HelixDab2

If he's still alive, not in prison, and capable of doing more than drooling? Of course he will run again. He has way too much power with the people that vote in Republican primaries; politicians that don't give him lip services don't survive primary runs. And, in turn, that's infected the whole party.

"The most educated presidential candidate in history"...? Really? Are you forgetting Ben Carson then? Or is she the 'most educated' because of her undergrad work? (Oh, wait, almost everyone does undergrad work before they go to medical school.) Did you forget that Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar? Or that Barack Obama was a law professor as well as being a civil rights attorney and specializing in constitutional law?

Given that Stein's own campaign has said they can't win, but that they can prevent Harris from winning, it's pretty clear that she knows exactly what she's doing. The only 3rd party candidate that has had a snowball's chance in hell of winning in the last 75 years has been H. Ross Perot.

I am a native English speaker though...

...And how old are your young nieces, exactly? Because my bet is that they're around 13-16, which is riiiiiiiiiiiiight about the age where I would expect kids to start being really interested in sex.

It's so weird to me that people entirely forget what they were like when they were young, and get so puritanical as adults. I still remember what I was like when I first hit sexual awareness and interest as a child (and it was a lot younger than most people are comfortable admitting!), and that was, um, >30 years ago. Maybe it's just because we get deeply uncomfortable with idea of children having their own sexual life and desires in the US?

Real income is up. Gas prices relative to the value of the dollar are down. Employment is far, far higher than the last year of Trump being in office. Crime is down across the board, esp. violent crime. Inflation is back to the same levels that it was.

People complain about groceries being higher in price, which is true, but the real income has gone up faster than grocery prices. People say that they would rather see prices drop, without understanding that that's deflation, and that deflation is the start of a death-spiral for an economy.

People perceive things differently, but that isn't reflected in the reality.

Yeah, I'm not feeling a distinction in any of those in the way I speak. :/

Ether/either to me only sound different in the e/ei. Same with fox/vox and sip/zip (if someone just said the word itself, without context, I don't think I could tell which they were saying because the f and v sounds are also very close to each other in my ear).

The completely uninformed voter sees Trump on stage with Muslims

If that was True, then it would cost Trump far more states than it would win him, because there are more Jewish people in the US than Muslim people, and generally speaking Jewish people are more likely to stand with Israel than they are with the people of Palestine and Gaza. Unless you're trying to say that Muslim people are less likely to be informed than Jewish people, or people that oppose the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank?

It.. Really does not. Stein is def. hurting Greens more than helping. Everyone that actually pays attention to politics and policy closely can see exactly what's going on, and can see that Stein is working for Trump and Putin; that's at odds with what the party claims to stand for.

I did great in art school, because everything was working with my hands, and still required a high degree of thought/creativity. I did terribly when I was in school for engineering (prior to art school) because I just couldn't focus on calculus and physics, even though it shouldn't have been that difficult.

Oh, wow, nearly 200 elected officials out of 519,000 elected positions, that's, like, .04%. (Actually, slightly less.) How many of them are state-level legislators?

They need to do MUCH better before they start trying to field national level candidates.

As opposed to, what?, rooting for accelerationism? Trying to actually make things incrementally better isn't good enough, so burn the whole fucking thing down (but of course in your fantasy you survive...)?

Things were undeniably better under Biden than they were under Trump. Obama was better than Bush. we keep trying to improve shit, and y'all are insisting that breaking it all is better than continual improvement.

If they would actually do the work at the local level to get candidates elected in towns, counties, and states, then they might even be viable at a national level at some point. But if they won't put in the effort locally, then all they're doing is fucking over the rest of the country when they run nationally.