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  • Honestly, unless this tooth repair gel thing works and becomes available soon, I’d rather have some of my teeth replaced with implants.

    I’ve asked my dentist “can we just skip the endless filling replacements, caps, crowns, and eventual implants and just go right to implants?”

    They always say no, and I ask is there a reason why “natural teeth” with fillings/caps/crowns are better than implants - they reply with “But it’s your teeth! They’ll last a long time before needing implants!”

    Yeah, so I’ll need implants eventually, can’t I just get them now before I put more fillings, caps, crowns, and eventual implants? Ain’t nobody got time for that.

    “but your natural teeth will last a long time!”

    Yeah, but they ain’t so natural after 5 procedures, and I’d rather avoid the ha$$le and just get the implants now instead of implants and a lifetime of repairs.

    They always say no, and it’s probably because they make way more money fixing bad teeth than replacing it with something permanent

    EDIT

    Thank you everyone!

    I’ve gotten better answers here than from my dentist, so thank you everyone for educating me on the reasons why.


  • Never thought I’d see the day where I hoped a McConnell plan would work in any capacity.

    He’s allowed Trump to exist so project 2025 can happen.

    Moscow Mitch will do anything to make project 2025 happen, maybe he was convinced the “normal” Republicans can mitigate Trump’s penchant for treason and sedition against America and that mitigation risk was worth the project 2025 payout.

    Hopefully he is right about mitigating Trump. Otherwise, I hope McConnell is the first Republican publicly executed because Trump absolutely wants to be able to publicly execute anyone he doesn’t like.


  • If you want specifics, Project 2025 is absolutely the roadmap they are using.

    TL:DR The broadstrokes of America’s decline over the next 4 years are:

    • Destroy education so poor people cannot understand what’s happening to them and how to stop it, and only wealthy will have the means to educate and employ themselves.

    • Destroy labor unions so everyone is individually fighting a united corpo government for livable wages

    • Change local and federal government so elections are pageantry instead of democracy

    • Mandate religion in school, work, government, and eventually the home.

    • Online ID so your internet use can be monitored and tracked

    • Drill baby drill

    • White supremacy/deportation will be super messy and fuck the economy

    • Whatever the consequences of not understanding tariffs are

    If you’re wealthy, none of this applies to you. This election was to confirm if money and power are above the law.

    America overwhelmingly decided they prefer a king unbound by Magna Carta over law, order, and democracy.




  • Not voting has the same consequences, so those aren’t too smart either.

    Gen Z are entitled like boomers, but with almost no economic prospects outside their parents.

    Which makes sense, since loads of Gen Z were priced out of a future before they could even start earning, so there’s no point in giving effort

    At least Trump will guarantee Gen Z nearly unlimited well paying work if they’re interested in bounty hunting immigrants and tracking fertility



  • Honestly, blame the media for this one.

    They talked about project 2025 for maybe 10 days and spent the rest of the time ignoring the absolute fact that concrete steps are being taken across the board to end democracy and impose a Christian theocracy as fast as possible.

    There was no concentrated effort to warn Americans of the very real threat Trump is, and what absolutely will happen if he won the election.

    All the public saw was a witch hunt against Trump that went nowhere as he promised to be a dictator and change the fundamental structure of the United stated to further billionaire interests, and the actual reality of this was never explicitly stated.

    News media is responsible for educating the population, with standards on the quality and accuracy of the information, but neither side will ever do any such thing.

    Both political parties and every news medium are completely corporately owned and will never platform something that threatens their control.


  • But doesn’t Trump hate China?

    Obviously he’s extremely succeptable to bribery/flattery etc so he could easily “art of the deal” Taiwan off to China.

    Personally I feel like he’s definitely having a vindictive king renaissance so I’m expecting a lot of inflexible decisions made entirely on impulse - because that’s exactly what the people want.

    Don’t know if I see him going to war with China as getting bribed is better than fighting and potentially losing. Plus, fighting implies you don’t have enough power/influence to win without fighting and Trump is all about projecting power.

    If he does want war, I wouldn’t be surprised to see an American foreign legion formed out of the 20 million immigrants he wants to deport







  • A good chunk of Trump’s cancer is caused by terrible left wing policy.

    I hate Trump and everything about the far right, but I can understand people falling in love with the idea of a strongman who will cut through bullshit and do what people want.

    The left is supposed to mitigate income inequality, and make life good for their citizens.

    Both left/right idealogies are entirely owned by corporate interests across the globe - this is the crux of the entire issue.

    The problems facing the middle class are entirely artificial and intentional. There are a myriad of reasons, but the end result is that we have one societies/laws/reality for the wealthy, and a completely different set of rules for the population.

    The left promises to solve everything with equality and the right promises to resolve everything with hierarchy.

    Neither idealogy has any intention of doing anything but funnel as much money/power to big business until their political careers are done.

    The obvious difference is the “Right” idealogies are objectively bad for everyone but the ultra wealthy. Unfortunately being ultra wealthy gives you the ability to own national anti-reality propaganda networks.