team xecuter made and sold closed source piracy tools for nintendo consoles. they aren’t “right to repair” enthusiasts lol

All Mods Are Bastards

He does not charge extra for those services. Idk what you are on about, I know for a fact maintaining his property takes a decent amount of work. I don’t respect some internet nobody telling me that isn’t true lol. 15 hours is not that much time.

Is a job a job only if it takes a certain amount of hours a week? dumb comment tbh

But to answer the question my friend who owns 2 properties spends probably anywhere from 10-30 hours a week. He mows the grass, takes trash to the dump, makes repairs himself, etc.

Nah reddit mods are actually awful. I would tend to agree with you if it were a bunch of random mod teams but reddit is almost entirely controlled by a small group of powermods who get off on flexing their minute amount of power on an internet discussion forum. Truly awful people who contribute nothing to society by taking over small communities so they can use their power to indiscriminately ban people they disagree with.
The only incentive to become a reddit powermod is power.

They provide plebs access to the complicated world of finance and pass on some of the yield. I think that’s valuable.

not a bullshit job either. being a successful startup founder is one of the most stressful and hard working jobs out there.

Very controversial statement but really couldn’t be more true. Of course there might be exceptions but most of the time it’s a cushy job where you are paid exorbitant amounts to do practically nothing of value.

I don’t know why people are so insistent it’s not a job rather than arguing that it’s a bad job, etc. Small landlords almost certainly put a lot of time into maintaining the property, handling occupancy, reporting income, etc. How is it any less a job than renting out bouncy houses. Sure some landlords might outsource all this, in which case it’s more akin to holding interest bearing assets, but for a small landlord it almost certainly is a job under any definition of the word.

My guns

I don’t want to run servers to participate in social media.

Mastodon is ass. Instead of having social media corporations deciding what you can say, it’s some random neckbeard who threw together a server. And your account does not transfer if the admin decides he doesn’t like you. Hissy fits over defederation are already tearing apart a lot of good instances. Half of mastodon is just circlejerking about how much better it is than twitter anyways.

I’m someone with different opinions as yourself. That’s ok. Move along.

You are easily the most bad faith person I’ve had a discussion with on here so far. I’m just expressing my opinion and you are accusing me of faking having leftist friends for some reason despite knowing that a lot of people hold the views I discussed. Not really worth responding to your novels, sorry.

I dislike the republican establishment greatly. They are filled with people just as corrupt as the left. Does that answer your question? The Clinton foundation is far from innocent either, you’re not making the distinction you think you are. The Clintons are extremely corrupt, I think an honest person would be able to come to terms with that.

I have a lot of leftist friends and they vehemently defend open borders. I remember all the marches during trump era that explicitly said “Immigrants are welcome here”. I can obviously only speak from my experience but I think you are underplaying the lefts lack of hard line stance on border control. They actively fight defend illegal immigrants taking American jobs. I think lax border control is a pretty common part of leftist belief in USA as of late.

Same thing goes for the defund police movement. Here are articles reflective of that sentiment at the time https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html I don’t really know how you can deny this line of thought exists in the modern political environment. Don’t blame me when all the messaging is “ACAB” and people are yelling “Abolish the police” in their marches. They often argue reforming the police is impossible and that total abolition is the only way forward.

Last I checked conservatives are way into the 2nd Amendment, so this universal love for the Police, especially when they do wrong is puzzling to me.

The two things don’t really have much to do with another. Nobody likes when the police do wrong. There are obviously nuanced situations where the right may downplay officer misconduct for narrative purposes but that doesn’t mean the right wants the police to be a mafia. There are a lot of people on the right who like police but dislike bad policing. I don’t think it’s that hard to understand.

My honest response to some of these points

I’ll give you another example, guns. I think the right has a point that it’s a mental health issue, but they’re not actually willing to change policies in a way that makes mental health care more accessible, so it’s an incomplete solution/there’s no way to actually get the job done.

I don’t think throwing money and psychiatrists is a solution to the mental health problem plaguing society today (declining mental health is an issue far beyond a couple of wackos shooting up a school). Guns are part of American life for a lot of people, it’s enshrined in the constitution. Argue about interpretations if you want but that doesn’t change the fact that there are people in America who are willing to take the negatives of gun ownership so they can have the positives. People don’t like feeling helpless and for some gun ownership is the most important thing when it comes to protecting their family.

The truth is mental health will not improve until material conditions improve. Mental health counseling is not going to do squat to a continuously discouraged populace. I also think “mass shootings” as we know them today are a uniquely modern phenomena that is influenced by the modern media landscape. People idolize going out guns a blazing on their own terms and the media circus encourages the next one. I am willing to live with the consequences of gun ownership if it means I have a gun to protect myself, especially as things go further south.

I do agree that the right does not have many good politicians. I feel a bit politically homeless sometimes because of how bad things are. But the elected officials do not always accurately represent the voting base, we simply vote for who we are supposed to just like people on the left do. I think you have to either be crazy or financially motivated to get into politics in the first place so that really only leaves weirdos. The most successful people on the right are running businesses and feeding their family, not playing the dirty game of electoral politics. I think the left wing politicians are just as corrupt though, but people just look past it because its their side. Check out Nancy Pelosi’s amazing stock trading performance as an example.

Border control is a big one. There is a strong push amongst actual leftists to open our borders completely while simultaneously pushing for serious social programs. I hope I don’t have to explain the issue with that. “No Borders, No walls, No deportations at all” and all that.
Another one would be the police abolition movement. I think there is good reason why every functional country on earth has a police force.

US right-wing views are just a bunch of bad faith arguments

There are plenty of good faith arguments on the right, just because you don’t agree with them doesn’t make them bad faith. I’m sick of that phrase being thrown around at points people personally disagree with. It’s made the phrase meaningless.

Can you provide a single example of someone proclaiming MAGA beliefs and getting upvoted significantly on that subreddit? Sorry but I find that very hard to believe.