You’re entirely right.
But see if the political view is only held by members or a certain religious group (even if not all members of said religion accept said political thought), it’s easy to conflate it, so that you can ban anyone opposing said political thought based on “they’re discriminating against me because of my religion”.
Fuck twitch.
“Oh my SPO2 is dangerously low, at 82%?”
*adjusts watch to be a bit tighter*
SPO2 back to 98%
So yeah I do monitor it moreso than without, but understanding the limits of the tech, hasn’t made me more worried. Bought one to record sleep schedule. Works very well for that.
High-stakes gambling. Play like shit, assuming that winning would count as not having spent the money.
Shouldn’t be that hard to get to bigger and bigger tables when you’re just literally throwing money away and losing on purpose.
Edit yeah the text pretty clearly said no gambling
Also, couldn’t you hire a personal servant? No owning, no buying.
Rent all the fucking hotel rooms. Here’s just one that’s 100k a night. https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/inside-the-most-expensive-hotel-room-in-the-world
Or you know, go for an entire island.
https://www.privateislandsonline.com/search?availability=rent
Have a few yachts visit.
Fly from casinos to other casinos and then to the harbor with your super yacht filled with hired servants (and is the cap you can pay others salary set? Foot massager, 10 million an hour?) then have a party on the island, take another yacht to another island and yeah I think 100 million in a month is very much doable.
Baldy.
You really should remember the “/s” with comments like these, imho.
Progressive policies would actually make life better for the majority of them.
Which is probably why the right is so against education as well.
Awesome! Given this was a post about MAGA, I assumed you were from the US
That’s understandable. Personally, I don’t comment on posts without reading them, but I understand the attitudes towards literacy are a bit different in the States. If you had, you’d have probably noticed the “as a non-American”, bit, wouldn’t you?
Read on to the end please
That’s a bit ironic, innit?
That’s a nice piece there
Oh as if you even browsed it, let alone read it.
Can’t logic people out of beliefs that have a significant emotional component.
Not what the point of the article, which again, you’d have known had you read it.
No single person is going to argue down enough Trump voters to impact US election results
Well, we’ll ignore the fact that the US doesn’t have direct presidential elections and pretend as if the popular vote was a de-facto direct vote. If it was, then even by affecting one voter, you could be affecting the outcome of the election. To say there’s literally no impact is disingenuous, because politics is all about, well, politics. To say that “what are you gonna achieve by talking about it”, in the context of politicians, is… rather silly.
Apathy is the greatest tool of the oppressor, and they’ve certainly gotten you. You should definitely have a look at this. https://medium.com/@annalloydc/how-fascism-and-apathy-are-linked-017c8a7b1e3d (And I use have “a look”/“gander at”, because I knew you wouldn’t be bothered to spend a few minutes reading them, but hoped I’d be wrong.)
Apathy can result in a lack of political engagement and interest, creating fertile ground for the rise of fascism. Corrupt people in political office love it when young people don’t vote, and become apathetic, because it increases their chances of winning.
“You can’t argue the opposition anyway since they’re idiots, so why bother”
Well, because while most idiots will stay idiots, not all do. Yes it’s a vanishingly small percentage you’ll experience doing it mid-debate, but to think that having discourse has no effect even if some MAGAts stayed magats despite the discourse, then you’re being apathetic, which is putting the US (and the world) at more risk of fascism. So… please stop.
It is from small streams that big rivers rise.
You got it man.
Admitting that their whole identities were built around bullshit is just too much.
I genuinely believe that for people like that, MDMA (or other serotonergic substance) assisted therapy would help people like that a great deal. These are the “powertools” of psychology currently, and I genuinely think they’re necessary for people like that.
Sometimes — albeit rarely — you see ex-maga people or ex-some other right wing lunatic people who have genuinely come to their senses, but they are exceedingly rare.
If it’s your boss, stop fucking talking politics at work.
I live in a country where I people can’t be fired over “talking politics” at work. A boss isn’t too much in a position of power, depending on the job. This is because here in Finland, we have regulation.
I’m an adult. Why would my family be in a “position of power” over me?
“It is not your job to correct people’s misguided beliefs”
So if a cop broke your rights because they got mad at you for making them have a tantrum and use an excuse to arrest you, you’d allow them and apologize and not do anything about it, since “it’s not your job” to correct the cops misguided belief that they were in the right to arrest you over simply having offended them?
If you’re in politics, and you’re in a session and the speaker has a tantrum, what do you do?
If you’re an American a few years ago, your president was Donald Trump, a drooling, diaper-wearing senior who can’t parse sentences together and refuses to believe in well established facts. That’s a deluded, misguided, and willfully ignorant man as the president, which I would consider a position of power (over the people in his nation, not me, as again, not American.)
You wouldn’t think it’s perhaps in the interest of greater society to not have people like that in positions of power?
People don’t work like some sort of fucking debate club
Oh gee whiz, kind internet-stranger, thanks for the words of wisdom, I never would’ve thought that otherwise.
Or perhaps I’m making conversation here about this subject you think you know so well.
Have a gander: https://howtobeastoic.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/one-crucial-word/
“The higher, pretentious form of stupidity stands only too often in crass opposition to [its] honorable form. It is not so much lack of intelligence as failure of intelligence, for the reason that it presumes to accomplishments to which it has no right … The stupidity this addresses is no mental illness, yet it is most lethal; a dangerous disease of the mind that endangers life itself. … [S]ince the ‘higher stupidity’ consists not in an inability to understand but in a refusal to understand, any healing or reversal of it will not occur through rational argumentation, through a greater accumulation of data and knowledge, or through experiencing new and different feelings … We may say that the reversal of a spiritual sickness must entail a spiritual cure.”
Oh yeah, I’m over thirty and have had and seen a few addictions.
I stayed away from the shorts and tiktoks for a long time, now I’ve been watching the shorts. It’ll just suck hours.
Kinda like this
Reminds me of this No, you weren’t “born in the wrong decade”
Oh I do.
https://howtobeastoic.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/one-crucial-word/
I understand they’re willfully ignorant, but I can’t honestly understand what makes them feel the need to do it. I understand reasons for it, but the deep meaning behind being like that… eludes me. And I’ve been thinking on this for at least a few decades.
Oh no, I’m not giving them credit, I know they aren’t up for actual logic. I’m just trying to strike up conversation on Lemmy with random brainfarts.
It’s just funny when you start talking to some of these people, and they’re used to arguing domestic opposition, blaming other Americans. So when someone non-American starts talking to them, their nationalism flares up and suddenly all the things that were shit due to the dems is not shit but glorious great, flawless America. I know it’s overused as an expression, but dem fucking mental gymnastics are baffling.
Yeah, yeah it is.
But what do you do when someone in a position of power over you has a tantrum and refuses to use common sense…?
Haha really? I hadn’t even heard. Brilliant.
In the British colloquial sense, not in the “wow how intelligent of them”-sense.
There’s just no end to the stupidity.
Sort of. I’m trying to make sense of the mentality needed to believe in shit like that. Or to pretend to believe it.
It’s genuinely baffling.
https://howtobeastoic.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/one-crucial-word/
“The higher, pretentious form of stupidity stands only too often in crass opposition to [its] honorable form. It is not so much lack of intelligence as failure of intelligence, for the reason that it presumes to accomplishments to which it has no right … The stupidity this addresses is no mental illness, yet it is most lethal; a dangerous disease of the mind that endangers life itself. … [S]ince the ‘higher stupidity’ consists not in an inability to understand but in a refusal to understand, any healing or reversal of it will not occur through rational argumentation, through a greater accumulation of data and knowledge, or through experiencing new and different feelings … We may say that the reversal of a spiritual sickness must entail a spiritual cure.”
I’d say that’s a pretty definite “and”, no need for the “or”.
One of the funny things about the whole MAGA thing is that they’re clamoring for a return to something like the 50s or 60s… but *only
[So the exact opposite of the people in this skit?] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc6VP7Qp-Y8)
Well, I guess, but… you could argue that Zionists are mostly seen to be purely Jewish due to the nature of the movement.