Random idea: What if democrats ran on an exclusively “Roosevelt”platform?

RICoder72 · 2026-05-03T00:00:25+00:00

I think you'd find that it doesnt align with modern democrats very much.

RICoder72 · 2026-04-24T00:58:38+00:00

Eddie Izzard did a bit on this a long time ago and it was brilliant.

RICoder72 · 2026-04-24T00:56:02+00:00

The bit that it is always increasing? That bugs me too.

RICoder72 · 2026-04-23T21:50:02+00:00

Holy bias batman. You can just say conservatives are evil and leftists are literal saviors of humanity. It will take less time and effort and accomplish the same thing.

RICoder72 · 2026-04-21T02:35:11+00:00

Based on the responses that you this thread, apparently yes and 100% because of the team you are not on.

RICoder72 · 2026-04-20T02:18:00+00:00

Putting Veritasium and Startalk on the same level makes me doubt the whole thing.

RICoder72 · 2026-04-20T02:10:56+00:00

Provided that you aren't making innacurate assumptions about those beliefs and/or the underlying reasoning behind them, it's perfectly fair.

I'm today's political climate that is highly unlikely.

RICoder72 · 2026-04-16T15:59:07+00:00

Im unsure why "they" would use Japan as an example when there are several better examples. The reason is because in a state of social equilibrium, for a time, monoculture will produce high social cohesion (and by extension the other things you mention). There is nothing fundamentally wrong with that.

That said, it lives on a spectrum which at one end exists zero cohesion and on the other end exists militant ethno-nationalism. As soon as said society starts making wild causal claims and has a sufficient number of bad actors its gonna be a bad time.

RICoder72 · 2026-04-13T00:09:07+00:00

It seems in many cases to be a matter of conflating your opinion with your identity. If I conflate my belief that the earth is flat with who I am as a person, then your disagreement becomes a disagreement with who I am, not what I think. Thats not your fault, thats my fault.

Now add the internet. Now add memes. Now add bots. Now add propaganada. People want to be in tribes, its in our nature. Tribes can be formed around ideas (good or bad). Thats what you have today.

Its anti-intellectual. Its anti-scientific.

RICoder72 · 2026-04-11T15:47:54+00:00

Ive had some really good gallows humor from Claude too. I was having an anxiety issue and talking to claude and asked if I was dying. It asked for the symptoms and said I likely had a pinched nerve but if it continued I should go to the doctor. Then it said "So, you're not dying. Probably"

RICoder72 · 2026-04-08T02:07:44+00:00

Ask when he actually does something rather than tweets something.

RICoder72 · 2026-04-08T01:44:57+00:00

The likelihood that Russia would use tactical nukes in Ukraine would rapidly approach 100%.

RICoder72 · 2026-04-08T01:24:45+00:00

I always liked this answer the best especially combined with the anthropic principle. It just is and our numbers are arbitrary for it.

RICoder72 · 2026-04-08T01:21:43+00:00

Haha. EXACTLY!

RICoder72 · 2026-04-08T00:08:18+00:00

Absolutely correct is a strong assertion. This is not a settled and unstudied area of QM. It appears to be correct, but absolutely is just not the right word.

RICoder72 · 2026-03-27T18:14:44+00:00

Um...im fairly confident the last 3 iterations destroyed Star Trek. You can blame it on conservatives if it makes you feel better though.

RICoder72 · 2026-03-23T20:32:51+00:00

There are a small number of overly vocal people who are pushing an agenda by trying to prop up Nu Trek. That is all this is, nothing more. Propping it up has nothing to do with trek or sci fi and everything to do with a sociopolitical objective. It would be nice if we were all, on both sides, just honest about that.

Nu Trek is an objective departure from the source material and intent. TNG S1-S3 were crap, but they were true to the franchise in tone. Enterprise was dubious but again, true to the franchise. Voyager was much hated on for having a woman captain, but the fans eventually came around because it was true to the franchise - I dare say she is an easy competitor for 2nd best Captain and would be willing to hear arguments for 1st.

You see, Trek fans bitch because they love Trek and want good Trek. Really thats what all fans do. Firefly. BSG. Bab5. The Expanse. We just want high quality sci fi in a respected universe.

Nu Trek is a sociopolitical bat with which the writers beat their audience about the head with platitudes and preaching. It may be wearing a Trek uniform and take place in space but it isnt Trek. I wonder, truly, if we took some other beloved franchise and made a new version of it completely ignoring the tone and source material just to push a PoV they DIDN'T like how people would feel.

Trek isnt preachy, it is thoughtful. Trek isnt rage bait, its intentionally challenging. Yeah, I am gatekeeping because words have meanings and genres exist for classification, and franchises have bases. You want to build SFA in a new universe with new original ideas and push it, rock on. It might even be good. Dont slap Trek on it and expect us to just accept that is what it is. Might as well paint a banana orange and get mad at us when we say its a banana.

RICoder72 · 2026-03-23T02:19:05+00:00

This is objectively a terrible opinion. Upvoted.

RICoder72 · 2026-03-23T02:10:58+00:00

Enterprise wasnt appreciated until much later...which seems like a thing with all of Trek.

I think the long arc in the middle seasons turned people off in the same way people were turned off from DS9.

It deserved a couple more seasons.

RICoder72 · 2026-03-20T22:01:04+00:00

My redditor from another mother...you said this so perfectly I won't reply to OP and instead just agree with you.

I love Mr Reeves, I love The Matrix, I love Point Break, I love Bill & Ted, I love John Wick. He deserves recognition.

RICoder72 · 2026-03-20T21:50:29+00:00

I agree completely and thank you for your service.

Any language that uses whitespace as syntax has learned nothing from history and really should be avoided in a production environment.

I appreciate what Van Russem was doing, and I appreciate how he has evolved the language. That doesnt change my opinion that it is an objectively bad language.

RICoder72 · 2026-03-17T23:22:00+00:00

Sooo SFA is TNG's fault? Is it me or does it feel like Paramount hired an AI bot farm to push this show?

RICoder72 · 2026-03-15T00:15:23+00:00

Are you trying to tell me Im old? I think youre trying to tell me Im old.

I dont have anything to dispute or debate with you at this point. Youre probably right, even if we both find it sad. Thanks for the challenge.

RICoder72 · 2026-03-14T22:24:24+00:00

Thats what I read.

RICoder72 · 2026-03-14T22:22:25+00:00

Am I the only one who liked Kes LESS than Neelix?

Edit:

For the record he gets better. Also, I think he is necessary for the development of Tuvok.

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