6d ago

aged like milk...

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Jean-Paul Sartre said it best I think.
"Never believe that anti-Semites [fascists] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

- Stop slandering Orangutans. That’s a candid shot of a fine gentleman.
  Comparing them to MTG is a horrific action.
  
  Isn't this a howler monkey? Point still stand though.
  
  As an enjoyer of Magic: The Gathering, I think her sharing the same acronym is a horrific action.
  
  that is actually a howler monkey, orangutans are actually quiet.
  
  you're right. pretty much every primate species is more advanced than MTG. my bad
  
  I interpreted it as "sarcastically pretending to be shocked by something that isn't really surprising", rather than a comparison to MTG

Did it "age like milk" when they were just lying the whole time?
- Aged like cheese.
  
  Cheese is good, though. Bullshit seems like a more appropriate comparison.
  
  Aged like racism.
  
  But I like cheese...

Both sides are same /s
- "Entitlement Reform" has been a watchword in both parties going back to the Reagan Administration.
  Democrats will tell you they've got an innovative exciting new solution to slow the rate at which health care costs rise, then shift a bunch of public sector money over to private sector subsidies.
  Republicans will tell you they're cutting fat out of the system, then transform a bunch of public sector spending into private sector tax breaks.
  Healthcare gets more expensive and less accessible. Each team blames the other one. A few socialists in some of the bluer states suggest we try a public Medicare-for-All model, then get primaried out of office in the next cycle by a pack of lobbyists in blue waist coats.
  
  "Ah, but the pawl and the gear are clearly two different components doing separate things!" I cry, to any sucker who will listen.
  
  Don't work, Daddy musk is here to make a 3rd party which will toxify the potential of any legitimate 3rd party, and we will continue on with the same system.
  If their plan for not having elections at all doesn't come to fruition
  
  It doesn’t always feel that clean cut to me. I’m not arguing that you are wrong. You are absolutely correct! You are describing a huge problem.
  But our stupid voting system is another problem that serves to keep that first one in place. Small uprisings against the two party system might be noticed but they will be filtered out. To change the system it seems there has to be widespread and persistent discontent and rebellion well beyond what we’re already seeing. We’re definitely moving in that direction though, for better or worse.
  That stupid voting system means that if you are going to support a third party with good ideas, you must necessarily withdraw your support from whichever of the pawl and gear you prefer to the other. Enter ranked choice, star, etc.
  So in an election like 2024 when it comes time to cast the actual vote, I’m left thinking: So what if I take my finger off the pawl there, and what we thought was a gear starts spinning like a buzz saw and cuts my fucking leg off?
  I guess going loopy from blood loss while I point my femoral artery at people like a garden hose and find ultimate rest knowing I was right about the system sure beats dying from nuclear winter.
  So that’s what so many can’t ignore when it comes time to choose. Yeah if we elected Harris we’d be living in a country of capitalism and inequality, with Israel doing horrors under our wing. It wouldn’t be a good outcome.
  But compare it with what we got. I’m just some employed straight white father living in suburban nowheresville USA, but I would very much rather my government didn’t have a gestapo, or bomb Iran, or sell access & secrets, or leave NATO, or support fossil fuels, or work against green energy, or round up people who have been living a peaceful productive life and destroy those lives by the thousands because they are ethnically undersirable to the base.
  
  Voters chose the option furthest right so the government shifted right. This happens every time the left most option isn’t chosen.
  
  Show your work.
  
  you can just say you voted for trump, you don't need to show a diagram
- It is looking like that more and more. If they don't fight back they are complacent and the same.
  
  Ah yes it's the Democrats fault all along

I'm sorry but that one is one of the most punchable faces to ever exist.

Damn it's a shame they didn't put in any protections against gutting these essential programs.

That was actually just one of the mating calls of the Samsquanch

What sucks here is she opposes Trump's bill.
- She says she opposes it after voting for it. Don’t let her off the hook.
  
  Oh indeed: that's part of what really makes this curdle.
  
  muroskwi said the same thing
- She voted for the bill in the House, then came out against it stating that she didn't know the bill limited AI regulation.
  The bill then went to the Senate where the provisions limiting AI regulation were removed, and then passed.
  The House will once again vote on the bill, which now does not restrict AI regulation.
  She hasn't made any statement but presumably she now supports the bill, given her only complaint about it has been removed.
  
  i have a feeling she was going to support the bill anyways, she wanted some way to not take the blame for supporting the bbb as a whole.
  
  she didn’t know the bill limited AI regulation
  Why vote for a bill that you haven't read? If I was a rep and didn't have time to reasonably understand a bill, I'd knee-jerk vote no.
- She'll fall in line like the rest of the spineless Reps.
  
  Like the rest of them, she voted for it, then had her staffers read it and they found something she didn't like, so she complained.
  This fucking missing link should not be in congress.
- Don't believe her words, believe her actions. And those says she supports it.

GOP wants to kill it. Democrats want to privatize it. Both are an enemy of the people.
- You are correct, but idiots still think in team sports terms WAY too much, even here on Lemmy. If one side bad, other side good! If you say anything like "both sides bad", then you're definitely a shill, and definitely not someone aware of how conservative US Democrats actually are!
  There's definitely no room to properly discuss how liberals are enemies of leftists, and always have been. Definitely no room to discuss how having to ally with liberals shouldn't give them a free pass for all the BS. Definitely no room to discuss how the lesser of two evils is still evil!

Weird that he knew all this would happen but did nothing to mitigate it.
Almost like the Democrats let the Republicans do their dirty work for them.
- democrats don't help the middle class
  "Why won't the Dems do something?! Shame on them!"
  Republicans does something that actively hurts the middle class
  "Why won't the Dems do something?! Shame on them!"
  
  If you don't expect Republicans to be shit by now you're a fool.
  I expect Democrats to be sensible and perform meaningful opposition to the corruption of the Republican party, but they can't or won't.
  I want to be able to support a party that opposes wealth inequality and the working class, but there isn't one right now.
- Jesus Christ give it a fucking rest. Democrats do not ask Republicans do be horrific evil monsters and that is a goddamned stupid fucking idea
  
  It really comes down to if you blame the scorpion or the frog?
  Both are responsible for the outcome imo.
  It's in Republicans nature to be destructive and selfish. There's supposed to be another party that meaningfully opposes that.
  
  Hillary explicitly supported the Trump campaign because she thought he was the only candidate more vile than her.
- There are so very many actual things wrong with the Democrat party but if you're actually stupid enough to think that they wanted what the Republicans just did you need to shut the fuck up forever and never vote in any election ever again. It's inexcusable levels of dipshit, even farther than the pro Israel crowd.
  
  I don't support the bill.
  I'm just saying it how it is.
  The Democrats do not meaningfully oppose the Republicans.
  After witnessing it my whole life I have to assume it's by choice.

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