US exceptionalism once again.

“We’re not shit, everyone is shit! But we’re better at being shit than everyone else!”

Okay then.

Capitalism is a shit system, but it took ~200 years to corrupt to this point because the power is more distributed (at first).

The US is reaching the average lifespan of an Empire. Capitalism has not been particularly good at preventing collapse, it has been about average.

I’m forced to give it the worst possible reading

You’re literally not, in any way, forced to do that. That is a decision you have made.

We have no knowledge of why it was there in the first place

So you admit you have no knowledge of this, yet assume it fucks the public to have it moved a few feet to the left?

Americans: haha “France surrenders”

Also Americans: “I can’t stop buying from Amazon, other people still are! The mildest of inconveniences is too much effort on my part to resist fascism! Can’t you do it for me?”

I wasn’t allowed to choose me?

Look who suddenly understands “Pro-choice”

Pre-school kids can get fucked.

And some take that literally.

There is no requirement listed that the assignment be written in English, or submitted on paper. An assignment written in Latin on the side of a cow (with a 1 inch margin) is not explicitly forbidden.

It takes less effort to block an account than it does to create one. Feel free to waste your time.

it merely demands a clear “reaction” showing they read the linked article & thought about it.

The student’s essay does neither of these things. The essay shows the student read the title of the article, not the article itself. I realize those as are the type of reactions we’re used to seeing on Lemmy, but a reaction showing they read the article would mention points directly from the article instead of just the general theme of “Trans people existing”.

Regurgitating dogmatic talking points does not demonstrate that the student “thought about it”. It reads like the student read the title, maybe the first couple of lines, then shut off their brain and said “trans bad because others tell me trans bad”.

Again, I realize it’s very common to see replies from people that did not read or think about an article so this seems normal, but a collage level course is going to have higher standards than social media.

with what little we have

Like lobster.

Who will think about the poor individuals that can only afford lobster and a pot, but not a freezer?

No, you smash that repugnant shit

Sounds like a very quick way to kill it.

I feel the need to point out that the person you’re arguing with is not saying you shouldn’t kill lobsters.

That was literally a point they made.

the peak of the massive recession Trump has set up to happen next year.

The recession is already happening, Trump just cancelled the reports to hide it. It will become more obvious once corporations report less profits than anticipated over the holiday season.

As usual in America, nothing will done until it starts hurting the Corpos.

And to pretend to be the AI

the Justice Department is weighing how to bring federal charges against the shooter, including under a novel legal theory that it was an anti-Christian hate crime

authorities have produced text messages from the suspect to his partner saying he was motivated to kill Kirk because he had “enough of his hatred.”

So they’re straight up saying that American Christianity = Hatred.

“We can’t resist them. Resisting would give them an excuse to do the thing they are already going to do.”

When have they ever tried to hide it?

Sounds like the US has a shitty system and they should improve it. None of that is relevant to actually developing a third party however. There is 1 single president but (theoretically) needs support of the House and Senate. Recalls and budgets are irrelevant to the issue of only having 2 parties.

No, I was not encouraging people in the US to vote 3rd party in the last election. But now is an excellent time to start working on some 3rd party candidates for 2028.

Canada only really has two parties at the Federal level

The current as well as the past several elections have resulted in minority governments: The party with the most seats does not have enough votes on their own to pass legislation. They need a 3rd party to vote with them in order to get anything passed. The NDP has also been the official opposition in the past.