This movie honestly started as a Star Wars script. And if made in that universe, it would have made the sequel trilogy look good in comparison. Now it’s like Netflix ordered a new Star Wars movie from Wish.com.

Oh 100%. It’s what I mean when I say we can’t build up brick by brick when the country keeps getting bulldozed.

Student Loan forgiveness is a great example! But I feel abortion magically becoming a state issue is the best example since the Supreme Court made that decision despite established “stare decisis” doctrine, AND the fact that the last time we had a big disagreement about “states rights” it lead to a fucking Civil War. (According to the GOP that war was about states rights after all.)

I mean, these are all excellent policies. But I feel like they put the policy cart before the horse as they don’t address any of the major issues this country has been facing for decades.

Healthcare? Still worse from Trump. But sure people aren’t dying from rationing insulin they can’t afford.

Military Spending? Worth it to protect Ukraine, but why are we increasing an already inflated budget we can’t afford?

Minimum wage increasing for the first time in decades? How about student debt is forgiven for only the most vulnerable.

Public education? Higher education? Inflation? Job security? Voting rights? Abortion? Expanding the Supreme Court?

I’m not saying this administration hasn’t done good for this country. And I’m certainly not saying the alternative would be better.

What I’m saying is that this countries house is on fire and you want us to clap when all the Biden admin has done is turn on the garden hose.

Sure we’re “moving in the right direction” - but for the last 20 years the US keeps moving backwards much faster than it can move forward. Building this country back brick by brick doesn’t do much when it keeps getting bulldozed.

If the Biden admin wants people to vote for them in droves, pulling the corporate hand out of their ass to enact some immediate and much needed changes through executive orders would be a fucking slam dunk. We all watched as the previous administration used the “unitary executive” theory to pass a bunch of horseshit we all now have to deal with, but when it comes to actual progress this admin doesn’t want to take that path when it’s the only one that will lead to actual long term systemic change.

I think a better strategy is to run for office rather than vote. Because voting doesn’t do much if the available candidates are turncoats or shills. It should be educate, organize, and run. Otherwise we get more Scinemas running for raising minimum wage and not at all voting for it when it counts most.

Not to be pedantic, but neither Automatic Transmission Fluid nor Data Encryption Algorithms have any kind of jurisdiction in any country on the planet. Op provided enough context clues to understand the country they’re talking about.

The only crime they committed is not including three words in a bracket to say “everywhere (in the US)” while still mentioning the jurisdiction of the three letter agencies in that country.

Is it US centralism thinking? Sure. But it’s not like OP left out all the necessary info to determine where and what they were talking about. Not to mention their entire post is a joke with a clear punchline. I don’t think anyone here is too stupid to understand the use of “jurisdiction” in OPs message, or the punchline it leads to, so why are you pretending to be that way to make a point? It simply weakens your point.

Imo there are much better places and comments to point out US exceptionalism BS than a throw away joke with enough context clues to understand it.

I would honestly like to see a reference to whatever study you’re quoting. Because all the data I’ve looked at clearly shows the US getting hit harder by COVID than anywhere else.

We’re #1 in both infections and deaths. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1093256/novel-coronavirus-2019ncov-deaths-worldwide-by-country/

Over 100 million cases of it have been documented here, with over 1.1 million deaths. This also places us at the second highest of per capita deaths in the world under one country: Peru.

Our COVID death rate accounts for 1/6 of the total world deaths from COVID.

A nice mouse and keyboard. Especially for a gaming PC. There’s a few good mechanical keyboards you can get for under $100 too. HyperX isn’t bad, and has a nice price point on their mouse and keyboards imo. (Though they were bought by HP last year, so who knows about the future quality of the brand)

OR a nice headset if you don’t have one yet.