Criminal penalties for decision makers. Jail time. Disgorgement of profits.

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

This is refreshing. I’m so tired of right wing people being like “the government can’t do anything right and I’m going to prove it by sabotaging and starving the government”.

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

Seems like most people don’t really care about or understand stuff like “private platforms enshittify”. Certainly not enough to be inconvenienced. People will be like “that’s where the good memes are” or “that’s where my video games post”. Heavens forbid you miss the hot memes.

I will continue to avoid McDonald’s. Not going to break a no-meat streak for a shitty burger.

“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.

Just spent 10 minutes fooling around with fluxer via the web ui. Was able to invite a dice bot, but couldn’t get it to respond. (Also it’s very D&D-specific, but that’s a separate complaint)

Looks so much like Discord

Retire. Don’t like my job. Tech is circling the drain.

Other people posted some details but essentially if you’re not an idiot you can park that in safe investments and live a happy life.

I get so frustrated when I read about people who like win a few million, blow it on like stupid cars and houses, and end up poor again. Just don’t do that.

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

If there are desperate unhappy people it will probably not go well. Our society produces a lot of desperate, unhappy, people.

These people are horrible and I would celebrate their fall.

I don’t think “friends” works well as a binary yes/no. There are many different kinds of friends, Some people are like cacti and only need to be watered once a year. Other people are like… I’m not a gardener, but some other kind of plant that needs frequent watering. Some are weeds that will take over your entire home. This metaphor got away from me a little.

Personally, I follow a strategy of “when you have the energy, demonstrate the behavior you want to see.” So if you have the juice to handle an unsatisfying outcome, reach out to them like you’d want to be reached out to. Invite them to a party. Send them a funny meme. Whatever. They might flake. They might not respond. But you only do this when you can handle that disappointment. If someone’s been real flakey and you just can’t deal with it, you don’t have to go the extra mile for them.

Natural consequence of capitalism.