Cosmic Cleric

From the article …

“Without these standards of decency and morality, this planet may rapidly descend into anarchy, never-ending wars, and barbarism.”

AKA, “the center will not hold”.

I want to live in the alternate timeline, with President Sanders.

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Costed insurance 28 thousand dollars for a procedure that normally costs a couple hundred at most (tooth pull).

Would a doctor do a tooth pull, or a dentist? I don’t think it’s a reasonable expectation to expect a doctor to pull a tooth, but instead a dentist would do so.

Also, one thing you have to realize is that they don’t look at the cost just at the atomic per incident level, but they look at it through the whole life of the customer/patient.

They play the odds, and they do literal risk management, when deciding how to spend money and when to spend money, specially for big money spending like operations.

So in your case it might have been a matter of a risk management decision, of the odds of you getting better without having to have the tooth pulled and spending the money to do so would be good, but you just got unlucky.

Cost money/time to cure people. Cheaper to just manage conditions.

I question whether you’ve ever actually participated in an election before.

Actually, I’ve voted in every election I was asked to.

The deck is stacked and the game is rigged.

First link is about someone on parole voting, when they can’t.

Second link is about someone who got caught when trying to do fraudulent voting activities.

The third link is a person with a prior felony conviction (that she pleaded guilty to), that is ineligible to seek office, trying to seek office/vote.

Those are three one-offs, in the margins. None of those prevent the system from working overall.

You’re grasping at straws.

Participate.

You don’t think if people stop just standing by the sidelines watching, but instead participate, specifically pushing back on their Representatives and their Senators, asking for change, that things wouldn’t change? At all?

Congress does what it does because we all sit on our asses and do nothing about it, except maybe go vote every once in awhile.

They have no respect for us, because they don’t see us as participating in the system, only companies that give them money are seen in their eyes to be participating.

“Democracy already failed.” is total bullshit, plain and simple, and it’s rhetoric that doesn’t help solve any problems.

Participate.

Americans don’t want to read the writing on the wall. Democracy already failed. We’ve simply refused to acknowledge we’re living in the rubble.

We’re not there yet, calm yourself. Your rhetoric doesn’t help.

Having said that, wake the fuck up people, participate.

why drop the nukes when they can just bomb the manufacturing hubs without incurring as much civilian death

That’s just it, they had been, for quite a while, but the Japanese would not capitulate.

So just bombing military targets with regular ordinance wasn’t enough. The type of bombing was a signal and a message in and of itself.

That to me seems like the same logic being used by the israelis to justify killing the Palestinians.

The difference though is the availability of precise targeting of the enemy versus the civilians.

Do you potentially end the lives of a million of your own drafted citizens just for more precise targeting of the enemy? One hell of a moral dilemma for any leader to decide.

Its never justified to go after the civilian population and non combatants.

Absolutely agree with this, and one of the reasons I’m upset personally with Israel right now is that they are fairly infamous for being able to precisely target their enemy when they want to, and hence what they’ve done in Gaza to the civilian population that had nothing to do with the conflict is just horrific.

Having said all that, there is a nuance in the two scenarios, they are not equal.

But to say that made it okay to drop two nukes instantly killing thousands of civilians is not okay in any case.

My understanding was they were actually attacking manufacturing for the war, it’s just that an atom bomb is not that discriminatory, and that all the military-only targets had already been bombed out of existence by that point.

Not saying it was right, just explaining it wasn’t as black-and-white as you express.

Everyone who is #ProudlyAsshole keeps ignoring and/or skipping over the fact that in these scenarios that are being discussed that we’re talking about publically shared resources that are in short supply, be it a table in a crowded restaurant, or a parking space at a huge complex.

It really is rude to hog a shared resource. Use it, then move on. Quickly.

But when conservatives have their own big, invasive, and professionalized hatchet men teams, there’s a legit fear among Democrats that they will be more likely on the receiving end.

Which is why the Democrats should have put someone else up for re-election, someone who can defend themself well.

(For the analogy: the octopus dies when their kids are hatching, would they have the ability to pass their knowledge along to them, today eight armed space suits would be en Vogue)

Thank you for sending me down that rabbit hole, it was a really interesting read, and I learned something new today.

From an article on the subject…

Octopuses are serious cannibals, so a biologically programmed death spiral may be a way to keep mothers from eating their young.

They also can grow pretty much indefinitely, so eliminating hungry adults keeps the octopus ecosystem from being dominated by a few massive, cranky, octopuses.