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gooba42, 3 days ago

@br00t4c Rove made some harsh criticisms previously but I need to call this out again - anybody still associated with the GOP knows it's a fascist party and approves.

They only ever disagreed over which one of them gets to be the dictator but fundamentally they still agree on dictatorship.

Rove thinks the dictatorship would be better for him with a different tyrant on top but he's not going to give up on fascism just because Trump won the nomination.

gooba42, 3 days ago

@br00t4c Is this what they're doing with the refurbished trucks after the full recall?

gooba42, 3 days ago

@br00t4c Too bad - What they voted for is what they believe should be the law, no matter what they might pretend is their objection. That's what legislation means.

Representing your constituents means voting in agreement with their opinions on the matter. You're not representing the constituents who disagree with your vote.

gooba42, 3 days ago

@br00t4c I really hate it when terrible statements like this aren't really wrong.

gooba42, 3 days ago

@DrALJONES If he's going to bother to comment, it could at least be true.

gooba42, 3 days ago

@realTuckFrumper The primary lesson is "Don't fuck around with fascism" and most of us have already failed it.

The next most important thing to take away is the fascism shouldn't be tolerated. Even that is too much to allow. We're also failing this test.

The only lesson Americans can reliably be expected to take away from WWII is "We're always the heroes and everybody else is wrong and weak!"

gooba42, 5 days ago

@RickiTarr We keep asking after better benefits. I work for a major medical insurance and watching paperwork go by for fully covered single claims for amounts well under my deductible is rough sometimes.

Likewise we ask for better communication and management is sure we just want to hear more words so now we have more pointless town halls where the CEO brags about how his international vacation brought his family together so everyone should take one and then bullshits jargon for the VPs.

gooba42, 5 days ago

@RickiTarr I've said, not really joking, that every generation of management commissions a new study by academia to figure out how to improve work productivity and morale. The study always says "Pay and treat people better" and they bury the results, complain about "ivory tower academics" (who worked from their real world data!) and we go another 20 years without fixing anything.

gooba42, 5 days ago

@RickiTarr And the worst of the worst are somehow the ones who feel most entitled to tell everyone to follow their models.

We have Costco guy quietly going "Hey, just pay everybody and treat them nicely" (individual Managers can and do differ here) and nobody's listening.

On the other side we have every wannabe Jack Welch getting lauded publicly for "Employees are disposable, just use them up until they're empty and turn them out into the streets!" in every media.

gooba42, 5 days ago

@ianhecht @mentallyalex @RickiTarr The flat out lying to me is the worst part.

I would respond more positively to a voice message that said outright "We're never going to staff up to cover normal call volume. Please wait."

gooba42, 4 days ago

@rasterweb "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World" is a bit of a ride with strange emphasis on ditching everybody in your life as unwelcome baggage but, it did crystalize this idea of "positive choices" and "negative choices".

We do things like brush our teeth to avoid a negative outcome, that's a negative choice.

It gets complicated if you ask about coffee - do you like coffee or dislike caffeine withdrawal and which one is really your driving motivation?

gooba42, 6 days ago

@whitequark It's like the coupons given out at AliExpress - "$2 off if you order 10,000 laptops! How can you resist!"

gooba42, 5 days ago

@GottaLaff I still think Musk is killing them on purpose so he can move on to Starlink and SpaceX where he can both make more money and provide more leverage to the people who pushed him to destroy Twitter.

gooba42, 5 days ago

@br00t4c They haven't followed the white supremacists' handbook properly. They were meant to hide their "power level" until they were installed in a position of authority and leverage.

gooba42, 5 days ago

@realTuckFrumper Bibi wants to kill everyone in Gaza. His goal is genocide and every minute spent pretending otherwise is helping him finish the job.

gooba42, 5 days ago

@GovTrack Maybe instead of trying to fleece us for more pay on top of their legalized insider trading, bribes, golden coffin retirement plans, they should make an attempt to bring down the cost of living.

They claim more pay will reduce the incentives to bribery but the incentive for the bribe is always "more than what you currently have" and that doesn't ever change no matter how much they currently have.

gooba42, 5 days ago

@GovTrack That's a trap though. The majority of the country would already be receiving a significant pay raise if they stepped into a job in Congress right now.

Campaigns are expensive, the only fix there is publicly funded elections but lack of congressional pay is still a very hard sell to a country with a median income under 50% of what Congress gets just for having gotten the job regardless of performance.

gooba42, 5 days ago

@GovTrack That's why they already get paid twice the average.

If they can't make that work, they are going to have to explain a lot better to us why they need to also have legal protection for insider trading and all the other perks they use to become millionaires on $174k annual income.

They can live in a Congressional dormitory.

gooba42, 5 days ago

@GovTrack They don't have any motivation to care because their lives are uniquely insulated from the factors that run our lives.

It's not like nobody is advocating for a living wage, it's a majority opinion in the country that it's a good idea. Congress is free to oppose the majority opinion because they never directly feel the consequences of their actions.

gooba42, 10 days ago

@br00t4c Then how do the students let their parents know they're being shot while the media is still too busy with copaganda to provide any useful information?

gooba42, 10 days ago

@atomicpoet I remember Leo Laporte complaining similarly that his Apple Watch didn't believe in skipping a walk. Every 50 minutes or so, no matter what he was doing or had done, the watch would go off and insist he get up and go take a walk now.

gooba42, 10 days ago

@jeffjarvis Every possible legal avenue to salvation requires the Democrats to do things they refuse to consider.

We won't expand the courts.
We won't force a recusal.
We won't charge any of the organizers or financial backers of Trump's coup.
We won't take down any of the Right Wing terror orgs currently building up for their 11/5 revolts and voter intimidation.

They've told us flat out when, where and what they intend to do to harass and attack us and we're still going to idle.

gooba42, 10 days ago

@br00t4c Why do we report it like this was in good faith?
"Musk wants to help Trump stop nonexistent voter fraud."=> "Musk wants to help Trump win by disenfranchising minorities and dissenters."

gooba42, 10 days ago

@br00t4c Then we start over with another inconsequential trial that ends with SCOTUS declaring him our tyrant king.

gooba42, 10 days ago

@br00t4c They already told us, they will elect him from prison. That won't help us.