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@newman Might be astroturfed, but I still see plenty of lefties worshiping Fauci to this day in light of all the news. Even if it is all fake and gay support, it indicates that those shills want you to think he deserves support and praise.

The reactions from both sides of the aisle regarding Fauci tells us something very important. That is that hardly anyone has changed their opinion on him. Shills on the left still praise him while everyone on the right was already against him. No one who already knew of his bullshit has found out anything new, and those who praise him as a saint have no idea what people against him state as their reasons.

In the end, I see no evidence of "the people are waking up."

@Nils like every other country, El Salvador's birth rate has been in decline for decades. Looking at one data point and drawing a conclusion from that is not the way to think. Look at the rest of the surrounding countries and look at their birth rates.

If this is a troll post, fine. But in general, feminism is what causes birth rates to go down.

@Tfmonkey Anecdotal report on farming situation in my neck of the woods. Did a small road trip recently and in my area (where farming most certainly makes up most of the land use), and I did see almost every field having crops growing.

Not saying you are wrong about many farms not having planted crops, and maybe the effects you are describing will be delayed later. But at the very least, the fertilizer issues have not become much of a factor yet in my area.

@Wormwood But for real, I never believe anyone actually likes every genre of music. Some people think that they have a broad range of exposure to music because they listen to Top 40s radio and have friends with a few off-beat but not too far out muscial playlists.

No, there is a whole world of musical genres out there, and you will not like them all. It is fine not to like them all, but those who make that claim are either ignorant or lying.

@MCMLXVIIOTG @deprecated_ii I recall a bunch of boomer tier Facebook memes being presented as "proof" as well. It was insulting to everyone's intelligence to think that this would serve as any level of "interference" that had any influence on how people voted.

@MeBigbrain @jb no one, because the Redditor is fishing for a rationalization to explain away the fact that there is some fraudulence taking place. And if you are so hyped up about a movie that you would reserve tickets a year in advance, you would not just "forget about it."

@sickburnbro Moana is only 10 years old, ffs. There is no "fresh take" to be had with a live action version. Most of the live action movies have been shameless intellectually lazy cash grabs, but they at least can claim "It has been a long time, let's introduce a new version to a new generation!"

Back to the left, I understand that there are factions who despise the establishment Democrats because they think they don't go far enough left or simply think they are just right-wing lite. Funny how that happens for many on the right with Republicans doing the inverse of that.

I just want to know how much awareness others have, regardless of their politics. Having awareness will at least tell me if you do any thinking, even if I see your thinking as moronic.

I myself would not consider myself gleeful at his death, but I am also not sad about it either. I despise the world police foreign policy for the United States, and Donald Trump doing the bidding of Israel in his waste of an effort in Iran is unhelpful in almost every way for anyone here on the right (save for maybe the quicker trajectory of collapse by those in the accelerationist camp). So one less supporter of that policy is for the better.

I would not be shocked if many on the left are gleeful about the death of Lindsey Graham. But I have to wonder how many of these same people are aware of many on the right who also are gleeful about his death. The reasons for each would differ wildly, but it serves as a test for the left if they can understand that the right is just as fractured and cobbled together as the left is and that not every right winger is all about supporting spending trillions on foreign wars.

@ForbiddenDreamer @Shadowman311 Besides, individual states don't pay taxes, the people living in them do. And there are a number of factors from state to state that affect this metric. I mentioned farm subsidies, but also places with more federal government agencies (or more per capita), military bases, Native American reservations, and any other federal spending that would be marked as going "to the state."