I mean, it probably would’ve been ideal then but as usual, America was recovering from/embroiled in the last Conservative disasters (financial crisis, Afghanistan/Iraq.) And Obama had just burned a lot of political capital giving people healthcare.

My regular stream site started having issues tonight, so this was kind of miraculous timing! Hopefully one of these works!

Awesome, much appreciated!

Fair enough! Thanks!

So say I’m dumb and don’t know how to find a fork like that…

I cancelled prime when they first introduced ads. But the delivery fees without prime, damn. I think I’d pirate shows if I got prime but I’m pretty sure that just makes them think they should invest in fewer shows. And damned if, pre ads, prime didn’t have a lot of my favourites (boys, invincible, end of the expanse etc.)

What a ramble. I’m just torn.

Yeah, you might want to look into current Catholic doctrine:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_homosexuality#:~:text=The Church teaches that same,%2C compassion%2C and sensitivity".

Youngling, she’s a hard Catholic. If you can’t imagine why a lifestyle would offend a hard Catholic, well, that’s on you.

Afd just won a third of the vote.

You would like control of some industry ti maybe just go the far right?

Okay, would you rather the Germans who voted AFD? Or the rise of the French National Party? Or Fidesz in Hungary? Or PPV in Denmark?

Shit, you’d better tell that to my aunt who told me how my lifestyle hurts her.

Half of America wants to vote for trump and you want to trust in random people? That seems like a wild leap of faith.

In theory, democracy produces satisfactory outcomes…

Or, as has happened in capitalism, people will find ways to bend the system to benefit themselves. Except this time without boards so much as bribable officials and whatnot.

But it’s not like companies or business entities won’t have folks in charge of them under communism… Someone has to run the whatevers…

This is what I always find amusing about the Communist argument.

Like, the elected politicians and bureaucracy can’t be trusted enough to regulate industry under capitalism so we’ll centralize things and then trust them to regulate industry under Communism?

Edit: whoof, should’ve thought about human nature when I dared to criticize communism. Almost lime there is another lesson somehwere there.

so, it’s the goddamn weekend. How does everyone have so much free time this late on a Saturday? I’ll do my best to get back to y’all on a dirty capitalist’s time slot.

30 years seems reasonable. On an unrelated note, Audrey Hepburn died 31 years ago.

MerXNT Dad, I’m a MerXNT!

Red, easily.

Yeah, some childhood stuff would suck but you could probably skip a good few grades. As you already (hopefully) know how to socialize by now, a lot of the childhood friend stuff seems pretty optional.

Dating would be really tricky through the early teenage years as I don’t know how I’d feel about girls my own physical age at that point.

Because I’m relatively older and would have insane future knowledge, I could absolutely rock in stocks and have enough money to actually effect change. (Eg, singelhandedly fund a massive Democrat turnout machine in the rustbelt for 2016.)

The hard part would be somehow connecting with my current group of friends whom I love to death and wouldn’t want to lose. They are the only thing that makes the blue pill tempting.

“But I read a book written by one of the few people who were privileged enough to read and write, and things didn’t seem so bad!”