If you piss off enough people, gerrymandering stops mattering.

It would be plastic for a very long time, but the cup wouldn’t likely survive very long. It would get ground down to plastic dust to be ingested within a few years unless it was in a particularly stable area.

People aren’t taught what tariffs are actually for anymore. They’re meant to protect local industry by artificially increasing foreign goods; not to decrease prices. Unfortunately, it’s not going to do us much good since the damage to our local industry has already been done.

Not yet.

Information not being private isn’t the same thing as information being public.

I’m not sure that is a realistic expectation these days.

Up until then, war has been kind of a game. Gentlemen gathering the peasants to poke each other with sharp and/or pointy sticks until the food ran out. Then they’d swap some land, maybe a political marriage or two, then go home to tell stories of how courageous they were.

They weren’t ready for the horrors that technology would bring them.

It was fascinating in 2008 watching a FOX anchor arguing with their in-house analysts when they called Ohio for Obama. He was arguing that the votes would start shifting to McCain just like they did for Bush in 2004. Sure enough, the same glitch happened, but the vote ratio didn’t change.

He started getting frantic after that, sure that the votes would start going for McCain any minute. It was super obvious he knew about what actually happened in 2004.

Interestingly, “Anonymous” claimed to have blocked the hack saving the election; which is both nonsense and probably technically true at the same time.

It’s not half of America, it’s half of half of eligible voters, and even some of them were holding their nose to do it.

If the DNC was even remotely capable of caring about everyday people they could have easily won. They need to crawl out of the corporate pockets they’ve been living in and actually try to fix things if they don’t want to go the way of the Whigs.