in Guatemala, the spicy rice tamales are probably my favorite thing here.

but today I’m getting the chipilin tamales, which have little leaves mixed into the dough and are also real good.

a lot of them understand the concept of airfoils also, but holding a random concept in your head doesn’t prevent them from driving home drunk.

exactly. when I grew up with it, I was like oh five beers? you can function all right because that was the culture.

and now when I visit the states I’m like oh these people are all driving home drunk, every person I know and many I don’t are driving home impaired to a dangerous degree.

many Americans don’t really worry about driving drunk. it is weird going back to visit, having beers with people and then everybody drives home drunk.

from concerts, from the bars, from restaurants, from bowling alleys, driving impaired is pretty normal there.

like you say, there’s no public transport to get them home.

chiillllll. things would slow down a lot, but be efficiently run. interesting podcasts.

blue

what is the second guy referencing? was there a specific incident?

I’ve done a beer fast for several days before, pretty good stuff.

you are incorrect.

you are naively believing in the conservative idea that civil rights are the same thing as a " culture war".

if the blue people were in charge, then women would have autonomy over their own bodies, trans people would be in the military, and most Supreme Court decisions that led to the salient problems in you in society would not have passed. those those issues are due to the red people organizing and successfully executing a coup over several decades.

any oligarchy is and has always been a problem, but there is an irrefutable and polemic difference between having conservative extremists in charge and The Democratic party in power in the US.

You are pretending otherwise(or have blindly swallowed the conservative drivel about a culture war) so that you don’t have to address the real problems around you.

it is red versus blue, don’t kid yourself.

*by protesting

Thank you for agreeing with me and providing the sources you’re asking for.

I don’t get what you’re trying to do here.

i see you’re just making things up here:

“they don’t care about random US citizens being scared, that doesn’t help them combat the US military, and they didn’t want the US to be in their country so why would they want to be chased?”

but again I’m not really sure what you’re after.

Good luck.

“Quite literally the opposite”

nope.

“the real way to change things is through actual political movement…”

bizarre that so many of you professed “naysayers” use total agreement with my original as some means of argument.

i’ll take it anyway. I think that’s all of you now that’s come around too admitting that protesting works.

“the ruling class has convinced you that protesting is effective because they know it isn’t.”

All this shows is that you’ve been brainwashed, you literally don’t believe historical fact, widely accepted widely documented historical fact.

you needed deprogramming, that’s just a remnant.

you’re welcome, I guess my deprogramming of you worked pretty well.

“I’m the one ignoring reality”

You’re not ignoring it, you’re afraid of it and are hiding from it to avoid personal responsibility.

“Good luck with your protesting, I wish it was that easy”

literally already changing the face of the nation by judicial injunction.

luck has nothing to do with it.

“… you’ll want the last word again…”

not how last words work.

again, this 100% agrees with my thesis that protests are effective, your pretense of argument is nonsensical.

thank you for proving me right again, and if you want to pretend that proving me correct somehow benefits you, go for it.

“Believe the narrative you were told”

that is literally what you are doing.

“That’s the very definition of being gaslit.”

Yes, you have successfully been gaslit by the people you are so afraid of.

you believe that protests are useless and activism is passivism, which is what you are exhibiting.

your head’s on backwards.

“When you’re ready to make a real change, let me know.”

your head is in the sand, you are literally advocating for giving up your civil rights, you aren’t helping anyone and there is nothing you can do to help.

All you’re doing is crying about how nothing can change because you don’t know how to change it.

“…millennia of data imply otherwise”

If you don’t believe in the civil Rights movement or literally the founding of the US having occurred, there’s not much that’s going to convince you.

You believe the stories that the puppet masters you’re so afraid of have told you.

rebellions, protests, change history constantly.

you can literally read any history book and find this out, especially in modern democratic societies.

in fact, I defy you to find a single history book that says rebellions don’t change history.

“…may seem defeatist to you…”

there’s no 'may seem" about it, you’re advocating for hiding and not doing anything because you, contrary to fact, don’t believe that the rights you have today are the result oh organized rebellion.

because the people you perceive as above you told you that resistance is futile, you are squawking out that same message.

You are parroting the empty words of those you fear, exhorting protesters to do what your masters tell them to.

you are definitively defeatist, full stop.

“Better to accept this now and get through the disillusionment so that you can effectively resist into the future.”

absurd.

this is not the same as Hitler’s rise to power, because Hitler already did it and civilians, lawyers and judges in the US are fighting against it.

You are parroting those ignorant parties you perceive as more authoritative than you.

If this authoritarian coup works, part of their victory will directly be your fault for expressing these false sentiments and encouraging others to stop protesting.

“I absolutely hope that I’m wrong…”

you are unequivocally, factually and historically wrong.

The very fact that you’re able to express your cowardly sentiments and I am able to express my practical encouragement are proof that protests work.

The US was literally successfully founded on protests.

“…don’t make that hope very great.”

what is happening in the world has zero effect on hope, your attitude and actions determine your hope.

you are nervously crawling down the path of least resistance, which is apparently tearing down the principles and people who gave you your rights and liberty today.

Full excused absences for protesters is a very powerful action in itself.

Keep it up with that “nonsense”, haha.

It’s pretty easy for me to believe in facts, so…sure.

those are the facts, Jack.

If you want to play, make believy and not believe in history, that’s your fountain to splash around in.

I think as many as are able should join the ongoing protests, but fortunately what you are hoping for is already happening, and every person that supports 50501 or BLM or lgbtq or any protests in their area is helping.

The protests are being covered and the more people that protest, the more coverage those protests will get.