Viking_Hippie

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Viking_Hippie,

For the same reason why very few companies are worker owned co-ops: people suck and capitalism doubly so. That’s why we very rarely can have nice things.

In the case of HOAs, the bad ones (which are the vast majority of them) exist to extract profit (in the form of increasing property values, fining anyone who doesn’t follow their petty rules, and sometimes even take someone’s home for breaking the aforementioned rules) and exert as much control over people as possible.

In the US at least, laws regarding HOAs are a grotesque combination of under-regulation and regulations specifically crafted to FACILITATE abuse rather than discourage it.

Viking_Hippie, (edited )

The fact that the “Troubled Teen Industry” still exists at all is a fucking outrage! The entire concept of these torture farms is inherently abusive and traumatic towards the teens and the world has known for decades!

I’m guessing there’s some politicians with full campaign coffers 🤬

Viking_Hippie,

As long as he doesn’t shit himself to death like the one in the beginning of A Knight’s Tale

Wat: The spark of his life is smothered in shite. His spirit is gone but his stench remains.

Viking_Hippie,

Which is kinda ironic since they tend to be far right bigots and thus positively BRIMMING with the other kind of prejudice 😁

Viking_Hippie,

Only when Trump is the defendant would anyone consider penalizing over a dozen violations that are each individually bad enough to get normal people jailed for contempt of court “rash”.

Enough with the absurd levels of overcautiousness at the expense of seeking anything that even remotely resembles justice already!

Viking_Hippie,

I wasted electrons with your mom last night.

(I had no business trying to beat her at Mario Kart)

Viking_Hippie,

I can’t see any Dems voting for the guy who fucked Biden’s agenda

Really? Because all of the people I’ve ever seen defending him were Democrats claiming that he was the least awful senator West Virginia would ever vote for.

Hell, even Biden himself gave Manchin the pen used to sign what was left of one of the bills after he’d hollowed out the carcass!

Viking_Hippie,

Yeah, because it’s all just a binary were people vote by party only!

West Virginia is an extremely poor state, has the worst health of any state, is generally pretty pro-union and loves a political dynasty.

Joe Manchin is the nephew of a prominent WV politician, in favor of the ACA and pretty good at pretending to care about miners. THAT’S why he kept winning in a supposedly deep red state.

If we find a good progressive candidate who ACTUALLY cares about poor people and labor rights, is in favor of Medicare for All, and has a relative who used to be State Treasurer or something, that candidate would be able to win in West Virginia WITHOUT being a corrupt conservative ass.

Viking_Hippie,

Which would be fair. The shade for running on being the least bad option twice, not the downvotes.

Viking_Hippie,

Time for the Frank Wilhoit quote:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition … There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

Viking_Hippie,

I care about logic and things making sense.

Hundreds of millions of people perpetuating the same obvious mistake and even DEFENDING it using spurious arguments is how things such as the filibuster, carceral slavery, and Donald Trump are still inflicted on the world.

Viking_Hippie,

Nope, he was and if Biden fucks it up, he’ll still be the 44th president.

If it was once per term, Obama would be counted twice as well and FDR would be counted as FOUR presidents.

Viking_Hippie,

How do you decide which don’t?

Viking_Hippie,

Well congratulations on being a superior being who’s only ever annoyed by important things and has no pet peeves, I guess 🤷🙄

Viking_Hippie,

I know full well why it matters to me: because it’s stupid and I’m expected to go along with it as if it wasn’t.

Since when is that not enough reason to be annoyed by something?

Viking_Hippie,

Yeah, being annoyed by one stupid small thing doesn’t mean being annoyed by ALL stupid small things.

Humans tend to like and dislike specific things for their own reasons and none.

I’ve got news for you: trying to police what people are allowed to be annoyed about doesn’t do anything except give them one more thing to be annoyed about, namely a condescending asshole trying to cluelessly “educate” them.

Maybe try to find something nice to do with your time instead.

Viking_Hippie,

I’m only saying all this for your benefit

Bullshit. I’ve been clear from the start that your input isn’t helpful or welcome.

I used to get hung up on stuff and it sucks

You still get hung up on stuff. For example, you’re currently hung up on me having the audacity to be annoyed by something without presenting you with a reason you think is good enough.

There’s a million better ways to spend your time

I don’t actually tend to spend a lot of time on it. I’ve spent more time being annoyed by your annoyance gatekeeping today than I’ve spent being annoyed about presidential numbering the last two or three months.

Enjoy your annoyance since that’s clearly what you’re into.

Yeah, it can’t be that you’re wrong and insufferably smug about it, it HAS to be that I just love being annoyed.

Just fuck off already.

Viking_Hippie,

Biden is number 46

Nope, he’s number 45. The only way he’s number 46 is by counting Cleveland twice, which is nonsense.

Viking_Hippie,

None of those sources substantiate why they would want him to win.

Nobody’s saying that the Hillary campaign wanted Trump to be president. As for why they wanted him to be the nominee, there’s no way that none of the sources say why.

Especially since the Dem party leadership apparently learned nothing and are still using the same pied piper strategy to support far right candidates in Republican primaries for the exact same reason.

Viking_Hippie,

Which is why I said in its current form, not so much

The current form isn’t even conservatism, it’s just full blown fascism.

Having a dissenting voice can at times help ensure whether or not you’re on the right track.

True in principle, but not when that dissenting voice drags you further in the wrong direction you were already heading, as is the case in a to party system where both parties are right of center and the one closest to the center is pathologically obsessed with compromise for the sake of compromise and the other one is ideologically opposed to ever compromising.

That’s why I said conceptually it’s good, or at least it can be.

I still disagree. The concept of an opposition party is good. The concept of a center right to right wing led party having an opposition party to the right and none to the left isn’t.

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