While staying informed and active is important, it's also important to remember that you aren't a hero, you should not be expected to be one, and that it is not moral or reasonable to expect average folk to be heroes out of nowhere.
Take care of yourself. You're worth much more as one sane soul in an insane world, than you are dead or functionally disabled by taking on the burdens of the whole fucked-up world.
Fucking fascist ghouls. Good on Mamdani for not putting up with it, though it's horrifying that this is already a fucking concern.
One last smoke XD
Essentially, they had to figure out how to isolate it from other metals entirely (you have to alloy it and then reduce it with acid) so it would have consistent visual and material qualities and could be reasonably worked. From that point on, the fact that it was both rare and pretty to look at made it immensely valuable, same basic reasons as gold, except NEW and EXCITING. Inside of a decade it went from worthless to the next big thing.
Aluminum had a similar treatment when it was discovered, becoming immensely valuable because it was pretty and novel, though its value dropped like a rock as easier methods of refining aluminum were discovered.
How was he able to do that? How does he have so much more power than democratic presidents?
Dems and the Dem base run on the idea of an actual government with laws and standards. Dems sometimes violate those laws, but with plausible deniability in the vein of lawyers.
The GOP and the GOP base runs on the idea that hurting people is the highest good, and that laws are just a means to an end. They used to have more of the "lawyerly plausible deniability" strain about them, but Trump and his ghoulish following have dispensed with that, as they're convinced that laws are a secret liberal plot to stop America from becoming a White Man's Country once again.
Basically, the GOP doesn't give a fuck about all the rules the Dems follow, and the GOP base won't electorally punish them for it, because the GOP base is made of fascists.
Thereβs literally REPUBLICANS in Congress right now that are less awful than he is!
You had me til here.
Correct! It's insane how recent some understandings of the world around us are.
Now lets go be ineffective at improving the peoples material conditions!
lmao, imagine unironically saying this and simping for Cuba.
But yes, I know it's scary, being confronted with 'talking points' that you can't find valid answers to. At least you still have the good old 'whataboutism' and accusations of being a secret capitalist to fall back on, lmao.
Definite exaggeration, though there was some limited use of amphetamines in the Korean war.