HopeOfTheGunblade @ HopeOfTheGunblade @kbin.social

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Civil Rights Act era. The republicans decided to campaign on racism, called it the southern strategy.

Hey, they're still beating the interest.

I remembered that she was scummy. I remembered that she had slept around after giving her oath of faithfulness.

I had forgotten the Zangief cosplay.

I mean that's fine, rail each other all day behind the bench. Just stop feeling shame enough from doing so to take it out in the rest of us.

Nah, see, when politicians pass laws like this and cost the state massive amounts of time and money fighting over it in court, fuck-all happens to them. When a random state employee decides on her own one day, "fuck them queers" and acts on it, she gets consequences. Or at least, she used to. Goddess knows what to expect here going forward.

Governor? She was a clerk.

I want that for instrumental reasons like, "I'd really like it if I didn't have to worry about my family being herded into camps because "Joe Biden was just too old" or something," but yeah. It would be really good if people would get better about recognizing what he is and what it is he's selling them, like a cut rate Leland Gaunt.

"It isn't your fault, but it is your responsibility."

Unfortunately, he was never taught responsibility in a way that took, presuming he's capable of it in a meaningful sense.

Sympathizing with them is not actually compulsory; I intentionally do so as an exercise because I believe that stretching myself that way will lead to better outcomes in situations where I have power over people, but it's not at all a requirement.

I mean, heterosexuals do get the vast majority of divorces, and divorce is a sin...

I believe it's currently in excess of the interest. I don't expect it to stay that way.

Which is doing him unfavors. Appealing this is going to be really hard because Habba didn't lodge any objections to any of the evidence, cutting down grounds for appeal.

I don't know if there was anyone else in the field in 2016 who has the same mix of traits to do the kind of damage he did to the country. I could be wrong about this, but I think a president Cruz would have been slimy and made the country worse but I don't think he would have been as bad.

Yup. It used to be a much smaller set, but then as a country we put him in office.

On reflection, that has turned out to be a poor decision on America's part. I hope we continue to do better.

He does, and that doesn't help, yes. The kind of person he is, is a kind of finger trap: the harder he tries to be cool, respected, etc, the more he steps on rakes, and the more rakes he steps on, the more he needs those things, so he tries, and steps on more rakes.

If marbles don't have free will, why does putting them into a marble maze lead to them rolling? That you cannot stand apart from your mind and reason with some perfect algorithm that doesn't mean that you cannot be influenced. I'm a part of your environment.

Also, I'm not necessarily trying to shape your perspective; I'm sharing mine. I'm not saying you're wrong to have that viewpoint, I just prefer the person I am when I'm not generating that as much as when I'm generating that him existing as the person he is, is a tragedy.

I'm not advocating for a Total Perspective Vortex experience for him here. I agree though that it's not going to get better.

I'm pretty sure that's still advancing. Last I heard the families who won against him were moving towards seizing his assets.

That would probably be better for the rest of us, and more likely, but it's still a sad outcome compared to him recovering from the sickness he's suffered from his whole life.

Yeah, it's tragic for anyone in that situation. It also sucks extra hard that he's become our collective tragedy, but the universe is like that sometimes.

So, yes, other people had similar environmental circumstances, but they weren't the same environmental circumstances, and they weren't experienced with the same brains. Nobody gets to pick their neural arrangements, and even if in some hypothetical sense you did, you wouldn't get to pick the algorithms you did the picking with. There's an infinite regress there, unless you acknowledge that it grounds out in you get the mind you get. Libertarian free will doesn't seem to map to anything in reality, and while I'm always willing to update on new evidence, it's been a long time since anyone's presented anything really novel in that area.