I know it’s a cliche but try posting yourself. That’s the only way places like this grow. I don’t particularly enjoy posting so I try my best to keep conversations flowing and add discussion to posts without much going on. Every little bit helps.
To that end, what’s your favorite thing about South Korea? I don’t really know all that much about it. Are you from there or working there or what?
Sure that works great, now since that infrastructure doesn’t exist just go get it built. I’m sure massive government spending that benefits the general public more than corporations will be very easy to secure.
I’d like to call your optimism inspiring but from where I sit it looks more like delusion. Don’t get me wrong I would love a huge public transit buildout in the US, I just don’t see any realistic path to making it a reality in the current political and economic climate. I also don’t see that changing within a decade or more at minimum.
It does matter that the US is one big country, but even if it didn’t you still made my point for me. The other things you listed are just as large obstacles as the size of the country itself and there is no easy solution to those other problems but you just blew past them as if naming them would make them go away. The fact that you identified them correctly doesn’t mean you have any realistic chance of overcoming them.
Definitely but there’s practical limitations to implementing large scale public transit in the US even if the desire to build it existed, which I would argue it doesn’t at a large enough scale to make it happen.
Autonomous vehicles are the only achievable solution to distracted driving. Individuals can be nice but people as a whole are lazy and selfish pieces of shit. You’ll never get anywhere close to even 90% doing the right thing just by relying on people’s good intentions.
It’s Facebook dude. To put it in Lemmy friendly terms, they’re not different entities in the way that Linux and Windows are. They’re different entities in the same way that Windows and Xbox are. It’s not technically the same thing but it’s the same people calling the shots. Expecting something different is only going to leave you disappointed.
A lot of people do recognize how insane it is but that’s not enough to shut down the 30% of people who don’t. There’s a lot of reasons for that but suffice it to say that rural idiocy has an outsized electoral influence.
I’m absolutely with you though. I’m convinced that I will go to my grave bewildered by the level of delusion I’ve witnessed in this country over the last 8 years. No amount of empathy or attempts to see things from another perspective have come close to justifying the sheer volume of obvious bullshit you have to swallow to be a Trump supporter in 2024.
Is that really a difficult question for you to answer yourself? Compare him to great presidents of the past, contemporary world leaders from other countries, potential current candidates, etc. Why would you limit your comparisons to like 8 people when there are plenty more to choose from? That’s unnecessarily restrictive thinking.
Dismissing criticism as propaganda is what propagandists do. I won’t disagree if you say Biden is better than Trump but I will absolutely not accept that he’s the best candidate we can come up with. Even your comparison to Obama illustrates how low we’ve set the bar. Obama was not a great president unless you mean only by comparison to his recent peers. He was better than the others we’ve had in the last 40 years but that statement says more about the last 40 years than it does Obama. His biggest accomplishment was ensuring our shitty healthcare system stays in place for at least another generation. He and Biden aren’t fascist pieces of shit like all Republicans these days but I think we should be aiming quite a bit higher than that, don’t you?
Saying negative things about Biden doesn’t make someone a secret Republican or a foreign agent. That statement is fucking ridiculous. He’s not a very good candidate. The fact that his opponent is one of the worst candidates I can imagine doesn’t change that.
People are downvoting you because they don’t want to hear what you’re saying even though it’s true. Biden is objectively better than Trump but that might not be enough. We can debate the how’s and the why’s of that statement but I don’t think there’s any reason to dispute it.
Wilson said that he likes the idea of a multiparty democracy in theory, and would not be bothered by No Labels’ presidential ambitions in a more traditional election, but that the stakes are too high this year — even if it means depriving voters of options and making them choose between two candidates they might not be excited about.
When was this not the justification for forcing people to accept a candidate they don’t like? It’s like every four years we all forget that the last candidate was sold that way too. Obama is the only semi-exception in that his first campaign was all about hope and change but we all know how that turned out.
The funny part is that we could have taken Obama’s victory as proof that promoting progressive policies works to get a President elected but instead we decided to go back to calling that approach wishful thinking and impractical. Almost as if the goal isn’t to represent the people but rather to ensure Progressive ideas reach as few people as possible.
That’s just how people are now. I don’t think it’s specific to Lemmy or even the internet. Most people don’t know how to have a discussion where lines are more blurry than a formal debate that has two opposing sides with completely separate, non-overlapping ideas.
I am pretty confident we can all guess how that would go. Still, I don’t think we live in the world where that question needs to be asked. I am totally fine with Republican candidates wasting their money but that seems to be all she’s accomplishing by staying in the race at this point.
Except that they’re not misbehaving children, they’re fully grown adults with agency to make their own decisions. An asshole with shitty parents is still an asshole.
I like the 12 to 1 rule. CEOs can’t make more in one month than their lowest paid employee makes in a year. If you want to make more than that then raise the standard for everyone.
Exactly, and if we don’t have a functional “fence”, so to speak, at that point then we’ll end up using guns to stem the tide. We might end up doing that anyway but the system we have now doesn’t even work under current conditions, which are about as good as any of us are likely to see again in our lifetimes. There’s no way it’s sustainable if the number of people attempting to claim asylum continues to increase and that appears unavoidable.
That leaves us with the uncomfortable question of what do we actually do with these people? Republican solutions aren’t particularly good, and their basis for having the discussion seems more racist than humanitarian, but at least you can say they’re not afraid of talking about it. Democrats seem content to pretend it’s not going to be an issue because there’s brown people in the crowd at the border and saying anything that could be perceived as less than perfectly inclusive about them is not pc.
I think there are many many people who would disagree with your assertion that fairness should be the goal. That’s not to say they’re correct but if you take that implicit assumption for granted then you have no hope of understanding their position and therefore little hope of addressing the problem in any meaningful sense.
You make mostly good points but its stupid to call the game dead or dying. They don’t currently have a bunch of players they never expected to have in the first place. They still sold their product to those people which makes it a huge net win for them. It’s a wildly successful game by any reasonable metric you can choose to evaluate it against.