Seems reasonable. I’ve seen other people proposing that or similar solutions to the supreme Court.

I don’t think natural disasters are a great metaphor. I mean, even as you say you can do some stuff to mitigate flooding.

Often, in the scenario I was describing, it feels like they just accept the flood as inevitable and don’t want to do anything. Build no walls. Dig no drainage. No evacuation. Someone wants to build a dam, and they’re just like “walls?? Like a prison??”

its so depressing sometimes because theres so many people who stubbornly refuse to believe it, even intelligent highly educated people.

Also frustrating when people respond with “well communism is worse!” I’m like that just skipped several important steps. If we can agree that the current system is Bad, then we can work towards a solution. But just refusing to engage and going full what-about is useless

Nothing will change without some rich people becoming very uncomfortable

Seems karmic that people who voted for trump suffered.

You’re making me grapple with how expensive housing is here. A down payment for a two bedroom apartment in Brooklyn is going to be like $100-200k.

It’s fine, I tell myself. I can walk to everything I need and take transit to everything else.

Well then replacing Jeffries is a priority.

$50k is a weird amount.

If you’re currently financially in crisis, it will probably save your life. But if you’re doing okay, it probably won’t change your life much. And if you’re even mildly rich, like six figure salary, you might not even notice.

I’d probably just put it in vanguard or a high yield savings, in preparation for bigger expenses that are probably coming (eg: moving, unemployment)

“I never thought that it was so easy to take freedom from anyone,” she said.

Despite all the warnings and history, somehow.

Evil is just sparkling stupid.

Most conservatives don’t care, and when they do care they don’t understand.

As with all things involving humans, you can’t really change minds with facts. It’s just emotions and peer pressure.

Not a bad post, but I expect it won’t sway people who aren’t already on board.

Increasingly, they see their fellow citizens as morally bankrupt. American citizens are far more likely to view their fellow countrymen as fundamentally evil than citizens of the other surveyed nations.

Maga hats are as evil as the Nazis were. They want death camps. They’re bad people. They are not a mirror image of socialists who want health care for all, nor queer people who just want to live lives.

Every political campaign relies on the explicit premise that the opposition intends to dismantle civilization — either forcing you into communism or fascism, neither of which, if we are being honest, sounds particularly appealing.

There aren’t any communists seriously running for office. Not even close. There are people who want to reduce inequality and give labor a larger, fairer, slice of the pie. That is not communism.

Meanwhile, trump and the like meet all the characteristics laid out in eco’s essay on ur-fascism. ( https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism )

They grew up watching the adults in the room treat the opposing political party as an existential threat to survival

The Republican party is an existential threat to survival if you’re queer or not white enough. They’re also a threat, on a longer timeline, due to climate change. And also the deregulation and incompetence that gives us like disease outbreals. We should not act like that’s an irrational response.

Also, historically, the Republican response to HIV under Reagan lead to incalculable death and sorrow.

This article feels like a teacher seeing two kids fighting, and their response is they’re both wrong. They’re not considering how one kid is constantly the aggressor and the other is fighting back. It’s a false eeuuvlance.

This article kind of sucks.

Musk needs to go away. I’ll have a whole party if he abruptly kicks the bucket.

I’m happy I never developed a soda habit.

I pretty much only buy snacks and junks for parties. A normal sized bag of chips was like $7 yesterday. The smaller tostitos were labeled like $5.50.

I’d love to see some sort of general strike or mass boycott, but there’s not enough organization, and things aren’t bad enough for it to happen en masse spontaneously.

I’d never heard of this person before, except last night at a party someone mentioned them. No one else had heard of him. I’m okay not knowing who online people are.

Yes. The tax should be progressive where the first $x are not taxed, and the rate ramps up as income increases.

It’s ass-backwards like this.

Cool. I don’t have kids, but I’m not the kind of asshole who doesn’t care about other people.

The contradictions in “you need to work hard, working hard is good, so you can be rich and no longer work, working sucks” are weird once you see them.

I think a lot of upper management types believe they’re doing work, but a lot of it is bullshit.

I buy albums. Built up a nice library. No drm. No Internet required. I can even share it or pass it on. It’s a lot easier to share than my parents’ big record collection