Seasoned_Greetings

joined 1 year ago
[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

The word you're looking for is "euphemism". The media always does this garbage to make the party of traitors seen like they have a point

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

Welcome to sugarfoots, sugarfoot

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's the natural conclusion of the strategy republicans set into motion to manipulate their base.

It started just after Watergate. Nixon was facing massive calls for justice from both sides. Republican think tanks realized that their base of conservatives consumed news from all sources that informed their mostly unbiased decision to hold their guy accountable. So those republican think tanks devised a plan to create a conservative news outlet that explicitly demonized other news so that the conservative base would never turn on one of their own again. That strategy was realized in the 90's with the creation of Fox News.

Since then, conservative media has been slowly transforming politics from the perspective of the average conservative into a team sport, where the main motivation isn't "who runs the country better" but rather "my team is better than yours".

It wasn't so pervasive 20 years ago, but conservative media has found themselves with a base that now only responds to the outrage they've been conditioning them with, and that has created the raging confrontational assholes you see today.

Being a conservative doesn't mean what it used to. And that's because the Republican leadership robbed conservatives of that in order to maintain control of their base.

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

In theory that's how it works already. In practice, there is currently no disadvantage to appointing partisan judges and no system in which to objectively measure partisanship of a candidate. What that means is that there will always be partisan parties appointing partisan judges and there will always be candidates who claimed to be neutral who will be either accused of or proven to be partisan anyway.

In the current system true neutrality on the bench does not exist

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago

My wife gets an honorable mention for being able to recite the "what did you say to me you little bitch" copypasta in its entirety on a dime and as fast as she can say it

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

You'd think it would be a win, but honestly Trump is a clown. More "centrists" who detest Trump might rally around someone like DeSantis, that's what I'm afraid of.

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Lest we forget this exists

I know posting ben garrison is cheating, but this was years ago. They'd definitely latch on to the name as a tool to degrade him.

Hell, they've been trying to make the word "kamala" derogatory. Sorry Pete, even though you'd be as good a candidate as any, you've got butt in your name

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 80 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

I like the "formally" vs "formerly" suggesting Elon is never going to get away from Twitter in favor of X

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

Got called an llm arguing with a Trumper on one of those posts. On my 13 year old account. By his 3-month old account.

I just think it's incredible how many conservatives are completely willing to handwave pedophilia as long as it's their guy, bots or no.

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Hey man, nice tittles

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If AI is a trillion dollar investment, what trillion dollar problem is it solving?

Why, the trillion dollars not yet in the pockets of the companies that think they can take advantage of AI of course.

The naked truth is that #4 answers #1. The biggest utility AI might provide would be replacing paid workers. That's a trillion dollar problem if your ultimate goal is to hoard wealth and sit atop the highest pile of gold like a dragon.

So again, we have a solution to a problem only the wealthy elite have, being marketed as an advancement for the greater good of society, to justify stealing the massive resources it consumes, in order to not have to pay that directly to their workers.

Capitalism.

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure, that's what it is.

Anyway, here's some reading material for you in the form of relevant discussion backing up most of what I said. You might learn something.

Although something makes me think you won't come to understand the overall picture mostly by choice, since you seem to be stuck on your hate boner for Biden.

In my experience, it's the people who accuse other people of having a tenuous grip on reality who tend to be extremely rigid in their own biases and are afraid to challenge them.

So have fun with that. Later.

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