Rolling dice, flipping a coin, shooting a single photon through a split aperture.

Cute quote, but it's dead wrong.

Also, I fully expect trump not to be impeached (this time at least) the goal isn't to remove him here, the goal is to get these assholes to sign their names to his bad behavior, and to slow down congress, preventing republicans from getting legislation to the floor.

Oh well. If someone gets away with a crime then it's totally pointless to go after them for subsequent crimes. It'a that one loophole that every prosecutor hates.

The vast majority of people know for a fact that their vote mathematically does not matter

If a full third of people stayed home, that’s a systemic problem, not an individual responsibility problem.

You understand that in a two party system, these two statements are basically incompatible?

Especially when you consider that we have early voting starting a month before the election, along with mail-in voting being available in nearly every state. If you didn't vote, it's because you didn't want to vote, not because you couldn't vote. Yes, some degree of civic participation is expected, welcome to being an adult.

Someone commented just a few days ago that voting blue in OK was pointless. I brought up some stats that if every one of the non-voters in OK had voted in the last election, Kamala could have carried the state with 200k people to spare.

Well, they need to start by registering for the green party.

You can't show up on November 6th and say "everybody should have voted for Jill Stein!" After she barely gets more votes than the worm riddled antivax conspiracy theorist that dropped out of the race and backed trump.

Would have been easy enough for them to be allies with Ukraine, but they didn't do that, did they?

No, they want dependents. Allies have a choice. Dependents have an illusion of choice.

There are just as many countries between Iran and Russia as there are between Iran and China...

Then why would you say China is "right there" as an argument.

Also, the premise is not that Iran is a puppet state of Russia, but that they are dependent on Russia for security from other nuclear-armed countries. Russia doesn't want Iran to get nukes because they lose that valuable bargaining chip.

Let's sum up your arguments so far.

You think that Russia can't maintain control over other nations, and I provided a direct refutation of that.

You think that China was geographically closer to Iran that Russia was, and that is refuted with Google maps.

You need to take a look at the players, their motivations and the "board" and then come back with an actual assessment instead of plainly incorrect and unfounded opinions

It wouldn’t work.

Look at that, it's working.

Plus, China is right there.

I think you should look at a map sometime. Unless you are taking about Russia-China relations, but that doesn't seem to be the context here.

Yeah. You think Russia is doing shit for free?

Glances at Belarus

Yeah. Okay.

You're reading the play like Russia wants an ally.

What they want is a dependent.

If Iran gets their own nukes, then Russia loses a big bargaining chip.

Honestly, that's probably the only reason why nukes weren't used.

Musta missed 2019 when the US was caught with their pants down during a global pandemic, despite having a pandemic plan in place just a few years prior. Ultimately ended up killing over a million Americans... And the guy got re-elected.

You're forgetting one key thing. Republicans hate Muslims more than they hate Jews.

Also, their nutty evangelical base believes that Jews need to be in Bethlehem in order for the second coming of Jesus to happen or something.

What was the name of MLK's organization?

She has organized millions.

You missed this part

...fault of the people whom we have elected to implement policy for us (for the most part).

MLK didn't write laws, he didn't sign bills, he didn't judge the constitutionally of existing legislation, he mobilized people.

Go look at headlines and editorials from the civil rights era, because you are punching down on Greta trying to stand up for us the same way they punched down on MLK.

Greta is organizing more people than MLK did. The lack of results is not her fault, but the fault of the people whom we have elected to implement policy for us (for the most part).

Thunberg's climate activism began when she persuaded her parents to adopt lifestyle choices that reduced her family's carbon footprint.

She protested outside the Swedish parliament where she called for stronger action on climate change by holding up a Skolstrejk för klimatet (School Strike for Climate) sign and handing out informational flyers.[3] After the election, Thunberg spoke in front of supporters, telling them to use phones to film her. She then said she would continue school striking for the climate every Friday until Sweden was in compliance with the Paris climate agreement.

Sweden signed the agreement and is on track with the Paris climate agreement from what I can tell.

After Thunberg addressed the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, weekly climate strike protests took place on Fridays around the world. In 2019, coordinated multi-city protests involved over a million students each.

Thunberg's rise to world fame made her an ad hoc leader in the climate activist community.

Thunberg's influence on the world stage has been described by The Guardian and other media as the "Greta effect"

She has received honours and awards, including in Time's 100 most influential people, named the youngest Time Person of the Year in 2019, inclusion in the Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women (2019),[19] and nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Thunberg won a climate change essay competition held by Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. In part, she wrote: "I want to feel safe. How can I feel safe when I know we are in the greatest crisis in human history?"

In December, after Sweden's 2018 general election, Thunberg continued to school strike – but only on Fridays. She inspired school students across the globe to take part in her Friday school strikes. In December alone, more than 20,000 students held strikes in at least 270 cities.

Thunberg's speech during the plenary session of the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) went viral.[67] She said that the world leaders present were "not mature enough to tell it like it is".[68] In the first half of 2019, she joined various student protests around Europe, and was invited to speak at various forums and parliaments. At the January 2019 World Economic Forum, Thunberg gave a speech in which she declared: "Our house is on fire."[69] She addressed the British, European and French parliaments; in the latter case several right-wing politicians boycotted her.[70][71] In a short meeting with Thunberg, Pope Francis thanked her and encouraged her to continue her activism.

While in New York, Thunberg was invited to give testimony in the US House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis on 18 September. Instead of testifying, she gave an eight-sentence statement and submitted the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C as evidence.

...made an official complaint against five nations that were not on track to meet the emission reduction targets they committed to in their Paris Agreement pledges: Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, and Turkey.[83][84] The complaint challenged these countries under the Third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In late September 2019, Thunberg entered Canada where she participated in climate protests in Montreal, Edmonton and Vancouver, including leading a climate rally as part of the 27 September 2019 Global Climate Strike in Montreal.

Thunberg participated in climate protests in New York City with Alexandria Villaseñor and Xiye Bastida; in Washington, D.C., with Jerome Foster II; Iowa City; Los Angeles; Charlotte; Denver with Haven Coleman; and the Standing Rock Indian Reservation with Tokata Iron Eyes.

Thunberg arrived in the Port of Lisbon on 3 December 2019,[96][97] then travelled on to Madrid to speak at COP25 and to participate with the local Fridays for Future climate strikers.

On 30 December 2019, Thunberg was guest editor of the BBC Radio's flagship current affairs programme...

On 21 January 2020, Thunberg returned to the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland, delivered two speeches, and participated in panel discussions hosted by The New York Times and the World Economic Forum. Thunberg used many of the themes contained in her previous speeches, but focused on one in particular: "Our house is still on fire." Thunberg joked that she cannot complain about not being heard, saying: "I am being heard all the time."

I'm not even halfway through the wikipedia article.

Before you jump in and say "well, she hasn't actually done anything" let me ask you; What did Martin Luther King Jr. actually do?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg

I support Tate...

...Being locked in prison for the rest of his life.

Spoken like someone who hasn't dealt with American police.

If you do much as dare to be near an acorn, they will mag dump you.