i’m reminded of something mlk jr wrote, on a related topic:

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice;

That’s a lot of people - they just want things to be quiet and easy for them, and if there’s injustice for others they’ll just have to live with it.

I said similar on another article like this, but I worry the kind of people who need to know this won’t read it. They’ll just dismiss it because “cnn is woke” or “they just don’t like trump” (which reminds me of the “missing missing reasons” post about estranged parents, incidentally)

But maybe a few fence sitters or accidentally-low-information types will read this and realize trump is not the way to go.

Another reason I feel good about buying albums.

I worry a lot of people won’t learn until the leopard is eating their face, and maybe not even then.

I wonder what kind of pizza he prefers. It would be funny if chicago pizza caused a schism in the church.

Adams is a giant turd. He’s terrible and I hope Zohran ousts him in the next mayoral election.

There’s also things that conservatives would never do, but would net money.

Fund the IRS to go after rich tax cheats. That brings in a lot of money without changing any laws, and it would be good publicity. A lot of people would enjoy seeing a rich guy nailed to the wall for cheating on taxes.

I think you could probably simplify a lot of government aid if we went for universal basic income instead of a bunch of programs that need to be maintained and staffed and all that.

Anyone who thought DOGE was actually going to make the government more “efficient” or save money is not well informed, and has a very limited understanding of US politics. Hopefully articles like this reach people and people learn.

Rights just exist, they are a transcendent object that can’t be defined or limited by laws.

I don’t think rights exist in any meaningful way unless enforced / people agree to follow them. They’re just norms in a nicer suit. There’s no external referee that’s going to stop the game because “your rights are being violated”.

I wonder what sort of studies have been done on this. I found a few with a quick search about admitting being wrong- IT seems to correlate with humility like you would expect. Also admitting fault also sometimes makes people like you more, contrary to the belief that people will think you suck if you admit fault. Though maybe not for politicians, oddly.

I think there’s a difference between someone who voted trump and realized they fucked up in a like deep , systemic, way, and someone who doesn’t like this specific implemention of right wing stuff.

Like, if they regret trump but keep voting R, that’s not good.

I feel like this is a deep flaw in humanity. That most people would rather continue eating literal shit than admit they were wrong.

This is more content-first where facebook/twitter/etc are user-first. I think user-first brings out worse patterns.

Like violence and threats in the past are okay, but never in the present?

There are a small subset of people who legitimately just don’t understand game development fundamentals though, and they actually believe that things would just be fully interchangeable. As in, you buy a skin in Fortnite, and you can then open up Roblox and set it as your player model.

Those ones are especially not the brightest.

The people who are like “you can just take your skin from Skyrim and put it in gta5 and it’ll just work!!” people really are baffling. The hubris and ignorance is so much

I’m inclined to agree. Unfortunately, a lot of moderators on lemmy and other sites have a very strong “no calls for violence” stance.

Also never heard of it, but if it was exclusive to china that explains why.

Any word on the gameplay? Main line borderlands games are kind of mediocre, so I don’t imagine an MMO would be better.

I do wonder how all the “violence is never the answer” folks will go if it comes to that. I think a lot of them would side with ICE, sadly.

Personally, I won’t be upset if a would-be nazi meets an abrupt end to their career.

Careful! The moderators here don’t like that kind of talk.

Thank you, thank you. Unfortunately, the moderation team seems to take a dim view. I guess they’d prefer we only express anger in civil, inoffensive, manners.