Ich fühle mich getriggert.

Man how nice ranked choice would be, or even better a system like France's or Germany's.

Like I don't know that, like anyone doesn't know that.

Still noone, not the winning side, and especially not the losing side has any real incentive to launch them first.
It's basic game theory, you never choose the option that has you lose absolutely everything, even if the alternative has you lose something big (like a war, or even your life).

Even crazed dictators like Putin know this.
And not even Putin can launch a nuke on his own. Even he needs generals and engineers that all know that not only they themselves will die if they obey, also their families will die, everyone they know will die if they obey.

We will never see full scale nuclear war, because noone at all could ever want that.

But Putin benefits from rubes just letting him bully everyone around him because, boo hoo he is so crazy and scary and after so many crossed red lines the next one surely is the one that makes him suicide himself, his wife, his daughter, his country, his place in history and anyone or anything he ever valued or cared about.

Und davon sind garantiert noch ein hoher Anteil krank oder von der Bürokratie überfordert.
Wirkliche Sozialschmarotzer kriegt man so fast gar nicht.

Das ist aber sowieso ekelhaftes Framing der "Konservativen", wenn man bedenkt, dass der Schaden, der durch Sozialbetrug entsteht eher im Promillebereich dessen ist, was durch Steuerbetrug entsteht.
Und auch da kommen die hohen Summen nicht von dem Handwerker der mal was schwarz baut, sondern von den dicken Fischen.

Aber auf die schimpft die CxU irgendwie weniger gern.

Ich kann natürlich auch nur für die Zeit sprechen, als ich dort war.
Aber damals war ich positiv überrascht, dass ich als ziemlich linke Socke relativ viele ähnlich gesinnte dort treffen konnte.

Wie gesagt alles relativ und klar gab es da auch viel klassisch Konservatives, alles voll mit Beamten halt.
Aber auf den Studiparties am Campus wären Sprechchöre mit "Deutschland den Deutschen" oder vergleichbar ekligen Sprüchen tatsächlich undenkbar gewesen.

Vom eigentlichen Punkt des Memes mal abgesehen ist Pasta von De Cecco erheblich leckerer als Barilla.

I don't necessarily disagree, but why isn't it widely adopted then?

Barely fend off?

They wouldn't have a snowballs chance in hell against California.

The fuck you talking about?

Republic is a form of state and democracy is a form of government.
Those things are not mutually exclusive, to the contrary.

There are democratic republics, there are democratic monarchies, there are totalitarian republics and many other combinations of state form and form of government.

To say a country is not a democracy because it is a republic is like saying an apple is not a fruit because it is green.

Well yes and no.

The line was literally defrauding another republican and his mother.
He could have kept on being as shit as he wants to the out-group, just never turn on the in-group, that has always been the line.

Na toll, dann bekommt Hessen die CDU und Deutschland behält Nancy.

Worst Case.

Why would I use russian whatsapp owned by russian Zuckerberg living in Dubai?

If anything Signal would be the superior alternative.

But as stated by other ppl before me, I use whatsapp because at least where I live almost everyone uses it and Telegram is for conspiracy theories and Nazi or russian propaganda.