They also tend to mistake an “American Idol” ass voting process with participatory social democracy.

This is what bothers me the most. We can’t make a rational decision together. It’s always sensationalized and simplified and two-sided and full of misinformation and blatant lies and dramatic language.

Just last night I threw out a pound of political mailers. Just took them right out of the mailbox and threw them in the garbage. Totally wasted paper that I didn’t bother to read because I know it’s just oversimplification and emotional appeals. And it was a pound last week. And the week before that. We waste so much time and money and energy on this shit.

I’ve gotten seven texts begging for money today alone.

Make it stop.

“When it comes to policies that restrict emigration, there appear to be trillion-dollar bills on the sidewalk,” economist Michael Clemens famously wrote in 2011. “For eliminating labor mobility barriers, the estimated gains range from 50 to 150 percent of global GDP.” As of late 2021, the global GDP is over $80 trillion, which means open borders would, according to his reckoning, add $40–100 trillion in total global wealth. - Source

I’ve stopped keeping up to date with major releases because I don’t really use any of the new features and it usually breaks my environment so I have to spend an hour getting things to work again.

Yeah, which is why I’m getting like fifteen texts a day despite having mailed my ballot in already

The most common word I type on my phone has become “STOP”

Communists can be dictators, too.

It’s not one team. It’s not even both teams. All of America is built on genocide and slavery.

Back in 2000 I traded my vote for Nader in a swing state with someone in a solidly blue state. We should do that now.

I kinda sympathize with people who want a dictator because elections are fucking exhausting.

That last one looks like a pirate and I want it

Not to mention that economics education is even worse than civics education. At best someone who went to college might have gotten a 100 level microeconomics course as part of their degree. But I don’t know of any school that teaches about money beyond maybe how to set a budget. If you’re lucky.

When normal people talk about “the economy” it’s largely based on their own bank account and how they feel other people are doing in comparison to some subjective standard, not anything to do with actual economics. This is why we keep having to raise the debt ceiling and politicians talk about it like it’s getting another credit card.

No, the douchebag techbros would have done all that anyway.

I went to SF looking for hippies and found the world’s largest open-plan office. It’s so gross.

That assumes he even cares about stating facts, or that his campaign won’t spin it as “the media is mean to me” and it might make him do better.

so fucking what - how would they even know, LOL?

Lab grown hunks of flesh are more tender and better marbled? It’s from an extinct animal? It’s in a fun shape? It’s got genes from other species that make it taste good?

I’m really bullish on lab grown meat for these reasons. Imagine eating a mammoth rib like Fred Flintstone. That would be awesome.

And what’s more American than caffeinated bacon?

What else should the media do about it? It’s not like Trump can be shamed into changing his behavior. It’s not like Republicans won’t completely dismiss anything he says. Even if they did wall to wall coverage about how he’s a fascist, the third of the country that elects the president won’t change their minds.

This would be big news if having a majority actually mattered.

Really makes me feel good that both of the people who ran unopposed for election supervisor in my district were Republicans who shared an address.

Imagine a world where a candidate comparing the US to a garbage can still has a shot.

I don’t shit gold, which is just another example of how life is disappointing.

Maybe if you lived in a town of six or seven people. Any time you have more than that things get disappointing quickly.