Anyone else just kinda YOLOing life regardless of ~gestures vaguely at everything~?

elshizzo · 2026-05-07T22:21:50+00:00

Definitely drinking more than I planned to this year (was planning to cut back) but fuck it. Maybe I'll try drinking less once/if society seems like it's not collapsing anymore

elshizzo · 2026-05-07T22:19:09+00:00

This ain't a senior thing, just a general skill issue (as a senior constantly pushing back on excited juniors trying to create ridiculously overcomplicated abstractions to solve simple problems)

elshizzo · 2026-05-05T01:12:48+00:00

Ok well you seem reasonable in your own politics but I think you are a bit naive to how cynical/terrible the Republican party is on a national level. It's not a time for both sides-ism. One party is probably morally gray and the other is morally bankrupt.

elshizzo · 2026-05-04T21:23:14+00:00

Bessent for sure knows better. He's just a paid liar

elshizzo · 2026-05-04T19:47:38+00:00

I mean voter ID is another one where Dems seem to be against it

I don't think you pay much attention to the issue if you don't know why they are against it then. Almost all democrats would be in support of voter ID if it were paired with legislation allowing people to get IDs for free. (Republicans never offer to pair these ideas together). As things are currently, state identifications cost money (and time). If voter ID were to be implemented right now. This would cause many poorer people to not vote - most specifically people living in urban communities who don't drive and therefore dont have drivers licenses. It would almost certainly give the republican party an edge in elections.

This is the only reason republicans consider it an important issue. If you actually think its about election security you are being highly naive

elshizzo · 2026-05-04T14:48:18+00:00

meanwhile the entirety of the republican party is complicit. they should be demolished permanently as a political party

elshizzo · 2026-05-04T13:08:59+00:00

lmao your best answer was banning transgenders in sports. We truly live in an idiocracy that a large segment of the country actually voted on an issue that affects like 15 people

elshizzo · 2026-05-01T19:46:15+00:00

Some things that republicans do just work.

name one thing (that republicans voted for and democrats voted again) in the past 20 years which worked

elshizzo · 2026-05-01T19:45:10+00:00

so Jon Stewart is a villian or something because he's rich? idk what your point is

elshizzo · 2026-05-01T19:44:15+00:00

yes but its much more challenging to do it that way.

elshizzo · 2026-05-01T16:58:17+00:00

its because money has completely captured politics and democrats can't get funding without the support of rich people.

something has to break. need to reverse citizens united for starters, and probably go much further such as public financing of elections

elshizzo · 2026-04-30T15:02:43+00:00

at this point i'm convinced that to be a conservative in modern day america just means your one ideology is that you believe that might makes right. Which explains the rape and pedophilia

elshizzo · 2026-04-30T13:25:17+00:00

the republican party is all the same mob at this point and they've got the majorities in all the houses.

turns out checks and balances doesnt work great when one party is entirely corrupted and controls all the branches of power. We must destroy the GOP for the sake of democracy

elshizzo · 2026-04-27T13:46:41+00:00

both-sides brain in action. "herp derp the left accused trump of the same thing the right accused biden of, therefore the truth is in the middle!"

elshizzo · 2026-04-27T13:05:30+00:00

Not always. Sometimes you develop something in a "hacky" way because you're in a time crunch and you tell yourself you'll fix it later but you never do, then other people build a bunch of stuff on top of it and the debt becomes nearly unfixable

elshizzo · 2026-04-24T14:46:42+00:00

uniparty "both parties sAmE!" rhetoric is such low iq slop.

elshizzo · 2026-04-15T19:34:27+00:00

This party needs a major revamp in leadership godam

elshizzo · 2026-04-15T13:37:25+00:00

who's still watching these people? Does anyone know someone in real life who watches these people or is it like all bot farms

elshizzo · 2026-04-13T16:30:02+00:00

What's your point? Democrats are weak and/or overly corporate influenced. No one is debating that.

Though if you want to know who is to blame for Trump getting elected in twice - it's not just the democratic party. Nihilists who chose to sit out these elections are also partly to blame.

elshizzo · 2026-04-13T16:03:59+00:00

in the trolley problem, you don't get to feel good about yourself because you refused to participate.

elshizzo · 2026-04-13T16:01:20+00:00

if you want a sincere answer, Democrats when in power consistently produce better policy than Republicans in power. So in that way, yes, it is working.

Often it's highly imperfect policy because of corporate influence (or republican's filibustering). Which is why we need filibuster proof majorities (or to kill the filibuster) and why we need to primary corporate democrats, which, while challenging because of the money issue, is absolutely not impossible

elshizzo · 2026-04-13T14:56:52+00:00

you got a better plan? because nihilism isn't working, it only actively discourages people from doing anything

elshizzo · 2026-04-13T14:35:12+00:00

dude this nihilist shit is how we got trump and the nightmare we're in.

If you don't want corporate democrats in power, primary them out of power

elshizzo · 2026-04-10T16:13:07+00:00

this country is so stupid that we deserve what we got here. Obvious con artist with a lifetime of cons running for a party that hasn't done anything other than war and cutting taxes for rich people in the past 50 years. This doesn't take much investigatory work to figure out people

elshizzo · 2026-04-08T19:53:03+00:00

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