I’m not sure that works either, when some do have legitimate mental health issues and our mental health infrastructure in the country is a little weak.
Ultimately I don’t think a punishment-and-fear paradigm is really the solution. The fear part just doesn’t work at the broader societal scale, and never really has.
Gonna have to agree on this one. Our new pattern of trying juveniles like adults does not seem to be helping anything.
Yeah, fair point. A Senate trial would still be useful to publicly air all of the evidence though.
Politics. It’s important that we keep this in the news cycle, so people remember why its important to work together to try to get these people thrown out. It also forces the gop to block the measures, which could potentially make them look like they are condoning corruption. Which they are.
Symbolism basically.
This is not happening in the Senate, it is happening in the House. Additionally, anything that would face a filibuster requires 60 votes to pass, not 51.
Details are important.
In order to advance the measure, the Speaker of the House would have to allow it. He is an ally of the two. Then, once advanced, the House would have to vote to impeach, and the House is currently controlled by the gop, and they too are unlikely to impeach their allies.
So the chances of it getting anywhere are near-zero, for this year anyway. Next year could potentially be different.
Since they’re doing this via some sort of authentication system, fediverse should be fairly safe for now, I’d think. They might be able to pressure certain larger instances if they felt like it, but there’s no way to actually enforce something like this (to my knowledge anyway) over the whole fediverse.
I agree. I also think it’s important to start to fight not just for individual progressive policies, but the progressive platform, identity and overarching philosophy.
Everyone can love every single progressive policy proposal at 100% support, but if they then dislike progressives and progressive philosophy, we still lose. The gop is really good at leveraging this, and we’re really bad at it, likely due to our greater average education. We’re detail oriented, and we need to cut that out with our messaging.
Your posts are not the problem, that is a strawman. People’s dislike of you stems from your behavior in comment sections.
We need to do more grassroots work first, to further expand the popularity of the progressive platform. Whether we like it or not, progressives are not yet anywhere near a majority in the country. Otherwise Bernie’s grassroots campaign would have robustly defeated either Hilary or Biden in the dem primaries, which are primaries of the more progressive party.
I know a lot of people like to pin the blame for Bernie’s defeat on the DNC, but at the end of the day, the energy and popularity of a campaign doesn’t rely on and isn’t controlled by the mass media.
And Bernie is the very best we’ve got. Until we can address this, we need the independents, and they aren’t very progressive. If we can flip some repubs too, all the better.
Yeah I caught that when I reread your comment. I made an edit, just a little too slow.
Oh, I see. Still not seeing a big incentive for big tech, those meat bags are providing free labor. No strong need to replace them.
edit: Oh wait, you’re talking about paid ones. Nevermind.
Why would big tech ever want to get rid of nasty meat bags when nasty meat bags drive much of their engagement and thus increase their advertising revenues? We can’t escape the realities of how the human brain operates, how much it likes to be stimulated regardless of the qualities of the stimulus.
I think a much more logical goal would be to take just enough action to avoid most (but not all) legal consequences while otherwise encouraging as many nasty meat bags to encounter other nasty meat bags with opposing viewpoints as possible. That would maximize brain stimulation, increasing engagement and thus revenue. This improves the stock price and makes your boss happier with you.
Very underrated comment, that one got a snort out of me. lol
Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against arms control agreements if they’re interested. Are they interested though?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean
Bean is admittedly a bit of a fuzzy term. Coffee beans are not technically beans, and probably wouldn’t be very good in your chili.
Beans are a particular type of seed.
We do in some cases, you’ve basically described hot coca for instance. But yeah, you might be onto something, roast up some kidney beans and see what happens.
This is really no different from his assertion that NATO countries are somehow supposed to be paying “dues” or something, like a sort of mafia protection racket. He just speaks “stupid person” when the opportunity presents, any time the actual reality is a little on the complicated side and gives him some room to do so.
Yeah I can fully agree with that one.