Everything I wrote was completely neutral. The response and outcome would be the same if it was either idealogy approaching the opposite to broker understanding/peace/unity.

Ever wonder why media always inflame culture wars but never tries to bring people together?

Interesting that you would interpret it the way you did. Maybe try considering other viewpoints and experiences when forming an opinion you're confident enough to write down and share.

I also recommend re-reading something to make sure you understand what is being said. You seem to be filling in any blanks with personal opinion and experience to understand the subject matter instead of properly taking in and interpreting the content correctly.

Can't wait for prices to go up everywhere else!

Harder to be taken advantage of if you know the means by which one takes advantage of another.

Knowing the wealthy need you more than you need them lets you make stronger demands and form unions.

Being knowledgeable gives you job security and independence, you have intrinsic value as a capable resource - and if spurned can become a troublesome enemy because you understand your opponent and can take advantage accordingly

Knowledge is absolutely power, and power gives you opportunity for freedom to choose how to live your life.

If you're trying to reason someone out of an opinion they didn't reason themselves into, you're not gonna do anything but act as a straw man for people to make into whatever they want to attack

Yes, it's absolutely vital to reach across the isle and offer understanding and share knowledge, but you're also up against a national propaganda system that is universally accessible.

The only two real avenues of change are

people getting negatively affected enough that the wealthy may potentially lose their status quo so they're willing to capitulate to the middle class in a small way that keeps their illusion intact

Or, you are able to humanize yourself and your views in a way that successfully removes the difference between left/right culture war and reframe it as a top/bottom class war.

Usually best accomplished by demonstrating that most people want the same things and aren't as different as Media tries to make us. This realization will also be worn down over time in the face of (now) every media source available inventing realities to explain how everything is correct, going to plan, and paradise is just over one more horizon of tax cuts, austerity, and diminished rights.

I still have the app on my phone

Just in case

Generally, farmers bitch and cry about anything and everything, except for the things they actually should care about. Like sustainably, and corporate ownership of supply chains that collude on prices and distribution networks while putting all the risk on farmers.

They are one of the more entitled voter blocks who live in a zero sum, anything to 'survive' at the expense of everything else mentality.

We'd have dust bowl events every 5 years if farmers had their way. It's absolutely an industry that demands government intervention, because sustainability isn't short term profitable.

I'm not suggesting that farmers are inherently bad/greedy/destructive of the environment, as the food supply chain often forces farmers to act this way, but that doesn't change their current attitudes and approach to agriculture.

My farmchair quarterback call is that Farmers crop yields should be half of their income, and sustainable practices, limited fertilizer and pesticide use, and overall soil quality and health should act as a multiplier to crop yields. So lower yields but better farming practices pays more than high yield, environment destroying, agriculture

The chemicals in your water are no longer chemicals, but value added seasoning!

Holy shit I agree with MTG

Harambe truly was this universe's anchor being, and the decay is increasing exponentially

Right wing backlash means you're doing it right!

Clarity can easily be found in Nazi tears.

AI

I was under the impression swapping out an implant was far easier than installing the system.

And I'm also talking about teeth that have been repeatedly drilled, capped, crowns etc - not a normal, healthy tooth.

These teeth are basically anchors for crowns, at what point is a new implant better than a chiseled out tooth?

Honestly, unless this tooth repair gel thing works and becomes available soon, I'd rather have some of my teeth replaced with implants.

I've asked my dentist "can we just skip the endless filling replacements, caps, crowns, and eventual implants and just go right to implants?"

They always say no, and I ask is there a reason why "natural teeth" with fillings/caps/crowns are better than implants - they reply with "But it's your teeth! They'll last a long time before needing implants!"

Yeah, so I'll need implants eventually, can't I just get them now before I put more fillings, caps, crowns, and eventual implants? Ain't nobody got time for that.

"but your natural teeth will last a long time!"

Yeah, but they ain't so natural after 5 procedures, and I'd rather avoid the ha$$le and just get the implants now instead of implants and a lifetime of repairs.

They always say no, and it's probably because they make way more money fixing bad teeth than replacing it with something permanent

EDIT

Thank you everyone!

I've gotten better answers here than from my dentist, so thank you everyone for educating me on the reasons why.

Never thought I'd see the day where I hoped a McConnell plan would work in any capacity.

He's allowed Trump to exist so project 2025 can happen.

Moscow Mitch will do anything to make project 2025 happen, maybe he was convinced the "normal" Republicans can mitigate Trump's penchant for treason and sedition against America and that mitigation risk was worth the project 2025 payout.

Hopefully he is right about mitigating Trump. Otherwise, I hope McConnell is the first Republican publicly executed because Trump absolutely wants to be able to publicly execute anyone he doesn't like.

If you want specifics, Project 2025 is absolutely the roadmap they are using.

TL:DR The broadstrokes of America's decline over the next 4 years are:

• Destroy education so poor people cannot understand what's happening to them and how to stop it, and only wealthy will have the means to educate and employ themselves.

• Destroy labor unions so everyone is individually fighting a united corpo government for livable wages

• Change local and federal government so elections are pageantry instead of democracy

• Mandate religion in school, work, government, and eventually the home.

• Online ID so your internet use can be monitored and tracked

• Drill baby drill

• White supremacy/deportation will be super messy and fuck the economy

• Whatever the consequences of not understanding tariffs are

If you're wealthy, none of this applies to you. This election was to confirm if money and power are above the law.

America overwhelmingly decided they prefer a king unbound by Magna Carta over law, order, and democracy.

Tyson can punch me up for 16 minutes straight, take whatever of my dignity he wants for himself, and I'd be cool with even 10 million.

The world isn't going to shit because people are willing to entertain others for serious money.

This isn't aimed at the idiots who would line up around the block and work for free to be called high IQ by Musk. Doesn't really matter though, it's all performative

They already know exactly what they want to cut, and billionaires don't need a salary to realize profits from deregulation.

The job being "no salary" isn't indicative of how cost effictive a volunteer public servant could be - it is a dinner bell for the wealthy

Not voting has the same consequences, so those aren't too smart either.

Gen Z are entitled like boomers, but with almost no economic prospects outside their parents.

Which makes sense, since loads of Gen Z were priced out of a future before they could even start earning, so there's no point in giving effort

At least Trump will guarantee Gen Z nearly unlimited well paying work if they're interested in bounty hunting immigrants and tracking fertility

What better way to oppress women than by making it illegal to not have your child with you.

Women better get ready to be accosted by police asking where their child is - and if you don't have one you'll be entered into the police lottery where everyone at the station gets a chance bestow a child upon you before you can leave.

Damn, strong policy that will actually help regular people acquire a fundamental human need without taking them for absolutely everything they are worth?

Can't believe she hasn't been assassinated yet.

Resigned to run for the highest office in the country you mean?