By attacking and crippling fucking Sesame Street, AKA the entire LIBRARY of magnificent culture, available and permanently useful to the poorest folks, especially children, provided by PBS.

By literally violently capturing the head of state from another country that posed zero risks to the one that went aggro. By making it super fucking clear that the only goal there is imperialist extraction.

By reversing the obviously improving relations with Cuba, in a disgustingly violent way, by simply depriving the literal island of the resources required to uphold a functioning society.

By cutting off foreign aid like a fucking guillotine, with ZERO prep given for the sudden “guess you can just go die, then, we are done helping”.

Ran outta words I felt like typing again, maybe I’ll say more.

By dropping due process in a hundred ways, by openly murdering people they want to deport, by dismantling election safeguards, by destroying the Department of Education, by installing a fucking quack as the head of our health department and attacking vaccination, by the executive branch refusing to answer to the other branches of government in all the legal ways it is required to, by weakening protections against predatory financial schemes, by discarding truth and nakedly lying as a constant mode of operation, by dismantling the separation of church and state, by rolling back civil rights and Roe v Wade, by facilitating ever-greater mergers and monopolization, by demonizing and attacking protected 1A speech as “left wing terror”, by SELLING FUCKING SCAM COINS FOR PRIVILEGED ACCESS TO THE WHITE HOUSE

Look, I am simply tired of typing - this is nowhere NEAR the list of evidence for the sharp slide right.

You are either so clueless you should never comment on American politics, or you’re acting in bad faith. Either way, go fuck yourself.

You are so wrong it’s amazing. Sounds malicious, even deceitful, frankly. Think we’re all done huh?

If everyone but you agrees…

…in this case, you simply need to expand your definition of “everyone”.

Roughly everyone in the US is conditioned to see our tiny slice of the political spectrum this way, as you’re describing. Democrats left, Republicans right, the precise middle between them being…what? “Moderate”?

US politics sits within several broader contexts - it is not some magical thing with the power to redefine global and historical political thought. We simply grew up thinking it’s mostly all there was and probably the ~best out of other worse sets of ideas.

And all of us suffer for that, you help us all suffer for that, by simply accepting (defending!) the self-defeating idea that Democrats are as far left as one should go. While Republicans just sprint further right, without penalty. And complicit orgs like the New York Times “report” like everything is mostly normal, instead of a goddamn historic, violent assertion of all the worst fucking things that basically NO ONE agrees with, going on today.

Okay. Democrats are left-wing. How?

Moot met with Epstein, and shortly after, /pol/ was created. Coincidence?

Ghislaine Maxwell’s father was instrumental in establishing the abusive scientific publishing model we all suffer from today.

The facts of these despicable people wanting to shape and control societal thought in surprisingly diverse and far-reaching ways - that evidence exists. Benefit of the doubt is a foolish thing to apply to these folks.

New York Times is precisely as left wing as liberalism. You’ve been raised to implicitly think of liberalism as the “normal amount of left”, and that is not accurate. That’s my assumption at any rate, because I was raised that way and carried around a similar misconception.

Ah yes, just need one of those mythical ✨good companies✨, who can simply be trusted with recording fucking everything including uninvolved strangers and not doing weird or awful stuff with it.

Ah, an ancient wizard, then - carry on lol.

If I’d grown up around people who understood and enjoyed cars, my life (read: curiosity) would probably have simply gone that direction.

Instead I learned a lotta other things well, and so I’ve come around to this badly and through some longer paths, lol. I envy what I assume to be your built-in, muscle-memory secrets.

And hell yeah, I drive and enjoy a 2006. Had it for some years, went very deliberately from a 2018 Mazda I really liked to this, consider it an improvement (no one else in my life does 😅).

Only “outsource” the stuff I know I can’t find time to learn and do, the thing is fundamentally easy to work on and understand. Delicious!

A carburetor is a step too far, you invite misery, do you hate yourself? Take care, lol.

But yep would love to see more folks keeping old cars running, I won’t be taking the plunge into “~mortgage and routinely operate my own bubble of dystopian hellscape”, think I’ma pretty much lifetime “pass” on that flavor of nastiness.

The butt plug chess guy was some smart shit.

And then, eventually realizing this, they hire consultants for $$$, who offer two things, further tips for goosing numbers in silly ways, and also just direct advice for how to treat employees like utter shit, with a sharp, stainless veneer of “smart (because $$$ spent) business strategy”.

Calm down Satan

I didn’t see this comment when the thread was active, wish you the very best though, this sounds lovely!

Knew someone would have gone and looked lol, this is exactly what I wanted to know. Gonna HAVE to dink around in that sooner or later. Maybe I’ll stumble onto god or something weirder 🤷‍♂️

Edit: and that’s what I get for reading approximately zero here lol, thought some lunatic had hosted all these and made them available to play with in that way somehow. Which would be a huge amount of work and several other things.

You can always simply lie and say that you get great results when you send it huge amounts of text and really spend time to correct what it’s getting wrong over the session.

If you can make it sound like genuine advice and enthusiasm (that you’re simply wrong about), well congrats, you look like a real team player, and you cause anyone who believes you to also believe that those delicious productivity gains are just another few thousand yeeted tokens away.

Your failure to demonstrate such, should it ever come to that, can result in something like “I swear they made changes, they keep doing that silently. This used to work.” Which points to a huge and real problem, while covering thine ass.

This isn’t how I operate at work, to be clear, but I’m in a way different situation. Sooner your org realizes there is no mythic Shangri-La to be found, the better for all, I figure.

Yeah nah, say this kinda stuff in person plenty, oddly enough folks get it and like it.

Throughout this exchange (that I started, no disagreement there) you keep guessing shitty things about me. I’ve never done that to you, even once, I just keep talking about the single thing you were doing that I found pernicious and bad.

Rather than talk about that, or your own decision making or what matters to you, ya just keep bringing guesses about me…to me. What is the point of that lol? I already happen to know what I’m like.

S’all good. I’m prolly blocked, sad :(

If there’s no benefit to swearing, why pretend to use the word lmao? It’s so fucking weird.

I get grumpy when I see this normalization of a very foolish way to communicate, you not thinking very hard about what you’re doing and spreading is not a defense of such.

It’s bad for people. So yep, agree to disagree.

You sound proudly ignorant, but go off, why not?

Self censorship was not a thing one ever encountered online until people found it to be useful / necessary for favorable algorithmic treatment on the big social media platforms.

And then, since it wasn’t really policies as much as algorithmic vibes folks were trying to satisfy, folks start self-censoring the dumbest shit. Like blurring out the word “hate” and other idiotic nonsense. It’s this very stupid way of warping how people write, to satisfy a machine. And normalizing that, as a normal way to communicate.

So yeah, not a fan when I see people writing that way. Because I prefer human beings.

The very last person who is like that, truly, ya just don’t get it. It’s fine.

“offended” - is that the thing to avoid?

I’m not “offended” lol. I just think it’s dumb and bad for all of us. Use the words you mean. If you mean them, then use them. If you don’t mean them, use something else. What is this weird hack job for no benefit?

Self-censorship like this is utterly bizarre, when limitless even richer words are available, and just typing the actual word has no imaginable negative consequence. It’s bad for all of us.