Conservatives should be listened to on nothing. They have zero credibility. A toddler would make better policy decisions

I think that’s the “two Santa” strategy https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/two-santas-strategy-gop-used-economic-scam-manipulate-americans-40-years/

they’re scum that should not be allowed to hold office.

If they were capable of rising above their quagmire of fear and hate, they probably wouldn’t be conservatives. It’s not about facts or consistency. It’s about feelings. Mostly fear of the out-group.

I was at a bar once that the men’s room on the upper floor only had urinals. If you wanted to shit or piss in some privacy, you had to go to the bathroom on the lower floor.

This guy’s videos are one of the few things on youtube (other than music videos) I’ll watch sometimes.

People are weirdly, emotionally, invested in meat. Like it’s part of their identity.

I enjoy the taste of meat but I recognize it’s not good for the environment or the animals. So I avoid eating meat. It’s not a big deal. But for some people they act like you’re going to eat them and bury their bones in an unmarked grave.

If Biden had been up there saying that about a political opponent … it would make headlines all over the world.

It’s like the “only Democrats have agency” thing.

When Democrats fuck up we’re like wow they really screwed up, look at these bad choices, they’re fucked up.

When Republicans fuck up we’re just like well yeah that’s what they do. You don’t get mad at the sun for setting or a fire burning. Sometimes we act like they’re just immutable forces of nature instead of human jerks.

We don’t really hold Republicans to any standards.

It went basically like any reasonable person expected it to. Unfortunately many people in the US are unreasonable

I know it’s not for everyone, but for me I feel like buying music I like directly from the artist/label or via bandcamp has been a better experience. Now I have a library of DRM free music, and I know the musicians got a better cut.

Conservatives often have very poor media literacy. They’re often not smart or empathetic, because if they were then they wouldn’t be conservative.

It’s all emotions. Facts don’t matter.

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16 Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”

17 “Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”

18 “Which ones?” he inquired.

Jesus replied, “‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, 19 honor your father and mother,’[a] and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’[b]”

20 “All these I have kept,” the young man said. “What do I still lack?”

21 Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

22 When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth.

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Don’t see a lot of rich assholes talking about this part of the bible. (Matthew 19:16-22)

The other day I woke up to a bunch of text notifications from people, and my first thought was “Did it happen? Did someone shoot him??”

No, it was a bunch of unrelated personal life stuff. But for one dreamy moment…

I feel like trump could completely destroy the economy and cause the US to split apart and fall into ruin, and people would still think the Republicans are “good for the economy”

The GOP really is the worst of us, and removing it would do wonders. The Democrats aren’t perfect (or even good half the time), but they’re like herpes compared to the gop’s aggressive cancer.

If there is a civil war, I’m sure the enemies of the US would rejoice. It’s like that onion article that’s like “al queda decides to sit back and watch US destroy itself”.

But aside from that, I hope the conservatives lose. And I hope after they lose, we learn from history. Don’t just let them come crawling back into power like after the first civil war. The ultra rich and their lackeys need to be removed from power, and kept out.

Then again, the 14th amendment should disqualify Trump and a bunch of the republicans, and that doesn’t seem to matter.

The conservative mindset seems to be “What’s good for me right now?”. The law is good when it hurts their enemies, and it’s unfair when it hurts them. A policy is good when it benefits them, and bad when it benefits someone they don’t like. They are essentially toddlers. We should treat their ideas as seriously as we’d treat a two year old’s ideas. Yes dear that’s a really interesting idea to replace all the toilets in the building with monster trucks, but we’re not going to do that.

I mean, it’s win-win for the assholes.

People don’t fight back: they get deported. Win for nazis

People fight back: Nazis use it as justification for further escalation

At least defending yourself / the victims has a chance of saving them. Doing nothing won’t

I think a lot of people don’t get good information and then don’t connect the dots when they do.

There’s a lot of slop and mis/disinformation out there

. I’m sure there are efficiencies and they need to be enacted but we need to ask why we use the systems we use.

Yes. This is sometimes known as chesterton’s fence

https://theknowledge.io/chestertons-fence-explained/

G.K. Chesterton was an early 20th century English writer known for his clever paradoxes.

He once wrote: “There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: ‘If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.’”

In other words, don’t be so quick to tear down things you don’t understand. That fence may have been put up for a very good reason, even if that reason is not immediately obvious. To ignore that reality risks unintended and potentially negative consequences.