krashmo @ krashmo @lemmy.world

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"Shut up about the eggs"

- Donald Trump

Bernie is a great guy but that's an example proving the point I'm making. He's saying the same things he's said for decades. He's not wrong about most things but his stance isn't really evolving either. He's pretty revolutionary for someone in his age bracket but if you look at his peers he's pretty much the only one that you could say has a relatively modern view of politics, and even that is mostly because the US is so far behind the rest of the western world that his moderate positions seem more extreme by comparison. All the other old politicians saying the same things they've said for decades sound like living fossils, and that's not going to get better if they start living longer, it's going to get worse.

It's not about how long you live so much as getting stuck in your ways. Old people don't learn new things and adapt the way young people do. Humans solidify the way they do things in their 20s, make some fine tuning in their 30s/40s, and then pretty much stick to those habits for the rest of their life. With the way technology is progressing we can't have stagnant people leading an evolving society.

There are exceptions to every rule but that doesn't mean statistics aren't valuable information to base decisions on. Do you want people stuck in the past making laws about the future?

You gotta draw the line somewhere. Retirement age seems like as good a place as any.

I don't think phrasing is the problem. I think the problem is a lack of leaders willing to stand behind it. Democrats are trying to pander to rich people while simultaneously tapping into the anger at rich people and that just comes off as disingenuous at best. I think voters will turn out if we give them a reason to. I think Democrats know that too and that's why they fight harder to stop progressives from gaining influence than they do to curb the existing influence of the rich.

They may be unrealistic but that says more about this administration than it does about the protests. That's pretty basic shit imo

That may be true. Still, don't let them make you afraid. That's the goal. They can't arrest all of us.

For posterity, fuck you Donald Trump and fuck you Elon Musk. Send the goons after me and prove you have thinner skin than an apple.

We have been asking them to talk about healthcare for a long time but Jesus Christ, now is not the time to start. It's like they're trying to lose and it's infuriating to watch.

Do Republicans become more moderate once they get in office? No, and their voters punish the ones that do. So why are you talking about Democrats doing that like it's a good thing? That strategy is a big part of our current problem. We keep trying to elect more progressive candidates but a bunch of them get into office then almost immediately say "jk, all that progressive business was a ruse, I'm actually here to lower corporate taxes". If I wanted a moderate I'd fucking vote for one.

You mean you didn't appreciate Harris campaigning with Republicans and throwing more support behind fracking than universal healthcare? Damn, what are you, some kind of socialist?

It's to the point that I might prefer either a direct democracy with no representatives at all or electing reps via a lottery system. Most of the people with the desire to run for office, and all but a handful of those with the characteristics necessary to wade through the muck of special interests and campaign finance to actually get in office, are the kind of people you want as far away from power as possible.

The KIA EV9 is pretty reasonably priced for what you get. As far as I can tell it's the only EV with a functional 3rd row that isn't exclusively in the luxury category.

I'm assuming you're saying this because no one has killed Trump or Musk yet. That's sort of nonsensical considering the former has had at least two attempts on his life in the last year. Important people get shot at on a fairly regular basis in America.

Are you just ignoring all the instances where this statement isn't true or do those not count because two guys you don't like are still alive?

I'm not worried about someone showing up at my door over upvoting posts on the internet. We all just need to decide that if they start doing that we shoot them in the face on the porch. Sooner or later guys will stop showing up. There's way more of us than there are of them and that's the realization they want to suppress more than anything. Don't let the ones who really should be afraid make you afraid.

The judiciary is not going to save you. Get that idea right out of your head. We will never collectively decide to do what needs to be done if we keep holding onto hope that this is a problem that can be solved from within the system.

Good. Gentlemanly warfare is a ridiculous concept. If someone invades your country you fuck them up in every possible way you can. Send those Russians home with chemical burns and nerve damage. They're not going to stop murdering civilians so why play nice with them?

People, specifically conservatives but this applies to more than just them, don't vote based on consistent standards of behavior or expectations of policy direction. They choose whatever reason is popular at the moment to justify voting for the candidate that feels right to them. They don't reevaluate things later on and see how their candidate performed against expectations. They just keep grabbing the current justification for their vote from whichever form of media they prefer and carry on living unexamined lives.

Unless they're no longer voting for Republicans then they didn't learn anything. My own experience tells me that is unlikely.

Am I just jaded about the whole internet or does this read like an AI summary? It feels too specific to be written by a human.