

Fear leads people to do stupid evil shit


Fear leads people to do stupid evil shit

That sucks, and I hope you’re wrong, I can’t say you’re wrong to prepare, though. Solidarity from Norway


True, but you could also band together with the other rich people and lobby for the inheritance tax to be abolished for a few years so you can give your children the inheritance before the tax gets reintroduced. A wealth tax doesn’t have that problem.


nice summary, thank you


The president is, and is supposed to be, just a dude – not a supreme leader. I get that it might not be politically expedient to sell them like that, but at least realize that whatever candidate wins – even an establishment favorite – they are subject to pressure from within their party.
So, join the party and push from within, or your union and push from there – or both.


Could he be seeing Trump less because he is no longer a White House Insider?

In that case, shouldn’t your focus be on building a broad political alliance of opposition that includes as much of the military as possible?

fair enough. why do you think that, though?

that sounds like a slogan, not a strategy


yeah, I switched to Linux on my personal computers once I noticed ads in the start menu, my work computer has win11, though

Let me rephrase: it can, and probably will, get worse. It is not in the left’s interest to hurry that process along.


Yeah, the edition I read had a preface that seemed specifically written to prevent those kinds of interpretations. I wonder if it was written by a female relative of Nabokov’s.
It’s well written, but maybe too subtle
I mean, this is clearly the same kinds of magical immigrants who steal all our jobs while sitting around claiming welfare all day.


dude, Notepad even has Copilot now


Pretty sure no type setter or graphic designer would use Word for anything else than making Word templates.


I managed to get a few chapters into “Lolita” before I decided to put it down. It’s well written, but so very creepy. This text is like it’s written by the main character – maybe even a more honest version of him.

The military is majority conservative, the same with the police, private security, and even the local gun club. Normalizing political violence is just about the dumbest thing the left can do in the US.


I don’t know that they want to, but as economic inequality increases it will happen. Without a middle class, there’s not much of a market for high-end bleeding edge gaming PCs


the plausible deniability is getting thinner and thinner - this time it was that the whole video was jungle themed, so obviously it had nothing to do with racism!
If the approach is just “look for evil people and then destroy them”, or “if politicians piss the people off, and they’ll come for their head”, it’s likely to produce more evil through the fear that it creates. A good political system is predictable – politicians should know that if they do evil (clearly defined in law), it will become public, and it will have consequences (again, clearly defined in law). This should also apply to all powerful people, not just politicians.
At the end of the day, the goal is to control and counteract certain ambitions, not to create fear.