Said this in another post but there are "i don't like this and want it out of sight, out of mind" bigots and then there are "I cannot turn these thoughts OFF" bigots and anyone in that second group is at minimum lying to themselves at full volume about their actual problems and motivations

A government of guys who grew up watching 80s movies where Drug Dealers were the villains and the solution was to shoot them.

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I've done mushrooms several times and I feel strongly that doing them around Mr Beast would be an extremely bad time

The one-two punch of complete hegemonic victory post-WWII followed by the citizen-to-consumer transformation during the neoliberal Revolution really broke a lot of brains

They didn’t want it to succeed either*

you can throw them billions of dollars in subsidies to rebuild their economy and as soon as the other side whispers "woke" at them, they'll abandon you in favor of billionaire grifters who are taking their health care away to pay for enormous tax cuts and deficit-financed immigrant prison camps.

like, the power usage for this is like ... idk, using a Playstation 5 for ten minutes, which is pretty bad, but there are _single farms_ which use more water than _all AI combined._

I am coming around to the idea that there is no reasonable objection to just disenfranchising these people because their revealed preference is to personally suffer

cities should build enough housing that the children of these communities can leave and then these communities should die. this appears to be what the people living in them want

A truly staggering amount of calories and brain power gets wasted on sites like this between people arguing about what to do to revive these communities, win their votes, policies to make their lives better, and the people themselves can barely even agree on their being a problem to address

There is also this: his primary requirement is sycophancy sorry "loyalty." There is literally no one competent left, I think. When frigging Bill Barr isn't corrupt enough for you, Jeff Sessions not hateful enough, or Bolton not crazy enough, you're just left with the absolute dregs.