We have first past the past voting here, this means we don’t vote based on who we like but rather who is the lesser of two evils.
It makes it easy for good and smart people here to support things like this, even if they don’t want to, because the alternative is worse.
Depends. Everyone who voted against Trump knows this and it’s probably why they did but most non voters and maga are still ignorant.
Fun fact, Solar City, a company owned by Elon musk, is infamous for signing people up for lengthy solar panel leases and refusing to repair them if they break.
Right now, without China, solar would be unaffordable by anyone but the rich in America.
Maybe but I feel I’ve made it worse sometimes too.
There’s a couple sayings. ‘The smart man sounds like crazy man to the stupid man’ and ‘You can’t win an argument with an idiot’.
As complex as it can be, it usually boils down to that or you just find out they’re rich, selfish, like control, and love schadenfreude.
I believe in Karma.
I think each life is a journey that brings your soul closer to godhood or further from it. I too think this admin will end my life early even though I am healthy simply because they suck that much.
It comforts me knowing how hell awaits those who lack empathy. How their hell may be a next life like yours, full of struggle only to fail because of that which is out of your control. Just as mine would be a hell for someone like Zuckerberg or Musk. Perhaps it is needed in the grand scheme of soul growth for without pain, there is no pleasure.
I hope your next lives are more comforting and pleasant and that you can find peace and even happiness somehow in these coming days.
My heart goes out to you.
Future? It’s now and he’s more responsible for it that all but a handful of folks.
Yes. As an American I can’t help but think of how difficult and expensive the war on terror was to wage and how not only did we lose but we may have inadvertently help start a global jihad in the future we pissed off the Iranians so bad.
Not to mention how Germany failed to get the UK in WW2 and how without the literal mafia we’d have not taken Sicily and gained a solid foothold in Europe. Even China is hesitant to invade Taiwan and they wrote the fucking art of war.
I think a lot of tyrants like the idea of invasion until they realize how fucking expensive it is to move war equipment across water and that unless you have the actual Mandate of heaven and earth behind you so to speak, you won’t have competent people with you. Trump doesn’t have that, he didn’t win the popular vote or by a large margin which is what the mandate requires, half his voters hate Musk, and he’s driving away more smart people than attracting. Doesn’t matter how effective and coercive your spy network is, takes hearts and minds to win long term.
Yeah. A lot of folks I’ve met view it as fiscally conservative though.
Is it by magical means? Then name calling, mostly to watch Trump deal with it.
I’ve heard it more the exact opposite way. “I vote Democrat but I am really tired liberals doing nothing to curb government corruption or tax the rich more.”
They’re legally strong-arming their way into dominating vr and enshitifying it for profit. The future of VR technology that is actually good is not Anerican.
I’m using an outdated Samsung headset with the windows mixed reality portal. It’s UI is so far superior to Oculus I have I may repair it for another decade rather than upgrade.
I see. I’ll be more careful running epic.
Interesting. Sounds like I could play everything I like except Rivals.
Interesting. What about Epic? (I don’t like them but free games are free games and I have a lot)
VR and steam, for now.
The Biden admin and Dems literally tried giving the majority of the people what they wanted and the Reps stopped them to make Biden and the Dems look bad and the irony is Biden and the Dems were ready to give the Reps what they’ve been asking for with the border and immigration for years.