Someone should stop Musk. With like a piece of metal if needed.

What’s frustrating is people seem to just forget history, so we’ll have to keep doing this kind of thing.

Also today we do have systems like social security.

Not for much longer at the rate things are going.

Conservatives are bad people. This is well known. Outgroups to bind, in groups to protect.

Maybe we should, like, storm one of these ice facilities, have our own bastille day.

There is truth here.

I think rich people will have assets, like stock, and they’ll get a loan out with the stock as collateral. They pay like 2% on the loan, but they get like a million dollars cash. If that was treated like income, they’d pay a lot more taxes.

Not sure the best way to address this, but it should be addressed.

I feel like if we had spent the money lost to tax cuts on enforcing existing laws, like really throw the book at tax cheats, like put them in orange jumpsuits and make them rot in a cell, we’d have had better outcomes.

The ultra rich should be afraid.

Meanwhile, the US is trying to go to 60 hour workweeks and 6-day workweeks.

Labor needs to organize, and the rich need to be broken.

Some people love their country like a child loves their parent. Perfect, the strongest smartest ever, can do no wrong. Any criticism is an attack and unacceptable.

Some people love their country like a peer. They see their strengths and their flaws, and they want them to grow and improve. Sometimes that means hard conversations and difficult changes. But they do want what’s best for them.

I enjoyed the simplicity of old video game RPGs where the price of the item directly scaled with the value of the item. Armor for 1000gp was just straight out better than the one for 300gp.

Many people don’t really think about their language. They kind of snap their phrases together like a child with those big duplo blocks.

Most of the time that’s fine, if a bit limiting. But occasionally you get glimpses into how communication could be clearer, or more accurate, if they thought about their words more.

I partly blame our public education system. Not enough funding, some funding misused, other problems I don’t even know about. But it feels like a lot of people are barely educated, and don’t have any intellectual curiosity.

Poe’s law. Can’t tell if serious or playing a bit.

As I said to the other response, I know in my brain that you are right. I, as a city dwelling tech worker, my interests align more than someone who works with his hands in the suburbs than with a billionaire. We’re both labor.

I still want to hit the maga-hat who’s frothing about how the gays are ruining their christmas, but I know that’s not really helpful.

I know in my brain you’re right but in my heart there is nothing but malice.

But as you say, what would earn forgiveness? If this somehow ends and we go back to “normal”, I think a lot of maga-hats won’t ever admit fault. They won’t see the bigger picture, and they’ll fall for the next con.

Anyone who’s been supporting trump is a scumbag or idiot. Anyone who’s still supporting trump is worse.

We should never forgive them.

Republicans are the worst people. If you know one, maybe punch them in the neck.

Ugh I had the same rollercoaster read

If we were all in the room, we could strangle Sam Altman or whatever other capitalist dog was calling the shots.

We outnumber the rich. If there weren’t so many idiots and boot lickers we could fix this problem

I think there’s a little bit of nuance, at least. Like refusing to call a nazi salute a nazi salute, or excessive use of passive voice (eg: “A man was killed after an encounter with the police”). Those things aren’t making the world better.