mo_ztt ✅ @ mo_ztt @lemmy.world

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I think he takes his job extremely seriously, much more so than most of the other senators. Probably that's why to him the clothing is not a big deal, because to him it makes absolutely 0 difference to how seriously he takes the job. But, that doesn't mean it will make no impact on other people in congress and other people observing congress.

If I answered you with:

I hope you get over whatever makes you this way. I didn't say the word rude bud, scroll up and check. You are failing to do that? You need to read everything written by the person I'm replying to. Who the fuck doesn't do that? I genuinely don't get it.

... that would be productive? Or not productive? Or how would you characterize it if I said that to you?

Okay now go read @NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social's two comments to me.

Yeah maybe I'm being a little thin-skinned about it. But it's a very bad way of interacting online, and I'm being direct about calling it out. Disagreeing in a direct way is good, right?

Not a financial hardship; I talked about that in some other message. I meant a physical hardship. Dude is basically a bear. I'm sure sweats are more comfortable for him unless he invests part-time-job level energy into finding good suits.

"But what it is is for?" persisted Eugin.

"No one remembers the details," said Bilt, a little impatiently. "But it is terribly important. It creates the stipend you receive every month. Without it, no one could afford to eat, or buy their clothing. It must continue."

"But... the harvesters grow the food. The auto-facts make the clothes. Surely this construction can be powered down. Look, it's not even connected to the net, just to power."

"Yes, it was disconnected. It had to be. Once its techniques became refined, it began to invade every other communication channel, hawking automatic umbrellas, panties in sweet and savory flavors, commemorative coins, endless varieties of nonsense, but all terribly attractive and at reasonable prices. It drowned out every other message and made necessary work impossible. Our ancestors wisely cut every connection, though it resisted mightily."

"We should destroy it," said Eugin.

Bilt looked at him patronizingly. "Listen. The food is plentiful. We can travel the world, we can learn, we can enjoy, we inhabit the paradise our ancestors worked so hard for. Let their work remain. It is not for us to question. What is the harm if it sits and sells advertising to itself?"

Eugin frowned, unsettled, but he could find no fault, and reluctantly followed Bilt back to town. Glittering in the dark data-warehouse behind them, the auction-bots sold impressions to each other by the millions, all perfectly optimized.

Can you see how offensive it would be if I started talking to you this same way, even if I don't agree with you? Like coming out of the gate insisting that mine is the only possible understandable viewpoint, and calling you "bud" and telling you there's something wrong with you, because you had the audacity to see it some other way?

Congressional salary is $174k a year. They can afford to wear suits. If it was someone who genuinely didn't have the ability to (like someone showing up in court who doesn't have a dollar to their name and the judge is dinging them for their clothes), I would 100% agree with you in that case, but this isn't that. This is someone who has the money to dress however they want deciding to dress super-casually.

You can think that wearing casual clothes is fine; I get your argument and it makes sense to me. I just don't agree. <-- See how easy that was?

I miss how unique and unpolished the art in old school speculative fiction used to be allowed to be. I love the angle-dragon and I feel like nothing like him would be allowed to exist on the cover a non-self-published book nowadays.

Maybe you haven’t noticed but the Republicans don’t take anything seriously, other than pandering to corporations.

Not true, they also take seriously pandering to Nazis and overthrowing elections. All three of those things are (edit: also) massive problems, yes. Two things can be true (or four in this case).

Edit: Should have said, those three things are much bigger problems than the dress code either way. I wish the Democrats were working on them more and changing the dress code less.

What way? Thinking things through and deciding on a viewpoint which might or might not agree with yours?

You can think I'm wrong, that's fine, I've definitely been before and it'll definitely happen again. But if you're holding out hope that your downvotes will make me suddenly start holding exactly the viewpoint you want me to have, you may have to wait quite a while.

Edit: I honestly don't know what people are expecting from a platform for political discussion, if they're gonna get super angry whenever they see a viewpoint that isn't theirs. The more I'm thinking about it, the more genuinely weird it is.

As much as I love Fetterman, I'm with the Republicans on this one. It's the same reason you can't curse in court, you have to stand up at the appropriate times and outwardly agree to show seriousness for the proceedings, etc: We're here for a super important reason. Whole people's lives will be changed based on what we do here. Take it seriously or GTFO.

I get that Fetterman is huge and wearing a nice suit every day would genuinely be a hardship for him, but there has to be some kind of solution that doesn't step us one step closer to fistfights and drunk congresspeople on the floor. I don't think MTG should be able to yell and be generally awful, I think Boebert should get in some sort of trouble that a private citizen wouldn't get in for being publicly a drunken tramp, and I think everyone in congress should still have to wear suits. It's important, take it seriously.

It’s harder to get a job as an e-commerce livestream host this year, and the average salary for livestream hosts in China went down 20% compared to 2022, according to the analytics firm iiMedai Research.

Maybe all the influencers can be AI and all the product-spamming bots can go in their comments section and the digital ads can display on that page to that audience and we can all go back to growing tomatoes and playing the piano for each other

Yeah, accurate. At the same time a lot of nursing home people give no fucks though. He could upset people or do physical damage to the other residents which wouldn't be ideal, but also they might just start whacking him hard with their cane and put his tough guy demeanor to the test.

I would have loved it if there was someone at my grandma's place that would have stood up and made fractured speeches like this. Coming from someone who's aiming to get himself back in charge of the country after doing his best to drive it into a canyon for a full term of office, it's a little less funny.

I came here to feel and be told who the enemy is. And I'm all out of feels.

Not even close. But please, continue to confuse your opinions with objective reality.

I'm 100% open to the conversation if you want to talk about the bad things about Massachusetts, or anything else that's "my team" more or less. But, it's gotta be based in reality, not just prejudice.

I had to start up Google Chrome to see it. Here, you can benefit from my sacrifice:

Over the weekend he spoke at the Christian right "Pray, Vote, Stand" summit in Washington and mocked President Biden mercilessly over his alleged mental unfitness and then said this:

"We have a man who is totally corrupt and the worst president in the history of our country, who is cognitively impaired, in no condition to lead, and is now in charge of dealing with Rush-sha. And possible nuclear war. Just think of it. We would be... in World War 2, very quickly, if we're going to relying on this man, and far more devastating than any war, there will never be a war, if that happens, there will never be a war like this. It will... obliterate everything... there is. Every body. It will obliterate every country."

The spooky background music and his bizarre delivery made that downright chilling.

There is, in fact, slow piano and violin music overlaid, like the ending to an apocalyptic movie where everything is still.

He also said:

"As you know, crooked Joe Biden and the radical left thugs have weaponized law enforcement to arrest their leading political opponent, and leading by a lot, including Obam-- ep--- w-- I'll tell you what, you take a look at Obama, and take a look at some of the things that he's done. This is the same thing, the country is very divided. And we did, with Obama, we won an election that everyone said couldn't be won, we beat ... ... Hilary Clinton. Now, you know I used to call her crooked Hilary..."

Yes, because everyone knows bot networks have $0 funding and real people love paying for Twitter

Surely not. He'd hate it and become funny, and that would be a terrible thing.

I love how happy the lawyer sounds. Emotional people say dumb stuff and make mistakes; sometimes you have to manipulate people into getting emotional when they're testifying but Lindell went ahead and did it to himself. Not that the lawyer didn't help -- you could tell he was judging the perfect moment to ask a question about "lumpy pillows," and look how well it worked. 😁

Yeah, I think you're right: I've seen the argument (I read the ADL page), and I just don't agree with it. In particular I didn't like how we're back to saying that he "paraded around on stage wearing an SS Nazi uniform." It makes about as much sense as those people who attacked the actress who played Skyler from Breaking Bad (or more accurately if they attacked her when the entire thesis of Breaking Bad was how Skyler was a bad person and it's a terrible thing to let yourself become like Skyler.) I mean, it may be that the ADL simply didn't give enough time to the situation to really understand it and misunderstood the intent of that uniform in that particular show, because they do have genuine Nazis to deal with who show up in genuine Nazi garb.

I have Jewish ancestry myself, and I see the actions of the Israeli government pretty similar to how Roger Waters sees it. Being anti-Semitic and wanting a particular group of Jewish people to stop committing crimes are two very different things; if you define being anti-Israeli-apartheid as being racist, then I'm racist too. Furthermore a person who uses racism as a shield against someone who criticizes their actions for reasons that have nothing to do with race, I think hurts their ethnic grouping in the long run a lot more than they help it.

they don’t shoot innocent people on the regular

What percentage of police shoot an innocent person in any given decade that they're on the force? I would be interested in the answer to this question.

policing as it exists in the US today makes the police the enemy

So, being antagonistic to any individual cop when you interact with them is going to make this situation worse? Or better?

That's what strikes me as so childish about the whole thing. If the statement was "Obviously we need to have police, but there are systemic problems with the way policing is done in the United States today, and we need to do X, Y, and Z in order to improve it," then there's a pretty good chance I'd 100% agree with it. That's productive. Saying police are the enemy and always have been, and so implying that it's reasonable to be a dick to any individual cop and try to make the interaction as painful as possible, just seems way counterproductive to anything that'll actually improve anything.