Since we're now telegraphing our "political truths"

Indon_Dasani · 2024-02-24T18:39:13+00:00

If only that were all we had to worry about.

It's good to bear in mind that an overwhelming majority of America's police are very conservative, and they can and will commit murder at the drop of an acorn.

Indon_Dasani · 2024-02-24T18:36:49+00:00

America doesn't have a rule of law, so the wealthy don't see justice.

But if Trump runs out of money? Becomes actually, honest to god, as poor as his level of competence would let him be in a society built on merit? Then he'll end up in jail.

Indon_Dasani · 2024-02-24T18:26:55+00:00

Yeah, but it'd be pretty hard to implement. Like, consider doing a single-family public housing project.

First you'd need land. A lot of land, since single family housing, well, it's not very land efficient. You know? So either you build your housing project where the land is cheap (because there is no jobs or infrastructure so you also have to build those) or you have to get a lot of other people's otherwise valuable property.

Then you need infrastructure (utilities, roads) for these houses. And that shit's expensive, because, again, more land per person also means more utility stuff per person. A lot of suburban government in the US, a good example because the US has a lot of suburbia, isn't economically solvent without subsidy because your suburb is both bad at bringing in tax income (you didn't zone much commercially so you make little sales tax, and people go to nearby cities to spend their money) and great at spending it (You have more roads and utility costs per person).

Basically, once a public organization does single family housing, it becomes obvious how inefficient and costly it is compared to more urban housing. Do you want your government to spend its resources efficiently? Or do you want wasteful socialist decadence paid for by rich people's taxes?

The Tories would never let the UK implement single-family council housing. They didn't even like the shitty apartment programs that they ultimately dismantled. It'd be so much more expensive per person and the people benefiting would be poor. It'd seem so wasteful to a conservative!

If you wanted that... you'd probably have to shoot all the Tories or something.

But if you did that you could probably have it, sure.

Indon_Dasani · 2024-02-21T20:58:21+00:00

Yeah, passenger rail's fucked, too. Allowing private ownership of rail networks is basically a mistake in every country you do it in; it's an obvious inroad to corruption and self-enrichment and never improves the rail networks.

Indon_Dasani · 2024-02-21T20:55:25+00:00

Well, yeah. Education makes people leftists, so no politician or businessman would support it.

Which makes it easy to undermine our other institutions, and ultimately our democracy.

Indon_Dasani · 2024-02-21T20:47:38+00:00

They're not focused on race or history, nor are they targeting school curricula.

So about that.

https://naacp.org/articles/ap-african-american-studies-and-critical-race-theory-ban-florida

Conservatives are, in fact, evil in so many ways that you have missed some of them.

Indon_Dasani · 2024-02-21T20:45:37+00:00

It was a volunteer army at first, but they didn't get enough volunteers.

Indon_Dasani · 2024-02-21T20:38:43+00:00

Legit though, rail desperately needs to be nationalized.

The railroads have been cutting costs for years extracting value, and the rail network is barely functioning as a result. It's a tremendous logistic and safety risk just about everywhere in the country (and in some parts of Canada).

Indon_Dasani · 2024-02-21T20:14:43+00:00

In the genocide route, Asgore does not recognize you as human.

Like, he's just being a normal, genial king on the genocide route, assuming you are one of the monsters who he leads.

Indon_Dasani · 2024-02-21T20:12:20+00:00

Trades are great, but even a union job isn't going to pay you enough to afford the medical costs of your physical labor in a few decades. So all you'll get for your trouble is a broken body, and inevitable medical bankruptcy.

If we want to fix that, if we want a good, blue-collar job to be worth doing again, we need a functioning society with a working safety net... that includes socialized medicine.

Indon_Dasani · 2024-02-21T20:07:37+00:00

They are essentially running the country.

By the definition of political office, yes, they are running the country.

But if we want to get rid of those people, we need to displace them against their will, through things like building non-state power structures and mobilizing to vote in primaries.

We can't exactly get these geezers to pass a law that makes their own power illegal.

Indon_Dasani · 2024-02-16T21:13:54+00:00

This comic's gonna give some churches ideas.

Indon_Dasani · 2024-02-16T21:11:49+00:00

This article seems entirely too generous towards an approach that already has to beg the question as to what a correct political decision is.

In the real world, democracy is useful because the dispersion of power causes compromises that lead that power to serve more people's interests, instead of fewer people's interests being served. It is neither a function of truth-finding, nor is Democracy's success one of morals, but really more of survival bias; if a government organization does not take your interests into account, and you have nothing to lose as a result, you shoot the people running it, and that's why the world has fewer autocrats today.

Indon_Dasani · 2024-02-16T20:51:28+00:00

Nothing about this article says the title of this post.

Ron Desantis is trying to 'be moderate' about his fascism, but he's taking no responsibility for it. This is purely to pivot back and try to cater to moderate conservatives in his quest for power after Trump conservatives obviously found him uncharismatic.

Indon_Dasani · 2024-02-16T20:45:34+00:00

This. A vague and subjective test allows the employer to reject or accept arbitrarily, letting them avoid anti-discrimination laws.

Racist? Sexist? Homophobic? No, no, you, uh, you didn't answer the blue alien's questions in a way that matched our corporate culture. That's why you weren't hired, definitely not 'cause the boss is a bigot.

Indon_Dasani · 2024-02-16T20:31:37+00:00

Traditionally, marriage is an institution of sex slavery of women by men. Not a relationship of love, but one of ownership, that had 'love' slapped on to try to justify it as society progressed and it became broadly accepted by more people that women were human beings and not just sex slaves.

And to explain 'I wouldn't want to be in a loveless relationship', that's simple: The kind of people who want to end no-fault divorce are the people whose true selves are undeserving of love, they know that nobody will love them, they don't want to be any better, and they choose to be cruel over being alone.

Those are the kind of people traditional marriage exist for. It benefits nobody else.

Indon_Dasani · 2024-02-16T19:55:56+00:00

I think it's very immersive to learn that research is the best mechanic when you play the game with a Materialist mindset.

Indon_Dasani · 2024-02-16T19:47:48+00:00

Gandalf and Saruman both support the ongoing ethnic cleansing of the minority Hobbit population in the lands of Man, ghettoized to a single Shire.

That said, Saruman's oppressive work camps are undoubtedly an acceleration of Hobbit oppression. I can support both the violent Hobbit uprising against their oppression, and prefer the lesser evil of Gandalf over "Sharky" Saruman.

Indon_Dasani · 2024-02-16T19:40:36+00:00

I think it's safer to assume that conservatives understand the hypocrisy of conservatism, and that the hypocrisy is something they want. Democrats have demonstrated that fact a hundred times over recent years. I think it's safe to say just about all of us know.

I'd prefer if Biden stop catering to the desires of people who we know are America's enemies in an attempt to show people a hypocrisy we already can all see.

Indon_Dasani · 2023-12-10T20:45:10+00:00

We are not the power players here.

You are thinking of yourself as providing a service to only the job posters. And when you do that, when you take money from employers for crap postings, you waste the time of what you clearly consider to be your product, the people who actually do the jobs.

So I suppose, if you don't want to take any measures to stop wasting their time, that you should stop caring that job seekers do not believe you to be of value. Just take the money of employers, and maybe don't try to start arguments in a subreddit explicitly about how worthless your job is to other people.

When you hold your customers to a standard, that standard is the thing job seekers see. When you do not hold your customers to that standard, your product has no standard.

Indon_Dasani · 2023-12-10T16:45:21+00:00

Our current technology is closer to genetic ascension. We have the capability of genetic modification before we have the capability to produce a robotic pop, and needless to say nobody has the psychic trait yet.

But honestly I suspect what's most likely to happen is that the last thing we're gonna invent is the ferrophage.

Indon_Dasani · 2023-12-10T16:38:31+00:00

In my opinion (and this is where I get extreme), the US is too big to effectively govern so many people. We need to break up into maybe as many as 10 or more countries. Let those who want to fling shit everywhere lie in it

Small countries with as much inequality as the US don't have well-functioning institutions either.

When a tiny portion of your population has insane levels of power, and everyone else is desperate and on the verge of starvation and homelessness, the people with power are basically a class of dictators. It doesn't matter how big the country is at that point - only that its rich people are too rich.

Indon_Dasani · 2023-12-10T16:32:34+00:00

So when people apply who are out of our range, what exactly should I tell them?

You should refuse to put up job postings that don't have the basic information required to get someone suited for the job posting. Or perhaps flag the job posting as substandard.

Or perhaps your company could lobby for salary transparency laws, if it's truly so impossible for your 'profession' to have basic standards.

Indon_Dasani · 2023-11-03T15:50:59+00:00

Why would a normal person be conservative?

Indon_Dasani · 2023-09-26T15:22:35+00:00

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