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[zubenelgenubi]

You made some really unnecessary leaps there.
I don’t want the us to get destroyed. I have hope that we can get our sh** together enough to make it another few hundred years before we go Rome.
I’m not suggesting, nor did I suggest in op, that the ONLY way for things to get better is if half the population die in a cataclysmic event. Nor did I encourage anybody to go to the beach.
I think, from A BIG PICTURE standpoint, that we collectively need to stop investing so much into such trivial bs.
I DO suggest that this would improve our general well being and create the opportunity for us to to improve physical commerce and specifically social understanding, which is sorely lacking in 2020 USA.
I DO suggest that the majority of those engaged in trivial political discussions are really not doing anything to improve the situation.
“Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.” –Teddy Roosevelt
I don’t know how we demand a better candidate, man. I wish I did. But I know somewhere along the line we dropped the ball big time. WE. That’s Americans. Not this party or that party. We don’t collectively take responsibility because we are too divided.

The "leaps" I made were all supported by what you wrote. But to get to the heart of the matter, if you feel that division is the reason we don't take responsibility, what are some ways you would suggest that we promote unity?

 

[zubenelgenubi]

Just found this video, I think it sums things up pretty well. I generally try my best to keep things civil in my discourse. I don't think people who disagree with me are idiots, and I always try to assume that they know something I don't. Sometimes I do have to provoke people a little to draw out the good stuff.

 

[Jumpin Jack Flash]

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 1.8 million in July, and the unemployment rate fell to 10.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

unemployment rate - Bureau of Labor Statistics

Fell to 10.2% which is still sky high! 10% of country unemployed! Trump has shattered records for highest unemployment.

 

[DriveInDriveOut]

Fell to 10.2% which is still sky high! 10% of country unemployed! Democrats have shattered records for highest unemployment.

fixed it for you

 

[Serf]

Everybody hates each other and argues over what they saw on the morning news; which escalates into rioting and civil unrest because we can’t keep a good perspective and be thankful for what we have for longer than 30 seconds.

If diversity was our strength it would be self evident, instead of being hammered over the head with hollow epitaphs.

 

[Fred's Myth]

Fell to 10.2% which is still sky high! 10% of country unemployed! Trump has shattered records for highest unemployment.

Dropped to 10.2 from 14 during a worldwide pandemic.

Must be doing something right.

 

[fishtm2001]

Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has faced condemnation from House Republican leaders for creating racist Facebook videos and embracing QAnon conspiracy theories, has won the runoff for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District.

That's nice.

 

[vantexan]

Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has faced condemnation from House Republican leaders for creating racist Facebook videos and embracing QAnon conspiracy theories, has won the runoff for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District.

That's nice.

Damn it @Old Man Jingles can't Georgians do anything right? You let Sherman burn it, you let the devil come down to it, now this!

 

[Old Man Jingles]

Damn it @Old Man Jingles can't Georgians do anything right? You let Sherman burn it, you let the devil come down to it, now this!

She is out there ... my wife and I have been laughing at her 'Bible and Guns' ads for months.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has faced condemnation from House Republican leaders for creating racist Facebook videos and embracing QAnon conspiracy theories, has won the runoff for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District.

That's nice.

So did Ilhan Omar ... two wackballs from the same pod.