Right?

I have someone in the friend group getting some gender surgery and I was like, “that’s great but please don’t tell me any of the gory details.” I don’t want to hear about surgery details no matter what part of the body is being modified.

I don’t think it’s going to stop until like armed people show up at the scraper’s homes. But I doubt the state would send the police for something like this, because there’s not enough money at stake.

Any text based platform is not going to be representative. Many people don’t read well, and don’t have the ability to communicate well in writing.

They want hierarchy. A king, nobles, and an underclass. They don’t care if they’re on top, just so long as someone is below them.

Climate criminal. Sentence him to a decade of litter removal, and bar him from holding office or working in any advisory or leadership roles.

This is jamming up my heuristics. I don’t trust anything coming out of Florida , and certainly not when a trump ally is involved. But also fuck Altman.

Honestly, many conservatives have such bad empathy this might move the needle. If it’s not happening to them, they don’t understand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro-masculinity

Weak shitty men know on some level they’re weak shitty men. They lash out and desperately cling to toys to prop up their failing ego.

Right. Conservatism is about hierarchy. Hierarchy is good and natural. You get shit on by your betters, and you get to shit on your lessers. Trying to change that is horrifying. It’s going to mess up the world! And if hierarchy isn’t good and natural, then all the suffering I experienced was unjust, and all the cruelty I inflicted was mere cruelty. Can’t have that. I’m a good person who deserves my lot in life. Even if it’s not royalty. There have to be royals.

It’s a shit world view built on cruelty and cowardice.

I’m pretty sure fraud is already illegal and most people don’t consider those laws a dangerous stifling of free speech.

Well, yeah. Conservatives will say anything to advance their goals. Doesn’t need to be true or consistent with previous statements. They’re bad people.

I read a blog post once about that. If I recall, it made the argument that conservatism is fundamentally about hierarchy and abuse. Child abuse is about hierarchy and abuse. It’s thus not surprising they go together.

The blog was more sophisticated than my memory of it, of course.

A rare example of when I think talking to the computer is a good interface.

Also fuck cars, and distracted drivers need to go right to the pits.

I did that once for some big assignment. I got a B and a “you can do better” from the teacher.

It’s all projection. They have poor empathy and don’t understand other people, so they just imagine themselves.

This doesn’t matter much if they don’t change their voting patterns.

The kind of people who respond to facts are already not voting Republican, or are assholes.

Facts don’t matter. Emotions do. People are emotionally invested in the mythology of the Republican party.

The opposition need to work on their own mythology.

Sure, but people believe they do. They often conflate capitalism with markets and competition

The core of capitalism - “you do work and I keep the profits” - is difficult to see as fair and just. Stuff like lower costs and “innovation” are incidental.

You can have competition and innovation without everything being owned by a few guys who don’t even work.

Well then replacing Jeffries is a priority.