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Are your feelings for those people stronger than for the people who actively support Trump and his policies?
If so why? Do you feel betrayed? Do you feel like even though it is ostensibly a free democracy those people somehow owed their votes to the Democrats?
I'm not American, so even though this stuff affects me quite a lot, I don't get a say. But this attitude baffles me.
Are we absolutely sure about that?
Quantity is a measure of success in this regard, and success implies quality, maybe?
How many fucking times has this woman been photographed. Christ.
My years of research has led me to the conclusion that this guy has been in a LOT of roles and been doing this for a long time. He qualifies for the "star" label by whichever criteria you prefer.
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I mean... It's obviously a market, right? As in there is competition, some senators position themselves as the discount option, some are more premium, or only sold in packs of 6 at a time.
I'd honestly be surprised if there isn't a list floating around lobbyist circles.
For now.
Trump started the process in 2016, but didn't have enough supporters around him. So now he's having to speedrun the process.
Putin spent a fairly long time taking smallish steps and building support along the way.
Trump is too obviously incompetent to be a strongman leader for most people, and he's having to sprint through the process.
That doesn't mean he won't succeed, but be will be way less popular along the way. Which we can hope proves fatal to a populist.
And even the concept of hot was is tied up in the system's logic. Their sexuality is itself a commodity, so being hotter actually means something like: having more value as a sexual commodity.
Sex and sexuality becomes a performance; how well can you mold yourself to fit the ideal defined by the system.
All the while people get more and more alienated from anything like normal relationships, they only understand the weird facsimile the system constructs. Thus loneliness becomes an epidemic.
Hot dog is burger?
Absolutely not.
Until they get unionised and regulated the industry will be way too prone to exploitation.
It's psychologically and physically hard, often dangerous, and rarely recognised by the legal framework around labour.
It is definitely work, and highly beneficial to society at that. But calling it legitimate implies a level of recognition it doesn't get.
Even if that sentence is meant aspirationally, I fear the approach is flawed.
I'm not saying it isn't propaganda.
But what do you think backup energy systems for a hospital consists of? Backup generators require fuel as much as the power plant does.
There are videos of the streets of Havana with not a since gas powered vehicle in sight, stories of massive blackouts, and oil still isn't being allowed into the country.
It's an island nation, it isn't completely self-reliant, few nations are really. The blockade cuts off supplies and people die. It's s a straight line.
Every 4 years you have to choose between conservative neoliberal oligarchy and Fascism.
And if you don't choose it'll be your fault when [the opposite of the current speaker's own position] happens.
Also we will likely just alternate between the two regardless.
This is what we call democracy and it's the best way we have found to get representation for everyone™.
Sex is treated as a commodity(thanks capitalism).
Women are treated as if their value is derived from their ability to provide sex to a man. So when nudes are leaked... Well a commodity which is easily accessible has less value.
Consumption is largely decoupled from morality(thanks capitalism). So when sex is a commodity paedophiles aren't engaging in a morally reprehensible act, they are consuming a scarce and therefore high value commodity.
It really felt like Iran was getting closer to finally getting rid of the theocracy. And now that's set back another 30-50 years.
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It's not theft. It's looting.
He won, he defeated his enemies and now he feels entitled to scoop up as much of the spoils as he can.
Turtle that doesn't swim
Kagi has been great since I made the switch 4 months ago
I now use Firefox, Kagi, and Proton, all of which I'd recommend as means to get away from Google.
Any reason why you wouldn't recommend Firefox as the browser alternative? It's what I'm using and I'm wondering if you know something I don't.
In a roundabout way you just said you don't really feel embarrassment. I'm not sure if that marks you as a potential narcissist or something else. But you need to understand that you are in a vanishingly small minority in this regard.
For most people the panopticon effect is very real.
Solicitation misdemeanor... As in he went to a prostitute to buy sex?
And this dude is announcing it as if they caught a terrorist?
I get that it's illegal in the US, but how is this somehow worse because if the position he held? It doesn't seem like his power or access had anything to do with the crime he committed.
Alienation, isolation, and desperation.
I'd be willing to bet that even the Fascists are less optimistic now than they were before they started gaining power.
The whole machinery of Fascism is meant to drive them into apoplectic rage, and that mindset isn't exactly engendering optimism.
You can hope he will repent. You can even forgive his transgressions, though that might not be up to you.
But you can not tolerate intolerance. When someone violates all the principles of the society he lives in, and refuses to stop doing so even after society have tried all methods of enforcement. Well then he needs to be removed or the society seizes to exist.
For some people you pick exile, execution, or you let them destroy everything around them.
Don't preempt censorship by self censoring. Don't cede the authority to dictate appropriate language to any authority before they demonstrate der willingness and ability to enforce the position.
Especially don't do performative self-censoring like f*ck. Everyone knows what you mean, no one is protected from the bad words. The platform gets to claim Virtue and be edgy simultaneously. The only thing gained or lost in that process is you ceding the moral authority to the platform for no reason.
I was born in the 80's and man... Getting past 26 seems really difficult. If anyone knows how please let me know.
The first two books get significantly weirder than the later ones. They are still great, but if you get a little lost, just stick with it. It's worth it.
Plus, starting with the first two is the best way to read those two specific books, coming back to them later can be pretty jarring.
But man I wish I could read all those books for the first time again.