would be en Vogue)

Thank you for sending me down that rabbit hole, it was a really interesting read, and I learned something new today.

From an article on the subject…

Octopuses are serious cannibals, so a biologically programmed death spiral may be a way to keep mothers from eating their young.

They also can grow pretty much indefinitely, so eliminating hungry adults keeps the octopus ecosystem from being dominated by a few massive, cranky, octopuses.