You can't do it and be right, but you can do it and be dumb and wrong.

Change that to take over the Democratic party and you got a good idea.

First past the post kills third parties mathematically.

The US widget buyers in the fantasy scenario are 100% not getting fucked by tariffs, because--again, fantasy scenario--their dollars are not supporting slavery, wage slavery, or some unjustifiable bullshit that's barely technically not wage slavery. Gutting economic opportunities for bad actors that exploit labor is a win for everybody, and claiming otherwise is evidence of a misunderstanding born of too narrow a scope.

Basically, if I save a buck by poisoning my town's water, I haven't won.

That aside, I loved reading this. I already kind of knew it but your version made me know it better. Thanks for writing it.

Kids understand in about two seconds. Effortlessly.

If guns had a function besides murder, that would be a bad argument, but they don't. Defense is just the threat of murder.

Shooting at the range for fun, I suppose, but if people are actually serious about that they'd want to store their guns there because there's no need for them anywhere else.

Yeah, Greenland

It's complicated. Tl;dr: they're both true.

It's not any more strange than literally any republican voting to shoot themselves in the foot. Nobody benefits from it. Not even the rich! It just feeds their money addiction like a drug dealer feeds a junkie.

Trump almost has it. If he can just be a slightly bigger ass on a slightly bigger stage, then he'll be happy.

Musn't give up too soon.

You have to be especially shitty to side with the guy after it's all come out.

How am I supposed to have fun if I'm not better than you?????

Edit: ???

People would, in general, really love to pay a reasonable subscription to youtube that gets fairly distributed to the video creators they watch the most.

So if there's ever a way to do that, they'll probably use it.

Every election in America, no matter how shitty Republicans get, is 49%-51%.

This produces a rather odd dumbass effect where if it's 48%-52%, people start shouting about landslides.

(About that basically always tied thing...)

I didn't realize the Department Of Giving Up had a presence on lemmy.

edit: on further inspection, if you check the comment history of this account, you can piece together a picture of a professional wet blanket turned loose by an evil empire to bum a resistance out with low-energy snark.

I personally recommend a block.

Some other country is gonna have the new nasa, and the united states is going to fall even further behind. It'll just be a brain drain and most of it isn't going to go to space-x.

This kind of reads as being addicted to the smell of your own farts?

Nothing in that godawful, arcane, confusing black screen with white text is ever going to be better than clicking on buttons that have English words I can actually understand.

If you were raised by the matrix and like doing things the hard way with memorized commands, that's fine with me and kind of cool in a way, but it is definitely the hard way.

Gentle masculinity and roughhousing feminity are great and people should do them more because of how great they are.

If any of you find out that any of these people take up independent (ie real) journalism, please post about it a ton on here.

The only way to make money is to convince people to give you money. If you wanna do it by acting like it's because of some skill you have, that can work.

He's afraid that if he doesn't slide us into unlikeability gradually, the shock could kill us.

4D chess?