I have to say… Roberts and Chickite come out of this looking like the people with their heads on straight.

That’s reek. Wreak is a verb meaning to cause a large amount of harm or damage. It’s also archaic.

It’s not like this is a new story; we’ve seen it many times before, usually resulting in a lot of pain and suffering for humanity to recover from afterwards.

…and that has to do with echo chambers.

Not only do they have pastors in church reading specially selected passages of scripture (often out of context) and preaching the message of the GOP instead of the message of Jesus, but the TV and radio stations they watch and listen to, and the social media groups they’re in all are focused the same way. And all these places share the same “I have the answers; listen to me and everything will be OK for your soul” approach to life, which is easier than continually having to apply your own critical thought to the barrage of information we’re otherwise exposed to in modern society.

Also worth pointing out where you say “their minds are closed and locked” — in biblical language, the cultures of the time thought that people thought with their hearts. So all those “their hearts were hardened” scattered throughout the Bible? They’re talking about the exact same thing you are… and it’s never a good thing.

I’d rephrase that:

“By casting your ballot for Kamala Harris, you are voting AGAINST Vladimir Putin.”

Very true, but there comes a point where that no longer matters.

Please get out and vote and get things to that point, my American friends!

I was just glad to hear that the Democrats have a plan this time for what happens after Trump declares victory in the face of “nothing decided yet”.

I hope it includes Fox News.

Well, I definitely wasn’t expecting that… and some of the people polled have already voted.

That means the British Indian Ocean Territory will cease to exist, along with the .io domain and countless websites.

What will happen is that the International Standard for Organization (ISO) will remove the country code “IO.” IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) which creates and assigns top-level domains, uses this code to determine which top-level country domains should exist. Once ‘IO’ is removed, IANA will start the process of retiring .io, which involves stopping new registrations and the expiration of existing ‘.io domains.‘

I don’t get this: shouldn’t Mauritius gain ownership of .io? Russia has .su, and it’s been over 30 years since the Soviets existed.

[edit] also, since there’s .whateveryouwant these days, why not just make .io a non-country TLD? That’s how it’s used anyway.

Which book is their book? Obviously not the one they wave around as a magic talisman but never read more than a few carefully selected sentences out of at a time….

Also, Jesse Watters has had documented affairs. Is Jesse secretly voting Harris?

I’m pretty sure the venue is keeping that bill open specifically so that Trump can never return.

Nobody voting for face-eating leopards expects to have THEIR face eaten.

Go into politics — become part of the problem so you can become part of the solution.

Recognizing that every choice is loss is the first step.

The second step is figuring out the best course of action to minimize the losses. This step can be VERY hard.

And we all get upset.

What makes you think you can’t do anything about it?

Move to a different country?

“Babe… what are you DOING here? It’s not safe to bring the kids to the polling station! What happens if some illegal immigrant starts shooting? Get them out of here IMMEDIATELY!”

This is different from the most distinctively Canadian animals… which is why the Virginia Opossum is in the list, along with other animals that are common to other places, but evolutionarily isolated within Canada.