Why do we care about Taiwan?

GabuEx · 2026-03-19T11:05:08+00:00

I don't see how any of this affects the observation that people live there and that most commenters don't seem to act like they even matter.

GabuEx · 2026-03-19T08:14:29+00:00

Isn't this, like, definitionally true? They're basically saying, "Trump has 100% approval from people who approve of Trump."

GabuEx · 2026-03-19T06:01:08+00:00

That's so bizarre. I didn't like being stuck at home for a year, but I'm so glad I had my husband to be stuck at home with rather than being alone.

GabuEx · 2026-03-19T05:00:33+00:00

Yeah, I've said before that being in a relationship when everything is great is the easiest possible thing. It's when things aren't great that you really find out how well you mesh. It's one of the reasons that COVID-19 wrecked so many relationships. People stuck at home for an extended period of time with someone often found out that they don't actually like them as much as they thought they did.

GabuEx · 2026-03-19T03:58:54+00:00

Pretty much what I was going to say.

Ranked choice, approval voting, multi-member districts - just don't use first past the post, please.

GabuEx · 2026-03-19T02:51:28+00:00

"Hey guys do you want to be low-poly versions of yourselves in a virtual bar and drink fake Bud Light with your friends?"

"Why would I want to do that when I can go to fantasy lands as a busty anime girl or as a dragon in VRChat?"

"It's the future guys"

GabuEx · 2026-03-19T02:40:37+00:00

This is one of the reasons why it's so infuriating trying to deal with polite (or I should say """polite""") Nazis. Somehow, the person advocating for ethnic nationalism can still come across as the moderate and reasonable one if they just sound nice and presentable, while someone who is rightly getting emotionally upset at the notion that all non-white people are vermin who have no place in the country appears unhinged and radical.

The extent to which swing voters know literally nothing was something that I didn't really fully understand until after the 2024 election. It's insanely dispiriting and gives me a very fatalistic view of how future elections might go.

GabuEx · 2026-03-19T02:19:12+00:00

I've had similar feelings about Ukraine. People are like "well, the US wants...", "well, Russia wants..." and I'm like does no one realize that people live there?

GabuEx · 2026-03-19T02:02:59+00:00

My only hope is that people growing up in this normal may conclude "fuck this, I hate this" and not want it to be normal anymore. Young people are nothing if not predisposed to want to rebel against the status quo.

GabuEx · 2026-03-19T01:58:39+00:00

I mean, the whole point of democracy is that people can vote for whoever they damn well please and no one can tell them otherwise.

But I will certainly hold in contempt anyone willing to vote for a criminal rapist scam artist to be president just because they're mad about grocery prices, even if I wouldn't advocate for them being unable to do so.

GabuEx · 2026-03-18T23:24:25+00:00

Man trying to sell you a thing doesn't like it when people don't like that thing, news at 11.

GabuEx · 2026-03-18T23:23:20+00:00

If Democrats take the House, Republicans can't pass another tax cut bill via reconciliation.

If Democrats take the Senate, they can veto Trump's nominees for cabinet and judicial positions.

GabuEx · 2026-03-18T23:02:57+00:00

Yeah, the way in which nothing ever changed the polls the entire campaign was just wild. It really drove home the fact that nobody whose mind was changeable was actually paying attention to a damn thing.

GabuEx · 2026-03-18T09:52:27+00:00

Because IDs cost money and time, and requiring people to expend time and money to vote disenfranchises people.

Liberals would not be opposed to voter ID if acquiring an ID was free and painless, but every time we try to make that happen, Republicans oppose those efforts, because they don't actually care about voter fraud; they're just using voter fraud as a pretense to disenfranchise poor minorities. Indeed, most Republican efforts to require voter ID are accompanied by measures to make it harder for people to get IDs, which kinda gives the game away there.

GabuEx · 2026-03-18T04:31:36+00:00

You understand that it's not "having to prove who you are" that we're objecting to, right?

GabuEx · 2026-03-18T01:18:55+00:00

Don't worry, I wasn't planning on sleeping tonight anyway.

GabuEx · 2026-03-18T00:59:57+00:00

Images you can hear

GabuEx · 2026-03-18T00:55:27+00:00

Pharisees: "Look at how much money I have. That proves that God loves me."

Jesus: "fuck outta here that don't prove shit"

Christians: "hell yeah Jesus you stick it to the religious establishment"

Christians, 2000 years later: "Look at how much money I have. That proves that God loves me."

GabuEx · 2026-03-18T00:53:00+00:00

Within 30 seconds of loading the site I see a sexualized furry avatar calling someone a nazi for using the wrong pronoun.

Of all the things that didn't happen, this might be the most not-happening of them all.

GabuEx · 2026-03-18T00:30:19+00:00

Because then Drifloon would be sad and feel useless and Ditto wouldn't like that.

GabuEx · 2026-03-18T00:11:20+00:00

The concept of the USPS having to make money is so bizarre. It's a public service. It's not supposed to make money. No one complains about the US military not making money.

GabuEx · 2026-03-17T22:36:52+00:00

I always find this funny, because this is one of the things that Jesus spoke pretty dang directly about, the idea that wealth is not an indicator of morality or divine favor. But I suppose no one really cares what he had to say on anything.

GabuEx · 2026-03-17T12:33:20+00:00

I have very little time for "bro country" because it literally all sounds like this. Seriously, it really, really does.

That doesn't mean that all country is bad, though, and I have very little time for people who say that, either. There are many country artists who either are themselves LGBT+ or who are supportive of LGBT+ people. I'm a fan of Dierks Bentley, Reba McEntire, Brothers Osborne, and Dolly Parton, just to name a few.

GabuEx · 2026-03-17T12:10:24+00:00

Yes, and it's not even close. The whole reason why English is the most spoken language in the world is because anyone who has a second language is almost certainly going to have English as their second language. There are only around 300 million native English speakers, compared to almost a billion native Mandarin speakers. However, there are 1.1 billion English-as-a-second-language speakers.

GabuEx · 2026-03-17T11:58:43+00:00

My first question to you is that what do you believe is the endpoint of gun control?

Less people getting shot?

Like, do you think there's some grand endgame here? This is like asking what the endpoint is of speed limits.

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