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Guaranteed that one of his sychophants has already started collecting the data necessary to deep fake Trump so that they can keep filming "rallies" while he's in jail and after he finally does himself in with cheeseburgers.

People will keep saying stupid shit if you keep acting like they are arguing in good faith.

Laugh in these peoples' faces, and you'll find out real quick what their actual agenda is. They'll scream it at you in between spitting.

This. He's trying to phrase it like he has no agency or choice in the matter to abdicate responsibility for the pain and suffering that is the point of voting for Trump.

These people do not deserve the benefit of the doubt. We tried that shit when we didn't haul all their great grandpa's to jail for initiating and fighting for states' rights to enforce chattel slavery.

Don't ask them questions like they'll wake up and realize they're idiots. They're not idiots. They're evil, they revel in causing pain, and they're also too cowardly to own that. Instead they'll use weasel words to act like they have no choice, and that it's just a cultural difference between regressive pieces of shit who want everyone else to suffer vs normal people who just want basic governance and personal freedoms.

I remind myself of several things: progress is cumulative; it has inertia, meaning that it takes a while to ramp up, but also doesn't stop immediately when my attention waivers; and success is a spectrum.

Do what you can when you can. Don't worry about what you're not doing at every moment - focus those thoughts on planning blocks.

Your normal day should be set up to knock out your task list. And once a week or so, you can sit down to determine what new tasks are needed to support your long term goals.

But it does make sense. It is logical.

You are expecting them to make logical, sensible choices to get to the outcome you think is right, and they're not.

But their choices have led them to exactly where they want to be - able to blame democrats any time something goes wrong, while looting and pillaging the tax base to enrich their private donors.

This is all working as intended and designed. And until we stop acting like they're idiots that just happened to stumble onto something, they'll keep getting away with it. If they were truly stupid, or weren't planning this shit out, then we'd see benefit for normal people at least some of the time. Since we consistently see that only the rich benefit, it is safe to assume that they are only trying to benefit the rich. And are doing so successfully.

This. The US has been doing social credit for decades. We just call it regular credit because we don't care about your antisocial personality tendencies as long as you can keep a job and spend the money you earn. Just a question of priorities.

Social credit is a terrible system. But we have similar stuff - job references, landlords checking your history, etc. The US often has the things we deride others for - we just obfuscat and abstract it. Bread lines - EBT, etc.

This. I was fine with streaming when it started. It's literally what most people were asking for - a la carte pricing for specific channels you want, rather than having to pay a bloated fee for a bundle that you want less than a tenth of.

I've enjoyed streaming over the last few years.

But over the pandemic and now beyond, they've decided to start conglomerating, bundling up a bunch of content I don't want, and charging me extra for the privilege. Which was the complaint about cable.

Ignorance has been out the window for a decade. These people knowingly engaged in falsehoods long enough to convince themselves they're right, and I am sick of giving them a pass as if they're just dumb, poorly informed, unable to find alternatives to their hate rhetoric, etc.

At a certain point, it's malice. The saying about not attributing to malice what can be explained by ignorance is for situations where all else is equal." We are beyond that point.

Throw the book at him. Let them riot and ruin their own shithole counties, or let them try to drive to big cities to attack them, and then throw the book at them too. I'm done accepting responsibility for the actions of these people, who have been given countless opportunities to not be assholes.

I loved mine, but eventually they started rejecting. But instead of being pushed out, it was like my skin was repeatedly cracking while trying to absorb them. Sucks, because they looked great.

Citation for the drama around betamax recording, including Mr. Rogers testifying to Congress: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29686/how-mister-rogers-saved-vcr

Lack of a draft is almost directly and solely responsible for the current quagmire of the US military - when we had a draft, normal people were pulled and had to serve with other normal people. They had real lives to go back to. They had family and friends who would listen to them and write their representatives to complain if the use of those human resources was inappropriate. Seeing body bags flying home and a televised razing of a foreign jungle turned a lot of people off from war. And they made their voices heard.

Now, the only people being asked to pay attention are career military professionals. They often do not have a job or life outside of the military to tie them to normal life. They've also gotten smarter about where they fly corpses in, so the news can't provide a solid day-by-day count of the wasted lives. These folks aren't pushing back against the worst excesses of the military, because their college benefit or their pension require them to shut up and just do what they're told.

There's a great documentary called Sir! No, Sir! about the vibrant protest movement from within the military, driven mostly by draftees during Vietnam.

I don't disagree with your initial reasoning, but there's a different take that says that what we have allowed is for the worst of us to control the policy for all of us, with nearly no external oversight.

Just a wild guess, but probably a tracking field for how often you orgasmed due to it.

So they admitted they wouldn't be able to honor a child's care plan and that their opinion on that particular matter would weigh more than....the kid themselves, their family of origin, their doctor and psychologist and any other medical team member...

Yeah, they shouldn't even have fundie kids, because who the fuck is to say that the kid's fundamentalism would like up with their own.

I hate to break this to you, but these have to go hand in hand.

Government, and the individuals who make up the government, are balancing a lot of competing demands.

Until one of those demands may include the loss of use of their property, at the very least, then they will always be more incentived to overvalue the perspective of the rich. And the rich will literally say, yeah, it's bad, but we can slap a bandaid on it - 20% or the cost for 40% of the solution, that should get us by!

Some other overwhelming force will eventually be necessary to change the calculus of what an "acceptable solution" looks like. Because with your market regulation, you will always have people willing to pay the fine instead of following the rules, and if they are allowed to continue externalizing those costs to the rest of us, we will continue to have less room to request less benefit, and we will have to take what they decide to give us. Which I can almost guarantee will be pennies compared to what it costs us in the meantime.

The hottest 36 days on record. Also the coolest summer we can expect to see for the rest of our lives.

I see what you're saying about it not being good for democracy...we shouldn't have politicians making decisions based on their personal use, and trying to avoid scrutiny of that use...but at the same time, we have that anyway. Honestly, at this point, burn it all down. Make the entire apparatus of government so transparent that the shitheels currently in office can't justify staying on. Make it to where the only people who can function in elected positions are political monks.

Because most religious conservatives don't think beyond "what is acceptable to my group" and do that. Or appear to do that. And not rocking the boat is highly valued in those communities, so people who want to abuse others financially find ripe ground for it.

Because most religious conservatives don't think beyond "what is acceptable to my group" and do that. Or appear to do that. And not rocking the boat is highly valued in those communities, so people who want to abuse others financially find ripe ground for it.

Commercial artists only care about the aesthetic of it doesn't hurt their chances to make more money.

Also keep in mind they announced it at the same exact time that they wanted people to stop talking about them and Taiwan. And all the sexual harassment at Blizzard.

They had no details about it at the time. They just wanted something the mainstream press could run instead. And tanked a game to keep it from cementing on their face. Idiots.