So by that logic, third party voters were fine with visa and green card holders being shipped out in the same way they’re ok with tariffs making the U.S. the enemy of the world except for “liberals” complaining about their poor choice and making them feel bad.

Wasn’t much of a concern when voting though.

It’s just the classic. Everything is over exaggerated and not a big deal until it personally affects you. Then you realize everyone who’s talking about this is going through the same thing or worse. Until the next issue comes up and these people go right back to the sidelines to tell leftists they’re overreacting.

I’m at the point where I know he won’t face consequences because he’s rich. But an arrest and trial would at least be sanity.

Take a shig old bit

Not exactly, the argument (is incoherent and insane) is something like “you can’t have too much democracy and centralized power because people in power are always corrupt.” ✨Somehow✨ laissez-faire capitalism is supposed to naturally account for corruption and sociopathy because the free market forces(???) them to do good things because people are able to spend their money somewhere else. Always non-violent btw ❤️

The absolute worst is them saying socialism is pessimistic because it thinks people can’t do anything for themself and coddles them with a nanny state. Then turns around and says “you have to structure capitalism assuming every single person is a greedy sociopath hellbent on fucking over everyone else to make money.”

BMW (Big Metal Willy)

“the vaccine is useful for some protection and for other people it wanes”

Yeah and the measles makes some people immune and for some people they die.

Edit: also, what kind of argument is that in the first place? “Yeah well sometimes it provably provides a positive benefit to people’s lives in a statistically significant way, and sometimes it’s neutral with no downsides???”

I’m sure Elon pays a huge premium for an exclusive, on-call drug dealer.

Cause you had the greatest internet security you could ever ask for: unmonetizability.

Two posts and op hasn’t mentioned the movie lol.

That’s what I’m saying it’s one of the best uses for AI we have and one of the most long-lasting.

??? Wasn’t Wolfram alpha one of the first publicly available programs on the Internet using “AI”???

It’s because every childrens show is an abstraction of real life relationships meant to teach lessons or just generally have cooler adventures than real life.

So yeah, of course when you have an episode where there’s a loving caring character you can say “that’s actually their mom” or the spunky side kick can actually be their sister.

I mean, lots of “libertarians” are frothing at the mouth to defund our military but agree that the government should at least subsidize healthcare and education with some of those funds. The terms we have are loosey-goosey and most people are incoherent policy to policy. We’ve just been sorted into groups by a century of two-party propaganda.

Yeah it’s a clever lie that’s perpetuated that says progressives have no where to go if they try to break from the Democrats. But secretly a more progressive platform would actually draw over a lot of disaffected libertarians and lite conservatives who only vote conservative because they’ve been convinced that they should only vote in opposition to Democrats instead of in favor of anything.

Yeah, I don’t want to give him too much credit but it’s been clear that he is at least capable enough to actually lie to his audience while doing something else.

People believing he imposed these tariffs thinking that there would be no retaliation are also being lied to in the exact same way.

Trump has said that he’s very pleased with how the negotiations went. That means he thinks he got something out of his super epic tariff strat.

Believing that Trump wanted to impose tariffs with no expectation of retaliation and then being blindsided by the counter tariffs so he backed down is just naive. The plan was always to “negotiate”.

I don’t think you know how laws work, and I think you missed my point. And you even re-stated it. The laws exist, they just dont get enforced for myriad reasons. High-priced lawyers, complicated enforcement, burden of proof etc.

And at the end of the day, all laws are made up. Often, as you mentioned, the laws are in place with an intent that doesn’t get met. There isn’t anything from stopping a president from just upending the law and it’s up to the people in charge of upholding the laws the correct whatever shit gets thrown at the wall which we agree is often very laborious and often has bad actors working against it.

There’s very little difference (in the way that the actions function in the real world) between a written law and declaring another set of rules through sheer willpower and bullying except that hopefully over a relatively long time the rules get corrected back to the written law.

“legally required programs”? What law? Show me where that matters. Who will enforce such laws when all of the people running these programs are gone?

I know why Trump appeals to so many people. He’s the politician/business who acknowledged that rules are made up by fallible humans and can be re-written. The problem is, when we have similar politicians on the left who try to break the system for the working class the liberals agree that it’s terrible in the same way that they agree that trump is terrible, but the oligarchs don’t see an avenue for profit and so they fight against them as well.