No offense taken friend, ascii has no inflection so it's hard to tell sometimes. Have a great day.

And it seems to me like the main reason the dems are unhappy with his win is that even though he won a primary, he is not very likely to win the election given American fear of socialism.

Hate the game has gotten you the Trump death camps, congratulations!

Yeah victim shame, are you really a victim when you are this complicit.

Yeah, I get you, the trouble is also that well thought out policy is usually complex and hard to translate in to easy to shout slogans, which is the kind of stuff conservatives thrive on.

Yeah, the current king isn't really responsible for his great - great - great grandfather's actions either. Indeed Israel cares not about the Palestinians and just wants their land. It's all greed.

Allowed by a 19th century Belgian king to be perpetrated by a bunch of international companies in a system heavily pushed by the US, but lets just say "the Belgians did it".

I hear that a lot, that the stupid are easier to control. However my personal and of course anecdotal experience is that if your policies are well chosen and your theories grounded in research and even well informed common sense it's much easier to lead smart, well educated people. Stupid, ignorant people are neigh ungovernable. Even if they want to do what you tell them they mess up the execution of the instructions.

Indeed, no need for large scale battles.

I'm a European and in my country driving tests are really hard and it takes a lot of very motivated people 3 or more tries and the better part of a year of frequent training to get a license. When I hear Americans talking about their driving test, most of them didn't even get on the road and did the test on a separate test terrain. All they need is knowing what a traffic sign is and being nearly able to use their highly automated car. The difference in required knowledge and ability is staggering.

Add to that the tendency to drive huge and heavy SUV 's and trucks that are highly dangerous to other road users and you get an extremely deadly situation.

If he was Aryan he'd have the common decency of having blond hair like a real Übermensch. The dark hair makes him look like someone from the middle east!

There has been a movement to remove cash for a long time. Banks still have an incentive to earn your custom as there are (still) different banks so you get to choose, though a lot of the old banks have fused in the last decades. Every time I open a new account to avoid depending on one bank, the banks fuse.

In 1995 there were a lot of hold ups of cash transports. I thought back then that they were part of a push to reduce the use of cash.

Covid did a lot more to reduce the use of cash.

Since most services that pay wages or pensions require a bank account it's not that new. Personally I don't mind having digital money only, but I would prefer if the bank of the national postal service would still offer low cost bank acounts.... but they got fused with a private bank.

No shouting, just fire.