jtrek

joined 6 months ago
[–] jtrek@startrek.website 17 points 1 day ago

Conservatives will say anything to align with the in-group, to hurt the outgroup, or for personal power. They have no internal beliefs beyond those.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Any text based platform is not going to be representative. Many people don't read well, and don't have the ability to communicate well in writing.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

They want hierarchy. A king, nobles, and an underclass. They don't care if they're on top, just so long as someone is below them.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, the Senate is a bad idea. If the US was a collection of little sovereign states mostly independent maybe it would make sense. But it's not.

Get rid of the Senate. Add more seats to the house.

Get rid of lifetime appointments of supreme court justices. Pull them up from lower courts to hear cases, then send them back.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 21 points 2 days ago

Not to overly repeat myself, but as discussed in the book "dying of whiteness", there's a lot of people that would rather their kid go hungry than a black kid get a meal.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 15 points 2 days ago

If it's like before, eventually it'll be just a vague "things were bad" like the gilded age or great depression. Humans aren't great at learning big picture things.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I used to care more about work. But this job pays garbage and is frothing over AI, so fuck them.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 20 points 3 days ago

The doing it doesn’t bother me so much as the “Hey so I was browsing through my downvotes and noticed you downvoted me. Justify your actions to me!” PMs.

That is not healthy behavior.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 3 days ago

Well that's consistent, if you accept their belief as true. Who cares about the mortal body when it's a blink of an eye before eternal heaven?

Unfortunately, they are almost certainly mistaken. This is probably all they get.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Rather, it’s the presence of a competitive market.

Competitive markets are hated by private business owners

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 8 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I mean, capitalists seem like they would be happy to just have slaves and all the nice things for themselves.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 29 points 4 days ago

Rich people don't want to give anything up.

Assholes don't want their out-group to have anything nice. Even if it means they suffer.

Many people don't know shit about fuck, and they're just trying to get through the week.

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