Over the last 14 months at least one country in the world should have learned that lesson. Trump, and therefore the USA, is completely untrustworthy. It’s why I don’t care how much or little Carney is doing about CUSMA. We know Trump will make whatever deal he wants and then disregard it the next day if that is what he wants then. Why waste time pretending to negotiate?

I don’t mind them reading the Bible, if they are able to read the whole thing, one end to the other. For many people, a thorough reading of the bible beginning to end is what causes them to question Christianity and realize that it is a population control tool for those with power (and riches), not the word of a God. It is such an incoherent mess that cannot literally be followed - if you follow one edict, you break another. Reading it destroys the idea that an all powerful, all knowing God was it’s roundabout creator. If there was a God surely it could have done a better job, even using inadequate humans to produce the product. So, after reading, you know it was a man made project. The Koran and Torah yield similar results. I think that is the main reason why religions try, or have tried in the past, to restrict reading to a select few leaders and try to keep the propaganda to what they want it to mean at any given time in history.

Don’t know. Probably not. I, straight female, have been attracted to straight presenting males since as long back as I have memories. But if I was prepubescent now and going forward, who knows, maybe my attractions would have changed?

Excellent. Now all those “but I can’t get a vasectomy” guys have another option. Beyond time to put the onus for not reproducing on the male side of the equation.

I think the main problem is that voters think that the only thing they need to do is vote. If you really care about what is happening, you need to be involved in much more of the political process which means volunteer work. And most people believe that they do not have any time to devote to that so they are ‘stuck’ voting for what others put in place. Of course those ‘others’ are going to put in place what works best for themselves. Even if you didn’t think Harris was a good choice, you could have voted differently on the rest of the ballot. In a democracy you get both what you vote for and what you don’t vote against.
Personally, I think Democrats would have reined in Netanyahu and not given him the full freedom that Trump does because unlike Trump they don’t worship the guy, the Christian Nationalists wouldn’t be trying to get them to start Armageddon through Israel’s actions, and Putin wouldn’t be pulling their strings rooting for this to happen to hasten the downfall of the US. It may not have been good for Palestinians but I don’t think it would have been as atrocious. I could be wrong but we will never know. Another note: Americans have never been against genocide, so long as it is their side that is committing it. As they see most laws/morals/ethics, it is only wrong when the other guy is doing it. Which is one of the reasons that Americans exempted themselves from the world court - so they could do with impunity what other countries would be tried for.

Reid is a true American: it only matters once she herself is negatively affected.

North American car companies are doing the LAMF thing. They have spent the last 4 decades stifling innovation in EV or fuel efficient cars to appease the gas lobby and create monster sized vehicles that they can convince a gullible consumer are necessary. If they had spent even 25% of their R&D on what comes after fossil fuels, they would be able to compete with China now. Same as Africa skipped the whole phone lines thing and went strait to cellular, China is now skipping ahead to the next generation not wasting time on producing past generations stuff. Wind and solar power, batteries are the same. Do I feel sorry for industries that pegged themselves to gas when consumers asked for different? Not it the least. They reaped what they sowed, or failed to sow.

Well GOP have, in my lifetime, always screwed up the economy, piled up the debt and started wars leaving Democrats to attempt to pick up the pieces. That leads to GOP once again blaming Dems for everything and Americans believing them. Now many Americans believe Dems are just as bad even though often a Dem President doesn’t have a Dem Congress or Senate so can’t get much done. But it’s never the voters fault that they are getting what they vote for or fail to vote against.

I love how disenchanted voters complain about a 2 party system but fail to realize that in a democracy changing that is on them. It takes time, money, and lots hard work to build a viable 3rd alternative. Dems and GOP have zero incentive to help that process.

Horrors. China is doing something the USA thinks only they are allowed to do.