My parents in their 30s: let’s vote for Reagan
FTFY
Version 2.0 implies an improved version.
Version 0.1a is more apt because of the shoddy programming and rollout.
Maybe where you went to school.
2.0 just means I’ve decided the bugs I’ve introduced since 1.0 are now “features”.
Can I pay for use on a monthly basis with the hopes that a stable product is possible in 2-4 years?
Sure.
Fires half the dev team for share buy backs.
2.0 means they’ve decided to change their license to a subscription model, and put all the useful features behind a pay gate. You can’t leave because they have all your data and there’s no export feature.
My parents in their 30s: unemployment for people our age is at 20%, interest rate on mortgages is at 18%, all that’s available is McJobs…
Gen X didn’t have it easy after the boomers filled up all positions up to the mid/late 70s.
OP’s parents are probably older.
That or gen X is completely glossed over as they always are and the Zoomer > Millennial > Boomer idea is maintained
As a gen-xer, I find all of this super annoying and I’m thrilled not to be a part of it
Fun fact: The comparison isn’t even completely inaccurate, Hitler’s fundamental ideology (social darwinism) is also at the core of Trumps thoughts, see this long article.
Hitler cited Southern Jim Crow laws as the model for Germany to follow in Mein Kampf.
Trump is just an accurate reflection of the worst section of our country and their legacy of evil.
The south wrote a massive advantage into the constitution by way of the electoral college, and until it’s repealed they will continue to elect the most evil possible choice in any election.
Eugenics is the real Woke Mind Virus. It’s been rampaging through human civilization for centuries.
Your parents probably voted for Nixon and Reagan
They probably bought a house built on top of an ancient Indian burial ground, too.
People live to forget where all that cheap land came from, back in the 70s/80s. A century of genocide and oh hey where did all this Terra Nullis come from? Amazing.
I love imagining Hitler rolling over in his grave being super pissed off about being compared to such an unlikeable dweeb like trump.
You should look more into what Hitler was actually like personally. The dude was basically a giant incel.
This shit feels like Majora’s Mask only it’s going to be really slow and somehow worse.
I think Harris is terrible but calling her Hitler seems extreme.
I kinda sympathize with people who want a dictator because elections are fucking exhausting.
People want policies they like, but fail to understand how a participatory social democracy produces those policies.
They also tend to mistake an “American Idol” ass voting process with participatory social democracy.
“Democracy is when the government offers you two choices and everyone says the choice they like best, weighted by Congressional votes and not including DC/Puerto Rico/Guam residents for some reason” is a thing Americans believe is the bestest, freeist, most liberty-endowing system to ever exist. Unless the wrong person wins, in which case the election was rigged.
They also tend to mistake an “American Idol” ass voting process with participatory social democracy.
This is what bothers me the most. We can’t make a rational decision together. It’s always sensationalized and simplified and two-sided and full of misinformation and blatant lies and dramatic language.
Just last night I threw out a pound of political mailers. Just took them right out of the mailbox and threw them in the garbage. Totally wasted paper that I didn’t bother to read because I know it’s just oversimplification and emotional appeals. And it was a pound last week. And the week before that. We waste so much time and money and energy on this shit.
I’ve gotten seven texts begging for money today alone.
Make it stop.
We can’t make a rational decision together.
What mechanism would we even use? There is no real “community self-government”. Its all states dictating policy to municipalities which dictate policy to neighborhoods. A handful of individuals are expected to represent hundreds of thousands of people, even at the city council level (my Houston city council has 250,000 person districts plus a couple of “at-large” 2M person districts plus a mayor). There’s no realistic method for 2M people to communicate with one another efficiently or collectively govern. But there’s ample opportunity to demagogue the public and fleece the treasury.
Just last night I threw out a pound of political mailers. Just took them right out of the mailbox and threw them in the garbage. Totally wasted paper that I didn’t bother to read because I know it’s just oversimplification and emotional appeals
So much of these elections are just optics - your partisan name tag, your race/gender/sexual orientation, your age, your career. These are the only reliable heuristics. Houston got a slew of black woman democrat judges in 2018 to replace a slew of white man republican judges, because “black woman” is code for liberal and “white man” is code for conservative. Some courts definitely improved (because the primary process in some of these districts selected for the most psycho christian nationalists on the conservative end) but others got a lot worse (because you tossed a bunch of milquetoast moderates with job experience for ambitious politicos who were just gaming the system and couldn’t do the work).
How the fuck am I supposed to distinguish a legit civil rights lawyer running to replace a certified bigot versus a clueless young ivy league careerist [dem] running to replace a boring old ivy league careerist [gop] at the family court level? There’s no real journalism on these races, and even if there was, I simply do not have time or expertise to weed through dozens of races to sort the wheat from the chaff.
I’ve gotten seven texts begging for money today alone.
So many of these are nakedly just scams. Like, not even politically affiliated scams. Just the exact same people who were blowing up your phone demanding Amazon gift cards to pay the IRS or cashiers checks to settle a fictitious lien on your car six months ago, pushing a new angle because they know it works.
