No. Never had that thought.

Any night that I’m just sitting alone at home I consider kind of a disappointment. I try to at least go for a walk or something.

I think Lemmy (and maybe social media in general) might have a greater proportion of people who don’t like going out and being social.

Kirk would not have given up his worldly possessions to follow Jesus. He also would not have followed the other instructions.

Troy Nehls is an idiot who should be removed from office. All republicans should be removed from office.

Funny, but right wingers use words for power, not for truth or consistency.

every accusation is a confession.

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A worker is getting out of his car at the company parking lot when the company owner pulls up in a new sports car.

“Wow,” says the worker. “How did you afford that beauty?”

“I’ll tell you what,” says the owner. “If you work hard, put in some extra hours, hit all our numbers, I can buy another one this quarter.”

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Wage theft is bigger than all other theft. Some people are happy to be a cog in the machine.

Remove as many nazis and nazi sympathizers as I can, probably.

It’s projection, as usual.

No… no that’s impossible… fuck. 14 years, huh? I remember it was 11/11/11 and there were ads for it on city buses, and I thought “wow i guess video games are mainstream now”

People follow their emotions. It feels bad for a poor person to get a “handout”, and it feels good for a “bad” for a bad person to be punished. That’s pretty much it. Multiply it by “my in-group is good and my outgroup is bad”, and you get conservatism.

Notice that it’s a stupid world view. It’s at the level of toddlers.

If we want to change how these people act, we need to reach them on their level. Facts won’t do it. They’re not listening to facts. You need to make them feel good when they do the right thing.

It does feel like being held hostage by a cranky toddler, yes. We have to pander and beg and appease them because they’re too selfish and stupid to realize it would be better for everyone, including them, if they just cooperated.

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies

Right wing people just say shit for power, not for consistency or truth or anything.

It’s the combination of “all feelings no thinkings” and “in-group good, out-group bad” that’s really the problem.

Just one or the other isn’t a disaster.

You don’t have to work if you’re wealthy. Give me $5 million and I’ll never work again, and live a happy life. Even as little as $2mil is doable

Imagine being drunk and hungry all the time. For weeks. Years. Go on. Next time you’re drunk (or sleep deprived, if you don’t drink), try to read a complicated wikipedia article. Did you understand any of it? Or are the authors assholes who don’t understand shit?

It’s kind of sad. Like they’re trapped in a quagmire of feelings and slop, with no way to sober up. Except they suck, so it’s more dangerous than sad.

I don’t know if conservatism is really about preferring older solutions. I think that’s the marketing. It’s pithy but I think the “conservatism means there must be in-groups the law protects but does not bind, and out-groups the law binds but not protect” is very explanatory. That might not be what they tell you, but humans generally feel a thing and then reach for a socially acceptable explanation afterwards. But it’s really just “I want my group to thrive, and the other groups to go away”. That was probably a survival trait in pre-history. Now it’s just being an asshole.

One of the problems is that the way these people are dividing people into groups is kind of stupid and self destructive. Instead of seeing “all of us who trade labor for money have common cause”, they think they’re in the same tribe as the ultra wealthy. Instead of recognizing that that queer couple is struggling to pay bills and raise their kids, they mentally put themselves in the same group as some rich assholes who (under)pay a nanny to raise their kids and never spend time with them. They vote to cut social programs because they think it’ll hurt their out-group, but it’s hurting them. They have the groups wrong.

I think there’s also more fragility among conservatives. They hear something like “white people perpetuated the horrors of slavery” and their ego freaks out. That’s an attack on the in-group! Can’t have that! And so they reject it, because the in-group is the most important thing.

To be conservative is to be a failure. To be less decent. It’s not hopeless. People can change. But I don’t think “Oh, they just prefer older institutions” is apt. It’s about dividing people into us-and-them, and really putting the hurt on “them”.

I’m pretty sure I used Hidden Body the first time and felt like a genius.

Subsequent attempts I got better at the “run run run run dodge, dodge, PARRY” and felt like a god when I pulled it off. Also fun is when you don’t do enough damage to kill them with one parry-riposte, so you have to parry them a second time on the ledge.

Thiel is a dangerous piece of trash and I’m disappointed he hasn’t… let’s say… been beamed up like kirk.

If capital wants me to spend money, they have to pay me some first.

I’m not an overgrown child that needs to have the latest iphone and every meal delivered or whatever. I’ve got a public library and comparably cheap food I can cook myself.

At least they didn’t go maximum passive voice and write like “Thousands of projectiles fired”

My elderly father had this idea that “workers don’t know how to run the business”. I told him about all the idiotic things the management at my old job did over the advice of the people actually doing the work, and I think it made him think about it.

I’m reminded of a post I saw a while ago about how conservatives recognize many of the same problems (low wages, abusive work situations, healthcare hellscape, etc) but then connect the dots all wrong to draw the wrong picture. Most people connect the dots to get “capitalism and rule by an elite few is bad”, but somehow they get “queers, jews, and blacks are the problem!”