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  • tldr: there is the electoral system.

    governments change because of who leads/ represents the people in their governments.

    in the US, “the people” have little to no understanding of their government(there have been studies about this for the last 60 years), and because conservatives campaign on emotional bigotry, which is immediately hard-hitting and compelling versus waiting 2 years to receive a tax decrease(which works, but takes 2 years), undereducated and unsupported American citizens have been put into increasingly untenable situations where they are struggling to survive while working themselves to the bone and receiving lower compensation, and if an emergency arises, they are denied basic services.

    when you have no other options to support yourself, murder becomes an option, since nothing else has worked and they are provided with no other options they are comfortable with.

    there are some civil services, and the government can always change, regardless of what popular opinion fashions, but right now in the US you have a couple hundred million people desperate to survive in a country that provided survival wages, and now that they have reelected Trump and he’s already before even taking the White House began turning against unions and civil rights, those wages will probably lower again, living cost increasing and civil benefits decreasing.

    out of 200 million desperate people, some of them are willing to take the most drastic measure because maybe it’ll make a difference, who knows.

    i mean, lots of people know, but most Americans have been clinging to the edge of a cliff by their fingertips for years or decades, so they don’t have the perspective that others may.









  • Varyk@sh.itjust.workstoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldAre the Jedi assholes?
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    yea, the jedi were ideological conservatives.

    and that meme where Qui-Gon jinn brings back both Anakin and his mom instead of just Anakin?

    is a very legitimate point.

    the Jedi council chose to keep a jedi’s mother in slavery instead of reuniting their family, freedom which would have come at a truly insignificant cost to the council.




  • when people ask me how Trump won, I explain that Americans care so little about women as a group that they’re letting them die in front of hospitals rather than allowing them to have health care.

    “allowing” them.

    so the party hoping to elect a woman president is at an extreme disadvantage.

    I also think domestic and international election interference election interference plays a much more significant role in American elections than people think and in hindsight and future history textbooks, people will be shaking their heads, not just at the electoral college, but at direct election interference securing Republican victories.

    people don’t think election interference is important because we hear the word gerrymander or social media bias or “Russian troll farms” and since they’re omnipresent, they’re dismissed, although they have direct practical influence on campaigns and election processes.


  • I’ve learned many languages from many sources, and rosetta stone is the fastest and the most comprehensive.

    you can move at your own pace, they have audio, written and reading positive reinforcement, speaking exercises, it’s pretty fun overall, and extremely practical and encouraging.

    it is also by far the most premium experience, nothing else comes close.

    you can tell the devs and linguists put a lot of work into developing the course and it really shows when I compare it to any other app or program I’ve used.

    Spanish was one of the first languages I learned, and I used Rosetta stone for it and can testify that spanish in particular is fantastic, although I haven’t really come across a Rosetta stone course that isn’t highly effective.

    for when you’re walking around or you don’t have a lot of time to sit at a computer, pimsleur audio courses are the best runner-up

    they’re amazing for training your ear to acknowledge foreign languages and feel comfortable with unfamiliar cadences and speeds.

    either one will help you get used to the language, but you will learn more words and phrases quicker with Rosetta stone; it’s the best language program out there.