asparagus9001 @ asparagus9001 @lemmy.world

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progressive victories under a biden admin have not been inconsequential.

I guess this is the part where I ask "like what" and you list off 50 random things that impact like 4 people and nobody else cares about, because from where I'm sitting, the US has teleported back to 1950 in the past couple years.

Even if I'm charitable and say okay, yes, those are all very consequential victories, the losses have been absolutely staggering and I'm seeing little to no fight back against it.

The median salary for a software engineer in the US is something like $70,000 a year last I checked on the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A gigantic portion of those 26 million people "in tech" work boring help desk jobs or run the IT for small companies or whatever. It defies logic that FAANG etc would pay people with a few years' experience a half a million dollars in total comp if they were so easily replaceable.

In case you missed it, the cold war was fucking stupid. Furthermore I would argue that the US's bad behavior at home and abroad ramped up MASSIVELY once they didn't have a counterbalancing superpower they had to take seriously.

The absolute irony of Americans (and specifically, politicians who voted for a half dozen needless wars of aggression over their career) suddenly caring about innocent people being hurt in a pointless war.

"Hey, you can't do that, only the US and our buddies who we arm in Israel are allowed to do that!"

No, it happened because we have an extremely stupid system, which was designed by slave owners, racists, sexists and violent criminals (men who raped their slaves, genocidal maniacs, etc) to restrict who is allowed to vote and allow someone who gets less votes to win the presidency, and the democrats have spent a quarter century not saying a word about it despite it happening twice in that period. Please try to focus the blame where it belongs. Well designed modern democracies DO NOT have this problem.

The United States was fundamentally broken, immoral and undemocratic from day one, and no amount of ranting on the internet about how it's the public's fault 250 years later will change that fact. This entire thread exists because people are rapidly losing faith and trust in the legitimacy of the system that was built upon that foundation.

Be honest, on a scale of 1 to 10, how much does this question have to do with your constant posting about how the maaaaan, maaaaan, is holding down all your crypto "investments" and they're due to go to the moon any day now as soon as the cabal of lizard people who run the world is eradicated?

I suppose you're probably the best person to ask about this. Do you have a grasp on how much of the "people regret their failed SAs" phenomenon is due to the classic "I realized in that moment that life was worth living and I made a terrible decision" thought, versus things like being hospitalized (most likely including time in the psych ward) after the fact, long term consequences (which may include injuries, disfigurement, long term physical/cognitive/other problems, six figure hospital bills in the US, etc), shame about the whole matter which may include shame that "they couldn't even do that right", etc...?

It's weird how nobody ever goes off on these philosophical treatises about what a downvote is REALLY supposed to be for unless they copped a shit ton of downvotes for their awful takes

To quote the famed philosopher T. Soprano: "Alright, but you gotta get over it."

Elon Musk is the world's most prolific shitposter ever since Donald Trump's fall from grace. He's not an obscure figure, and this isn't like me telling you to "do your own research" which involves a bunch of unsourced 3 hour YouTube videos. You can find out literally anything he's ever said about anything by, as they say, googling it. If you really care enough to know about it, you can take the five seconds to do that, rather than "JAQing off" in the comments section.

I'm perfectly chill, and since this is your go to line of attack, I assume you know I'm right, too.

If you had somehow been living under a rock that also has access to the internet, and were somehow not aware that Elon Musk is a far right quasi-"libertarian" (but only for the people he likes and agrees with) techbro douchebag, pulling up duckduckgo with the simple search "elon musk public transportation" would immediately make it clear how he feels about it.

There does come a point where "sincere questions" - assuming they are even sincere to begin with, serve only to muddy the waters and create confusion where there should be none. I'm not saying everyone should know everything - but if you're really "just asking questions" about Elon Musk, on the internet, on LEMMY, in the year 2023.... at some point it's on you and it becomes extremely hard to assume good faith.

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Lol. Okay.

The last two Republican presidents were installed while receiving less votes than the Democrat. If Democrats had spent the past 23 years blaming a rigged system, and trying to change it, rather than vote-shaming and insulting the general public and their intelligence (by claiming that they don't, in fact, vote more than Republicans), maybe they'd have actually gotten something done by now.

That assumes the idea that they actually want to get anything done other than send out more emails about how your 27 dollars is vital to the fight against fascism.

You realize that this line of thinking basically boils down to "blackpilled leftists are too stupid to form their own ideology and conclusions and are mere puppets of the right wing", right?

It's really condescending and I wish liberal democrats spent half the effort actually fighting the right wing as they did anyone even slightly to their left.

You have to vote to change all that too.

I think if you crack open a history book you'll find that the vast, VAST majority of changes did not come about by voting. Historically it hasn't done much at all, actually.