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So DOGE's cuts saved just ~~over $150 million~~ (apparently I can't read), and we've already burned through most of those saving mobilizing the national guard to tear gas people foolish enough to claim Trump isn't king? Fantastic. I am so tired of all this "winning."

Edit: I misread some stuff but the essence of the absurdity I am directing my anger at remains the same. Fuck fascism.

It's almost like the political spectrum is a false dichotomy that only feeds into the us vs them narrative that is fueling conflicts all over the world.

The left is defined as putting the collective state first, while the right is defined by individualism before all else. The extreme right eventually advocates for leadership and control by the "superior" individuals that rise through that individualism, which is essentially the belief that it's the strong's right to rule, regardless of whether you define strength to be wealth, intelligence, social clout or otherwise. The extreme left eventually advocates for the total supremecy of the state, seeing any level of social deviancy as damaging to their collective society. These are tankies: the "states can do no wrong" crowd.

Unfortunately, both binaries of the political spectrum are prone to authoritarianism once you go far enough. It's almost like the real issue is extreme ideals that leave no room for nuance and understanding.

I used to consider myself extremely radically left, before I stumbled across the absurdity of the Tankies that permeate certain areas of Lemmy. And I mean, as far as Western politics is concerned I am absurdly leftist. Just not that kind of leftist

I do want to state that the flight model has NOTHING on Elite. But otherwise, it is in a lot of ways a game which I wish Elite was a lot closer to.

Friends and I downloaded it, prompted by this post. There's a little bit of awkwardness and animation jank, but man, does the game get the core concept right.

Space is not flat, the ship feels like a near arcane contraption, rail guns should feel like they'll punch a hole in a small planet, and grappling hooks always feel good. These guys know what I'm looking for. The only thing I could genuinely ask for is a more true to physics flight model, but ultimately, I'll be too busy taking down fighters using a rocket launcher while gravity-booted to the nose of my ship to care too much.

On the contrary, it'd be rude to expect any other answer. Shoving expectations onto a complete stranger and then judging them for firmly denying you is what's rude here.

A lot of people confuse wealth for intelligence.

Smart people who make good products that people want will have the invisible hand distribute them wealth. Dumb people who make bad products that no one wants will go backrupt. This is the core philosophy behind why capitalism "works." It is a system that conflates wealth with virtue, by design.

You're right to point out that it is incorrect logic, but no one is confusing anything. The entirety of our Western world is build around this idea and reinforces it to its people at every single opportunity. They're making the judgements that they have been told are correct. Can we really say people are confused when they're confidently acting exactly as they've been taught from birth?

She added the online survey for Albertans to share their ideas about school library collections doesn't limit the number of times someone can take the survey which can skew the results.

Welp, hold on while I fill out a survey a couple of times.

With you in spirit, but they have too much control over too many lives to just be dismissive about.

While I am sure there are real, specific reasons that can be pointed to as "the reason," the real answer is that you can't put two narcissists in a room together and tell them they're on the same team. This always was the only possible outcome.

It just makes me sad that you seem to believe the things you say.

C'mon man, we've been through this song and dance. You are perpetuating lies that have been fed to you by people who realized that it's easier to stoke fear than build unity. Just because you believe it doesn't mean it is anything but misinformation.

I know I tore into you earlier, but watching you continue to lick the boots of the people who are hurting you is just sad.

pride and propaganda and such makes it hard for people who don't understand the sunk cost fallacy to change course.

I mean, I know conservatism is nothing but a series of projections, but this is just impressive. I really don't think I could have said it better myself.