aesthelete @ aesthelete @lemmy.world

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Le epic troll of killing a bunch of people

And really, what should be addressed is the difficulty of getting id. But noone wants to pay for that.

That's my point. Fix that. Everyone gives up on that without even half a fight.

To casual observers, it looks like you're arguing for voter fraud. Then Republicans can cynically appeal to the stupidest people by making that argument directly.

Yeah, maybe it's a case of software Stockholm syndrome or something.

Microsoft sucks and so does Outlook. My dad uses Outlook personally and I just can't imagine that. It's like taking your torture rack home with you for personal usage.

At one point, it seemed like we were getting smarter, and then we very didn't.

It helps to have so much show for your show and tell, I guess.

I agree that "heads should roll"...literally.

• Guillotines for a better America

Democrats are fighting on the wrong side of this issue and have been for some time IMO. I think requiring them is 100% fine, but they should be fucking free.

Oh come on, they're going to have higher levels of fuckup than simply this. Get a better imagination.

It'd be a really pleasant place to live if it weren't for the huge amount of selfish, entitled fucking pricks that do.

Yeah, I'm a hunching it up a bit, but I can't imagine it's a good thing (for reasoning) to have your brain full of microplastics.

It's a bit of an aside, but there's a large amount of absurdity in expecting scientific rigor in lemmy comments when purportedly scientific bodies are being led by vaccine-denying simpletons.

That ubiquitous expectation of powerless individuals to reason and behave perfectly while ultra-powerful people can behave like spoiled five year olds is foundational in making life fucking miserable for me personally.

Every country suffers from what? Mass stupidity?

Maybe that's true but it certainly seems like we are more individualistic and stupid than most...and I don't think those two things are entirely unrelated.

America is more car-oriented than most other western countries and leaded gas is how we did the majority of our poisoning.

Yes, of course microplastics are everywhere, but I've read studies saying that internationally they're eating about the same amount of plastic as we did years ago, but they kind of plateaued whereas here in the good ol USA people still don't know that it's not a good idea to eat three meals a day of microwaved food cooked in plastic containers.

Read the book "bowling alone" if you're interested in someone's attempt at researching why we went from collectivism to individualism as a country. There are a large amount of factors but if I were to take a crack at it, I'd list a few: TV, the Internet, smart phones, air conditioning, capitalism, and (last but certainly not least) racism. Racism is foundational to the country and its history.

As far as the stupidity, some of the same factors apply, but there are also additional ones like environmental factors (US citizens eat more microplastics than any other major country since like 2020 and we lead poisoned ourselves for a century), a deep-seeded anti-intellectualism, and we're a large part cultist/religious idiots that see everything through the lense of "some guy" being the best thing ever and the source of all truth.

Boss baby playing government

Edit: the people that take this asshole at his word and seriously are the same chode jugglers who nod continuously at every company all-hands

It's like a bunch of stupid kids playing government.

Get started primarying this asshole right now.

Same reason why Hip Hop sucked in 96: https://youtu.be/yKf40CLF9MU

Didn't agree 100% until November, but now 100% agree.

Centralism and incrementalism are full-on failures. If we're going to lose we might as well go out fighting.