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To me, it seems like a possible manifestation of the sunk cost fallacy. I've personally seen it in IT security audits and policy rollouts. As you try to make a domain more secure via more aggressive group policy rules, more authoritarian approaches become more acceptable than when you started. Part of it is a sunk cost of "well, if we don't take this more aggressive stance, all of our previous work could be undone." mixed with a sentiment of "We are already blocking users from accessing x service, why not also block y service". Blocking y service would have been unpopular before service x was blocked, but now there's something more acceptable that you can point at as justification. This process just repeats further and further until you're essentially blocking everything and selectively allowing services.

I'm sure I've noticed it elsewhere, but that's one example that I have encountered quite a few times.

Huh, I'd noticed the ratchet effect before in a few different subjects, but I hadn't heard of it specifically. I think you hit the nail on the head, thanks for helping me learn something today.

Conveniently located in a patch of poison ivy, it appears.

Is this not just an illustration of the concept of the Overton Window?

Is this a revelation? It's stephen miller. Everything he does is with the intention of either consolidating power or to get lefties killed.

They hold water for high level pedophiles and are a major contributor to the US's current nosedive into fascism. This isn't anything out of the ordinary for fox.

I'll stop calling him a fascist in exchange for him doing some deep sea diving in a carbon fiber hulled submersible.

What if we just stopped enabling shitty private health insurance companies? Dumb.

33% of people approve

For real? We're so fucked.

Wow, 60% of Americans are blind or illiterate. Rough.

I've only seen right wingers saying he's a mastermind. The left just says that he's senile and demented or evil and lawless. He's doing the shit in the open with minimal statecraft or political finesse.

He's a tyrant fascist through and through, but he's not all that smart, he's just willing to brazenly ignore any rules that get in his way because consequences don't apply anymore. Republicans think this makes him a skilled politician, but he's just a bull in a china shop.

The only way to defeat us is if the Trump administration and the movement that undergirds it manages to divide us. We can’t let that happen. To win as a majority coalition, we must always invite everybody who believes in civil liberties and human rights.

Sooooo we're defeated? 1/3 of the population voted for this and is actively cheering it on, 1/3 don't give enough of a shit to take action for whatever reason, and the last 1/3 are the target of the first 1/3.

How the fuck are we supposed to band together and "invite everybody that believes in civil liberties and human rights" when half of the country is either championing or passively allowing the stripping away of those rights? This would require the right wing to fundamentally shift their views on immigrants and gay people, which they obviously have no interest in doing.

All that was needed to defeat Hitler was to make the Nazis see Jews as people.

That's pretty much what's being said here. Can we please be realistic and not pretend that both sides are equal and valid in their rationale and behavior? If someone starts punching every gay person around them, you don't tell the gay people to be more cooperative and understanding, you arrest the fucker and punish them.

The album Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails has been getting a lot of play for me, recently. It's amazing how long the alarm bells have been going off for people paying attention.

You can still be a 90's kid, we won't kick you out

"push my fingers into my eyes" is a reference to Duality by Slipknot, as well. Sorry to break it to you, but it was 2/4

The type of people that found Fred durst hot in the 90s probably still think Fred first is hot. Just two brain cells in a cage match for the last 30 years.

Classic

Be nice to Canada, they have the worst neighbors

Could be a coincidence. Only way we're going to know is if we occupy Winnipeg.

Only thing that could get those big boys hustling that hard. Gotta protect daddy.