You’re right, and it’s because I voted for Harris. Good thing other people were smart enough not to.

Yeah I used to have a long commute, and had a Q50. I was leasing my car so didn’t want to take it to the track, nor did I have the money at the time to race it, so it was just vehicle to get me around. Definitely had fun with it, but when I started working from home it just sat there a lot. Got an old SUV for other purposes and had to run it just so the battery didn’t die. Eventually sold it for a newer SUV.

I get it tho. Don’t need a fancy car. Funny people associate downgrading your car with hard times. I wish my new car was paid off, but I use every bit of it.

I hope you find the argument you’re looking for.

You are fired up. Good for you.

I wasn’t avoiding anything. I just wasn’t talking about it. In fact the post never even asked about why things are the way they are.

Do tell all knowing one.

It’ll just be easier to replace

It’s gonna get better. Life is cyclical. You can’t expect everything in your life to be rainbows and sunshine. Times will be hard and out of your control. You have to be prepared to deal with that.

Yes. They’re watching from their cozy rooms, on their expensive iPhones, eating their yummy snacks. Gonna take A LOT more for Americans to react like Nepal or Madagascar.

I’m no world traveler or political scientist, but of the handful of places I’ve been outside of the US they seem to have just as many same or different problems. I think it’s a grass is always greener situation. Much of the world would trade places with an American if they could. Granted education is a big factor in making that decision, or not.

Every government is just pulling on different levers and creating different flavors of the same problems. Some people have socialist programs, but spend a lot on taxes. Some people have low incomes, but cost of living is more affordable. Some places have lower cost of living but standard of living is lower. Then you got all varieties of societal stuff.

Just wait til we’re cyborgs. How do you express your personality?

Wise words. Heroin is okay as long as you stop when it doesn’t fit in your budget.

Just another form of expression and status. Think of it like fashion. We “wear” our cars for a big chunk of our lives.

PSA 10 hard paper

There are two sides of the spectrum. Old people who believe in political parties and young people who want to blow it all up. Always been that way. Old people die. Young people get old shifting their ideologies with them, and the cycle continues.

There was not some single event or entity that caused people to not want to vote in the last election. It was a hive mind. Nobody controls that. It was meant to be.

You deciding to vote for so and so is also part of a hive mind. You are not making that decision yourself. You were always going to do what you did.

When you’ve lived more years you’ll understand

It’s cardboard. It has the value of hard paper.

Edit: oh I see some graded ones in there

This is exactly what’s going to happen, but over the span of a year or two.

Where we are now is life. Things go up and down. You can’t just keep doing the same thing expecting it to get better when the system doesn’t work that way. Sometimes in life you go through hard times so that the future is better.

Got no human grace

There’s a reasonable threshold. I’m just playing along with devil’s advocate.