Well that’s consistent, if you accept their belief as true. Who cares about the mortal body when it’s a blink of an eye before eternal heaven?

Unfortunately, they are almost certainly mistaken. This is probably all they get.

Rather, it’s the presence of a competitive market.

Competitive markets are hated by private business owners

A politician having a reputation for corruption and self-dealing is one of the few things that voters uniformly don’t like, and will actually act on at the polls.

I would have agreed with you before Trump. The power of conservative in-group solidarity is powerful, especially when multiplied by media support.

From the other detailed coverage someone linked

Jones has no criminal history, according to court documents. He reported mental health treatment needs for schizophrenia.

This is downstream from the stochastic terrorism stuff. Right wing ghouls pump ideas out there about how trans folks are a danger, and eventually someone acts on it. The ghouls then go about their business with no consequences.

I mean, capitalists seem like they would be happy to just have slaves and all the nice things for themselves.

I did not intend to claim my college dinner conversation was a flawless political system, heh.

It may have come from the idea that in firing squads, some of the executioners have blanks.

But you’re probably right, its probably simpler and fine not to have fake voters. Though it would be funny to have some honey pots…

That’s a difference between left and right. Conservatives value in-group loyalty more than truth or consistency. They fall in line. Feels good in their brain.

This is an effective strategy, at least unless whatever objective reality they’re rejecting catches up with them.

I remember in college sort of independently coming up with the idea (there’d be a large pool of representatives, to make bribery harder. And I think we had an idea of like some of them their votes secretly won’t count at the end, so your bribe might not even count)

Then one of my friends linked me to the wiki page and I was like “oh”

The dark urge, as a warlock. Shit. Could be worse.

(Side note: I keep starting and abandoning Baldur’s gate 3 because I really do not enjoy DND as a rule system.)

Conservatives are dishonest. They don’t care about truth or consistency. Their only value is in-group loyalty. They will say anything in pursuit of that and personal power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_3%3A16

In the King James Version, this is translated as:

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Management are assholes and idiots.

Nothing will get better without demands. People need to organize.

But if I’ve learned anything from history, it’s that the ownership class would rather murder all of their employees than give a few dollars more a day.

Right? I often like being around people. I don’t want to do it in the fucking office

Honestly, many conservatives have such bad empathy this might move the needle. If it’s not happening to them, they don’t understand

My current partner I got to try FromSoft games. Sekiro did not go well for them.

Anyone who seriously advocates for abstinence only education is not qualified to speak on policy. That’s it.

We really need to do something so we have fewer scumbags and fools running our government.

These ice goons are lucky all they’re getting is mild push back.

The rich have always fucked over the poor. 12 hour work days, payment in company scrip instead of USD, no breaks, etc etc. It’s always been bad. It will continue to be bad so long as they’re in charge.

Whenever a chat bot is aggressively presented on a website, I like to ask it how to disable all AI features. Often it will tell me to click on menu options that don’t exist.

Buying drm free music is a good long term plan. You build a library you can share with friends and family.