Viking_Hippie @ Viking_Hippie @lemmy.dbzer0.com Posts 177Comments 1,830Joined 4 mo. ago
Because, in the game of thrones, you win or you die.
Seriously, though, I don't necessarily agree. Though it's not the norm, people DO come back after losing high profile races.
Just look at how establishment media can't kick their Hillary addiction, or how Kari Lake somehow remains relevant in spite of never winning anything but Arizona GOP primaries, which are basically just bigotry state fairs.
If they can, AOC DEFINITELY can.
Big Carol/Cheryl energy 😄
if you invest based on the vagina to rabies ratio, you'll see good returns
Words to live by.
Dallas Rabbi Who Spread False Hamas Rape Claims Arrested for Child Molestation
O curse
It started with the flowers of a purple petunia plant turning white, and ended with a human cell becoming resistant to the deadly embrace of the Aids virus. The intervening decade took in experiments with yeasts, microscopic worms, mice and flies. And they all pointed to one thing: a potential revolution in medical science.
Most establishment media are still stuck in the 1990s just like the Dem leadership. They keep expecting this shit show to normalize any moment so they can get back to calmly enriching the less publicly malicious oligarchs without people noticing.
To paraphrase a quote commonly attributed to Mark Twain, it's much easier to fool people into fucking around than to force them to find out 😉
You're asking for a dictatorship.
On the contrary. I'm asking for politicians to focus on the real outcomes for real people alive today, rather than tying their own hands with avoidable bureaucracy.
You just want your dictatorship.
Nope. Representing the will of the people more than the ideas of long dead slave owners is not dictatorship no matter how much you insist on your ridiculous strawman.
The structure of government still matters a great deal
As a means towards the minimizing of abuse and otherwise making it more difficult to achieve malicious aims, sure.
Far too often, though, it's being used as an invalid excuse for Dems to not do their REAL job of representing the will of the people who are affected by their actions.
it's just irrelevant if the parties involved refuse to maintain the system
Technically correct, but unrelated to my point. I'm not advocating getting rid of all rules and having a free for all.
I'm saying that for example allowing an unelected bureaucrat with only ceremonial authority to decide whether a minimum wage raise is allowed is farcical to the point of dereliction of duty if not malicious sabotage.
You want a democracy
Correct. I want rule of the people. Not rule of the ancient and often irrelevant decrees of old.
More than you want outcomes (hear me out)
This better be fucking good..
Because without a democracy you are truly at the whim of a mad king
Again with the false dichotomy. I have never nor will I ever argue for autocracy.
There are other options than "you don't get to have a living wage because an advisor said nah" and "let's dictate policy on a whim!" 🤦
With a democracy,
Again pretending that I'm arguing against democracy rather than for a more representative one 🙄
even a stagnant an ineffective one, progress can be made though it will be made slowly.
That's the problem, though: it's generally been one step forward three steps back since 1980 or so, since the least awful party won't fight, has awful messaging, and care more about the sacred bureaucracy and their owner donors than the people in general.
BUT it is still preferable to a fast-acting autocracy
Wow, you've built a dead horse out of straw and you're still beating it! that would be impressive if it wasn't so damn stupid.
unresponsive to the needs of the people.
that's what I'm saying! That the Dems in their hyperfocus on norms and procedures ARE unresponsive to the wants and needs of the people!
BECAUSE their obsession with how Thomas Jefferson thought things ought to be done 250 years ago distracts them from properly focusing on the real life consequences of their actions and lack of same.
They're acting like they're in a fucking Aaron Sorkin show where ideology is the worst character flaw imaginable and whomever holds the best rousing speech about bravely weathering adversity deservedly wins everything 🤦
You seem to be ignoring Newton's Fourth Law of Motion:
Whenever you don't expect it (and often when you do), one wheel of a shopping cart will be completely fucked, making the whole thing a nightmare to maneuver.
It's more pithy in the original Neo-Latin 🤷
I'd agree with your agreement 🤜
The top one needs to somehow have a negative value for handling.
Ah ok, that makes more sense. I still say they're being recklessly optimistic, but at least they're not implicitly denying a certainty 🤷
Yeah, US tariffs on Iran is about as consequential as the tariffs on uninhabited Antarctic islands the orange idiot also did.
In fact, the silly is more or less NECESSARY to retain the mental health and well-being necessary for the wise..
Do they mean the risk of one happening soon or of one happening at all?
Because if it's the latter, anyone who knows just a little about how the US macroeconomy works knows that it's 100%. It's simply a part of the vicious cycle of under-regulated capitalism.
That being said, there's little to no doubt that the kakistocracy is going to make the next one arrive sooner and be MUCH worse than they usually are.
Which is the only way the Mango Mussolini ever knew of to get what he wants.
That's part of why he's so inept as a businessman: he refuses to consider the wishes, priorities, and well-being of others, even when doing so could benefit himself.
Wtf is going on with Japan, though? Judging by the graph, their stock market is plummeting much faster! Is their current government anywhere near as maliciously incompetent as the US one?
Especially by the nonfascist party with any power.
Part of what makes the Dem leadership so damn inept at protecting the people from the abuses of the GOP is their reverence for the "sanctity" of the systems and processes making them accept unacceptable outcomes.
For all the awful things that they do (which is pretty much everything they ever do), the GOP are right about one thing: in politics, getting the desired results is more important than following procedure.
That they're being so hamfisted about it that they're causing a shitload of unintended harm and that their goals are themselves extremely harmful to the vast majority of the people means that they're still not right to do it though, of course..
TIL that Firefox Nightly gets snarky about it when you have over 99 tabs open
