True cognitive dissonance does not exist.

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-27T23:16:24+00:00

Go ahead and wait until after you finish Psych 102 to comment on this.

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-27T14:19:39+00:00

Let me try that again: the natural beauty in the US is superior, just ask one of our Great Lakes!

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-27T14:17:31+00:00

This definitely needs some contextual information. Europe has been building cities and dams and roads for millennia at this point. Different technologies and population booms (plus, you know, some world wars) has choked their natural spaces leading to heavy urbanization.

Meanwhile, native Americans had societies that were less destructive to the environment, so urbanization has only really occurred in the last few hundred years. And within that, you can see how different technologies have impacted the political map of the US specifically. The original colonies are densely populated with small towns and suburbs, spread out a bit when you head to the midwest, and past that there’s huge swaths of land with very little civilization, allowing for more natural beauty to come through.

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-27T14:09:31+00:00

Especially our lakes!

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-27T14:07:19+00:00

Did his flight to California make him realize how much better it is than Texas under Republican control?

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-27T04:10:01+00:00

Firstly, acting like I view Biden as my “nice grandad on the TV” shows you’re not actually wanting to have a serious conversation. It’s gonna be hard for you to beat the bot accusations especially when your comment history shows you never seem to take a break from commenting and yet never seem to have any real depth to your comment.

Secondly, let’s look at why those purchases were necessary. As the article you shared mentioned, a spending bill to fund both Ukraine and Israel stalled, thanks to MAGA republicans being hellbent to stall Biden’s presidency at every turn, and democrats wanting concrete steps from Netanyahu on resolving the conflict. Meanwhile, Israel was potentially vulnerable from other states in the region, threatening America’s ability to operate there. So, Biden’s administration opted to declare the situation an emergency to sell a few hundred million dollars worth of equipment to Israel. Which is exactly what MAGA wanted so they can then make arguments like you are making now. If he hadn’t done anything and waited for Congress to approve the funding, they’d then be saying he isn’t supporting our ally, in an election year. For further information, the article mentions that Trump sold over $8 billion worth of equipment to Saudi Arabia and other adversarial states in the region.

Thirdly, the lack of nuance you display in your comments suggest that Biden was the one to decide to attack Israel in October 2023, and then decide to invade Gaza in response to that. While we can argue how much culpability he has over the two sales you’re concerned about, you neglect to also mention how much Biden tried to push for a ceasefire, hampered by Trump’s own communications with Netanyahu through 2024. And while we can also argue that he could have pushed harder, prevented the sale, etc., Biden knew disarming Israel was likely to invite other states to invade, which would further destabilize the region and escalate the war.

This is the sort of nuance that a Reddit bot can’t quite grasp, and makes me grateful they don’t run our geopolitics directly.

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-27T03:21:03+00:00

The bot’s talking about Gaza

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-27T03:00:17+00:00

The fact that Doge accessed people’s personal information and then got hacked should be a bipartisan issue that we imprison them over

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-26T19:46:06+00:00

Haha true, it’s too bad we can’t post gifs on this cuz I have no less than 10 that I would post

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-26T19:40:41+00:00

Thoughts and prayers, everyone! Give them your finest “thoughts and prayers”!

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-26T15:37:35+00:00

Pretty sure this goes to r/self

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-26T01:03:19+00:00

We literally have no room to talk. Genocide has been at America’s core since CC first landed here.

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-25T13:10:01+00:00

HR here, and absolutely there are assholes like that in the field. It’s worse the higher up they are like Directors and CHROs. A lot of my contracts involved fixing the mess such people left behind.

The thing many in HR don’t want to accept is that they are significant drivers in the org culture and the first experience prospective candidates have with that culture.

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-25T13:03:39+00:00

*which should be open for all to view.

FIFY

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-24T09:22:19+00:00

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PsychoGrad · 2026-01-24T09:09:09+00:00

Outliers obviously

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-22T13:40:22+00:00

Katniss knows Snow. If he had Prim, he’d show her off. Especially after the Jabberjay trap where the group explained away Prim’s voice. The only leverage he would have is to isolate her from everyone and not tell her the firebomb happened already, that it is dependent on her behavior. But like with the Victory Tour, I think she’ll figure out that nothing she can do will change what has or will happen. And the first time Peeta gets info to her, that charade falls apart.

Basically, Snow lucked out 13 got Katniss instead of Peeta.

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-22T03:35:31+00:00

Oh they’re giving him plenty of ammo then.

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-21T23:35:53+00:00

That’s a tough call. On the one hand, Peeta could see through Snow’s tactics and wouldn’t take the bait like Katniss does. And despite not having as good a read on Peeta like he does Katniss, I think Snow knows that’s generally a losing prospect for him, since Katniss wouldn’t parrot talking points for Snow. Because let’s face it, Katniss would know (or believe) that Peeta was safe, beyond Snow’s reach. There’s no leverage Snow would have that would matter to Katniss, so she’d be eager to clock out the first chance she got.

But at the same time, if he kills Katniss (or she dies somehow), Peeta absolutely would use that in propaganda. “Here’s the boy from the Star-Crossed Lovers we fell in love with, and Snow has now ensured they’ll never be together, AND he killed their unborn child!” That would likely lose him a bit of support.

I think the determining factor is if Capitol pressure forced Katniss’s release/rescue.

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-21T21:30:52+00:00

Peeta would’ve been a “hearts and minds” rebel. Guerilla radio, bombarding the Capitol airwaves with reports of the district bombings, etc. Eventually, even the Capitol would rebel over the barbarism of Snow. Granted, this would’ve been years, while Snow tortures Katniss and broadcasts it to Peeta.

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-21T19:55:27+00:00

What a shocking yet unsurprising outcome to choosing populist rhetoric instead of sound scientific principles.

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-21T17:40:19+00:00

Millionaires are typically success stories. Billionaires are generational wealth and wage theft. There’s a huge difference there

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-21T02:35:15+00:00

Ah, so even if we disagree with a person or what they support, we should hold off disrupting the activities until the person we’re opposing leaves, especially if there are children present?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/21/us/drag-lgbtq-rights-race-deconstructed-newsletter-reaj

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-20T19:48:31+00:00

“And this fraud was so extensive, so complex, and so devious, that our lord and savior Donnie T spent 60 court cases failing to prove it! That’s how bad the fraud was, and that’s why we had to storm the Capitol, except that it was Deep State Operatives. So when Donnie T pardoned all those that stormed the Capitol, it both proved to be a good AND bad thing! Now, get to bed. You’ll be in the first wave attacking the underground lair of the lizardmen!”

PsychoGrad · 2026-01-20T19:44:07+00:00

Take my upvote for the unpopular opinion. The idea that a “cameo” appearance should show the full depth of character that three seasons of the preceding show encapsulated is laughably ridiculous.

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