-1 Charisma has given me a few zeros.

What a wonderfully privileged life you must lead. You do know that he and his party have caused the mass suffering of untold millions and much of it simply for the sake of cruelty so that they can make “others” for their rabid voter base to hate on? The damage he and the conservatives across the globe have done just for the sake of getting slightly more power than yesterday so they never need to worry about the humanity of the people they hurt is immense in a way could never be calculated.

If you don’t wish at least just Trump a miserable death then you don’t stand for fuck-all of anything.

I am. I hope it hurts, a lot. Not just physically, but also that whatever emotions he’s capable of are all steered towards deep feelings of being a stupid little bitch for nothing.

You need to be angrier. You don’t need to be the one to do it, but on the internet where you can say whatever you want I do not understand why anyone would choose to be worried about appearing too mean for hating one of the worst people on planet.

We don’t learn very well. If we did, we wouldn’t be in 90% of the messes we’re currently in. Human beings are largely very stupid, and I say that confidently because there are many of us who seem to be able to at least mostly handle this crazy, high-tech world, with our monket brains and all, just fine, so the rest of these idiots can absolutely go fuck themselves.

I think Aragorn was just “the guy”. He’s good at everything because he’s awesome, and we’re ok with it because he’s also a really good person. This is not at all a complaint, just what it seems to be.

He’s playing on easy mode. Conservatives are so easy to fool, and he has a huge media system designed to control their thoughts through the most embarrassingly simple kinds of manipulation imaginable. He works for them as a loud, obnoxious figurehead so that everyone else can contimue to be evil like they’ve a been for many decades.

Don’t worry, it’s sitcom rules so everyone involved was 18 for some reason. It doesn’t make it a lot better, true, but it does make it not a felony.

They do this because they’re stupid and it’s an old, parroted line aimed at passing the blame to other people. If they said what you’re asking for that wouldn’t be as effective at blaming others.

The other reason is that they know that the centrist/conservative idea of a Starbucks costumer is a woke person who likes fancy drinks and not just black coffee. It’s all about creating a strawman for their base to hate. If they were doing it honestly, they’d also be saying that people should buy smaller vehicles that consume significantly less fuel but SUVs and trucks are associated with their base so they don’t do that. Their base isn’t smart enough to make those connections so it’s all good. They’re not clever, these politicians, they’re just playing “manipulate the voting base” on baby mode.

“Unique” here refers to the fact that every other car is built pretty much the same way in as much first responders are concerned, and that makes them predictable and fairly easy to get out of while cybertrucks are strong enough and door-handleless enough to be incredibly dangerous(while also not being strong enough to do most of what they promise).

Pay a person?? Give a real human being money?!?

These people would rather burn a million dollars in front of a homeless person than give that person $1,000. It’s extra cruel when you realize that society would make that $1,000 back and then some if it were to help that person escape their poverty cycle.

I don’t get the use of “and yet” here. They untouchable because they exist in a system that supports them and has supported them since monarchies were a thing and probably before. They didn’t setup an intricate series of protections, we just willingly gave them a handful of grenades and now we have to, or feel we have to, dance around them whenever they have a temper tantrum so they don’t blow us all up. It’s the same mentality behind “too big to fail” where we could super easily actually let them fail or otherwise punish them but unfortunately we also elected similarly moronic and selfish people to be in charge and they want to pretend that they’ve been fooled or forced to cede to the rich.

Fake kids to real kids is very different than some crazy fucko thinking same-sex marriage would lead to fucking animals. Are you for real?

That doesn’t make them intelligent, and you need to re-read my comment until you understand just how many failures these people experience that they can simply ignore. In many ways you could even argue that what they’re doing isn’t intentional, they’re just reacting in the moment and we can all see how the furthest they can really look ahead is about a couple days.

Look at Musk, there have literally been whole teams of people who made it their job to distract the stupid child so he couldn’t fuck up their company. Jeff Bezos is making terrible decisions and his creativity was “bookstore but online”, yet it looks like success the same way a toddler with a shotgun will get all the cookies they want.

“Intentional” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. These are some of the dumbest, most over-confident people alive right now and they are nothing without their ability to ignore major financial failures.

No one truly intelligent is seeking their own personal profit over everyone else. The simple fact is that these people are just lucky and have never had to ever consider the consequences of their actions. They aren’t happy, their lives don’t change between a few hundred million dollars and a billion dollars, they just chase a bigger number because the highest level their brains function at is like a monkey that wants all the fruit to itself.

I think about it this way: Neurodivergent are usually considered bad at communicating, except the worst communicators I’ve ever met have been neurotypical people. They live in a world built for them, where anyone not following the script must be broken so it not their fault. You look at these billionaires and they aren’t behaving like this because they’re smart, because there’s a plan, it’s because they refuse to admit they’re lucky and any failure was someone who just didn’t listen to the enough. It’s not their awful planning, it’s the employee who was unable to follow their bullshit.

These people are not intelligent, they just have enough money to be wrong a thousand times and only think about how smart they were that thousand and oneth time. They throw a million darts at the board and claim the single bullseye was all their raw skill.

I feel like the dwarf would start calling _you_slurs and would be getting proper firey and the elf wouldn’t care, not because they’re enlightened or anything, but because they don’t see you as a person and therefore don’t care about your opinion.

Like, yes, but also consumers are the electorate and the people we elect need to represent us. We keep electing people who represent the businesses’ interests and not our own, despite alternatives, and so we have it in our heads that these things are more separate than they are. We have the control, we just refuse to use it to the point where most people have forgotten that.

Instead, all they really ever need to do is step-down and get a high-paid consulting job and for some reason that’s enough.

Absolute insanity.

You don’t need to picture it, it’s right now.

I have always voted progressive, never even centrist. I live in Canada, also, but yea I don’t actually make the rules but the people I vote for to make said rules don’t like Amazon either.

Did you miss the part where I said I’d be looking for filters elsewhere even if they cost a bunch more?