There are many influences. One is pure resentment of elites as know-it-alls which propagandists amplify. A bit of Dunning–Kruger effect at the same time as people without specialized training can’t even comprehend what they don’t know. Another is how difficult it is to think probabilistically so that people can’t easily appreciate risk. And as more and more people proclaim conspiracy theories as truth there is peer pressure to confirm.

Enjoy your home OP. May you live out many happy years under its shelter.

Sorry for your loss OP.

Well, I didn’t know that. I meant no disrespect. I was working off what seemed to me to be a humorous superficial resemblance. Apologies.

And my Mastodon!

But actually committing to do something substantially FDRish for the working man isn’t an easy sell within high level Democrat party leadership. I don’t know why this is true exactly but I expect it has to do with money and power.

Not wrong but not nuanced enough. Many Americans also believe in the ideas embodied in the Constitution and bill of rights. Many voted for the candidate who more strongly embodied those values. Just because the vote system is winner take all doesn’t mean that there aren’t Americans who are upset with this outcome.

Nice way to say it

Not OP but usually mash means that there is one SSID shared across multiple routers and access points

This isn’t good advice for everyone. It might not even be good advice for most people. However, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that it would be good for you to do this.

Is that a cougar?

Could be a golden doodle cross between a standard poodle and a golden retriever.

Working to split the vote against Harris is effectively a vote for Trump and for fascism.

It’s an old code sir but it checks out

Very Hyperion

How many liberal tears in a banana? For scale purposes of course.

Uncle Milton and his cat 5 anaconda …

Many people do not grasp the sheer size of the disparity between the truly wealthy and everyone else.

What is that from?