People get used to assuming other people are dumber than them, especially online. So they see an obvious joke and instead if thinking “well obviously they didn’t mean the thing they are pointing out, so they are pointing it out to mock that perspective”, they just accept it face value, and then when called out on it go “poe’s law” or argue that the fact that they didn’t understand says a lot about society instead of doing any introspection.

Right, we like Griffith because we want to obliterate that twink.

The consequences of doing the thing your voters want and disregarding your enemies telling you you’re not being civil is that you get reelected.

The consequences of listening to the people who are opposed to your voters is that your voters see that you are useless and check out of politics.

There are hundreds of representatives each with their own motivation on every different vote.

And there’s a party whip and the power to take representatives off committees or remove their access to party infrastructure. The whole point of a party is that it can force its members to work together, without that ability you don’t have a party.

Even Trump hasn’t been willing to fire the parliamentarian and blow up that system. It has a purpose.

It hasn’t been useful for him because he appointed a parliamentarian who does what he wants. When Bush’s parliamentarian wouldn’t, he fired him and replaced him with one who would.

You want to throw out the whole Constitution and start over? Fine. How many dead are worth it to you? There Conservatives are sure as hell not going to give up power without a fight and they are willing to kill to keep it.

The literal only use any government institution is to enact the will of the entity that controls it. The conservatives understand this, the left understand this, only the liberals who don’t understand why they keep losing at calvinball have yet to figure it out.

Lets not do anything good because Trump might undo it.

Weird how the republicans never seem to let the parliamentarian or 1 vote or the SCOTUS or whatever stop them.

Oh, you think carrying out the will of your voters is good? Well have you considered that goes against the design of a system made by slave-owning rapists to maintain their class’s power?

-ChonkyOwlBear, probably.

Are they? The fact that we aren’t seeing more completed projects on github tells me its not useful for coding beyond peer-review and generating boilerplate. I’ve met 2 non-tech people who managed to get a MVP they have no way to maintain. Who is realizing significant benefits?

Polymarket is a betting website, clearly someone made a bet that Zoran Mamdani would mandate teaching arabic numerals knowing that idiots would bet against it.

See I always interpreted it as a way to get “moderate republicans” on board; triangulation tells them that if they move their policies to the right, then moderates who are afraid of good polucy will vote for them. I remember Obama talking about how not free his healthcare plan was, repeating “skin in the game” dozens of times.

Where you get the funds is irrelevant to the conversation, I am trying to understand the mind of somebody who genuinely believes complicated, means-tested tax breaks is better policy than literally just giving people checks with your party’s name on it.

I assumed this was like cable-news poisoned boomers who like free healthcare and not haulling their neighbors off to concentration camps and not blowing up school children in Iran, but had it drilled into their head that complicated, means-tested healthcare for the deserving is more feasible, and having ICE politely escorting their neighbors into a van out of view is more realistic, and waging the war more competently is electable.

But someone who genuinely wants the enshittifed-until-they-help-nobody versions of good policies is baffling to me.

Who downvoted this? Is there some secret contingent who hate cash but love complicated tax breaks?

Steam itself is cool in the way it’ll let you use the lan to transfer files between pcs.

They still have Toys R Us in China.

Western media did a lot of nazi propaganda, from portraying them as more competent, disciplined, and technologically advanced than the allies to the “clean wehrmacht” to asiatic hordes myths.

Its not shocking that the dipshit-in-chief would buy into it.

Did you not feed them??

America doing a thing its done since its literal founding

libs: What are we a bunch of filthy foreigners??

Some of the worst senators barely make any money and just do it for love of the game, Biden comes to mind.

Everything is political, including society allocating resources and manpower to taking care of children.