That, and the democrats are at least competent when it comes to implementing neoliberalism…

I would prefer a government that is further left. I think it would be more moral and create better outcomes for the people, but until we have a chance for that I’ll take competence…

Not entirely unreasonable except for the whole thing where it’s clearly a bronze age myth that has somehow survived into modernity

This thinking is a result of thinking that there is a simple political spectrum. There isn’t… Most voters are far too simple minded for voting that way. They vote for the other party when they are unhappy. That’s it. That’s all the decision making they need. They voted for Trump in 16 because they didn’t like the status quo (What simple working person is happy with the rich getting richer and the rest of us getting nothing but rising housing costs?). They voted for Biden in 20 because he wasn’t Trump and Trump really fucked up his time in the white house. Then they voted for Trump again because Biden didn’t change things.

The Democratic party can appeal to a lot more voters by abandoning a status quo that no longer serves the masses. There is a reason there were people who voted for Trump and AOC on the same ballot. They are people who are upset by the status quo and want change, even if that change is burning it all down and starting over.

We should give them change, because if we don’t, they will vote for change from the fascists.

There are too many of them for us to kill them all. We simply can’t kill 1/3 of the country… We have to find a way to build a society with most of the people who voted for Trump still being in it.

Now, for the ultramaga, proud boy types… I don’t hold back on solutions to the problems presented by that smaller population.

It’s always sad/funny to me that they are ok with forcing the bad parts of their faith on us via the government, but reject the good parts that most non theists would support

One of the big problems was that they cut trash service and eliminated regulations on trash disposal

They are even more surprised that public services are one of those things that actually saves money for a community. Like, spending on fire protection lowers insurance rates more than enough to offset the cost of the fire department…

I’m like, great, now do a basic social safety net and the costs of crime.

Yup, and you can make people more conservative by blasting them with propaganda about how scary “the other” is.

You’re so right… Firefighting is my volunteer gig. I’m a data processing engineer for astronomy missions for my day job. My boss (comet scientist, astronomy PhD) is one of those guys who’s a libertarian that always votes for Republicans. He thinks that funding science should be done by the government, because private industry won’t do that, but everything else should be privatized

They were worried about those things because they knew what they would do if they had the power.

Or pageant owners…

This is what happens in societies that have increasing income inequality.

Why should workers feel compelled to bust their asses when it benefits their bosses, but not themselves?

One of the worst things about being a firefighter is how many of my colleagues are republicans.

It makes no sense. You do a job providing services to people for the government and you vote for the folks who tell us that government is unable to do good…

It does make sense. But only if you accept certain facts about the morality of the Israeli administration.

I think the reddit user base is shifting too. It’s less “just the nerds” than it used to be. The same thing happened to Facebook. It fundamentally changed when everyone’s mom joined…

The inflation which was most likely due to Trump’s bungled handling of COVID…

The attention span of the average voter is short than that of a goldfish.

I don’t think the real libertarian types will forget Jones’s enthusiasm for a police state, as long as 'his guy’s is the one in power.

I mean… The vast majority of self proclaimed libertarians I’ve met feel that way when you press them on that the state should do, rather than what it shouldn’t do. No quarter when enforcing property rights in an economic system that creates large amounts of poverty requires a police state.

Citizens commit crimes at a higher rate than immigrants. Both legal and illegal.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/content/immigrants-and-crime

It’s worth noting that there used to be multiple .gov sites hosting information about this, but they are all dead links now.

Fuck this administration and anyone who thinks what’s happening is remotely ok.

I travel with one of these. It’s much better than not having one, but the one bolted to my toilet works much better

I worked in the analysis tool division of a company that built civilian and military jets when I was fresh out of engineering school.

I didn’t feel too bad about it because I was making commercial aircraft quieter and more efficient with my work. Then, the Iraq war started up and they told me I had to work on the engine for the F22. I started looking for a new job that day.

Now I work in planetary defense and don’t feel guilty about it…

Nothing in the built environment is, city or country… That’s the nature is being an outlier