Zorque

It takes emotion to make rash decisions based on reactionary feelings.

If you only do things because it feels right instead of what you’ve thought through and understood as a rational course if action… you’re doing the same thing as those who storm capital buildings cause an orange man told them to.

Don’t worry, should it ever happen, there’s plenty of wannabe Napoleons who would be willing to step in to take over once theyre gone :)

The problem is, if they’re afraid they have the resources to do something about it. That much wealth can buy a lot of private armies. It also buys a lot of lobbyists.

It takes more thought and planning then reacting with emotion against them. That feeds their goals just fine.

Don’t forget congressional and state/local races as well. Trump is only one point of power, albeit much more visible. But the executive branch can only do so much if the legislature is red anyway.

Why go after climate scientists… who have been saying this “for generations”? Climate scientists aren’t the problem.

“Don’t hate the companies, hate the people who lobbied for copyright laws… the companies!”

Well as long as you have your pride as the world burns down around you :)

Perhaps that’s the level of chocolate? Like you can have 90% dark chocolate, this is 40%.

That’s a pretty popular opinion, actually.

Don’t worry, they’ll still use your data.

… you don’t actually believe that, do you? Cause they can 100% go all in on Chinese corporations if it means they get that cashola.

And if you think Chinese companies aren’t in it for the money themselves… I’d love to meet your dealer cause you must be on some fantastic shit.

We’ve also seen over and over they won’t just fix things themselves if you rely on “competition”. They’ll just buy each other until there’s no competition, or they’ll collude to just not provide anything worthwhile in the first place.

Competition is a race to the bottom in capitalism. Government intervention has nothing to do with their race to bilk people of as much money as possible, except with regulatory capture.

Leaving them to their wiles just gets you even worse products for higher prices. The problem won’t solve itself, especially with such a high barrier to entry.

I prefer Stardew Valley

Which is, frankly, a ridiculous concept. If you only ever consider your own wants, compromise (a necessary concept in any non-authoritarian system) is impossible.

The problem is that politicians run the show, so if statesman (or legislators) want to get things done, they have to play the political game anyways. Becoming politicians by default.

Some politicians do, its just they tend to burn themselves out fighting against the neverending tide of the self-interested ones.

It doesn’t help that often they have little to no support structure because most people assume they’re corrupt by default.

Insofar as men and women have slightly different psychologies and societal pressures.

Clinically, probably not, though. I’m not a doctor, though, just some asshole on the internet.

Isn’t that just what they were referencing?

Why is red the only one associated with negativity?