AllonzeeLV @ AllonzeeLV @lemmy.world

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You're talking about people who believe to their core that a fancy lad born to real estate wealth who revels in his class privilege to a cartoonish degree, to the point of having a reality show where the central conceit was "kiss my ass for half an hour because I'm so rich," Represents their interests.

They are willfully, belligerently ignorant in order to protect their false beliefs. They have been trained to reject any and all information inconvenient to the positions of their tribe.

Donald Trump could literally rape a typical Republican's mother in front of them while laughing about it and flipping them off, and their mind would either pretend it isn't happening, or declare that Biden is doing it. They've fully embodied the Orwellian nightmare:

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

I think a big part of the problem is that, among younger Americans especially, both men and women that refer to themselves as feminists conflate it with benevolent sexism, and not the same sets of social rules for both genders.

Benevolent sexism is a tough concept to swallow for men. It means respecting and practicing the old mores men practiced with women, with none of the toxic expectations. Things like expectations of men being the breadwinners, running to get the door, etc aren't compatible with a desire for equality, especially when correctly rejecting the trade-offs those perks used to be tied to.

The first waves of feminism cleared the way, but in having done so, the newest generation of women are asking "but why don't I get these cool perks I heard about" and men are answering "because we no longer get the social power that facilitated that cool stuff."

Everything is trade offs.

Yesterday happened.

We can waste time lamenting the poor choices made yesterday, or we can make better decisions today.

Would you have preferred he didn't do this? Or did he need to go on tv and slap himself as he said "I'm stupid, stupid, stupid for not doing this sooner?"

What would you have rather he did today in a world where time machines don't exist?

The "Constitution" says whatever our corrupt, unaccountable SCOTUS judges says it says, with no appeal or achievable recourse.

They can say whatever it says is the opposite, and that's the end of it. Thank the glorious founders and their divine constitution for fucking up meaningful checks on the judicial. Welcome to thunderdome.

I'll bet you're not singing about the infallibilty of our Constitution when it comes to holding the judicial branch accountable to the other branches or the citizenry, but agree to disagree I guess.

A flawed document too rigid and inflexible for modernity, designed by slave owners who suggested their class be the only class allowed to vote, the smartest of which said it wasn't meant to be treated as a divine document in perpetuity, designed to govern less people by an order of magnitude at the speed of horse.

It was ahead of its time... a quarter millennium ago.

Also the corrupted SCOTUS decides what the Constitution, Amendments, and laws say and mean, and they've been clear it says whatever is convenient to their interests in the moment, without actionable recourse. Thanks for that, glorious founders.

I'm voting against Trump, but imho this is the wrong way to defeat him. This is the kind of thing states would have done to MLK because of his civil disobedience... if the FBI hadn't murdered him to silence his messages of racial equality and economic equity.

Trump must be defeated by the people's vote. If he were to lose on the basis of being prohibited in some states, even with an adequate rationale as Colorado has, it will embolden and further radicalize his base rather than dishearten and deflate their members.

At the end of the day, any nation should succeed, or fail, based on the choices of its citizens, not by attempts to protect the citizens from accessing bad choices as this is.

Plus this is a strategic blunder politically, as the unaccountable and Republican captured SCOTUS will in all likelyhood overturn it, which will take a victory many are celebrating into a victory, enthusiasm boost, and talking point for Trump's base to uninformed centrist decide on election day voters.

In a nation where corporations literally have more rights and fewer responsibilities than people, I see this as theater.

The owners will get their way. They own this fucking place.

A piece of paper with a drawing on it?

Anythings possible.

I mean, the very existence of magic kind of nullifies the concept of math as a means to ascertain objective fact.

What good is 2+2 when 2 eyes of newt plus 2 legs of frog leads to random quantities of dancing forks with literally no respect as to the how because magic?

Math can't quantify a world where physical laws are replaced by literal nonsense, and if math could ultimately explain the mechanics of magic and predict the outcomes of its applications, the magic wouldn't be magic anymore, it would just be another great force of the universe like gravity or electromagnetism to be mapped by the scientific community.

Yo-ho, all together, hoist the coooolors high...

A white nationalist and their money are soon parted.

You look at this global economic system and think its broken and needs to be repaired. I look at this global economic system and think it's doing exactly what it was designed to do and needs to be replaced.

I hope you're right and I'm wrong. Our many species threatening crises would be a lot easier to address, and us humans, we love the idea of easy. But that economy through its proponents has been claiming to be the sole entity that can solve all the problems it's created for those 40+ years of being unshackled from meaningful regulation, and the problems of inequity, corruption, regulatory/governmental capture, exploitation, and oh yeah the very air we all COMMUNally breath have only gotten significantly more dire as a direct result of market actions, and those markets have only entrenched themselves deeper into the decision making processes of the world governments once meant to keep them in check once upon a time.

You say brain-rot is the cause, but I say this system is designed to cause that brain-rot. It turns regular people into practicing sociopaths.

It's all academic though. You can't get the market capitalists to suddenly be nice, consider how their actions effect others, and think about how everyone can win, and I can't lower them into acid. They're gonna do what they're gonna do, because capital is power and they have almost all of it. No matter what you or I believe, their madness and destruction of civilization and Earth's biome will proceed.

I was being a little tongue in cheek.

My point was, they aren't a state that is loved by the rest of the country, and they wouldn't be missed, so their attention seeking behavior is pointless.

At least Florida, for its innumerable flaws, has nice beaches and attractions. Save for the rodeo crowd, not many Americans are like "ooh lets go to Texas for vacation!" It's Nebraska with a bad case of short man syndrome.

I mean, can we allow them to?

Make Puerto Rico or Guam a state. Better food, infinitely cooler people.

We wouldn't even need new flags.