t’s not stupidity, it was a clear option between something the American people know does not work, and something that might work.
There is no reasonable expectation that Trump would “work” for anyone outside of some very wealthy and grifters. So, yes, voting for Trump is stupid.
Accelerationists can fuck off.
Satire is dead. Unfortunately, this guy somehow survives despite his best efforts to get sick.
Surely there’s a couple people still working there.
Yes. And no one’s going to do anything about it.
Most people are too lazy and thoughtless to stop using it .
The engineers that work there certainly aren’t going to stage a coup.
And no one’s going to just do violence to Musk.
Sure, if you stop externalizing all the costs that let them afford it.
They don’t care about truth, or consistency. They care about power. Specifically, the power of their in-group.
Conservatism has been aptly summarized as “There must be in-groups for the law to protect but not bind, and out-groups for the law to bind but not protect.” That’s pretty much the whole thing. Conservatives are, in a kind of fundamental way, bad people. They value the in-group far too much.
best solution could probably be good public transport in the city and self driving cars in the countryside.
You don’t even need self driving if it’s mostly just the countryside. That’s just not a lot of people and the resources required to get it working would be better spent on building mass transit and walkable areas in cities where people actually live (and thus where culture and economy actually happen)
I think there are voter suppression efforts that target youth. Plus they’re likely struggling to get by and may feel like they can’t spend hours/all day voting.
Among other reasons, caps chill usage. A lot of user content would not get shared because “ehh I don’t want to waste my data for the month”
One of my friends wanted kids. She has a full time job in software and does side gigs like bartending. Can’t afford kids, so she didn’t have any. It’s sad.
Meanwhile the ultra wealthy have more money than they can spend.
Nationalize health care. Basic income. Public housing. Enforce existing tax laws. Tax or prohibit bullshit like “I’ll get a loan against my assets but that’s not technically income so I don’t pay anything”. Break up monopolies.
Asked why Trump was still on stage, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told CNN, “He’s here for the people. Not like loser Kamala Harris.”
How are we in such a shitty timeline that childish name calling is just unremarkable? Every trump supporter should be ashamed of themselves.
I think the people who need to have these rumors debunked wouldn’t trust a .gov website. They’ll believe a random fb post though.
Oh I’ve read about this. There was some sort of longitudinal study about like abortion rights or gay rights or something, and people who had shitty views in the past legitimately could not remember that they used to believe that.
It’s all about protecting the ego, I think.
I think it was mentioned in this book https://www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschangehome
Conservatism is “outgroups to bind, in groups to protect”. It’s pretty bad.
It’s not you. Google has been getting worse.
https://www.404media.co/google-search-really-has-gotten-worse-researchers-find/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/google-search-is-losing-the-fight-with-seo-spam-study-says/
I hope I live to see musk face consequences. Preferably ruinous consequences that don’t take down a bunch of bystanders
Stochastic terrorism will probably eventually lead to one of these justices being murdered. I won’t be happy about further destabilization, but these conservatives are doing a lot of harm. I won’t mourn their passing, even if it’s explosive.
Popularity has little bearing on merit.
Basic income, nationalized health care, public housing, free education. Would solve a lot of problems.
Enforce existing tax laws. Increase penalties for cheating on taxes. Tax unrealized gains. Break up monopolies.
The problems facing work class men are mostly downstream from all of these things.
“would you rather have nothing to eat, or poison?”
If you eat nothing, maybe you can figure out a better solution with your remaining time. If you eat poison, you’re probably going to be too sick (or dead) to improve things.
Trump is poison.
Also Biden did improve some things, so it’s less “nothing” and more “some crackers”. Sure, a full meal would be better.