I lived in the US for the better part of a decade, yet still can’t understand why so many Americans still don’t understand their own political system, despite being heavily engaged in it on a personal level.

They treat politics like sport and repeat the same tired talking points, like vote blue no matter who. This is literally the behavior that got their Republican party into such a mess - they voted red even if brain dead. Now their own party continually works against their better interests, but they keep voting for them because they can’t let the “social communist Democrats turn the US into a homosexual Muslim hellscape” or whatever.

They’re not voting for the change they want, but to prevent the other guys from making the changes they don’t want. This has been the cycle for decades and things keep getting worse.

Wake up, Americans. The rest of the world sees it. Why can’t you?

Unless you know the OP personally, I think you’re conjuring issues about them to complain about.

The parties have no obligation to follow the results of the primary. It’s not legally binding.

It’s a thorn, equivalent to a th. Some people get all worked up over them using it like the bloke shat on their mother’s grave.

How could someone do something odd on Lemmy, bastion of normalcy?! It’s so unusual and offensive!

/s

LOL pretend whatever you need to cope.

That’s eight hours a day for five straight years. You sure love those cookies.

Fucking hell mate. Not a single shred of self awareness on you, is there?

My pleasure. They seem well intentioned but haven’t the slightest idea what they’re talking about.

Yes, you found the cost per credit hour that is paid to the university by the supporting financial source. The university makes money from tuition while making additional money from the work completed by students and faculty for the research funding. They double dip.

Teaching and research assistantships will also “waive” tuition fees and provide a poverty level stipend, allowing the university to brag about its charity while utilizing low wage grad students to replace positions formerly held by tenure track professors, who are already increasingly displaced by adjunct professors.

How many thousands of PhD candidates do you personally know where you can actually type “well, I only know one person like that so you’re uninformed”?

Mate, you’re on the Internet. Go to your search engine of choice, search for “are most US stem phds fully funded” and behold! Page after page confirming your apparently vast anecdotal knowledge is completely wrong.

It’s absolutely possible but it’s not easy if you don’t have a in demand profession.

One of my closest friends left the US for Germany with about $5000, a suitcase of clothes, and absolutely no specialized work skills. He worked in hostels for room and board, and did part time work for spending money. He had to skirt immigration laws while working to get permanent residency, but got his education in IT for only minor fees each semester and became a citizen after ten years.

It can be done, but it’s much more difficult without lots of money, family, or similar advantages.

Lol this is the stupidest shit I’ve heard online in awhile. When did LinkedIn become part of the fediverse?

Oh do fuck off.

If you think you’re being super dismissive with the ‘not worth my time to read’ bit, you should it’s now well into being an overused Internet trope that makes one look childish and lazy.

TFW you’re snogging him and you realize it’s one degree away from geriatric cunnilingus.

Massholes. In all my time living in the US, I found no other group more fragile than East Coast men.

Are you a troll or simply comically maladjusted?

The penis and scrotum are encased in a thin layer of smooth muscle called the dartos fascia. It’s what causes the foreskin to close at end and the scrotum to wrinkle up when cold instead of just hanging like an empty sack when the testicles retract for warmth.

It depends on if the baby is white or not.

I know, I had hoped too. Many of us did.