You did have a choice as the democrats held primaries that year and Biden won the primaries. Unfortunately he withdrew afterwards and there was a scramble to find a replacement, but you don’t get to rewrite history that the primaries didn’t occur.
If you didn’t vote for Harris then you were fine with Trump as a possibility. Own your decision.
How about this: if you voted, you signed up in a system that says you're okay with the outcome of the situation.
How is that not true? "I did what I could"... sure. So did I.
But I wouldn't have been okay with either outcome, so I didn't sign up saying that after an election we'd all just be like "whelp, good game guess I should go back to brunch".
So here I am, having to go organize against ICE because of the shitty political system that you reify. Thanks, asshole. If you voted, then you're okay with the outcome- that's what it means to vote.
I'm just curious - did you see that I also wrote the top-level comment strongly condemning Grump, that brought out the crazies in the first place? I didn't intend the follow up comment be be taken as a hyper-literal statement of facts, and it feels like that directionality should have been clear from context.
Depends on your definition. He's sure not what was considered "conservative" a decade or two ago. But he is what is currently labeled "conservative".
The older definition was small government, limited federal power, fiscally conservative, protect the Constitution. The new definition is... something very different.
This hasn't been true for probably over 40 years. Every conservative presidency has resulted in causing more budgetary issues, increasing the power of the feds and chipping away at the constitution. You can look at the actions taken and the budget over the years. Reagan massively blew up the national debt with Reaganomics, George W followed in his wake and so did Trump. The new definition of the GOP is just what happens when the mask fully falls off and they don't feel a need to lie to people.
In the pejorative sense the word has taken on as the wheels have slowly come off the cart for the past several decades, sure. But as far as the lofty ideals outlined by conservative thinkers, an "institutional arsonist" is basically the polar opposite. The conservatives with any principles remaining got labeled "RINO" and sidelined. And that's saying a lot given what had previously passed for principles.
A correct term is "reactionary", as Yarvin outlines in A Gentle Introduction... . Or less awkwardly and more plainly, "fascist".
Ah right, I forgot amazon was saying an object hit their data center and wasn’t admitting it was a bomb still.
The Iranians can’t project force far enough to be an existential threat to these companies but they’ve already taken damage to their assets in the region
Graham is doing media interviews where he’s backing this war currently.
Also why you find that hilarious instead of expected? Trump is the GOP now. Everyone with more than the barest of pushback to him have been purged from the party and he’s working on getting rid of those people too.
Yea. They are half assed tools that can do _something_ but aren’t a magic bullet, yet executives put guidelines in like increase productivity by 100% because they either believe or, want to manifest into reality, that they are a magic bullet for the deadly sin of paying employees.
So now expectations are based on a false reality and everyone has to work harder.
I kept thinking “damn, you people work like this?” - is this supposed to be the future of programming everybody is excited about? Fuck this shit, man. It is utter lunacy.
Which is made possible only because of the excellent foundations that were built during the past decades.
However, while I say that we should do quality work, the current situation is very demoralizing and has me asking what's the point of it all. For everybody around me the answer appears to really just be money and nothing else. But if getting money is the one and only thing that matters, I can think of many horrible things that could be justified under this framework.
You did have a choice as the democrats held primaries that year and Biden won the primaries. Unfortunately he withdrew afterwards and there was a scramble to find a replacement, but you don’t get to rewrite history that the primaries didn’t occur.
If you didn’t vote for Harris then you were fine with Trump as a possibility. Own your decision.
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