Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

Are you ready for this? I don't think you are. I wasn't. Check it out: https://youtube.com/shorts/oUy03oeME8E?si=-Wcx0x_MC3mbyMln

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A reminder from President Harry Truman.

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@sundogplanets I used to play this game in Wyoming. Only lost once during a blinding blizzard. It would have been very bad since the shoulder sloped down steeply at the edges of the road, but I pulled off a miraculous recovery. I'm still amazed to this day that I got the van back on the road and continued to my destination.

@spocko I think he wants it to fail. Or maybe Tesla is just clowning people. Hahaha.

@cfiesler This is always the case, from very small startups on up. The money-man gets the fame and credit. The guy(s) who invented and created the thing get nothing.

In this case we're talking about women, but the mechanism is the same.

@jonny True. They only notice it because it's different from their expectation, something they take for granted and "obvious" so it becomes a big deal for them.

Also, gender is a complex topic. Humans are complicated, which is what makes us fascinating to study. Fascism and libertarianism attract simple-minded people who want everything to be yes, no, 1, 0, black, white. No thinking required. Gray areas are to be avoided at all cost because they require thinking, making decisions, and taking responsibility. These are very uncomfortable things for about half the population.

@lovelylovely Yeah, he would burn it all down if he thought he'd end up in a position of power. That's what he's trying to create. Voters however, seem to have a different view, one that's drifting away from his fantasy.

@lovelylovely I guess Matt's not paying attention to the polls but staying in his warm fuzzy fantasy.

@knittingknots2 Well they better get unscared because if they let this go on it will reach a point where they'll get arrested for "having thoughts."

@JenWojcik It's a U.S. thing because no one except American Indians have deep roots here. We're all from someplace else and that's been a really big deal for people since the first Europeans came here. People say the USA is the great melting pot but it's anything but. In the U.S., people from different cultures mix like oil and water.

My German roots go back over a thousand years. My Estonian roots go back 5,000 years. I'm from there, I belong there. Yes, I was born in the U.S. 70 years ago but I'm not from here and never will be. Everyone subconsciously knows they're not from here so they amplify their differences in an effort to belong to a real culture which the U.S. does not have.

This problem is easily visible throughout U.S. history and it doesn't go away with time.