Mildly Interesting

Not even going to war. Being involved in one.

Does it not mean including other countries bombing the US?

It’s still wild seeing billboards for weed, even though there’s people still in jail for selling it. :/

In 1988 the public perception was that they were equally bad. There were people who tried to claim that marijuana was harmless, but they were "crazy pothead druggies".

Yeah, the zeitgeist of 1998 was... different. D.A.R.E. really did a number on folks.

Loitering, littering, and mass murder will be on the rise.

Well. Half black anyway.

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It's not a trick question. It's obviously referring to a war on the scale of WW2. A total war that requires major government intervention in the economy and everyday life. That's why it says "full scale war," not merely "war." The last full-scale war we had was WW2.

The Clintons are very flawed, but Hillary Clinton was the most qualified candidate you had since probably Eisenhower. It was wild to sit here and watch 2008 and 2016 US liberals repeat mid-90s GOP bullshit Hillary lines verbatim.

Because it's obvious that Kamela would have won if she were a man.

It has almost nothing to do with it being a female candidate

I mean, to you maybe. But to suggest that there aren't people in the US who are unwilling to vote for a woman is kind of absurd

When you're running against Hitler this argument quickly falls apart.

Americans will vote in literally anything but a woman.

The actual poll is here, but it's locked behind membership; I can't find any additional downloads. https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/study/31088367

The original article that the graphics came from is here, though: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/29/politics/americans-predictions-1998-2025

Oh snap, are you at the episode with Randy yet? (Season 3, episode 27) It ends in a cliffhanger to end off Season 3,

You'll notice, in the start of Season 4, that Randy never returns. This is because Randy was played by Phil Hartman, who died only 8 days after the last episode of Season 3 aired on TV.

When I first watched the series, I was a kid and didn't know why his character was abandoned. Learning about it later, and knowing what a key figure he had in animation (voicing characters on The Simpsons, and being the person that Futurama's Zapp Brannigan was designed to be played by), watching that arc felt very different.

RIP Phil, you're still missed.

I cant help but think these are just some of the questions asked but the irrelevant ones got removed.

We've had the ability to work from home since the 90s. It took a pandemic to make it acceptable. Now it's rubber banding back.

Everyone can afford an apartment in New York on a barista salary if they have an aspiring chef as a roommate.

I mean, the issue with the female president thing is that people keep pushing too hard for it. At this point we've had multiple female vice presidential candidates, multiple female presidential candidates, and a female vice president. The Dems had a big influx of female congresspeople in the last few years, and some of the most prominant GOP voices are women. While there are still non-negligible barriers to women assuming leadership roles, there are certainly fewer than there used to be, and there is no obvious reason why a woman couldnt be president. Which is essentially what a reasonable person would want - a woman should be president because there are no female specific barriers for entering the role, and then via a normal statistical distribution, eventually one will be elected.

The problem is that the two female presidential candidates we've had have been bad candidates. They were establishment politicians running in an anti-establishment climate, where the Democratic party was hoping that the identity politics of running a female candidate would outweigh the unpopularity of the candidates themselves. And then when they inevitably lose, their boosters cry misogyny rather than recognizing that they simply ran a bad candidate.

We can contrast the Harris and Clinton campaigns with the Obama campaign. Obama had a popular (if fluffy) message and was a legitimately charismatic and appealing candidate from outside the party establishment. His campaign was "Hope and Change", not "Look, he's black! Everyone vote for him or you're racist!" But the overemphasis on Clinton and Harris' sex was actively off-putting to voters. Everyone can implicitly tell if you are get votes from identity politics, and they don't like it.

That's because everyone knew it wouldn't happen.