Aside from the possibility of me being unclear, your extremely aggressive response is uncalled for. Furthermore, “everyone” is not evident given there’s a total of 3 votes on the post.

My intended point was it would be nice if people were better, and could admit fault. They can’t. That’s a common human behavior that’s infuriating. They’d rather double down. I was agreeing with you.

I’m not sure how you inferred from me lamenting that it’s impossible for people to simply grow up and admit fault, that I think that it is possible. You seem to have read my post… not even backwards, but just wrong.

I feel like my religious liberty isn’t respected. My religion considers capitalism to be a sin in line with theft. When you don’t give to the poor, you sin. Go on, Alito. Rule for my liberty.

It’s just rubs MAGA’s noses in the fact that they were wrong, which anyone who’s ever met knows will just make them double down.

This is true but man is it an infuriating property of humans. It’s a stupid emotional response because that’s easier. Just be mature enough to grow and change. It’s okay. Impossible request, I know.

Maybe it’s like micro transactions - once you break the seal you’re much more likely to keep going.

Have to have severe penalties. It’s the only thing some people understand

Headlines starting with like “Trump explodes” give a hope that is immediately dashed upon finishing the sentence

Many people struggle with admitting they’re wrong, or their world view is flawed.

“While the Mayor’s plan has a number of positive elements, including some increased security funding for Jewish institutions and expanding proven programs, it fails to address a central issue that the mayor himself has perpetuated: rhetoric that demonizes and delegitimizes Israel inevitably leads to the targeting of Jewish New Yorkers,” the United Jewish Appeal Federation of New York, Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, American Jewish Committee and New York Board of Rabbis said in a joint statement on X.

But israel is bad and is not the whole of jewish identity. Fuck off.

Everything is projection. They have poor empathy, so when they try to imagine other people they just imagine themselves.

Time to link Ur-Fascism again: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.

How do people actually fall for this shit? How?!

Many people “Reason” emotionally. The words don’t matter so much as the feelings.

Yeah, fine. The preferences in order are

• they’re held accountable for what they’ve done in an open and public way
• they’re removed from power in some other way
• nothing happens to them

If I can’t get the first one, I’m not going to be too sad if Musk gets black bagged. It’s not ideal, but at least he can’t do any more harm.

I’m not that smart either, but if somehow I was in a position if executive power a lot of people would be criminally charged. Maybe even fucking disappeared.

I don’t really care that much about decorum. I want to break the spine of the rich. Put the billionaires in some fucking cells.

My understanding is a lot of the rich assholes with the power to do something about this view these deaths as desirable.

Natural consequence of capitalism.

I would make cautious alliance with someone if that was their principle.

The Republicans cause more abortions because they don’t do anything to fix the problem sooner. No sex Ed. No contraception. Nothing to allow labor to have stable home lives with financial security. Voting Republican to minimize abortion is counter productive.

Not that it matters. Democrats won’t do anything about affordability either.

Yeah, the Democrats are a mix of assholes, ghouls, spineless jellyfish, and maybe some decent folks. It’s sad that that’s the best mainstream option, but I’d rather work with them than the frothing nightmares of the Republican party.

There’s no good way out of this hell. But at least some socialists have won some elections

A lot of idiots will still believe the Republicans are “good at the economy”.