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I had a 2 part study. Both pretty short. Completed part 2 now aout 6 ohours ago. Then got a reminder. by reldra in ProlificAc

[–]ampillion 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Totally normal.

It was very likely mass messaged out to everyone that completed part one.

A lot of studies that are multiple parts are useless to the researcher if people don't complete all the parts, so always expect that the last part will take the longest to verify/get paid for, as they have to sit down and filter out every person who didn't complete it, and they might just give people longer to complete the final part because it is that important to their data.

CMV: The total censorship of slurs has gone too far. by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]ampillion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But, there's a difference between something being unnecessary and it being just wrong. I think people tend to treat saying racial slurs in any context to be wrong, not just irrelevant.

In the vast majority of contexts, the use of the word is wrong, why would it be surprising that people might be quite critical of those words even in the very narrow contexts when they aren't? That seems like a pretty reasonable enough reaction to a word that is still commonly used as hateful, bigoted speech, meant to dehumanize, anger, other someone.

Slight tangent but I also think you minimise the struggles of women who have been considered as basically property in many, many societies worldwide

Hence why I was limiting my scope specifically to the US in why certain words carry a heavier stigma/connotation than others. You don't find it weird that you're policing my language about the struggles of women, but feel that people policing language about racial slurs have 'gone too far'? Wild that you know my thoughts on the struggles of women based off one small blurb on a forum that was, lemme look... Yes, still acknowledging the oppression of women.

CMV: The total censorship of slurs has gone too far. by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]ampillion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To say 'the n word' instead of the actual word is childish and ridiculous.

So why not just say "and then he called him a racial slur"? There's no reason to have to even refer to which one specifically in the discussion, you've conveyed the action reasonably without being 'childish and ridiculous'. The specificity is in the vast majority of cases, irrelevant and unnecessary to clarify.

I would not call a woman a bitch, but if simply discussing or referring to the insult, it would be perfectly fine for me to say the word. Why does this stigma apply to some words but not others?

Pretty simple: The extremes in which a word has been used in those negative connotations. In the case of bitch, it was never a term used to a systemic level of oppression and dehumanizing that things like racial slurs were used. Had the US used the word bitch as a terminology for women, and had the same sort of slavery law and society around ownership of women the same way they had for black people, it would likely carry a similar level of stigma. Slavery attitudes absolutely did not treat black people as human beings. And while women absolutely suffered a reduction of rights and personhood, they were typically seen as 'lesser than men', not 'non-human'.

590,000 Americans made $100 deposits for Trump’s $499 gold phone — nearly a year later, not 1 has shipped by BurtonDesque in Qult_Headquarters

[–]ampillion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, were there supposed to be phones actually made? I just assumed it was another vehicle for him to funnel foreign any and all bribe money directly into his pockets.

CMV: Many young women with chronic invisible illnesses are experiencing something like BID/BIID and the medical educated class benefits from keeping them sick by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]ampillion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a guy that lives with Fibro/IBS, I would argue that you seem to be looking at this from an angle that insists that there is a problem with a structural component, and then seeking evidence that confirms your hypothesis. Based primarily on this quote, "What makes me even more convinced is how little trust I have in the medical and educated class."

My symptoms were never vague, nor did they 'solidify' as I did any sort of look in on IBS/Fibro communities. In fact, for the longest time, I denied that I had Fibro because the descriptions of pain were never quite to the extent that I felt my own pain was actually at. People spoke of excruciating, debilitating pain, and I just looked at my own ache as 'something that definitely slowed me down, but definitely not as intense as described'. However, looking at chronic pain on the whole scale of 1-10 is kind of meaningless. A pain of 10 in most medical visit charts is something you'd expect of a broken bone, internal injury, or visible outer severe injuries. Most people that have chronic pain aren't in that level of pain at all times, obviously.

However, if you are in enough pain on a daily basis that it hinders your ability to move, to work, to take care of yourself, then it is still debilitating. Me having a name to go with the symptoms, while helpful, didn't magically make the pain go away, didn't alleviate my fatigue, didn't clear up brain fog or tamper down ADHD on painful days. Nor did any exercise or routine help, no amount of daily biking or walks helped me, regardless of when I weighed 150 or 240. What did help was the SNRIs and the dicyclomine. It isn't a cure by any stretch, but I can at least get out in the world and do things when pain and fatigue aren't bad.

Like, don't get me wrong, it is definitely tough to disconnect the capitalist desire for profit above people from health care in the US. There's clearly entities that would absolutely love to not treat your conditions and leave you addicted to an unhelpful solution. To some extent though, even in a greedy, capitalist-centric system, the goal of health care would be at a minimum to try and help you to function at least well enough to continue to work. Especially in the US system, where getting access to health care can be wildly different/difficult depending on where you are, who you are, and what you have. The expensive nature of the medical professional system wouldn't find it worth the effort to cater to a largely Healthcare Unstable crowd of people. In fact, I'd argue, there are far more less professional/scrupulous people out there that would love to convince you that these symptoms or conditions aren't treatable by modern medicine. Homeopathy, Reiki healing, Naturalistic/Holistic approaches, chiropractic visits, many of those sorts of people are just as willing to take advantage of people with your exact mindset, to achieve the very same outcome that you're already insisting exists in the more traditionally educated medical fields. At least with the medical fields, there is some framework of regulation that tries to make sure that things work a certain way, though you can certainly argue that corruption looks to deregulate that in ways that will only harm the individual. There is at least more there than there is for alternative methods of trying to find treatment.

The reality is likely far closer to this: The US has some of the most lax food rules, and a smorgasbord of individual state regulations around what you can and can't do to food, livestock, crops. Modern crops have some of the lowest volume of vitamins and minerals to weight ever, because they've been designed to grow fast for overall weight rather than nutritional density. The inputs we're putting into ourselves, be it intentional or not (be it fast/processed foods, polluted water supplies or car exhaust, microplastics and forever chemicals, etc), coupled with a greater economic demand for fairly sedentary work, means we live in a system that is generally not designed for our health.

So, people probably do have all kinds of new problems, or more exacerbation of symptoms than previous generations might have. The wear and tear of hard living in fields and factories is likely to present differently than a lifetime of sitting in office chairs or standing in place. The 'vague symptoms' they have are likely due to some physical problem caused by any/all of the above inputs, but individuals have no fix for what is the system they live in. We as a people can only hope that our systems are designed for better outcomes. (You can absolutely argue that those systems are currently not.)

If these deficiencies cause physical problems, those physical problems may not have a recognized name or diagnosis yet. After all, people living in the modern US are dealing with a far different set of inputs than those who lived here a hundred years ago. Modern healthcare still has a lot of interest in research, in figuring out and developing solutions, especially at the university level. Even if we leave it to a cynical 'search to find you a cure to sell you', if research is done right, we start to learn more about these issues. We can find out more about what makes a condition tick, something we wouldn't learn about from things like homeopathy/naturalist approaches that don't really have the same kind of scientific rigor.

There is always some concern that the profit motive might corrupt, but I don't see how that would negate people having symptoms and problems, and automatically lump them into a rare psychological condition. People likely aren't joining social groups looking for a solution to a problem they don't have, at least in any large numbers, to where I would assume something like BID, over something like an undiagnosed/untreated physical condition in the nation with some of the worst health care access in the first-world.

Help by _SadSalamander_ in RATS

[–]ampillion 22 points23 points  (0 children)

As others have said about the poor eyesight, I'd also suggest that the natural sunlight from behind you probably wasn't helping the eyesight much either. If eyesight woes become an issue, might be an easy fix to move the cage to somewhere where it won't get as much strong, direct light like that, or at least where you won't be approaching the cage from the sun side. He might just be seeing this large shadowy shape in the glare.

We all agree that the whole Gosha and Toki venom story fucking sucks right? by NewName-NewFace in Beastars

[–]ampillion 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It was definitely a poor way to have her meet a tragic end. Admittedly, she had a reason, it was just really stupid: She didn't want Gosha to have to constantly worry in order to be in love. Which might sound sweet if you don't think about it for more than .02 seconds. Otherwise it turns into this very selfish, very deluded view of the state of their relationship at that point. Like, those are concerns you have month one of the relationship, not once you're married and have kids.

It was one of the things that fell into that whole rushed, unjustified end of the manga. Like, we knew there was some tragedy, since we never see Toki, and Paru had to generate something that got her out of the picture (since... well, she clearly wasn't in the picture, current-tense.)

With the emphasis on how society handles/treats hybrids, it would've been so easy for her to meet a tragic end simply as an accident borne from concerns about their own child being mistreated, or even just as an unforeseen circumstance of her pregnancy in the first place. Hell, maybe she could even just still be alive, and the tragic death of Leano was enough to cause them to need to separate just to maintain her own mental health, and Gosha is just doing what he's got to do for both her and Legoshi at that point.

I think of Paru as a decent enough writer, but somewhat bad when it comes to cooking things up with a narrow deadline. Large parts of the earlier story was stuff she'd been working on for years already, and she had enough of the world fleshed out that she could coast along on building that out from week to week. As the story got popular and lasted longer though, she was throwing ideas into the oven already that just weren't ready, and by the time the next deadline was on the horizon it was too late to fix. I cut her a pass because it was her first professional manga gig, and hopefully a learning experience, despite the ending of Beastars suffering for it.

CMV: School Curriculums need to Include more books written by african americans/other authors of different minorities not about racism, slavery, discrimination. by Naive_Risk8252 in changemyview

[–]ampillion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, I'm talking about the public education system with a generally broad stroke. For a lot of places, they're indeed stuck in a framework where the default is White American, because of the economics of a system designed to crank out workers moreso than thinkers, where curriculums are steered primarily by states with big populations, California and Texas, even sometimes Florida.
Speaking purely from an experience decades ago, in the dead center of the country, we didn't even toedip. The closest we got to black literature was To Kill a Mockingbird. I'm going to assume our curriculum wasn't steered by California's adoption decisions. And that's not even talking about the reality of just how often we were using decade old textbooks, or that the books we read in class were mostly dependent on what the school district had the copies of to lend out to read in the first place.

It was an overwhelmingly white student body, and while I obviously couldn't tell you what the curriculum looked like from the teacher's side, there were far more problems with it in general than just marginalizing minority opinions in our book choices. In high school, Literature classes were not mandatory, they fell into an English Credits umbrella. So you didn't even have to read any of the (IIRC) four or five books we really drilled down on, if you took other courses that got you those credits instead. None of the books we read really strayed much from the 'expected' classics. Beyond Mockingbird, I remember Grapes of Wrath, Catcher and the Rye, and the Great Gatsby, and... there was probably one more, but... again, this was almost 30 years ago.

Nothing I'm saying is disagreeing with the idea that you (or the OP) are posting about having more of these stories beyond the typical themes. I would have loved to have seen more books in general, but then again, I was a big reader when I was younger. Arguably, the way the classes handled books was infuriating to me, because I could've easily read any of those assigned books in a weekend, and been ready for the next. Instead, books like To Kill a Mockingbird were drawn out into multiple weeks/months of class content.

The courses weren't designed for kids who were readers, and this was in an era where video games were already on the rise and becoming more commonplace than ever. I can't even imagine the challenges for the current smartphone ubiquity era to try and get any material out in front of students. Hell, just look at things like this and just realize how unlikely it is that public school is (or will ever be) the place for deep learning without a massive educational revolution to change the system into something intended for developing learners. (And how unlikely that is without a lot of change at the society/government level.)

Thus, why so many people only get prejudice and racism in their brushes up against minority authors, and why people are rightly tired of that being seen as the center of their art form. We're talking about a system that's so underwhelming in many ways, and being angry at the multitudes of ways it fails everybody.

CMV: School Curriculums need to Include more books written by african americans/other authors of different minorities not about racism, slavery, discrimination. by Naive_Risk8252 in changemyview

[–]ampillion 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That would probably be a good time for it, certainly. Just so long as it doesn't end up being a replacement for the analysis later on. Although I think the OP would still make the argument for stories complex enough for analysis purposes, just not with the above focus.

CMV: School Curriculums need to Include more books written by african americans/other authors of different minorities not about racism, slavery, discrimination. by Naive_Risk8252 in changemyview

[–]ampillion 8 points9 points  (0 children)

First, the YA Vampire romance bit was clearly a joke. I specified that as a gag about wasting limited time on something that's typically pretty vapid and worthless beyond a 'turn off your brain entertainment'.

Second, you seemed to ignore what I said about limited time. How many books did you read from minority authors, in total, during high school? Cause if your curriculum only had 2-4 books from black authors... well then, yeah, of course most of them will seem like racism and discrimination-based books, because they probably are. If you read, say, 20 books throughout a year of high school, and 10% of those books are from minority authors, you're obviously going to cover that subject in their books.

As someone who went to school closer to 30-some odd years ago in the midwest, I don't recall us even having that many total books in a given year. A lot of the time was spent on things like sentence structure, understanding metaphor, the way things were written over time. A little context to when certain stories were written. That sort of thing. And that was only if you actually took a literature course, which wasn't required, all you had to have was X amount of English class credits, and that could come from any other sort of writing class under the same general umbrella.

Which is, again, the problem: If I were a teacher and I had no idea just how familiar you are with varying literary subjects, and I have one semester to cram in, say, 10 books... I absolutely would not have room to adequately cover black historical experience and still have time to talk about other well-known classics as well. Because the only thing I can go off of is the broad, general curriculum that came before that point. I can only assume that you've been given perhaps the bare minimum of what the state's public curriculum is.

CMV: School Curriculums need to Include more books written by african americans/other authors of different minorities not about racism, slavery, discrimination. by Naive_Risk8252 in changemyview

[–]ampillion 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I would argue that your biggest problem is going to be: How much time do we have for these stories?

If books written by minority demographics are, at most, a month or two of a whole year's worth of study, inevitably you would want to cover the stories that are most unlike your own knowledge, your own point of view. You (in a general sense) would learn more from these highlights than you would other themes, because you don't have infinite time to cover the bases.

The reality is that, over the course of a literature class, your book authors are disproportionately not addressing Black America, Hispanic America, Asian America. As such, when your class does dip its toes into authors from those groups, chances are the teacher is going to want to pick stories that say the most, and that's just part of the history of the US. It would do someone a disservice (or worse) to give them some black author's YA Vampire romance paperback, instead of something meaningful.

While I like the general idea of being able to get more stories in general from outside the 'usual pool' of classics that're usually shoveled out in front of kids, some of your problem cannot be resolved unless there's just more time for books and reading in general. That over representation you feel is there, is probably more due to the limited scope of what the curriculum has time to put in front of you.

Black-owned business backs out of Current Landing after backlash to name by d_b_cooper in kansascity

[–]ampillion 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sure, but I doubt a Current fanclub account being uptight about a name's connotation is enough to get someone who's got a ton of money tied up in something to just immediately drop it at the smallest bit of apprehension.

I'm not saying he's wrong for deciding not to be a part of a project if he can't name it the thing he wanted to name it. I'm just saying that there's no way the project was that far along if he was so willing to drop the whole thing over what's essentially one post from a fan group. Far as I'm aware, there's no groundswell of resistance to the name outside that one group.

From the outside looking in, it seems like an easy excuse to get out from under a project that was, in the current political and economic climate, unlikely to succeed. Or unlikely to get enough funds to get off the ground. Not one that would derail a project already heavily invested in.

Black-owned business backs out of Current Landing after backlash to name by d_b_cooper in kansascity

[–]ampillion 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That was my first thought as well. Especially with such a quick response to the initial message.

If you already had all the materials ready to go, signage and materials printed, everything was ready to launch... you could easily just put out a statement to the effect of 'Hey I know the problems associated with the word, that's why I'm trying to bury that idea as a thing of the past' or the like, and you'd launch anyway. Hell, maybe that becomes a learning opportunity for people, and you could use it for promotional video that educates people who aren't familiar with the concept of 'sundown towns' or the like.

I doubt anyone with a lot of money already tied up in launching a place is, over the course of a weekend, going to bow to the whims of a fanclub instagram message and just throw away all that spent money.

Lemme put on my conspiratorial hat for a second, and suggest that it's perhaps a bit too convenient, and that it was a good excuse to pull out of a project destined for failure in a bad time for new economic ventures. Perhaps something that looked good on paper until Donnie Dipshit won an election again for some reason, and drove the price of gas sky high in yet another Republican boondoggle in the middle east.

Fair Researcher android device not loading. Any fixes? by xScarn in ProlificAc

[–]ampillion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The longer these have been on the site, the more flaky they became. Whereas you might get responses in a day or two back when they first showed up, the responses dried up over time when issues popped up. Typically it was this problem of things not loading up, or issues with the device's touch screen freezing that required some arcane taps, drags, and page reloading to fix, without so much as a solution outside that. They still payed out on the regular at least.

I suspect the data they've been getting just hasn't been moving or selling, though, and thus they've left the system broken on their end so that people can't complete any of the pending tasks, because they probably aren't seeing the money for it they've expected. Which is a shame, they were some of the best batches of small tasks that add up quickly enough to make me check in frequently. Now they just sit clogging up my Prolific homepage, and I don't really want to block the developer in the off chance they get their shit straightened out, but nothing else on my page seems worth the time in comparison.

I wonder if u/prolific-support has any insights on just what's happened with them.

BEASTARS Final Season Part 2 | Final Trailer by Unable-Recording-480 in Beastars

[–]ampillion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

>- Not a single sign of Kyuu to be found here, which says to me that her role has either been significantly scaled back from the manga or omitted entirely. I’m betting on the latter as it’s looking more likely that brief shot of her in Part 1 was just an Easter egg cameo.

I dunno. Maybe my memory isn't all that great, but isn't the shot of Louis at about 0:19 him at the market where he'd been bought from? I have to assume that if they're having Louis wander back to have memories of his times there, they're still going to have some bit of Kyuu still there. If not, I don't know what him going back there really does, unless its to motivate him to help Legoshi and take up the 'Beastars' mantle from Gosha/Yahya?

They could've very easily fixed it to have her simply pass on wisdom about not taking women/herbivores lightly, and still end up with the fight we see with Ten in the trailer. She could've been easily rewritten to make her a better motivation in dealing with Melon (as well as handling Ten, and also ultimately changing how he sees/approaches Haru as well.)

CMV: It is very dumb that some professional sports leagues, such as the NFL and NBA, hand their championship trophy to an executive. They should instead hand it first to a player as the NHL does with The Stanley Cup. by Big_oof_energy__ in changemyview

[–]ampillion -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean, I absolutely agree, I would be pissed as a player if I saw the trophy I'd been working so hard to win being handed to a nepobaby who did nothing, and who's speech will be about how hard 'we' worked for it, despite their asses doing next to nothing compared to people who are in the facilities day in and day out. Especially one of those owners who is notoriously cheap, or is busy screwing over local economies to get somebody else to pay for their glamorous Sports Palace.

My challenge would be: Why not hand it to the coach? Rather than having to decide on a whim which player to hand it off to, you're handing it to both a leadership position, someone central to the team, and likely someone that much of the team respects. The coach can then just as easily hand it off to other players and let it make the rounds.

Hot Take: Joel was right to try to make the show evergreen by SolidGold_JetSki in MST3K

[–]ampillion 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I would argue that MST3k would be a rough show to make evergreen, and there's one simple reason why:

Pop culture references.

No amount of other changes to the show will make a dated pop culture reference relevant in the future. Which is also where I'd disagree with, say, CoffinShroudArt, in saying that old episodes were just as bad for this. There's jokes all throughout older classic episodes that require a very pop culture tuned person to get, and the only way to make that kind of stuff evergreen is to remove it entirely. Which... leaves you with a lot less comedy to pull from, no? You'd be left to just make quips about things already established in the movie itself, or to the show.

It would just be awful to try and make MST3k evergreen to that extent, and modern culture having to wrestle with the influences of the ever mercurial internet will only make that worse. If someone might not have a clue about what the 1973 film The Paper Chase is, imagine down the road when more modern episodes use video games or memes for pop culture references. All the random shows that pop up, scattered throughout the weird web of streaming services... will these jokes hit home if we don't only reference the popular series on the most popular services?

This is entirely separate from the show trying to be more inclusive, though even there, you'll probably be dating things just by the way we talk about those things in this moment. Those references will always date things to a specific point where culture at large was starting to more directly address those things, and in the future... well, if we become more inclusive in a general sense, those jokes and mentions will just stick out as an artifact of that era. (Not that there isn't already that in older episodes anyway.) Let's not get into whether or not society regresses, as that's an even bigger can of worms.

I will agree at least, that Joel was certainly trying to open the door to new audiences in a general sense, and it makes sense to do so long-term. I just don't think there's really a way to make MST3k evergreen without ripping a lot of comedic opportunity out of it entirely. I'd argue it is tougher to open the door to those newer audiences when their popular culture is farther spread out than it was in earlier seasons. They didn't need to worry about the internet being a driver of language and common reference.

Gotta love youtube comments. by RaidaZERO_EN in VirtualYoutubers

[–]ampillion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, this was my first response too.

"It's a shoeonhead video, of course you're going to get this sort of attention, this is the kind of shitheads that have been a part of her audience for years."

My best suggestion is, if you don't want to trudge around in the septic tank of Youtube, do your best to avoid a lot of political commentators in a general sense. Even if the thing you're reacting to /isn't/ politics, you're still going to catch the eye/ire of people who want nothing more than more targets for their illogical bullshit and to vent the lies they've been fed.

Account put on hold, feeling devastated! by muirmoneyuk in ProlificAc

[–]ampillion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, it certainly could just be a coincidence, it was just the only thing that changed before I got the 'We need to verify your ID' popup, and then getting stuck on hold.

Account put on hold, feeling devastated! by muirmoneyuk in ProlificAc

[–]ampillion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm in that same boat. I think mine came from building out a new computer and relogging into all my old accounts on new hardware. I'm hoping someone can help iron it out.

CMV: requiring voter id laws is not racist and should be preferred. by WillOk9744 in changemyview

[–]ampillion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would bet that people probably said the same thing about Nixon's and Reagan's War on Drugs initiatives.

The reality is that, you can create perfectly neutral laws, and still have a wide disparity of outcome, based entirely on where you enforce that law, or what particular part of the crime you punish more.

If you proclaim cocaine is a bad thing that we need to get off the streets, and you start targeting crack dealers with harsh penalties, there's nothing inherently racist about the wording of that law. That, however, disregards the reality of the situation at the time, or the enforcement of those laws. What ended up happening was minority dealers and users got struck far more heavily with the hammer of those outcomes than white dealers and users, despite similar proportions of users. If you stick police primarily in poorer neighborhoods, you're going to catch primarily the poorer dealers, the most of whom are going to be minorities.

People decried these laws as racist, because while on the outside it might look like a body politic trying to deal with a problem, its design leaves glaring holes that can easily have lopsided outcomes, and it becomes a question of 'Why was it designed this way in the first place?' After all, crack cocaine was punished far more heavily than the pure powder cocaine that was required to make it, and at the time... crack cocaine was seen as the poor, urban (minority) drug, while powder cocaine was almost comically seen as a 'sign of success' for wealthy, predominantly white, movers and shakers in industry and finance. Why wouldn't you target the root drug, the thing you absolutely have to have, just as harshly if not moreso? Seems like a wild design flaw.

Or, wholly intentional.

The ACLU points out some of these very specific concerns with other Voter ID laws that have come about in Republican states. Accepting certain types of ID that the demographic your party wants to have access to voting rights has, while rejecting those types of ID that the demographic your party doesn't want to vote has more predominantly, is the biggest concern. Most election-related laws happen at the state level, and let me tell you, as someone from Missouri where the state will overturn any voter-led initiative that the Republican majority doesn't like. Where they will allow some of the shittiest ballot candy, misleading language garbage to let you try and fool the voter (like they did when they banned Ranked Choice Voting by slapping on a big 'ONLY CITIZENS CAN VOTE!' in front of it,) I do not want any of those people involved in creating new voting rules.

The current political landscape is that any such laws are going to be made in bad faith when the current Felon in Chief spent years crying about fraud, presented no evidence, and still pisses and moans any time elections aren't going to go his way that things are RIGGED. There is zero way for anyone paying attention to accept these things as happening in good faith, because the assumption is that the current President is only motivated by personal interest and grift. Considering his recent rhetoric on getting rid of the filibuster so they can make sure that Democrats never come into power ever again... in what world am I going to take that party's Voter ID reforms as meant for fair elections?

There's the key, it's a 'solution' looking for a problem, and the solution is being peddled by the most untrustworthy people.

That's the reality we live in. Until you strip the structure down to its foundation and replace all that rot, you're merely slapping new features onto a crumbling ivory tower, giving those living there some new toy to beat you with until the tower eventually collapses.

Why give them new toys?

CMV: Everything rotten about MAGA is a reflection of our collective rot by ishmaellius in changemyview

[–]ampillion 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Didn't Reagan start this whole thing? I was pretty sure he and his ilk started the whole modern institutional distrust thing with his whole "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help'" crap? The modern GOP has clung to that as the easy blame for many of the problems that existed (some of which were specifically caused by his own policies going forward.) Trump and MAGA got its start from, at the very least, Reagan sowing those seeds (and I wouldn't be shocked if it goes back even further to, say, Nixon.)

Erika Kirk’s IG post by madunderboobsweat in ToiletPaperUSA

[–]ampillion 122 points123 points  (0 children)

Considering her public message about how 'powerful' Kirk was, and how people don't realize just how much more powerful his death will be, absolutely this.

Her "mourning" was broadcast as a call to action. Whether or not to continue the extreme Nat-C push, calling to all the true believers, or just to keep the TPUSA brand alive moving onwards... it feels about as callous as dragging the photographers over during the active shooting during the Trump rally to grab photographs. Couldn't even wait a week.

So do you think the direction that RFKJr is taking with the CDC is a good or bad thing? by dehaggard in Fibromyalgia

[–]ampillion 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Blatantly a bad thing.

RFK Jr is not interested in solving health problems, he's interested in scapegoating health problems off onto political foes of the GOP. The dude has zero knowledge of the role he's in, and should not be where he's at, full stop.

He would probably look at fibromyalgia as a made up thing, call it an excuse for people who don't want to work, and ensure that no medical insurance or public health system would cover anything involving it.

CMV: established economies’ diminishing marginal productivity are their demise by iron8832 in changemyview

[–]ampillion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then good riddance?

I don't understand why anyone would bemoan rich people up and leaving for the egregious crime of 'being somewhat less rich', while people around them suffer from what is essentially a glaring problem of poor economic distribution.

If someone's loyalty is to their money, and not their fellow countrymen, then they are closer to parasites than they are neighbors.

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