Nah, Americans are responsible for their government. Just like Germans were responsible for Hitler. Americans could take to the streets and shut down the country.

* champing

I refer to them as G.P. This is a somewhat inside joke for those who were in Ontario and watched Tales of the Riverbank on TVO (aka Hammy Hamster) in the 1960’s and 70’s. Hammy’s friend G.P. was a guinea pig. They’d get up to all sorts of adventures. It wasn’t a cartoon, but filming of real animals in sets with models and with voice dubbing, and a narrator. They obviously put food down where they wanted the animals to go, and I’m pretty sure they glued the paws to steering wheels and the like sometimes. There was also Martha Mouse, who was clearly a white rat. One time the animals … oh, but that’s another story. (That’s how the episodes ended and it was fucking annoying).

And the time savings is big too. On the very occasional time my wife puts on makeup to go out, it means I know we’re going to be late.

Are you high?

The brain is just a different machine.

And of course digital systems can emulate analogue systems.

Not that that’s a prerequisite for intelligence.

IQ is just a measure of pattern recognition. An AI can do that well. Our brains are just like computer, with neurons instead of matrices. Our brains are just way more complex. It’s hard to define intelligence.

“contracting my representatives”- is that like bribing? ;-)

Ok. But how does it help if we let repuvlblicans win because the democrats aren’t good enough? Then we get republicans making things worse for us, blocking any resistance more aggressively, and signaling that we’re ok with a quick fascist takeover.

You know the answer.

Not sure. What have you done to start it?

Maybe it won’t save us, but voting the lesser of two evils will reduce the immediate damage. Better to have someone adjusting the deck chairs than stabbing people and throwing them into the water.
And we can push in other angles of reform at the same time.

Either you work with the current ‘legal’ democratic system, and vote for the lesser of two evils, and then work within the system to push for what you want with media, lobbying and peaceful protests; or you go with some sort of violent illegal acts - which will probably just get you in jail. If you don’t vote for the better candidate who can win, and just sit on your arse complaining, you won’t get much respect.

Impeachment itself means nothing. But they can open investigations into all sorts of stuff under the guise of impeachment preparation. They can bring everything to light and leak it all to the press. Done correctly, the whole first family can be dragged through the gutters forever.

Most of the mental institutions then were horrible places and needed to be shut down. The big problem is they weren’t replaced with anything.

Sure, we should cut down on the CO₂, NO_x, CO, SO_x and trace jet fuel being emitted by jet planes.

Kinda. You seem to be arguing that one can’t be racist against whites because white isn’t a race. Do you think that holds that one can’t be racist against blacks because black isn’t a race?

‘Black’ isn’t a race either.

Super glad we got the pro Israel orange moron instead. /s

Why? These are known useful features of the car. The guy changing the settings remotely is the criminal and she was too ignorant to disable his account. It’s like if you give your house keys to your stalker and find them illegally in your house then trying to sue the lock maker.

America was basically founded on genocide.