I’m all for getting rid of a bunch of old ineffective people,” the member said, “but not by running a bunch of lefty campaigns against them.

I’m not a therapist but I think the author is projecting their own sense of vulnerability.

IDK, these days people disappear when they go out to touch grass…

Oh they learn, the wrong lessons.

I’m surprised it didn’t end as a crypto announcement

Funny how retreating involves throwing a group of people between you and the enemy.

Let’s be clear, how exactly is throwing trans people into the orphan crushing machine going to hinder the fascists? The damage you are mitigating is to yourself, you’re not retreating with the trans people, you’re using them as human shields.

https://www.alternet.org/disturbing-doge-whistleblower-threatened/

https://www.alternet.org/disturbing-doge-whistleblower-threatened/

On April 20th his goons submit a report answering whether to call up the military to address the “crisis”. It’s theater to escalate further.

Do you believe people choose to be ignorant of what they should be doing? Blaming oppressed people for being ignorant shifts blame from those with overt power and the systems they serve. Either the system is unjust because it keeps people impoverished, which includes their ability to make better decisions, or the people deserve whatever system they operate under. If this is a matter of people getting what they deserve, then the system is just.

Why does the wage worker at McDonald’s deserve an even shittier life? You all think that if America gets punished they will learn their lesson.

The opposition needs to be talking about a general strike.

That and a rich diet

We’re cooked because our leaders are pumping the AI bubble while crashing the rest of the economy. When that bubble pops those programmers are going to have to find a job in a nuclear sized crater of where the economy used to be.

Kind of feels like all three branches have done that. Congress isn’t holding the executive or the courts to account, the court is splitting the power transfer with the executive branch to avoid being made outright irrelevant, and the executive branch is acting like a monarchy.

If we can’t explain the difference, AI must be sentient? This argument reminds me of “God of the gaps”.

So use it on things no one cares about, got it.

So what if they are? It would likely be a more genuine exchange than this one.

Don’t use social media to gauge public opinion, take a bus and talk to randos instead.