Unless you have a plan already in motion that will institute STAR voting and fully educate the public on it in the next 12 days, you get to shut up until after Kamala has won.

Oprah hosted some absolute dumbfucks (McCarthy, Dr. Oz, Dr. Phill, take your pick!) to fill air time and now a virus that could have cleared the country within the span of a month has taken over a million lives in the US alone and is still chugging 4 years later.

NO I'M NOT ESPECIALLY WANTING TO SCREAM IN HER GIFT TAX WHITE ELEPHANT GIVING FACE BECAUSE I'M DEALING WITH MY SECOND ROUND OF THE STUFF IN LESS THAN A YEAR AND HAVING TO POSTPONE A BIRTHDAY BASH FOR ALL MY AUGUST BABY FRIENDS BECAUSE OF IT! WHAT COULD EVER GIVE YOU SUCH A WEIRDLY SPECIFIC IDEA‽

He also wants to institute a fascist hellscape where the Klan are officially recognized morality police.

Vote.

Third World is an outdated term to refer to neutral countries in the cold war.

Unless there was a sudden dramatic shift in US geopolitical policy it would literally be impossible for it to be considered third world, as the very definition of third world as the definition inherently implies that the country in question is not allied with the US and the broader Western World.

Austria and Switzerland were third world, technically Yugoslavia was too. China became third world for a decent stretch after the sino-soviet split since the other half of the definition relies on not being allied with the Soviets in particular.

The use of third world as an insult for poor countries is a neo-colonial mindset that just takes for granted that anyone who isn't an outright ally of the west or of the Russians must just be too poor to be worth considering as anything but uneducated people in dirt houses living subsistence lifestyles and who's main interaction with an apparatus of state is occasionally seeing a humvee loaded up with the child soldiers of this warlord or that drive by.

This is why I caution what people should expect when imagining a second civil war.

It's not going to be formed lines of men in pitched battles.

It's going to be warlords engaging in terror tactics with the fronts emerging along urban rural divides as opposed to state lines.

This won't be the battle of Gettysburg, it'll be the Troubles with rigged quad copter drones instead of car bombs.

Depending on who wins this election the US military isn't going to be either "side"'s ally, in fact they'll probably be the fighting parties' worst enemy since their goal is basically just going to be to kill all the people taking up arms until the terrorists and counter-terrorist terrorists knock it all off.

It'll probably lead to a purge of the most extreme folks in politics, as they'll either be found in cahoots with the terror cells covertly, or actively be leading one or more of them out of a misplaced sense that they'll be able to parry it into running the country.

It won't be glorious, it won't be honorable, it won't be anything for people to be proud of. It will just be bloody and then deeply regretted by all but the most unrepentant cretins, who still won't be able to publicly express that sentiment or risk ostracism at best, and lynching if they are discovered to have had a hand in ruining everyone's lives for however long it goes on for.

"It's just a couple of bad apples!"

"And that's enough to spoil the bunch."

Looks like they're getting ready for whatever play they intend to make against the gangs and are trying to keep exacts on the hush hush to avoid the gangs being able to make preparations.

They're called gangs in print but it's worth remembering that these organizations have military training and equipment at their disposal far exceeding what you'd picture when someone says the word "gang", at this point it'd be more accurate to consider them warlord bands.

I'm usually against tariffs but in this case it seems like a pretty fair tit for tat to China basically removing the budgetary concerns for their manufacturers that said manufacturer's international counterparts won't have.

Subsidizing local production for local markets is fine enough, but exporting products made with an infinite money glitch active is more or less an intentional play at market capture.

And before some sinoboo tries to gatcha me I do also object to examples where the west subsidizes domestic production for international markets.

Performance anxiety is perfectly natural, that's when you put your hands and mouth to work.

This feels dangerously close to some EnlightenedCentrism nonse

"But if you call it a genocide you're an antisemite."

-AIPAC

Now ban non hotel licensed entities from renting living spaces for less than a month

Fuck that Air BnB shit