I am no more frustrated with it than I am frustrated with my inability to take flight.

It was better when they were called FredBlox

I agree with almost all of this and even the parts I disagree with I agree in principle. There will never be someone who can reach level or power needed to actually do what you’re describing without being a very, very good liar. Because they are never reaching that position on merit and message alone. It’s not just republicans outnumbering us. It’s people who are indifferent outnumber republicans and democrats and progressives combined. And not performatively indifferent. I mean people who genuinely do not care and do not vote and never will vote no matter how bad their circumstances get. A rock bottom low enough to engage that many people can not exist in a world with drive thrus, cell phones, and air conditioning. There’s no way to make that many people uncomfortable enough to care without it already being too late.

That is the system though. The world would be a better place if we had leaders not motivated by their self-interest. But those leaders don’t get into positions of power. So, they don’t functionally exist other than to pat themselves on the back for suffering for their principles in their own minds that effect zero change or progress. I don’t say it to be cynical, either. It’s just reality. There are only a handful of people throughout history who reached high enough levels of power to actual change things for the better that were actually willing to sacrifice themselves for their principles. And most of them suffered for it and the only reward they got was a legacy.

You are not punching anyone in the face. And telling other people they are lazy or bad for not pretending otherwise doesn’t make it anymore true that you are. You’re just someone shouting a lie at a person who is sick of being shouted at and wondering why no one is doing what you want them to do.

I was just talking about this on discord (unironically). Something I genuinely miss about reddit (among other things) is being able to go to a TV show subreddit and engage on topics by strictly quoting lines from the show back at each other. But to have that meant all the other shit, where you can’t quote Wayne’s World 2 without automod thinking you’re advocating violence. The world I want and the world we have cannot seem to co-exist. And I am not sure it should. I’m just not sure it shouldn’t either. And my side is always losing.

That’s the spirit!

It’s a good lesson. People who reach positions of power are only able to do so because they are motivated purely by their own self-interest. Keeping her position was in her self-interest. Even the people who appear on “your side” are only in that position for themselves. The higher they get the less incentive they have to make performative sacrificies. Which they all are. Always and forever.

I am middle aged with a bad back and gout. My ability to fight is pretty limited.

I doubt anyone here is doing anything to prevent that now though

Just cobwebs. They’re delicious.

“Maybe go fuck yourself.”

Will do, thanks!

I don’t get it. Don’t we all eat churros like this?

John Garfield.

Eh. The previous SAT wasn’t even necessarily harder or easier. They cover about 90% of the same subjects and material. They just emphasizes different things at different rates. Some students actually did better on one versus the other based on their particular brand of aptitude not the aptitude itself. But the punitive scoring was bad PR for a test that essentially covered the same material but didn’t have a guessing penalty. People didn’t necessarily do better on the ACT because of the guessing penalty not being part of it.

So, all colleges started accepting the ACT or the SAT without preference about 2 decades ago and what happened was the ACT never had a guessing penalty so a lot of students started shifting to the ACT in favor of the SAT to the point that the SAT had to change their test to be more like ACT to continue to compete in the marketplace with them. And “compete” might even be misleading because they were still very popular and still the standard but they made the change to avoid losing their stranglehold on the market is probably the more accurate way to describe it.

Like cats with listening devices in them? Fine! You don’t get to be bait!

Already lost one president because of this belief so fingers crossed?

I actually read this story. She thought it was water so she didn’t drink at school intentionally. If she were a drunk I highly doubt she would have vomited after one chug. Even if gin does taste like pine shit.

Alcohol has never made anyone less annoying.

Honestly, based on early interactions I’ll probably have to avoid political conversations if I can help it since even people I agree with ideologically seem to irritate the shit out of me. Not all of them, obviously. But enough to have clocked avoiding engaging with certain groups already. I’ll just have to know it when I see it.