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SnapDragon
7m ago
You say "tell yourself" as if they're lying about their motivation, but this is a perfectly accurate description of many people's reasoning...? There are only two real choices. They hate Trump, but the Dems put up a candidate that was, in their eyes, even worse. That's basically "Democrats making you".
Bartender_Venator
13m ago
I would not recommend buying new if possible. Go on Craigslist etc. and find a warehouse with lightly-used office furniture and you can get a high-end Herman Miller or whatever you want well within that budget. Offices offload barely-used expensive chairs all the time, particularly in volatile economic times.
Payback23
19m ago
Yes it took so much effort running cover for him that didn't have time to lap up his balls.
I do disagree with the assertion that left wing presidents are treated like Jesus. Blue tribe has to make concessions on their leaders once they are no longer useful in order to main some semblance of "non bias" to their base.
They did the same thing with Covid.
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
23m ago
That's not slightly rude of you, it's unprofessional as fuck. You are leveraging your medical credentials to insult a guy on the internet. What is fucking remiss of you is to diagnose someone based on a collection of posts, and then to broadcast that pseudo-diagnosis in a public forum.
You get to shitpost or enjoy the prestige and respect of a doctor. Pick one.
Corvos
31m ago
I can't help feeling that once you get to the point where you're telling clear, absolutely 100% barefaced lies to public representatives in public on a question of massive public interest, you're reaching 'Here be Dragons' on the map of morals. "If such programs existed, they would be classified and I would be unable to discuss the subject" is about as far as I think you can go before you're in serious danger of losing your soul.
Payback23
32m ago
The only way I can reconcile this is that you are unaware of what actually happened during the summer of love. You just didn't witness all of the violence.
GBRK
36m ago
I don't like trump because he's made my situation materially worse and is likely to continue to do so. I don't like trump because he profits the outgroup at the expense of the ingroup. I don't like trump because I'm ideologically and morally opposed to his positions. I don't like trump because I think he is, personally, a very immoral individual.
In principle, you could convince me that any particular complaint is overblown. There are plenty of immoral, harmful, outgroup people I don't feel nearly the vitriol for. But Trump is the perfect storm; He's not just a villain, he's a villain that gratuitously kicks puppies. Sure, the media environment contributes to what you call "terror", but that's strictly adaptive. Everyone on my "side" would agree, sober-minded, that Trump is the single most important political figure to oppose. Adding a component of emotional motivation increases the time and pleasure in doing so. Consider any ideological cause leftists and liberals are interested in: creedal citizenship, wealth redistribution, climate change, alphabet people, etcetera. Assuming conflict theory, it's obvious that "Depose Donald Trump" is the first step in promoting any of them. The only reason to do anything else is if you believe in mistake theory instead-- but Donald Trump is congenitally incapable of admitting mistakes (except in the "fifty stalins" sense) which means any attempt to find common ground just gets ran over by his conflict theory instead.
lurker
41m ago
This really reminds me of timecube, where someone uses a lot of words and fancy language to say something utterly mundane. I skimmed but this just seems to be B theory of time and it's consequences.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
56m ago
I don't know about "best", but I can say that I (not tall and skinny, but medium-height and fat) have felt very comfortable in the WorkPro 12000 that I bought for 415 $ four years ago. That specific product is no longer sold, but the WorkPro Momentum appears to offer basically the same features for 470 $, except that its seat is cloth rather than mesh. The FlexiSpot C7 (380 $), the RealSpace Radano (300 $), and an Alpha Home chair (normally 330 $, currently on sale for 187 $) also seem similar to the WorkPro 12000.
Payback23
1hr ago
And it's not just for "elected officials" Your tribe includes every institution, corporation etc that it has captured and uses it's power however it sees fit.
Payback23
1hr ago
Yep. Absolutely, it was just the left being the adults in the room. They really are pretending none of this happened. It's insanity.
quiet_NaN
1hr ago
Historically, both over- and underestimations of the norms of civility and the strength of checks and balances have appeared.
The people who predict the rise of the fourth Reich whenever a right-of-center politician takes power are certainly wrong more often than a rock with the text "it's gonna be fine, checks and balances, baby."
But ever so rarely, that rock ends up being wrong, and when it is wrong, it will be so much more wrong than the wolf-criers.
jak22
1hr ago
I'm currently looking into investing into a nice office chair for my work from set up. I'd like to spend at most 500 dollars. Does anyone know what the best chair is for that price range? And I know body type matters, so I'm tall and on the skinny side, if that helps.
Thanks in advance!
Don't ask, don't tell is benign to the things that have been going on. There are ways of getting rid of people beyond the president retiring 4 star generals. It went far beyond "saying the right things" It affected people's careers, our country's military readiness and effectiveness and cost people lives.
So yes getting rid of people who are objectively bad at their jobs is not a problem. It's very normal to want competent people in positions of leadership who are concerned about doing their job well compared to advancing DEI or making sure we have enough taxpayer funded transgender reassignment surgeries being approved in the Marines.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
1hr ago
These are all good ideas for someone with a fair chunk of startup capital, not someone who's trying to figure out how to afford food.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
1hr ago
you could make an adult visual novel (sex sells).
Requires coding skills and art skills.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
1hr ago
What specific tactics are we talking about?
Well, mostly in the context of interwar Europe, it's the "street-fighting" tactics adopted by the blackshirts and brownshirts, but first developed and used first by Communist and anarchist gangs. That's what I remember the author focusing on.
Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
1hr ago
I really, really don’t want to litigate how bad any one of these actions is.
Of course not, because that involves getting BFTO most of the time. Not that it'll ever matter. The defining trait of TDS is the antimemetic effect where the afflicted form an angry conclusion, lose the argument on the details, and then immediately forget that step two ever happened.
Let whosoever among you never repeated the Fine People lie for years after it's thorough debunking retain a shred of credibility here.
The point is that polite (blue) society sees this and goes, “damn, reminds me of uncle Ricky telling jokes about the short bus.” It’s low-status. It’s decidedly not supposed to appear on national TV.
No, it's more venal than that. It appears on national television 500 times per day - but there's a removal. It's not supposed to be the politician making the jokes. It's supposed to be the legion of Colberts and Kimmels and media flacks, etc, etc who gin up clapter and Two Minute Hates while the "respectable" politician laughs in the audience.
Well, the right doesn't have that (aside from shitposters on the internet) so Trump (the OG shitposting king) just makes the jokes himself. It's truly something watching progressives pretend to be Maude Flanders while Stephen Colbert is nervously trying to pretend his audience doesn't want Trump dead.
I truly, sincerely do no understand how anyone over thirty can take it seriously. The whining, prissy fussiness about muh respectability standards from the same people who brought us Piss Christ and That's My Bush and Samantha Bee. If I say "Fuck your norms, fuck your pearl-clutching, fuck your traditions, I piss on all your self-righteous, self-serving bullshit"... where on earth could I have learned that except the last 60 years of blue tribe culture? They're like mean girl bullies who throw a crashout fit whenever they catch some flak back. It was all fun and games until the right grew a sense of humor. Have you seen the new South Park? Shit's fucking hilarious.
If an ingroup politician did something like this they’d be groveling for months.
I call bullshit. That particular one might, because it triggers a blue tribe sacred cow of ableism, but I bet even that would be waived if the target were a Red. And I don't even have to bet, because I've been hearing progressives call Abbot "Governor Hotwheels" for years. Oh, remember when a congressional meeting devolved into Jerry Springer? Far from groveling, Ms. Crockett's star rose. I can't really think of an example where mockery of the other side triggered an internal backlash. I mean, they're all sister-fucking, illiterate white trash nazis with meth mouth, right? The insults just sting because they're true, no?
If somebody thinks Donald Trump should have lost 1 point of social credit for telling a rude joke, she probably would have deducted more for the “grab ‘em by the pussy” comment. Or the “bleeding out her wherever,” or “I like veterans who weren’t captured,” or any number of his greatest hits. Curiously, his balance never seems to go negative. From this perspective, he’s consistently avoiding his just desserts.
No one cares, Maude. His immunity to social criticism is his biggest drawing point. Because if he hadn't said any of those things, they'd just be making them up, like the hundreds of other examples that never seem to die.
Learn to take a joke.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
1hr ago
This sounds like a tale that ended happily for all involved.
The traditional thing is singing in the bath(room). The tiles resonate nicely for everyone else in the building :)
A family friend was once met in the hotel corridor by a Frenchman who complimented him on his rendition of The Marseillaise; the walls had carried the notes from his ensuite perfectly but thankfully not my friend's words which were his own private tune and began:
"A French-man saaat on the laaaaavatory...!"
Poultice
1hr ago
I'm sure all the military vaccination requirements and DEI initiatives had nothing to do with purging the military and were just best practices.
Payback23
1hr ago
Does anyone want to hear what Maxine Waters had to say before the Derek Chauvin verdict was heard? Or is starting race wars ok as long as a certain tribe does it?
quiet_NaN
1hr ago
There are different kinds of purges. I am sure that when Obama got rid of don't ask, don't tell in 2011, there were some generals who decided that this would be their hill to die on which were subsequently retired.
But my understanding is that Obama did not retire all 4 star generals appointed by GWB when he took office. At the end of the day, both Bush and Obama wanted generals who would follow the lawful orders of their president, so they were fine with the same people (as long as they knew which way the wind was blowing and would use the right phrases, or at least shut up).
By contrast, Trump wants personal loyalty. If there was a constitutional crisis, would that guy support me unconditionally? This is what is meant by the kind of generals Hitler had. If it was just about firing anyone who could not stop mentioning DEI, that would be a much lesser issue.
Second this - I bought a new Herman Miller Embody which cost a pretty penny but was absolutely worth it (and has a killer warranty).
You can find them from an office supply store, corporate office selling or tossing its stuff, etc and get most of the benefits for a fraction of the price.
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